John Wayne on TCM
John Wayne in The Alamo. Photo: Courtesy Turner Classic Movies.
It’s John Wayne day on Tuesday, Aug. 18, as Turner Classic Movies continues with its "Summer Under the Stars" series.
One of the most popular film stars ever, John Wayne was almost invariably John Wayne (or the screen version of himself) no matter who or what he played. But then again, the same can be said of Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and other well-respected actors of the studio era. I’m not quite sure why Wayne is generally regarded as less of an actor than those other performers, but perhaps one explanation is that Westerns and war movies aren’t perceived as settings for a real actor, and Wayne made his [...]
by Andre Soares | August 14, 2009
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Tags: Baby Face, Classic Movies, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, McLintock, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, The Alamo, The Green Berets, Turner Classic Movies
Best Films – 1933
Greta Garbo in Queen Christina
FILM
Baby Face
d: Alfred E. Green; scr: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola
The Barbarian
d: Sam Wood; scr: Anita Loos, Elmer Harris
Dinner at 8
d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Donald Ogden Stewart
Gold Diggers of 1933
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Erwin Gelsey, James Seymour, David Boehm, Ben Markson
I’m No Angel
d: Wesley Ruggles; scr: Mae West
The Kennel Murder Case
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Robert Presnell, Robert N. Lee, Peter Milne
King Kong
d: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper; scr: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Don Mullaly, Carl Erickson
Queen Christina
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: H. M. Harwood, S. N. Behrman
Nils Asther, Barbara Stanwyck in The Bitter Tea of [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: Alfred E. Green, Aline MacMahon, Baby Face, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Films, Blood Money, Classic Movies, Constance Bennett, Dinner at 8, Elmer Harris, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Frances Dee, Fredric March, George Cukor, Gold Diggers of 1933, Greta Garbo, Hilda Vaughn, I'm No Angel, Jean Harlow, King Kong, Ladies They Talk About, Lady for a Day, Lionel Atwill, Mae Clarke, Marion Davies, Mary Boland, Merian C. Cooper, Michael Curtiz, Myrna Loy, Peg o' My Heart, Queen Christina, Ramon Novarro, Robert Montgomery, Rouben Mamoulian, Ruth Chatterton, The Barbarian, The Eagle and the Hawk, The Kennel Murder Case, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, Warren William, Wesley Ruggles
BABY FACE at the 2004 London Film Festival
Long thought lost, the original version of the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck vehicle Baby Face will be screened at the London Film Festival in November.
The Warner Bros. picture was initially released in all its sauciness, but had to be withdrawn shortly thereafter because of vociferous protests against its purported immorality: a woman uses her body, her sensuality, and her determination to ascend the corporate ladder during the Depression — and succeeds admirably.
Bowing to pressure, Warners reedited Baby Face and even redubbed much of the dialogue of one character, who was transformed from the power behind the young woman’s sexual awareness into the film’s moralizing voice.
Directed by unfairly neglected Alfred E. Green, Baby [...]
by Andre Soares | September 10, 2004
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Tags: Alfred E. Green, Baby Face, Barbara Stanwyck, Censorship, Classic Movies, George Brent, London Film Festival, Pre-Code Hollywood, Production Code, Sex
