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<b><i>Sudden Fear</i> (1952)</b> is a beautifully crafted film noir thriller. Joan Crawford turns in one of the most emotionally charged performances of her career as a playwright who must use her plotting skills to save her own life. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actress (Joan Crawford), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Palance), Best Cinematography (b/w) (Charles Lang), and Best Costume Design (b/w) (Sheila O'Brien). <i>Sudden Fear</i> is an unbeatable combination of lush melodrama and drop-dead suspense.<br />
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<b>Production Company</b>: Joseph Kaufman Productions, Inc. and RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.<br />
<b>Producer</b>: Joseph Kaufman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<b>Distribution Company</b>: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.<br />
<b>Director</b>: David Miller<br />
<b>Writers</b>: Lenore Coffee and Robert Smith - Based on the novel <i>Sudden Fear</i> by Edna Sherry (New York, 1948).<br />
<b>Cinematographer</b>: Charles B. Lang, Jr.<br />
<b>Art Director</b>: Boris Leven<br />
<b>Film Editor</b>: Leon Barsha<br />
<b>Costumes</b>: Sheila O'Brien<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Miss Crawford's gowns designed by), Al Teitelbaum (Miss Crawford's furs designed by), Tula (Miss Crawford's lingerie and hostess gowns by), Rex, Inc. (Miss Crawford's hats by), Ruser (Miss Crawford's jewels by)<br />
<b>Music</b>: Elmer Bernstein<br />
<b>Makeup</b>: Edwin Allen (Makeup for Miss Crawford)<br />
<b>Release Date</b>: August 7, 1952<br />
<b>Production Dates</b>: Late January to late March 1952 at Republic Studios<br />
<b>Duration (in minutes)</b>: 110<br />
<b>Color</b>: Black and white<br />
<b>Sound</b>: Mono (RCA Sound System)<br />
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<b>David Miller</b> was an American film director who directed such varied films as Billy the Kid (1941) with Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy, Flying Tigers (1943) with John Wayne, Love Happy (1949) with the Marx Brothers, Sudden Fear (1952) with Joan Crawford, Midnight Lace (1960) with Doris Day, Back Street (1961) with Susan Hayward, Lonely Are the Brave (1962) with Kirk Douglas, and the psychodrama Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) with Gregory Peck. Extraordinarily adaptable, he had an easygoing temperament and an ability to get along with anyone he was working with.<br />
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<b>Lenore Coffee</b> was an American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. She was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for <i>Street of Chance</i> (1930) and <i>Four Daughters</i> (1938)<i>. </i><br />
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"They pick your brains, break your heart, ruin your digestion—and what do you get for it? Nothing but a lousy fortune."<br />
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<b>Charles B. Lang, Jr.</b> was an American cinematographer. He received a total of 18 Oscar nominations, tying with Leon Shamroy for the most Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominations ever. Lang won for <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> (1932). He was nominated for <i>Sudden Fear</i> (1952). Actress Katherine Kelly Lang is his granddaughter.<br />
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<b>Boris Leven</b> was a Moscow-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years. He was nominated for an Oscar nine times. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color for <i>West Side Story</i> (1961). For <i>Giant</i> (1956), he constructed the Victorian home that sits isolated in a wide expanse of open field, which became an iconic image for the film.<br />
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<b>Sheila O'Brien</b> was an American costume designer. She began her career as a seamstress for Paramount Pictures but transferred to the costume department of MGM, coming into her own as a Hollywood costume designer in the 1950s. She was a favorite of Joan Crawford’s, dressing her in 1952's <i>Sudden Fear</i>, (for which O’Brien received an Oscar nomination), <i>Johnny Guitar</i> (1954), and <i>Female on the Beach</i> (1955).<br />
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<b>Elmer Bernstein</b> was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. Bernstein's work was Oscar-nominated 14 times. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for <i>Thoroughly Modern Millie</i>. His scores for <i>The Magnificent Seven</i> and <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> were ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth and seventeenth greatest American film scores of all time.<br />
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<b>Edwin Allen</b> was a favorite makeup artist of Joan Crawford. They worked together on <i>Mildred Pierce</i> (1945), <i>Humoresque</i> (1946), <i>Flamingo Road</i> (1949), <i>Sudden Fear</i> (1952), <i>General Electric Theater</i> (1953 TV Series) - Episode: "The Road to Edinburgh" (1954), and <i>Della</i> (1964).<br />
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<b>Joan Crawford</b> (born Lucille Fay LeSueur) was an American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stage chorine. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on their list of the greatest female stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for <i>Mildred Pierce</i> (1945). She was Oscar-nominated in the same category for <i>Possessed</i> (1947) and <i>Sudden Fear</i> (1952). Crawford was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for <i>Sudden Fear</i> (1952).<br />
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<b>Jack Palance</b> (born Volodymyr Palahniuk) was an American actor and singer. During half a century of film and television appearances, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1992 for his role in <i>City Slickers</i> (1991). His first two nominations were for 1952's <i>Sudden Fear</i> and 1953's <i>Shane</i>. He famously performed one-handed push-ups (at age 73) at the March 30, 1992 Oscars. I've always thought his razor-sharp cheekbones could cut a Kevlar cable.<br />
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<b>Gloria Grahame</b> (born Gloria Grahame Hallward) was an American stage, film and television actress. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for <i>Crossfire</i> (1947), and she won this award for her work in <i>The Bad and the Beautiful</i> (1952). Her second husband was Nicholas Ray. Her fourth husband was her former stepson. Anthony "Tony" Ray was the son of Nicholas Ray and his first wife Jean Evans.<br />
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<b>Bruce Bennett</b> was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist in the shot put. Born as Harold Herman Brix, he went by the name Herman Brix in the 1930s. In 1939, Brix changed his name to "Bruce Bennett" and became a member of Columbia Pictures' stock company.<br />
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<b>Virginia Huston</b> (born Virginia Houston) was a film actress. Signing with RKO in 1945, her first film was opposite George Raft in <i>Nocturne</i>. She played Robert Mitchum's girlfriend in <i>Out of the Past</i> (1947) and Joan Crawford's assistant in <i>Sudden Fear</i> (1952).<br />
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<b>Mike "Touch" Connors</b> (born Kreker Ohanian) is an American actor best known for playing television detective Joe Mannix in <i>Mannix</i> (1967-1975 on CBS). Connors' acting career spans six decades; in addition to his work on television, he has appeared in numerous films.<br />
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<i>Sudden Fear</i> is one of those noir gems about a love-hate relationship between a husband and wife that's doomed from the very beginning. Joan Crawford plays Myra Hudson, a successful playwright and heiress who insists that actor Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) be fired from the Broadway production of her new play because he doesn't look properly romantic. But when she takes a train back home to San Francisco, they meet again, and this time she falls head over heels in love. Before long they're married. A wedding photo in the New York City newspapers brings Blaine's old girlfriend, Irene Neves (the criminally underappreciated Gloria Grahame) back into his life and he falls under her dark spell. When Blaine and Neves plot to get Hudson's fortune, the evil scheme backfires with ironically twisted results. Blaine has no idea how much his wife truly loves him, and she has no idea how sinister he truly is. <i>Sudden Fear</i> is a fascinating film, with wonderful nuances and sensitive performances by the three leads. The direction is taut and heavily influenced (but successfully so) by Alfred Hitchcock; the use of sound is particularly skillful. The thriller earned Oscar nominations for Crawford and Palance as well as for its gorgeous black-and-white cinematography and natty costumes. And whether it's because she's playing opposite Palance or not, this is definitely one of Crawford's most sympathetic performances.<br />
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Legend has it that Joan Crawford fought against having Jack Palance as her leading man, protesting that he was the ugliest man in Hollywood. Her producer finally prevailed by convincing her that her character had to be sympathetic—and Palance was the only actor in town who was scarier than she was.<br />
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<i>Sudden Fear</i> marked the first film in which Jack Palance's first name is listed as "Jack" instead of "Walter Jack." Lester Blaine was his first major film role.<br />
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According to a July 1952 <i>Variety</i> item, Joan Crawford and director David Miller worked on a participation basis. Modern sources note that Crawford, who had script and casting approval, chose to receive a forty percent interest in the $720,000 picture in lieu of a $200,000 salary.<br />
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Crawford originally requested Clark Gable as her co-star, according to modern sources. Miller, who thought Gable too old and well-known for the role, screened the 1950 Twentieth Century-Fox film <i>Panic in the Streets</i>, in which Jack Palance had a small but pivotal part, three times for Crawford, and she eventually agreed to cast him.<br />
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As the film's executive producer, Joan Crawford was heavily involved in all aspects of the production. She personally hired Lenore Coffee as the film's screenwriter, David Miller as director and suggested Elmer Bernstein as composer. She insisted on Charles Lang being hired as the film's cinematographer.<br />
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According to Jack Palance, Joan Crawford and Gloria Grahame did not get along and got into a physical altercation at one point during the filming. The fight started after Grahame sat on the edge of the set during one of Crawford's close-ups and very loudly sucked a lollipop in an attempt to anger Crawford. It worked, and Palance noted that the all-male crew watched the fight for a few moments rather curiously before stepping in to break it up.<br />
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<i>Sudden Fear</i> was Mike "Touch" Connors' first film.<br />
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Virginia Huston also appeared with Joan Crawford in <i>Flamingo Road</i> (1949).<br />
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Elmer Bernstein reused portions of his musical score the following year in <i>Robot Monster</i> (1953).<br />
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If you think the life of a kept woman is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy, you're wrong, wrong, wrong, peeps. Fannie Hurst made it clear in 1931.<br />
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Fannie Hurst was born in Hamilton, Ohio, grew up in St. Louis and spent her adult life in New York City. She was the author of 17 novels and more than 250 short stories, as well as plays, screenplays, memoirs, essays and articles. Her best-remembered works are those turned into films, including: <i>The Younger Generation</i>, <i>Back Street</i>, <i>Imitation of Life</i>, <i>Humoresque</i>, and <i>Young at Heart</i>. She was active in a variety of progressive Jewish, social justice, labor, peace and women's organizations. A lifelong philanthropist, Hurst willed her considerable estate to her alma mater Washington University and to Brandeis University.<br />
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<i>Back Street</i> (1931), Hurst's seventh novel, was hailed as her "magnum opus" and has been called her "best loved" work. Originally called <i>Grand Passion</i>, it was first published as a monthly serial in <i>Cosmopolitan</i> magazine. When the installments were compiled into a novel, the title changed to <i>Back Street</i>. Soon Hollywood came calling, and Universal Studios bought the book rights for $30,000 in 1931. Its main character, a confident, independent young Gentile woman, falls in love with a married Jewish banker and becomes his secret mistress, sacrificing her own life in the process and ultimately meeting a tragic end.<br />
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<i>Back Street</i> was the basis for three films of the same name in 1932, 1941, directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Margaret Sullavan and Charles Boyer, and 1961, directed by David Miller and starring Susan Hayward, John Gavin, and Vera Miles. In addition, there's a fourth film written by Frank Capra, <i>Forbidden</i> (1932), which liberally borrowed elements from Hurst's novel without crediting her.<br />
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Since this is a blogathon featuring the films of 1932, I'll be focusing on the first movie version of <i>Back Street</i>. It was directed by John M. Stahl and stars John Boles and Irene Dunne.<br />
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<b>Production and Distribution Company</b>: Universal Pictures Corp.<br />
<b>Production Text</b>: Carl Laemmle, President; A John M. Stahl Production<br />
<b>Director</b>: John M. Stahl<br />
<b>Producers:</b> Carl Laemmle, Jr. (producer), E. M. Asher (associate producer)<br />
<b>Writers</b>: Gladys Lehman (screenplay), Gene Fowler (screenplay), Ben Hecht (screenplay), and Lynn Starling (dialogue) - Based on the novel <i>Back Street</i> by Fannie Hurst (New York, 1931).<br />
<b>Cinematographer</b>: Karl Freund<br />
<b>Art Director</b>: Charles D. Hall<br />
<b>Editor</b>: Milton Carruth<br />
<b>Music</b>: James Dietrich<br />
<b>Premiere</b>: September 1, 1932<br />
<b>Release Date</b>: December 30, 1932<br />
<b>Duration (in minutes)</b>: 93<br />
<b>Color</b>: Black and white<br />
<b>Sound</b>: Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System)<br />
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Carl Laemmle (born Karl Lämmle) was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios—Universal. Laemmle produced or was otherwise involved in over four hundred films.<br />
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Carl Laemmle, Jr. (born Julius Laemmle) was an American businessman and heir of Carl Laemmle, who had founded Universal Studios. He was head of production at the studio from 1928 to 1936.<br />
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E. M. Asher (born Ephriam Milton Asher) was the associate producer of a number of famous films, including: 1931's <i>Dracula</i> and <i>Frankenstein</i>, <i>Back Street</i> (1932), and <i>Magnificent Obsession</i> (1935). He was the father of director/producer/writer William Asher, and Betty Asher, publicist for Judy Garland and Lana Turner at M-G-M.<br />
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John Malcolm Stahl (born Jacob Morris Strelitsky) was an American film director and producer. Stahl was one of the thirty-six founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He famously directed <i>Back Street</i> (1932), <i>Imitation of Life</i> (1934), <i>Magnificent Obsession</i> (1935), <i>The Keys of the Kingdom</i> (1944), and <i>Leave Her to Heaven</i> (1945).<br />
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Gladys Lehman (born Gladys Collins) was an American screenwriter. Lehman was one of the founders of the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. She was also one of the founding members of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. As a screenwriter she shared an Oscar nomination with Richard Connell for Best Original Screenplay for <i>Two Girls and a Sailor </i>(1944).<br />
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Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan) was an American journalist, author and dramatist. He was a close friend of John Barrymore and W.C. Fields. A great quote by Gene Fowler: "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."<br />
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Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. Film historian Richard Corliss called him "<i>the</i> Hollywood screenwriter," someone who "personified Hollywood itself." Movie columnist Pauline Kael added that "between them, Hecht and Jules Furthman wrote most of the best American talkies." Six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning: <i>Underworld</i> (1927) and <i>The Scoundrel</i> (1935).<br />
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Karl W. Freund was a cinematographer and film director best known for photographing <i>Metropolis</i> (1927), <i>Dracula</i> (1931), <i>The Good Earth</i> (1937), <i>Key Largo</i> (1948), and television's <i>I Love Lucy</i> (1951-1957).<br />
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Charles D. Hall was a British-American art director and production designer. He was art director for many of Universal Pictures's most famous productions: <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i> (1925), <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i> (1930), <i>Dracula</i> (1931), <i>Frankenstein</i> (1931), <i>The Invisible Man</i> (1933), <i>Bride of Frankenstein</i> (1935), <i>Magnificent Obsession</i> (1935), and the 1936 film version of <i>Show Boat</i>. Hall also worked on the 1929 part-talkie film version of <i>Show Boat</i>.<br />
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Irene Dunne (born Irene Marie Dunn) was an American film actress and singer. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in <i>Cimarron</i> (1931), <i>Theodora Goes Wild</i> (1936), <i>The Awful Truth</i> (1937), <i>Love Affair</i> (1939) and <i>I Remember Mama</i> (1948). According to Francis Ford Coppola's audio commentary on <i>Bram Stoker's Dracula</i>, Columbia used Dunne's image on the familiar logo.<br />
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John Boles was an American film actor and singer. His big break came when Radio Pictures selected him to play the leading man in their extravagant production of <i>Rio Rita</i>, opposite Bebe Daniels. In 1937, Boles starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the King Vidor classic <i>Stella Dallas</i>. During World War I, Boles was a U.S. spy in Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey.<br />
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George Meeker was an American character movie and Broadway actor. Tall, handsome, wavy-haired Meeker was never in the upper echelons of Hollywood stardom; off-camera, however, he was highly regarded and much sought after—as an expert polo player.<br />
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ZaSu Pitts (born Eliza Susan Pitts) was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. The names of her father's sisters, Eliza and Susan, were purportedly the basis for the nickname "ZaSu." She later adopted the nickname professionally and legally. Pitts gave the correct pronunciation as "Zay Soo."<br />
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June Clyde (born Ina Parton) was an American actress, singer and dancer. While she had a pleasing personality and above-average dancing and singing skills, she was seldom seen to best advantage in her Hollywood films, usually playing second (or even third) fiddle.<br />
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William Bakewell, also known as Billy Bakewell, was an American actor, who achieved his greatest fame as one of the premiere juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1933, he contributed to the founding of the Screen Actors Guild, and was member 44 of the original 50. For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund.<br />
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Arletta Duncan was an American actress. She appeared in 11 films between 1931 and 1937.<br />
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Shirley Grey was an American actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1930 and 1935.<br />
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Doris Lloyd (born Hessy Doris Lloyd) was an English stage and screen actress. She appeared in over 150 films between 1925 and 1967. Her roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in the biopic <i>Disraeli</i> (1929) to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in <i>The Time Machine</i> (1960).<br />
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Paul Weigel was a German-American actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1916 and 1945.<br />
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Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She appeared in more than 100 motion pictures over a 50-year span. Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> (1940), for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Disney's <i>Mary Poppins</i> (1964).<br />
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James Donlan was an American actor. He appeared in 107 films between 1929 and 1939. His daughter was actress Yolande Donlan.<br />
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Walter Catlett was an American actor. He made a career of playing excitable, officious blowhards. Three of his most remembered roles are Morrow the Poet in <i>Mr. Deeds Goes to Town</i> (1936), Constable Slocum in <i>Bringing Up Baby</i> (1938), and the Theatre Manager in <i>Yankee Doodle Dandy</i> (1942).<br />
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Robert McWade was an American stage and film actor. From 1903 to 1927, he appeared in at least 38 Broadway productions. McWade also appeared in 83 films between 1924 and 1938. His father was notable stage actor Robert McWade, Sr. and his older brother was character actor Edward McWade.<br />
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Maude Turner Gordon was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 81 films between 1914 and 1938.<br />
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In the first film version of <i>Back Street</i>, which was the most faithful to the novel, the heroine was a Cincinnati minx named Ray Schmidt, whose father sold dry goods at the turn of the century. A good sport but never a bad girl, Ray kept company with traveling salesmen until one day she fell deeply in love with ambitious Walter Saxel. Walter loved her, too. But, after an agonizing mixup, he married a rich girl.<br />
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From then on it was a dog's life for Ray, who had a wonderful capacity for loyalty and love, but threw it all away on Walter. As he grew in international prominence, Ray followed him discreetly from New York to Paris. She accepted his $50 a week, lived in obscure little hotels, amused herself with china painting and brewing hot chocolate for him whenever he had time to pay her a furtive visit. Then Walter died of a stroke, and Ray was left alone, paying the ultimate price for her folly.<br />
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<i>Back Street</i> was considered a tad racy way back in 1932. What got everyone hot and bothered:<br />
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<li>The main male and female characters were illicit lovers. Walter Saxel was a married man with two children and a mistress on the side. Ray Schmidt was his kept woman.</li>
<li>Ray asks Walter to give her a child. Obviously, their child would have been illegitimate.</li>
<li>When Ray is prevented from meeting Walter's mother, Ray's sister Freda is revealed to be pregnant out of wedlock.</li>
<li>Walter (gasp!) uses his own key to enter Ray's apartment.</li>
<li>The portrayal of Walter's wife as a "narrow, smug person"; and the portrayal of Walter's son as a "snob," which served to "[throw] sympathy violently to Ray's point of view."</li>
<li>Walter Saxel was Jewish and Ray Schmidt was not.</li>
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I ask <b><i>WHY</i></b> would Irene Dunne stay with John Boles? Other than good looks, he had nothing going for him. He was self-centered to the nth degree, mind-numbingly boring, and incredibly cheap. She needed to give him the gate. Gotta love this dialogue from the clip below:<br />
<b>Ray</b>: "You don't know how empty my life <i>is</i>."<br />
<b>Walter</b>: Rae, darling. Empty? When you have me?"<br />
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Also in the clip, Walter about has a kitten when Ray suggests they have a love child. It's no-go. Guess what? The reasons for not having a child all revolve around him. Check out Mr. Selfish.<br />
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In the 1941 version, I can understand why Margaret Sullavan would stay with Charles Boyer. There was a definite attraction there. Who wouldn't stay with Charles Boyer? It's the best adaptation of the three.<br />
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I can't be objective about <i>Back Street</i> '61 because watching John Gavin is one of my guilty pleasures. (Now that's a hunk of man! Makes me all hot and bothered.) The flick is worth watching for the Ross Hunter glitz alone. The clothes are great, too. Susan Hayward wearing Jean Louis.<br />
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"Back Street" on <i>The Screen Guild Theater</i> - June 21, 1943 - Charles Boyer, Martha Scott<br />
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"Back Street" on <i>Screen Directors Playhouse</i> - May 24, 1951 - Stars: Charles Boyer, Mercedes McCambridge - Director Robert Stevenson<br />
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Thanks to Debbie of <a href="https://debravega.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Moon in Gemini</a> for hosting the <a href="https://debravega.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/announcing-the-sword-sandal-blogathon/" target="_blank">blogathon</a>. Please visit Debbie's fine blog. You'll be glad you did.<br />
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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born April 10, 1827 in Brookville, Indiana and died February 15, 1905 in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was an American soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and author who is principally remembered for his historical novel <i>Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ</i>.<br />
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Wallace served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1847. In the Civil War he served with the Union forces and attained the rank of major general of volunteers.<br />
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In 1865 Wallace resigned from the army and returned to law practice. He held two diplomatic positions by presidential appointment. He was governor of the New Mexico Territory (1878-81), and then minister to the Ottoman Empire (1881-85).<br />
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Though Wallace also wrote poetry and a play, his literary reputation rests upon three historical novels: <i>The Fair God</i> (1873), a story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico; <i>The Prince of India</i> (1893), dealing with the Wandering Jew and the Byzantine Empire; and above all <i>Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ</i> (1880), a romantic tale set in the Roman Empire during the coming of Christ. Its main character, a young Jewish patrician named Judah Ben-Hur, loses his family and freedom because of the injustice of a Roman officer but eventually triumphs through his own abilities and the intervention of Jesus.<br />
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<i>Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ</i> was an enormous popular success. It was published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> (1852) in sales. <i>Ben-Hur</i> remained at the top of the bestseller lists until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's <i>Gone with the Wind</i> (1936).<br />
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Read or download the novel <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2145" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It was made into a play in 1899, five films, and a television miniseries.<br />
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<li><i>Ben Hur</i> (1907 film), a one-reel silent film adaptation.</li>
<li><i>Ben-Hur</i> (1925 film), an MGM silent film adaptation starring Ramon Novarro.</li>
<li><i>Ben-Hur</i> (1959 film), an MGM sound film adaptation starring Charlton Heston; it won eleven Academy Awards.</li>
<li><i>Ben Hur</i> (2003 film), an animated direct-to-video film adaptation featuring the voice of Charlton Heston.</li>
<li><i>Ben Hur</i> (miniseries), a television miniseries that aired in 2010.</li>
<li><i>Ben-Hur</i> (2016 film), directed by Timur Bekmambetov starring Jack Huston; it's scheduled to be released on August 19, 2016.</li>
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I'll be focusing on the 1907 one-reel, silent film version of <i>Ben Hur</i> in which Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York was used as the location for the Holy Land. At 15 minutes long, only a small portion of the story could be put on screen. The focus of the piece was the chariot race, which was filmed on a beach in New Jersey with local firemen playing the charioteers and the horses that normally pulled the fire wagons pulling the chariots.<br />
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To me, the film is a short, choppy highlights reel. It's filled with a few brief clips from the famed story by General Lew Wallace but doesn't tell a coherent story. Audiences at the time could only have enjoyed it if they were familiar with the novel.<br />
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<i>Ben Hur</i> (1907) was directed by Sidney Olcott and Frank O. Rose with Harry T. Morey as assistant director. The screenplay was written by Gene Gauntier. The film was produced and distributed on a reported $500 budget by the Kalem Company. It was released December 7, 1907. Herman Rottger starred as Ben Hur and William S. Hart played Messala.<br />
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Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. He was lured away from Biograph Studios by George Kleine, Samuel Long, and Frank J. Marion to work for their newly formed Kalem Company. The company was named for their initials K, L, and M.<br />
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After Olcott's success with 1907's <i>Ben Hur</i>, he demonstrated his creative thinking when he made Kalem Studios the first ever to travel outside the United States to film on location. He went to Ireland and made the film <i>A Lad from Old Ireland</i> (1910).<br />
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Gene Gauntier, born Eugenia Gauntier Liggett, was an American screenwriter and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. Gauntier became Kalem Company's star actress, dubbed by the studio as the "Kalem Girl," who also became their most productive screenwriter in collaboration with director Sidney Olcott on numerous film projects.<br />
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Most notably, Gauntier wrote and acted in 1912's <i>From the Manger to the Cross</i>. It was filmed in Palestine and was the first five-reel film. Turner Classic Movies considers it the most important silent film to deal with the life of Jesus Christ. In 1998 the film was selected for the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.<br />
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Herman Rottger (1881-1917) was an actor, known for <i>Ben Hur</i> (1907), <i>Roughing the Cub</i> (1913) and <i>Love's Old Dream</i> (1914).<br />
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William S. Hart (1864-1946) was a silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He's remembered as the foremost western star of the silent era who "imbued all of his characters with honor and integrity."<br />
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<i>Ben Hur</i> (1907) is most notable as a precedent in copyright law. The movie was made without obtaining the rights to the book, the usual procedure in the industry in that era. The screenwriter, Gene Gauntier, remarked in her 1928 autobiography <i>Blazing the Trail</i> how the film industry at that time infringed upon everything. As a result of the production of <i>Ben Hur</i>, Harper and Brothers and the author's estate brought suit against Kalem Studios, the Motion Picture Patents Company, and Gauntier for copyright infringement. The United States Supreme Court ultimately ruled against the film company in 1911. Kalem Company paid Lew Wallace's estate $25,000 in damages. The Supreme Court ruling established the precedent that all motion picture production companies must first secure the film rights of any previously published work still under copyright before commissioning a screenplay based on that work.<br />
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-87860036909030537862016-06-30T20:30:00.000-04:002016-06-30T20:49:15.096-04:00The Olivia de Havilland Centenary Blogathon - Not as a Stranger (1955)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Crystal and Phyllis for hosting the <a href="http://phyllislovesclassicmovies.blogspot.com/2016/04/announcing-olivia-de-havilland.html" target="_blank">blogathon</a> and inviting me to participate. Please visit Crystal's blog, <a href="https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood</a>, and Phyllis' blog, <a href="http://phyllislovesclassicmovies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Phyllis Loves Classic Movies</a>. You'll be glad you did.<br />
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I've been a fan of Olivia de Havilland's work for many years and have a small tribute site dedicated to her titled <a href="http://www.meredy.com/oliviadehavilland/" target="_blank">Olivia de Havilland ~~ One Classy Lady</a>. From here on, I'l be referring to Olivia de Havilland as OdH.<br />
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In this piece, I'm going to focus on an OdH film that many of her fans may not have seen. <i>Not as a Stranger</i> (1955) is a medical drama produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. It was based on the very popular 1954 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NPKCRS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NPKCRS&linkCode=as2&tag=meredsplacecl-20&linkId=173d3d70606a6ad4a1028c917c881390" target="_blank">novel of the same name</a> by Morton Thompson. <i>Not as a Stranger</i> is one of the first films where a human heart is seen beating during surgery.<br />
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The film featured OdH and Robert Mitchum in the lead roles, backed by a stellar supporting cast including Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford, Lon Chaney, Jr., Harry Morgan, and Lee Marvin.<br />
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OdH plays the Swedish (complete with accent and blonde hair) Kristina Hedvigson Marsh, a hard-working, down-to-earth registered perioperative (surgical) nurse and oldish plain-Jane spinster.<br />
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Notice how glamorous a blonde OdH looks in the images above. The images aren't true to the character she portrays in the film. I'm sure they were publicity shots taken to sell the movie to the general public (false advertising in this case). Movie-goers don't normally rush to the box office in droves to watch nurses (except for Pam Grier in <i>Coffy</i>).<br />
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Also worth noting, Kristina Hedvigson Marsh (OdH) is supposed to be quite a bit older than Dr. Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum). OdH was born July 1, 1916 and Robert Mitchum was born August 6, 1917. They would have been 38 and 37 when the film was made in late 1954.<br />
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Another age issue causes believability problems in the film. Mitchum playing a medical student at 37 is a stretch. Worse yet, Frank Sinatra was nearly 39 when he portrayed medical student Alfred Boone. OdH playing a seasoned surgical nurse at 38 is age-appropriate and credible.<br />
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A true testament to her talent, the beautiful OdH was Oscar-nominated and won an Oscar for portraying plain women: Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in <i>Gone with the Wind</i> and Catherine Sloper in <i>The Heiress</i>.<br />
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OdH and Robert Mitchum prepared for their roles by attending eight operations and are very convincing as surgeon and surgical nurse. Broderick Crawford attended an autopsy for his autopsy scene and promptly threw up.<br />
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I have to give a nod to the fabulous Stanley Kramer. <i>Not as a Stranger</i> marked Kramer's directorial debut. He was an American independent film producer and director who created unconventional, socially conscious works on a variety of issues not usually addressed in mainstream Hollywood fare. The first of his notable “message” pictures was <i>The Defiant Ones</i> (1958). Kramer's collected body of films received many awards, including 16 Academy Awards and 80 nominations, and he was nominated nine times as either producer or director.<br />
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I'd like to call attention to <i>Not as a Stranger</i>'s cinematographer Franz Planer. He shot over 130 movies, including <i>Letter from an Unknown Woman</i> (1948) plus the color films <i>The Big Country</i> (1958) and <i>Breakfast at Tiffany's</i> (1961). Planer worked with Stanley Kramer on seven films: <i>Champion</i> (1949), <i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> (1950), <i>Death of a Salesman</i> (1951), <i>The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.</i> (1953), <i>The Caine Mutiny</i> (1954), <i>Not as a Stranger</i> (1955), and <i>The Pride and the Passion</i> (1957).<br />
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<i>Not as a Stranger</i>'s editor Frederic Knudtson worked with Stanley Kramer eight times. Knudtson's productive association with Kramer began in 1955 and yielded his greatest work. The eight films are: <i>Not as a Stranger</i> (1955), <i>The Pride and the Passion</i> (1957), <i>The Defiant Ones</i> (1958), <i>On the Beach</i> (1959), <i>Inherit the Wind</i> (1960), <i>Judgment at Nuremberg</i> (1961), <i>Pressure Point</i> (1962), and <i>It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World</i> (1963).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia de Havilland as Kristina Hedvigson Marsh, Robert Mitchum as Dr. Lucas Marsh<br />
Frank Sinatra as Dr. Alfred Boone, Gloria Grahame as Harriet Lang<br />
Broderick Crawford as Dr. Aarons, Charles Bickford as Dr. David W. Runkleman</td></tr>
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Here's a bit of star trivia for you. Odh's cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. He was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer. His Mosquito has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built.<br />
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Robert Mitchum played the saxophone and wrote poetry.<br />
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Although James Van Heusen and Buddy Kaye are credited onscreen with the song "Not as a Stranger," and it was recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1955, only the instrumental version was used in the released movie. Sinatra's recording of the song was released in 1959 on his <i>Look to Your Heart</i> album. Listen to it below:<br />
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Gloria Grahame, unhappy with the tilt of her upper lip, often stuffed cotton along her gumline to straighten it out. This made it difficult for her to speak.<br />
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Broderick Crawford played Lennie in the play <i>Of Mice and Men</i> during its Broadway run (November 23, 1937 - May 1938).<br />
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Charles Bickford was mauled by a lion while filming <i>East of Java</i> (1935). Please read <a href="http://mrsskeffington.blogspot.com/2015/09/charles-bickford-quite-character.html" target="_blank">my post</a> about him.<br />
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Jesse White as Ben Cosgrove, Harry Morgan as Oley<br />
Lee Marvin as Brundage, Virginia Christine as Bruni</td></tr>
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Here's some more star trivia for you. Myron McCormick won a Tony Award in 1950 for his portrayal of sailor Luther Billis (the dude in the coconut bra) in <i>South Pacific</i>.<br />
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Lon Chaney, Jr.'s real name was Creighton Tull Chaney.<br />
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Jesse White starred in TV commercials as the Maytag repairman.<br />
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Harry Morgan played Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of <i>Dragnet</i> (1967–1970). He also played Colonel Sherman T. Potter on TV's <i>M*A*S*H</i>.<br />
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Lee Marvin is interred at Arlington National Cemetery where his headstone reads: "Lee Marvin, PFC, US Marine Corps, World War II."<br />
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Virginia Christine is particularly remembered as "Mrs. Olson" (or the "Folgers Coffee Woman") in a number of television commercials for Folgers.<br />
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Medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) has one, burning passionate desire in life. He wants to be a doctor. Unable to fund his studies himself, he woos the warm, supportive nurse Kristina (OdH), who has the financial resources he needs for him to realize his dreams. But his strong belief that a physician should be perfect has turned him into a demanding idealist. To him, anyone who deals in human life must be infallible. So, as Lucas completes his training, marries Kristina, and moves to a small town, where Lucas works as an assistant to Dr. Runkleman (Charles Bickford), his relentless perfectionism continues to alienate the people closest to him. Then a fatal mistake forces Lucas to decide who serves the patient best; an unerring machine, or a human being doing the best job he can?<br />
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Morton Thompson died a few weeks before the publication of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NPKCRS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NPKCRS&linkCode=as2&tag=meredsplacecl-20&linkId=173d3d70606a6ad4a1028c917c881390" target="_blank">his novel</a>. A <i>Variety</i> news item of February 3, 1954 revealed that producer Stanley Kramer made a pre-publication deal to purchase the screen rights in early December 1953 for $75,000. The novel subsequently became a bestseller.<br />
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On February 17, 1954, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reported that Stanley Kramer wanted Montgomery Clift for the role of "Lucas Marsh" and Ingrid Bergman for "Kristina Hedvigson."<br />
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According to a May 20, 1954 <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> news item, Kramer followed the "same book-plugging campaign used on <i>The Caine Mutiny</i>" by visiting book editors in large cities and making personal appearances at bookstores in order to publicize the novel and create a larger audience for the film.<br />
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According to a September 8, 1954 <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> news item, Dmitri Tiomkin was originally set to write and direct the film's music score but dropped out due to "conflicting commitments."<br />
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Buildings on the UCLA campus served as exteriors for the medical school. A November 5, 1954 <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> news item added Whitman Air Field in the San Fernando Valley as another shooting location.<br />
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On March 10, 1955, <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> reported that "the biggest ad, publicity and exploitation budget in United Artists' history"—at least $1,000,000—was to be spent publicizing the picture. Other <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> news items noted that a special five-minute trailer, featuring Kramer explaining the film's story and how the cast was selected, and showing clips of the stars' makeup tests and performances, was to be shown on television and in movie theaters.<br />
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The film's West Coast premiere, held on June 28, 1955 in Los Angeles, raised over $30,000 for the new Mt. Sinai Hospital.<br />
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<i>Not as a Stranger</i> received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Recording (Watson Jones). Frank Sinatra was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor, and Charles Bickford won that year's National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actor.<br />
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There's a scene in the film that always makes me giggle. Dr. Lucas Marsh (Mitchum) has a brief affair with sexy widow and horse breeder Harriet Lang (Gloria Grahame). Check out their symbolism-laden tryst in the horse barn! They're playin' horsey!<br />
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Kris is mad as hell (and with good reason). It was high time she told off her unfeeling husband. To see what happens after the big scene, watch <i>Not as a Stranger</i> below.
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I've always enjoyed the film, radio and television work of Olivia de Havilland. My small tribute site at meredy.com, <a href="http://www.meredy.com/oliviadehavilland/" target="_blank">Olivia de Havilland ~~ One Classy Lady</a>, has been around for many years. For OTR (Old Time Radio) fans, please check out the end of the post which is dedicated to Miss de Havilland's radio performances.<br />
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I'm so glad Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her centenary and career by choosing her to be the Star of the Month for July 2016. Her films will be featured every Friday evening and early Saturday morning (EDT).<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Raffles</i> (1939)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 12m</b><br />
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A suave thief (David Niven) falls in love again with his high school sweetheart (Olivia de Havilland) and finds temptation and a detective on his trail while visiting her family.<br />
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Ernest William Hornung wrote the A. J. Raffles series of short stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. John Van Druten and Sidney Howard adapted the film's screenplay from Hornung's tales.<br />
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Director: Sam Wood<br />
Cast: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, E. E. Clive, Lionel Pape, Peter Godfrey, Margaret Seddon, Leyland Hodgson.<br />
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<b>9:15 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Gone with the Wind</i> (1939)</b><br />
<b>Color - 3h 58m</b><br />
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Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh). Starting with her idyllic on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).<br />
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Olivia de Havilland was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes. She lost to Hattie McDaniel for her portrayal of Mammy.<br />
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Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood<br />
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, many more.<br />
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<b>1:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Adventures of Robin Hood </i>(1938)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 42m</b><br />
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When King Richard the Lionheart is captured, his scheming brother Prince John (Claude Rains) plots to reach the throne, to the outrage of Sir Robin of Locksley (Errol Flynn), the bandit king of Sherwood Forest. Rounding up his band of men and eventually winning the support of the lovely Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland), Robin accuses Prince John of treachery and, when the escaped Richard returns covertly to England, joins forces with the king to prevent Prince John from taking the crown.<br />
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This was the third film to pair Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (after <i>Captain Blood</i> and <i>The Charge of the Light Brigade</i>). They would ultimately star together in eight films: <i>Four's a Crowd</i> (1938), <i>The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex</i> (1939), <i>Dodge City</i> (1939), <i>Santa Fe Trail</i> (1940), and <i>They Died with Their Boots On</i> (1941). They also appeared in <i>Thank Your Lucky Stars</i> (1943). All the films are being shown on TCM in July 2016.<br />
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Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Sr., Herbert Mundin, Melville Cooper, Una O'Connor, Ian Hunter, Montagu Love, many more.<br />
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<b>3:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex</i> (1939)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 46m</b><br />
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Queen Elizabeth (Bette Davis) secretly loves the ambitious and courageous Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn), but at the same time she distrusts his desire for power, fearing he will exploit his political influence to her detriment. Though Essex's popularity soars when he returns victorious from a military campaign in Spain, Elizabeth instead chides him for prosecuting an unprofitable war. While the lovers quarrel, Sir Walter Raleigh (Vincent Price) schemes to bring about the downfall of Essex.<br />
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The original play, Maxwell Anderson's <i>Elizabeth the Queen</i>, was produced on Broadway in 1930 as a vehicle for Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Sr., Henry Daniell, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson, James Stephenson, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Forbes, Robert Warwick, Leo G. Carroll.<br />
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<b>5:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Captain Blood</i> (1935)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 59m</b><br />
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In England in the 1600s, Dr. Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) treats the wounds of a man who had been injured in a rebellion against King James II, for which he is convicted of treason and sold into slavery in the Caribbean colony of Port Royal, Jamaica. Despite the kindnesses of his new owner, Arabella Bishop (Olivia de Havilland), Blood and his fellow slaves escape to begin a life of high-seas piracy. But when Captain Blood crosses paths with Arabella again years later, he remembers her compassion.<br />
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The film is based on the 1922 novel <i>Captain Blood</i> by Rafael Sabatini and features a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, many more.<br />
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<b>7:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Anthony Adverse</i> (1936)</b><br />
<b>BW - 2h 21m</b><br />
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Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero (Fredric March). Abandoned at a convent by the heartless Don Luis (Claude Rains), Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather (Edmund Gwenn), and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe (Olivia de Havilland). When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.<br />
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The film won four Academy Awards. Gale Sondergaard won the first Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Gaetano Gaudio won for Best Cinematography and Ralph Dawson for Best Film Editing. Best Music (Scoring) was won by the Warner Bros. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold).<br />
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Director: Mervyn LeRoy<br />
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Louis Hayward, Gale Sondergaard, Akim Tamiroff, Ralph Morgan, Henry O'Neill, Pedro de Cordoba, Alma Lloyd.<br />
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<b>10:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Irish in Us</i> (1935)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 24m</b><br />
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Like any brothers, Danny (James Cagney) and Pat (Pat O'Brien) have had their share of differences. But the sibling rivalry gets pumped up to the next level when lovely Lucille (Olivia de Havilland) comes between them. Pat, a police officer, is planning on marrying Lucille, but only if he can trust Danny to take over the financial support of their mother. But when Danny instead risks it all to be a boxing promoter, and starts romancing Pat's girl, the gloves finally come off.<br />
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A modern source notes that publicity for this film focused on the fact that James Cagney did his own boxing.<br />
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Director: Lloyd Bacon<br />
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Mary Gordon, J. Farrell MacDonald, Thomas E. Jackson.<br />
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<b>11:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Alibi Ike</i> (1935)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 12m</b><br />
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With his job on the line, Chicago Cubs manager Cap (William Frawley) needs to turn around his lackluster team fast<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>especially since nothing less than the pennant will keep him employed. Fortunately for Cap, rookie pitcher Frank "Ike" Farrell (Joe E. Brown) has just the talent to pull up the fledgling team. However, Ike always has an excuse or a lie handy for every problem<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>and the real trouble comes when a group of gamblers look to fix the Cubs' games, and Ike is their main target.<br />
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Popular major league baseball players make cameo appearances, including Guy Cantrell, Dick Cox, Cedric Durst, Mike Gazella, Wally Hood, Don Hurst, Smead Jolley, Lou Koupal, Bob Meusel, Wally Rehg, and Jim Thorpe.<br />
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Director: Ray Enright<br />
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, William Frawley, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns, Eddie Shubert, Paul Harvey, Joe King, G. Pat Collins, Spencer Charters, Gene Morgan.<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>In This Our Life</i> (1942)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 37m</b><br />
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In this melodrama, pampered sibling Stanley Timberlake (Bette Davis) is 24 hours away from marrying her lawyer fiancé, Craig Fleming (George Brent), when she absconds with Dr. Peter Kingsmill (Dennis Morgan), the husband of her sister Roy Timberlake (Olivia de Havilland). To clear the way for her sister's marriage to Peter, Roy quickly divorces him, but then starts seeing her sister's former fiancé, Craig. Stanley's true nature begins to reveal itself, forcing Peter to look for a way out.<br />
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The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on the 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Ellen Glasgow.<br />
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Director: John Huston<br />
Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Frank Craven, Billie Burke, Charles Coburn, Ernest Anderson, Hattie McDaniel, Lee Patrick, Mary Servoss, Charlotte Fitzroy, William B. Davidson, Edward Fielding, John Hamilton, William Forrest.<br />
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<b>9:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>They Died with Their Boots On</i> (1941)</b><br />
<b>BW - 2h 20m</b><br />
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George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) is a rebellious but ambitious soldier, eager to join the Civil War. During the war, Custer has numerous successes to his credit, even though he disobeys orders. After the war concludes, he marries Libby Bacon (Olivia de Havilland) and is assigned to the Dakota Territory. Custer negotiates honestly with the Sioux on land, but due to corruption from others, a battle with Sitting Bull's forces occurs at Little Big Horn.<br />
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Louis Zamperini, Olympic athlete and subject of <i>Unbroken</i>, was an extra in this film just before being drafted into the United States Armed Forces during World War II.<br />
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Director: Raoul Walsh<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, George P. Huntley, Jr., Stanley Ridges, John Litel, Walter Hampden, Sydney Greenstreet, Regis Toomey, Hattie McDaniel, Minor Watson, Joseph Crehan.<br />
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<b>12:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Santa Fe Trail</i> (1940)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 50m</b><br />
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After graduating from West Point, James Ewell Brown (J. E. B. - Jeb) Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) are both stationed to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Once there, they find that the violent abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey) has laid waste to the state, killing anyone who gets in the way of his anti-slavery crusade. While the duo must work together to battle the murderous revolutionary, they also come to blows over their competing love for Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland).<br />
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The film entered the public domain in 1968 when the copyright wasn't renewed by then-owner United Artists Television.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, William Lundigan, Van Heflin, Gene Reynolds, Henry O'Neill, Guinn Williams, Alan Baxter, Moroni Olsen, Erville Alderson.<br />
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<b>2:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Dodge City</i> (1939)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 44m</b><br />
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In 1872, Dodge City, Kansas is the epicenter of cattle drives and lawlessness. Run by Jeff Surrett (Bruce Cabot), Dodge City isn't safe for anyone or anything. When Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn) arrives for a cattle drive, he's moved by the violent death of a young boy to take up the post of sheriff and take back the town from Surrett and his cohorts. But first he must contend with the rowdy townsfolk who, having been so long without law, desire to take the law into their own hands.<br />
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Filmed in early Technicolor, it was one of the highest-grossing films of the year.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Alan Hale, Victor Jory, Frank McHugh, John Litel, Henry Travers, Henry O'Neill, William Lundigan, Guinn Williams, Bobs Watson, Gloria Holden, Douglas Fowley, Ward Bond, Clem Bevans.<br />
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<br />
<b>4:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Charge of the Light Brigade</i> (1936)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 55m</b><br />
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While stationed in India during the Crimean War, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) is twice betrayed. His brother, Captain Perry Vickers (Patric Knowles), has swept his fiancée, Elsa (Olivia De Havilland), off her feet. Meanwhile, after Vickers saves the life of Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon), the rajah launches a massacre in a nearby city and allies himself with the British troops' Russian enemies. Vickers and his Light Brigade respond to this provocation at the historical Battle of Balaklava.<br />
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For the filming of the climactic charge, 125 horses were trip-wired. Of those, 25 were killed outright or had to be put down afterward. Some sources claim the figure is higher. Errol Flynn, an accomplished horseman, was outraged. The numerous animal deaths forced Congress to look at animal abuse in film for the first time. Flynn later asserted in his autobiography that it was he who complained to the ASPCA.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, C. Henry Gordon, George P. Huntley, Jr., Robert Barrat, Spring Byington, E. E. Clive, J. Carrol Naish.<br />
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<b>6:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>It's Love I'm After</i> (1937)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 30m</b><br />
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Despite constant bickering on and off stage, Shakespearean actors Basil Underwood (Leslie Howard) and Joyce Arden (Bette Davis) intend to marry after their closing performance in <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>. But following the show, debutante Marcia West (Olivia de Havilland), smitten by Basil's interpretation of Romeo, visits backstage to declare him the perfect man for her. Basil is initially flattered by her attentions, which enrages Joyce<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>until they both find Marcia more than they can handle.<br />
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The screenplay allows Leslie Howard to draw on his classical background by having his character quote lines from <i>Macbeth</i>, <i>Hamlet</i>, <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i>, and <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>.<br />
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Director: Archie Mayo<br />
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Eric Blore, Patric Knowles, George Barbier, Spring Byington, Bonita Granville, Valerie Bergere, E. E. Clive, Irving Bacon.<br />
<br />
<b>8:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Great Garrick</i> (1937)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 29m</b><br />
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Celebrated 18th-century British actor David Garrick (Brian Aherne) receives an invitation from the Comédie-Française in Paris, but they mistakenly hear that he's planning to give them acting lessons. Insulted, the troupe arranges to stay at his inn and put on an outlandish performance to convince him of their acting skills. When Countess Germaine de la Corbe (Olivia de Havilland), who is fleeing an arranged marriage, shows up, Garrick thinks her romantic advances are part of the plot.<br />
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The film is based on the play <i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i> by Ernest Vajda.<br />
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Director: James Whale<br />
Cast: Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni, Lana Turner (bit part), Marie Wilson.<br />
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<b>9:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Call It a Day</i> (1937)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 30m</b><br />
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An actress, a bachelor and an artist flirt with an Englishman (Ian Hunter), his wife (Frieda Inescort) and their daughter (Olivia de Havilland).<br />
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The film is based on the 1935 play <i>Call It a Day</i> by Dodie Smith, known best for her novel <i>The Hundred and One Dalmatians</i> (1956).<br />
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Director: Archie Mayo<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Alice Brady, Roland Young, Frieda Inescort, Bonita Granville, Peggy Wood, Marcia Ralston, Walter Woolf King, Peter Willes, Una O'Connor, Beryl Mercer.<br />
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<br />
<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Snake Pit</i> (1948)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 48m</b><br />
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In this psychological drama, Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert (Mark Stevens), she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik (Leo Genn), who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.<br />
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Olivia de Havilland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Jane Wyman won for <i>Johnny Belinda</i>.<br />
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The film led to changes in the conditions of mental institutions in the United States. In 1949, Herb Stein of <i>Daily Variety</i> wrote "Wisconsin is the seventh state to institute reforms in its mental hospitals as a result of <i>The Snake Pit</i>.<br />
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Director: Anatole Litvak<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig, Leif Erickson, Beulah Bondi, Lee Patrick, Howard Freeman, Natalie Schafer, Ruth Donnelly, Katherine Locke, Celia Lovsky, Frank Conroy, Minna Gombell, Betsy Blair.<br />
<br />
<b>10:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Heiress</i> (1949)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 56m</b><br />
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Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland), a young woman who stands to inherit her father's large fortune, falls in love when she meets Morris (Montgomery Clift), who gives her the love and affection her father doesn't, and which she desperately needs. Catherine's father (Ralph Richardson), believing Morris is only after the money, tells Catherine she will be disinherited if she marries him. Morris' true intentions are put to the test when he finds out about the amended will.<br />
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After seeing <i>The Heiress</i> on Broadway, Olivia de Havilland approached William Wyler about directing her in a screen adaptation of the play. She won her second Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Catherine.<br />
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The film was written by Augustus and Ruth Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play <i>The Heiress</i>. The play was suggested by the 1880 novel <i>Washington Square</i> by Henry James.<br />
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The Broadway cast: Wendy Hiller as Catherine Sloper, Basil Rathbone as Dr. Austin Sloper, Peter Cookson as Morris Townsend, and Patricia Collinge as Lavinia Penniman.<br />
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Director: William Wyler<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, Betty Linley, Ray Collins, Mona Freeman, Selena Royle, Paul Lees, Harry Antrim, Russ Conway, David Thursby.<br />
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<b>12:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>To Each His Own</i> (1946)</b><br />
<b>BW - 2h 2m</b><br />
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During a night watch in London, middle-aged American Jody Norris (Olivia de Havilland) meets the brisk but kind Lord Desham (Roland Culver). Later, Jody recalls her youth when she fell in love with a pilot and bore his illegitimate child after his death in the war. Jody tried to arrange to adopt her own child, but the boy ended up with her best friend, and Jody's efforts to regain custody were fruitless. Years later, when Jody's son arrives in London as an American pilot, Desham provides help.<br />
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This was Olivia de Havilland's first film role in three years. She was suspended by Warner Brothers when she filed suit against the studio on August 23, 1943, and was officially fired by the studio after she won her suit by unanimous decision on December 8, 1944. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Josephine "Jody" Norris.<br />
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Director: Mitchell Leisen<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, John Lund, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin, Virginia Welles, Victoria Horne, Griff Barnett.<br />
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<b>2:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Devotion </i>(1946)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 47m</b><br />
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As sisters Emily (Ida Lupino), Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland) and Anne Brontë (Nancy Coleman) all work on their novels, they each face their own series of tragedies. Both Charlotte and Anne fall in love with handsome Arthur Nicholls (Paul Henreid), and Emily struggles to keep their troubled brother, Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), away from the bottle so he can focus on his painting. While happiness eludes them, all three sisters use their personal heartache as inspiration for their writing.<br />
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<i>Devotion</i> was filmed between November 11, 1942 and mid-February 1943, but its screening was delayed until April 5, 1946 at the Strand Theater in Manhattan, due to a lawsuit by Olivia de Havilland against Warner Brothers. De Havilland successfully sued her studio to terminate her contract without providing the studio an extra six months to make up for her time on suspension. It proved a landmark case for the industry.<br />
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Director: Curtis Bernhardt<br />
Cast: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, Sydney Greenstreet, Nancy Coleman, Arthur Kennedy, Dame May Whitty, Victor Francen, Montagu Love, Ethel Griffies, Edmund Breon, Odette Myrtil, Doris Lloyd, Marie De Becker, Eily Malyon.<br />
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<br />
<b>4:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Wings of the Navy</i> (1939)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 29m</b><br />
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Two brothers (George Brent, John Payne) train as Navy pilots, go to Honolulu and romance the same girl (Olivia de Havilland).<br />
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<i>Wings of the Navy</i> was filmed on location at the Naval Air Station on North Island in San Diego, California, and the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida and was dedicated to the U.S. Naval Aviation Service.<br />
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Director: Lloyd Bacon<br />
Cast: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Litel, Victor Jory, Henry O'Neill, John Ridgely, Regis Toomey, Jonathan Hale, Pierre Watkin.<br />
<br />
<b>6:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Hard to Get</i> (1938)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 22m</b><br />
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Maggie Richards (Olivia de Havilland) is a spoiled brat who, having forgotten her purse, thinks she can buy gas simply by mentioning her wealthy father (Charles Winninger). But gas station employee Bill Davis (Dick Powell) isn't having it, and makes her work to pay off her debt at the pump. Determined to get revenge, Maggie deceives Bill into thinking that her father might help finance Bill's dream of building a motel, knowing full well that he will get thrown out on his ear.<br />
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" (Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer) played during the opening and closing credits, sung by Dick Powell.<br />
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"Sonny Boy" (Ray Henderson, Buddy G. DeSylva, and Lew Brown) played by the band at Atwater's and sung by Dick Powell in blackface. (I detest blackface performances.)<br />
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Director: Ray Enright<br />
Cast: Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Winninger, Allen Jenkins, Bonita Granville, Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Grady Sutton, Thurston Hall, John Ridgely, Penny Singleton, Granville Bates, Jack Mower.<br />
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<b>7:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Gold Is Where You Find It</i> (1938)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 34m</b><br />
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Mining expert Jared Whitney (George Brent) is courting Serena (Olivia de Havilland), but her father, farmer Col. Ferris (Claude Rains), views Jared as a symbol of the new mining techniques that damage the land and disapproves of him. As Jared goes to work for a devious mining company run by rival members of the Ferris family, Serena begins to sour on him. But when Jared learns that his employer's recklessness led to a man's death, he sees why the elder Ferris resists some new mining companies.<br />
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The film is lifted out of the ordinary by its early use of the newly perfected 3-strip Technicolor process, its big-budget director and cast, and its musical score by Max Steiner.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Marcia Ralston, Barton MacLane, Tim Holt, Sidney Toler, Henry O'Neill, Willie Best, Robert McWade, George Hayes, Russell Simpson, Harry Davenport, Clarence Kolb, Moroni Olsen, Walter Rodgers.<br />
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<b>9:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> (1935)</b><br />
<b>BW - 2h 22m</b><br />
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In this classic screen adaptation of Shakespeare's fantastical play, the royal wedding plans of Theseus, the duke of Athens (Ian Hunter) and Hippolyta overlap with the antics of forest fairies, led by Oberon and Titania, and a ragtag troupe of actors. Meanwhile, young lovers, including Lysander (Dick Powell) and Hermia (Olivia de Havilland), deceive each other in amusing ways, and magic adds a mischievous element to this enchanted romantic comedy.<br />
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Olivia de Havilland originally played the role of Hermia in Max Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl stage production of the play. Although the cast of the stage play was mostly replaced by Warner Brothers contract players, de Havilland and Mickey Rooney were chosen to reprise their original roles.<br />
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Directors: Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle<br />
Cast: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Grant Mitchell, Frank McHugh, Dewey Robinson, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, Otis Harlan, Arthur Treacher, Victor Jory, Anita Louise, Nini Theilade, Mickey Rooney, Katherine Frey, Helen Westcott, Fred Sale, Billy Barty.<br />
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<br />
<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>My Cousin Rachel</i> (1952)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 38m</b><br />
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When Philip Ashley's (Richard Burton) wealthy cousin, Ambrose (John Sutton), dies suddenly, his suspicions drift to Ambrose's new and icy wife, Rachel (Olivia de Havilland), who stands to benefit greatly from his cousin's death. When Ashley is introduced to Rachel at Ambrose's funeral, however, his fears are immediately laid to rest: how could such a beautiful young woman possibly be a murderer? But when the estate is left to Ashley, he begins to fear for his life.<br />
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The film received four Academy Award nominations: Best Art Direction, Black and White (Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott), Best Cinematography, Black and White (Joseph LaShelle), Best Costume Design, Black and White (Charles LeMaire, Dorothy Jeakins), Best Supporting Actor (Richard Burton).<br />
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Richard Burton won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male. Olivia de Havilland was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.<br />
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Director: Henry Koster<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz, John Sutton, Tudor Owen, J. M. Kerrigan, Margaret Brewster, Alma Lawton, Ola Lorraine, Kathleen Mason, Earl Robie, Argentina Brunetti, Mario Siletti.<br />
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<b>9:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Proud Rebel</i> (1958)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 43m</b><br />
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Confederate veteran John Chandler (Alan Ladd) returns from defeat in war to find his home razed, his wife dead and his young son, David (David Ladd), traumatized and rendered mute. Desperate to cure the boy, Chandler takes David to a small town in Illinois where he hopes to find a doctor. But, soon after the pair arrives, Chandler finds himself framed for assault<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>and forced to choose between serving hard time and working for struggling local farmer Linnett Moore (Olivia de Havilland).<br />
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The film was based on a 1947 short story by James Edward Grant. Grant famously collaborated with John Wayne on twelve projects.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd, Cecil Kellaway, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Pittman, Henry Hull, Eli Mintz, John Carradine, James Westerfield, Percy Helton, Dan White, Mary Wickes, King as Lance, David's dog.<br />
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<b>11:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Ambassador's Daughter</i> (1956)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 43m</b><br />
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Senator Cartwright (Adolphe Menjou) and his wife (Myrna Loy) arrive in Paris as the guests of Ambassador Fiske (Edward Arnold). Cartwright has a plan to restrict the city from American soldiers on leave due to their boorish behavior. Fiske's daughter, Joan (Olivia de Havilland), tries to prove that Cartwright is wrong about the soldiers by going on a date with one named Danny (John Forsythe). Although Joan does not reveal her plan, Danny acts like a gentleman, and she starts to fall for him.<br />
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Christian Dior was the film's costume designer. It was prominent character actor Minor Watson's last film.<br />
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Director: Norman Krasna<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe, Myrna Loy, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan, Francis Lederer, Edward Arnold, Minor Watson.<br />
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<b>1:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Hold Back the Dawn</i> (1941)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 56m</b><br />
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Impressionable teacher Emmy (Olivia de Havilland) is swept off her feet when she meets Georges (Charles Boyer) in a Mexican border town. Unaware that Georges is a gigolo looking for a woman who will unwittingly help him get a green card, Emmy marries him after only a few days. While carrying out the charade, Georges begins to fall for Emmy, angering his girlfriend, Anita (Paulette Goddard). As his scheme is jeopardized, Georges learns keeping Emmy may be more important than his green card.<br />
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The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Olivia de Havilland), Best Adapted Screenplay (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder), Best Art Direction, Black and White (Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Sam Comer), Best Cinematography, Black and White (Leo Tover), and Best Score of a Dramatic Picture (Victor Young).<br />
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Public attention was focused on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s <i>Suspicion</i> and Olivia de Havilland for <i>Hold Back the Dawn</i>. Fontaine’s victory was the only time an actress won for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.<br />
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Director: Mitchell Leisen<br />
Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp, Eric Feldary, Nestor Paiva, Eva Puig, Micheline Cheirel, Madeleine LeBeau, Billy Lee, Mikhail Rasumny, Charles Arnt, Arthur Loft, Mitchell Leisen, Kitty Kelly.<br />
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<br />
<b>4:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Strawberry Blonde</i> (1941)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 37m</b><br />
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At the turn of the century, dentist Biff Grimes (James Cagney) recalls his association with politician Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson). The men meet over their romantic rivalry for striking strawberry blonde Virginia Brush (Rita Hayworth). Despite Biff's efforts, Virginia pushes her friend, nurse and women's rights advocate Amy Lind (Olivia de Havilland), on him and elopes with Hugo. After Biff and Amy fall in love, Biff join Hugo's firm, only to learn that his rival is still a double dealer.<br />
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The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture and features songs such as "The Band Played On," "Bill Bailey," "Meet Me in St. Louis," "Wait Till The Sun Shines, Nellie," and "Love Me and the World Is Mine."<br />
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Director: Raoul Walsh<br />
Cast: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, George Tobias, Una O'Connor, George Reeves, Lucile Fairbanks.<br />
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<b>6:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>My Love Came Back</i> (1940)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 25m</b><br />
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A New York student violinist (Olivia de Havilland) falls in love with her anonymous benefactor's (Charles Winninger) business manager (Jeffrey Lynn).<br />
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The film is notable for Heinz Eric Roemheld's musical direction and Ray Heindorf's unique swing orchestral arrangements of classical pieces.<br />
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Director: Curtis Bernhardt<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman, Charles Winninger, Spring Byington, Grant Mitchell, William T. Orr, Ann Gillis, S. Z. Sakall, Charles Trowbridge, Mabel Taliaferro, William B. Davidson, Nanette Vallon, Sidney Bracey.<br />
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<b>7:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Thank Your Lucky Stars</i> (1943)</b><br />
<b>BW - 2h 4m</b><br />
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Dr. Schlenna (S.Z. Sakall) and Farnsworth (Edward Everett Horton) are attempting to put together a wartime charity show with an ensemble of stars, but must indulge the hubris of singer Eddie Cantor (Eddie Cantor) in order to gain the participation of Dinah Shore (Dinah Shore). Meanwhile, Eddie Cantor look-alike Joe Simpson (also Cantor) drives a tour bus, taking tourists to various Hollywood locations. When the producers discover his singing talents, he offers them a solution to their problems.<br />
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The stars donated their salaries to the Hollywood Canteen, which was founded by John Garfield and Bette Davis, who appear in the film.<br />
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Director: David Butler<br />
Cast: Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall.<br />
Cameo appearances: Humphrey Bogart, Jack Carson, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Alan Hale, Sr., Mark Hellinger, Noble Johnson, Ida Lupino, Mike Mazurki, Hattie McDaniel, Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, George Tobias, Doodles Weaver, Don Wilson, Spike Jones and His City Slickers.<br />
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<b>9:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Four's a Crowd</i> (1938)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 32m</b><br />
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Reporter Jean Christy (Rosalind Russell) convinces publicity man Bob Lansford (Errol Flynn) to buy the failing paper she writes for from owner Pat Buckley (Patric Knowles). Initially reluctant, Bob agrees to Jean's plan when he learns Pat is engaged to Lorri Dillingwell (Olivia de Havilland), whose wealthy grandfather he hopes to snag as a client. Bob soon runs a critical story on Lorri's grandfather in a scheme to later "save" the man, making Jean wonder if she did the right thing.<br />
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The fourth film pairing of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Warner Brothers borrowed Rosalind Russell from M-G-M for the film.<br />
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Director: Michael Curtiz<br />
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles, Walter Connolly, Hugh Herbert, Melville Cooper, Franklin Pangborn, Herman Bing, Margaret Hamilton, Joseph Crehan, Joe Cunningham, Gloria Blondell, Carole Landis.<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Fifth Musketeer</i> (1979)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 43m</b><br />
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A somewhat older D'Artagnan and company help Louis XIV's twin (Beau Bridges) swashbuckle his way to the throne.<br />
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Olivia de Havilland makes a cameo appearance as the Queen Mother. This was de Havilland's final theatrical film.<br />
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Director: Ken Annakin<br />
Cast: Beau Bridges, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer, Alan Hale, Jr., Olivia de Havilland, Rex Harrison, Helmut Dantine, Patrick Pinney.<br />
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<b>10:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Swarm</i> (1978)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 56m</b><br />
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Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane (Michael Caine) and General Thaddeus Slater (Richard Widmark) join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.<br />
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The film was a notorious box office bomb upon its release in 1978, barely making it two weeks in theaters.<br />
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Believe it or not, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Paul Zastupnevich).<br />
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<i>The Swarm</i> was Fred MacMurray's final film. Wonder why?<br />
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The movie is notable for a "Scream Moan" by veteran actress Olivia de Havilland who screams a moan when she sees dead children outside her window. Watch below:<br />
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Director: Irwin Allen<br />
Cast: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Cameron Mitchell, Christian Juttner, Morgan Paull, Alejandro Rey, Don "Red" Barry.<br />
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<b>12:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Light in the Piazza</i> (1962)</b><br />
<b>Color - 1h 42m</b><br />
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Meg Johnson (Olivia de Havilland) is very protective of her daughter, Clara (Yvette Mimieux), a gorgeous young woman who suffers from a mental disability. While on vacation in Italy, Clara meets the dashing Fabrizio Naccarelli (George Hamilton), who is immediately smitten with her and doesn't initially grasp the extent of her developmental handicap. Though Meg is wary of letting Clara fall into a romance with Fabrizio, she realizes that he may be able to give the girl a better life.<br />
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The film is notable for its extensive location shooting in Florence and Rome by the award-winning cinematographer Otto Heller.<br />
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Director: Guy Green<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Nancy Nevinson, Isabel Dean, Moultrie Kelsall, Barry Sullivan.<br />
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<b>2:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Libel </i>(1959)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 40m</b><br />
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An English nobleman's (Dirk Bogarde) wife (Olivia de Havilland) has him sue a Canadian (Paul Massie) who has called him an impostor.<br />
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The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll.<br />
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Director: Anthony Asquith<br />
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Anthony Dawson, Richard Wattis, Martin Miller, Richard Dimbleby.<br />
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<b>4:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Male Animal </i>(1942)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 41m</b><br />
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On the weekend of the big football game at a large Midwestern university, English professor Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda) unexpectedly gets embroiled in a free-speech controversy. When a trustee (Eugene Pallette) learns that Tommy intends to read a letter by convicted anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti in class, he threatens the professor's job. Meanwhile, Tommy's unhappy wife (Olivia de Havilland) is wooed by her visiting college boyfriend, ex-football star Joe Ferguson (Jack Carson).<br />
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The film was based on a hit 1940 Broadway play of the same name written by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery, Julius J. Epstein, and Philip G. Epstein, based on Thurber and Nugent's play. The film was also directed by Elliott Nugent.<br />
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Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Anderson, Hattie McDaniel, Ivan Simpson, Don DeFore, Jean Ames, Minna Phillips, Regina Wallace, Frank Mayo, William B. Davidson, Bobby Barnes.<br />
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<b>6:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Government Girl</i> (1943)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 34m</b><br />
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At the height of World War II, auto engineer Ed Browne (Sonny Tufts) is called to Washington, D.C. from Detroit to head a new experimental aircraft project. A screwball misunderstanding at his hotel introduces him to brassy Smokey Allard (Olivia de Havilland), who turns out to be his new secretary. Despite her engagement to scheming Senate aide Dana McGuire (Jess Barker), Smokey and Ed fall for each other against a backdrop of corporate intrigue and wartime espionage.<br />
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Leading lady Olivia de Havilland absolutely hated the role. She had not wanted to do the picture in the first place, but was forced into it by an arrangement whereby Warner Bros. loaned her services to David O. Selznick, who turned her over to RKO.<br />
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Director: Dudley Nichols<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Sonny Tufts, Anne Shirley, Jess Barker, James Dunn, Paul Stewart, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Davenport, Una O'Connor, Sig Ruman.<br />
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<b>7:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Princess O'Rourke</i> (1943)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 34m</b><br />
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Princess Maria (Olivia de Havilland) and her uncle (Charles Coburn) are in Washington, D.C., where it is hoped she will meet a suitable man to marry. After a number of misfires on the romance front, Maria flies to San Francisco, sedating herself beforehand to combat her fear of flying. Still asleep when the plane sets down, Maria is taken in by the pilot, Eddie (Robert Cummings). When Maria wakes up and meets Edward, sparks fly<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>but her royal lineage could complicate matters.<br />
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Although conceived as a vehicle for de Havilland, <i>Princess O'Rourke</i> turned out to be a troubled project that led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Law" target="_blank">de Havilland Law</a>, that changed the status of contracts in the U.S. film industry. Filmed in 1942, the release was held up for one year due to legal issues that resulted from the production.<br />
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Director: Norman Krasna<br />
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Harry Davenport, Gladys Cooper, Minor Watson, Nan Wynn, Curt Bois, Julie Bishop, Ray Walker.<br />
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<b><i>Academy Award</i> (Theater)</b><br />
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"Hold Back the Dawn" - July 31, 1946 - Olivia de Havilland, Jean Pierre Aumont<br />
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"Cheers for Miss Bishop" - November 6, 1946 - Olivia de Havilland<br />
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<b><i>Lux Radio Theatre</i></b><br />
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"Saturday's Children" - October 26, 1936 - Robert Taylor, Olivia de Havilland<br />
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"Captain Blood" - February 22, 1937 - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson, Herbert Marshall<br />
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"Under Two Flags" - May 24, 1937 - Herbert Marshall, Olivia de Havilland, Lupe Velez, Lionel Atwill<br />
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"Green Light" - January 31, 1938 - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, C. Aubrey Smith<br />
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"The Scarlet Pimpernel" - December 12, 1938 - Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland<br />
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"Vigil in the Night" - May 27, 1940 - Olivia de Havilland, Herbert Marshall<br />
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"Wings of the Navy" - October 7, 1940 - George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne<br />
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"Appointment for Love" - May 1, 1944 - Olivia de Havilland, Paul Lukas<br />
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"Suspicion" - September 18, 1944 - William Powell, Olivia de Havilland<br />
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"Tender Comrade" - January 22, 1945 - Olivia de Havilland, June Duprez, Dennis O'Keefe<br />
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"Guest Wife" - December 10, 1945 - Olivia de Havilland, Don Ameche, Dick Foran<br />
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"And Now Tomorrow" - June 10, 1946 - Olivia de Havilland, John Lund<br />
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"Cluny Brown" - January 27, 1947 - Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer<br />
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"The Snake Pit" - April 10, 1950 - Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn<br />
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"The Corn Is Green" - June 12, 1950 - Olivia de Havilland, Richard Basehart<br />
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"The Heiress" - September 11, 1950 - Olivia de Havilland, Louis Calhern, Van Heflin<br />
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"My Cousin Rachel" - September 7, 1953 - Olivia de Havilland, Ron Randell<br />
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<b><i>Screen Directors Playhouse</i></b><br />
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"The Dark Mirror" - March 31, 1950 - Star: Olivia de Havilland Director: Robert Siodmak<br />
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<b><i>The Screen Guild Theater</i></b><br />
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"Three Days March" - February 12, 1939 - Olivia de Havilland, William Bakewell, Clarence Derwent, Akim Tamiroff, Spencer Tracy<br />
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"Next Time We Live" - February 18, 1940 - James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn<br />
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"My Love Came Back" - March 16, 1941 - Olivia de Havilland, Robert Young, Charles Winninger<br />
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"The Strawberry Blonde" - October 5, 1941 - James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Jack Carson<br />
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"The Male Animal" - December 28, 1942 - Olivia de Havilland, Joel McCrea, Jack Carson<br />
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"Remember the Day" - November 15, 1943 - Olivia de Havilland, Walter Pidgeon<br />
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"The Cowboy and the Lady" - April 29, 1946 - Olivia de Havilland, Gregory Peck, Patsy Moran<br />
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"Kitty Foyle" - March 3, 1947 - Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, William Lundigan<br />
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<b><i>Suspense</i></b><br />
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"Voyage Through Darkness" - September 7, 1944 - Olivia de Havilland, Reginald Gardner</div>
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-45588290775857430702016-06-19T00:00:00.000-04:002016-06-19T01:11:48.547-04:00The 2nd Annual SEX! (now that I have your attention) Blogathon - Red-Headed Woman (1932)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Steve of <a href="https://moviemovieblogblog.files.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">MovieMovieBlogBlog</a> for hosting the <a href="https://moviemovieblogblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/announcing-the-2nd-annual-sex-now-that-i-have-your-attention-blogathon/" target="_blank">blogathon</a>. Please visit Steve's fine blog. You'll be glad you did.<br />
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I'm writing about the pre-Code Jean Harlow flick <i>Red-Headed Woman, </i>which is filled with Anita Loos' laughs and loaded with 1932 dynamite. Jean Harlow is as sexy with titian hair as she is with platinum blonde locks. And only Harlow could make you feel sympathy for a gold digger like Lillian "Lil" "Red" Andrews. In any other actress' hands, the character of Lil might have been an unsympathetic, vile tart but Miss Harlow makes her so humorous, so likable that you can't help but smile over her exploits. Lil's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who uses sex to get what she wants.<br />
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Lil rooms with wisecracking hairdresser Sally (Una Merkel), has a bootlegger boyfriend, and works as a secretary at the big coal business owned by the rich and ritzy Legendres, Junior and Senior (played by Chester Morris and Lewis Stone).<br />
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Fortunately for Lil, nearly all the men in her life think with their third legs and are boobs for boobs. This makes her "job" as a gold digging, homewrecker a whole lot easier. Not that Lil lacks sex appeal to get the "job" done. She first uses her body to obtain and manipulate Legendre Junior's purse strings. After Lil marries Junior (Chester Morris) for wealth, she then tries to blackmail and bed her way toward social acceptance by her husband's peers. But one too many indiscretions<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>with the chauffeur<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>takes the bloom off her rich man's bud, and not even reconciliation with her hubby works now. Eventually she skips off scot-free to a charmed future as a noble concubine<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>with a racehorse, a titled lover, and the same chauffeur all her very own.<br />
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Lil's score list in a 79 minute movie: 1. Al, the bootlegger (William Pawley) 2. Bill Legendre, Jr. (Chester Morris) 3. Charles B. Gaerste (Henry Stephenson) 4. Albert (Charles Boyer) 5. Unnamed Parisian millionaire. I think William Legendre, Sr. (Lewis Stone) and Uncle Fred (Harvey Clark) are the only men who manage to keep their trousers buttoned when Lil's around.<br />
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"Red-Headed Woman," words and music by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, is the film's theme song. Listen below:<br />
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<b>Jack Conway</b> was an actor turned director and producer. He was with M-G-M as a contract director from 1925-1948. He directed Jean Harlow in four films: <i>Red-Headed Woman</i> (1932), <i>The Girl from Missouri</i> (1934), <i>Libeled Lady</i> (1936), and <i>Saratoga</i> (1937).<br />
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<b>Katharine Brush</b>'s 1930 novel <i>Young Man of Manhattan</i> was made into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, and Ginger Rogers. Rogers' character, Puff Randolph, utters the cool line, "Cigarette me, big boy."<br />
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Brush's 1931 novel <i>Red-Headed Woman</i> was adapted by Anita Loos into the film of the same name.<br />
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Katharine Brush's 1946 short story "Birthday Party" is often taught in literature classes and appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Literature Exam. <a href="http://mrsskeffington.blogspot.com/2016/05/birthday-party-by-katharine-brush.html" target="_blank">Read it here</a>.<br />
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<b>Anita Loos</b> was a screenwriter famous for a colossal number of films. Just a few of her hits are <i>Red-Headed Woman</i> (1932; writer), <i>Hold Your Man </i>(1933; screenplay; story), <i>San Francisco</i> (1936; writer), <i>Saratoga</i> (1937; screenplay; story), <i>The Women</i> (1939; screenplay), <i>Blossoms in the Dust</i> (1941; screenplay), and <i>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</i> (1945; uncredited).<br />
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Loos was also a playwright, known for <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> (1949) and <i>Gigi</i> (1951), and an author, famously writing the novels <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> (1925) and <i>But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</i> (1927).<br />
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<b>Douglas Shearer</b> was a pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. He worked at M-G-M with his sister, Norma Shearer.<br />
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<b>Cedric Gibbons</b> was an art director and production designer for M-G-M. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette in 1928. He was nominated 38 times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and won the Oscar 11 times. Gibbons also made significant contributions to movie theater architecture. He was married to actresses Dolores del Rio and Hazel Brooks.<br />
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Adrian Adolph Greenberg, known mononymously as <b>Adrian</b>, was M-G-M's costume designer from 1928-1941. He worked with Joan Crawford 28 times, Norma Shearer 18 times, and Jean Harlow 9 times. Adrian famously insisted on the best materials and workmanship in the creation of his designs. Though openly gay, he was married to Janet Gaynor from 1939 until his death in 1959.<br />
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<b>Harold Rosson</b> was a cinematographer who was nominated for five Academy Awards for his work on: <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> (1939), <i>Boom Town</i> (1940), <i>Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo</i> (1944), <i>The Asphalt Jungle </i>(1950), and <i>The Bad Seed</i> (1956).<br />
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In 1936, Rosson was awarded an Honorary Oscar for the color cinematography of the 1936 David O. Selznick production <i>The Garden of Allah</i>.<br />
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Rosson was briefly married to Jean Harlow.<br />
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<b>Blanche Sewell</b> was a noted film editor at M-G-M from 1925 until her death in 1949. She edited <i>Grand Hotel </i>(1932), <i>Mutiny on the Bounty</i> (1935), <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> (1939), and many others.<br />
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<b>Jean Harlow</b>, born in 1911 as Harlean Harlow Carpenter, was a wildly popular film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Nicknamed "Baby," the "Blonde Bombshell," and the "Platinum Blonde," she died at age 26 of kidney failure.<br />
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<b>Chester Morris</b> was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his role in 1929's <i>Alibi</i>. He portrayed Boston Blackie in the Boston Blackie film series. In later years, he appeared on Broadway in <i>Blue Denim</i>, <i>Advise and Consent</i>, and <i>The Subject Was Roses</i>.<br />
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<b>Lewis Stone</b> was an actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in the Andy Hardy film series and as an M-G-M contract player. Stone was one of the most prolific actors during the early years of the film-making industry.<br />
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<b>Leila Hyams</b> was a model, vaudeville and film actress. Her film career began in 1924 and ended when she retired in 1936. She appeared in more than 50 film roles in those 12 years.<br />
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With her Kewpie-doll looks and wry line delivery, <b>Una Merkel</b> was a popular second lead in a number of films of the 1930s, usually playing the wisecracking best friend of the heroine, supporting actresses such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, and Loretta Young.<br />
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<b>Henry Stephenson</b> was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise gentlemen in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Stephenson appeared with Errol Flynn in four films: <i>Captain Blood</i> (1935), <i>The Charge of the Light Brigade</i> (1936), <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> (1937), and <i>The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex</i> (1939).<br />
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<b>May Robson</b> was a major stage actress in the late 19th and early 20th century. Robson was the oldest person to enjoy a major Hollywood career and the oldest to receive an Oscar nomination, for her leading role in <i>Lady for a Day</i> in 1933. She usually played crabby old ladies with hearts of gold.<br />
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<b>Charles Boyer</b> was a stage and silent film star in France before coming to the United States. His first Hollywood break came with a very small role in Jean Harlow's<i> Red-Headed Woman</i> (1932).<br />
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<b>Harvey Clark</b> was a stage and film actor. He appeared in 198 films between 1915 and 1938.<br />
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After the credits, the first 1:18 of the picture features snappy dialogue by Anita Loos. Some of the film's best remembered lines are from this small portion of the movie.<br />
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Jean Harlow's first words as she reclines in a salon chair with her perky breasts draped in satin:<br />
"So gentlemen prefer blondes, do they? Yes, they do."<br />
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In the next scene, Harlow adjusts her dress as she sexily saunters over to the window. She pulls the skirt of the dress tightly over her legs and asks an unseen woman the following question:<br />
<b>Harlow</b>: "Can you see through this?"<br />
<b>Unseen woman</b>: I'm afraid you can, Miss."<br />
<b>Harlow</b>: "I'll wear it."<br />
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The next scene features a shot of Harlow's gorgeous gams. A newspaper falls to the floor. She had cut a headshot of her boss from the newspaper and inserts the photo into a frame on her garter. She says:<br />
"The boss's picture. Well, it'll get me more there than it will hanging on the wall."<br />
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In the final scene Lil (Jean Harlow) meets Sally (Una Merkel) at a store with a soda fountain. Their conversation:<br />
<b>Lil:</b> "I'm on my way up to the boss's house with his mail."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Why didn't his secretary do it?"<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Because I swiped it off her desk. These are important and they gotta be answered right away. Maybe I'll get a chance to stay and take dictation."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "What'll that getcha?"<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Don't be dumb. His wife's in Cleveland."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Say! Bill Legendre's crazy about his wife."<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Well, he's a man, isn't he?"<br />
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More racy (and humorous) dialogue by Anita Loos. Friends and roommates Lil and Sally are quite a pair. Harlow even flashes a bare breast while changing into her nightwear.<br />
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<b>Lil</b>: "And there we were like an uncensored movie, when in walks Mrs. William Legendre, Jr. and catches us! Right in the old family parlor!"<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Ahhh! Oh, you dirty little homewrecker! Whaddya think that's gonna getcha?"<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Listen, Sally, I made up my mind a long time ago, I'm not gonna spend my whole life on the wrong side of the railroad tracks."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Well, I hope you don't get hit by a train while you're crossin' over."<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "A girl's a fool that doesn't get ahead. Say, it's just as easy to hook a rich man as it is to get hooked by a poor one."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Oh! So that's what you're gonna do!"<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "That's it. I'm gonna amount to something in this town. You'll see!<br />
<b>Sally</b>: Sure!"<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Well, you son-of-a-sea-snake! Have you got on my new pajamas? Yeah, well you shake right out of 'em, Hortense."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Alright!"<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "I'm too important these days to sleep informally. What if there'd be a fire?"<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "You'd have to cover up to keep from being recognized."<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Say mug, let's have a little more respect outta you, now that I belong to one of the fine old families."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Oh, yeah? Well if I were you I'd go a little bit slow."<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "Whadda you mean by that?"<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Well, Bill Legendre and his wife might get together and decide that you were merely a strange interlude."<br />
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<b>Lil:</b> "Strange interlude, nothing! When I kiss 'em, they stay kissed for a long time."<br />
<b>Sally</b>: "Well, see you don't get left holdin' the bag, sweetheart, full of nothin' but air. You better hang on to that bootlegger of yours."<br />
<b>Lil</b>: "What? Go on with Al after Bill Legendre? Oh no, I've started on the upgrade, and whatever happens, baby, I'm in the big leagues now."<br />
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The Hays Office approved <i>Red-Headed Woman</i> after the elimination of some suggestive dialogue and shots of Jean Harlow. But this sadomasochistic scene was considered okay for public consumption in 1932? I'm surprised it wasn't retooled or cut. It's one of the reasons the film was banned in the UK until 1965.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Likeness of Jean Harlow on cover of <i>Photoplay</i> Aug. 1932</td></tr>
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-43089704012243954922016-06-12T23:36:00.000-04:002016-06-12T23:36:00.833-04:00The Reel Infatuation Blogathon - Joe Devereaux (Robert Wagner) in Broken Lance (1954)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm writing about the character Joseph "Joe" Devereaux played by Robert Wagner in <i>Broken Lance</i> (1954). Joe is the son of Matthew Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) and his second wife, a Native American princess played by Katy Jurado and called "Señora" Devereaux out of respect for Matt but not out of respect for her.<br />
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I fell in serious like with Joe at age 11 when introduced to the film by my mother, a classic movie lover. She also thought (and still thinks at age 94) that the 24-year-old Robert Wagner was especially dreamy in this well-done tale of the Southwest. Dressed in western garb by William Travilla and riding a beautiful pinto, Wagner looks so handsome in CinemaScope and Technicolor thanks to the talent of cinematographer Joe MacDonald, known for his fine outdoor color photography.<br />
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In addition to Joe, <i>Broken Lance</i> also features one heinous hunk and two himboes. Matthew Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) had three sons by his first wife. She died when their boys were young. Matt was busy building an empire and had no time for his boys. He never showed them the affection they wanted and needed desperately. Joe's mother treated her stepsons with love and encouraged her husband to do the same. Unfortunately, her stepsons rejected her out of prejudice and Matt did not listen to his wife on the matter of his sons. He continued to treat them worse than the hired hands.<br />
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The heinous hunk in the top photo is Ben Devereaux (Richard Widmark), the oldest. The two himboes in the bottom photos, Hugh O'Brian as Mike Devereaux and Earl Holliman as Denny Devereaux, follow Ben like sheep out of their stupidity.<br />
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Top L: Jean Peters plays Barbara, Joe's love interest. I want to be Barbara in the worst way.<br />
Top R: E. G. Marshall plays Horace, Barbara's father, governor of the state, and a prejudiced creep.<br />
Center L: Eduard Franz as Two Moons, the coolest of cats and Joe's savior.<br />
Center R: Carl Benton Reid as Clem Lawton, Matt's friend and attorney.<br />
Bottom L: Philip Ober as Van Cleve, the slimy prosecutor.<br />
Bottom R: Robert Burton as McAndrews, the nasty copper mine foreman.<br />
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<i>Broken Lance</i> is the story of a family empire in the Old West. The plot is derived from <i>King Lear</i>, though its more direct precursor is the film noir classic <i>House of Strangers</i> (1949), a similarly themed film also written by Philip Yordan. Though Yordan won an Oscar for Original Story for <i>Broken Lance</i>, Richard Murphy wrote the screenplay and also used the 1949 novel <i>I'll Never Go Home Any More</i> by Jerome Weidman as source material.<br />
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I must mention the work of Spencer Tracy and Katy Jurado in this film. They are both top-notch. Jurado was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar while subbing for Dolores del Río who was having visa trouble. In addition, the film is well-cast with reliable character actors in the supporting roles.<br />
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The film also benefits from having the talented Edward Dymtryk as a director. He was known for his films noir and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for <i>Crossfire</i> (1947).<br />
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I drool over this photo of Joe (Robert Wagner) and Barbara (Jean Peters) while pretending to take her place. :)<br />
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<b>How Mom and I Like to Watch Joe Devereaux</b></div>
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First, we plan the menu for the cinematic event. Most of the time we keep it simple and decide on <b>Half-and-Half Bars</b> (recipe below) and a beverage. A word of warning. Never call the bars Half-Breeds. Joe hates being called that and I don't blame him. It's damn offensive.<br />
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<b>Half-and-Half Bars</b></div>
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1 1/2 cups sugar</div>
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3 eggs</div>
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1 tsp. vanilla</div>
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1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional) (I love nuts!)</div>
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1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted</div>
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1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar</div>
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Generously grease the bottom and sides of an 8x8-inch baking pan.</div>
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Prepare the brownie layer. Mix together the cocoa, flour, salt, and nuts in a large mixing bowl.</div>
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With an electric mixer, beat the melted butter and sugar together in a separate mixing bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and continue beating until it has reached a smooth, light yellow color and creamy consistency. Beat in the vanilla. Add the dry mixture in small amounts, beating on low speed after each addition until batter is well blended. Spoon into your prepared pan</div>
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Bake the brownies for 20 minutes. They will not be done, but will just be beginning to set. While the brownies are baking, prepare the blondie batter.</div>
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Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium-sized mixing bowl. Stir in the walnuts and set aside.</div>
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With an electric mixer, beat the melted butter and brown sugar together in a large mixing bowl. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. On low speed, beat in the dry ingredients in small amounts, mixing well after each addition. Fold in the chocolate chips. The batter will be fairly thick.</div>
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Gently spoon the blondie batter on top of the partially baked brownie batter, trying to distribute the batter evenly on top; however, do not try to spread the batter on top of the brownie layer, because this will cause the brownie layer to break up. Don't worry too much if it looks uneven, as the heat from the oven will distribute the batter.</div>
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Occasionally our menu gets slightly more elaborate and we make <b>Devereaux Dogs</b> (recipe below) to eat before the dessert.</div>
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Put condiments on the hot dog. Mustard, ketchup (or catsup, if you prefer be more formal), onions, and pickles all work well. If you use relish and/or sauerkraut, remove some of the liquid first. I don't recommend using chili until after the hot dogs are cooked.</div>
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Top with a slice of cheese. I normally break the cheese in pieces so it covers the whole hot dog.</div>
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We eat in front of the TV on tray tables and begin to watch the opening credits via Roku and Amazon Prime. We cheer when Robert Wagner's name appears.<br />
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"Joe, Joe, Joe!"</div>
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Joe is being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit. He went to prison to spare his father the ordeal. Check out the perfect "V" of broad shoulders to narrow waist in the image above. Yummy!<br />
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The governor wants Joe to stay away from his daughter. Joe's brothers want him out of town on the 6 p.m. train. Joe throws the wad of moola ($10,000) in the spittoon. Gotta love that boy!</div>
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We yell, "Way to go, Joe! Yes!"</div>
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Joe is warmly greeted at the Devereaux Ranch gate by Two Moons, his old friend. Joe looks especially handsome when showing his pearly whites.<br />
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Now there's a flashback to family trouble and what led up to Joe being jailed. Matt catches the two himboes stealing cattle and changing the brand. Matt tells the himboes to get off the ranch. Kindhearted Joe pleads with his father on his half-brothers' behalf in the image above.
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That evening, Joe gets the devil from his father for bringing the himboes back to the ranch. Joe get around his father with his charm.<br />
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Barbara is about to eat what Matt describes to her as "pickled cactus grapes." Kindly Joe (such a sweetheart) warns Barbara that what she is about to eat is a cayenne pepper. Watch and see what she does. :)<br />
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How could a girl not fall in love with a man who brings her milk to cool her burning mouth? Aw, Joe! We love you so!<br />
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<b>McAndrews</b> (Robert Burton): "You know you're right about one thing, Devereaux! The company didn't send me out here to be buffaloed by a loudmouthed farmer with a squaw for a wife and a half-breed kid!"<br />
<b>Joe</b>: "Go ahead! Pull it! Draw and I'll blow your head off!"<br />
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1: Joe drives Barbara home from the ranch the morning after they meet. (I wish! Sniff...sniff.)<br />
2: On the way, Joe takes Barbara to his special place and tells her the story of his parents' romance. He confesses his love. Barbara tells him she returns his love. (She's no fool. What girl wouldn't love him?)<br />
3: Joe wants to speak to her father. Barbara tells Joe she wants to work on her father first. (Her father is a bigoted ass.)<br />
4: Barbara informs Joe that her father did not appoint the judge as Matt had requested because her father asked Matt to break up Joe and Barbara as a condition of the appointment. Matt refused to do it. Joe is mad as hell.<br />
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1. Joe is hard at work on the prison rock pile. (Makes me teary-eyed.)<br />
2. Joe resists but the guard brings him in to see Barbara.<br />
3. Barbara tells Joe she loves him and will wait for him. He doesn't want her to waste her life. (The wait would be worth it, believe me.)<br />
4. She doesn't care if he's filthy, sweaty and stinky, Barbara kisses Joe and clings to him. (She's a wise woman! Who could resist him?)<br />
5. Joe asks Barbara not to come back. He can't take it. Her visits almost destroy him.<br />
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Joe sees his mother for the first time after getting out of prison. He takes his father's pistol from its holster and wants to take revenge against his brothers. She says:<br />
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"You are speaking like a boy, my son. And the years should have made you a man."<br />
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She gives Joe sage advice about Barbara and life.<br />
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"Take her away, Joseph. And when you are together, you will know there is no need for blood."<br />
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1 and 2. Joe practices high diving and swimming courtesy of<br />
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3. Thank goodness for Two Moons.</div>
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I enjoy watching classic courtroom movies. The great ones feature a case that's more complicated than it appears, lawyers who grapple with moral quandaries, witnesses who offer surprises in their testimony, and a connection to suspenseful events outside the courtroom.<br />
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One of my favorite courtroom dramas is <i>Madame X</i> in all its incarnations. A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her husband and barred from ever seeing her small son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court.<br />
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First <i>Madame X</i> was a 1908 play by French playwright, vaudeville creator, and novelist Alexandre Brisson. The play was performed in 1910 both in Paris and on Broadway with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role. Over the years, the play would be revived for Broadway three times.<br />
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In 1910 J.W. McConaughy wrote <i>Madame X: A Story of Mother-Love</i>, a novel based on the play by Alexandre Bisson, published by Grossett and Dunlap, New York. It featured illustrations by Howard C. Volkert. Read it below:<br />
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At least nine <i>Madame X</i> motion pictures in several languages have been filmed. The first silent screen adaptation was in 1916 and starred Dorothy Donnelly as Jacqueline Floriot (Madame X), John Bowers as Louis Floriot, and Ralph Morgan as Raymond Floriot.<br />
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The second silent screen adaptation was in 1920 and starred Pauline Frederick as Jacqueline Floriot, William Courtleigh as Louis Floriot, and Casson Ferguson as Raymond Floriot. A copy of this film survives in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.<br />
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The three most famous sound adaptations of <i>Madame X</i> are the 1929 version with Ruth Chatterton, Lewis Stone, and Raymond Hackett, the 1937 version with Gladys George, Warren William, and John Beal, and the 1966 version with Lana Turner, John Forsythe, and Keir Dullea.<br />
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I will be focusing on the first "all talking" <i>Madame X</i> (1929) directed by Lionel Barrymore with a screenplay adapted from the Alexandre Bisson play by Willard Mack (an an uncredited Dorothy Parker). Many early talkies were "all singing" "all dancing" musicals. Barrymore treated <i>Madame X</i> as a serious dramatic play and did not use music. To emphasize the film's credentials as a somber drama and avoid any musical associations, M-G-M premiered the film in New York City's Sam H. Harris Theater, a legitimate stage venue.<br />
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I know Lionel Barrymore was striving for a serious drama here: no singing, no dancing, no hot jazz, no flappers, etc. but he may have taken it a bit too far.<br />
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Dorothy Parker found <i>Madame X</i> too sober. She said tongue-in-cheek to Lionel Barrymore, "Why not jazz up the story? Stick in a few hot numbers and call it <i>Mammy X</i>!"<br />
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I'm watching <i>Madame X</i> (1929) while writing this post. Supposedly Lionel Barrymore invented the boom microphone (a fishing pole with a microphone suspended from it) while making this film but I don't think so. The actors talk, and talk, and talk but move very little. In fact, every time an actor moves, Barrymore cuts to a two-shot.<br />
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You have to wonder if the technology of the day is the reason the movie appears as a filmed stage play. Cameras were noisy, so a soundproofed cabinet was used in many of the earliest talkies to isolate the loud equipment from the actors, at the expense of a drastic reduction in the ability to move the camera. The necessity of staying within range of still microphones meant that actors also often had to limit their movements unnaturally.<br />
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The Academy was kinder to Barrymore's direction than I am and he received a Best Director nomination.<br />
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Other than Leo's anemic, laryngitic growl, even the opening and closing credits feature no music. The music was provided at the movie theater by live musicians still employed to provide the musical accompaniment for silent films.<br />
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<b>Leo's Growl</b><br />
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Ruth Chatterton was chosen to play the title role because of her stage experience. A Broadway actress since the 1910s, she didn't become a motion picture actress until 1928, at age 36. Her husband at the time, Ralph Forbes, convinced her to give it a try. She was signed by Paramount Pictures and was loaned M-G-M for <i>Madame X</i>. Chatterton was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in <i>Madame X</i> and <i>Sarah and Son</i> (1930). Chatterton was also excellent in <i>Frisco Jenny</i> (1932) and <i>Female</i> (1933) for Warner Brothers, her new studio. She reached her zenith for Sam Goldwyn in <i>Dodsworth </i>(1936).<br />
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Chatterton was a friend of Amelia Earhart and a well-known aviatrix. She flew solo across the United States several times and taught Brian Aherne to fly.<br />
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She was also a successful novelist. Her novel <i>Homeward Borne</i> was adapted by Halsted Welles into a <i>Playhouse 90</i> television episode directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Linda Darnell, Richard Kiley, Keith Andes, and Richard Eyer.<br />
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Some reviewers find Ruth Chatterton's performance in <i>Madame X</i> to be overwrought but I find it impressive for the most part. She starts off the picture as a lovely former society lady. She becomes nearly unrecognizable as the absinthe-addicted, abused prostitute.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What happens to a society girl when she is cast out into the streets, becomes addicted to absinthe, and is abused by men while hooking to subsist as a woman without a name.</td></tr>
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My one criticism of Ruth Chatterton's performance is her diction. She pronounces every syllable ("Cru-ell") in a prime example of the insufferably mannered diction William Wellman called "Kansas City British."<br />
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"Oh, Louis. Is it because you want to be "cru-ell" or because you don't know how "cru-ell" you are."<br />
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Lewis Stone was a longtime M-G-M contract player. He was with the studio from silents until his death in 1953. He portrayed the title role in the 1922 silent film version of <i>The Prisoner of Zenda</i> for Metro Pictures. Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for <i>The Patriot</i>.<br />
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A frequent co-star of Greta Garbo, he delivered the famous closing line in <i>Grand Hotel</i>: "Grand Hotel. People come. People go. Nothing ever happens."<br />
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Most remember Stone as Judge James Hardy in M-G-M's <i>Andy Hardy</i> film series. Stone appeared as the judge in fifteen movies.<br />
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Stone collapsed and died of a heart attack while chasing teenage prowlers from his property in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.<br />
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Lewis Stone is his usual reliable self in <i>Madame X</i>. I especially like his performance in the beginning of the film as a father beside himself due to his five-year-old son's severe illness.<br />
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Raymond Hackett, a child actor on the Broadway stage beginning in 1907, and a Broadway star as an adult, is very fine as the grown son during the courtroom scene.<br />
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The performances by the rest of the cast are uniformly good. Holmes Herbert, Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i> (1931), Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson's mother in <i>The Jazz Singer</i> (1927), and Carroll Nye, Frank Kennedy in <i>Gone with the Wind</i>, provide nice support to the main cast.<br />
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The doctor (actually played by writer/actor/director Willard Mack using the pseudonym John P. Edington) sees behind the suffering in the Floriot household.<br />
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Claude King, incorrectly listed as Claud King in the credits, is excellent as Valmorin. King was an original member of the board of men and one woman, Lucile Webster Gleason, who founded the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1933.<br />
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Chappell Dossett, a British actor and writer, has a small role as the judge.<br />
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List of baddies played well enough to make you detest them:<br />
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Mitchell Lewis, Sheik Ilderim in 1925's <i>Ben-Hur</i>, served as one of the original board members of the Motion Picture Relief Fund.<br />
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Ullrich Haupt, incorrectly listed as Ullric Haupt, died in 1931 when he was accidentally shot during a deer hunting trip. A shotgun his chauffeur was unloading accidentally discharged.<br />
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Sidney Toler was was the second non-Asian actor to play the role of Charlie Chan on screen.<br />
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Richard Carle was an actor, writer, composer, and a song and dance man.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little sweetheart Dickie Moore in an uncredited role as a child at the puppet show.</td></tr>
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Did you know that to avoid confusion with later versions, the 1929 <i>Madame X</i> was retitled <i>Absinthe</i> for its television showings (prior to the TCM-era)?<br />
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<b>All About Absinthe</b></div>
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R: Absinthiana - An absinthe fountain with glasses, spoons, and sugar cubes.</td></tr>
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Absinthe, an anise-flavored spirit derived from botanicals, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium (wormwood), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs, is a potent potable (between 130 and 140 proof) brimming with flavor, legend and mystique. Ernest Hemingway allegedly drank it while writing <i>For Whom the Bell Tolls</i>. Edgar Degas painted<i> L'Absinthe</i>.<br />
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The green fairy. Devil's drink. Poet's poison.<br />
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Over the years, absinthe has been called many things. The fabled liquor was banned in the United States from 1912 to 2007 because chronic use of absinthe was believed to produce a syndrome, called absinthism, which was characterized by addiction, hyperexcitability, and hallucinations. This has since been proven to be untrue.<br />
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Absinthe traditionally has a natural green color but may also be colorless. It's a strong spirit and mildly bitter and is therefore served diluted with water and sweetened with sugar. An absinthe spoon with a sugar cube resting on it is placed across the top of an absinthe glass containing an ounce of absinthe. Ice cold water is dripped over the sugar on the absinthe spoon into the glass of absinthe. The drink then turns semi-opaque as the essential oils precipitate out of the alcoholic solution (louche).<br />
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<b>Events Leading Up to the Courtroom</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louis pulls Raymond's stuffed animal away from Jacqueline.<br />
Jacqueline: "It won't hurt him if I just touch it, will it?"</td></tr>
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<b>Rejected and Thrown Out to Live as Best She Can</b></div>
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Madame X: "I've told you twice, young man. You mustn't look at me like that."<br />
Darrell: "Why? Tell me. Why?"<br />
Madame X: "Because you're a boy. And because any boy with such clean, honest eyes should only look at clean, honest things." Listen below:<br />
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<b>Madame X Is Abused and She Can't Take It Anymore!</b></div>
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<b>She Murders Laroque to Protect Her Loved Ones</b></div>
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<b>Madame X Finally Testifies</b></div>
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-68897903816124273022016-06-04T00:00:00.000-04:002016-06-04T00:05:18.510-04:00The Athletes in Film Blogathon - Brian's Song (1971)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Aurora and Rich for hosting the <a href="https://aurorasginjoint.com/2016/03/16/announcement-athletes-in-film-blogathon/" target="_blank">blogathon</a>. Please visit Aurora's <a href="https://aurorasginjoint.com/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Screen</a> and Rich's <a href="http://widescreenworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Wide Screen World</a>. You'll be glad you did.<br />
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I enjoy watching the films of former athletes who became actors. I also enjoy watching films with a sports theme, most especially the ones dealing with a specific athlete's life and career.<br />
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I'll be focusing on one of the best go-for-the-jugular, real-life sports tearjerkers ever, the 1971 telefilm <i>Brian's Song</i>.<br />
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"There's no question that Brian Piccolo's story was amplified by the movie. And now generations later, you don't know how many guys who ordinarily would be loath to admit that they shed a tear, will tell you at the drop of a hat, I still cry every time I see <i>Brian's Song</i>," says Bob Costas on ESPN Classic's <i>SportsCentury</i> series.<br />
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<i>Brian's Song</i> tells the details of the life of Brian Piccolo (played by James Caan), a Wake Forest University football player stricken with terminal cancer after turning pro, told through his friendship with Chicago Bears running back teammate Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams), who helps him through the difficult struggle.<br />
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<i>Brian's Song</i> was adapted by William Blinn from the novel <i>I Am Third</i> by Gale Sayers with Al Silverman. The made-for-TV (ABC) production starred James Caan as Brian Piccolo, Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers, Jack Warden as Coach George S. Halas, Shelley Fabares as Joy Piccolo, Judy Pace as Linda Sayers, Bernie Casey as J.C. Caroline, David Huddleston as Ed McCaskey, Ron Feinberg as Doug Atkins, Jack Concannon as Himself, Abe Gibron as Himself, Ed O'Bradovich as Himself, Dick Butkus as Himself, and Chicago Bears as Themselves.<br />
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<i>Brian's Song</i> was directed by Buzz Kulik, produced by Paul Junger Witt for Screen Gems, photographed by Joseph F. Biroc, edited by Bud S. Isaacs, with a theme composed by Michel Legrand.<br />
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It premiered on ABC's Tuesday Movie of the Week on November 30, 1971. The original running time was 74 minutes (in a 90 minute time slot - 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.).<br />
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The film won an Emmy Award for Best Dramatic Program (1971–72). William Blinn won an Emmy for his teleplay, and Jack Warden won for his performance as Coach Halas. Caan and Williams were both nominated for best leading actor. Buzz Kulik was nominated for an Emmy for his direction and won "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television" from the Directors Guild of America.<br />
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At the time, <i>Brian's Song</i> was the fourth most-watched film ever to air on television, behind only the theatrical blockbusters <i>Ben-Hur</i>, <i>The Birds</i> and <i>The Bridge On the River Kwai</i>.<br />
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A trio of trivia:<br />
1. Louis Gossett, Jr. was originally cast as Gale Sayers. Days before shooting began, Gossett tore his Achilles' tendon while working out.<br />
2. <i>Bewitched</i> fans will notice the interior of Gale Sayers' house was the interior set of Darrin and Samantha's house.<br />
3. Before filming his death scene, James Caan reportedly said, "Hold my cigarette and hold my can of Coke, I have to die."<br />
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"Hands of Time" (Theme from the Screen Gems Television Production <i>Brian's Song</i>) with music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman was a popular tune during the early 1970s and has become a standard. Legrand's instrumental version of the theme song charted for eight weeks in 1972, peaking at #56.<br />
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Lyrics:<br />
If the hands of time were hands that I could hold, I'd keep them warm and in my hands they'd not turn cold.<br />
Hand in hand we'd choose the moments that should last; the lovely moments that should have no future and no past.<br />
The summer from the top of a swing, the comfort in the sound of a lullaby.<br />
The innocence of leaves in the spring.<br />
But most of all the moment when love first touched me!<br />
All the happy days would never learn to fly until the hands of time would choose to wave "good-bye."<br />
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<b>Instrumental by Michel Legrand</b><br />
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<b>Instrumental by Henry Mancini</b><br />
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<b>Perry Como Sings "Hands of Time"</b><br />
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<b>Johnny Mathis Sings "Hands of Time"</b><br />
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<b>About Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers</b></div>
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Louis Brian Piccolo (October 31, 1943 - June 16, 1970) was a professional football player, a running back for the Chicago Bears for four years. He died at age 26 from embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of germ cell testicular cancer, first diagnosed after it had spread to his chest cavity.<br />
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Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Piccolo was the youngest of three sons of Joseph and Irene Piccolo. The family moved to Florida when he was three.<br />
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Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Pic, as he was known to his friends, was a super jock. A standout in four sports, he lettered in football, baseball, basketball and track.<br />
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After graduating in 1961, he played college football at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, leading the nation in rushing and scoring his senior year. But when he wasn't drafted—a stunning disappointment—he signed with the Bears as a free agent.<br />
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Piccolo and Sayers were running backs when they met at Bears training camp in the mid-'60s.<br />
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During their rookie season, Sayers was named NFL Rookie Player of the Year while Piccolo warmed the bench. Ultimately, both were named to the Bears' starting backfield in 1969 after Piccolo had assisted Sayers with his rehab from a severe right knee injury he sustained on November 10, 1968.<br />
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Piccolo's cancer was discovered in November 1969 and he died seven months later.<br />
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Gale Eugene Sayers (born May 30, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas), also known as "Magic" and the "Kansas Comet," is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League for seven seasons during the 1960s and early 1970s. He played college football for the University of Kansas and was twice recognized as an All-American. He was a first-round pick in the 1965 NFL Draft and played his entire pro career for the NFL's Chicago Bears.<br />
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Two horrific knee injuries ended his career. The right knee injury was sustained on November 10, 1968 and the left knee injury was sustained on August 29, 1970.<br />
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Sayers is a successful entrepreneur in the information technology field and an active philanthropist.<br />
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I watched <i>Brian's Song</i> with my family when it was originally shown on the ABC Movie of the Week on November 30, 1971. I was 11 at the time and was profoundly affected by this telefilm. My immediate reaction was tears. My mother and I sniffled through most of the broadcast and bawled after the movie ended. My father and brother held back their emotions but I remember them both with watery eyes and "choked up" voices.<br />
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The next day, I sought out the trusty school librarian and asked if there was a book about Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. She recommended <i>Brian Piccolo: A Short Season</i> by Jeannie Morris and <i>I Am Third</i> by Gale Sayers with Al Silverman. She ordered them for me via the <i>Weekly Reader</i> Book Club, an economical option for an avid 11-year-old reader. I still own the books. They're in my bedroom bookcase.<br />
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While devouring the books, I learned about what a hideous disease cancer really is. The knowledge of cancer's ugliness and its impact on the family would stand me in good stead when my father was dying of the illness a few years later.<br />
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Brian Piccolo began coughing early in the 1969 season. On November 16 in Atlanta, after scoring a fourth quarter touchdown in a 48-31 loss to the Falcons, he removed himself from the game, bothered by chest pains, the persistent cough, and shortness of breath.<br />
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Two days later, Piccolo took a chest X-ray. A tumor was spotted in his left lung. It had spread from a cancerous testicle. Piccolo was sent to New York's Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Surgeons removed his testicle and part of his left lung on November 28.<br />
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On April 9, 1970, his left lung and left chest wall were removed. He received radioactive iodine seeds and radiation.<br />
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Piccolo was re-admitted to the hospital in early June, bothered by chest pain. It was determined the cancer had spread to his lower chest and liver. He died on June 16, 1970.<br />
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Is life fair? No, it isn't. My parents had always told me this when I cried about bad things happening to good people. Brian Piccolo's story made me see this truth. Did he deserve to died of cancer at 26, leaving a wife the same age and three small daughters, Lori, 4 1/2, Traci, 3, and Kristi, 1 1/2? No, he didn't. But it happened whether he deserved it or not. Life is like that sometimes.<br />
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I learned kindness toward those who are disabled. Brian Piccolo adored his sister-in-law, Carol Murrath. Carol has cerebral palsy (and is still living as of 2016). Brian gave her a tiny engagement ring when he became engaged to Joy Murrath. And Joy noted, "But the only one he kissed was Carol!"<br />
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At Brian and Joy's Christmas 1964 wedding, he fed a piece of wedding cake to Carol immediately after feeding the first piece to Joy, his bride. Brian told Joy he tried to give Carol as many wonderful experiences as he could.<br />
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I also learned about true friendship. Gale Sayers, a shy, African-American man, and Brian Piccolo, an outgoing, German-Hungarian-Italian-American man, became friends during a time in our country when interracial friendship was frowned upon. They were the first mixed race roommates on the Chicago Bears team. Magic and Pic's friendship was color blind. So was the friendship of Linda Sayers and Joy Piccolo.<br />
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When Sayers suffered a potential career-ending right knee injury (a ruptured cartilage and two torn ligaments), Piccolo pushed him hard during his rehabilitation. Sure, he wanted to beat Sayers for the starting position, but only if Sayers was playing at 100 percent.<br />
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Sayers and his wife provided love and support to Piccolo and his family during Brian's fatal illness.<br />
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An excerpt from <i>I Am Third</i> by Gale Sayers with Al Silverman:<br />
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As much as they cut into this man, as much as he was inflicted with terrible pain and discomfort, as much as he suffered because of this wicked disease that struck him like a thunderbolt flashing out of a clear sky -- as much as he was faced with all these tortures, his spirit would not be destroyed. That was the beautiful nature of Brian Piccolo. </blockquote>
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There was a time, just before he went into the hospital again, then he sat down at home and wrote a letter to Freddy Steinmark of the University of Texas. Steinmark had played on Texas's 1969 national championship football team. Just after the season they discovered that Steinmark had bone cancer. They amputated his leg. And Pic sat down and wrote him a letter. I asked him what he said to the boy. </blockquote>
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"I told him that I, more than any other football player, understood a few things that must have gone through his mind. Because I had gone through the same thing. I told him never to lose courage and to remember that there was always hope."</blockquote>
I've always remembered how Louis (he preferred Luigi) Brian Piccolo played the game and lived his life: at full speed, with a smile on his face and never, never giving up.<br />
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I want a new generation to watch <i>Brian's Song</i>, read <i>A Short Season</i> and <i>I Am Third</i>, and learn the same things from them as I have.<br />
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I must mention that in 1970 the survival rate for men with testicular cancer that had spread through the body was five percent. Today testicular cancer has among the highest cure rate of all cancers.<br />
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I must also mention that the 2001 <i>Brian's Song</i> remake starring Sean Maher as Brian Piccolo and Mekhi Phifer as Gale Sayers was a pale imitation. My advice is to skip it.<br />
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They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married. They sat on the banquette opposite us in a little narrow restaurant, having dinner. The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat.<br />
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There was nothing conspicuous about them, nothing particularly noticeable, until the end of their meal, when it suddenly became obvious that this was an Occasion—in fact, the husband’s birthday, and the wife had planned a little surprise for him.<br />
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It arrived, in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center. The headwaiter brought it in and placed it before the husband, and meanwhile the violin-and-piano orchestra played “Happy Birthday to You,” and the wife beamed with shy pride over her little surprise, and such few people as there were in the restaurant tried to help out with a pattering of applause. It became clear at once that help was needed, because the husband was not pleased. Instead, he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him.<br />
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You looked at him and you saw this and you thought, “Oh, now, don’t be like that!” But he was like that, and as soon as the little cake had been deposited on the table, and the orchestra had finished the birthday piece, and the general attention had shifted from the man and the woman, I saw him say something to her under his breath—some punishing thing, quick and curt and unkind. I couldn’t bear to look at the woman then, so I stared at my plate and waited for quite a long time. Not long enough, though. She was still crying when I finally glanced over there again. Crying quietly and heartbrokenly and hopelessly, all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat.<br />
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-38727693959653947812016-05-27T00:23:00.000-04:002016-05-27T00:23:10.637-04:00#SOTM - TCM's Star of the Month June 2016 - Marie Dressler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Marie Dressler Fast Facts</b><br />
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Born: Leila Marie von Koerber on November 9, 1868 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada<br />
Died: July 28, 1934 (age 65) in Santa Barbara, California (cancer)<br />
Father: Alexander Rudolph von Koerber<br />
Mother: Anne (Henderson) von Koerber<br />
Sister: Bonita von Koerber<br />
Spouses: George Hoppert<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(1900 - 1906) (1 daughter - died in infancy)<br />
James H. Dalton (1908 - November 29, 1921) (his death) (common law marriage)<br />
Height: 5 feet, 7 inches (1.7 m)<br />
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<b><i>The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling</i> (1924)<br />
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<b>Awards</b><br />
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1931 - Won - Best Actress in a Leading Role for <i>Min and Bill</i> (1930)<br />
1932 - Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for <i>Emma</i> (1932)<br />
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February 8, 1960 - Star on the Walk of Fame - Motion Picture - At 1731 Vine Street.<br />
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There is some dispute to her actual birth year. According to most sources and the document as to the history of the house, she was born in 1868. Other sources say 1869. At least one scientist says that her baptismal records give 1863, and to further confuse the issue, 1871 is given on her grave.<br />
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To save her family from possible embarrassment, Leila Marie von Koerber changed her name to Marie Dressler after an aunt.<br />
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Her home at 212 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada is now a historical site and museum.<br />
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She suffered from stage fright throughout her career.<br />
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Was seriously contemplating suicide before screenwriter Frances Marion, knowing that Dressler was down on her luck, insisted that MGM cast her in <i>The Callahans and the Murphys</i> (1927), which turned out to be a hit and revived her career.<br />
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She was named the top box-office star of 1932 and 1933 based on an annual poll of exhibitors as to the drawing power of movie stars at the box-office conducted by Quigley Publications.<br />
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She was the third of three consecutive Canadian actresses to win the Best Actress Oscar. The others were Mary Pickford and Norma Shearer.<br />
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Trade paper articles in November 1933 stated that Marie Dressler's next film would be <i>Mrs. Van Kleek</i>, a South Seas story. The movie was never made.<br />
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She appears as a character in the musical play <i>In Hell with Harlow</i> by Paul L. Williams.<br />
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She was commemorated on a 2008 Canadian postage stamp, one of four stamps honoring the achievements of Canadians in Hollywood. The other stamps depicted Norma Shearer, Chief Dan George, and Raymond Burr.<br />
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<b><i>Chasing Rainbows</i> (1930)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 40m</b><br />
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With manager Eddie (Jack Benny) booking their shows, Terry Fay (Charles King) and Carlie Semour (Bessie Love) have long been a successful vaudeville act. While Carlie is a consummate professional, Terry is having trouble with his wife, Daphne (Nita Martan), and his mindset is threatening the show's success. As Terry's personal problems deepen after another unpleasant revelation about Daphne, Eddie, aiming to give audiences their money's worth, tries to coax a better effort out of Terry.<br />
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The movie introduced the song "Happy Days Are Here Again."<br />
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Dir: Charles Reisner<br />
Cast: Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny, George K. Arthur as Lester<br />
Polly Moran, Gwen Lee, Nita Martan, Eddie Phillips, Marie Dressler, Youcca Troubetzkov.<br />
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<b>9:30 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Divine Lady, The</i> (1929)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 39m</b><br />
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In this dialogue-free film, Emma Hart (Corinne Griffith), a young woman of lowly birth, is courted by rich Charles Greville (Ian Keith). But, after he grows tired of Hart, he sends her to live in Naples, Italy, with his uncle, Lord Hamilton (H.B. Warner), whom she marries. Despite living peaceably with her new husband, Hart is drawn to Capt. Horatio Nelson (Victor Varconi), who she meets while serving as confidante to the queen of Naples. The two begin an affair with risky social consequences.<br />
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The film won the Academy Award for Directing and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Corinne Griffith) and Best Cinematography. This is also the only film to ever win Best Director without a Best Picture nomination.<br />
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Dir: Frank Lloyd<br />
Cast: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H. B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, Montagu Love, William Conklin, Dorothy Cumming.<br />
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<b>11:15 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Patsy, The</i> (1928)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 18m</b><br />
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Jealous that her older sister, Grace (Jane Winton), has landed handsome and successful Tony Anderson (Orville Caldwell), Patricia Harrington (Marion Davies) launches an elaborate charm offensive to win his heart. Patricia shrugs off her diffidence and, in the hope that Tony will be drawn to her new persona, tries to carry herself with the self-confidence of the era's silent film stars. When this doesn't have the desired effect, Patricia takes things a step further.<br />
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Dir: King Vidor<br />
Cast: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray, Dell Henderson, Jane Winton.<br />
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<b>12:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Tillie's Punctured Romance</i> (1914)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 26m</b><br />
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Tillie Banks (Marie Dressler), a beautiful heiress, falls prey to a charming crook named Charlie (Charles Chaplin) who lures her to the city and then promptly swindles her. But when Charlie returns to apologize, asking for her hand in marriage, a surprised Tillie cautiously accepts his proposal. As wedding preparations begin, Tillie wonders about Charlie's intentions -- particularly after she receives news that her rich uncle Donald (Charles Bennett) has died mysteriously.<br />
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The picture was the first feature-length motion picture produced by the Keystone Film Company, and is the only one featuring Chaplin.<br />
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Dir: Mack Sennett<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett, Chester Conklin, The Keystone Cops, Charley Chase.<br />
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<b>2:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Hollywood Revue of 1929, The</i> (1929)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 56m</b><br />
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The top performers of the 1920s strut their stuff in this star-studded variety show. Actress Joan Crawford displays her singing talents with "Got a Feeling for You." Comedy duo Laurel and Hardy bring on the laughs with their magic act, and Conrad Nagel turns on the romance by singing "You Were Meant For Me." In the revue's second act, silent star Buster Keaton performs an under-the-sea dance, and Norma Shearer and John Gilbert hilariously lampoon "Romeo and Juliet."<br />
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Features the first filmed performance of "Singin' in the Rain."<br />
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Dir: Charles Reisner<br />
Cast: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Anita Page, Marie Dressler, William Haines, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel. Oliver Hardy, Gus Edwards.<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Anna Christie</i> (1930)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 29m</b><br />
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As a child, Anna Christie (Greta Garbo) was sent away by her father, Chris Christofferson (George F. Marion), to live with unkind relatives in Minnesota. Although she escaped her family, Anna fell into prostitution, and she still resents her father's decision. When Anna travels to New York to reunite with her father, she tries to keep her past a secret. It is only when she falls in love with a sailor named Matt Burke (Charles Bickford) that Anna realizes she must reveal the truth.<br />
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Anna Christie was the highest-grossing film of 1930 and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress (Greta Garbo), Best Cinematography, and Best Director.<br />
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Marie Dressler deservedly won recognition for her downtrodden old sod of a waterfront floozy.<br />
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Dir: Clarence Brown<br />
Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack, Lee Phelps.<br />
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<b>9:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Let Us Be Gay</i> (1930)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 19m</b><br />
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A frumpy housewife, Katherine "Kitty" Brown (Norma Shearer) waits hand and foot on her narcissistic husband, Bob (Rod LaRocque). When Kitty finds out about her spouse's infidelity, however, she leaves him and begins a new life as a much more glamorous and carefree woman. Eventually, she enters the social scene of the wealthy Mrs. Bouccicault (Marie Dressler), which leads Kitty to a surprising reunion with her ex-husband, who now finds her very intriguing.<br />
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Dir: Robert Z. Leonard<br />
Cast: Norma Shearer, Marie Dressler, Rod La Rocque, Gilbert Emery, Hedda Hopper, Raymond Hackett, Sally Eilers, Tyrell Davis, Wilfred Noy, Sybil Grove, Mary Gordon, Dickie Moore.<br />
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<b>11:15 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Girl Said No, The</i> (1930)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 32m</b><br />
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After graduating from college, Tom Ward (William Haines) returns home ready for success. The brazen young upstart sets his romantic sights on Mary Howe (Leila Hyams), a secretary for a man named McAndrews (Ralph Bushman). Although Mary seems uninterested at first, Tom persists in his pursuit. Meanwhile, he tries to make money by selling bonds to confused women like Hettie Brown (Marie Dressler). As Mary is set to marry McAndrews, Tom becomes desperate to stop the ceremony.<br />
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Dir: Sam Wood<br />
Cast: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler, Ralph Bushman, Clara Blandick, William Janney, William V. Mong, Frank Coghlan, Phyllis Crane.<br />
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<b><i>Vagabond Lover, The</i> (1929)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 5m</b><br />
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Small-town bandleader Rudy Bronson (Rudy Vallee) attempts to make a big impression on a music promoter. When the man instead rebuffs Rudy's clumsy attempts to meet with and audition for him, Rudy and his bandmates attempt to break into the promoter's Long Island, N.Y. home. The burglary attracts the attention of wealthy neighbor Mrs. Whitehall (Marie Dressler) and her pretty niece Jean (Sally Blane), ultimately leading to Rudy's big break when he pretends to be the promoter.<br />
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Delight Evans wrote in her review for Screenland, "Marie Dressler romps away with a personal hit in hilarious comedy scenes."<br />
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Dir: Marshall Neilan<br />
Cast: Rudy Vallee, Sally Blane, Marie Dressler, Charles Sellon, Norman Peck, Danny O'Shea, Edward J. Nugent, Nella Walker, Malcolm Waite, Alan Roscoe, The Connecticut Yankees.<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Min and Bill</i> (1930)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 9m</b><br />
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Min (Marie Dressler) runs a rundown hotel on the waterfront. With the help of her boyfriend, Bill (Wallace Beery), Min brings up Nancy, who was abandoned by her mother, Bella (Marjorie Rambeau), as a baby. The couple contend with city officials who proclaim Min unfit for mothering. Over the years, Min saves diligently to send Nancy to boarding school -- and when Nancy meets a wealthy young man who proposes, Bella abruptly returns, threatening Nancy in an attempt to benefit from her good fortune.<br />
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Marie Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her performance in this film. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in <i>Skippy</i>, fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother's lap.<br />
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Dir: George W. Hill<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Donald Dillaway, DeWitt Jennings, Russell Hopton, Frank McGlynn, Sr.<br />
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<b>9:15 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Reducing</i> (1931)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 17m</b><br />
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New York City beauty-spa operator Polly Rochay (Polly Moran) graciously opens her home to her penniless sister, Marie (Marie Dressler), and her family from back home in South Bend, Ind. Polly's snooty, social-climbing daughter, Joyce (Sally Eilers), is horrified by her poor relations, especially Marie's pretty and kindhearted daughter, Vivian (Anita Page). When Joyce's wealthy boyfriend, Johnnie (Buster Collier Jr.), takes a liking to Vivian, Joyce's jealousy sparks a family-wide rift.<br />
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Dir: Charles Riesner<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Lucien Littlefield, William Collier, Jr., Sally Eilers, William Bakewell, Billy Naylor, Jay Ward.<br />
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<b>10:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Politics</i> (1931)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 13m</b><br />
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Disgusted with the influence of racketeer Jim Curango (John Miljan) in their small town, music teacher Ivy Higgins (Polly Moran) decides to run for mayor. After the death of a young woman, Myrtle (Karen Morley), Ivy discovers that the killer intended to murder Myrtle's boyfriend. Ivy then enlists Myrtle's mother, Hattie (Marie Dressler), in her cause. When Hattie proves a better speaker at rallies, Ivy realizes she should be the candidate instead -- but Curango means to challenge their plans.<br />
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Dir: Charles Riesner<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Roscoe Ates, Karen Morley, William Bakewell, John Miljan, Joan Marsh, Tom McGuire, Kane Richmond, Mary Alden.<br />
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<b>12:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>One Romantic Night</i> (1930)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 13m</b><br />
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Princess Alexandra (Lillian Gish) is expected to marry Prince Albert (Rod La Rocque), but the closer the wedding gets, the less enthusiastic she is about devoting herself to the man who's been chosen for her. Alexandra's uncertainty increases when she meets Dr. Nicholas Haller (Conrad Nagel), a young intellectual who's been helping her brother with his studies. Torn between her infatuation with Nicholas and her commitment to Albert, Alexandra faces the biggest decision of her life.<br />
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It is the first sound film version of Ferenc Molnár's play <i>The Swan</i>, and marked silent screen star Lillian Gish's talkie debut.<br />
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Dir: Paul L. Stein<br />
Cast: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie, Albert Conti, Edgar Norton, Billie Bennett, Philippe De Lacy, Byron Sage, Barbara Leonard.<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Dinner at Eight</i> (1933)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 53m</b><br />
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In this comedic drama, an ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver (Lionel Barrymore), contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard (Wallace Beery) and his sultry spouse, Kitty (Jean Harlow), contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.<br />
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Adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's play of the same name, it features an ensemble cast.<br />
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Dir: George Cukor<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, Phillips Holmes, Louise Closser Hale, Grant Mitchell.<br />
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<b>10:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Tugboat Annie</i> (1933)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 26m</b><br />
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Annie Brennan (Marie Dressler) is one of the Pacific Northwest's best skippers, though her drunk husband, Terry (Wallace Beery), is no help. Annie's son, Alec (Robert Young), an industrious student, becomes the youngest ship's master on the Pacific Coast and gets engaged to his boss' daughter. Terry continues to drink heavily, causing an accident in his stupor that makes Alice lose her boat. Angry with his father, Alec refuses to talk to his parents until, in trouble at sea, he needs their help.<br />
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The boisterous <i>Tugboat Annie</i> character first appeared in a series of stories in the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington.<br />
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Dir: Mervyn LeRoy<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Willard Robertson, Tammany Young, Frankie Darro, Jack Pennick, Paul Hurst.<br />
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<b>11:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Emma</i> (1932)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 12m</b><br />
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Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Frederick Smith (Jean Hersholt) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.<br />
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Marie Dressler was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in <i>Emma</i>. Helen Hayes won for <i>The Sin of Madelon Claudet</i>. Dressler had won the award the year before for <i>Min and Bill</i>.<br />
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Dir: Clarence Brown<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan, Purnell Pratt, Leila Bennett, Barbara Kent, Kathryn Crawford, George Meeker, Dale Fuller, Wilfred Noy, André Cheron.<br />
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<b>1:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Prosperity</i> (1932)</b><br />
<b>BW - 1h 27m</b><br />
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) retires as head of the family bank, ceding her long-held position to her son, John (Norman Foster). John marries Helen (Anita Page), and, despite the antipathy between their mothers, the two live together happily. But when Helen's mother, Lizzie (Polly Moran), accidentally prompts a run on the bank, Maggie learns that John blew their emergency bonds on a get-rich-quick scam. Hoping to save the bank, Maggie sets out on a search for the con men who duped her son.<br />
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Dir: Sam Wood<br />
Cast: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster, Jacquie Lyn, Jerry Tucker, Charles Giblyn, Frank Darien, Henry Holland.<br />
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-18586936554829453022016-05-26T00:00:00.000-04:002016-05-26T00:00:10.816-04:00The Animals in Film Blogathon - Smoky (1946)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Crystal for hosting the <a href="https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/announcing-the-animals-in-film-blogathon/" target="_blank">blogathon</a> and inviting me to participate. I love animals of all kinds and am a sucker for classic films with animal stars. Please visit Crystal's fine blog, <a href="https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood</a>.<br />
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I'll be focusing on one of the best horse flicks ever, the 1946 film <i>Smoky</i>. It was adapted from the novel <i>Smoky the Cowhorse</i> by Will James. The film starred Fred MacMurray, Anne Baxter, Bruce Cabot, Esther Dale, Roy Roberts, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Burl Ives.<br />
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Will James, born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault on June 6, 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton, Quebec, Canada, was an artist and writer of the American West.<br />
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He worked as a cowboy in Canada until he was accused of cattle theft. He left Canada in 1913 and traveled to the United States with a new name, William Roderick James.<br />
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He wrote his most famous book, <i>Smoky the Cowhorse</i>, while living on a small ranch in Washoe Valley, Nevada. It was published in 1926 and won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1927. Three film adaptations were made of the book, with James narrating the 1933 film, which starred Victor Jory, Irene Bentley, Frank Campeau, Hank Mann, and LeRoy Mason. The other film adaptations were made in 1946 (the version I'm focusing on) and 1966, which starred Fess Parker, Diana Hyland, Katy Jurado, Hoyt Axton, and Robert J. Wilke. The 1966 film used archive footage from <i>Smoky</i> (1946) extensively.<br />
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Will James died of alcoholism in Hollywood, California on September 3, 1942.<br />
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The largest public collection of James' writings, artwork, and personal effects is at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana.<br />
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James was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1991, and into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.<br />
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<b>Read <i>Smoky the Cowhorse</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Smoky</i> (1946)</b><br />
<b>Alternate Title</b>: Will James' <i>Smoky</i><br />
<b>Release Date</b>: July 1946<br />
<b>Premiere Information</b>: World premiere in Denver, Colorado: June 18, 1946<br />
<b>Production Date</b>: July 12 to September 25, 1945<br />
<b>Duration (in minutes)</b>: 87<br />
<b>Color</b>: Technicolor<br />
<b>Sound</b>: Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording<br />
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<b>Production Company</b>: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<b>Distribution Company</b>: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<b>Directors</b>: Louis King (Director)<br />
Jasper Blystone (Assistant director)<br />
James Tinling (2nd unit director)<br />
<b>Producers</b>: Darryl F. Zanuck (Executive producer)<br />
Robert Bassler (Producer)<br />
<b>Writers</b>: Lillie Hayward (Screenplay)<br />
Dwight Cummins (Screenplay)<br />
Dorothy Yost (Screenplay)<br />
Martin Berkeley (Contributor to screenplay)<br />
Jack Andrews (Contributor to screenplay)<br />
Jo Graham (Contributor to screenplay)<br />
Based on the novel <i>Smoky the Cowhorse</i> by Will James (New York, 1926).<br />
<b>Photography</b>: Charles G. Clarke (Director of photography)<br />
Lou Kunkel (Camera operator)<br />
<b>Art Direction</b>: Lyle Wheeler (Art director)<br />
Chester Gore (Art director)<br />
<b>Film Editor</b>: Nick DeMaggio<br />
<b>Set Decoration</b>: Thomas Little (Set decorator)<br />
Harold Cramp (Associate set decorator)<br />
<b>Costumes</b>: Bonnie Cashin<br />
<b>Music</b>: David Raksin (Music)<br />
Emil Newman (Musical director)<br />
Arthur Morton (orchestral arrangements)<br />
<b>Sound</b>: George Leverett<br />
Harry M. Leonard<br />
Paul Neal (Music mixer)<br />
Murray Spivack (Music mixer)<br />
<b>Special Effects</b>: Fred Sersen (Special photographic effects)<br />
Edwin Hammeras (Transparencies)<br />
Edward Snyder (Transparencies)<br />
<b>Make Up</b>: Ben Nye (Makeup artist)<br />
Albert Greenway (Makeup artist)<br />
<b>Production Misc</b>: Jack Lindell (Equine supervisor)<br />
Paul MacPherson (Technical advisor)<br />
Robert E. Goux (Unit manager)<br />
Frances C. Richardson (Research director)<br />
Ruth Fox (Research assistant)<br />
<b>Color Personnel</b>: Natalie Kalmus (Technicolor color consultant)<br />
Richard Mueller (Associate Technicolor color consultant)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top L: Fred MacMurray -- Center: Esther Dale -- Top R: Anne Baxter<br />
Center L: Bruce Cabot -- Center R: Roy Roberts<br />
Bottom L: J. Farrell MacDonald -- Center R: Burl Ives</td></tr>
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<b>Cast (in credits order)</b>: <br />
Fred MacMurray as Clint Barkley<br />
Anne Baxter as Julie Richards<br />
Bruce Cabot as Frank Denton<br />
Esther Dale as "Gram" Richards<br />
Roy Roberts as Jeff Nix<br />
J. Farrell MacDonald as Jim<br />
Burl Ives (as The Singing Troubadour Burl Ives) as Willie<br />
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<b>Rest of cast listed alphabetically (uncredited)</b>:<br />
Robert Adler as Scrubby<br />
Stanley Andrews<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as Fred Kramer (Rancher)<br />
Guy Beach as Sheriff<br />
Harry Carter as Bud<br />
Heinie Conklin as Man Watching Parade<br />
Frank Darien as Junk Yard Owner<br />
Bud Geary as Peters<br />
Herbert Heywood as Livery Stable Proprietor<br />
Victor Kilian as J.P. Mingo (Junkman)<br />
Mae Marsh as Woman Watching Parade<br />
Howard Negley as Nelson<br />
Slim Pickens as Rodeo Cowboy<br />
Douglas Spencer as Mack Gordon (Gambler)<br />
Max Wagner as Bart<br />
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<b>Did You Know?</b><br />
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The opening title reads: "Twentieth Century-Fox presents Will James' <i>Smoky</i>."<br />
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Orchestral arranger Arthur Morton's name is misspelled "Morten" in the opening credits.<br />
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Burl Ives made his film debut in <i>Smoky</i>.<br />
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<i>Smoky</i> was filmed around Kanab, Utah and in the Paiute Indian country of Northern Arizona, as well as at rodeos in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Ogden, Utah, and Flagstaff, Arizona.<br />
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According to documents in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Library Special Collections Performing Arts, the studio bought the rights to Will James's novel in 1933 for the sum of $15,000.<br />
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The novel first appeared serially in <i>Scribner's Magazine</i> (April through July 1926).<br />
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A radio adaptation was broadcast on <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i> on March 24, 1947 and starred Joel McCrea and Constance Moore.<br />
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Drifter Clint Barkley (Fred MacMurray) is riding through Utah's back country when he sees a group of cowboys chasing after a herd of wild horses, which is being led led by a magnificent black stallion whom he names Smoky. The cowboys catch some of the horses but give up the chase for the stallion.<br />
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Clint goes after Smoky by himself, then appears a short time later at the Rocking R Ranch, which is run by Julie Richards (Anne Baxter) and her grandmother (Esther Dale), with the horse. After the cowhands help him herd Smoky into captivity, Clint asks Julie for a job as a wrangler, and she assigns him to break in some of the wild horses. Clint tries to break in Smoky gently, on his own time, and tells Julie that she should keep Smoky as a cow horse.<br />
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Jeff Nix (Roy Roberts), Julie's foreman who expressed doubts about hiring the stranger, and ranch hand Willie (Burl Ives) try to pry some information out of Clint about his past, but he is not forthcoming. Jeff tells Julie that he has heard a rumor in town that Clint was involved in a nasty scrape in Texas in which some money disappeared.<br />
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One day when Julie goes to swim in a nearby river and encounters Clint working with Smoky, Julie tells him that she has known Smoky since he was only a few weeks old and has followed his development with interest and affection. She tells Clint about the rumor regarding his past, but he declines to explain himself.<br />
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Soon after, a stranger named Frank (Bruce Cabot) comes to the Rocking R looking for Clint. Frank asks Clint, who took the blame for a crime Frank committed and has just completed an eight-month jail sentence, to get him a job on the ranch, and Clint reluctantly does.<br />
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Later, Clint manages to get a saddle on Smoky and continues to train him as a cow horse. Willie thinks that Smoky will go back to the wild the first chance he gets, but the horse shows obvious affection for Clint.<br />
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When Smoky chases Frank from the corral after he tries to move him, Jeff, who wants to sell Smoky, warns Clint that he will have to take the fight out of the horse or he will be turned loose.<br />
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While the cowboys are out on a cattle drive, Smoky trips and Clint is thrown off and knocked temporarily unconscious. Smoky has an opportunity to leave but stays by Clint. Later, when Clint is unable to get up, he ties himself to Smoky's stirrup and has the horse drag him back to the ranch. While Clint is being nursed by Julie, Frank mistreats Smoky.<br />
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After he is fully recovered, Clint is visited by a gambler who has an I.O.U. for $225, signed by someone using Clint's name. The gambler leaves after Clint tells him that he thinks he knows who signed his name and that he will try to get him the money. Clint extracts a confession from Frank and tells him to leave, but Frank threatens to tell Julie about Clint's past. After Clint socks him, however, Frank agrees to go.<br />
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Clint and Julie, who are becoming romantically involved, are about to bring Smoky in from pasture when news arrives that he has been stolen along with several prime cattle. They suspect Frank, but Jeff insists that Clint might also be involved. This forces Clint to admit to Jeff and Julie that Frank is his brother and that he has always had to cover up for him and even went to jail for him. Frank, meanwhile, gets his payoff for the rustled cattle but holds on to Smoky. He continues to mistreat the horse, but stumbles and is killed by Smoky, who escapes.<br />
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Clint sets out to track Smoky over many miles. Others have heard about the horse and succeed in capturing him, planning to use him in rodeos. Winter comes and Clint has to abandon his search temporarily and returns to the Rocking R. In the meantime, Smoky becomes "Cougar" the Bucking Bronco on the rodeo circuit, but is hurt and has to be retired.<br />
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Clint keeps tracking Smoky and discovers that he has been given to a riding academy, but the owner has passed him on to someone whose name he can not recall.<br />
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Sometime later in Cheyenne, Smoky is working as a junk cart horse when he sees a poster for a rival bucking bronco, hears the sounds of a rodeo parade and takes off to join the parade, junk cart and all. Clint is in the crowd, and while Smoky recognizes him and nudges him, Clint does not realize the horse might be Smoky until later. Clint tracks him to a junk yard and the weary, skinny old horse responds with heartfelt snorts and a whinny when Clint speaks his name.<br />
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Back at the Rocking R, Smoky makes a speedy recovery, and Clint and Julie turn him loose in the pasture where the woods and canyons await him.<br />
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All the music that Burl Ives performs in Smoky (1946). Note: These are songs as they appear in the film, some of which are incomplete. There is no official film soundtrack.<br />
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"Smoky" - music traditional, new lyrics and arrangement by Burl Ives.<br />
"Streets of Laredo (The Cowboy's Lament)" - traditional.<br />
"Woolly Boogie Bee" based on "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" - traditional, arrangement by Burl Ives.<br />
"There Was an Old Man" music and lyrics by Burl Ives.<br />
"Jimmy Crack Corn (The Blue Tail Fly)" - music and lyrics attributed to Daniel Decatur Emmett.<br />
"The Foggy Dew" and "Down in the Valley" traditional, arrangements by Burl Ives.<br />
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Thanks to Fritzi of <a href="http://moviessilently.com/" target="_blank">Movies Silently</a> for hosting the <a href="http://moviessilently.com/2016/02/26/blogathon-announcement-the-classic-movie-ice-cream-social/" target="_blank">blogathon</a>. Who doesn't love classic movies with cheerful plots? Do you have a go-to vintage flick that has the power to cheer you up when you’re feeling down? That's what this gig is all about. Kindly visit Movies Silently via either link above. You'll be glad you did.<br />
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When I'm down in the dumps and need a pick-me-up, Rock Hudson is there for me. Three films of his act on me just like a tonic: <i>Magnificent Obsession</i> (1954), <i>All That Heaven Allows</i> (1955) and <i>One Desire</i> (1955). In this post, I'm going to focus on <i>One Desire</i> (1955). It stars Rockie Baby with Anne Baxter, Julie Adams, Carl Benton Reid, Natalie Wood, William Hopper, Betty Garde, Barry Curtis, and Adrienne Marden.<br />
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<i>One Desire</i> (1955) is one of the glamorous melodramas Ross Hunter produced at Universal-International. These movies were a big hit with audiences but dismissed by critics at the time as nothing but romantic tearjerkers. I love to wallow in every one of them.<br />
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A short list of Ross Hunter's glitzy schmaltz: <i>Magnificent Obsession</i> (1954), <i>One Desire</i> (1955), <i>All That Heaven Allows</i> (1955), <i>The Spoilers</i> (1955), <i>There's Always Tomorrow</i> (1956), <i>Imitation of Life</i> (1959), <i>Back Street</i> (1961), and <i>Madame X</i> (1966). Many of the films were directed by Douglas Sirk.<br />
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Two quotes from Ross Hunter about his films:<br />
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"The way life looks in my pictures is how I want life to be. I don't want to hold a mirror up to life as it is."<br />
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"I gave the public what they wanted: a chance to dream, to live vicariously, to see beautiful women, jewels, gorgeous clothes, melodrama."<br />
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<b>Opening Credits of <i>One Desire</i></b></div>
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<b>Cast of <i>One Desire</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anne Baxter as Tacey Cromwell<br />
Rock Hudson as Clinton "Clint" Saunders<br />
Julie Adams as the Maleficent One, Judith Watrous Saunders</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carl Benton Reid as Senator Kenneth A. Watrous, Natalie Wood as Seely Dowden<br />
William Hopper as "Mac" MacBain, Betty Garde as Mrs. O'Dell<br />
Barry Curtis as Nugget Saunders, Adrienne Marden as Marjorie Huggins</td></tr>
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<i>One Desire, </i>in gorgeous Technicolor, was directed by Jerry Hopper. Hopper also directed Rock Hudson in 1956's <i>Never Say Goodbye</i>, a remake of 1945's <i>This Love of Ours</i>.<br />
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The movie features a screenplay adapted by Lawrence Roman and Robert Blees from Conrad Richter's best-selling 1942 novel <i>Tacey Cromwell</i> (definitely worth a read just for the simple fact that Rock Hudson's character in the book is named <b><i>Gaye</i></b> Oldaker). You can find inexpensive used copies of the novel at Amazon.com or AbeBooks.com.<br />
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Conrad Richter was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel <i>The Town</i> (1950), the last story of his trilogy <i>The Awakening Land</i> about the early 19th-century Ohio Valley, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The first two books of the <i>The Awakening Land</i> trilogy are <i>The Trees</i> (1940) and <i>The Fields</i> (1946). His novel <i>The Waters of Kronos</i> won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction.<br />
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The film was photographed by Maury Gertsman. Interestingly, later in his career Gertsman was the cinematographer on <i>The Lucy Show</i> (1962-68) and <i>Here's Lucy</i> (1968-74).<br />
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<b>Rundown on <i>One Desire</i></b><br />
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In the early 1900s, young Nugget (Barry Curtis) searches the White Palace, a sporting house, for his croupier brother, Clint Saunders (Rock Hudson). When he peeks into the dance hall girls's dressing room, the girls are delighted to discover that he is related to Clint, until co-owner Tacey Cromwell (Anne Baxter) overhears and warns them to stay away from her boyfriend. Tacey takes Nugget to her luxurious quarters, where he immediately falls asleep on the chaise longue.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: Nugget checks out the White Palace and meets the dance hall girls.<br />
Center: Anne Baxter as Tacey Cromwell.<br />
Bottom: Tacey warns the chicks to stay away from her man. Nugget asleep.</td></tr>
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Hours later, an arrogant Clint shows up late for work, and even though Tacey covers for him, co-owner "Mac" MacBain (Hedda's boy, William Hopper) declares it Clint's last mistake. Clint, however, is not upset to be fired because he plans to move to Randsberg, Colorado, to take advantage of the newly wealthy silver miners there.<br />
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Upon seeing Nugget, who explains that he ran away from a nasty uncle to escape constant beatings, Clint is thrilled but reluctant to take the boy along. Tacey, an orphan who has been forced to work as a dance hall girl since the age of sixteen, convinces Clint to take her and Nugget with him, even though she knows he does not want to make a commitment to her. Mac, in love with Tacey, pleads with her to stay, but she explains that she wants only to erase the past and become respectable, her "one desire."<br />
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The threesome reaches Randsberg, where Clint immediately charms beautiful Judith Watrous (the Maleficent One, played by Julie Adams) and her senator father (Carl Benton Reid), hoping to advance his career. Tacey is jealous but soon finds herself distracted by the tumbledown house she has rented for her and Nugget, and by her attempts to become domestic. To appear upright, Clint stays at a nearby hotel, and their life together proceeds smoothly. Mrs. O'Dell (Betty Garde), a kind neighbor, helps Tacey and becomes her best friend.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: Tacey and Clint share a kiss in the hotel.<br />
Second image - L-R: Tacey's house, Mrs. O'Dell's house, Seely's house.<br />
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Bottom: Tacey tells Clint he has to live at the hotel. It's respectable.</td></tr>
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One day, Nugget meets motherless tomboy Seely Dowden (Natalie Wood), and after the two fight, Tacey explains to Nugget that he has more advantages than Seely and thus must treat her nicely. Clint runs into Judith in the bank and quickly earns her respect, and a job, by demonstrating his skill with money.<br />
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Top R: Nugget and Seely fight.<br />
Center L: Tacey tell Nugget to be nice to Seely.<br />
Center R: Laughing about Tacey's domestic skills.<br />
Bottom L: Clint and the Maleficent One at the bank.<br />
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Soon after, Seely's father is killed in a mine accident, and only Tacey takes the time to find and comfort her. Within weeks, both Nugget and Seely consider Tacey their mother, and Tacey, suffused with happiness, reveals to Clint that she wants to be married. He replies that he loves her but is not ready yet, and the next day spends hours with Judith and Senator Watrous.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: Tacey comforts Nugget after Seely's father's death.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: The Maleficent One and her Evil Assistant Marjorie<br />
Second image: Nugget, Tacey, and Seely after church<br />
Third image: Clint eats dinner at the Watrous House<br />
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Afterward, Judith hires a private eye to investigate Tacey's past. Using her friend Marjorie Huggins (Adrienne Marden), Judith informs Judge Congin (Howard Wright) that Tacey is "not fit" to be a mother. Judith arranges a trip for Clint, and the moment he leaves, Tacey is put on trial where the judge names the children wards of the court. While Tacey weeps, Judith offers to take Nugget and Seely into her home.<br />
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Sure now that she will only hold Clint and the children back, Tacey leaves town in secret. Although Clint frantically searches for her upon his return, Mac lies that Tacey has not returned to the White Palace, and eventually Clint gives up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top L: Tacey says good-bye to the children as Judith watches.<br />
Top R: Tacey says good-bye to Mrs. O'Dell.<br />
Center L: Tacey leaves Randsberg in the pouring rain.<br />
Center R: Mrs. O'Dell tells Clint that Tacey is gone<br />
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Bottom L: Judith tells Clint that she hopes he finds Tacey. Not!<br />
Bottom R: Mac tells Clint that Tacey isn't at the White Palace but she really is.</td></tr>
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Six months later, the White Palace is booming under Tacey's care, but although she tries to forget Randsberg, a letter from Seely brings her to tears. (Seely sees a letter Tacey wrote to Mrs. O'Dell and takes Tacey's address from it.) Seely and Tacey begin a correspondence through which Tacey learns that, although the kids despise Judith and Clint does not love her, Clint finally marries Judith.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: Tacey says to Mac, "Randsberg? Never heard of it."<br />
Second image: A letter arrives from Seely.<br />
Third image: Tacey is tearful because Seely closed her letter with<br />
"Your daughter, Seely."<br />
Fourth image: Seely warns Tacey that Judith has hooked Clint.<br />
Bottom: Clint has married the Maleficent One.</td></tr>
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Two years later, Judith's constant nagging causes the now-grown Seely to run away to Tacey. At the White Palace, Tacey hears Seely's plan to run off with a married man, and bitterly explains that she once made the same mistake and her life has been ruined by it. Later, she takes Seely back to Randsberg, where Marjorie spots Tacey and tells Judith.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: Seely runs away to Tacey and tells of her love for a married man.<br />
Bottom L: Tacey sets Seely straight.<br />
Bottom R: Marjorie and friend see Tacey bring Seely back to Randsberg.</td></tr>
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Judith visits Tacey at Mrs. O'Dell's and reveals that she tipped off the judge years earlier. Suddenly aware that Judith has more to be ashamed of than she does, Tacey decides to stay in town and wreak revenge by opening a huge, showy sporting house called the Pink Palace across the street from Clint's house. A delighted Clint visits but, sensing Tacey's spite, grows confused.<br />
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On New Year's Eve, Judith is furious about the Pink Palace and fights with Clint. During their society party, Clint sneaks out to share a glass of champagne with Tacey at the Pink Palace. They quickly dissolve into a passionate kiss, but when Judith sends for Clint, Tacey runs upstairs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top L: Judith fights with Clint.<br />
Top R: Tacey and Mrs. O'Dell drink a toast on New Year's Eve.<br />
Bottom L: Mrs. O'Dell warns Tacey about "spite-work."<br />
Bottom R: Tacey and Clint share a passionate kiss.</td></tr>
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Wise Mrs. O'Dell on spite-work<br />
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At his house, Clint finds Judith drunk, and she vows she will never grant him a divorce. As he leaves the house, she pitches a hissy fit. She throws an an oil lamp that causes a fire, and although Clint notices the flames and rushes back, he is too late to save his wife. A crowd gathers in the street, where Tacey and Mrs. O'Dell find Nugget and Seely but is saddened to hear of Judith's death. Suddenly, the Pink Palace also bursts into flames, and is quickly engulfed. By morning, Clint finds Tacey, Nugget and Seely at Mrs. O'Dell's house, and joins his family inside.<br />
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Top R: Judith throws a fit, hits the lamp with a candlestick, and starts a fire.<br />
Bottom: The Maleficent One burns. Clint tries to save her but is unable.</td></tr>
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Top R: Clint realizes Judith is gone.<br />
Bottom L: The Pink Palace goes up in flames.<br />
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<b>The Pink Palace (Frozen Strawberry Dessert)</b><br />
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1 (11 oz.) pkg. Jell-O no-bake cheesecake mix (without topping)<br />
5-6 T. butter, melted<br />
1 qt. strawberry ice cream, softened<br />
3/4 c. milk<br />
10 oz. jar of Polaner Strawberry All Fruit (with seeds or seedless)<br />
2 cups strawberries, washed, hulled, and sliced<br />
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Combine graham cracker crumbs from cheesecake mix with melted butter. Press into bottom of 9" x 13" pan. Spread softened ice cream over crust. Put in freezer. Combine cheesecake filling mix and milk. Beat until blended. Add jar of Polaner Strawberry All Fruit and beat 3 minutes. Spread over ice cream. Freeze 3 to 4 hours. Serve topped with fresh sliced strawberries.<br />
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I've also made this with raspberry ice cream/Polaner Seedless Red Raspberry All Fruit, blackberry ice cream/Polaner Seedless Blackberry All Fruit, and chocolate ice cream/Polaner Cherry All Fruit. Yum!</div>
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Villain = [<b>vil</b>-<i>uh</i> n] = noun<br />
1. a wicked or malevolent person.<br />
2. (in a novel, play, film, etc.) the main evil character and antagonist to the hero.<br />
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My simple definition of villain is "baddie." Count Dracula, a big time baddie, is the title character of Abraham "Bram" Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel <i>Dracula</i>. With all the adaptations of the novel done over the past 120 years, I would venture to say that the most frequently-portrayed character in horror films would have to be Dracula.<br />
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To me, Bela Lugosi is the definitive screen Dracula. Lugosi had a powerful presence and authority on-screen. The slow, deliberate pacing of his performance gave his Dracula the air of a walking, talking corpse, which terrified 1931 movie audiences. He was just as compelling with no dialogue, and the many close-ups of Lugosi's face in icy silence jumped off the screen. With this mesmerizing performance, Dracula became Bela Lugosi's signature role and his Dracula a cultural icon. Lugosi was buried wearing one of his Dracula costumes, complete with cape.<br />
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I will be focusing on <i>Dracula</i> (1931), produced by Universal Pictures Corporation and directed by Tod Browning (and Karl Freund, uncredited).<br />
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A little background...<br />
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<i>Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens</i> (translated as <i>Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror</i>; or simply <i>Nosferatu</i>) is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.<br />
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The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count Orlok"). Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, a few prints of <i>Nosferatu</i> survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema. Watch <i>Nosferatu</i> below:<br />
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The first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel was the 1924 stage play <i>Dracula</i> by Hamilton Deane. This production toured England for three years before settling in London.<br />
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In 1927 the play was brought to Broadway by Horace Liveright, who hired John L. Balderston to revise the script for American audiences. The American production starred Bela Lugosi (born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó in what is now Lugoj, Romania) in his first major English-speaking role, with Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing and Herbert Bunston as Dr. Seward. The three actors reprised their roles in the 1931 film version.<br />
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Enthusiastic young Hollywood producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. (big daddy Carl, Sr. was head of Universal Pictures) saw the box office potential in Stoker's spine-chiller and the Deane-Balderston play, and he legally acquired the novel's and play's film rights for $40,000. Initially, he wanted Dracula to be a spectacle on a scale with the lavish silent films <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i> (1923) and <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i> (1925).<br />
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The Garrett Fort screenplay for the 1931 film version drew inspiration from the Deane-Balderston play as well as <i>Nosferatu</i>. In fact, one scene in 1931's <i>Dracula</i> was lifted directly from a nearly identical scene in <i>Nosferatu</i>. In the early portion of the 1931 film, Renfield accidentally pricks his finger on a paper clip and it starts to bleed, and Dracula creeps toward him with glee, only to be repelled when the crucifix falls in front of the bleeding finger. This scene does not appear in Stoker's novel.<br />
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Lugosi was not the studio's first choice to play Dracula, even though he'd received kudos for his stage performance in the role. Lon Chaney was originally cast for the title role in the film, but died of throat cancer on August 26, 1930 before production began. Laemmle considered many other actors for the role, including Paul Muni, Conrad Veidt, Chester Morris, Ian Keith, John Carradine, John Wray, Joseph Schildkraut, Arthur Edmund Carewe and William Courtenay. However, Lugosi lobbied hard and won the execs over by accepting a paltry $500 per week salary for seven weeks of work.<br />
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According to numerous accounts, the production is alleged to have been a mostly disorganized affair, with the usually meticulous director Tod Browning leaving cinematographer Karl Freund to take over during much of the shoot, making Freund an uncredited director on the film.<br />
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Tod Browning and Lon Chaney were friends and had made 10 films together. I believe Lon Chaney's death hit Browning very hard. He had just lost Chaney on August 26, 1930 and filming on <i>Dracula</i> began September 29, 1930. This may be the reason why Browning was allegedly on a drinking binge, sullen, and unprofessional during the shoot.<br />
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Many find this 1931 film flawed by its slow dialogue and static, stage-bound nature. I find most films made in the early sound era are stagy. They're like silent flicks with a little sound thrown in. Filmmakers didn't quite know what to do with the new technology yet.<br />
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I try to imagine myself watching the film 85 years ago. That helps me see it as Tod Browning and Karl Freund intended. The film features Freund's otherworldly lighting, smooth camera trackings, and a moody, shadowy atmosphere.<br />
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Cinematographer and director Karl Freund was born in what is now the Czech Republic. His family moved to Germany when he was 11. He was famously the cinematographer on the German Expressionist films <i>The Golem</i> (1920), <i>The Last Laugh</i> (1924), and <i>Metropolis</i> (1927).<br />
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Freund emigrated to the United States in 1929 where he continued to shoot many well remembered films such as <i>Dracula</i> (1931), <i>The Good Earth</i> (1937) (Oscar Best Cinematography), and <i>Key Largo</i> (1948).<br />
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He was the credited director of two fine horror films, <i>The Mummy</i> (1932) and <i>Mad Love</i> (1935)<br />
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In the early 1950s, he was persuaded by Desi Arnaz at Desilu to be the cinematographer for <i>I Love Lucy.</i> Critics have credited Freund for the show's lustrous black and white cinematography, but more importantly, Freund designed the "flat lighting" system for shooting sitcoms that is still in use today. This system covers the set in light, thus eliminating shadows and allowing the use of three moving cameras without having to modify the lighting in-between shots. And where Freund did not invent the three camera shooting system, he did perfect it for use with film cameras in front of a live audience.<br />
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Freund and his production team also worked on other sitcoms produced at Desilu such as <i>Our Miss Brooks</i>.<br />
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In the early days of sound films, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce foreign language versions of their films using the same sets, costumes, etc. While Browning filmed during the day, at night George Melford was making the Spanish-language version <i>Drácula</i>, starring Carlos Villarías as Conde Drácula. Eduardo Arozamena played Van Helsing. Seductively-dressed actresses Lupita Tovar played Eva (Mina) and Carmen Guerrero played Lucia (Lucy). It is included on Universal DVDs featuring <i>Dracula</i> (1931). A clip from <i>Drácula</i> is below.<br />
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A third, silent, version of the film was also released. In 1931, some theaters had not yet been wired for sound and during this transition period, many studios released alternate silent versions with intertitles.<br />
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Due to technical limitations of the day, no musical score was composed specifically for the film. The music heard during the opening credits is an excerpt from Act II of Tchaikovsky's <i>Swan Lake</i>. During the theater scene where Dracula meets Dr. Seward, Harker, Mina and Lucy, the end of the overture to Wagner's <i>Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg</i> can be heard as well as the dark opening of Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" in B minor.<br />
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In 1998 composer Philip Glass was commissioned to compose a musical score for the classic film. The score was performed by the Kronos Quartet under direction of Michael Reisman. Listen to the score below.<br />
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<b>About <i>Dracula</i> (1931)</b></div>
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<b>A Few #TCMParty Comments About the Film</b></div>
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Top L: If you were in a coach riding through the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania...</div>
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Top R: and you stopped at a quaint little village with a cross on the hill above it (note cross top L of pic)...</div>
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Bottom L: and an old Romanian peasant lady put a crucifix around your neck <i>and</i> you heard a group of villagers saying the Lord's Prayer in Hungarian (or maybe Romanian)...</div>
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Bottom R: and you approached a creepy castle atop a craggy peak... <b><i>Would you go there?</i></b></div>
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Top L: A spooky male hand coming out of a coffin.</div>
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Top center: A Transylvanian opossum (actually a Virginia opossum, only found in North America, subbing for a censor-disapproved rat).</div>
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Top R: A spooky female hand coming out of a coffin.</div>
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Center: A Transylvanian Jerusalem cricket coming out of a tiny coffin. (Actually it's a plain old Jerusalem cricket, native only to the western United States and parts of Mexico.)</div>
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Bottom L: A zombie-ish female sitting up in her coffin.</div>
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Bottom center: Another opossum stand-in for a rat next to a skeletal hand in a coffin.</div>
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Bottom R: A ghoulish dude wrapped in a black cape.</div>
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Top L: The coachman is dressed all in black. He has strange, glowing eyes (thanks to Karl Freund aiming two pencil spotlights into Bela Lugosi's eyes).</div>
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Top center: A humongous bat is driving the carriage.</div>
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Top R: The castle interior is not exactly Windsor-like.</div>
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Center L: Bats are flying around the hot mess of a place.</div>
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Center R: Transylvanian armadillos! Actually, armadillos are from the Western Hemisphere. Did Tod Browning think we'd think they were gigantic rats? Was the German-speaking Karl Freund directing at the time? Maybe Freund's interpreter subbed the armadillos for Şobolans?</div>
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Bottom L: There's a freaky dude in formal wear with a hungry look.</div>
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Bottom center: There's a freaky dude in formal wear with an even hungrier, sinister look.</div>
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Bottom R: Three lupa-lookin' chicks are after you.</div>
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<b><i>Why the hell did you go there, Mr. Renfield? Your life's not worth a Romanian leu.</i></b></div>
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<b>Various Items to Listen to and Watch</b></div>
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<a href="http://meredy.com/blog/dracula/dracula1931audio.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to visit a page on meredy.com featuring .mp3 audio files from <i>Dracula</i> (1931). I made audio clips and extracted the soundtracks from the original film and the one scored by Philip Glass.<br />
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<li>I am...Dracula.</li>
<li>I bid you...welcome.</li>
<li>I am...Dracula. I bid you...welcome. (My creation. A combo of the previous two .mp3 files.) :)</li>
<li>Offstage: Wolf call Dracula: Listen to them...children of the night. What music they make!</li>
<li>Dracula: A spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.</li>
<li>Dracula: I never drink...wine.</li>
<li>Renfield: You will keep your promise when we get to London, won't you, master? You will see that I get lives...not human lives but small ones...with blood in them. I'll be loyal to you, master. I'll be loyal.</li>
<li>Renfield's cackle.</li>
<li>Dracula: To die...to be really dead...that must be glorious.</li>
<li>Original soundtrack to 1931's <i>Dracula</i></li>
<li>Soundtrack to 1931's <i>Dracula</i> with Philip Glass score.</li>
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<a href="http://meredy.com/blog/dracula/dracula1931video.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to visit a page on meredy.com featuring video files from <i>Dracula</i> (1931). I made video clips and an original video featuring photos of Bela Lugosi as Dracula. In addition, you can watch both versions of <i>Dracula</i> (1931), with the Philip Glass soundtrack and without.<br />
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<li>Dracula welcomes Mr. Renfield to his castle.</li>
<li>Mr. Renfield cuts his finger and Dracula reacts. Then Renfield discovers his host doesn't drink...wine.</li>
<li>Renfield is now Dracula's slave. He begs for small lives with blood in them and promises loyalty.</li>
<li>Renfield laughs wildly while in the Vesta's hold.</li>
<li>Dracula in the theater with Mina, John and Lucy. He speaks of death and eyes up Lucy.</li>
<li>Renfield and Martin having fun with a spider in the Seward Sanitarium.</li>
<li>Van Helsing vs. Dracula. Weapon of choice is a cigarette case with a mirrored top.</li>
<li>Renfield and his rats, rats, rats.</li>
<li>Van Helsing vs. Dracula. Weapon of choice is a large crucifix.</li>
<li>The death of Renfield at the hands of Dracula. Poor tormented Renfield. Dwight Frye's contribution to 1931's <i>Dracula</i> is not often as remembered as Bela Lugosi's but is no less impressive.</li>
<li>My video featuring photos of Bela Lugosi as Dracula.</li>
<li>Watch the original <i>Dracula</i> (1931).</li>
<li>Watch <i>Dracula </i>(1931) with Philip Glass score.</li>
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<a href="http://www.meredy.com/blog/dracula/DraculaTranscript.pdf" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read a <i>Dracula</i> (1931) dialogue transcript in .pdf format.<br />
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Bram Stoker's book is freely available. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345" target="_blank">Click here</a>.
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Listen to the LibriVox version of Bram Stoker's book.<br />
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I'll be focusing on Susan Peters and her 1948 film <b><i>The Sign of the Ram</i></b><i>.</i> The film also stars Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter, Peggy Ann Garner, Ron Randell, Dame May Whitty, Allene Roberts, and Diana Douglas. For those unfamiliar with Susan Peters, she was paralyzed and fought to work as an actress again.<br />
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<b>Susan Peters Fast Facts</b><br />
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<b>Born</b>: Suzanne Carnahan on July 3, 1921 in Spokane, Washington<br />
<b>Accident</b>: January 1, 1945 - Became a paraplegic after accidentally shooting herself while duck hunting.<br />
<b>Died</b>: October 23, 1952 (age 31) in Visalia, California (chronic urinary tract infection, pneumonia, decubiti, chronic pain, depression, dehydration, anorexia)<br />
<b>Father</b>: Robert Houston Carnahan, Sr. (December 15, 1892 - July 25, 1926)<br />
<b>Mother</b>: Abby H. Carnahan (née James; March 12, 1892 - December 4, 1945)<br />
<b>Brother</b>: Robert Houston Carnahan, Jr. (1923 - ?)<br />
<b>Husband</b>: Richard Quine (November 7, 1943 - September 10, 1948) (divorced)<br />
<b>Son</b>: Timothy Richard Quine (adopted on April 17, 1946)<br />
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<b>Awards</b><br />
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<b>Academy Awards</b><br />
1943 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for <i>Random Harvest</i> (1942)<br />
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<b>Walk of Fame</b><br />
Motion Picture - On February 8, 1960. At 1601 Vine Street.<br />
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The face Hollywood likes to present is glitzy, glamorous and gleeful.<br />
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But there's another, darker side to Hollywood. It has to do with talented performers and what happens to them when they're no longer in demand. That side of Hollywood can be as dreadful and unforgiving as Hollywood's bright and boisterous side.<br />
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Susan Peters, born in Spokane, Washington July 3, 1921 as Suzanne Carnahan, got to know both sides during her short 31-year life. Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her first substantial role in <i>Random Harvest</i>, she died in relative obscurity just 10 years later. Today, only classic film buffs remember who she was, much less what she accomplished.<br />
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And what did she accomplish? Several things, not the least of which was the feat of struggling past the many talented young actresses that flocked to Hollywood in the late 1930s and early 1940s. By virtue of her natural beauty, innate sensitivity, and acquired acting ability, she won roles in a number of films both for Warner Brothers and M-G-M before hitting her stride in <i>Random Harvest</i>.<br />
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But even more admirable was the seven-year struggle she endured after becoming a paraplegic in a January 1, 1945 duck hunting accident. Fiercely independent, she battled against her disability and continued to work when the opportunities arose and her health permitted it. Eventually, worn down by a condition that only a handful of doctors then understood, she died in a Visalia, California hospital on October 23, 1952.<br />
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Her doctor said, "I believe she lost interest in living."<br />
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Pain was nothing new to Susan Peters. Her father, Robert Houston Carnahan, a civil engineer, died in a car accident when she was a child. In addition to Susan (Suzanne), he left behind his wife, Abby James Carnahan, and son Robert, Jr., two years younger than Susan.<br />
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Shortly after her husband's death, Mrs. Carnahan took a job in a Spokane, Washington dress shop. But, with the help of the children's grandmother, Maria Patenaude, the Carnahans moved to Los Angeles. Abby Carnahan managed an apartment building there.<br />
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Years later, Susan Peters would write: "Mother, Bob and I were completely alone. As young as we were, Bob and I knew then the meaning of tragedy."<br />
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But that tragedy didn't defeat them. Both Susan and Bob were athletic, excelling at swimming, tennis, and equestrianism. Bob Carnahan went to a military school and joined the Army during World War II. Susan attended several schools, and held part-time jobs during summer vacations as an elevator operator and package wrapper. A bright student, her two favorite subjects were chemistry and biology, she planned to become a doctor.<br />
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During Susan's senior year at Hollywood High School, she took a drama course (with Jason Robards, Jr.). While performing in class, she was spotted by Lee Sholem, a talent scout. Sholem took Susan to see producer Sol Lesser regarding a role in Thorton Wilder's <i>Our Town</i>. The role eventually went to Martha Scott.<br />
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After high school graduation in 1939, Austrian actress and screenwriter Salka Viertel, a friend of the family and Greta Garbo's close friend and collaborator, introduced Susan to director George Cukor. She landed a small role in Cukor's film <i>Susan and God</i>," which nearly ended her career before it had begun.<br />
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"I'm afraid that during the shooting of the film I didn't make much of an impression on Mr. Cukor," she said. He complained, she said, about her "squeaky voice."<br />
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After this first film, Susan began studying acting in earnest, first under Gertrude Vogler, then at the Max Reinhardt School of Dramatic Arts, all the while doing screen tests.<br />
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Susan was soon rewarded with a contract by Warner Brothers. Small roles followed in <i>Santa Fe Trail</i>, <i>The Strawberry Blonde</i>, <i>Meet John Doe</i>, and <i>Here Comes Happiness</i>.<br />
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Susan Peters said: "I made a deal with myself that after three years, if I hadn't made good, I'd become a stenographer, a secretary, or try some other profession. Hollywood is no place for a girl who doesn't make good."<br />
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"The best thing that ever happened to me was being a failure during my first two years on the screen. That gave me a sense of proportion and balance. Once or twice, I was almost a success, but not quite. Naturally, I was terribly hurt at the time. But I came to realize that there isn't much difference between success and failure. Opportunity has a lot to do with it."<br />
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Having already refused to change her name to Sharon O'Keefe, she consented to being billed as Susan Peters in time to star in the 1941 RKO production <i>Scattergood Pulls the Strings</i>. Despite nice notices in <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i> ("The freshness of Susan Peters in her part of the romance marks this young Warner contractee a most promising newcomer."), and <i>Variety</i> ("Susan Peters, newcomer, catches attention in her first part as the ingenue."), and a plum role in the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film <i>The Big Shot</i>, Susan Peters was let go by Warner Brothers.<br />
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But Warner Brother's loss was M-G-M's gain. After winning a role in 1942's <i>Tish</i>, Peters signed a contract with M-G-M and starred that year in a series of films (<i>Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant</i>, <i>Andy Hardy's Double Life</i>) that culminated with <i>Random Harvest</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top L: <i>Tish</i> (1942)<br />
Top R: <i>Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant</i> (1942) with Lionel Barrymore in a wheelchair<br />
Center L: <i>Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant</i> (1942)<br />
Center R: <i>Andy Hardy's Double Life</i> (1942) with Mickey Rooney<br />
Bottom L: <i>Random Harvest</i> (1942)<br />
Bottom R: <i>Assignment in Brittany</i> (1943)</td></tr>
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Susan met her future husband, Richard Quine, during the making of <i>Tish</i>. Peters and Quine also acted together in <i>Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant</i>.<br />
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Peters acknowledged later that she learned a great deal about her craft by watching Lionel Barrymore while making <i>Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant</i>. Barrymore was acting from a wheelchair due to severe arthritis and a twice-broken hip. Peters would be acting from a wheelchair after January 1945.<br />
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During the wedding rehearsal in <i>Random Harvest</i>, Peters has her most poignant and memorable scene when she reacts without saying a word to the true state of Colman's feelings for her. "I'm not the one," she admits upon realizing that her love is not fully reciprocated. "I am nearly the one, Charles, but 'nearly' isn't enough for a lifetime."<br />
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From <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i>: "It is this scene that Susan Peters plays so superbly, one of the notable moments in the picture (<i>Random Harvest</i>) filled with dramatic intensity."<br />
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Despite excellent reviews, Susan lost the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Teresa Wright (<i>Mrs. Miniver</i>).
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top L and R: <i>Young Ideas</i> (1943)<br />
Center L and R: <i>Song of Russia</i> (1944)<br />
Bottom L and R: <i>Keep Your Powder Dry</i> (1945)</td></tr>
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But her career continued to gather steam, and she starred in two films in 1943, <i>Assignment in Brittany</i>, Jean-Pierre Aumont's first American film, and <i>Young Ideas</i> with Mary Astor and Herbert Marshall.
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The September 27, 1943 issue of <i>Life</i> magazine featured a historic group photo of Louis B. Mayer with his M-G-M contract players. Susan Peters sat prominently in the front row. The photo is below. Click on photo to view a larger version. Also, <a href="http://www.meredy.com/blog/1943mgm.txt" target="_blank">click here</a> to see a key for the photo.<br />
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On November 7, 1943, Susan Peters and Richard Quine exchanged vows at the Westwood Community Church in West Los Angeles. Cesar Romero served as best man.<br />
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Susan starred with Robert Taylor in <i>Song of Russia</i> in 1944. She performed Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Peters did the playing herself after studying with Norma Drury Boleslavsky.<br />
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Early in 1944 Peters had a miscarriage with complications that necessitated surgery and several months of recuperation. After her recovery, she filmed <i>Keep Your Powder Dry</i>. She would become a paraplegic before the movie was released.<br />
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On January 1, 1945, Susan, Richard Quine, his cousin Tom Quine and his wife Mary Lou embarked on a duck hunting trip to the Cuyamaca Mountains (Lake Cuyamaca) near San Diego. Miss Peters was shot, the sheriff's office reported, as she retrieved the barrel of a .22 caliber rifle from under a bush where it had been hidden. The trigger, in an exposed position, caught on a branch and discharged a shell which had not been removed from the firing chamber when the stock was separated from the bolt action rifle, Sheriff's Capt. Herbert Kennedy said. The bullet struck her in the abdomen and lodged in her spine.<br />
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Peters was rushed to the San Diego Naval Hospital. The Naval surgeon who operated on her informed her she'd never walk again unless a miracle occurred. She was only 23 years old.<br />
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Peters was transferred to Mercy Hospital in Los Angeles, where she spent an ordeal-filled several months. She told Bob Thomas proudly of how she had a temperature of 106 after the accident and the doctors gave up hope for her. But she had been able to murmur to her husband: "I just wanted you to know that I'm not going to die."<br />
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In June 1945, she reported she had taken three steps in her new braces. "I think I ought to be walking pretty well in three months. I'm convinced that anyone can walk, no matter what may be the matter with them."<br />
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But despite her optimism, she never would walk again.<br />
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Would she act again?<br />
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"Just let them try and stop me," she announced.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: "Seventh Heaven" on <i>Theatre of Romance</i> with Van Johnson<br />Bottom: "Seventh Heaven" on <i>Theatre of Romance</i> with Van Johnson and Richard Quine</td></tr>
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Her first job was three months later. On September 4, 1945, she performed in a radio drama with Van Johnson, "Seventh Heaven" on <i>Theatre of Romance</i>. You can listen to it below. "Gee, I'm scared," she said before the show went on the air. But she came through with flying colors.<br />
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Late in 1945, Peters began to write a series of articles, "My Hollywood Friends," for <i>Photoplay</i>. She wrote about Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Clark Gable, Lucille Ball, and Cesar Romero.<br />
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It was great blow when Peters lost her beloved mother of a heart attack at age 52 on December 4, 1945.<br />
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Later she had her first night out. She went to Ciro's with her husband and talked enthusiastically about her visits to paraplegic veterans in army hospitals. She was driving her own hand-operated car and even taking flying lessons. Peters and her husband continued to swim, hunt, fish, and watch horse races.<br />
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On April 17, 1946, Quine and Peters adopted a ten-day-old baby boy, Timothy Richard.<br />
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After her accident, M-G-M continued Peters' contract, paid her $100 dollars a week, and covered her hospital bills. Peters expressed an interest in doing the story of pop singer Connee Boswell, who sang from a wheelchair or seated position due to either a childhood bout with polio or a fall from the back of a coaster wagon. She also wanted to do the life of Nellie Revell, a newspaper woman who continued her career even when bedridden. Unfortunately, both projects fell through.<br />
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The producer-director team of Joe Pasternack and Henry Koster wanted her for <i>The Unfinished Dance</i>, a story about a ballerina with a spinal injury. Peters refused.<br />
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Before her accident, Peters had worked for two weeks on M-G-M's <i>The Outward Room</i>, the filmization of Millen Brand's novel about a young woman's journey from madness to self-discovery. The project was set aside because she refused to finish the film in a wheelchair. In 1947, Peters foolishly broke her contract with M-G-M. She was tired of receiving offers of what she called "sticky sweet" scripts, even though she played the Pollyanna role in her personal life, putting on a brave face and portraying paraplegia as a mere inconvenience in interviews.<br />
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Susan Peters in <i>The American Magazine</i>, December 1947:<br />
"I do not believe that I shall ever be able to walk. It would the most wonderful gift God and life could give, but I do not expect it. I think invalids make a terrible mistake building their lives around a hope which doctors tell them cannot be realized except by a miracle. If you keep waiting for that miracle to happen in the future, how can you possibly adjust your life around your handicap?"<br />
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Peters' friend, actor Charles Bickford, brought to her attention the novel he had just finished, <i>The Sign of the Ram</i>, by Margaret Ferguson. The leading character is a paralyzed woman, deceptively sweet and considerate on the outside, who wrecks her family by domination and murder.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Charles Bickford working on the script for <i>The Sign of the Ram</i></td></tr>
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According to a contemporary article in <i>The New York Times</i>, producer Irving Cummings and his son Irving Cummings, Jr. formed the independent production company Signet Productions in conjunction with the Orsatti Agency, which represented Susan Peters. The article also notes that Signet signed a distribution deal with Columbia, which provided production facilities for them. Peters reportedly received thirty-three percent of the film's profits. According to a pre-production <i>HR</i> news item, some background filming was set to take place at Lizard's Head, in Cornwall, England.<br />
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Hedda Hopper reported that a special $450 wheelchair was built for Peters, with special slip covers to match the gowns she would wear in the film.<br />
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Susan's first day on the set, she was met by several Columbia stars. Everything was done to make her comfortable. The movie set was cooled especially for her and she was the only star allowed to drive on the Columbia lot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Columbia stars Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford make Susan Peters welcome.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lying prone on a modified hospital cart studying her script.</td></tr>
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<b><i>The Sign of the Ram</i></b><br />
(Released March 3, 1948)<br />
Production Company: Signet Productions<br />
Production Text: An Irving Cummings Production<br />
Distribution Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.<br />
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<b>Cast</b>:<br />
Leah St. Aubyn - Miss Susan Peters<br />
Mallory St. Aubyn - Alexander Knox<br />
Sherida Binyon - Phyllis Thaxter<br />
Christine St. Aubyn - Peggy Ann Garner<br />
Dr. Simon Crowdy - Ron Randell<br />
Clara Brastock - Dame May Whitty<br />
Jane St. Aubyn - Allene Roberts<br />
Logan St. Aubyn - Ross Ford<br />
Catherine Woolton - Diana Douglas<br />
Emily - Margaret Tracy<br />
Perowen - Paul Scardon<br />
Vicar Woolton - Gerald Hamer<br />
Mrs. Woolton - Doris Lloyd<br />
Station Master - Gerald Rogers<br />
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<b>Credits</b>:<br />
Director - John Sturges<br />
Assistant Director - James Nicholson<br />
Producer - Irving Cummings, Jr.<br />
Screenwriter - Charles Bennett<br />
Editor - Aaron Stell<br />
Art Directors - Stephen Goossón and Sturges Carne<br />
Set Decorators - Wilbur Menefee and Frank A. Tuttle<br />
Cinematographer - Burnett Guffey<br />
Gowns - Jean Louis<br />
Makeup - Clay Campbell<br />
Hair - Helen Hunt<br />
Sound - Jack Goodrich<br />
Original Music - Hans J. Salter<br />
Musical Director - M.W. Stoloff<br />
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Song: "I'll Never Say I Love You" - Sung by Susan Peters (dubbed by Dorothy Ellers)<br />
Production Dates: July 14 - August 23, 1947<br />
Source: Novel <i>The Sign of the Ram</i> by Margaret Ferguson<br />
Running time: 84 or 88 minutes<br />
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<b>Story</b>: Phyllis Thaxter arrives in Cornwall to fill the position of secretary-companion to wheelchair-bound Susan Peters. Other members of the household are Peters' husband, Alexander Knox, and her three stepchildren, Allene Roberts, Ross Ford, and Peggy Ann Garner. Peters' doctor, Ron Randell, announces his intention to marry Roberts. Sensing Peters' displeasure, Randell calls her family "a little band of slaves." Peters will approve the marriage if Randell will live in her mansion, which Randell refuses to do. Peters then poisons Roberts' mind against Randell and that breaks up the relationship. Ford's sweetheart Diana Douglas, an aspiring artist, returns to Cornwall and the two plan to marry. Douglas, a foundling, is told by Peters that her birth father was insane and she could only enter into a childless marriage. The distraught Douglas attempts suicide only to be saved by Knox. Ford travels to London to investigate Douglas' background and finds that Peters' claim was false. Ford tells Knox that he will never go back to Peters' house. Roberts now knows Peters' lies broke up her relationship with Randell and they plan to marry. Garner believes Thaxter's coming to work for Peters caused the family to break up and she poisons Thaxter. The housekeeper, Margaret Tracy, discovers Thaxter in time to prevent her death. Knox confronts Peters and in the exchange Peters accuses the loyal Knox of being in love with Thaxter. This is hurtful to Knox since his only love is Peters. Peters, now believing that she will be left in the house without any family, decides her only way out is suicide and she hurls herself over a cliff to the water and rocks below. This fulfills the prophecy of the sign of the ram to die a violent death.<br />
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<b>Notes and Commentary</b>: Screenwriter Charles Bennett followed the basic thrust of Margaret Ferguson's novel but made changes that moved the story into the gothic noir realm. After Bennett initially shows the St. Aubyn home as a place of happiness and contentment, it becomes apparent this is true only if Leah St. Aubyn controls her husband and stepchildren. Bennett wisely eliminates some of Ferguson's characters. In the novel, there is a fourth child, Andrew, who is only present in a few pages and does nothing to further the narrative. Busybody Mabel (Clara in the film) Brastock has a constant companion, Cicely Burnham, who also adds nothing to the story. In the novel, Mallory St. Aubyn and Sherida Binyon fall in love but only after Leah's death is there hope a romance can be kindled. The screenplay has Leah accuse Mallory of being in love with Sherida, which angers him to the point of not wanting to be near her because there is no truth to the accusation. Leah does interfere with proposed nuptials between her stepson Logan and Catherine Maitland (Woolton in the film) and with her physician Simon Crowdy and stepdaughter Jane. In both, Logan leaves the family home to marry Catherine, after Catherine's suicide attempt. In the novel, the romance between Crowdy and Jane is broken up by Leah because Crowdy instilled a will to live in Leah after she was crippled by developing a romantic relationship with her. Leah reminds Crowdy of that when he tells her that he plans to marry Jane. After Leah's death, Crowdy grips Jane's hand, suggesting the possibility of their renewing their romance. The film ends on a tragic noir note with an empty wheelchair at the cliff's edge. Leah committed suicide by hurling herself onto the rocky shore below the precipice. The author softens the ending by having the reader possibly think that with Leah's death, the people involved can now live a normal life. The character name Perowen is given to the station master in the book and the butler in the film.<br />
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Unfortunately, the film was not successful with either the critics or the moviegoing public, and it would be Susan's farewell movie appearance.<br />
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Meredy says: Combining equal elements of film noir, gothic thriller and melodrama, <i>The Sign of the Ram</i> is an engrossing, absorbing, underappreciated film, highlighted with fine acting, especially by Susan Peters as a woman who feels she has to have complete control over her family. Peters' alabaster beauty and surface calm provide a perfect mask for her malicious schemes. She focuses much of her inner life on the characters' hands, which dominate the film like a pair of spiders as she smokes endless cigarettes, plays the piano, and writes poison pen notes. Director John Sturges builds the tempo of the story to a thundering crescendo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click photo to enlarge. Photo caption reads: Actress Susan Peters, paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a hunting accident, was wheeled into court in Hollywood to testify in her divorce request from Richard H. Quine, a producer-director. She was granted the divorce after briefly testifying that "our temperaments are different and we never agree on anything." She frequently dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief. The couple was married Nov. 7, 1943. Quine was ordered to pay $300 a month support for an adopted son, Timothy, 2.</td></tr>
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After <i>The Sign of the Ram</i>, Susan Peters' marriage to Richard Quine cracked up. Their friends reported that it was entirely her doing. His loyalty remained steadfast, they said, but she did not want to tie his life to a cripple.<br />
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Afterwards, Susan made her life alone. She wanted to be independent and worked herself to the limit of her frail health. She toured all over the country in <i>The Barretts of Wimpole Street</i> and <i>The Glass Menagerie</i>.<br />
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When Katharine Cornell played the bedridden Elizabeth Barrett, her most effective moment came at the end of the play when she arose from her couch, and walked. When Susan Peters played it, she couldn't get up and walk. Understanding audiences cheered, and wept, during the scene, and Susan took her bows sitting down.<br />
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Tennessee Williams gave his permission for her to play <i>The Glass Menagerie</i>'s Laura Wingfield in a wheelchair.<br />
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When Bob Thomas saw her for the last time, she proudly brought out the rave reviews from critics in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.<br />
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"I cherish my independence," she announced, "so I had to find a way to make a living and keep my little family together."<br />
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For the first time, she made no claim that she would walk again.<br />
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"How can I<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>I have no spinal cord," she said. "It will take longer than I live for the doctors to discover how to fix that."<br />
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Peters played a wheelchair-bound lawyer in the NBC television series <i>Miss Susan</i> a.k.a. <i>Martinsville, U.S.A. </i>(March-December 1951). The series was filmed live (15 minutes, Monday through Friday) in Philadelphia due to a shortage of television studios in New York City. It was the first NBC TV series to originate from Philadelphia. It was notably the first TV series to tackle the day-to-day struggles of a disabled character.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Miss Susan</i> a.k.a. <i>Martinsville, U.S.A.</i></td></tr>
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In 1952 she called off her engagement Army Colonel Robert Clark. Her health was failing her. Years of suffering with chronic urinary tract infections, chronic pain, and decubitus ulcers had weakened her terribly, both physically and mentally. Her appetite became poor. She was forced to go live with her brother and his family in Lemon Grove, California, which hurt her pride and depressed her.<br />
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She died at age 31 on October 23, 1952 at the Memorial Hospital in Visalia, California. Only her brother, Bob Carnahan, and his wife were at her bedside.<br />
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Dr. Ray Manchester, said after performing a post-mortem that chronic kidney infection and bronchial pneumonia were the primary causes of death, but "starvation and dehydration factors also were there." He said her death was speeded by "loss of the will to live" and declared she recently lost interest in eating and drinking. He added:<br />
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"She just wouldn't allow any one to help her recently."<br />
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The physician said she had been waging a fight against internal infection for years and had been "going downhill" in past months. "Actually she stopped fighting three weeks ago, and became very detached." Dr. Manchester credited her indomitable will to live for keeping her going on radio, television and on the legitimate stage.<br />
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Susan Peters' funeral was held October 27, 1952. She was buried at Forest Lawn-Glendale. Location of Grave, Memorial Park: Glendale, Section: Whispering Pines, Map #: 03, Lot: 2549, Space: 4, Property: Ground.<br />
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<b>Susan Peters on the Radio</b></div>
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<i>Encore Theater</i><br />
"Dark Victory" - July 30, 1946 - Franchot Tone, Susan Peters<br />
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<i>Lux Radio Theatre</i><br />
"Mrs. Miniver" - December 6, 1943 - Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Peters<br />
"Johnny Eager" - January 21, 1946 - Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, Van Heflin<br />
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<i>Radio Reader's Digest</i><br />
Eavesdroppers in Eden" - March 11, 1948 - Susan Peters<br />
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<i>Studio One</i><br />
"One More Spring" - March 16, 1948 - Susan Peters<br />
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<i>Suspense</i><br />
"They Call Me Patrice" - December 12, 1946 - Susan Peters<br />
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<i>Theatre of Romance</i><br />
"Seventh Heaven" - September 4, 1945 - Van Johnson, Susan Peters<br />
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TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and Lawrence Carter-Long introduce <i>The Sign of the Ram</i>. The film was shown on TCM during "The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film" in October 2012.
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I take issue with Mr. Carter-Long's introduction. It's odd he only mentions Lionel Barrymore as one of Susan Peters' co-stars. She also worked with such M-G-M heavyweights as Robert Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Mary Astor, and Lana Turner. To say that her studio "never gave up on her" is misleading because, although M-G-M paid Susan a salary of $100 a week and her medical bills, after her paralysis she never again appeared in an M-G-M film. Her last was <i>Keep Your Powder Dry</i> made before her accident. Having bought out her contract, M-G-M had nothing to do with <i>The Sign of the Ram</i>. It was produced independently and released through Columbia Pictures.
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<b>The Sign of the Ram -- "I Gave Them Life" Clip</b><br />
Phyllis Thaxter as the newly hired secretary Sherida, meeting her new employer, Susan Peters as wheelchair-bound writer Leah, her first scene in her first and only film role following her disabling hunting accident, in John Sturges' <i>The Sign of the Ram</i>, 1948.
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<b>The Sign of the Ram -- "I'd Never Butt In" Clip</b><br />
Husband Mallory (Alexander Knox) has just fled at signs of the arrival of neighborhood gossip Clara (Dame May Whitty), visiting her disabled writer friend Leah (Susan Peters), meeting her new secretary Sherida (Phyllis Thaxter), in the early John Sturges thriller <i>The Sign of the Ram</i>, 1948.<br />
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<b>Robert Ryan Fast Facts</b><br />
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<b>Born</b>: Robert Bushnell Ryan on November 11, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois<br />
<b>Died</b>: July 11, 1973 (aged 63) in New York City, New York (lung cancer)<br />
<b>Father</b>: Timothy Aloysius Ryan (June 7, 1875 - April 27, 1936)<br />
<b>Mother</b>: Mabel Arbutus (Bushnell) Ryan (May 12, 1883 - March 13, 1963)<br />
<b>Wife</b>: Jessica (Cadwalader) Ryan (October 26, 1914 - May 22, 1972) (married from March 11, 1939 until her death)<br />
<b>Children</b>: Two sons, Walker (born April 13, 1946) and Cheyney (born March 10, 1948), and a daughter, Lisa (born September 10, 1951).<br />
<b>Education</b>: Attended Loyola Academy, Chicago; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (boxing champion), B.A. in literature 1932.<br />
<b>Military Service</b>: U.S. Marine Corps, 1944-47: drill instructor, Camp Pendleton barracks, San Diego (boxing champion).<br />
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<b>Bio</b><br />
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Robert Ryan was unique among Hollywood stars for having been both an Ivy League graduate (Dartmouth, class of 1932) and an undefeated intercollegiate boxing champion, heavyweight class. Thus he brought to his acting career the unusual combination of a fine education and an authentic tough guy reputation. After a failed attempt to become a journalist in New York City, he found work during the Depression wherever he could, first spending two long years as an engine room janitor on a freighter that steamed from New York to East Africa around the Cape and back. He dug subway tunnels in Chicago, mined for gold and punched cattle in Montana and, back in Chicago, sold cemetery plots and steel products, modeled for a department store, and worked a desk job with the board of education. The low point came with a stint as a bill collector for a loan company, shaking poor people down for money they didn't have. Out of desperation Ryan took a job directing a play at a private school and later said he "was bitten by the acting bug watching those kids."<br />
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When he ended up in California in 1939, he enrolled at the Max Reinhardt Actors' Workshop, which led to his stage debut in <i>Too Many Husbands</i> at Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. A Paramount Pictures talent scout was impressed enough by Ryan's opening night performance to offer him a $75 a week contract, which he accepted on the spot. With Paramount, he then made his feature film debut, appropriately cast as a boxer in a B movie entitled <i>Golden Gloves</i> (1940). Ryan was originally supposed to play the lead, the studio decided he wasn't ready and relegated him to a bit part. Years later director Edward Dmytryk admitted, "Perhaps we weren’t ready for <i>him</i>."<br />
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He found steady work in small parts, with his first big break coming in 1943 as co-star to Ginger Rogers in <i>Tender Comrade</i>. This film was later cited—ludicrously so—as an example of how communists had infiltrated the film industry. Both its director, Edward Dmytryk, and its screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, were among the original blacklisted Hollywood Ten. Ryan, however, was helped by his appearance in <i>Tender Comrade</i>, although his enlistment in the Marines in 1944 temporarily halted his promising career.<br />
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It was after the war that Ryan found real success as a movie star by being featured in a colorful dramatic role as a bigoted villain in <i>Crossfire</i> (1947). His chilling performance not only earned him an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor, it also typed him for the majority of the screen roles to follow. His film persona relied on that of the smooth surface which covers a twisted interior. Ryan was a tall man, 6-foot-4, with dark hair and good looks. He radiated Black Irish glamour. He might have become a traditional leading man, but instead he began playing articulate villains, the kind who could talk their way out of places and build alibis for themselves in any kind of situation. In addition to the obvious acting skill such roles require, Ryan had the sort of Irishness viewers often associate with blarney. He added to it a suspicious smile and overly confident manner which seemed to suggest hidden strength and possible danger, an undercurrent of violence and cruelty. With these characteristics, he created a gallery of some of the most interesting villains ever seen on film, and built a career out of crime films, films noir, melodramas, and westerns.<br />
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For the majority of the moviegoing public, he is most associated with the last genre. (Ryan himself referred to his "long, seamy face" as being perfect for westerns.) His filmography reads as a chronology of the development of the genre in the postwar period, from such classics as Anthony Mann's <i>The Naked Spur</i> (1953) and John Sturges's <i>Bad Day at Black Rock</i> (1955) through Budd Boetticher's <i>Horizons West</i> (1952), Raoul Walsh's <i>The Tall Men</i> (1955), and Andre De Toth's <i>Day of the Outlaw</i> (1959) to the iconoclastic film by Sam Peckinpah, <i>The Wild Bunch</i> (1969). Recently, much critical attention has been given to Ryan's seminal contributions to film noir, especially given his appearance in films by many of that genre's most important directors, notably Jean Renoir (<i>The Woman on the Beach</i> [1947]), Max Ophüls (<i>Caught</i> [1949]), Robert Wise (<i>The Set-Up</i> [1949]), Nicholas Ray (<i>On Dangerous Ground</i> [1951]), and Fritz Lang (<i>Clash by Night</i> [1952]).<br />
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Always an actor to seek challenge and a change, Ryan returned to the New York stage in 1954, starring in <i>Coriolanus</i>. From that time on, he moved back and forth from his film career to his stage career, creating successes in theater both in Los Angeles and New York, and particularly finding praise for his outstanding performance in an excellent revival of <i>The Front Page</i> shortly before his death. Unfortunately, over the last eight years of his life Ryan was largely relegated to cameos in big pictures, such as <i>The Dirty Dozen</i> (1967), <i>Custer of the West</i> (1968), and <i>Anzio </i>(1968) (although he made more money in this period than in the first 25 years of his film career combined).<br />
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Ryan guided his entire career with intelligence and seriousness of purpose. Since his desire was to be more than a movie star, he willingly accepted roles that did not create a lovable persona. Because of this, he did not attract as large a following as some other stars. Nevertheless, he always maintained a reputation for quality and reliability. Seen in retrospect, this quality places him at the center of film history, as he appeared in many films which, although not Oscar winners of their day, are now considered classics worthy of serious attention and study. In this way, history and time are making Robert Ryan into one of the most interesting stars of Hollywood films.<br />
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<b>Did You Know?</b><br />
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When casting the leading man role in the 1943 Ginger Rogers vehicle <i>Tender Comrade</i>, RKO producer David Hempstead became interested in Ryan due to favorable preview cards hailing Ryan's performances in <i>Bombardier</i> (1943), <i>The Sky's the Limit</i> (1943), and <i>Behind the Rising Sun</i> (1943). He suggested him to Rogers, who was at first unimpressed after screening parts of the three movies. She turned him down as her leading man, as she thought he looked mean and, at 6'4", too big. A week later, when Rogers visited Hempstead at his office, he was busily going through preview cards of <i>The Sky's the Limit</i> and showed her some of them. Rogers saw that all the reviews of Ryan's performance were favorable and, since principal production was drawing near, she decided to have another look at him. Ryan was conveniently waiting in a nearby office for just such a possibility. Less than a minute later he came to the office and talked with both the producer and Rogers. After a few moments, she unobtrusively slipped Hempstead a note: "I think this is the guy." Today, the note hangs on the wall above Cheyney Ryan's (Ryan's son) desk in his study.<br />
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After his service in the Marines, he had a lifelong devotion to pacifism.<br />
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He was a vocal supporter of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten.<br />
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1951 - With wife Jessica, founded Oakwood Elementary School in North Hollywood, a cooperative dedicated to humanistic education.<br />
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1959 - Notably served as co-chairman of the Hollywood branch of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.<br />
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Co-founded the Theatre Group at the University of California at Los Angeles with John Houseman and Sidney Harmon in 1959. Nine years later in 1968 he co-founded the Plumstead Playhouse Repertory Company, with Henry Fonda and Martha Scott.<br />
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While dying of cancer, he gave one of his best film performances in <i>The Iceman Cometh</i> (1973).<br />
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Shortly before his death, Ryan moved out of his apartment (number 72) at the Dakota in New York City. Ryan leased (and then his estate later sold) the apartment to John Lennon and Yoko Ono.<br />
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<b>Meredy's Top 10 Robert Ryan Films</b><br />
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1. <b><i>Crossfire</i> (1947)</b> - Ryan plays a hard, loud-mouthed, anti-Semitic psychopathic killer. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel <i>The Brick Foxhole</i> by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks. In the novel, the victim was homosexual. The film features Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan, and Gloria Grahame. It received five Academy Award nominations, including Ryan for Best Supporting Actor and Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress. It was the first B movie to receive a Best Picture nomination. It's being shown on TCM on May 6, 2016 at 9:30 p.m.<br />
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2. <b><i>Act of Violence</i> (1948)</b> - Ryan is disturbing as the obsessive, embittered cripple. Even better is the rich chiaroscuro of Robert Surtees' camera work, in which shadows slice bodies and cover faces until, like the contractor, we no longer have the vaguest idea where we are. It's being shown on TCM on May 7, 2016 at 5:15 a.m.<br />
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3. <b><i>Caught</i> (1949)</b> - It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Smith Ohlrig, the character played by Robert Ryan, is a thinly disguised takeoff of Howard Hughes. But whereas Howard Hughes was merely paranoid and eccentric, Smith Ohlrig is an all-out psycho.<br />
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4. <b><i>The Set-Up</i> (1949)</b> - Ryan gives one of his best performances as the over-the-hill pug who balks when ordered by his manager to throw a fight. As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, <i>The Set-Up</i> takes place within a compact 73 minutes, with the action played out in "real time." It was a key influence on Martin Scorsese's <i>Raging Bull</i> (1980) and remains one of the best films on the fight game. It's being shown on TCM on May 7, 2016 at 4:00 a.m.<br />
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5. <b><i>On Dangerous Ground</i> (1952)</b> - Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city. Inspired by Mary Malden's (Ida Lupino) courage and recognizing Walter Brent's (Ward Bond) rage as the mirror image of his own, Wilson gains the insight to free himself from his own blindness. It's being shown on TCM on May 7, 2016 at 1:00 a.m.<br />
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6. <b><i>Clash by Night</i> (1952)</b> - Ryan infuses his lecherous Earl Pfeiffer with the requisite nasty disposition. Barbara Stanwyck is also fine as Mae Doyle. As a footnote in the politically incorrect department, Ryan does an atrocious Chinese impression. It's being shown on TCM on May 6, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.<br />
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7. <b><i>The Naked Spur</i> (1953)</b> - Ryan made many westerns, but I consider this one his best. He plays a likably hateful villain opposite Jimmy Stewart. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and is notable for having only five actors. It's being shown on TCM on May 20, 2016 at 6:15 p.m.<br />
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8. <b><i>Bad Day at Black Rock</i> (1955)</b> - Mr. Ryan is angular and vicious as the uneasy king-pin of the town. He's a small-town big shot complicit in a racist murder. Spencer Tracy had great respect for Robert Ryan as an actor. Millard Kaufman recalled that Tracy said to him one day, "Bob is so good in this part, he scares the hell out of me." When Kaufman expressed the same, Tracy replied, "That's good. It means he'll scare the hell out of the audience, too." It's being shown on TCM on May 6, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.<br />
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9. <b><i>Billy Budd</i> (1962)</b> - John Claggart is one of Ryan's most nuanced and complex<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>and oddly sympathetic<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>villains. The film is being shown on TCM on May 13, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.<br />
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10. <b><i>The Iceman Cometh</i> (1973)</b> - It's Ryan's finest four hours as barroom philosopher Larry Slade. This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan, and Martyn Green.<br />
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<b>My Robert Ryan Guilty Pleasure Film - <i>Ice Palace</i> (1960)</b>
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I'm a sucker for film adaptations of Edna Ferber novels: <i>Cimarron</i> (1931 [AA Best Picture] and 1960), <i>So Big</i> (1924, 1932 and 1953), <i>Show Boat</i> (1929, 1936 and 1951), <i>Saratoga Trunk</i> (1945), <i>Giant</i> (1956), and <i>Ice Palace</i> (1960).
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<i>Ice Palace</i> was directed by Vincent Sherman and dramatized the debate over Alaska statehood. It starred Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus, Ray Danton, Diane McBain, Karl Swenson, Shirley Knight, Barry Kelley, Sheridan Comerate, George Takei (his film debut), and Steve Harris.
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The rights to <i>Ice Palace</i> were sold to Warner Brothers for $350,000 before the novel was published. Warner Brothers had already had a success with a 1956 adaptation of another Edna Ferber novel, <i>Giant</i>.
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The film was shot in part in Petersburg, Alaska. It was beautifully photographed by Joseph F. Biroc. The music by Max Steiner is another plus.
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Critics weren't kind but <i>Ice Palace</i> is a personal favorite of mine. I feel it's an overlooked gem.
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<b>Friday, May 6, 2016 and Saturday, May 7, 2016</b><br />
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11:00 a.m.<br />
<i>The Woman on the Beach</i> (1947)<br />
BW - 1h 11m<br />
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Coast Guard officer Scott (Robert Ryan) loves his fiancée, Eve (Nan Leslie), but he can't fight his attraction to the alluring Peggy (Joan Bennett), a lonely beauty he meets on the beach. But Peggy is trapped in a loveless marriage to Tod (Charles Bickford), a former painter whose career was cut short by blindness. Scott and Peggy become romantically involved, yet they can't help but feel that Tod knows more than he's letting on -- and his blindness may just be a ruse he uses to spy on Peggy.<br />
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Dir: Jean Renoir<br />
Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie.<br />
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12:15 p.m.<br />
<i>The Woman on Pier 13</i> (1949)<br />
BW - 1h 13m<br />
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Communists blackmail a San Francisco shipper (Robert Ryan) and recruit his wife's (Laraine Day) brother (John Agar) with a blonde.<br />
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Dir: Robert Stevenson<br />
Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar.<br />
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1:30 p.m.<br />
<i>Clash by Night</i> (1952)<br />
BW - 1h 45m<br />
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After being away for 10 years, Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to her California hometown following an affair with a married politician, which came to an end when he died and his relatives sued for her inheritance. Mae begins dating Jerry (Paul Douglas), an amiable fisherman, while his bitter best friend, Earl (Robert Ryan), a cynic married to a burlesque dancer, finds himself attracted to her. Mae and Jerry marry, but soon she gets bored and starts an affair with just-divorced Earl.<br />
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Dir: Fritz Lang<br />
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan.<br />
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3:15 p.m.<br />
<i>The Racket</i> (1951)<br />
BW - 1h 29m<br />
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As one of the only honest cops left in the city, Capt. Thomas McQuigg (Robert Mitchum) has his back against the wall when a large crime syndicate makes its way to his doorstep. After bringing aboard local mobster Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan), the illegal organization intends to help place corrupt attorney Mortimer X. Welsh (Ray Collins) in a prominent government position. But, if McQuigg can stay alive long enough, he just might be able to bring down the crooks with a key witness (Lizabeth Scott).<br />
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Dir: John Cromwell<br />
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, Ray Collins.<br />
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4:45 p.m.<br />
<i>Berlin Express</i> (1948)<br />
BW - 1h 27m<br />
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During World War II, passengers of various nationalities travel by train from France to Berlin. One of them, Dr. Bernhardt (Paul Lukas), is an influential peacemaker who wants to mend the war-torn continent. When Nazi conspirators determined to keep Bernhardt quiet set off an explosion on the train, it kills a man who turns out to be Bernhardt's decoy. Other passengers (Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Robert Coote) seek the doctor for an explanation, but deception is all around.<br />
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Dir: Jacques Tourneur<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote.<br />
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6:15 p.m.<br />
<i>Born to Be Bad</i> (1950)<br />
BW - 1h 39m<br />
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Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna (Joan Leslie), to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott). Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley (Robert Ryan), who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.<br />
<br />
Dir: Nicholas Ray<br />
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie.<br />
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8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Bad Day at Black Rock</i> (1955)<br />
Color - 1h 22m<br />
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When John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy), a one-armed war veteran, arrives in the small desert town of Black Rock, he's not greeted warmly. Searching for a man named Komoko, Macreedy is met with disdain by virtually every local, including the resident thug, Hector David (Lee Marvin), and the imposing Reno Smith (Robert Ryan). As Macreedy's investigation deepens, hostility turns to violence -- and to imminent danger for the mysterious and inquisitive stranger.<br />
<br />
Dir: John Sturges<br />
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Lee Marvin.<br />
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9:30 p.m.<br />
<i>Crossfire</i> (1947)<br />
BW - 1h 26m<br />
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Stark, claustrophobic thriller about an anti-Semitic soldier who kills a Jewish war veteran, evading detection because of his loyal friends' protection. However, a detective is determined that the crime will not go unsolved and sets about laying a trap for the murderer.<br />
<br />
Dir: Edward Dmytryk<br />
Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.<br />
<br />
11:15 p.m.<br />
<i>Odds Against Tomorrow</i> (1959)<br />
BW - 1h 36m<br />
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Disgraced former police officer David Burke (Ed Begley) is looking for a way to make some quick money. When he decides to rob a bank, he calls on mean ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) and black entertainer Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to help him pull off the heist. Johnny is reluctant to agree but is forced to reconsider because of his significant gambling debts, while racist Earl balks because of Johnny's involvement. Ultimately, though, they must work together to get the job done.<br />
<br />
Dir: Robert Wise<br />
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Shelley Winters.<br />
<br />
1:00 a.m.<br />
<i>On Dangerous Ground</i> (1952)<br />
BW - 1h 22m<br />
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Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is New York police detective on the edge. Hardened and embittered by his years of dealing with the lowest forms of criminal the city has to offer, Wilson becomes increasingly violent with suspects. For his own good, Wilson's police captain (Ed Begley) assigns him to a murder investigation in the countryside for a change of scenery. While searching for the killer, Wilson meets the suspect's sister, Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman who might turn his life around.<br />
<br />
Dir: Nicholas Ray<br />
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Ed Begley.<br />
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2:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Beware, My Lovely</i> (1952)<br />
BW - 1h 17m<br />
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Widow Helen Gordon (Ida Lupino) hires Howard Wilton (Robert Ryan) to do some odd jobs around her large Victorian mansion. What she doesn't know is that Wilton is actually a murderous schizophrenic prone to violent blackouts. Although he has no memory of it, Wilton killed his last employer, and when his grip on his sanity begins to slip away while working at Helen's house, she has to think on her feet to keep him calm and rational until she can escape from her home and get help.<br />
<br />
Dir: Harry Horner<br />
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes.<br />
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4:00 a.m.<br />
<i>The Set-Up</i> (1949)<br />
BW - 1h 13m<br />
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A boxer on the wane, Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) is determined to stay in the game, in spite of his wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), who wants him to leave the dangerous sport. Unbeknownst to Stoker, his manager, Tiny (George Tobias), has lost confidence in him and sets the fighter up to lose an upcoming match at the request of a local gangster. Certain that Stoker will meet with defeat, Tiny neglects to tell him about the shady deal, resulting in conflict both in and out of the ring.<br />
<br />
Dir: Robert Wise<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias.<br />
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5:15 a.m.<br />
<i>Act of Violence</i> (1948)<br />
BW - 1h 22m<br />
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A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank actually aided his Nazi captors, and he closely guards this secret. Frank's shameful past comes back to visit him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) emerges, intent on making the turncoat pay for his betrayal. As Joe closes in on Frank, the traitor goes into hiding, abandoning his wife, Edith (Janet Leigh), who has no clue about her husband's wartime transgressions.<br />
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Dir: Fred Zinnemann<br />
Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh.<br />
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<b>Friday, May 13, 2016 and Saturday, May 14, 2016</b><br />
<br />
3:30 p.m.<br />
<i>The Iron Major</i> (1943)<br />
BW - 1h 25m<br />
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In this biopic, Frank "Cav" Cavanaugh (Pat O'Brien) finds his family in a financial bind and quits Dartmouth, where he was a football star, to take a coaching job at another school. Soon, he meets and marries Florence (Ruth Warrick), and ends up coaching the Dartmouth team. But with World War I under way, Cav enlists, leaving behind his growing family. In Europe, he rallies the men under his command, but, after he's hurt on the battlefield, Cav comes home and football beckons again.<br />
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Dir: Ray Enright<br />
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warrick, Robert Ryan.<br />
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5:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Gangway for Tomorrow</i> (1943)<br />
BW - 1h 9m<br />
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As co-workers at a World War II-era airplane factory carpool to their job, they recall their lives prior to the war. French Lisette (Margo) escaped her Nazi-occupied homeland as a member of the underground resistance. Former prison warden Tom (James Bell) broods about a closely held family secret. Former Miss America Mary (Amelita Ward), pines for the serviceman boyfriend she left behind. Ex-lawyer Wellington (John Carradine) reminisces about his years as a hobo.<br />
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Dir: John H. Auer<br />
Cast: Margo, John Carradine, Robert Ryan, James Bell, Amelita Ward.<br />
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6:15 p.m.<br />
<i>Tender Comrade</i> (1943)<br />
BW - 1h 42m<br />
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Jo (Ginger Rogers) works at an aircraft factory during World War II when her husband Chris (Robert Ryan) is called off to fight. Leaning on the support of her friends and co-workers, she suggests that they share a home together in the hopes of saving money. Her friends -- Barbara (Ruth Hussey), Doris (Kim Hunter) and Helen (Patricia Collinge) -- despite all having husbands at war, are extremely different. Together, the women help each other through difficult times despite the occasional spat.<br />
<br />
Dir: Edward Dmytryk<br />
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Kim Hunter, Patricia Collinge.<br />
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8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Billy Budd</i> (1962)<br />
BW - 2h 3m<br />
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In this film based on the Herman Melville novel, handsome, young Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) joins the British navy during wartime, where his skill quickly makes him a trusted crew member. However, sinister master-at-arms Claggart (Robert Ryan), secretly jealous of Billy, accuses him of treason. Billy strikes Claggart in anger, causing him to fall and die. Capt. Vere (Peter Ustinov) feels pity for Billy but believes that maritime law requires that Billy be executed for killing an officer.<br />
<br />
Dir: Peter Ustinov<br />
Cast: Terence Stamp, Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan.<br />
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10:15 p.m.<br />
<i>About Mrs. Leslie</i> (1954)<br />
BW - 1h 44m<br />
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Vivien (Shirley Booth) runs a boarding house for young women. Through a series of flashbacks, she details the adventures of her life. Vivien was born poor, but escapes her home by becoming a cabaret singer. She meets George Leslie (Robert Ryan), who is a very private man, but the two get to know each other and begin a passionate affair. One night at the movies, Vivien sees George in the newsreel and learns he is actually a wealthy -- and married -- industrialist.<br />
<br />
Dir: Daniel Mann<br />
Cast: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar.<br />
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12:15 a.m.<br />
<i>The Boy with the Green Hair</i> (1948)<br />
Color - 1h 22m<br />
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Peter (Dean Stockwell), an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye (Pat O'Brien) after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.<br />
<br />
Dir: Joseph Losey<br />
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale.<br />
<br />
1:45 a.m.<br />
<i>God's Little Acre</i> (1958)<br />
BW - 1h 58m<br />
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Ty Ty Walden (Robert Ryan) is a Georgia farmer obsessed with finding a fortune in gold that is rumored to be buried on his farm. The quest for riches is completely disrupting the lives of his family, including his three sons: jealous Buck (Jack Lord), who believes his wife, Griselda, still loves Will (Aldo Ray), who is married to Ty Ty's daughter, Rosamund (Helen Westcott); Shaw (Vic Morrow), who is single; and wealthy and estranged son Jim (Lance Fuller), who has moved away.<br />
<br />
Dir: Anthony Mann<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Tina Louise, Jack Lord, Helen Westcott, Vic Morrow, Lance Fuller.<br />
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3:45 a.m.<br />
<i>Her Twelve Men</i> (1954)<br />
Color - 1h 31m<br />
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Recently widowed and needing a change of pace, Jan Stewart (Greer Garson) takes a job as a schoolteacher at the Oaks, an elite boys' prep school. She is given charge of 12 rowdy students, including a sullen boy (Tim Considine) whose father (Barry Sullivan) is a vocal critic of Jan's teaching capabilities. Jan must prove to the skeptical headmaster (Robert Ryan) and everyone else that she's up to the task by winning over her students and becoming more than just a teacher to them.<br />
<br />
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard<br />
Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Ryan, Barry Sullivan, Tim Considine.<br />
<br />
5:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Back from Eternity</i> (1956)<br />
BW - 1h 37m<br />
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On a plane bound for South America, the son of a mobster travels under the protection of henchmen who learn in-flight that their boss is dead. Also on the flight are weary war pilot Bill Lonagan (Robert Ryan), prostitute Rena (Anita Ekberg), Jud Ellis (Gene Barry) and his fiancée, Louise (Phyllis Kirk), and a convicted murderer (Rod Steiger) who's bound for his execution. After a storm forces the plane down in a jungle, the passengers turn against one another in their struggle to survive.<br />
<br />
Dir: John Farrow<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Gene Barry, Phyllis Kirk.<br />
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<b>Friday, May 20, 2016 </b><b>and Saturday, May 21, 2016</b><br />
<br />
1:30 p.m.<br />
<i>Trail Street</i> (1947)<br />
BW - 1h 24m<br />
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Legendary lawman Bat Masterson (Randolph Scott) is called to rural Kansas to defend farmers from ruthless cattlemen. Joining Masterson in his efforts to clean up a lawless town are a couple of locals: Masterson's old chum Billy Burn and landowner Allen Harper (Robert Ryan). But ranch owner Logan Maury proves to be a more than formidable opponent. He'll stop at nothing, including murder, to turn the farmers' fields into grazing grounds for his cattle.<br />
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Dir: Ray Enright<br />
Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George "Gabby" Hayes.<br />
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3:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Return of the Badmen</i> (1948)<br />
BW - 1h 30m<br />
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In 1889 in Oklahoma Territory, the land rush attracts thousands, including many outlaws. A gang led by Wild Bill Doolan includes the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan) and the Younger brothers, who intend to take advantage of the confusion to rob banks. Doolan's daughter, Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys), helps the gang in a heist, but is wounded and taken in by ex-ranger Vance Cordell (Randolph Scott). Vance sets about to change her allegiance, despite the misgivings of his fiancée (Jacqueline White).<br />
<br />
Dir: Ray Enright<br />
Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, Jacqueline White.<br />
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4:45 p.m.<br />
<i>Best of the Badmen</i> (1951)<br />
Color - 1h 24m<br />
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After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton (Robert Ryan) heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad (Barton MacLane) and Fowler (Robert Preston), who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.<br />
<br />
Dir: William D. Russell<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Barton MacLane, Robert Preston.<br />
<br />
6:15 p.m.<br />
<i>The Naked Spur</i> (1953)<br />
Color - 1h 32m<br />
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Howard Kemp (James Stewart) has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate (Millard Mitchell) and former Union soldier Roy Anderson (Ralph Meeker). Thinking Kemp is a sheriff, they agree to help for a small fee. When they catch Vandergroat, he tells them Kemp is pursuing a $5,000 bounty. After demanding equal shares, the uneasy alliance heads for Kansas as Vandergroat tries to turn them against each other.<br />
<br />
Dir: Anthony Mann<br />
Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Millard Mitchell, Ralph Meeker.<br />
<br />
8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Lolly-Madonna XXX</i> (1973)<br />
Color - 1h 45m<br />
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Tennessee clan leaders (Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan) let a case of mistaken identity turn their family feud into a war.<br />
<br />
Dir: Richard C. Sarafian<br />
Cast: Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson.<br />
<br />
10:00 p.m.<br />
<i>The Outfit</i> (1973)<br />
Color - 1h 43m<br />
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When petty crook Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) is released from prison to find that his brother was murdered over a botched bank heist, he has one thing on his mind -- revenge. After tracing his brother's death back to a merciless, well-armed ring of mobsters, Macklin teams up with his old partner Cody (Joe Don Baker) in an effort to track down the thugs. However, the tables turn when Macklin realizes that the deadly criminals he is after have already put out a hit on him.<br />
<br />
Dir: John Flynn<br />
Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan.<br />
<br />
12:00 a.m.<br />
<i>The Wild Bunch</i> (1969)<br />
Color - 2h 25m<br />
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In this gritty Western classic, aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by his old partner, Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan). As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them, resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.<br />
<br />
Dir: Sam Peckinpah<br />
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson.<br />
<br />
2:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Captain Nemo and the Underwater City </i>(1969)<br />
Color - 1h 46m<br />
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Survivors of a shipwreck are surprised to find rescue in the middle of the sea by none other than the renowned Capt. Nemo (Robert Ryan), who arrives in the Nautilus, his state-of-the-art submarine. As Nemo's guests soon discover, the eccentric genius has created an entire community at the bottom of the ocean. When the survivors find out that they can't leave Nemo's city, some of them rebel, causing a conflict that jeopardizes the lives of everyone in the undersea base.<br />
<br />
Dir: James Hill<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman.<br />
<br />
4:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Executive Action</i> (1973)<br />
Color - 1h 31m<br />
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In 1963, with President John F. Kennedy growing more liberal and humanitarian in his policies, a shadowy cabal of Texas oil magnates, hardline conservatives, intelligence agents and rogue operatives meet to discuss possible action. The swaggering Foster (Robert Ryan) wants JFK dead, but the mysterious and powerful Ferguson (Will Geer) rebuffs the idea. Still, Farrington (Burt Lancaster) carries out a military training operation in preparation for an assassination while he waits for a decision.<br />
<br />
Dir: David Miller<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Will Geer, Gilbert Green.<br />
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<b>Friday, May 27, 2016 </b><b>and Saturday, May 28, 2016</b><br />
<br />
8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Battle of the Bulge</i> (1965)<br />
Color - 2h 50m<br />
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American Lt. Col. Dan Kiley (Henry Fonda), a military intelligence whiz, discovers that the Nazis are planning to attack Allied forces near Belgium. Certain that the exhausted enemy can't muster much force, Gen. Joe Grey (Robert Ryan) isn't convinced by Kiley's findings, and his men pay the price when the German tanks begin their offensive. In the heat of this key World War II battle, Kiley must come up with a plan when it becomes clear that the Nazis are trying to steal fuel from the Allies.<br />
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Dir: Ken Annakin<br />
Cast: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan.<br />
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11:00 p.m.<br />
<i>The Longest Day</i> (1962)<br />
BW - 2h 58m<br />
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In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma Cota (Robert Mitchum) travels with his men onto Omaha Beach. With much effort, and lost life, they get off the beach, traveling deep into French territory. The German military, due to arrogance, ignorance and a sleeping Adolf Hitler, delay their response to the Allied landing, with crippling results.<br />
<br />
Dir: Andrew Marton<br />
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan.<br />
<br />
2:00 a.m.<br />
<i>The Dirty Dozen</i> (1967)<br />
Color - 2h 30m<br />
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As D-Day approaches, Colonel Breed hands the roguish Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) an important assignment: He must train a team of soldiers to parachute across enemy lines and assassinate German personnel at a French chateau. The soldiers, recruited from murderers, rapists and criminals on death row, are promised commuted sentences. In spite of their history, the 12 men prove a spirited and courageous unit. Led by Major Reisman, they will exact revenge.<br />
<br />
Dir: Robert Aldrich<br />
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Robert Ryan.<br />
<br />
4:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Men in War</i> (1957)<br />
BW - 1h 38m<br />
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At the start of the Korean War, Lt. Benson (Robert Ryan) and his platoon are ordered to rendezvous with American forces at Hill 465. Benson and his troops encounter a truck containing Sgt. Montana (Aldo Ray) and his passenger, a colonel (Robert Keith) experiencing psychological combat trauma. Benson, who believes the safe passage of his men takes precedence over the colonel's medical needs, seizes the truck to transport his platoon's equipment -- a decision that Montana fiercely opposes.<br />
<br />
Dir: Anthony Mann<br />
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith.<br />
<br />
6:15 a.m.<br />
<i>Bombardier</i> (1943)<br />
BW - 1h 39m<br />
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It's World War II, and young men are being turned into bomber pilots. Training them are Maj. Chick Davis (Pat O'Brien) and Capt. Buck Oliver (Randolph Scott), old chums who disagree about how to best win the war. As they train their fighting force, Davis and Oliver must overcome their cadets' fears, combat espionage and learn to put aside their rivalry. Romantic intrigue comes courtesy of Burt Hughes (Anne Shirley), the Bombardier Training School's much sought-after secretary.<br />
<br />
Dir: Richard Wallace<br />
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Robert Ryan.<br />
<br />
8:00 a.m.<br />
<i>Behind the Rising Sun</i> (1943)<br />
BW - 1h 28m<br />
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In the 1930s, Taro Seki (Tom Neal) returns to Japan after graduating from Cornell University in the United States. An ambitious man, Seki searches for employment with Clancy O'Hara (Don Douglas), a prominent American engineer in Tokyo. While at the engineer's office, Seki falls in love with O'Hara's secretary, Tama Shimamura (Margo). Soon, the two plan to marry, but Seki is drafted for the Sino-Japanese War -- and, when he returns from the battlefields, he is no longer the same man.<br />
<br />
Dir: Edward Dmytryk<br />
Cast: Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carroll Naish, Don Douglas, Robert Ryan.<br />
<br />
9:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Marine Raiders</i> (1944)<br />
BW - 1h 31m<br />
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Two marines with conflicting ideas of how to fight share a tumultuous friendship while stationed in the Pacific theater of World War II. On the front lines at the Battle of Guadalcanal, Maj. Steve Lockhart (Pat O'Brien) witnesses paratrooper Capt. Dan Craig (Robert Ryan) erupt in a frenzy of uncontrolled violence. When the two men are transferred to Australia, Lockhart attempts to put an end to Craig's whirlwind romance with servicewoman Lt. Ellen Foster (Ruth Hussey).<br />
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Dir: Harold Schuster<br />
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ruth Hussey, Robert Ryan.<br />
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<i>Flying Leathernecks</i> (1951)<br />
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As the new commanding officer of a squadron of Marine pilots, Maj. Daniel Kirby (John Wayne), a stern and strict leader, cannot believe the lack of discipline exhibited by the soldiers. As the men resist Kirby's harsh adherence to orders, Capt. Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan) leads their cause for a more relaxed environment. But by pushing his men beyond their limits, Kirby slowly transforms them into battle-ready warriors, forcing all of them to make sacrifices along the way.<br />
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Dir: Nicholas Ray<br />
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor.<br />
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<b>Robert Ryan on the Radio</b><br />
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<i>Suspense</i><br />
"Beyond Reason" (February 21, 1948) - Robert Ryan, Ruth Warrick<br />
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<i>Family Theater</i><br />
"A Tale of Two Cities" (January 11, 1950) - Robert Ryan, Hans Conried<br />
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-46946858244910741542016-04-22T13:11:00.000-04:002016-04-22T13:30:05.301-04:00The Star-Studded Couple Blogathon - Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Phyllis for hosting the blogathon. Looking forward to reading all the posts about the star-studded couples of classic Hollywood. Please visit Phyllis' fine blog, <a href="http://phyllislovesclassicmovies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Phyllis Loves Classic Movies</a>.<br />
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I'll be focusing on the two marriages of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, one in 1957 and one in 1972, and the time in-between those marriages.<br />
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When I was in my teens in the mid to late '70s, they were a hot couple. I saved photos of them from newspapers and magazines, made collages by gluing the photos on poster paper, and hung them in my room.<br />
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For my blogathon post, I made Google Slide presentations about Robert Wagner's life and career, Natalie Wood's life and career, and their life as a couple. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them.<br />
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The presentations are best viewed full screen. Also, you can enjoy a soundtrack with each slideshow by clicking on the small YouTube video embedded in the first slide of each presentation. Alternately, the soundtracks are available at these addresses:<br />
<br />Robert Wagner - <a href="https://youtu.be/Xv1Yx3eFnEg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Xv1Yx3eFnEg</a><br />
Natalie Wood - <a href="https://youtu.be/kcoQ9MNy1Ck" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/kcoQ9MNy1Ck</a><br />
R.J. and Natalie - <a href="https://youtu.be/5g6GSur3BIE" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/5g6GSur3BIE</a><br />
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-33137053501105041042016-04-08T01:33:00.000-04:002016-04-15T13:48:55.169-04:00The Golden Boy Blogathon - A William Holden Celebration - Apartment for Peggy (1948)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Virginie for hosting the blogathon. I love William Holden's work. Please visit Virginie's fine blog, <a href="https://thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Wonderful World of Cinema</a>.<br />
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I'll be focusing on William Holden and his 1948 film <b><i>Apartment for Peggy</i></b><i>.</i> The film also stars Jeanne Crain, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Griff Barnett, Randy Stuart, Betty Ann Lynn, Marion Marshall, and Pati Behrs. I'm also adding a treat for those who love to listen to William's radio work: his performances on <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>, <i>Screen Directors Playhouse</i> and <i>Suspense</i>. :) Listen to the radio programs via the player below.<br />
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<b><i>Lux Radio Theatre</i></b><br />
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"Our Town" - May 6, 1940 - William Holden, Martha Scott<br />
"I Wanted Wings" - March 30, 1942 - Ray Milland, William Holden, Veronica Lake<br />
"Christmas Holiday" - September 17, 1945 - Loretta Young, William Holden, David Bruce<br />
"Dear Ruth" - April 26, 1948 - Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Billy De Wolfe<br />
"Apartment for Peggy" - February 28, 1949 - Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn<br />
"Dear Wife" - February 19, 1951 - William Holden, Joan Caulfield, Edward Arnold, Mona Freeman<br />
"Sunset Boulevard" - September 17, 1951 - Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Nancy Gates<br />
"Union Station" - April 7, 1952 - William Holden, Nancy Olson, Lyle Bettger<br />
"Submarine Command" - November 17, 1952 - William Holden, Alexis Smith<br />
"Appointment with Danger" - January 19, 1953 - William Holden, Coleen Gray<br />
"High Tor" - June 1, 1953 - William Holden<br />
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<b><i>Screen Directors Playhouse</i></b><br />
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"Remember the Night" - July 19, 1951 - William Holden, Nancy Gates Director: Mitchell Leisen<br />
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<b><i>Suspense</i></b><br />
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"Blood on the Trumpet" - November 9, 1950 - William Holden with special trumpet effects by Ziggy Elman<br />
"Report on the Jolly Death Riders" - August 27, 1951 - William Holden<br />
"Needle in the Haystack" - November 9, 1953 - William Holden<br />
"The Outer Limit" - February 15, 1954 - William Holden<br />
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<b>William Holden Fast Facts</b><br />
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<b>Born</b>: William Franklin Beedle, Jr. on April 17, 1918 in O'Fallon, Illinois<br />
<b>Died</b>: November 16, 1981 (age 63) in Santa Monica, California (He suffered a laceration to his forehead and bled to death, after he slipped on a throw rug and hit his head on a table. Claims that he was intoxicated at the time are disputed.)<br />
<b>Father</b>: William Franklin Beedle, Sr. (1891 - 1967)<br />
<b>Mother</b>: Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball; 1898 - 1990)<br />
<b>Brother</b>: Robert Westfield Beedle (1921 - January 5, 1945) (Navy fighter pilot - Killed in action in World War II.)<br />
<b>Brother</b>: Richard P. Beedle (December 26, 1924 - July 1964)<br />
<b>Wife</b>: Brenda Marshall (born Ardis Ankerson) (1941 - 1971) (divorced)<br />
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<b>Adopted</b>: Virginia Gaines (born to Ardis Ankerson and Richard Huston Gaines on November 17, 1937)<br />
<b>Born</b>: Peter Westfield "West" Holden (November 17, 1943 - June 2014)<br />
<b>Born</b>: Scott Porter Holden (May 2, 1946 - January 21, 2005)<br />
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<b>Awards</b><br />
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<b>Academy Awards</b><br />
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1951 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role for <b><i>Sunset Blvd</i>.</b> (1950)<br />
1954 - Won - Best Actor in a Leading Role for <b><i>Stalag 17</i></b> (1953) <br />
1977 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role for <b><i>Network</i></b> (1976)<br />
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1974 - Won - Best Lead Actor in a Limited Series - <b><i>The Blue Knight</i></b> (1973) - For playing: "Bumper Morgan."<br />
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<b>Walk of Fame</b><br />
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Motion Picture - On February 8, 1960. At 1651 Vine Street.<br />
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Nicknames: The Golden Boy, Bill, Golden Holden<br />
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A hygiene fanatic, he reportedly showered up to four times daily.<br />
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He was a Boy Scout.<br />
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He enjoyed fireworks displays.<br />
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Holden was vice president of the Screen Actors Guild and Parks Commissioner for Los Angeles.<br />
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He was so grateful to Barbara Stanwyck for her insistence on casting him in <i>Golden Boy</i> (1939), his first big role, that he reportedly sent her flowers every year on the anniversary of the first day of the filming.<br />
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Brian Donlevy was his best man when Holden married Brenda Marshall in 1941. A Congregationalist Church service was planned in Las Vegas. Since William and Brian were still filming <i>The Remarkable Andrew</i> (1942), there were delays and it was 3 a.m. before they arrived for the ceremony. By that time the minister had long gone to bed. It was 4 p.m. Sunday before another preacher could be found to perform the wedding. After they were married, they had a champagne breakfast and hopped a plane back to Los Angeles so Holden and Donlevy could wrap up shooting, and Brenda was off to Canada to film some location footage. It would be three more months before they would have a real honeymoon. (One mishap after another postponed it, including the two of them having to undergo emergency appendectomies!)<br />
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Holden did not legally change his name from Beedle until he joined the USAAF in 1942.<br />
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For a time in 1943, Holden shared an apartment in Ft. Worth, Texas with baseball superstar Hank Greenberg while both of them were serving stateside in WWII.<br />
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Although it is thought by some that J.D. Salinger got the name for his hero Holden Caulfield in <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> when he saw a marquee for <i>Dear Ruth</i> (1947), starring William Holden and Joan Caulfield, Salinger's first Holden Caulfield story, "I'm Crazy," appeared in <i>Collier's</i> on December 22, 1945, a year and a half before this movie came out.<br />
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Considered himself to be a moderate Republican, although he was never involved in any political campaigns and never endorsed a candidate. In 1947 he joined the Committee for the First Amendment to oppose blacklisting in Hollywood, and was later very upset by the blacklisting of his close friends Dalton Trumbo and Larry Parks.<br />
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Holden starred alongside Gloria Swanson in <i>Sunset Blvd</i>. (1950) and Judy Holliday in <i>Born Yesterday</i> (1950). Both actresses were nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for their performances in these films. Holliday won.<br />
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Holden acted with wife Brenda Marshall professionally for the only time in a December 9, 1951 <i>Theatre Guild on the Air</i> production of "The Lost Weekend."<br />
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He was the best man at Ronald and Nancy Reagan's wedding in 1952.<br />
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He won Best Actor for his role in <i>Stalag 17</i> (1953). When accepting his statue at the Academy Awards, he simply stated, "Thank you."<br />
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He felt he didn't deserve the Academy Award for Best Actor for <i>Stalag 17</i> (1953), and that the award should have gone to Burt Lancaster for <i>From Here to Eternity</i> (1953). His wife also felt that the honor was just a belated apology for snubbing his nomination for <i>Sunset Blvd</i>. (1950).<br />
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Holden starred alongside Grace Kelly in <i>The Country Girl</i> (1954) and Audrey Hepburn in <i>Sabrina</i> (1954). Both actresses were nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for their performances in these films. Kelly won.<br />
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A Japanophile, he befriended actor Toshirô Mifune on a visit to Japan in 1954. After seeing the film Mifune was working on at that time, <i>Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto</i> (1954), Holden offered to distribute the film in America. The producers agreed to let Holden record a narration to explain the film when it was released in America. This addition led American critics to wrongly think that Holden had recut the film for American distribution.<br />
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He turned down Henry Fonda's role in <i>Mister Roberts</i> (1955).<br />
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<i>Toward the Unknown</i> (1956) was the only movie made by his production company, "Toluca Productions."<br />
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He was originally cast for the lead in <i>The Rainmaker</i> (1956). The role was eventually played by Burt Lancaster.<br />
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He turned down Marlon Brando's role in <i>Sayonara</i> (1957) in order to make <i>The Bridge on the River Kwai</i> (1957).<br />
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For <i>The Horse Soldiers</i> (1959), both Holden and John Wayne received $775,000 plus 20% of the overall profits, an unheard-of sum for that time. The final contract, heralded as marking the beginning of megadeals for Hollywood stars, involved six companies and numbered twice the pages of the movie's script. The film, however, was a critical and commercial failure, with no profits to be shared in the end.<br />
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He was considered for the role of "Maurice Novak" in <i>Career</i> (1959).<br />
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He turned down <i>The Guns of Navarone</i> (1961) because producer Carl Foreman wouldn't meet his fee of $750,000 plus 20% of the gross.<br />
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He was a favorite actor of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy but disappointed her immensely when she discovered he was a Republican.<br />
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Holden was cast as Pike Bishop in <i>The Wild Bunch</i> (1969) after the role had been turned down by Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone, and Robert Mitchum. Marvin actually accepted the role but pulled out after he was offered a larger pay deal to star in <i>Paint Your Wagon</i> (1969).<br />
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He appeared in nine films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: <i>Our Town</i> (1940), <i>Born Yesterday</i> (1950), <i>Sunset Blvd</i>. (1950), <i>The Country Girl</i> (1954), <i>Picnic</i> (1955), <i>Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing</i> (1955), <i>The Bridge on the River Kwai</i> (1957), <i>The Towering Inferno </i>(1974), and <i>Network</i> (1976). Of those, only <i>The Bridge on the River Kwai</i> (1957) won in the category.<br />
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On the American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends list, Holden was the Male Legend No. 25.<br />
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He was voted the 63rd Greatest Movie Star of all-time by Entertainment Weekly.<br />
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He was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History (No. 57).<br />
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He appeared among the top ten box office stars six times, as ranked by Quigley Publications' annual poll of movie exhibitors, The Top Ten Money-Making Stars, the definitive list of movie stars' pull at the box office. He actually topped the list in 1956, two years after entering it at No. 7 in 1954, the year he won the Best Actor Oscar with his performance in Stalag 17 (1953). In 1955, he was ranked No. 4, then hit No. 1 for the first and only time in 1956, and then dropped to No. 7 in 1957 before rebounding slightly to No. 6 in 1958. After five straight years in the Top 10, he dropped off the list in 1959 and 1960, but reappeared in the Top Ten in 1961, ranked in eighth place. His 1961 appearance among the Top Ten Box Office stars was his last.<br />
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He moved to Switzerland for tax reasons in 1959, and did not return to live in Hollywood until 1967.<br />
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He was involved in a horrific road accident in Italy in July 1966. Holden killed another driver in a drunk driving incident for which he received an eight-month suspended sentence.<br />
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Holden said that, at some point, he lost his passion for acting and that it eventually just became a job so that he could support himself.<br />
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In the last years of his life he increasingly suffered from emphysema.<br />
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Held a press conference in late 1980 to deny newspaper reports that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer.<br />
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Although married to Brenda Marshall for over 30 years, they were actually separated for most of their marriage. At the time of his death, he was the companion of Patricia Stauffer.<br />
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Was an avid art collector. His private collection at his exclusive hilltop home in Palm Springs featured antique Asian art. Upon his death, the priceless collection was donated to the Palm Springs Museum of Art, where it is proudly displayed today.<br />
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Holden bequeathed $250,000 to lover Stefanie Powers, $50,000 to former co-star and lover Capucine, and $50,000 to lover Patricia Stauffer. The bulk of his estate was divided between ex-wife Brenda Marshall, their two sons, his stepdaughter, his sister-in-law, and his mother.<br />
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<i>HR</i> reported that Holden had signed to play the coach in <i>That Championship Season</i> (1982), but his death precluded that, and he was replaced by Robert Mitchum. Holden had also agreed to co-star with old friend Glenn Ford in "Dime Novel Sunset," which was never made.<br />
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Billy Wilder on Holden's death: "If someone had said to me, 'Holden's dead,' I would have assumed that he had been gored by a water buffalo in Kenya, that he had died in a plane crash approaching Hong Kong, that a crazed, jealous woman had shot him, and he drowned in a swimming pool. But to be killed by a bottle of vodka and a night table---what a lousy fade-out of a great guy!"<br />
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His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.<br />
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Please read about the history of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation by <a href="http://whwf.org/history.html" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. Also, please consider a donation in his memory.<br />
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<b><i>Apartment for Peggy</i></b> is a 1948 American comedy-drama film about a depressed professor whose spirits are lifted when he rents part of his home to a young couple. It was based on the novelette <i>An Apartment for Jenny</i> by Faith Baldwin in <i>Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan</i> (March 1947). Campus exteriors were filmed at the University of Nevada, Reno.<br />
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<i>Apartment for Peggy</i> does the handy trick of being very evocative of the 1940s while being rooted in the timeless theme of people finding a common ground despite their differences. I believe it's ripe for rediscovery.<br />
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Starring Jeanne Crain, William Holden and Edmund Gwenn, <i>Apartment for Peggy</i> is fascinating just from a historic angle, as a relatively realistic look at people coming together during America's World War II-era housing shortage. Although produced on a modest budget, the film was photographed in Technicolor with an autumnal-toned palette which enhance its peculiar 1940s ambiance.<br />
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<b>Written for the Screen by</b>: George Seaton<br />
<b>From a Novelette by</b>: Faith Baldwin - <i>An Apartment for Jenny</i><br />
<b>Color by</b>: Technicolor<br />
<b>Technicolor Color Director</b>: Natalie Kalmus <b>Associate</b>: Clemens Finley<br />
<b>Sound Mix</b>: Mono (Western Electric Recording)<br />
<b>Runtime</b>: 96 minutes<br />
<b>Production Dates</b>: Late December 1947 to mid-March 1948<br />
<b>Release Date</b>: October 1, 1948<br />
<b>Music</b>: David Raksin<br />
<b>Musical Direction</b>: Lionel Newman<br />
<b>Orchestral Arrangements</b>: Herbert Spencer, Maurice dePackh, Edward Powell, Urban Thielman, John N. Scott<br />
<b>Director of Photography</b>: Harry Jackson<br />
<b>Art Direction</b>: Lyle Wheeler and Richard Irvine<br />
<b>Set Decorations</b>: Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott<br />
<b>Film Editor</b>: Robert Simpson<br />
<b>Wardrobe Direction</b>: Charles Le Maire<br />
<b>Costumes Designed by</b>: Kay Nelson<br />
<b>Makeup Artists</b>: Ben Nye, Ernie Parks, William Riddle<br />
<b>Hair Stylist</b>: Kay Reed<br />
<b>Special Photographic Effects</b>: Fred Sersen<br />
<b>Sound</b>: E. Clayton Ward and Roger Heman<br />
<b>Produced by</b>: William Perlberg and Darryl F. Zanuck<br />
<b>Production and Distribution Company</b>: 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation<br />
<b>Directed by</b>: George Seaton<br />
<b>Music</b>: Selections from Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Third Movement, First Theme by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Listen to it on the player below. For the production, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet was rearranged for a sextet by Edward Powell and Urban Thielman, with a flute playing the clarinet part.<br />
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<b>Songs</b>:<br />
"Hail to Thee, Dear Alma Mater" - Music by H.S. Thompson - Special Lyrics by Charles Henderson<br />
"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" from <i>The Bohemian Girl</i> - Music by Michael William Balfe - Lyrics by Alfred Bunn - Sung by Jeanne Crain (dubbed by Louanne Hogan)<br />
"Honey" - Music by Richard A. Whiting - Played when Prof. Barnes seeks a will.<br />
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" - Music by Gus Edwards - Played at the beginning of the used car lot scene.<br />
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<b>Credited Cast</b>:<br />
Jeanne Crain as Peggy Taylor<br />
William Holden as Jason Taylor<br />
Edmund Gwenn as Prof. Henry Barnes<br />
Gene Lockhart as Prof. Edward Bell<br />
Griff Barnett as Dr. Philip Conway<br />
Randy Stuart as Dorothy<br />
Betty Ann Lynn as Wife<br />
Marion Marshall as Ruth<br />
Pati Behrs as Jeanne<br />
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<b>Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically</b>:<br />
Robert Adler as Mailman (uncredited)<br />
Ronald Burns as Delivery Boy (uncredited)<br />
Hal K. Dawson as Salesman (uncredited)<br />
Helen Ford as Della (uncredited)<br />
Paul Frison as Boy (uncredited)<br />
Charles Lane as Prof. Collins (uncredited)<br />
Henri Letondal as Prof. Roland Pavin (uncredited)<br />
Therese Lyon as Nurse (uncredited)<br />
Gene Nelson as Jerry (uncredited)<br />
Robert Patten as Student (uncredited)<br />
Crystal Reeves as Librarian (uncredited)<br />
Frank J. Scannell as Salesman (uncredited)<br />
Almira Sessions as Mrs. Landon (uncredited)<br />
Ann Staunton as Nurse (uncredited)<br />
Houseley Stevenson as Prof. T.J. Beck (uncredited)<br />
Ray Walker as Carson (uncredited)<br />
Robert Williams as Salesman (uncredited)<br />
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Professor Henry Barnes, a widower who has been retired from a Midwestern university for eight years, telephones his close friend and fellow chamber music performer, law professor Edward Bell, and asks him to come see him. Henry explains that he needs help preparing his will as he intends to commit suicide. Although Edward rushes over and tells Henry all the reasons why he should not take his own life, Henry continues to feel he no longer is of any use to society. Edward points out that Henry has a lifetime of knowledge to impart via his writings, but Henry declares that when he completes his latest book in three weeks, he will do away with himself. When Edward relates this to his colleagues and fellow chamber music players, they are horrified. One of them, Philip Conway, a medical doctor, arranges to examine Henry and finds him in excellent health and not depressed or bitter. Henry tells Conway that he had a wonderful marriage and, although their son was lost in the war, has had a full and satisfying life. Henry claims that he has not been sleeping well and asks Conway for sleeping pills, but the doctor gives him only two. Later, while Henry is feeding pigeons in the park, young Peggy Taylor sits down on the bench beside him. She tells him that she and Jason, her husband who is studying chemistry on the G.I. Bill, have been looking for an apartment and are expecting a baby. Henry offers to mention their predicament to Edward, who is also the university housing administrator. After a philosophical conversation with Peggy about the pros and cons of suicide, Henry ponders whether he is really "living now." When Edward reveals that during the war two soldiers were temporarily billeted in Henry's attic, the effervescent and determined Peggy goes to Henry's house and talks him into letting her and Jason move into his attic. The couple causes some havoc in Henry's life, blowing fuses, interfering with his writing and adopting a dog, and Henry finds himself calling Philip for more sleeping pills. Peggy and Jason invite Henry to see what they have done to the attic, and he is amazed by the transformation. Over a cup of tea, Jason tells Henry he wants to be a teacher. Later, Peggy does some household chores for Henry and tells him about the gulf in education between G.I. husbands and wives. Peggy maintains that the wives need overview classes so that they can help their husbands, and has suggested to the university that Henry organize such courses. He protests, saying he wants to finish his book but, a few days later, finds himself in a converted Quonset hut in front of a large group of students' wives presenting a lecture on the basics of philosophy. The class is very successful, and Henry takes a new lease on life. When Jason discovers that Peggy hasn't been taking vitamin pills because they don't have enough money to buy them, he talks about quitting school and getting a job. As Jason is telling his chemistry professor that he is going to have to leave school, he is summoned to the the hospital and learns that Peggy has given birth prematurely and the baby has died. While Jason and Henry walk home, Jason asks him, "Why?" but Henry cannot answer. Later, when Henry visits Peggy in the hospital, he finds her in good spirits and tells her that a life wasn't lost, but merely exchanged, as she has saved him from suicide. Jason then leaves for Chicago to take a job selling cars, intending to send for Peggy later. Henry goes to see him at the used car lot and informs him that he can be reinstated and given a job as a teaching assistant, but Jason feels that a teaching job will not be enough for him. Back home, Henry discovers that Peggy plans to go to live with her sister. Unknown to Henry and Peggy, Jason has returned to take the make-up exams and, with the help of Henry's colleagues, passes all but still has to face chemistry. After Henry grows very despondent because Peggy and Jason are apart, and downs several of Philip's pills, Peggy tells his friends that he has taken a a lot of sleeping pills. The doctor, however, informs them that what he prescribed were not sleeping pills but pills that will merely make him slightly uncomfortable. Meanwhile, Peggy is walking Henry back and forth and filling him full of coffee when Jason comes home. Henry explains that he took the pills because they are leaving him. Jason challenges Henry to pull himself together by saying that he can think of many fellows, including Henry's son, who would like to have had the choice he has now. Moved by Jason's words, Henry gets up and starts walking on his own. Later, Henry changes the living arrangements in the house to give the couple more space. The chamber music group is performing once again in Henry's parlor when Peggy and Jason announce that they are going to try to have another baby.<br />
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A working title of the film was <i>Apartment for Susie</i>.<br />
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According to documents in the 20th Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department and the 20th Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts--Special Collections Library, the studio purchased rights to Faith Baldwin's novelette in April 1947 for $10,000.<br />
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Exteriors were shot at the University of Nevada, Reno, in early February 1948.<br />
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The legal records suggest that the production may have taken a hiatus for two to three weeks in January.<br />
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Griff Barnett replaced Lee J. Cobb in the role of "Dr. Philip Conway."<br />
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Sequences featuring Ray Walker as the manager of the used car lot and Crystal Reeves as a librarian appear to have been shot but were eliminated from the final film.<br />
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Jeanne Crain was the devoutly Catholic mother of seven.<br />
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Edmund Gwenn is the only actor to win an Oscar for playing Santa Claus.<br />
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Gene Lockhart wrote the words to the song "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" which became a huge post-WWI hit. It was later recorded by Ted Lewis, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington; a version by Les Paul and Mary Ford became a million seller in 1951.<br />
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Griff Barnett frequently played doctors or lawyers.<br />
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Randy Stuart's best-remembered role is Louise Carey, the concerned wife of Scott Carey, played by Grant Williams, in the cult sci-fier The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).<br />
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Betty Lynn played Thelma Lou (Barney Fife's girlfriend) on The Andy Griffith Show.<br />
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Marion Marshall was married to Stanley Donen and Robert Wagner.<br />
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Pati Behrs was a prima ballerina and a grandniece of Leo Tolstoy. She may be best known as the first of John Derek's wives.<br />
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A radio adaptation of the screenplay was performed twice on <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>, first on February 28, 1949 with Jeanne Crain, William Holden and Edmund Gwenn, and on December 4, 1950 with Crain and William Lundigan.<br />
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Versions were also broadcast on the <i>Screen Directors Playhouse</i> on September 2, 1949 and on <i>The Screen Guild Theater</i> on May 31, 1951.<br />
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"Apartment for Peggy" on <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>: February 28, 1949 - Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Griff Barnett, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Howard McNear, Herbert Butterfield<br />
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Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-11740815747201831062016-04-08T00:22:00.000-04:002016-04-08T00:45:25.932-04:00The Beyond the Cover: Books to Film Blogathon - Blood and Sand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Liz and Kristina for hosting a blogathon that celebrates cinematic adaptations of the written word. Please visit their fine blogs: Liz = <a href="https://nowvoyaging.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Now, Voyaging</a> and Kristina = <a href="https://hqofk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Speakeasy</a>.<br />
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I'll be focusing on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's <b><i>Sangre y arena</i></b> (<b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b>, 1908), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to celebrity as a matador in Madrid, where he falls under the spell of the seductive Doña Sol, which leads to his downfall. In 1916, Ibáñez directed a 65-minute film version with the help of Max André. This version was restored in 1998 by the Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana (Spain). There are three remakes made in 1922, 1941 and 1989, respectively. I'll be examining the 1922 and 1941 film versions.<br />
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<b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b> (1922) is an American silent drama film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, and Nita Naldi. <b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b> (1941) is a Technicolor film produced by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, and Alla Nazimova.<br />
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<b>Vicente Blasco Ibáñez</b>, (born January 29, 1867, Valencia, Spain—died January 28, 1928, Menton, France), was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works.<br />
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His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, <i>El Pueblo</i> (translated as either <i>The Town</i> or <i>The People)</i> in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs.<br />
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Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved to Paris, France at the beginning of World War I.</div>
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He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I.</div>
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He died in Menton, France, the day before his 61st birthday, in the residence of Fontana Rosa (also named the House of Writers, dedicated to Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac) that he built.</div>
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Other than the previously mentioned film versions of <i>Blood and Sand</i>, his greatest personal success probably came from the novel <i>Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis</i> (<i>The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</i>) (1916), which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian landowner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War. When this was filmed by Rex Ingram in 1921, it became the vehicle that propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom. The 1962 film takes place during World War II, rather than World War I.</div>
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In 1926, Rex Ingram filmed <i>Mare Nostrum</i> (Latin for "Our Sea"), a spy story from 1918, as a vehicle for his wife Alice Terry at his MGM studio in Nice. Michael Powell claimed in his memoirs that he had his first experience of working in films on that production. A second film version of <i>Mare Nostrum</i>, this one a sound film, was made in Spanish in 1948. It starred Fernando Rey and María Félix, and was directed by Rafael Gil.</div>
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A further two Hollywood films can be singled out, as they were the first films that were made by Greta Garbo following her arrival at MGM in Hollywood: <i>The Torrent</i> (based on <i>Entre naranjos</i> from 1900), and <i>The Temptress</i> (derived from <i>La tierra de todos</i> from 1922).</div>
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<b>Blasco Ibáñez and <i>Sangre y arena</i></b></div>
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One of the secrets of the immense power exercised by the novels of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is that they are literary projections of his dynamic personality. Not only the style, but the book, is here the man.</div>
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In <b><i>Sangre y arena</i></b> (<b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b>, written in 1908) Blasco Ibáñez attacks the Spanish national sport. With characteristic thoroughness, approaching his subject from the psychological, the historical, the national, the humane, the dramatic and narrative standpoint, he evolves another of his notable documents, worthy of a place among the great tracts of literary history. </div>
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His process, like his plot, is simple; whether attacking the Church or the evils of drink, or the bloodlust of the bullring, his methods are usually the same. He provides a protagonist who shall serve as the vehicle or symbol of his ideas, surrounding him with minor personages intended to serve as a foil or as a prop. He fills in the background with all the wealth of descriptive and coloring powers at his command—and these powers are as highly developed in Ibáñez, I believe, as in any exceptional writer. The beauty of Blasco Ibanez's descriptions—a beauty by no means confined to the pictures he summons to the mind—is that, at their best, they rise to interpretation. He not only brings before the eye a vivid image, but communicates to the spirit an intellectual reaction. Here he is the master who penetrates beyond the exterior into the inner significance; the reader is carried into the swirl of the action itself, for the magic of the author's pen imparts a sense of palpitant actuality; you are yourself a soldier at the Marne, you fairly drown with Ulysses in his beloved Mediterranean, you defend the besieged city of Saguntum, you pant with the swordsman in the bloody arena. This gift of imparting actuality to his scenes is but another evidence of the Spaniard's dynamic personality; he lives his actions so thoroughly that we live them with him; his gift of second sight gives us the ability to see beyond amphitheaters of blood and sand into national character, beyond a village struggle into the vexed problem of land, labor and property. Against this type of background develops the characteristic Ibáñez plot, by no means lacking intimate interest, yet beginning somewhat slowly and gathering the irresistible momentum of a powerful body. </div>
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Juan Gallardo, the hero of <b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b>, has from earliest childhood exhibited a natural aptitude for the bullring. He is aided in his career by interested parties, and soon jumps to the forefront of his idolized profession, without having to thread his way arduously up the steep ascent of the bullfighters' hierarchy. Fame and fortune come to him, and he is able to gratify the desires of his early days, as if the mirage of hunger and desire had suddenly been converted into dazzling reality. He lavishes largess upon his mother and his childless wife, and there comes, too, a love out of wedlock.</div>
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But neither his powers nor his fame can last forever. The life of even Juan Gallardo is taken into his hands every time he steps into the ring to face the wild bulls; at first comes a minor accident, then a loss of prestige, and at last the fatal day upon which he is carried out of the arena, dead. He dies a victim of his own glory, a sacrifice upon the altar of national bloodlust. That Doña Sol who lures him from his wife and home is, in her capricious, fascinating, baffling way, almost a symbol of the fickle bullfight audience, now hymning the praises of a favorite, now sneering him off the scene of his former triumphs. </div>
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The tale is more than a colorful, absorbing story of love and struggle. It is a stinging indictment brought against the author's countrymen, thrown in their faces with dauntless acrimony. He shows us the glory of the arena, —the movement, the color, the mastery of the skilled performers, —and he reveals, too, the sickening other side. In successive pictures he mirrors the thousands that flock to the bullfights, reaching a tremendous climax in the closing words of the tale. The popular hero has just been gored to death, but the crowd, knowing that the spectacle is less than half over, sets up yells for the continuance of the performance. In the bellowing of the mob Blasco Ibáñez divines the howl of the real and only animals. Not the sacrificial bulls, but the howling, bloodthirsty assembly is the genuine beast! </div>
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The volume is rich in significant detail, both as regards the master's peculiar powers and his views as expressed in other words. Once again we meet the author's determination to be just to all concerned. Through Dr. Ruiz, for example, a medical enthusiast over tauromachy, we receive what amounts to a lecture upon the evolution of the brutal sport. He looks upon bullfighting as the historical substitute for the Inquisition, which was in itself a great national festival. He is ready to admit, too, that the bullfight is a barbarous institution, but calls to your attention that it is by no means the only one in the world. In the turning of the people to violent, savage forms of amusement he beholds a universal ailment. And when Dr. Ruiz expresses his disgust at seeing foreigners turn eyes of contempt upon Spain because of the bullfight, he no doubt speaks for Blasco Ibáñez. The enthusiastic physician points out that horse racing is more cruel than bullfighting, and kills many more men; that the spectacle of fox hunting with trained dogs is hardly a sight for civilized onlookers; that there is more than one modern game out of which the participants emerge with broken legs, fractured skulls, flattened noses and what not; and how about the duel, often fought with only an unhealthy desire for publicity as the genuine cause? </div>
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Thus, through the Doctor, the Spaniard states the other side of the case, saying, in effect, to the foreign reader, "Yes, I am upbraiding my countrymen for the national vice that they are pleased to call a sport. That is my right as a Spaniard who loves his country and as a human being who loves his race. But do not forget that you have institutions little less barbarous, and before you grow too excited in your desire to remove the mote from our eye, see to it that you remove your own, for it is there." </div>
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Juan Gallardo is not one of the impossible heroes that crowd the pages of fiction; to me he is a more successful portrait than, for example, Gabriel Luna of <i>The Shadow of the Cathedral</i>. There is a certain rigidity in Luna's make-up, due perhaps to his unbending certainty in matters of belief, —for to be exact, matters of unbelief. This is felt even in his moments of love, although that may be accounted for by the vicissitudes of his wandering existence and the illness with which it has left him. Gallardo is somehow more human; he is not a matinee hero; he knows what it is to quake with fear before he enters the ring; he comes to a realization of what his position has cost him; he impresses us not only as a powerful type, but as a flesh and blood creature. And his end, like that of so many of the author's protagonists, comes about much in the nature of a retribution. He dies at the hands of the thing he loves, on the stage of his triumphs. And while I am on the subject of the hero's death, let me suggest that Blasco Ibáñez's numerous death scenes often attain a rare height of artistry and poetry, —for, strange as it may seem to some, there is a poet hidden in the noted Spaniard, a poet of vast conception, of deep communion with the interplay of Nature and her creatures, of vision that becomes symbolic. Recall the death of the Centaur Madariaga in <i>The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</i>, dashing upon his beloved steed, like a Mazeppa of the South American plains, straight into eternity; read the remarkable passages portraying the deaths of Triton and Ulysses in <i>Mare Nostrum</i>; consider the deeply underlying connotation of Gabriel Luna's fate. These are not mere dyings; they are apotheoses. </div>
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Doña Sol belongs to the author's siren types; she is an early sister of Freya, the German spy who leads to the undoing of Ulysses in Mare Nostrum. She is one of the many proofs that Blasco Ibáñez, in his portrayals of the worldly woman, seizes upon typical rather than individual traits; she puzzles the reader quite as much as she confuses her passionate lover. And she is no more loyal to him than is the worshipping crowd that at last, in her presence, dethrones its former idol. </div>
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Among the secondary characters, as interesting as any, is the friend of Juan who is nicknamed Nacional, because of his radical political notions. Nacional does not drink wine; to him wine was responsible for the failure of the laboring class, a point of view which the author had already enunciated three years earlier in <i>La Bodega</i>; similar to the role played by drink is that of illiteracy, and here, too, Nacional feels the terrible burdens imposed upon the common people by lack of education. Indicative of the author's sympathies is also his strange bandit Plumitas, a sort of Robin Hood who robs from the rich and succors the poor. The humorous figure of the bullfighter's brother-in-law suggests the horde of sycophants that always manage to attach themselves to a noted—and generous—public personage. </div>
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The dominant impression that the book leaves upon me is one of power, —crushing, implacable power. The author's paragraphs and chapters often seem hewn out of rock and solidly massed one upon the other in the rearing of an impregnable structure. And just as these chapters are massed into a temple of passionate protest, so the entire works of Blasco Ibáñez attain an architectural unity in which not the least of the elements are a flaming nobility of purpose and a powerful directness of aim.</div>
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<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33799/33799-h/33799-h.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read <b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b>. Illustrators: Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney, Translator: Frances Douglas, Publisher: A. C. McClurg & Co. - Chicago, Illinois, Publication Date: November 1911.<br />
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<b><i>Blood and Sand</i></b> (1922) is an American silent drama film starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, and Nita Naldi. It's based on the novel <i>Sangre y arena</i> by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Madrid, 1908) and the play <i>Blood and Sand</i> by Tom Cushing (New York, September 20, 1921).<br />
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<b>Producers</b>: Jesse L. Lasky and Fred Niblo<br />
<b>Produced and Distributed by</b>: Paramount Pictures (as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation)<br />
<b>Directors</b>: Fred Niblo, Javier Elorrieta, Dorothy Arzner, Frank Fouce<br />
<b>Screenplay by</b>: June Mathis, Ricardo Franco, Rafael Azcona, Thomas A. Fucci<br />
<b>Story by:</b> Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (novel), Tom Cushing (play)<br />
<b>Film Editing by</b>: Dorothy Arzner<br />
<b>Cinematography by</b>: Alvin Wyckoff<br />
<b>Makeup by</b>: Monte Westmore<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<b>Music composed by</b>: Paco de Lucía, Jesús Glück Sarasibar<br />
<b>Premiere</b>: August 5, 1922<br />
<b>Release Date</b>: September 10, 1922<br />
<b>Runtime</b>: 80 minutes and 108 minutes (Kino Print)<br />
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Rosa Rosanova ... Angustias (as Rose Rosanova)<br />
Rudolph Valentino ... Juan Gallardo (as Rodolph Valentino)<br />
Nita Naldi ... Doña Sol<br />
Leo White ... Antonio<br />
Lila Lee ... Carmen<br />
Rosita Marstini ... Encarnacion<br />
Charles Belcher<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>... Don Joselito<br />
Fred Becker ... Don José<br />
George Field ... El Nacional<br />
Jack Winn ... Potaje<br />
Harry Lamont ... Puntillero<br />
Gilbert Clayton ... Garabato<br />
Walter Long ... Plumitas<br />
George Periolat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>... Marquis of Guevera<br />
Sidney De Gray ... Dr. Ruiz<br />
Dorcas Matthews ... Señora Nacional<br />
W.E. Lawrence ... Fuentes (as William Lawrence)<br />
Rafael Negrete ... Violinist<br />
Louise Emmons ... Old woman<br />
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A young matador, Juan Gallardo, marries Carmen, his childhood sweetheart, while achieving fame throughout Spain. He is happy but succumbs, nevertheless, to the passionate charms of Doña Sol. Carmen accepts the situation but comes to nurse Juan when he is gored. Though his skill has diminished, he refuses her pleas that he quit the bullring; and he meets disaster when, distracted by the sight of a handsome young stranger with Doña Sol at a bullfight, he fails to defend himself from the first charge of the bull. Juan dies in Carmen's arms, in the sound of cheers for a new hero, after assuring her that she has always had his love. (In another version Juan recovers and gives up both bullfighting and Doña Sol for good.)<br />
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Rudolph Valentino wanted George Fitzmaurice to direct this film, but the studio forced him to work with the less highly regarded Fred Niblo instead.<br />
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Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova hoped to have the film shot in Spain, but the studio ultimately elected to shoot it on the back lot in Hollywood.<br />
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According to author James Kirkwood, Jr., whose mother Lila Lee played Carmen in this film, Rudolph Valentino liked to eat traditional Italian foods, heavily spiced with garlic. Lee had to ask that her love scenes with Valentino be shot in the morning so she wouldn't have to deal with his garlic breath after lunch.<br />
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Recently introduced laws protecting the safety of animals meant that it was impossible to shoot footage of a real bullfight. Stock footage is used instead.<br />
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Dorothy Arzner impressed the producers by cannily interspersing stock bullfighting footage with shots of Rudolph Valentino to make it look like the actor was actually in the ring with real bulls. This was quite a progressive technique in its day.<br />
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One of the top grossing films of 1922.<br />
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Along with his two 1921 films, <i>The Sheik</i> (1921) and <i>The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</i> (1921), this cemented Rudolph Valentino as a major box office attraction.<br />
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Reportedly one of Rudolph Valentino's favorites of his films.<br />
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The film gave its name to a popular Prohibition-era cocktail.<br />
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<b>Blood and Sand</b> is one of the few classic mixed drinks that includes Scotch. The red juice of the blood orange in the drink helped link it with the film. The recipe is first known to have appeared in the 1930 <i>Savoy Cocktail Book</i>.<br />
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3/4 ounce sweet vermouth<br />
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A variant is to combine all ingredients in a collins glass, add another splash of orange juice then flame the zest over it.<br />
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1 1/2 ounces blended Scotch<br />
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<b><i>Blood and Sand</i> (1941)</b> is a Technicolor film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by 20th Century-Fox, and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, and Alla Nazimova. It is based on the critical 1908 Spanish novel about bullfighting, <i>Blood and Sand</i> (<i>Sangre y arena</i>), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The supporting cast features Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Lynn Bari, and Laird Cregar.</div>
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<b>Producers</b>: Darryl F. Zanuck and Robert T. Kane</div>
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<b>Produced by</b>: 20th Century-Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck Productions</div>
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<b>Distributed by</b>: 20th Century-Fox</div>
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<b>Directors</b>: Rouben Mamoulian, Robert Webb, Sidney Bowen, Henry Weinberger </div>
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<b>Screenplay by</b>: Jo Swerling</div>
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<b>Story by</b>: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (<i>Sangre y arena</i>, Madrid, 1908)</div>
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<b>Film Editing by</b>: Robert Bischoff</div>
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<b>Cinematography by</b>: Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan</div>
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<b>Art Direction by</b>: Joseph C. Wright and Richard Day</div>
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<b>Set Decoration by</b>: Thomas Little</div>
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<b>Music by</b>: Alfred Newman, Vincente Gomez (guitarist), José Barroso (arranger)</div>
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<b>Music</b>: "El Albaicin" and "Gloria Torera" by Vicente Gomez.</div>
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<b>Songs</b>: "Tu no te llamas," music and lyrics by Fortunio Bonanova; "Chi-Qui-Chi," music and lyrics by Vicente Gomez and Abe Tuvim; "Romance de amor," "Verde luna" and "Saeta," music and lyrics by Vicente Gomez.</div>
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<b>Sound by</b>: W. D. Flick and Roger Heman</div>
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<b>Costumes</b>: Travis Banton, Jewels by Flato, Jose Dolores Perez (Tailor of torero suits)</div>
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<b>Choreography by</b>: Geneva Sawyer and Hermes Pan with technical advisor: Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr.</div>
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<b>Stand In</b>: Armillita (Bullfighting double for Tyrone Power)</div>
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<b>Premiere</b>: May 22, 1941</div>
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<b>Release Date</b>: May 30, 1941</div>
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<b>Runtime</b>: 123 or 125 minutes</div>
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<b>Sound Mix</b>: Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)</div>
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<b>Color</b>: Technicolor - Technical Advisor - Natalie Kalmus</div>
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Young Juan Gallardo sneaks out of his room to survey the Seville nightlife and goes to a cantina, where noted bullfight critic Natalio Curro is praising Garabato, the current favorite of the ring. When Curro disparages Juan's father, a matador who died fighting, the youngster hits him over the head with a bottle and starts a brawl. Escaping the cantina, Juan goes to the ranch owned by Don Jose Alvarez, where he practices fighting one of the bulls. Don Jose is impressed by the boy's courage, but his servant, Pedro Espinosa, is angry, having warned Juan before about tiring the bulls. Juan accepts Don Jose's praise, then goes to see Pedro's daughter Carmen. Juan tells his sweetheart that he is leaving the next day for Madrid with his friends, Manolo de Palma, Pablo Gomez, Luis Potaje and Sebastian, to learn to be a matador. Juan promises to return to marry Carmen, and the next day, takes leave of his mother, Señora Augustias, who denounces Juan's dangerous aspirations. Juan and his friends travel to Madrid, where they spend the next ten years training as bullfighters. On the train returning to Seville, Sebastian, who is now known as Nacional, bemoans the fact that he and his friends are illiterate and uneducated, while Manolo jealously declares that Juan has taken most of the glory and money for himself. After a fiesta celebrating his return, Juan is approached by Garabato, who is now destitute. Juan hires Garabato as a servant, then finds Carmen and gives her a wedding dress. The couple are married, and during the next two years, Juan becomes a great matador. On the day Juan makes his first formal appearance in Seville, the audience contains a beautiful and infamous temptress, Doña Sol de Muira, about whom Curro declares: If bullfighting "is death in the afternoon, she is death in the evening." The doña is excited by Juan's style, and he is so captivated by her that he throws her his mantera. The next evening, Juan dines at Doña Sol's house, and Captain Pierre Lauren, her current favorite, realizes that he has been replaced in her affections and returns her ring. Juan spends the night with the doña, and the next morning, when he gives Carmen a necklace and tells her that she is "the only true one in the world," he is wearing the doña's ring. Soon it becomes obvious to everyone that Juan has fallen under Doña Sol's spell as he neglects Carmen and his training. Although Carmen defends her husband against his detractors, she leaves him after she visits the doña to discuss the situation and sees Juan kissing her. Soon Juan's dissipation increases and he loses both Garabato, who goes to work for Manolo, and Don Jose, who quits as his manager. Nacional sticks by his boyhood friend even though he says that Doña Sol has stolen his killer instinct, and at Juan's next fight, his incompetence results in Nacional's death. As Juan's fortunes decline, Manolo's star rises, and one day, Juan and the doña see him in the cantina. Doña Sol, attracted by Manolo's brutish charm, dances with him, and Juan angrily throws away her ring, realizing that he has lost her. Just before his next fight, Juan sees Carmen praying in the arena chapel. The devoted wife tells Juan that she has never stopped loving him, and only left to wait for his sickness to pass. Re-energized by Carmen's love, Juan promises that this will be his last fight and that the two of them will then settle down on a ranch. Juan fights with his old fire, and the crowd shouts its approval. He removes his attention from the bull too soon, however, and is gored. Carmen waits in the chapel as Juan is brought in and comforts him as he dies, then tells the priest that Juan's courage will always be with her. In the arena, the crowd has already forgotten Juan and is wildly cheering Manolo, who takes his bows near a stain of Juan's blood in the sand.<br />
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According to information in the 20th Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection, located at the UCLA Arts<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>Special Collections Library, Hedy Lamarr was considered for the part of "Doña Sol." A January 20, 1941 news item reported that after M-G-M refused to loan Lamarr to 20th Century-Fox for the role, Mona Maris was tested for it. On January 29, 1941, it was announced that Lynn Bari, who appears in the finished film as "Encarnacion," was assigned "to the role for which the studio tried to borrow" Lamarr. Modern sources note that Carole Landis, Jane Russell, Gene Tierney, Dorothy Lamour and Maria Montez were also considered for the part of "Doña Sol," for which Rita Hayworth was borrowed from Columbia.<br />
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In February 1941, news items noted that Patricia Morison, a Paramount contract player, was being tested for "one of the top roles," and that Sigrid Gurie was also tested for the film. Neither actress appears in the completed picture, however.<br />
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According to a November 27, 1940 news item, Cesar Romero was set for a role in the picture and was to receive co-star billing with Tyrone Power.<br />
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Although production charts include Alan Curtis in the cast, he was not in the released film.<br />
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According to studio publicity and information in the 20th Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department, also located at UCLA, renowned bullfighter Francisco Gómez Delgado (Armillita) instructed Power and other cast members in bullfighting techniques, as well as serving as Power's double in some of the bullfighting sequences shot on location.<br />
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The legal records note that tailor Jose Dolores Perez made exact copies of two of Armillita's matador suits to be worn as costumes by Power.<br />
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By ancient tradition, the "traje de luces" can be of any color<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>although yellow is widely considered unlucky and rare<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>but the stockings must be pink. When Tyrone Power is wearing his white suit, his stockings are white<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">—</span>probably a costumer's decision.<br />
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Contemporary sources indicate that the bullfighting sequences and other background material were shot on location in Mexico City, although Power was the only cast member involved in the location shooting.<br />
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Although a March 3, 1941 news item announced that a "Spanish bullring yarn" by Fortunio Bonanova, entitled <i>La vida y milagros</i>, was purchased by 20th Century-Fox "as a protective vehicle for possible follow-up with same cast if <i>Blood and Sand</i> proves a smash," Bonanova's novel was not produced as a film.<br />
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An April 11, 1941 news item stated that Bonanova wrote two Spanish songs entitled "Spanish Gypsy Song" and "Flamenco," which were to be sung by him in the picture, but studio records credit Bonanova with contributing only one song, "Tu no te llamas," to the completed picture.<br />
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According to an April 1941 news item, the trailer for the picture was to be the first Technicolor trailer produced by the studio.<br />
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On May 1, 1941, it was announced Zanuck's decision to release the film at its "present length" of 125 minutes, rather than following the original plan to cut it to 90 minutes. The news item also stated that the picture was scheduled "for a sneak preview below the border, probably in Hermosillo, Sonora, to get the reaction of Latin Americans to the film."<br />
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According to a letter in the film's file in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, 20th Century-Fox intended to prepare "a special edition" of the picture for "circulation in South American countries." The purpose of the alternate version was to "include certain bullfighting scenes, which while they would not be acceptable in the American version, will, nevertheless, be accepted in countries where bullfighting is permitted." No other information about an alternate version of the film has been found.<br />
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<i>Blood and Sand</i> received an Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography and nominations for Best Art Direction and Interior Decoration.<br />
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<i>Blood and Sand</i> marked the first film work of technical advisor Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr., who began directing films in the mid-1940s, several of which dealt with bullfighting. According to contemporary sources, Boetticher was in Mexico at the time of filming studying the techniques of bullfighting, which he taught to Power. Along with dance director Geneva Sawyer, Boetticher helped to stage the "El Torero" dance between Hayworth and Anthony Quinn.<br />
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The picture also marked the return to Hollywood of actor/director Monty Banks, who is billed onscreen as William Montague. Although Banks had appeared as an actor in several English productions during the 1930s, his last appearance in an American film had been in the 1928 picture <i>A Perfect Gentleman</i>.<br />
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Modern sources note that Rita Hayworth's singing voice was dubbed by Graciela Párranga.<br />
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It was Rita Hayworth's first Technicolor film.<br />
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Director Rouben Mamoulian based many of the film's color schemes and designs on the works of great Spanish painters such as El Greco and Velasquez.<br />
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During shooting Rouben Mamoulian carried paint spray guns in order to be able to alter the color of props at a moment's notice. He also painted shadows onto walls rather than changing the lighting.<br />
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In order to prepare for the role of Juan Gallardo, Tyrone Power attended a bullfight with his wife, Annabella. Because of Power's great stature as a star, he and his wife were given VIP seats in the center front of the ring. Power became violently ill witnessing the bullfight, and in order to get him out of the arena, Annabella said she was ill.<br />
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' novel was dramatized by Tom Cushing in a play entitled <i>Blood and Sand</i> (New York, 20 Sep 1921). Although 20th Century-Fox purchased the rights to Cushing's play, as well as to the novel, studio records indicate that no material from the play was used in the 1941 film.<br />
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According to studio records, 20th Century-Fox contemplated filming the novel again in 1957, with Sophia Loren in the role of "Doña Sol," but did not due to difficulties in clearing the rights.<br />
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This film was the fourth and last in which Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell worked together, others were: <i>Day-Time Wife</i> (1939), <i>Brigham Young</i> (1940) and <i>The Mark of Zorro</i> (1940).<br />
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A <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i> version of the story was broadcast on October 20, 1941. Listen below.<br />
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"Blood and Sand" on <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>: October 20, 1941 - Tyrone Power, Annabella, Kathleen Fitz, Bea Benaderet, Gale Gordon, Jeff Corey, Lou Merrill<br />
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</div>Meredyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155751185852465011noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384408.post-47204396159056882042016-04-03T02:16:00.003-04:002016-04-03T02:29:54.880-04:00The Bette Davis Blogathon - Old Acquaintance (1943)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thanks to Crystal for hosting the blogathon and inviting me to participate. I love Bette Davis' work. Please visit Crystal's fine blog, <a href="https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood</a>.<br />
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I'll be focusing on Bette Davis and her 1943 film <i>Old Acquaintance.</i> The film also stars Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Phillip Reed, Roscoe Karns, Anne Revere, and Esther Dale. I'm also adding a treat for those who love to listen to Bette's radio work: her performances on <i>Academy Award</i>, <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>, <i>Screen Directors Playhouse</i> and <i>The Screen Guild Theater</i>. :) Listen to the radio programs via the player below.<br />
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<b>Bette Davis Fast Facts</b><br />
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<b>Born</b>: Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts<br />
<b>Died</b>: October 6, 1989 (age 81) in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France (metastasized breast cancer)<br />
<b>Father</b>: Harlow Morrell Davis (March 9, 1885 - January 1, 1938)<br />
<b>Mother</b>: Ruth Augusta Davis (née Favor; September 16, 1885 - July 1, 1961)<br />
<b>Sister</b>: Barbara Harriett "Bobby" Davis Berry (October 25, 1909 - July 19, 1979)<br />
<b>Husbands</b>:<br />
Harmon Nelson (August 18, 1932 - December 6, 1938) (divorced)<br />
Arthur Farnsworth (December 31, 1940 - August 25, 1943) (his death)<br />
William Grant Sherry (November 30, 1945 - July 5, 1950) (divorced) (1 child)<br />
Gary Merrill (July 28, 1950 - July 6, 1960) (divorced) (2 adopted children)<br />
<b>Children</b>:<br />
Born: Barbara Davis Sherry on May 1, 1947 in Santa Ana, California<br />
Adopted: Margot Mosher Merrill (January 1951)<br />
Adopted: Michael Woodman Merrill (February 1952)<br />
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<b>Awards</b><br />
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<b>Academy Awards</b><br />
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All nominations and wins were for Best Actress in a Leading Role.<br />
1935 Nomination for <i>Of Human Bondage</i> (1934). This was a write-in nomination.<br />
1936 Won for <i>Dangerous</i> (1935).<br />
1939 Won for <i>Jezebel</i> (1938).<br />
1940 Nomination for <i>Dark Victory</i> (1939).<br />
1941 Nomination for <i>The Letter</i> (1940).<br />
1942 Nomination for <i>The Little Foxes</i> (1941).<br />
1943 Nomination for <i>Now, Voyager</i> (1942).<br />
1945 Nomination for <i>Mr. Skeffington</i> (1944).<br />
1951 Nomination for <i>All About Eve</i> (1950).<br />
1953 Nomination for <i>The Star</i> (1952).<br />
1963 Nomination for <i>What Ever Happened to Baby Jane</i>? (1962).<br />
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Miss Davis received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1977.<br />
Miss Davis won a British Film Institute Fellowship in 1987.<br />
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<b>Golden Globes</b><br />
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1951 Nominated for Best Actress - Drama for <i>All About Eve</i> (1950)<br />
1962 Nominated for Best Actress - Comedy or Musical for <i>Pocketful of Miracles</i> (1961)<br />
1963 Nominated for Best Actress - Drama for <i>What Ever Happened to Baby Jane</i>? (1962)<br />
1974 Won the Cecil B. DeMille Award.<br />
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<b>Primetime Emmy Awards</b><br />
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1974 Nominated for Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement for <i>ABC's Wide World of Entertainment</i> (1973) - For episode "Warner Bros. Movies - A 50 Year Salute."<br />
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1979 Won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for <i>Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter</i> (1979) - For playing: "Lucy Mason."<br />
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1980 Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for <i>White Mama</i> (1980) - For playing: "Adele Malone."<br />
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1983 Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for <i>Little Gloria...Happy at Last</i> (1982) - For playing "Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt."<br />
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<b>Walk of Fame</b><br />
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Motion Picture. February 8, 1960. At 6225 Hollywood Blvd.<br />
Television. February 8, 1960. At 6335 Hollywood Blvd.<br />
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<b>Did You Know?</b><br />
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Nicknames: The Fourth Warner Brother, The First Lady of Film, The First Lady of the American Screen<br />
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She was elected as first female president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in October 1941.<br />
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When she first came to Hollywood as a contract player, Universal Pictures wanted to change her name to Bettina Dawes. She informed the studio that she refused to go through life with a name that sounded like "Between the Drawers."<br />
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Nominated for an Academy Award 5 years in a row: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943. She shares the record for most consecutive nominations with Greer Garson.<br />
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After her first picture, Davis was sitting outside the office of Universal Pictures executive Carl Laemmle, Jr. when she overhead him say about her, "She's got as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville. Who wants to get her at the end of the picture?"<br />
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Had a long-running feud with Miriam Hopkins due to her affair with Hopkins' husband, director Anatole Litvak, as well as Davis getting many roles that Hopkins wanted.<br />
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Played dual roles of twin sisters in two movies: A Stolen Life (1946) and Dead Ringer (1964).<br />
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Played spinsters named Charlotte in 3 different movies: The Old Maid (1939), Now, Voyager (1942), and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).<br />
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In 1982, she was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award, for founding and running the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.<br />
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<b><i>Old Acquaintance</i> (1943)</b><br />
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Release Date: November 27, 1943<br />
Production Dates: November 11, 1942 - February 13, 1943<br />
Duration (in minutes): 110 or 116<br />
Physical Properties: BW and RCA Sound System<br />
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.<br />
Brand Name: A Warner Bros.- First National Picture<br />
Distribution Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.<br />
Director: Vincent Sherman<br />
Assistant Director: Art Lueker<br />
Producer: Henry Blanke<br />
Executive Producer: Jack L. Warner<br />
Writers: John Van Druten (screenplay), Lenore Coffee (screenplay), Edmund Goulding (contributed to screenplay)<br />
Source Text: Based on the play <i>Old Acquaintance</i> by John Van Druten, as produced by Dwight Deere Wiman (New York, December 23, 1940).<br />
Photography: Sol Polito<br />
Art Direction: John Hughes<br />
Film Editor: Terry Morse<br />
Set Decoration: Fred M. MacLean<br />
Costumes: Orry-Kelly (gowns)<br />
Music: Franz Waxman, Leon Raab (orchestral arrangements), Leo F. Forbstein (musical director)<br />
Sound: Robert B. Lee<br />
Make-up: Perc Westmore<br />
Production Misc: Leo Guild (unit publicity)<br />
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<b>Cast</b>:<br />
Bette Davis (Katherine "Kit" Marlowe)<br />
Miriam Hopkins (Mildred "Millie" Drake)<br />
Gig Young (Rudd Kendall)<br />
John Loder (Preston Drake)<br />
Dolores Moran (Deirdre Drake)<br />
Phillip Reed (Lucian Grant) - Name misspelled in credits as Philip Reed.<br />
Roscoe Karns (Charlie Archer)<br />
Anne Revere (Belle Carter) - Name misspelled in credits as Ann Revere.<br />
Esther Dale (Harriet)<br />
Leona Maricle (Julia Broadbank)<br />
George Lessey (Dean)<br />
Joseph Crehan (Editor)<br />
James Conlin (Photographer)<br />
Marjorie Hoshelle (Margaret Kemp)<br />
Tommye Adams (College girl)<br />
Kathleen O'Malley (College girl) - Pat O'Malley was her father.<br />
Timmy Sabor (College girl)<br />
Frances Ward (College girl)<br />
Virginia Patton (College girl)<br />
Lucille Lamarr (College girl)<br />
Harriett Olsen (College girl)<br />
Dorothy Schoemer (College girl)<br />
Francine Rufo (Deirdre as a child)<br />
Ann Codee (Mademoiselle)<br />
Creighton Hale (Stage manager)<br />
Pierre Watkin (Mr. Winter)<br />
Frank Darien (Stage doorman)<br />
Philip Van Zandt (Clerk)<br />
Charles Jordan (Bootlegger)<br />
Herbert Rawlinson (Chairman)<br />
Gordon Clark (Usher)<br />
Ann Doran (Saleslady)<br />
Frank Mayo (Army officer)<br />
Jack Mower (Army officer)<br />
Major Sam Harris (Army officer)<br />
Charles Sullivan (Taxi driver) <br />
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<b>Summary</b>:<br />
In 1924, prize-winning novelist Kit Marlowe returns to her home town to give a lecture and is greeted by her old friend, Millie Drake. In the years since they last saw each other, Millie has married and is now pregnant with her first child, news that Kit learns first from Millie's husband Preston. At first Millie is upset that Kit does not seem eager to see her, but later, after Kit apologizes, Millie confesses that she too has written a book designed to be a best seller. Eight years later, Millie is a wealthy and successful writer of popular fiction. She and Preston and their eight-year-old daughter Deirdre are in New York City to attend the opening of Kit's play. Millie's success has helped destroy her marriage, however, and the afternoon before opening night, Preston, who is drinking heavily, tells Kit that he is in love with her. Replying that Millie would always be between them, Kit tries to patch up her friend's marriage, but Preston leaves Millie after asking Kit to keep an eye on Deirdre. Ten years later, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Kit joins the Red Cross and broadcasts a request for money over the radio. Preston, who is now in the army, hears Kit's speech and telephones her. Kit agrees to join him for a drink, sending Rudd Kendall, her younger lover, to fetch Deirdre as a surprise for Preston. Preston surprises Kit as well when he announces his engagement. The next morning, Rudd, having received his commission, begs Kit to marry him immediately. Because of the difference in their ages, Kit turns him down, and a disappointed Rudd joins the now-grown Deirdre for a walk. The two spend the day together and fall in love. In the meantime, Kit changes her mind about Rudd and reveals her plans to marry him to Millie. After Preston tells Millie he is remarrying and wants to see Deirdre more often, he confesses that he was once in love with Kit. Overcome with jealousy, Millie tells Deirdre about Kit's marriage plans and then accuses Kit of stealing her husband. Fed up with her friend's tantrums, Kit gives Millie a thorough shaking. That night Rudd breaks the news to Kit that he has fallen in love with Deirdre. Although it is a shock, Kit pretends to be delighted and rushes off to make sure that a disillusioned Deirdre does not miss her chance for a happy marriage. Later, Millie stops by Kit's apartment to apologize and Kit forgives her. Millie then describes her new book, <i>Old Acquaintance</i>, about two longtime women friends, and the two women drink to it. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<b>Notes</b>:<br />
According to a <i>Los Angeles Times</i> news item dated January 22, 1941, Warner Bros. purchased the John Van Druten play for $75,000. The play was performed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt on his birthday. The MPPA initially objected to the Van Druten play because "Kit" and "Rudd" live together before "Rudd" becomes involved with "Deirdre." This was changed in the screenplay.<br />
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HR news items add the following information about the production: Olivia de Havilland was considered for a role in the film and Franchot Tone was scheduled to play the male lead, which had been announced for George Brent before the latter enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. Tone later turned down the role because, under the terms of a government wage freeze order, the studio was not permitted to pay him for his work on this film. Tone was reportedly willing to turn over his salary to a charity, but the Byrnes Act did not allow that option. The Byrnes Act prohibited an actor from earning more than the salary he or she had been paid immediately previous to October 27, 1942 when the law went into effect, and Tone's earnings the previous year had been uncharacteristically low because of illness.<br />
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The Warner Bros. Collection at the USC Cinema-Television Library adds the following information about the production: Jerome Cowan tested for the role of "Preston" and Rosalind Russell and Irene Dunne were considered for the role of "Kit." Although Edmund Goulding worked on early versions of the screenplay, he waived writing credit on the screenplay. The extent of his contribution is unknown. Am October 30, 1942 HR news item notes that Irving Rapper would replace Edmund Goulding as director because of the latter's illness. According to a modern source, when Edmund Goulding had a heart attack before filming started he was replaced by Vincent Sherman.<br />
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Modern sources add that cameraman Sol Polito was assigned at Bette Davis' request.<br />
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Bette Davis requested the casting of Norma Shearer in the role of Mildred "Millie" Drake. Norma Shearer turned it down.<br />
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This film was the second collaboration of legendary arch-enemies Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins. (Their previous collaboration had been 1939's <i>The Old Maid</i>.) The fact that in 1939, Bette Davis had an affair with Miriam Hopkins' then-husband, director Anatole Litvak, only added to their mutual hatred. To their credit, the two actresses had a sense of humor about the situation and allowed publicity photographs to be taken of them facing each other wearing boxing gloves, with director Vincent Sherman between them.<br />
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During rehearsals for the scene when "Millie" rages against "Kit" for stealing her husband, Miriam Hopkins tried to distract and upstage Davis. Although Davis did not lose her temper with Hopkins in public, she never worked with her again.<br />
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Miriam Hopkins reprised her role in a <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i> broadcast on May 29, 1944, co-starring Alexis Smith and Otto Kruger. Listen below:<br />
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Two television versions of the play were broadcast. On November 14, 1951, ABC's <i>Celanese Theatre</i> featured a version with Ruth Chatterton as Kit and Edna Best as Millie. On November 29, 1956, NBC's <i>Lux Video Theatre</i> featured a version with Ruth Hussey as Kit and Lynn Bari as Millie.<br />
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In 1976 Universal announced a planned remake, but this film was never made. Van Druten's play was also the basis for the 1981 MGM/UA film <i>Rich and Famous</i> starring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset and directed by George Cukor.<br />
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The star of the Broadway play written by Bette Davis' character is a difficult actress named "Julia Broadbank," a pretty obvious allusion to Tallulah Bankhead, with whom Davis had a famously acrimonious relationship after Davis landed film versions of <i>Dark Victory</i> and <i>The Little Foxes</i>, both of which had been stage triumphs for Bankhead.<br />
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According to director Vincent Sherman, the only comment Bette Davis made about her character before filming was that she might use a cigarette holder. Miriam Hopkins' scene in the hotel room was shot first and she deliberately used a long cigarette holder to thwart Davis' character idea.<br />
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Vincent Sherman wanted Eleanor Parker for the role of Deidre, but the studio stuck with original director Edmund Goulding's choice of Dolores Moran for the part.<br />
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The Broadway play opened on December 23, 1940 at the Morosco Theatre and closed May 17, 1941 after 170 performances. The opening night cast included Jane Cowl as Kit, Peggy Wood as Millie and Kent Smith as Rudd Kendall.<br />
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<b>Quotes</b>:<br />
Kit Marlowe: "Oh, I would look like a hag of ninety when I want to look like Shirley Temple."<b> </b>This is my favorite one. <a href="http://www.meredy.com/blog/OAShirleyTemple.mp3">Click</a> to listen to Bette Davis.<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "Cheer up, there's always what's left of the ice."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "It's late, and I'm very, very tired of youth and love and self-sacrifice."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "I know...my fatal beauty drives men mad."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: [<i>responding to a question about Millie's daughter Deirdre</i>] "Well, she's really partly mine anyway. I was at the hospital when she was born. As a matter of fact, she gave me her first smile. Her mother said it was gas."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "If you'd just look at Millie's activities as confession of weakness, an admission that there's something essentially lacking in her nature, you'd find it a little touching and love her."<br />
Preston Drake: "You sound like one of Millie's books."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "Millie remembers the same things I do, that's important. For instance, she's the only person I know, who still remembers when I used to be called Chunky."<br />
Preston Drake: "I'd think you wouldn't want to remember that."<br />
Kit Marlowe: "But one does. Funny, one does."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "Deirdre, come out from behind that screen."<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "Deirdre, come out, or do you want me to come back there and drag you out."<br />
Deirdre Drake: [<i>emerging from behind screen</i>] "How did you know I was there?"<br />
Kit Marlowe: "My dear, I was hiding behind screens before you were born."<br />
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Belle Carter: [<i>to Kit</i>] "Tell me, how is your new book coming along?"<br />
Kit Marlowe: "Well, I write and I write, and I still don't like it."<br />
Belle Carter: "But, at least when you do turn one out, it's a gem! None of this grinding them out like sausage."<br />
Belle Carter: [<i>She realizes that she has just insulted Millie and pauses with embarrassment</i>.] "I suppose I could cut my throat."<br />
Millie Drake: [<i>clearly offended</i>] "There's a knife on the table!"<br />
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Kit Marlowe: "I'd better get out of here, Millie, before I do something I'll be very sorry for."<br />
Millie Drake: "Yes, go! And if you think I want you to come back ever you're wrong! Well? why don't you go?"<br />
Kit Marlowe: "In just a minute."<br />
[<i>She puts down her parcels, crosses the room, grabs Millie by the shoulders and shakes her violently, then shoves her so she falls on the sofa</i>.]<br />
Kit Marlowe: "Sorry."<br />
[<i>She picks up her things and exits, leaving Millie throwing a tantrum</i>.]<br />
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Millie Drake: [<i>about Kit</i>] "That silly young boy she's been carrying on with has been called into the navy, and she must immediately become a young sailor's bride... of 42."<br />
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<b>Film Clips and Trailer from <i>Old Acquaintance</i> (1943)</b></div>
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<b><i>Old Acquaintance</i> (1943) Trailer</b></div>
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<b>Judy Garland Fast Facts</b>
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<b>Born</b>: Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota<br />
<b>Died</b>: June 22, 1969 (age 47) in Chelsea, London, England (accidental barbiturate [Seconal] overdose)<br />
<b>Father</b>: Francis Avent "Frank" Gumm (March 20, 1886 - November 17, 1935)<br />
<b>Mother</b>: Ethel Marion (née Milne; November 17, 1893 - January 5, 1953)<br />
<b>Sister</b>: Mary Jane "Suzy/Suzanne" Gumm (1915-1964)<br />
<b>Sister</b>: Dorothy Virginia "Jimmie" Gumm (1917-1977)<br />
<b>Husbands</b>:<br />
David Rose (July 28, 1941 - June 8, 1944) (divorced)<br />
Vincente Minnelli (June 15, 1945 - March 29, 1951) (divorced) (1 child)<br />
Sidney Luft (June 8, 1952 - May 19, 1965) (divorced) (2 children)<br />
Mark Herron (November 14, 1965 - January 9, 1969) (divorced)<br />
Mickey Deans (March 15, 1969 - June 22, 1969) (her death)<br />
<b>Children</b>:<br />
Born: Liza May Minnelli on March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California<br />
Born: Lorna Luft on November 21, 1952 in Santa Monica, California<br />
Born: Joseph Wiley Luft on March 29, 1955 in Los Angeles, California<br />
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<b>Awards</b><br />
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<b>Academy Awards</b><br />
1940 - Won - Juvenile Oscar - For her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year. (<i>The Wizard of Oz</i> and <i>Babes in Arms</i>)<br />
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1955 - Oscar Nomination - Best Actress in a Leading Role for <i>A Star Is Born</i> (1954)<br />
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1962 - Oscar Nomination - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for <i>Judgment at Nuremberg</i> (1961)<br />
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<b>Emmy Awards</b><br />
1956 - Nominated for Best Female Singer<br />
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1962 - Nominated for Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program for <i>The Judy Garland Show</i> (special)<br />
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1964 - Nominated for Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program for <i>The Judy Garland Show</i><br />
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<b>Golden Globes</b><br />
1955 - Won Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for <i>A Star Is Born</i> (1954)<br />
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1962 - Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for <i>Judgment at Nuremberg</i> (1961)<br />
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1962 - Won the Cecil B. DeMille Award<br />
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<b>Grammy Awards</b><br />
1962 - Won - Album of the Year for <i>Judy at Carnegie Hall</i><br />
1962 - Won - Female Solo Vocal Performance for <i>Judy at Carnegie Hall</i><br />
1966 - Nominated for Best Album Notes for <i>25th Anniversary: Retrospective</i><br />
1971 - Nominated for Best Album Notes for <i>Judy. London. 1969</i><br />
1995 - Nominated for Best Historical Album for <i>Judy: Complete Decca Masters</i><br />
1999 - Won - Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
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<b>Grammy Hall of Fame Recordings</b><br />
1981 - "Over the Rainbow"<br />
1998 - "(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You"<br />
1998 - <i>Judy at Carnegie Hall</i><br />
2005 - <i>Meet Me In St. Louis</i> - Soundtrack<br />
2006 - <i>The Wizard of Oz – Musical and Dramatic Selections Recorded Directly from the Soundtrack of MGM's Technicolor Film</i><br />
2010 - "For Me and My Gal" (with Gene Kelly)<br />
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<b>Tony Awards</b><br />
Judy Garland won a Special Tony Award in 1952 for her contributions to the revival of vaudeville with her record-breaking 19-week stand at the Palace Theatre.<br />
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<b>Walk of Fame</b><br />
Film: West side of the 1700 block of Vine Street<br />
Music: South side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard<br />
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<b>Did you Know?</b><br />
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She was quite short: 4 feet 11 1/2 inches (1.51 m).<br />
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Born: June 1922 - 06/22<br />
Died: June 22 - 06/22<br />
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The day she died, there was a tornado in Kansas.<br />
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Planned on calling her autobiography <i>Ho-Hum</i>.<br />
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Her favorite actors were Spencer Tracy and Robert Donat.<br />
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Garland adored yellow roses and has a special variety of rose named after her. The petals are yellow and the tips are bright red.<br />
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She had intense fears of flying, horses, and guns.<br />
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She performed two songs in films that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: "Over the Rainbow" from <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> (1939) and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from <i>The Harvey Girls</i> (1946). She performed four more songs that were nominated: "Our Love Affair" from <i>Strike Up the Band</i> (1940), "How About You?" from <i>Babes on Broadway</i> (1941), "The Trolley Song" from <i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i> (1944), and "The Man That Got Away" from <i>A Star Is Born</i> (1954). She performed others that became standards, including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from <i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i> (1944).<br />
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According to Garland's biography on the A&E channel, as a young adult in her early acting career, movie producers had her going to six different doctors for prescription drugs, without any one doctor knowing about the other five. It was this process that led to her drug addiction.<br />
<br />
She had weight problems most of her life. Drastic weight fluctuations often affected continuity in her films and can be seen in <i>Words and Music</i> (1948) and <i>Summer Stock</i> (1950).<br />
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Believed to have had undiagnosed bipolar disorder.<br />
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Her father was a closeted homosexual and her mother was a sadistic stage mother.<br />
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<br />
<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<i><b>Pigskin Parade</b></i><br />
1936 - BW - 1h 33m<br />
Director: David Butler<br />
Cast: Stuart Erwin (Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly, Arline Judge, Grady Sutton, Fred Kohler, Jr., Johnny Downs, Tony Martin, Ginger Jones, Betty Grable, Judy Garland, Si Jenks<br />
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When the Yale football team seeks a fair-to-middling opponent for a charity game, a filing mishap results in tiny Texas State University receiving an invitation. When the school's new football coach, Slug Winters (Jack Haley), gets the message, he immediately sets to work at building a team that can give Yale a run for their money, a task made much easier when Mrs. Winters (Patsy Kelly) meets a local farm boy (Stuart Erwin) whose gift for hurling watermelons translates just as well to the pigskin.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland made her feature film debut while on loan to Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. She sings the following:<br />
"It's Love I'm After"<br />
"The Balboa"<br />
"The Texas Tornado"<br />
<br />
<b>9:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Listen, Darling</i></b><br />
1938 - BW - 1h 15m<br />
Director: Edwin L. Marin<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon, Alan Hale, Scotty Beckett, Barnett Parker, Gene Lockhart, Charley Grapewin<br />
<br />
Dottie Wingate (Mary Astor), a widow taking care of her daughter, Pinkie (Judy Garland), and her son, Billie (Scotty Beckett), decides to marry Arthur Drubbs (Gene Lockhart), a dour banker, for the financial sake of her children. Horrified at the prospect, the children kidnap Dottie with the help of their Uncle Joe (Charley Grapewin). At a camping site, Pinkie and Buzz meet free-spirited lawyer Richard Thurlow (Walter Pidgeon) and scheme to bring him together with their mother.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart"<br />
"On the Bumpy Road to Love"<br />
"Ten Pins in the Sky"<br />
<br />
<b>11:15 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Love Finds Andy Hardy</i></b><br />
1938 - BW - 1h 31m<br />
Director: George B. Seitz<br />
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard, Gene Reynolds<br />
<br />
Young Andy (Mickey Rooney) expects a somewhat less than merry Christmas when he discovers his girlfriend, Polly (Ann Rutherford), is leaving town for the holiday. Prospects improve after Andy's best friend pays him to squire his girlfriend, Cynthia (Lana Turner), around while he is away. But when Polly returns earlier than expected, and Andy's neighbor Betsy (Judy Garland) shows up claiming to have a crush on him, Andy realizes that he has more girls than he can handle.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"In Between"<br />
"It Never Rains But What It Pours"<br />
"Meet The Beat Of My Heart"<br />
<br />
<b>1:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Babes in Arms</i></b><br />
1939 - BW - 1h 36m<br />
Director: Busby Berkeley<br />
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisse, Grace Hayes, Betty Jaynes, Douglas McPhail, Rand Brooks, Leni Lynn, Margaret Hamilton<br />
<br />
Mickey Moran (Mickey Rooney) and Patsy Barton (Judy Garland) are aspiring entertainers and the children of vaudeville performers. Vaudeville is losing its popularity due to the success of the movie business, and Mickey and Patsy's parents are struggling to revitalize its popularity. After deciding to produce their own show in a bid to reach their dreams of stage stardom, the young couple runs into problems, including Mickey's jealous girlfriend and the threat of being sent to a work camp.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Babes in Arms"<br />
"Where or When"<br />
"Good Morning"<br />
"God's Country"<br />
"I Like Opera/I Like Swing"<br />
"Figaro"<br />
"Broadway Rhythm"<br />
"I Cried for You"<br />
"My Daddy Was a Minstrel Man"<br />
"Oh! Susanna"<br />
"Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo"<br />
"I'm Just Wild About Harry"<br />
"My Day"<br />
<br />
<b>2:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Everybody Sing</i></b><br />
1938 - BW - 1h 31m<br />
Director: Edwin L. Marin<br />
Cast: Allan Jones, Judy Garland, Fanny Brice, Reginald Owen, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner, Lynne Carver, Helen Troy, Monty Woolley, Adia Kuznetzoff, Henry Armetta, Michelette Burani, Mary Forbes<br />
<br />
When boisterous Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) encourages her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat, her scandalized teacher uses the musical mutiny as an excuse to expel her from the Colvin School for Girls. With the encouragement of Ricky Saboni (Allan Jones), her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a stage musical. Meanwhile, Ricky struggles to gain the affections of Judy's sister, the lovely Sylvia (Lynne Carver).<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Swing Mr. Mendelssohn"<br />
"(Down On) Melody Farm"<br />
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"<br />
"Why? Because!"<br />
"Ever Since the World Began"/"Shall I Sing a Melody?"<br />
"Frühlingslied (Spring Song) Op.62 #6"<br />
<br />
<b>4:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Thoroughbreds Don't Cry</i></b><br />
1937 - BW - 1h 20m<br />
Director: Alfred E. Green<br />
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, C. Aubrey Smith, Ronald Sinclair<br />
<br />
In an attempt to save their home in England, Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle (C. Aubrey Smith) enter their racehorse Pookah in a high-stakes American race. While staying at a local boarding house, they meet Cricket (Judy Garland), the owner's niece who dreams of becoming an actress, and Tim (Mickey Rooney), a hotshot jockey whom they persuade to ride Pookah to victory. When Tim makes a fateful decision that could cost them everything, Cricket steps in to save the day.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings "Got a Pair of New Shoes."<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>6:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Broadway Melody of 1938</i></b><br />
1937 - BW - 1h 51m<br />
Director: Roy Del Ruth<br />
Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sophie Tucker, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes, Raymond Walburn, Robert Benchley, Willie Howard, Charley Grapewin, Billy Gilbert, Robert John Wildhack<br />
<br />
Wealthy Caroline Whipple backs a musical revue by handsome young Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor). By coincidence, when Mrs. Whipple decides to sell Stargazer, her underachieving racehorse, Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), who raised the horse, turns out to be a talented dancer in search of work. Frustrated by Steve's attraction to Sally and plans to star her in the show, Mrs. Whipple pulls her support, leaving Steve, Sally and dancer Sonny Ledford dependent on Stargazer's performance.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Yours and Mine"<br />
"Everybody Sing"<br />
"(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You"<br />
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<b><br /></b>
<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Wizard of Oz</i></b><br />
1939 - BW (Sepiatone) and Color (Technicolor) - 1h 42m<br />
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor, Norman Taurog<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Clara Blandick, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Mitchell Lewis, Terry as Toto<br />
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When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.<br />
<br />
<b>Did You Know?</b><br />
Judy Garland had to wear a painful corset-style device around her torso so that she would appear younger and flat-chested.<br />
<br />
"Over the Rainbow" was nearly cut from the film.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland would later refer to the pint-sized Oscar Juvenile Award she won at 1939's Academy Awards as the Munchkin Award.<br />
<br />
The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with Jell-O crystals. The relevant scenes had to be shot quickly, before the horses started to lick it off.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Over the Rainbow"<br />
"It Really Was No Miracle"<br />
"Follow the Yellow Brick Road"/"You're Off to See the Wizard"<br />
"If I Only Had a Brain"<br />
"We're Off to See the Wizard"<br />
"If I Only Had the Nerve"<br />
"The Merry Old Land of Oz"<br />
"If I Were King of the Forest"<br />
<br />
<b>10:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic</i></b><br />
1989 - BW and Color - 51m<br />
Director: Jack Haley, Jr.<br />
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, Joey Luft, John Lahr, Robert A. Baum, Jerry Maren, Meinhardt Raabe, Margaret Raabe, Robert Young<br />
<br />
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film.<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>11:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Strike Up the Band</i></b><br />
1940 - BW - 2 hours<br />
Director: Busby Berkeley<br />
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn, Margaret Early, Ann Shoemaker, Francis Pierlot, Virginia Brissac, George Lessey, Enid Bennett, Howard C. Hickman, Sarah Edwards, Milton Kibbee, Helen Jerome Eddy<br />
<br />
Teenage drummer Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) dreams of winning the contest for school bands hosted by popular band leader Paul Whiteman (himself). In order to enter, Jimmy and his pals, including charming vocalist Mary Holden (Judy Garland), must accumulate $200 for the train ride to Chicago, where the contest will be held. Jimmy and his friends decide to put on an epic student play to raise the funds they need, but a sudden illness threatens to cost the band their chance.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Strike up the Band"<br />
"Our Love Affair"<br />
"Do the La Conga"<br />
"Nobody"<br />
"The Gay Nineties"<br />
"Nell of New Rochelle"<br />
"A Man Was the Cause of It All"<br />
"Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl"<br />
"Come Home, Father"<br />
"Drummer Boy"<br />
<br />
<b>1:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Little Nellie Kelly</i></b><br />
1940 - BW - 1h 39m<br />
Director: Norman Taurog<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Douglas McPhail, Arthur Shields, Rita Page, Forrester Harvey, James Burke, George Watts<br />
<br />
When Nellie (Judy Garland) gets married to good-looking Jerry Kelly (George Murphy), her grumpy, out-of-work father Michael Noonan (Charles Winninger) disapproves and makes an oath never to talk to his son-in-law. Nevertheless, when the newlyweds move to New York City to make a new start, Noonan immigrates with them. Tragedy strikes, however, when Nellie dies in childbirth. Now the antagonistic pair of men will have to raise the newborn together despite their dislike of each other.<br />
<br />
The film is notable for containing Judy Garland's only on-screen death scene, although she re-appears in the film as the daughter of the character who died.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings "Singin' in the Rain," "A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow," "It's a Great Day for the Irish," and "St. Patrick Was a Gentle Man."<br />
<br />
<b>3:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Babes on Broadway</i></b><br />
1941 - BW- 1h 58m<br />
Directors: Busby Berkeley, Vincente Minnelli<br />
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler, Ray McDonald, Richard Quine, Donald Meek, Alexander Woollcott, Luis Alberni, James Gleason, Emma Dunn, Anne Rooney, Ava Gardner, Will Lee, Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien<br />
<br />
The third installment in the "Backyard Musical" trilogy, <i>Babes on Broadway</i> follows restaurant singer Tommy Williams (Mickey Rooney) on his quest to make it to Broadway. Penny Morris (Judy Garland), also a singer, teams up with Tommy to produce a show that will benefit orphaned children. What Penny doesn't know is that Tommy is actually the only one who will benefit from the show. Tommy struggles to maintain his friendships and his morals as he strives for fame and fortune in the big city.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"How About You?"<br />
"Hoe Down"<br />
"Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On!"<br />
"Mary's a Grand Old Name"<br />
"I've Got Rings On My Fingers"<br />
"Bombshell from Brazil"<br />
"Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"<br />
"Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"<br />
"Babes on Broadway"<br />
<br />
<b>5:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Andy Hardy Meets Debutante</i></b><br />
1940 - BW - 1h 28m<br />
Director: George B. Seitz<br />
Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Judy Garland, Ann Rutherford, Diana Lewis, George P. Breakston, Sara Haden, Addison Richards, George Lessey, Cy Kendall, Clyde Willson<br />
<br />
Young Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) journeys to New York with his father (Lewis Stone) and close friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland), where he meets beautiful blonde socialite Daphne (Diana Lewis). Andy immediately forgets about Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford), his girlfriend back home, and falls head over heels for Daphne. But as he starts to rub elbows with trendy Manhattanites, he begins to long for Polly -- and he soon realizes that the big city lacks the charms of his small hometown.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings "Alone" and "I'm Nobody's Baby."<br />
<br />
<b>6:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Life Begins for Andy Hardy</i></b><br />
1941 - BW - 1h 41m<br />
Director: George B. Seitz<br />
Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Patricia Dane, Ray McDonald, Judy Garland<br />
<br />
After high school graduation, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) reconsiders going on to college to follow in the footsteps of his father, Judge James Hardy (Lewis Stone). Persuading his parents to allow him to spend the summer in New York City, Andy drives there with wealthy friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland). Unable to find a job immediately, Andy lets his small allowance be taken by a gold digger, but he writes home that all is well. After Betsy finds Andy sleeping in a park, she reports to the judge.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings "Happy Birthday to You."<br />
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<br />
<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>For Me and My Gal</i></b><br />
1942 - BW - 1h 44m<br />
Director: Busby Berkeley<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy, Martha Eggerth, Ben Blue, Stephen McNally, Richard Quine, Keenan Wynn, Lucille Norman<br />
<br />
Jo Hayden (Judy Garland) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) are a struggling vaudeville act with hopes of making it big. When success seems right around the corner, Palmer is drafted into the army at the advent of World War I. Thinking quickly, Palmer injures his hand to avoid being called to duty, but Hayden -- whose brother died in the war -- finds his action cowardly and breaks up the duo. Now, Palmer must figure out a way to bring them back together, even if it means going to war.<br />
<br />
This was the first film in which Judy Garland had her name billed before the title.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Oh, You Beautiful Doll"<br />
"For Me and My Gal"<br />
"When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose"<br />
"After You've Gone"<br />
"Ballin' the Jack"<br />
"Don't Leave Me Daddy"<br />
"By the Beautiful Sea"<br />
"How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)"<br />
"Where Do We Go from Here?"<br />
"It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary"<br />
"Smiles"<br />
"Pack Up Your Troubles"<br />
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"<br />
<br />
<b>10:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Girl Crazy</i></b><br />
1943 - BW - 1h 39m<br />
Directors: Busby Berkeley, Norman Taurog<br />
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee, Frances Rafferty, Henry O'Neill, Howard Freeman, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra<br />
<br />
Distracted by female students and performing poorly in the classroom, Danny Churchill Jr. (Mickey Rooney) moves west to a university that his father believes is free of temptation. Soon, though, Danny strikes up a friendship with Ginger Gray (Judy Garland). When Ginger, whose family runs the all-male college, explains that the school has money troubles, creative Danny puts together a big fundraiser. The event highlights their song-and-dance skills and also cements their bond.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Bidin' My Time"<br />
"Could You Use Me?"<br />
"Embraceable You"<br />
"But Not for Me"<br />
"I Got Rhythm"<br />
<br />
<b>11:45 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i></b><br />
1944 - Color (Technicolor) ‧ 1h 53m<br />
Director: Vincente Minnelli<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Harry Davenport, Henry H. Daniels, Jr., Joan Carroll, June Lockhart, Robert Sully, Hugh Marlowe, Chill Wills<br />
<br />
<i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i> is a classic MGM romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters (one of whom is the nonpareil Judy Garland) on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. The film spotlights the sisters' education in the ways of the world, which includes, but isn't limited to, learning about life and love, courtesy of the prototypical boy next door. In the end, love -- accompanied by song, dance and period costumes, all in glorious Technicolor -- conquers all.<br />
<br />
Make-up artist Dorothy "Dottie" Ponedel began working with Garland on this film.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"The Trolley Song"<br />
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"<br />
"Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis"<br />
"The Boy Next Door"<br />
""Under the Bamboo Tree"<br />
"Over the Banister"<br />
"Skip to My Lou"<br />
<br />
<b>1:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Clock</i></b><br />
1945 - BW - 1h 30m<br />
Director: Vincente Minnelli<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason, Ruth Brady<br />
<br />
While on a two day leave in New York City, soldier Joe Allen (Robert Walker) meets secretary Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) when she trips over him. They hit it off, and Alice decides to show Joe around. As they tour the sights of New York, they begin to fall in love. After inadvertently meeting a milk deliveryman (James Gleason), they befriend him and help him finish his route. The next morning, they decide they should get married before Joe must return to duty.<br />
<br />
This was Garland's first dramatic role, as well as her first starring vehicle in which she did not sing.<br />
<br />
<b>3:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Ziegfeld Girl</i></b><br />
1941 - BW - 2h 13m<br />
Director: Robert Z. Leonard<br />
Cast: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Ian Hunter, Charles Winninger, Eve Arden, Edward Everett Horton, Philip Dorn, Paul Kelly, Dan Dailey, Fay Holden, Al Shean<br />
<br />
During the 1920s, three New York girls pursue careers performing in the iconic Ziegfeld Follies. Susan (Judy Garland) is a vaudeville performer who desires nothing more than a shot at the big time. Sheila (Lana Turner), who works as an elevator girl, is granted an audition with Flo Ziegfeld himself. And Sandra (Hedy Lamarr) draws the eye of a dance director after her husband auditions for a position in the orchestra. However, their career ambitions soon complicate their romantic relationships.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides"<br />
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"<br />
"Minnie from Trinidad"<br />
"Ziegfeld Girls"<br />
"You Gotta Pull Strings"<br />
"You Never Looked So Beautiful"<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>5:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Presenting Lily Mars</i></b><br />
1943 - BW - 1h 44m<br />
Directors: Norman Taurog, Roy Del Ruth<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Richard Carlson, Spring Byington, Marta Eggerth, Connie Gilchrist, Leonid Kinskey, Patricia Barker, Janet Chapman, Annie Ross, Douglas Croft, Ray McDonald<br />
<br />
Lily Mars (Judy Garland) is a girl who has grown up dreaming of starring on Broadway. When she happens to meet producer John Thornway (Van Heflin), she believes it's fate and begs him to cast her in his latest show. But Thornway rejects her, insisting he doesn't cast amateurs. Not to be deterred, Lily follows him to New York City, where she desperately auditions all over town. Despite his tough exterior, Thornway's heart begins to melt for this determined ingenue.<br />
<br />
Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"<br />
"Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)"<br />
"When I Look at You"<br />
"Kulebiaka (Russian Rhapsody)"<br />
"Where There's Music"<br />
"Three O'Clock in the Morning"<br />
"Broadway Rhythm"<br />
<br />
<b>7:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Thousands Cheer</i></b><br />
1943 - Color (Technicolor) - 2h 5m<br />
Director: George Sidney<br />
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles, Ben Blue, Frances Rafferty, Mary Elliott, Frank Jenks, Frank Sully. Dick Simmons, Ben Lessy<br />
Guest Stars: Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball, Frank Morgan, Virginia O'Brien, Eleanor Powell, Marilyn Maxwell, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien, the Kay Kyser Orchestra and others.<br />
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Trapeze artist Eddie Marsh (Gene Kelly) is a new military recruit with an entertainer's spirit. Eddie decides he'd like to organize a grand performance for his fellow soldiers, but is distracted when he meets the lovely Kathyrn (Kathryn Grayson). Eddie and Kathyrn have chemistry, but the girl's father, Col. Bill Jones (John Boles), disapproves of the romance. Undeterred, Eddie does his best to put on the show of a lifetime and earn the blessing of the curmudgeonly colonel.<br />
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Judy Garland sings "The Joint Is Really Jumpin' in Carnegie Hall."<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Harvey Girls</i></b><br />
1946 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 41m<br />
Directors: George Sidney, Robert Alton<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Selena Royle, Cyd Charisse, Ruth Brady, Jack Lambert, Edward Earle, Morris Ankrum, Stephen McNally<br />
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When Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) responded to an ad in New Mexico for a mail-order bride, she had no idea that her would-be husband was a broken-down cowhand. Instead of returning back home, she takes a job at the local Harvey House restaurant. But the new establishment faces tough resistance from the local saloon owner (John Hodiak) and the town's streetwise showgirl, Em (Angela Lansbury). As Susan works with the Harvey girls to win over the townsfolk, she also searches for a new love.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"In the Valley (Where the Evening Sun Goes Down)"<br />
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"<br />
"It's a Great Big World"<br />
"Swing Your Partner Round and Round"<br />
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<b>10:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Easter Parade</i></b><br />
1948 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 43m<br />
Director: Charles Walters<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Clinton Sundberg, Jimmy Bates<br />
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In this lavish musical, Broadway star Don Hewes' (Fred Astaire) dancing partner (Ann Miller) goes solo, and Don declares that he can make a hit performer out of the next dancer he sees. This turns out to be the inexperienced Hannah (Judy Garland), who bristles as Don tries to make her into his old partner. But as he realizes that he is falling in love with Hannah, Don knows that he must let her grow into her own kind of dancer if he wants her to reach her full potential.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Happy Easter"<br />
"Easter Parade"<br />
"I Want to Go Back to Michigan"<br />
"A Fella with an Umbrella"<br />
"I Love a Piano"<br />
"Snooky Ookums"<br />
"When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'"<br />
"It Only Happens When I Dance With You"<br />
"A Couple of Swells"<br />
"Better Luck Next Time"<br />
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<b>12:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>The Pirate</i></b><br />
1948 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 42m<br />
Director: Vincente Minnelli<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, The Nicholas Brothers, Lester Allen, Lola Deem, Ellen Ross, Mary Jo Ellis, Jean Dean, Marion Murray, Ben Lessy, Jerry Bergen <br />
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Manuela Alva (Judy Garland) is unhappily engaged to Don Pedro (Walter Slezak), the mayor of her town. When a circus arrives, she's enchanted by performer Serafin (Gene Kelly), who's likewise smitten with her. The mayor tries to evict the circus from town, but Serafin turns the tables after realizing Don Pedro is Macoco, an ex-pirate in hiding. When Serafin learns that Manuela dreams of Macoco, he adopts the discarded identity to woo her -- but is then condemned to death for the pirate's crimes.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Mack the Black"<br />
"You Can Do No Wrong"<br />
"Be a Clown"<br />
"Love of My Life"<br />
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<b>2:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Summer Stock</i></b><br />
1950 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 49m<br />
Director: Charles Walters<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers, Ray Collins, Nita Bieber, Carleton Carpenter, Hans Conried<br />
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While her actress sister, Abigail (Gloria DeHaven), roams with a stock theater company, country girl Jane (Judy Garland) stays home in rural Connecticut tending the family farm. Jane sees red when Abigail returns unannounced, stock company in tow, with plans to convert the family's barn into a venue for the troupe's musical revue. But after Abigail's beau, Joe (Gene Kelly), sells his car to buy Jane a new tractor, the farm girl softens and even gets bitten by the performing bug herself.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"If You Feel Like Singing, Sing"<br />
"(Howdy Neighbor) Happy Harvest"<br />
"Portland Fancy"<br />
"You, Wonderful You"<br />
"Friendly Star"<br />
"All for You"<br />
"Get Happy"<br />
"Friendly Star"<br />
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<b>4:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>In the Good Old Summertime</i></b><br />
1949 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 43m<br />
Directors: Buster Keaton, Robert Z. Leonard<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton, Marcia Van Dyke, Lillian Bronson, Liza Minnelli<br />
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In this musical romance, lovely Veronica Fisher (Judy Garland) lands a job in Otto Oberkugen's (S.Z. Sakall) music store in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Though the other employees like her, including Otto's clumsy nephew Hickey (Buster Keaton), salesman Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson) -- who is threatened by her competition, and secretly attracted to her -- greets her coolly. Each of them is carrying on a romantic correspondence with an as-yet-to-be-met pen pal. They are both in for a surprise.<br />
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Liza Minnelli makes her film debut, walking with her mother and Van Johnson in the closing shot.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland"<br />
"Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)"<br />
"Play That Barbershop Chord"<br />
"I Don't Care"<br />
"Merry Christmas"<br />
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<b>5:45 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Words and Music</i></b><br />
1948 - Color (Technicolor) - 2h 1m<br />
Director: Norman Taurog<br />
Cast: Tom Drake, Mickey Rooney, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson, Betty Garrett, Jeanette Nolan, Ann Sothern, Perry Como, Cyd Charisse, Richard Quine<br />
Guest Appearances:<br />
June Allyson performs "Thou Swell."<br />
Judy Garland performs "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again."<br />
Lena Horne performs "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Where or When."<br />
Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen dance "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue."<br />
Mel Tormé performs "Blue Moon."<br />
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In this fictionalized account of the partnership of songwriting legends Richard Rogers and Lorenz "Larry" Hart, Richard (Tom Drake), a well-mannered composer, teams up with eccentric but talented wordsmith Larry (Mickey Rooney). After years of failure, they finally manage to hit it big on Broadway. Meanwhile, Richard tries to win over the mature Joyce (Ann Sothern), and Larry, who is attempting to romance vocalist Peggy (Betty Garrett), struggles with depression and a debilitating illness.<br />
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<b>8:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Ziegfeld Follies</i></b><br />
1945 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 49m<br />
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Lemuel Ayers, Merrill Pye<br />
Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, William Powell, Edward Arnold, Marion Bell, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, William Frawley, Robert Lewis, Virginia O'Brien, Keenan Wynn<br />
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Running between 1907 and 1931, the Ziegfeld Follies were elaborate stage revues mounted by the great Broadway showman Florenz Ziegfeld, inspired by the Folies Bergères of Paris. In 1945, film producer Arthur Freed recreated the lavishness of Ziegfeld's shows with this all-star revue, consisting of comedy sketches and song-and-dance numbers featuring MGM Studios' musical comedy stars including Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Lena Horne and Red Skelton.<br />
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"A Great Lady Has an Interview" was written by Roger Edens and Kay Thompson for Greer Garson but she turned it down. Judy Garland spoofs a movie star who can only be cast in Oscar-winning dramas, but wants to play "sexy" roles (a la Greer Garson or Katharine Hepburn) giving an interview to dancing reporters about her next picture: a biopic of Madame Crematante, the inventor of the safety pin. Originally to be directed by Garland's friend Charles Walters, Vincente Minnelli ended up directing the sequence (the two were dating at the time), and Walters was reassigned as choreographer.<br />
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<b>10:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Till the Clouds Roll By</i></b><br />
1946 - Color (Technicolor) - 2h 15m<br />
Directors: Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Busby Berkeley, Henry Koster<br />
Cast: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Dorothy Patrick, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Gower Champion, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansbury, Ray McDonald, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Wells, Harry Hayden, Paul Langton, Paul Maxey<br />
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On opening night of his new Broadway musical, <i>Show Boat</i>, composer Jerome Kern (Robert Walker) reflects on his long career. With the help of his mentor, composer James Hessler (Van Heflin), a young Jerry travels to Europe and soon has one of his tunes placed in a successful production. Back home, Jerry's unceasing efforts result in the production of his first show. Jerry's career blossoms and he works with the best artists of the day while guiding James' wayward but talented daughter, Sally.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Look for the Silver Lining"<br />
"Who?"<br />
"Sunny"<br />
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<b>8:00 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>A Star Is Born</i></b><br />
1954 - CinemaScope and Color (Technicolor) - 2h 56m<br />
Director: George Cukor<br />
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Amanda Blake, Lucy Marlow, Irving Bacon, Hazel Shermet<br />
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Hollywood actor Norman Maine (James Mason) is a celebrity whose star is on the wane, but when he meets aspiring actress Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland), he is inspired to help her, and soon the two appear in a musical together. Now known as Vicki Lester, she marries Norman and finds herself in demand, while his reputation continues to decline, resulting in heavy bouts of drinking. Eventually, Vicki must choose between moving forward with her career and attempting to save her husband.<br />
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Groucho Marx called Judy Garland not winning an Oscar for <i>A Star Is Born</i> (1954), "the biggest robbery since Brink's."<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Gotta Have Me Go with You"<br />
"The Man That Got Away"<br />
"Here's What I'm Here For"<br />
"Lose That Long Face"<br />
"Someone at Last"<br />
"It's a New World"<br />
"Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo"<br />
"Born in a Trunk"<br />
"Swanee"<br />
"I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)"<br />
"You Took Advantage of Me"<br />
"Black Bottom"<br />
"The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)"<br />
"My Melancholy Baby"<br />
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<b>11:15 p.m.</b><br />
<b><i>A Child Is Waiting</i></b><br />
1963 - BW - 1h 44m<br />
Director: John Cassavetes<br />
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Ritchey, John Marley, Elizabeth Wilson, Barbara Pepper, Keith and Kerry Simon<br />
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Music teacher Jean Hansen (Judy Garland) works with children at a state mental hospital. Although often at odds with the autocratic director, Dr. Matthew Clark (Burt Lancaster), about teaching methods, she quickly bonds with her students, particularly 12-year-old Reuben (Bruce Ritchey), whose parents, Sophie (Gena Rowlands) and Ted (Steven Hill), left the boy at the institution following their divorce. As the students practice for a Thanksgiving pageant, Jean questions the parents' decision.<br />
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Judy Garland sings "Snowflakes."<br />
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<b>1:15 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Judgment at Nuremberg</i></b><br />
1961 - BW - 2h 59m<br />
Director: Stanley Kramer<br />
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Howard Caine, William Shatner, John Wengraf, Karl Swenson, Ben Wright, Virginia Christine, Edward Binns, Torben Meyer, Martin Brandt, Kenneth MacKenna, Ray Teal, Alan Baxter, Joseph Bernard, Olga Fabian, Otto Waldis, Paul Busch, Bernard Kates<br />
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In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood (Spencer Tracy) hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell), but also from the widow of a Nazi general (Marlene Dietrich), an idealistic U.S. Army captain (William Shatner) and reluctant witness Irene Wallner (Judy Garland).<br />
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<b>4:30 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Gay Purr-ee</i></b><br />
1962 - Color (Technicolor) - 1h 25m<br />
Director: Abe Levitow<br />
Voice Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees, Hermione Gingold, Morey Amsterdam, Mel Blanc, The Mellomen, Julie Bennett, Joan Gardner, Thurl Ravenscroft<br />
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This animated musical concerns Mewsette (Judy Garland), a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom (Robert Goulet), and his furry cohort, Robespierre (Red Buttons), chase after Mewsette, but she's already fallen under the spell of a feline modeling-school racket run by the plump Madame Rubens-Chatte (Hermione Gingold) and her slimy assistant, Meowrice. Can Mewsette avoid corruption in the big city?<br />
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<i>Gay Purr-ee</i> features the voice of Judy Garland in her only animated film role.<br />
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Judy Garland sings:<br />
"Gay Purr-ee Overture"<br />
"Little Drops of Rain"<br />
"Take My Hand, Paree"<br />
"Paris Is a Lonely Town"<br />
"Roses Red, Violets Blue"<br />
"Mewsette Finale"<br />
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<b>6:00 a.m.</b><br />
<b><i>Pepe</i></b><br />
1960 - Comedy music/Musical - 2h 38m<br />
Director: George Sidney<br />
Cast: Mario Moreno (Cantinflas), Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalbán, Vicki Trickett, Matt Mattox, Hank Henry, Suzanne Lloyd, William Demarest<br />
Cameos: Maurice Chevalier, Bing Crosby, Richard Conte, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin, Ann B. Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jimmy Durante, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Judy Garland (voice only), Greer Garson, Hedda Hopper, Joey Bishop, Ernie Kovacs, Peter Lawford, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Jay North, Kim Novak, André Previn, Donna Reed, Debbie Reynolds, Edward G. Robinson, Cesar Romero, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke<br />
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Mexican laborer Pepe Quiroga (Cantinflas) finds his world turned upside down when Don Juan, a beloved white horse from the ranch where he works, is auctioned off to a boorish film industry bigwig and is promptly transported to California. Desperate to be reunited with the animal, Quiroga sets off on a madcap journey to Hollywood, where he must wade through a sea of celebrities -- including Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Durante -- in the course of his search for his equine friend.<br />
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Judy Garland sings "The Faraway Part of Town."<br />
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<b>Judy Garland on the Radio</b><br />
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Episodes from <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>, <i>The Screen Guild Theater</i>, <i>Suspense</i>, and <i>Theatre Guild on the Air</i><br />
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<b>Merle Oberon Fast Facts</b><br />
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<b>Born</b>: Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson on February 19, 1911 in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai)<br />
<b>Died</b>: November 23, 1979 (aged 68) in Malibu, California (massive stroke)<br />
<b>Mother</b>: Constance Selby (aged 12 at time of birth) (Eurasian)<br />
<b>Grandmother</b>: Charlotte Selby (Eurasian from Ceylon [Sri Lanka] with partial Maori heritage)<br />
<b>Father</b>: Arthur Thompson (Anglo origins)<br />
<b>Husbands</b>: Alexander Korda (June 3, 1939 - June 4, 1945) (divorced)<br />
Lucien Ballard (June 26, 1945 - February 11, 1949) (divorced)<br />
Bruno Pagliai (July 28, 1957 - 1973) (divorced) (2 adopted children)<br />
Robert Wolders (January 31, 1975 - November 23, 1979) (her death)<br />
<b>Children</b>: (adopted) Francesca Pagliai and Bruno Pagliai, Jr.<br />
<b>Nicknames</b>: Obie and Queenie<br />
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<b>Parentage</b>: Birth certificate lists her father as Arthur Thompson, a railway engineer. It names her mother as Constance Selby, who was only 12 at the time of the birth.<br />
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Controversially, Constance was the daughter of Thompson’s girlfriend Charlotte Selby. Charlotte, a Eurasian from Ceylon with partial Maori heritage, had had Constance by an Irish tea planter when she herself was only 14 and living in Ceylon.<br />
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Charlotte was around 26 when Merle was born and raised her as her own. The girl grew up thinking Constance was her sister rather than her mother.<br />
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In 1914 Thompson joined the British Army and later died of pneumonia on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme.<br />
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Oberon lied about her mixed-race heritage, a controversial subject at the time. She told everyone that she was born in Tasmania and that all records of her birth were destroyed in a fire.<br />
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To hide her heritage, she would tell friends and acquaintances that the older woman who lived in her house was her maid; the woman was actually her grandmother.<br />
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In 1949, 12 years after her grandmother's death, she commissioned a painting of her grandmother from an old photograph, instructing the painter to lighten her mother's complexion in the painting to hide the fact that she was of mixed-race heritage.<br />
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Born in 1911, she was given "Queenie" as a nickname, in honor of Queen Mary, who visited India along with King George V in 1911.<br />
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Because of facial scars Oberon sustained in a London car crash in 1937, her future husband, cinematographer Lucien Ballard, designed a compact spotlight that he coined the "Obie" (Oberon's nickname). Mounted on the side of the camera, the device lights the subject head on, thus reducing the incidence of unflattering facial lines and shadows.<br />
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Oberon suffered damage to her complexion in 1940 from a combination of cosmetic poisoning and an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs. Alexander Korda sent her to a skin specialist in New York City, where she underwent several dermabrasion procedures. The results, however, were only partially successful; without makeup, one could see noticeable pitting and indentation of her skin.<br />
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Michael Korda, nephew of Alexander Korda, wrote a roman à clef about Oberon after her death entitled <i>Queenie</i>. It was turned into a television miniseries starring Mia Sara.<br />
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<b>#SOTM Films - Friday, March 4, 2016 and Saturday, March 5, 2016</b></div>
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Top L: Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea and Miriam Hopkins in <i>These Three</i></div>
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Top R: David Niven and Merle Oberon in <i>Beloved Enemy</i></div>
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Middle L: Merle Oberon in <span style="text-align: left;"><i>Folies Bergère de Paris</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Middle R: Merle Oberon in </span><span style="text-align: left;"><i>The Dark Angel</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Bottom L: Merle Oberon in </span><span style="text-align: left;"><i>The Private Life of Don Juan</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Bottom R: Merle Oberon in </span><span style="text-align: left;">T<i>he Private Life of Henry VIII</i></span></div>
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8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>These Three</i> (1936)<br />
BW - 1h 33m<br />
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Martha (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen (Merle Oberon) graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin (Joel McCrea), who begins a relationship with Karen, and a prominent woman whose granddaughter, Mary (Bonita Granville), later enrolls in the new school. Mary soon reveals herself to be a spiteful child and tells a scandalous lie about Martha and Joe that threatens to destroy the lives of all involved.<br />
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Dir: William Wyler<br />
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Bonita Granville.<br />
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9:45 p.m.<br />
<i>Beloved Enemy</i> (1936)<br />
BW - 1h 30m<br />
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In 1921, British Lord Athleigh (Henry Stephenson) arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen (Merle Oberon), to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan (Brian Aherne) is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.<br />
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Dir: H. C. Potter<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson, David Niven.<br />
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11:30 p.m.<br />
<i>Folies Bergère de Paris</i> (1935)<br />
BW - 1h 20m<br />
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In this 1935 musical comedy, featuring the glitzy production numbers of Busby Berkeley, Eugene Charlier (Maurice Chevalier) easily impersonates the married yet unfaithful Baron Cassini (also Chevalier) in his act. When the baron leaves for a secret out-of-country meeting, Charlier gets hired to play him again at a state reception. Both the baron and Charlier romantically toy with the baroness (Merle Oberon) and Charlier's lover, Mimi (Ann Sothern), in an amusing game of mistaken identity.<br />
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Dir: Roy Del Ruth<br />
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, Ann Sothern, Eric Blore.<br />
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1:00 a.m.<br />
<i>The Dark Angel</i> (1935)<br />
BW - 1h 46m<br />
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Alan Trent (Fredric March) and his cousin, Gerald Shannon (Herbert Marshall), have both loved Kitty Vane (Merle Oberon) since childhood. On leave from the front in World War I, Alan proposes to her, but when his leave is canceled, Kitty spends his last night with him. At the front, Gerald believes Alan has been unfaithful to Kitty, and Alan refuses to contradict him, forcing the friends apart. Later, when Alan is presumed killed in a bombing, Gerald sadly returns home to relay the news to Kitty.<br />
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Dir: Sidney Franklin<br />
Cast: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall.<br />
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3:00 a.m.<br />
<i>The Private Life of Don Juan</i> (1934)<br />
BW - 1h 29m<br />
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As news spreads through Seville, Spain, that Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) is in town, husbands lock up their wives, unaware the famed lover is in poor health. Both Juan's private servant and his doctor urge him to settle down with his own wife, Dolores (Benita Hume), but he is determined to maintain his reputation. When an impostor posing as Juan is killed, he takes the opportunity to retire. However, after six months, a bored Juan wishes to return -- but finds no one believes his identity.<br />
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Dir: Alexander Korda<br />
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Bruce Winston, Benita Hume.<br />
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4:30 a.m.<br />
<i>The Private Life of Henry VIII</i> (1933)<br />
BW - 1h 37m<br />
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Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn (Merle Oberon), his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves (Elsa Lanchester) as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.<br />
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Dir: Alexander Korda<br />
Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Robert Donat, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester.<br />
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<b>#SOTM Films - Friday, March 11, 2016 and Saturday, March 12, 2016</b></div>
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Top L: Merle Oberon in <i>The Lodger</i></div>
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Top R: Merle Oberon in <i>Wuthering Heights</i></div>
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Middle L: Merle Oberon in <span style="text-align: left;"><i>The Cowboy and the Lady</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Middle R: Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier in </span><span style="text-align: left;"><i>The Divorce of Lady X</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Bottom L: Ralph Richardson and Merle Oberon in </span><span style="text-align: left;"><i>The Lion Has Wings</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Bottom R: Merle Oberon in <i>The Scarlet Pimpernel</i></span></div>
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8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>The Lodger</i> (1944)<br />
BW - 1h 24m<br />
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In London in 1889, retiree Robert Bonting (Cedric Hardwicke) and his wife, Ellen (Sara Allgood), rent a spare room to the mysterious Slade (Laird Cregar) as Jack the Ripper continues to terrorize the city. The Bontings' niece, Kitty (Merle Oberon), is a music hall singer who initially grows fond of the eccentric lodger, but, when the Ripper's body count rises, she and a Scotland Yard inspector (George Sanders) gradually begin to suspect that Slade could be the notorious Whitechapel killer.<br />
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Dir: John Brahm<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood.<br />
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9:30 p.m.<br />
<i>Wuthering Heights</i> (1939)<br />
BW - 1h 44m<br />
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In this adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel set in 19th-century England, wealthy young Cathy Earnshaw (Merle Oberon) shares a loving bond with Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier), a poor childhood friend who now works in her stables. Unfortunately, things become complicated when the affluent Edgar Linton (David Niven) decides to pursue Cathy, and Heathcliff leaves out of resentment. Though Heathcliff returns with a self-made fortune, he realizes he may have lost Cathy in his absence.<br />
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Dir: William Wyler<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald.<br />
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11:30 p.m.<br />
<i>The Cowboy and the Lady</i> (1938)<br />
BW - 1h 31m<br />
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Bored with serving as official hostess at political events for her wealthy father, Mary Smith (Merle Oberon) goes to a bar, which is promptly raided. Displeased, her father sends her to Palm Beach with her two maids, who take her on a blind date, where she meets taciturn cowboy Stretch Willoughby (Gary Cooper). Learning that Stretch dislikes the idle rich, Mary pretends to be a maid, and after the couple falls in love and marries, she has some quick explaining to do to her father -- and Stretch.<br />
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Dir: H. C. Potter<br />
Cast: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Walter Brennan, Patsy Kelly.<br />
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1:15 a.m.<br />
<i>The Divorce of Lady X</i> (1938)<br />
Color - 1h 31m<br />
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Trapped in London due to the fog, lawyer Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier) grudgingly allows the use of his hotel sitting room by a stranded partygoer, Leslie Steele (Merle Oberon). Charmed by Leslie even after she tricks him into giving up his bedroom and pajamas, Everard becomes infatuated, despite his suspicion that she is married. When Lord Mere (Ralph Richardson) engages Everard to file for divorce against his wife, who met a man at the hotel, Everard fears he may be the "other" man.<br />
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Dir: Tim Whelan<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Binnie Barnes.<br />
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3:00 a.m<br />
<i>The Lion Has Wings</i> (1939)<br />
BW - 1h 16m<br />
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Royal Air Force squadron leader W.C. Richardson (Ralph Richardson), his wife (Merle Oberon) and a relative, Bobby, placidly ignore the military rumblings from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Only after the German takeover of Austria, Czechoslovakia and the invasion of Poland do the Richardsons accept that there must be war. Mr. Richardson and Bobby throw themselves into the first air raid assaults, while Mrs. Richardson and Bobby's girlfriend, June, volunteer for work at the first aid station.<br />
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Dir: Michael Powell<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Robert Douglas.<br />
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4:30 a.m<br />
<i>The Scarlet Pimpernel</i> (1934)<br />
BW - 1h 37m<br />
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At the heart of the French Revolution, effete aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) is secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel, leading an underground group dedicated to freeing nobles from the brutal Robespierre. Blakeney plays his part so well that even his own wife, Marguerite (Merle Oberon), doesn't suspect him. Robespierre's agent, Chauvelin (Raymond Massey), learns that Marguerite's brother is one of the Pimpernel's group, and she begins working unknowingly to destroy her own husband.<br />
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Dir: Harold Young<br />
Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce.<br />
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<b>#SOTM Films - Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19</b></div>
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Top L: Merle Oberon in <i>First Comes Courage</i></div>
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Top R: Merle Oberon in <i>A Song to Remember</i></div>
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Middle L: Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas in <span style="text-align: left;"><i>That Uncertain Feeling</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Middle R: Merle Oberon in <i>Lydia</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Bottom L: Merle Oberon and George Brent in </span><span style="text-align: left;"><i>'Til We Meet Again</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Bottom R: Merle Oberon in <i>Over the Moon</i></span></div>
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8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>First Comes Courage</i> (1943)<br />
BW - 1h 28m<br />
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Beautiful Norwegian woman Nicole Larsen (Merle Oberon) is dedicated to the local resistance movement, and seduces Nazi officer Paul Dichter (Carl Esmond) in order to gain information that will help to defeat the Germans. Complicating matters for Nicole are both the difficulty of her loathsome undercover work and the appearance of an old flame, handsome English soldier Allan Lowell (Brian Aherne), who would like nothing more than to reunite with her.<br />
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Dir: Dorothy Arzner<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Erville Alderson.<br />
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9:45 p.m.<br />
<i>A Song to Remember</i> (1945)<br />
Color - 1h 53m<br />
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Polish patriot and composer Frédéric Chopin (Cornel Wilde) is one of the 19th century's most famous musicians, whose love of country and devotion to his legendary music are threatened by his passionate affair with novelist George Sand (Merle Oberon) and his rivalry with mentor Józef Elsner (Paul Muni). Despite his failing health and Poland's subjugation by the Russians, Chopin continues playing, deciding to give one last rousing concert tour across Europe that could cost him his life.<br />
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Dir: Charles Vidor<br />
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch.<br />
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11:45 p.m.<br />
<i>That Uncertain Feeling</i> (1941)<br />
BW - 1h 24m<br />
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Jill Baker (Merle Oberon) has an incurable case of the hiccups, for which she reluctantly agrees to see a psychologist, Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray). During her first visit she realizes her hiccups may be related to nerves about her husband, Larry (Melvyn Douglas). Upon her second visit to the psychologist, she runs into a famous pianist (Burgess Meredith), and her doubts about her marriage are intensified when he starts courting her. Larry carries out a plan to renew his wife's affections.<br />
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Dir: Ernst Lubitsch<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray.<br />
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1:15 a.m.<br />
<i>Lydia</i> (1941)<br />
BW - 1h 44m<br />
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An older unmarried woman, Lydia MacMillan (Merle Oberon), gets reacquainted with a previous boyfriend, Michael (Joseph Cotten). When he invites Lydia to his house for tea, however, she has no idea that she's about to be confronted with her past. Two other men who courted Lydia years earlier, Bob (George Reeves) and Frank (Hans Jaray), are waiting for her and want to know why she never married. Her answer dredges up memories of Richard (Alan Marshal), the man she loved and is still waiting for.<br />
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Dir: Julien Duvivier<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, George Reeves, Hans Jaray.<br />
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3:00 a.m.<br />
<i>'Til We Meet Again</i> (1940)<br />
BW - 1h 39m<br />
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Time is short for Joan Ames (Merle Oberon). Suffering from a terminal illness, she has only weeks to live and has decided to spend her remaining days traveling the globe. While on a cruise ship back to America, she meets and falls in love with Dan Hardesty (George Brent). Joan doesn't want to ruin their romance by telling him the truth about her illness, but what Joan doesn't know is that Dan's time is limited too; he's a convicted criminal being sent back to America to face his execution.<br />
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Dir: Edmund Goulding<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald.<br />
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4:45 a.m.<br />
<i>Over the Moon</i> (1940)<br />
Color - 1h 18m<br />
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A young woman's (Merle Oberon) $90 million inheritance drives out her fiance (Rex Harrison) and draws fortune hunters.<br />
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Dir: Thornton Freeland<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas.<br />
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<b>#SOTM Films - Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26</b></div>
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Top L: Merle Oberon in <span style="text-align: left;"><i>Désirée</i></span></div>
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Top R: Merle Oberon in <i>Hotel</i></div>
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Middle L: Merle Oberon in <i>Deep in My Heart</i></div>
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Middle R: Merle Oberon in <i>Berlin Express</i></div>
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Bottom L: Merle Oberon in <i>Night Song</i></div>
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Bottom R: Merle Oberon in <i>Affectionately Yours</i></div>
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8:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Désirée</i> (1954)<br />
Color - 1h 50m<br />
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Désirée Clary (Jean Simmons) has met the love of her life, and his name is Napoleon Bonaparte (Marlon Brando). But their love is a difficult one, as Napoleon's rise through the military ranks takes him away from her, and they both eventually marry other people. Years later, as Napoleon seems destined to rule the known world, the two cross paths again and attempt to rekindle their romance. But when Napoleon's reign comes to a end, their relationship may not be able to survive.<br />
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Dir: Henry Koster<br />
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie.<br />
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10:00 p.m.<br />
<i>Hotel</i> (1967)<br />
Color - 2h 4m<br />
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Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas) may own a hotel that's the epitome of luxury, but the accounting books tell a different story. The St. Gregory Hotel is pretty much flat broke. To prevent a corporate takeover, Trent pins his hopes on the ingenuity of hotel manager Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor). But a revolving door of zany guests -- including a drunk-driving Duke of Lanbourne (Michael Rennie) and an intrepid thief named Keycase (Karl Malden) -- makes that a challenging task.<br />
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Dir: Richard Quine<br />
Cast: Rod Taylor, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Rennie.<br />
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12:15 a.m.<br />
<i>Deep in My Heart</i> (1954)<br />
Color - 2h 12m<br />
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A biographical musical charting the life of composer Sigmund Romberg (Jose Ferrer). Starting out as a musician working at a New York City café, Romberg quickly becomes one of the most successful composers of Broadway musicals, operettas and film scores in the early 20th century. His rise is charted through many musical numbers from his best-known works, such as "The Student Prince," "The Desert Song," and 'Rosalie," many of which feature an all-star cast of MGM performers.<br />
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Dir: Stanley Donen<br />
Cast: Jose Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Gene Kelly, Helen Traubel.<br />
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2:30 a.m.<br />
<i>Berlin Express</i> (1948)<br />
BW - 1h 27m<br />
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During World War II, passengers of various nationalities travel by train from France to Berlin. One of them, Dr. Bernhardt (Paul Lukas), is an influential peacemaker who wants to mend the war-torn continent. When Nazi conspirators determined to keep Bernhardt quiet set off an explosion on the train, it kills a man who turns out to be Bernhardt's decoy. Other passengers (Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Robert Coote) seek the doctor for an explanation, but deception is all around.<br />
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Dir: Jacques Tourneur<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote.<br />
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4:00 a.m.<br />
<i>Night Song</i> (1947)<br />
BW - 1h 42m<br />
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At a nightclub, pianist Dan Evans (Dana Andrews) impresses socialite Cathy Mallory (Merle Oberon) with his unique compositions. Learning from Dan's best friend, bandleader Chick Morgan (Hoagy Carmichael), that the proud and embittered Dan is blind, Cathy nevertheless tries to befriend him, only to be rebuffed. The single-minded Cathy then arranges with Chick to meet Dan, pretending to be blind and poor, then secretly arranges a composition contest hoping that Dan will win money for an operation.<br />
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Dir: John Cromwell<br />
Cast: Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore, Hoagy Carmichael, Eugene Ormandy.<br />
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<i>Affectionately Yours</i> (1941)<br />
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Tired of being ignored while her husband, Rick (Dennis Morgan), circles the globe -- and eyes the ladies -- as a war correspondent, Sue Mayberry (Merle Oberon) obtains a quick and easy divorce. Rick returns to New York, hoping to win Sue back, which looks impossible since she has a new fiancé, Owen Wright (Ralph Bellamy). Undeterred, Rick pretends to date fellow scribe Irene Malcolm (Rita Hayworth) so he can get Sue jealous and back into his arms. There's just one problem: Irene falls for Rick.<br />
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Dir: Lloyd Bacon<br />
Cast: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Ralph Bellamy, Rita Hayworth.<br />
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Merle Oberon on the Armed Forces Radio Service, <i>Keep 'Em Rolling</i>, <i>Lux Radio Theatre</i>, and <i>The Screen Guild Theater</i><br />
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<b><i>Affair in Monte Carlo</i> (1952)</b><br />
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D: Victor Saville. Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Peter Illing. Rich widow tries to convince gambler that romance is more rewarding than roulette. Monte Carlo backgrounds don't help.<br />
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<b><i>I, Claudius</i> (1937), <i>The Private Life of Don Juan</i> (1934) and <i>The Private Life of Henry VIII</i> (1933)</b><br />
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<i>I, Claudius</i> is an unfinished 1937 film adaptation of the novels <i>I, Claudius</i> (1934) and <i>Claudius the God</i> (1935) by Robert Graves. Produced by Alexander Korda, the film was directed by Josef von Sternberg, with Charles Laughton in the title role. The production was dogged by adverse circumstances, culminating in a car accident involving co-star Merle Oberon that caused filming to be ended before completion. Footage from the production was incorporated into a 1965 documentary on the making of the film, <i>The Epic That Never Was</i>.<br />
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<i>The Private Life of Don Juan</i> is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume. It was Fairbanks' final film role.<br />
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<i>The Private Life of Henry VIII</i> is a 1933 United Kingdom film directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon and Elsa Lanchester.<br />
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<b><i>Four Star Playhouse</i> - "Sound Off, My Love"</b><br />
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A woman (Merle Oberon) with a reputation of being hard of hearing secretly gets a hearing aid, and starts overhearing people making fun of her. Everyone knows her husband (Gordon Oliver) is having an affair, but she also discovers that he is trying to kill her.<br />
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I asked a friend's seven-year-old daughter to come up with a title for my recipe posts. She said, "You like dead famous people a lot. Can you use that in the title?" I replied, "They're not all dead. Some are just old." She said, "Old or dead famous people. Use that." So that's what I did:<br />
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Here's a collection of recipes from celebrities who were also handy in the kitchen. (List of recipes is in alphabetical order by celebrity last name.)<br />
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(This is a work in progress and I need your help. Please leave a comment to add recipes.)<br />
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<b>Gracie Allen's Creamed Turkey</b><br />
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Shred eight ounces of turkey white meat. Make a cream sauce as follows:<br />
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Melt two tablespoons flour, one heaped tablespoon butter, and dash of salt and pepper in a double boiler. Add one and one half cups milk. To this sauce add two raw egg yolks (removing pan from stove before beating in the eggs). Add one tablespoon sherry wine. Stir in the turkey meat. Pour mixture on to croutons and top with a tablespoon jellied consomme. Serve with cranberry sauce.<br />
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<b>Greer Garson's Deviled Prawns</b><br />
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One cup prawns<br />
3 tablespoons butter or other fat<br />
4 tablespoons flour<br />
2 cups milk<br />
3 hard-cooked eggs<br />
red pepper<br />
1 tablespoon chopped parsley<br />
few drops onion juice<br />
buttered crumbs<br />
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To prepare prawns, simmer them in salted water, wash, and drain. Remove the shell carefully, also the black line that runs the length of the body. Melt the fat, add the flour, and stir until smooth. Add the milk, heat, stirring constantly, and when it begins to thicken, add the eggs, which have been put through the sieve. Cut the prawns with a silver knife, and add to the sauce; season with the red pepper, parsley, and onion juice. Put the mixture in ramekins, cover with seasoned crumbs, and brown in a quick oven.<br />
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<b>Greer Garson's Ham Loaf</b><br />
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2 cups minced ham<br />
1 1/2 lbs. fresh (minced) pork<br />
2 eggs, slightly beaten<br />
1 cup milk<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
l/8 teaspoon pepper<br />
3/4 cup brown sugar<br />
1 teaspoon dry mustard<br />
1/4 cup vinegar<br />
6 slices tinned pineapple<br />
6 teaspoons red currant jelly<br />
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Mix ham and pork together. Add eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Grease a loaf pan generously. Pour in brown sugar mixed with mustard and vinegar. On this press the slices of pineapple with red currant jelly. Over this spread the meat. Bake in a moderate oven for 1 1/2 hours. Cut in slices and serve hot or cold.<br />
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<b>Greer Garson's Salmon Balls</b><br />
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A large tin of salmon<br />
Quarter loaf of stale bread<br />
Half a cup milk<br />
Juice of half lemon<br />
One tablespoon chopped parsley<br />
Two eggs (well beaten)<br />
Salt and pepper<br />
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Remove crust from the bread, which must be fairly dry. Tear into small pieces or grate on coarse grater or shredder. Add milk. Let stand a few minutes. Beat with a spoon until the bread is soft and broken up fine. Drain the salmon and remove skin and any bones.<br />
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Flake it finely and mix into the bread. Add the lemon juice, chopped parsley and well-beaten eggs. Season lightly to taste with salt and pepper.<br />
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Beat well until thoroughly blended and as smooth as you can get it. Drop by tablespoonfuls into hot fat, 375 degrees F., and fry until golden brown. Drain on greaseproof paper and serve hot. A good idea is to have a shallow dish lined with several thicknesses of paper ready and waiting in a warm oven.<br />
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Transfer the fried balls to this pan so they will keep hot while you are frying the rest. Serves six to eight.<br />
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<b>Jean Harlow's Cottage Meat Pie</b><br />
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21 ounces cooked beef roast (4 cups cooked pot roast, chopped fine)<br />
1 teaspoon parsley, minced<br />
2 tablespoons yellow onion, minced<br />
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce<br />
2 tablespoons pimento<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
1/2 teaspoon pepper<br />
Nutmeg, dash<br />
4 tablespoons butter<br />
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For the Topping<br />
4 cups mashed potatoes<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
1/2 teaspoon pepper<br />
4 tablespoons melted butter<br />
1 teaspoon milk<br />
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Mix meat mixture together except the butter. Butter heavily an earthenware dish. Pour in meat mixture. Top with potatoes, then smooth with knife dipped in milk, then make cross lines with fork across. Brush top with melted butter, then season. Bake in moderate oven, 45 minutes at 350 degrees F. or until golden.<br />
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<b>Jean Harlow's Hot Rolls</b><br />
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Use the following ingredients: 1 cup of warm milk, 1/2 cup of butter and shortening mixed, 1/2 cup of warm water with 1 cake of compressed yeast, 1 egg well beaten, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon sugar and enough flour to make soft dough. Set four hours, after which roll to 1/4-inch thickness and cut with biscuit cutter. Then brush with melted butter and put another biscuit on top and daub melted butter on top of that. Let stand two hours and then place them in a hot oven for 10 minutes.<br />
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<b>Louis Hayward's Neptune Newburg</b><br />
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4 tablespoons butter<br />
3 tablespoons flour<br />
1/4 cup milk<br />
1/2 cup table cream or coffee cream<br />
4 hard-boiled eggs<br />
1 cup flaked shrimp<br />
1 cup flaked crab meat<br />
2 tablespoons lemon juice<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1/8 teaspoon white pepper<br />
3 egg yolks (beaten)<br />
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Melt the butter, blend in the flour, gradually add milk and cream, stirring constantly. Cook about 15 minutes or until same is thickened, stirring occasionally. Add chopped eggs, shrimp, and crab meat, mixed with the lemon juice. Heat thoroughly, add salt and pepper. Before serving add the well-beaten egg yolks, and cook for 2 minutes longer. This may be prepared in a chafing dish or saucepan. Serves eight.<br />
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<b>Joy Hodges' Creamed Spinach</b><br />
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Clean spinach thoroughly (last washing in hot water) and cook in just the water that clings to the leaves. (Start it with cover on, and when spinach wilts remove cover.) Slice 1 small onion finely or chop if preferred, and cook with spinach. Drain thoroughly, and chop spinach fine with 1 hard-boiled egg. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in sufficient cream to make the mixture soft and smooth, and reheat in covered dish or in double boiler. (A bay leaf may be cooked with spinach if you like the flavor, and removed before chopping.)<br />
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<b>Joy Hodges' Hot Tamale Pie</b><br />
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1 egg<br />
1 cup milk<br />
1 cup oil<br />
1 large onion<br />
1 lb. minced steak or pork sausage<br />
3 tablespoons chili powder<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
1 can corn<br />
1 can tomatoes<br />
1/2 can ripe olives<br />
2 cups corn meal<br />
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Beat egg and milk together and fry entire mixture until meat is brown. Pour into baking dish. Cover with grated cheese. Bake in a moderate oven for approximately thirty minutes.<br />
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<b>Fay Holden's Coffee</b><br />
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Place in a saucepan, and for each cup place a heaped teaspoon of coffee <i>on top</i> of the milk mixture, but <i>do not mix</i>.<br />
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Let it come to a slow boil, but do not boil it. Allow it to simmer for a few seconds.<br />
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Then strain three times before serving--this is the only time the milk and coffee mix together.<br />
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<b>Fay Holden's Hardy Fruit Cake</b><br />
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1 lb. white raisins<br />
2 lbs. large gum drops, diced (no black ones)<br />
1 cup salted pecans<br />
4 cups flour<br />
1 tsp. cinnamon<br />
1/4 tsp. cloves<br />
1/4 tsp. nutmeg<br />
1/4 tsp. salt<br />
1 tsp. vanilla<br />
1 cup butter or other shortening<br />
2 cups sugar<br />
2 eggs, well beaten<br />
1 1/2 cups sieved applesauce<br />
1 tsp. baking soda<br />
1 tablespoon hot water<br />
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Sift flour, spices, and salt. Use part to dredge raisins and gum drops. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Add portions of flour and applesauce alternately to creamed mixture. Stir in baking soda which has been dissolved in hot water. Add vanilla, raisins, gum drops, and nuts. Pour into 2 or 3 small oiled loaf pans. Bake 2-3 hours at 250 degrees F. Be sure to line pans with wax paper and grease well as it is sticky due to the gum drops.<br />
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<b>Fay Holden's Rice Surprise</b><br />
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One cup boiled rice<br />
1 lb. of chopped blade-bone steak<br />
1 tin of tomato soup<br />
1/4 lb. cheese (grated)<br />
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In a buttered casserole dish, place a layer of rice, cheese, and the steak until the entire dish is filled, moistening each layer with the tomato soup. This is baked in a hot oven until crisp. Served with a fresh salad and hot coffee, it is as appropriate for dinner as for luncheon.<br />
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<b>Gloria Jean's Luncheon Salad</b><br />
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Tomato<br />
Cottage Cheese<br />
Chives<br />
Mayonnaise<br />
Sour Cream<br />
Watercress<br />
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Peel a large tomato and scoop out some of the fruit. Fill with cottage cheese mixed with chives and mayonnaise, thinned with sour cream. Serve chilled on a bed of watercress.<br />
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<b>Buster Keaton's Chop Suey</b><br />
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Grease an iron pot with 3 tablespoons peanut oil and add 1 cup raw, lean pork, cut into cubes and allow to cook until brown.<br />
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Now put into pot mixed vegetables and allow to steam under tight-fitting lid. The mixture of vegetables consists of:<br />
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2 1/2 cups water chestnuts cut in cubes,<br />
2 1/2 bamboo shoots,<br />
2 cups Chinese greens cut in small pieces,<br />
2 cups celery chopped into small pieces,<br />
1 cup chopped onions,<br />
3 cups canned mushrooms, chopped,<br />
5 cups bean sprouts,<br />
1/2 cup chopped salted almonds.<br />
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After steaming for 30 minutes, chicken stock is added to moisten. Thicken with 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Thin with chicken stock if too thick.<br />
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Dice whole roast chicken, being careful to use no skin or fat parts; place in pot and cook slowly for 15 minutes.<br />
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Add soy sauce as seasoning and to give it proper dark color.<br />
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<b>Andrea Leeds' Salad and Cheese Salad Balls</b><br />
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Salad:<br />
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3 tablespoons grated cheese<br />
2 cups cooked rice<br />
l teaspoon salt<br />
1 cup peas<br />
3 tablespoons minced celery<br />
4 tablespoons pimento<br />
lettuce and dressing<br />
4 tablespoons relish<br />
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Combine ingredients lightly, chill, serve on crisp lettuce with French dressing and cheese salad balls.<br />
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Cheese Salad Balls:<br />
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1/4 lb. Roquefort cheese<br />
small quantity cream or butter<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
1 tablespoon chopped chives<br />
1 tablespoon chopped parsley<br />
paprika<br />
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Combine cheese with small quantity of cream or butter and seasonings, work until soft, then add chives and parsley, mixing thoroughly. Roll into balls about the size of a walnut, sprinkle with paprika and serve with salad.<br />
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<b>Myrna Loy's Tomato Mushrooms</b><br />
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1 lb. tomatoes<br />
1/2 lb. pork sausages<br />
salt and cayenne<br />
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Wash tomatoes well. Cut in halves crosswise, and scoop out a small piece, from the center of each half. Sprinkle with salt and cayenne. Remove skin from sausages. Divide each sausage into two or three, according to the size, and save a little for the "stalks." Spread a portion of the sausage meat over the tomato halves, spreading well to the edge. Press a hole in the center. Dust with flour and dot with butter. Bake in a hot oven until tender. Meanwhile, fold leftover sausage meat in roll on floured board. Cut into short lengths. Flour them and fry in hot fat. When tomatoes are cooked, place one of these stalks in the center of each. Serve on bed of lettuce.<br />
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<b>Ida Lupino's Salmon Salad</b><br />
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1 small can salmon<br />
1 cup chopped celery<br />
1 cup ground cabbage<br />
1 cup ground peanuts<br />
6 sweet pickles (ground)<br />
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Mix with mayonnaise or boiled dressing and serve on crisp iced lettuce leaves.<br />
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<b>Robert Montgomery's Black Bean Soup</b><br />
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2 lbs. black beans<br />
1 lb. lean shoulder steak<br />
2 hard-boiled eggs<br />
3 lemons<br />
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Soak beans 24 hours before cooking. Put on to boil in 1 gallon water. Let cook all day, being careful not to let beans stick to pot; set off for night to cool; strain and put on stove with meat and cook for 2 to 3 hours, adding water as needed. Take out beef, season with salt and red pepper. Serve with hard-boiled eggs and lemon slices.<br />
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<b>Karen Morley's Steamed Cottage Pudding</b><br />
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2 cups flour<br />
1/2 teaspoon baking powder<br />
pinch salt<br />
small cup butter<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1/2 cup milk<br />
4 eggs, separated<br />
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Cream butter and sugar until smooth; add well-beaten egg yolks, beating constantly, add milk; add to this mixture dry ingredients, constantly beating; fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Steam entire mixture over boiling water tor 1 1/2 hours. Serve with hot chocolate sauce.<br />
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<b>Ona Munson's Mexican Salad</b><br />
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Line a large flat bowl with crisp lettuce. Cover with 4 tomatoes, sliced. Peel and slice 2 medium sweet white onions, and separate into rings. Arrange on tomatoes. Garnish with asparagus, radiating from center in two rows, with ripe olives in center and at intervals around the plate. Sprinkle with minced parsley, and serve with:<br />
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Mix together 1 teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon prepared mustard. Mix to a paste with 1/4 cup vinegar, adding it gradually. Add 1/4 cup olive oil, and beat thoroughly.<br />
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<b>Ramon Novarro's Asparagus, Italian Style</b><br />
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At the bottom of a Pyrex dish place some small pieces of butter and grated Gruyere cheese. Carefully arrange a layer of asparagus which has been cooked long enough to have become thoroughly steamed. Now add cheese and butter with another layer of asparagus. Sprinkle over top with cheese and butter. Place in oven for not more than 15 minutes and serve piping hot.<br />
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<b>Ramon Novarro's Spanish Rice</b><br />
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1 cup rice<br />
1 can tomatoes<br />
2 onions<br />
2 green peppers<br />
Chili powder<br />
Olive oil<br />
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Take 1 cup of rice and put it in a frying pan with enough olive oil to cover the pan a half an inch thick. Stir it until the grains are separated and brown. Add 1 can of tomatoes, 2 finely chopped onions and 2 chopped green peppers. Then season to taste with salt, pepper, and chili powder. Add enough water to make the mixture quite moist. Cover the pan and do not stir or remove the cover. Allow this to simmer slowly for half an hour.<br />
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<b>Maureen O'Sullivan's Irish Bread</b><br />
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1 level teaspoon soda bicarb (baking soda)<br />
1 1/2 cups sour milk<br />
Four cups flour<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
2 teaspoons baking powder<br />
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Mix baking soda in milk. Stir into sifted flour, salt and baking powder using a knife. Beat and cut with knife, keeping blade cool until dough is stiff. Spread in greased pan and mark a cross on top of dough. Bake in slow oven (300-325 degrees F.) for one and a half hours.<br />
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<b>Mary Pickford's Enchiladas</b><br />
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Make a thin pancake dough with corn flour, fry in a pan with the following preparation: 1 smothered chopped onion, a few chili peppers, sliced radishes, green peppers and grated cheese. Now make the following Spanish sauce to cover the enchiladas, using 2 green peppers, 2 onions, 4 garlic cloves, all fried in butter; then add 1 pound of ground fried meat, browned, 1 can of strained tomato puree, 1 tablespoon of chili powder, 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce and 1 cup of soup stock. Cook this all for one hour on a low flame.<br />
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<b>Walter Pidgeon's Ham and Egg Pie</b><br />
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4 eggs, beaten<br />
1/4 teaspoon pepper<br />
1/4 teaspoon baking powder<br />
1/2 cup milk<br />
2 cups cooked ham, diced<br />
1 cup grated cheese<br />
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Beat eggs slightly and add pepper, baking powder, milk, ham, and cheese. Pour ham mixture into a 9-inch unbaked pie shell. Bake in hot oven (425 degrees F.) 35 minutes, or until knife inserted comes out clean. Serve with grilled tomatoes or a crisp green salad.<br />
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<b>Walter Pidgeon's Romaine Lettuce Salad</b><br />
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Crisp romaine lettuce cut into small pieces, mixed with mayonnaise dressing into which has been mixed cream cheese. Serve chilled with tomato biscuits. (Use tomato juice for liquid in making biscuits.)<br />
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<b>Tyrone Power's Turkey Stuffing</b><br />
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1 quart chestnuts<br />
1 pint breadcrumbs<br />
1/4 cup butter, chicken fat or lard<br />
1 tsp. salt<br />
1 egg, well beaten<br />
1/4 cup chopped celery<br />
2 tsps. poultry seasoning<br />
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Make a gash in each chestnut. Place in an iron skillet with 1 tablespoon butter, and shake over hot flame for a few minutes. Place chestnuts in oven for 10 minutes. Then remove shells and skins. Cover the blanched chestnuts with boiling salted water and cook until tender. Strain and put through a ricer. Add rest of ingredients and mix well.<br />
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<b>Basil Rathbone's Fried Lamb with Rice and Currant Jelly</b><br />
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One quart hot, boiled rice<br />
1 1/2 pounds lamb steak<br />
2 tablespoons butter<br />
1 glass currant jelly<br />
salt to taste<br />
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Cut young, tender meat into one-inch cubes, season, fry in butter until meat is brown and tender. Push to one side of pan. Add jelly and melt with meat juice. Place hot rice in center of platter. Place hot lamb around rice. Pour hot sauce over the rice. Serve immediately.<br />
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<b>Charles "Buddy" Rogers' Oyster Fricassee</b><br />
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Clean 1 pint of oysters, heat oyster liquor to boiling point and strain through double thickness of cheesecloth. Add oysters to liquor and cook until plump. Remove oysters with skimmer and add enough cream to liquor to make a full cup. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter, add 2 tablespoons flour and pour hot liquid on gradually. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt, a few grains of cayenne, 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley, oysters and 1 egg slightly beaten.<br />
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<b>Norma Shearer's Chicken a la King</b><br />
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The chicken is cut up fine and is then added to a sauce prepared as follows: A quarter of a pound of butter melted in a chafing dish, to which is added three level tablespoons of flour. When this is well blended add gradually two cups of cream. Let this cook for a minute, stirring constantly, then add pepper, salt, paprika, a teaspoonful of garlic and onion minced so finely that it is a paste, and two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese. When this sauce has become smooth, add the chicken and serve instantly over buttered toast.<br />
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<b>Norma Shearer's Chicken Croquettes</b><br />
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1 cup minced chicken<br />
1 dessertspoon (2 teaspoons) chopped parsley<br />
1 dessertspoon (2 teaspoons) flour<br />
1 pint milk or chicken stock<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
4 oz. ham<br />
grated nutmeg<br />
1 dessertspoon (2 teaspoons) butter<br />
2 hard-boiled eggs<br />
bread crumbs<br />
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Make a thick white sauce, using the butter, flour and milk or chicken stock. Mix together the minced chicken, ham, nutmeg, parsley and chopped, hard-boiled eggs; add to sauce and mix well. Take one tablespoon of this mixture and roll in a long shape to form a croquette. Cover with seasoned flour, dip in egg glazing and toss in bread crumbs. Deep fry In fusing hot fat until a golden brown. Drain on white paper. Serve on a paper d'oyley (doily) piled on a hot dish.<br />
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<b>Lewis Stone's Stuffed Meat Loaf</b><br />
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1 1/2 lbs. beef (minced)<br />
1/2 lb. pork (minced)<br />
4 slices bread (soaked in warm water and drained)<br />
1 medium onion (chopped)<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
1/4 teaspoon pepper<br />
2 eggs, slightly beaten<br />
2 tablespoons shortening<br />
1/2 cup chili sauce<br />
Onion stuffing<br />
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Meatloaf:<br />
Combine beef, pork, bread, onion, salt, pepper, and eggs. Mix thoroughly. Line bottom and sides of a greased loaf pan with 1/2 meat mixture. Fill center of pan with onion stuffing. Cover top with remaining meat. Spread loaf with shortening and cover with chili sauce. Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) for 1 1/2 hours. (Serves 6-8.)<br />
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Onion Stuffing:<br />
3 onions (chopped)<br />
1/4 cup shortening<br />
1 1/2 cups soft bread crumbs<br />
1 teaspoon sage<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1/8 teaspoon pepper<br />
2 tablespoons parsley (chopped)<br />
1 egg (beaten)<br />
2 tablespoons water<br />
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Cook onions slowly in melted shortening until yellow, add bread crumbs, sage, salt, pepper, and parsley. Saute until slightly browned. Remove from fire and add beaten egg and water.<br />
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<b>Warren William's Baked Onions with Rice</b><br />
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6 or 8 onions<br />
1 cup white sauce<br />
3/4 cup grated American cheese<br />
2 cups rice<br />
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Peel six or eight onions and parboil until almost tender, changing the water once. To one cup well seasoned medium thick white sauce, add three-fourths cup grated American cheese. Bring to the boiling point over a low heat, stirring constantly. Place in a buttered casserole alternate layers of cooked rice, and the onions, broken apart. Cover with the cheese sauce and bake in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes.<br />
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<b>Warren William's Stuffed Pork Chops</b><br />
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6 thick (one inch or inch and a half) loin pork chops<br />
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For the dressing, mix together:<br />
1 1/2 cups soft bread crumbs<br />
1/2 cup chopped tart apples<br />
2 tablespoons green pepper<br />
1 tablespoon chopped onion<br />
2 tablespoons melted butter<br />
salt and pepper<br />
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Wipe pork chops and slit a pocket the entire length of the fat side of each chop. Avoid cutting too near the ends, which will spoil the pocket. Stuff each pocket as full as possible with the dressing. Skewer each chop with two toothpicks. Arrange in a shallow baking pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Tuck leftover dressing around chops. Pour in enough water barely to cover the bottom of the pan. Bake an hour or longer, depending on the thickness of the chops, at 325 to 350 degrees. Baste the meat occasionally.</div>
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I asked a friend's seven-year-old daughter to come up with a title for my recipe posts. She said, "You like dead famous people a lot. Can you use that in the title?" I replied, "They're not all dead. Some are just old." She said, "Old or dead famous people. Use that." So that's what I did:<br />
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Here's a collection of recipes from celebrities who were also handy in the kitchen. (List of recipes is in alphabetical order by celebrity last name.)<br />
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(This is a work in progress and I need your help. Please leave a comment to add recipes.)<br />
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<b>Did You Know?</b><br />
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A cool oven has temperature set to 90 degrees C. (200 degrees F.), and a slow oven has a temperature range from 150-160 degrees C. (300-325 degrees F.). A moderate oven has a range of 180-190 degrees C. (350-375 degrees F.), and a hot oven has temperature set to 200-230 degrees C. (400-450 degrees F.).<br />
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1 dessertspoonful = two teaspoons<br />
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<b>Wendy Barrie's Crab Lorenzo</b><br />
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1 large can mushrooms<br />
1 large can crab meat<br />
4 tablespoons butter<br />
seasoning<br />
1 package noodles<br />
2 cups milk,<br />
3 packages grated cheese<br />
4 tablespoons flour<br />
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Cook noodles seven minutes in salted water. Drain and let dry. Make white sauce of flour and butter in double boiler, adding milk gradually. When smooth add cheese and mushrooms (the mushrooms should be drained). Then add crab meat, seasoning, and noodles. Grease baking dish well and pour in mixture. Cover with buttered bread crumbs and cook 25 minutes in oven, or until brown. Serve in shells or ramekins. (It may be baked in these if preferred, and rice may be substituted in place of noodles.) This serves eight people.<br />
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<b>Freddie Bartholomew's Corned Beef Hash</b><br />
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Dice corned beef and potatoes together. Saute half an onion in butter. Add 1/2 teaspoon English mustard and 1 tablespoon tomato sauce. Brown slightly. Place in baking dish and bake until crust appears on top. Serve with chip potatoes.<br />
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<b>Edwina Booth's Fruit Salad</b><br />
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All sorts of fresh fruits, dates, figs, nuts, and avocados cut up and mixed with mayonnaise and garnished with whipped cream. Cheese wafers and tea with the salad make a most perfect luncheon according to Miss Booth.<br />
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<b>Virginia Bruce's Steamed Cottage Pudding</b><br />
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2 cups flour<br />
1/2 teaspoon baking powder<br />
1 pinch salt<br />
1 cube butter<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1/2 cup milk<br />
4 eggs, separated<br />
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Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add well-beaten egg yolks; beating constantly, add milk. Add to this mixture dry ingredients, constantly beating. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Steam entire mixture over boiling water for 1 1/2 hours. Serve with hot chocolate sauce.<br />
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<b>Bruce Cabot's French Fried Onions</b><br />
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Slice large Spanish onions thin and separate the rings. Soak the rings in milk for about half an hour. Have the deep fat heated to between 380 and 390 degrees. Drain the onion rings and dip them in salted flour. Have the flour in a deep bowl, and shake the rings well until they are well floured. Then drop a few at a time into the fat, cook until golden brown. Drain on wrapping paper before serving.<br />
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<b>James Cagney's Apple Cheese Pie</b><br />
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7 cups pared, sliced cooking apples<br />
1/2 cup granulated sugar<br />
1/2 cup brown sugar<br />
3 tablespoons flour<br />
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon<br />
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg<br />
Prepared pastry for double-crust, 9-inch pie<br />
1/2 pound sliced Cheddar cheese<br />
2 tablespoons butter, cut in small pieces<br />
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Toss together apples, sugars, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl until mixed.<br />
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Roll out bottom pie crust and place in a 9-inch pie plate. Fill with half apple mixture. Cover with layer of cheese. Add rest of apples. Dot top with small pieces of butter.<br />
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Roll out top crust. Place over the apples. Wrap excess top crust under bottom crust edge, pressing edges together to seal; flute. Cut slits or shapes in several places in top crust.<br />
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Bake in a 425 degrees F. oven for 40 minutes or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown. Cover edge of crust with 2- to 3-inch wide strips of foil after first 15 to 20 minutes of baking to prevent excessive browning. Serve warm.<br />
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<b>James Cagney's Egg-in-a-Hole</b><br />
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1 slice good bread<br />
olive oil or butter<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
1 good egg<br />
1 garlic clove, sliced (optional)<br />
pinch of red pepper flakes<br />
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Using a small glass or a cookie cutter, punch a hole in the center of the bread. Lightly paint both sides of the bread with olive oil, as well as the punched-out round (or brush with butter if you prefer).<br />
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Heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, lay in the bread. Let it begin to sizzle, then crack the egg into the hole. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with the garlic, if using. Brown the little round too, but be careful, as it will cook more quickly. When the bread is golden on one side and the egg is partially set, quickly flip it with a spatula and continue cooking for a minute or two more. A runny yolk is the aim. Sprinkle the top lightly with salt and pepper and a few red pepper flakes.<br />
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<b>James Cagney's Meatballs and Beans</b><br />
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For the Meatballs:<br />
1 1/2 pounds ground beef<br />
1 yellow onion, chopped<br />
1 tablespoon A-1 Steak Sauce<br />
1 tablespoons parsley, minced<br />
1/2 teaspoon oregano<br />
1/8 teaspoon paprika<br />
1/8 teaspoon rosemary<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1/2 teaspoon pepper<br />
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For the Coating:<br />
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs<br />
3 tablespoons olive oil<br />
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For the Sauce:<br />
1 can (8-ounce) tomato sauce<br />
1/3 cup ketchup<br />
1/2 cup sour cream<br />
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1 can (15-ounce) kidney beans, drained<br />
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Mix meatball ingredients together. Take by tablespoonfuls and form into balls. Coat the meatballs in bread crumbs. Fry in oil until browned.<br />
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Meanwhile in bowl, mix sauce ingredients together, then add to browned meatballs. Bring everything but beans to a simmer.<br />
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Add beans and cook meatballs through.<br />
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<b>James Cagney's New England Clam Chowder</b><br />
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3 dozen shucked raw, clams and their liquid<br />
1 1/2 cups water, salted with 1 1/2 tsps. salt<br />
2 red potatoes, thinly sliced with skins on<br />
1/4 lb. diced bacon<br />
2 medium onions, chopped<br />
1 small bottle (8 oz.) clam juice<br />
1/2 tsp. salt<br />
1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper<br />
1/4 tsp. dried savory<br />
1/4 tsp. fresh thyme<br />
3 cups milk or light cream<br />
Snipped parsley<br />
1 tbsp. butter<br />
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Mince clams and drain liquid, reserving separately. (i.e.-Set liquid aside. Set clams aside separately.)<br />
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In large soup pot, cook potatoes in salted water until tender.<br />
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Cook bacon in a skillet. Add bacon to pot.<br />
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In bacon fat remaining in skillet, cook onions until soft. Add onions to soup pot along with bottle of clam juice and reserved clam liquid. Add salt, pepper, savory, and thyme. Heat to boiling. Lower heat to simmer. Simmer five minutes.<br />
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Add three cups milk or cream. Heat through. Once hot, add reserved clams and heat just until clams are cooked, but still tender. Serve chowder in bowls garnished with small bit of butter and snipped parsley on top of each.<br />
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<b>Dolores del Rio's Enchiladas</b><br />
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1 pound fresh tomatoes<br />
1 medium onion, finely cut<br />
2 small cans green chiles, finely cut<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
4 asaderos (Mexican cheese)<br />
1 pint sour cream<br />
1 dozen tortillas<br />
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Scald tomatoes, peel and dice. Fry onions in lard, then add tomatoes and continue frying. Add chiles and season with salt and pepper to taste. Add asaderos. When it begins to melt; remove from fire.<br />
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Fry tortillas, one by one, in lard, leaving them soft. Place tortillas on plate and put in the center of each one a mixture of tomatoes, onions, cheese and chiles, roll each one and cover them with sour cream. Serve immediately.<br />
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<b>William Demarest's Sour Cream Waffles</b><br />
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2 cups cake flour<br />
1/8 teaspoon salt<br />
2 teaspoons baking powder<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
1 teaspoon granulated sugar<br />
2 cups sour cream<br />
1/2 cup buttermilk<br />
6 tablespoons butter, melted (3/4 stick)<br />
4 large eggs (separated, whites beaten stiff)<br />
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Sift dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and mix. Add egg yolks and mix. Fold in egg whites. Bake in hot waffle iron.<br />
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<b>Alan Dinehart's Baked Red Kidney Beans</b><br />
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1 large can kidney beans<br />
2 medium or 1 large onion<br />
1 can tomato soup<br />
3 strips bacon<br />
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Put a layer of beans in greased baking dish. Then thin layer of sliced onions. Cut bacon into small pieces, and lay on top of onion. Repeat until ingredients are used. Pour can of tomato soup over all, and bake 2 hours. Recipe may be doubled or tripled to serve more people. Delicious substitute for meat, and kept hot, is a grand dish for picnics or out-of-door meals.<br />
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<b>Richard Dix's Eggnog Pie Deluxe</b><br />
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Separate yolks from whites of 4 eggs. Beat yolks separately and into them stir 2 tablespoons and 1/2 cup sugar. While doing this have 2 cups milk scalding in top of double boiler. Pour scalded milk over egg yolk mixture, return to double boiler and cook until thick. When cold, fold in stiffly beaten white of 1 egg and add rum flavoring. Pour into pie shell and top with meringue made from 3 remaining egg whites, stiffly beaten and sweetened with 6 tablespoons powdered sugar. In making crust, crumb 15 graham crackers. Into this work 1/2 cup butter and 1 tablespoon sugar. Press mixture firmly with fingers against bottom and sides of buttered pie tin and bake for 10 minutes in moderate oven, about 325 degrees F.<br />
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<b>Richard Dix's Kippered Alaska Cod</b><br />
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Piece of kippered cod about 1 1/2 pounds<br />
6 medium onions<br />
2 tablespoons butter<br />
1 cup medium thick white sauce<br />
1 tablespoon butter<br />
Seasoning to taste<br />
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Boil the kippered cod until tender, drain and put in earthen casserole. Pare and slice the onions and fry to a golden brown in 2 tablespoons butter. Spread over the fish, add a tablespoon butter and put the casserole uncovered in the oven for 5 minutes or until lightly browned. Send to the table at once without taking from casserole.<br />
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In making the white sauce, use enough butter to make a good rich sauce or add a little cream when blending.<br />
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<b>Deanna Durbin's Ham Loaf</b><br />
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2 cups minced ham<br />
1 1/2 lbs. fresh (minced) pork<br />
2 eggs<br />
1 cup milk<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1/8 teaspoon pepper<br />
1/4 cup brown sugar<br />
1 teaspoon dry mustard<br />
1/4 cup vinegar<br />
6 slices tinned pineapple<br />
6 teaspoons red currant jelly<br />
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Mix ham and pork together. Add slightly beaten eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Grease a loaf pan generously. Pour in brown sugar mixed with mustard and vinegar. On this press the slices of pineapple with red currant jelly. Over this spread the meat. Bake in a moderate oven for 1 1/2 hours. Cut in slices and serve hot or cold.<br />
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<b>Nelson Eddy's Shortnin' Bread</b><br />
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4 cups all-purpose flour<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
2 cups butter<br />
1 cup light brown sugar<br />
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.<br />
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Sift together flour and salt.<br />
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Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Add the flour mixture a bit at a time until mixed well.<br />
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Roll out on a floured board to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut into "ladyfinger"-like slices.<br />
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Place on a greased pan and bake for 20 minutes, or until just beginning to brown. Cool completely.<br />
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<b>Patricia Ellis' Lime Sauce</b><br />
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4 tablespoons catsup<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
few drops of Tabasco sauce<br />
7 tablespoons fresh lime juice (4 good-sized limes will give this amount).<br />
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Blend together the catsup, salt, fresh lime juice, and Tabasco. Chill thoroughly. Serve on shrimp or seafood cocktails.<br />
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<b>Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s Boston Brown Bread</b><br />
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1 cup graham or whole wheat flour<br />
1 cup corn meal<br />
1 cup white flour<br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
3/4 cup molasses<br />
2 cups sour milk<br />
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Mix and sift the dry ingredients, add the sour milk and molasses. Beat well and fill buttered molds with closely fitting covers, 2/3 full. Let stand 1/2 hour and then steam 3 hours, taking care that the water does not come over the rack on which the tins are placed. Boston brown bread is sometimes not steamed but baked in a moderate oven, but the result is not so satisfactory.<br />
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<b>Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'s Gnocchi a la Romaine</b><br />
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1 qt. milk<br />
1/4 lb. butter<br />
1 nutmeg (ground)<br />
salt and pepper<br />
6 oz. Cream of Wheat<br />
2 egg yolks<br />
1/2 lb. Swiss cheese (grated)<br />
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Combine one quart of milk with one-fourth pound of butter, melted, one nutmeg (ground) and salt and pepper. Let come to a boil, add six ounces of Cream of Wheat, and cook in a double boiler for an hour. Add two egg yolks and one-half pound of Swiss cheese (grated). Put in a flat pan, about one inch deep, and cool. Cut in round shapes and put in a buttered baking pan or dish. Cover with grated Swiss cheese and bake for fifteen minutes. Serve very hot.<br />
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<b>Kay Francis' Dinner in a Dish</b><br />
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"Butter the casserole generously," says Kay. "Press salmon together in a large mound in the center, then select any one of your favorite vegetables that is good when creamed, such as spinach, asparagus, or peas. Make a thick cream sauce in a saucepan and combine it with the cooked vegetable. Season well. Fill the casserole around the salmon with alternate layers of the creamed vegetable and rolled bread crumbs. Bake through and presto--you have a dinner and every vitamin the normal person needs is present."<br />
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<b>Clark Gable's Baked Stuffed Pork Tenderloin</b><br />
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3 pork tenderloins<br />
Melted butter<br />
2 cups crumbled toasted bread<br />
1/3 cup boiling water<br />
1 egg, beaten lightly<br />
¼ cup butter<br />
½ small onion, minced<br />
½ teaspoon minced parsley<br />
½ teaspoon salt<br />
¼ teaspoon celery salt<br />
1/8 teaspoon powdered sage<br />
Sprinkling of salt<br />
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Split the tenderloins so they will lie flat. Brush with melted butter. Then prepare the following stuffing:<br />
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Pour boiling water over toasted crumbs (the crumbs should be well moistened) then add beaten eggs, butter, onion, parsley, salt, celery salt, sage and a sprinkling of pepper. Mix all together until light, then spread on pork tenderloins and tie with a string. Arrange in a greased baking dish, sprinkle lightly with salt, put about a half cup of water in bottom of pan and bake at 400 degrees F. about an hour, or until tender. To serve, cut and remove string. Thicken pan gravy and serve with tenderloins.<br />
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<b>Clark Gable's Pancakes</b><br />
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1 1/2 cups flour<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
3 teaspoons baking powder<br />
1 teaspoon sugar<br />
1 egg<br />
1 tablespoon melted butter<br />
1 cup milk (or water)<br />
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Sift flour, measure. Mix and sift together with salt, baking powder and sugar. Beat egg, combine with liquid and add to dry ingredients. Beat until smooth. Add melted butter. Mix thoroughly. Bake on hot greased griddle until filled with bubbles and golden brown on under side. Turn and bake on the other side until done.<br />
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<b>Clark Gable's Southern Fried Chicken</b><br />
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3 lb. frying chicken, cut into serving pieces<br />
1/2 cup shortening<br />
1/4 cup water<br />
1 1/2 tablespoons flour<br />
1/2 teaspoons salt<br />
1 - 8 teaspoons pepper<br />
1/2 teaspoons paprika<br />
1 cup boiling water.<br />
2 tablespoons cream<br />
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Roll pieces of chicken in a seasoned flour. Fry chicken in hot shortening in frying pan. Brown well on both sides, then reduce heat slightly. Add water. Cover and cook for 15 minutes on each side, or until chicken is tender. Pour off from pan all but two tablespoons fat. Add flour, blend and stir until richly browned. Add salt, pepper, paprika and boiling water. Cook until smooth and thickened, stirring constantly. Add cream and blend. Pour around chicken. Serves four people.<br />
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<b>Katharine Hepburn's Eggplant Casserole</b><br />
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Butter for frying and sauteing<br />
1 1/2 pounds eggplant, sliced<br />
1 yellow onion, chopped<br />
2 cups tomatoes, chopped<br />
1 tablespoon parsley, chopped<br />
2 cups buttered bread crumbs<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
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Fry eggplant in butter, remove, then add onions, tomatoes, and parsley; cook a few minutes.<br />
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In a Pam-sprayed casserole, layer eggplant, sauce, then bread crumbs; repeat.<br />
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Bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees F., or until browned and bubbly.<br />
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<b>President John F. Kennedy's Seafood Casserole</b><br />
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1/2 pound crab meat, fresh cooked<br />
1/2 pound lobster meat, fresh cooked<br />
1 pound shrimp, fresh and deveined<br />
1 cup mayonnaise<br />
1/2 cup chopped green pepper<br />
1/4 cup chopped green onion<br />
1 1/2 cups chopped celery<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce<br />
2 cups crushed potato chips<br />
Paprika (to garnish)<br />
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Mix all ingredients except the potato chips together. Pour into greased casserole dish. Top with crushed potato chips. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake in 400 degrees F. oven 20 minutes, or until hot and bubbly.<br />
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<b>President John F. Kennedy's Waffles</b><br />
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1/2 cup butter<br />
1 tablespoon granulated sugar<br />
2 egg yolks<br />
1 pinch salt<br />
1 cup cake flour<br />
1 tablespoon cake flour<br />
4 teaspoons baking powder<br />
1 cup buttermilk<br />
2 egg whites (beaten stiff)<br />
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Cream butter and sugar. Add yolks and blend. Add sifted dry ingredients and blend. Add milk and blend. Fold in egg whites. Cook in waffle iron.<br />
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<b>Carole Lombard's Salisbury Meatballs</b><br />
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1 1/2 pounds ground round<br />
2 tablespoons olive oil<br />
2 yellow onions, chopped fine<br />
1 clove garlic, minced<br />
1 bell pepper, chopped fine<br />
1 can (10.75-ounce) tomato soup<br />
1/2 cup chili sauce<br />
1 cup water<br />
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Roll the meat into little balls. Brown in hot olive oil. Add vegetables and saute until soft.<br />
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Add soup, chili sauce, and water. Simmer until meatballs are cooked through and sauce thickens.<br />
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<b>Jeanette MacDonald's Baked Beans</b><br />
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3 to 4 (15-ounce) cans navy beans, drained<br />
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For sauce:<br />
1 tbsp. Karo molasses<br />
1 tsp. India relish<br />
1 tbsp. chili sauce<br />
1/2 tsp. chopped onion<br />
1/2 tsp. prepared mustard<br />
dash of Worcestershire sauce<br />
1/2 large tomato, peeled and crushed<br />
1 tbsp. maple syrup<br />
1 tbsp. brown sugar<br />
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Most effective if made in an old-fashioned bean pot. Put half a can of beans in bottom of bean pot. Sprinkle with all of sauce ingredients. Top with the rest of the can of beans.<br />
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Repeat layers of beans and sauce ingredients, using as many as three or four cans of beans, according to the amount desired.<br />
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When pot is filled, spread strips of bacon across the top, and sprinkle with brown sugar. If you do not like your beans sweet, use less maple syrup and brown sugar. Also, if you like them less liquid, squeeze out some of the tomato juice before adding to the overall mixture. Place in hot oven (400 degrees F.) for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Serve with hot, buttered Boston brown bread (recipe follows).<br />
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<b>Jeanette MacDonald's Boston Brown Bread</b><br />
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1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal<br />
1 cup graham or whole wheat flour<br />
1 cup rye flour<br />
2 tbsps. sugar<br />
1 tsp. baking soda<br />
1/2 tsp. salt<br />
2 cups sour milk<br />
1/2 cup molasses<br />
2/3 cup raisins<br />
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Combine dry ingredients. Mix together milk, molasses and raisins. Stir liquid ingredients into dry ingredients. Divide batter, pour into two buttered one-quart pudding molds filling 2/3 full. Cover tightly. Place in pan filled with boiling water (enough water to reach halfway up the mold.) Steam about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Add more water as needed to keep water at proper level. Remove molds from water. Undercover and set in 300 degrees F. oven for 20-30 minutes to dry off. Remove from molds and serve hot with butter.<br />
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<b>Ricardo Montalban's Torta Aztec</b><br />
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8 tortillas<br />
1/2 cup oil<br />
4 chorizos (Mexican sausage)<br />
grated Cheddar cheese<br />
1 pound Monterey Jack cheese<br />
6 hard-boiled eggs<br />
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Fry tortillas in oil lightly. As each is fried set aside. Skin and crumble chorizos and fry, set aside. Cube Monterey Jack cheese and slice hard cooked eggs. When this is done make sauce as follows:<br />
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1 medium minced onion<br />
1/4 cup oil<br />
3 cups tomato puree<br />
1 tsp. oregano<br />
1 bay leaf<br />
Salt and pepper<br />
3 green chiles<br />
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Fry onions in oil. Add tomato puree. Season with oregano, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Chop and add chiles. Cook covered for 30 minutes. When sauce is done, place one tortilla in casserole and on it spread chorizo, grated Cheddar cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, 2 or 3 tablespoons of the sauce and ring of hard boiled eggs. Repeat this procedure until all tortillas have been used. Sprinkle remaining chorizo and Monterey Jack cheese over top and pour all remaining sauce on top of casserole. Bake in moderate oven, 350 degrees F. for 45 minutes. Cut as you would a cake. Serve with refried beans. (Serves 6.)<br />
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<b>Sabu's Spicy Coconut Chicken</b><br />
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4 boneless chicken breasts<br />
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Marinade:<br />
1/2 cup coconut milk<br />
1/2 cup apricot jam<br />
1/4 cup Dijon mustard<br />
1/4 cup orange juice<br />
1 tablespoon curry powder<br />
1 teaspoon pepper<br />
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Stir marinade ingredients together. Reserve as much marinade as you will need for sauce and refrigerate. Never "reuse" marinade for sauce after it has come in contact with raw protein as some older recipes recommend.<br />
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Put marinade in a large Ziploc bag suitable for marinating. Add chicken breasts making sure they are covered with the marinade. Refrigerate.<br />
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Next day take out breasts, grill until the chicken reaches a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 degrees.<br />
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In a saucepan, heat reserved marinade until smooth. Use on top of chicken.<br />
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<b>Natalie Schafer's Tuna Salad</b><br />
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1 can (12-ounce) tuna, drained<br />
3 tablespoons mayonnaise (may need more)<br />
2 large eggs, hard-boiled<br />
2 tablespoons minced bell pepper<br />
2 minced green onions<br />
dash of Worcestershire sauce<br />
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Mix all ingredients together and chill.<br />
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<b>Jimmy Stewart's Chicken Breasts Italian</b><br />
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2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts<br />
1/2 cup all-purpose flour<br />
1/4 pound chicken livers<br />
3 tablespoons butter<br />
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder<br />
2 tablespoons lemon juice<br />
2 large egg yolks<br />
3 tablespoons light cream<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
freshly ground pepper to taste<br />
4 parsley sprigs, garnish<br />
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Coat chicken breasts with flour and set aside.<br />
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Using a skillet over low heat, saute 1/4 pound chicken livers in butter. When browned on all sides, add in chicken breasts and season with garlic powder. Sprinkle on the lemon juice and turn breasts, cooking on both sides. Cover skillet.<br />
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In a mixing bowl, blend eggs yolks with light cream. Season with 1 tsp. salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Add in this to skillet ingredients, stirring so as to coat chicken and liver. Cover skillet and cook 30 mins. over low heat. Turn ingredients once or possibly twice during cooking. Remove from heat. Garnish with sprigs of parsley. Serve immediately.<br />
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<b>Jimmy Stewart's Favorite Pork Chops</b><br />
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3 pounds pork loin chops (six 8-ounce chops)<br />
6 tablespoons ketchup<br />
6 tablespoons brown sugar<br />
6 slices yellow onion<br />
6 slices lemon<br />
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.<br />
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In casserole or pan, place pork chops. Top each chop with 1 tablespoon ketchup, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 slice onion, and 1 slice lemon.<br />
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Cover and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on thickness of chops. Uncover last 15 minutes.<br />
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<b>Jimmy Stewart's Pork Chops Supreme</b><br />
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2 cups long-grain white rice, uncooked<br />
3 tablespoons butter<br />
20 ounces pork loin chops (4 chops, 5 ounces each)<br />
1 cup celery, chopped<br />
1 large yellow onion, diced<br />
1 can (29 ounce) tomato puree<br />
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Cook rice per package directions and set aside.<br />
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Melt butter in skillet. Brown pork chops on both sides. Remove the chops and place in a large baking dish. Add celery and onion to the butter/drippings in the skillet. Cook until onion is translucent.<br />
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Place a mound of cooked rice on each chop and over this sprinkle the cooked celery, onion, and butter/drippings. Cover the entire mixture with a large can of tomato puree. Cover baking dish with foil. Bake in a 350 degrees F. oven for one hour.</div>
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