Best Films – 1929
Alexandra Schmidt in Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness
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Eternal Love
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Hans Kräly; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Hans Kräly, Claudine West
The Love Parade
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton
Lucky Star
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Sonya Levien; dialogue: John Hunter Booth; titles: H. H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker
Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück / Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness
d: Piel Jutzi; scr: Willy Döll, Jan Fethke
On With the Show
d: Alan Crosland; scr: Robert Lord
The Pagan
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Dorothy Farnum; titles: John Howard Lawson
The River
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Philip Klein, Dwight Cummings
The Thirteenth Chair
d: Tod Browning; scr: Elliott Clawson
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The Divine Lady
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Forrest Halsey, Agnes [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Alexandra Schmidt, Best Films, Charles Farrell, Classic Movies, Clyde de Vinna, Corinne Griffith, Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Borzage, Janet Gaynor, Jeanette MacDonald, Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness, Ramon Novarro, The Divine Lady, The Pagan, The River
Ann Savage
Ann Savage, the actress who played an evil, unredeemable femme fatale who makes life hell for Tom Neal in the 1945 B-noir Detour (see clip), died in her sleep at a nursing home on Christmas Day from complications following a series of strokes. She was 87.
Savage had a minor career in films of the 1940s, with Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour as her sole claim to fame — unless one also counts her latter-day comeback in Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, playing the director’s mother, which was released last year.
Among Savage’s other features are the B musical Ever Since Venus (1944); Sam Newfield’s film noir Apology for Murder (1945), in which she plays another schemer; the crime thriller The [...]
by Andre Soares | December 29, 2008
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Tags: Ann Savage, Classic Movies, Corinne Griffith, Detour, Don 'Red' Barry, Edgar G. Ulmer, My Winnipeg, The Last Crooked Mile, Tom Neal, Trailers, Vera Reynolds
Honorary Oscars & Women II
Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver (top); Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert in Midnight (middle); Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi in The Divine Lady (bottom)
Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I
Among the distinguished female film professionals in Hollywood and elsewhere — some of whom dating back to the early days of cinema — who have gone to the Great Beyond without receiving the Academy’s career achievement Oscar are actresses Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Marlene Dietrich, Alida Valli, Simone Signoret, Joan Crawford, Anna Magnani, Susan Hayward, Dolores del Río, Norma Talmadge, Anne Baxter, Joan Bennett, Lilli Palmer, Constance Bennett, and Kay Francis.
Also, Ann Sheridan, Constance Talmadge, Irene Dunne, Colleen Moore, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Jean Arthur, [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, Constance Talmadge, Corinne Griffith, Film Awards, Greer Garson, Honorary Oscar, Lauren Bacall, Lois Weber, Norma Talmadge, Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward
