Claude Rains on TCM: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, JUAREZ
Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse
Turner Classic Movies will be showing eight movies featuring Claude Rains, TCM’s Star of the Month of September, beginning at 5PM Pacific Time.
Of those, I’ve seen only three:
Juarez (1939) could have been a good historical biopic, but things go wrong from the start thanks to the miscasting of Paul Muni as Benito Juárez. Even Bette Davis, who plays the mad Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg, would have been more believable as Mexico’s first full-blooded American Indian to be elected president. William Dieterle was also the wrong man to direct Juarez, as Dieterle’s hand tended to be quite heavy when dealing with real-life subjects, e.g., The Life of Emile Zola, The Story of [...]
by Andre Soares | September 16, 2009
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Tags: Anthony Adverse, Caesar and Cleopatra, Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard, Juarez, Passage to Marseille, Turner Classic Movies, Vivien Leigh, William Dieterle
Best Films – 1938
Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You
FILM
The Adventures of Robin Hood
d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine
Bringing Up Baby
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Dramatic School
d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr.
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor
d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, Charles Spaak, Marcel Achard
Four Daughters
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein
If I Were King
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Preston Sturges
The Lady Vanishes
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Marie Antoinette
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda
Vivacious Lady
d: George Stevens; scr: P. J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano
You Can’t Take It with You
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
[...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Night in May, Abem Finkel, Akim Tamiroff, Albert Valentin, Alfred Hitchcock, Anatole Litvak, Basil Radford, Basil Rathbone, Best Films, Bette Davis, Beulah Bondi, Billy Wilder, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Bringing Up Baby, Cameron Rogers, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Charles Coburn, Charles Spaak, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Claudette Colbert, Claudine West, Clements Ripley, Dame May Whitty, Dmitri Tiomkin, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dramatic School, Dudley Nichols, Edmund Goulding, Edward Arnold, Eine Nacht in Mai, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest Haller, Ernest Pagano, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch, Errol Flynn, Fay Bainter, Four Daughters, Frank Capra, Frank Launder, Frank Lloyd, Franz Waxman, Gale Sondergaard, Gary Cooper, Georg Jacoby, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Gladys George, Hagar Wilde, Hans Fritz Beckmann, Harry Stradling, Herbert Stothart, Howard Hawks, If I Were King, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Jean Grémillon, Jezebel, John Huston, Joseph Ruttenberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Julien Duvivier, Julius J. Epstein, Katharine Hepburn, L'Etrange Monsieur Victor, Le Quais des brumes, Lenore J. Coffee, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Luise Rainer, Madeleine Rénaud, Marcel Achard, Margaret Lockwood, Marie Antoinette, Marika Rökk, Mary Forbes, Mary McCall Jr., Max Steiner, May Robson, Michael Curtiz, Michael Redgrave, Michèle Morgan, Milton Krims, Norma Shearer, Norman Reilly Raine, Of Human Hearts, Oliver T. Marsh, P. J. Wolfson, Paul Lukas, Peverell Marley, Port of Shadows, Preston Sturges, Pygmalion, Raimu, Robert B. Sinclair, Robert Morley, Robert Riskin, Ronald Colman, Rudolph Maté, Samuel Hoffenstein, Seton I. Miller, Sidney Gilliat, Sol Polito, Spawn of the North, Spring Byington, Suez, Sweethearts, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Citadel, The Great Waltz, The Lady Vanishes, The Sisters, Three Comrades, Tony Gaudio, Una O'Connor, Vivacious Lady, W. Howard Greene, W. S. Van Dyke, Walter Reisch, Wendy Hiller, White Banners, William H. Daniels, William Keighley, William Wyler, Willy Clever, You Can't Take It with You
Best Films – 1936
Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat
FILM
Follow the Fleet
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor
Fury
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang
Libeled Lady
d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
My Man Godfrey
d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch
Le Roman d’un tricheur / The Story of a Cheat
d, scr: Sacha Guitry
Show Boat
d: James Whale; scr: Oscar Hammerstein II
Theodora Goes Wild
d: Richard Boleslawsky; scr: Sidney Buchman
These Three
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth
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César
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
Club de femmes
d, scr: Jacques Deval
Desire
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young, Samuel Hoffenstein
Dodsworth
d: William [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Day in the Country, A Woman Rebels, Alice Brady, Allan Scott, Anthony Adverse, Archie Mayo, Arthur Treacher, Bartlett Cormack, Basil Rathbone, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Carole Lombard, Catherine Doucet, Cecil B. DeMille, César, Charles Chaplin, Charles Kenyon, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Claude Renoir, Club de femmes, Delmer Daves, Desire, Dodsworth, Dorothy Fields, Double or Nothing, Douglas Dumbrille, Dwight Taylor, Edwin Justus Mayer, Elizabeth Risdon, Eric Hatch, Eugene Pallette, Follow the Fleet, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Fred Jackman, Fritz Lang, Fury, Gale Sondergaard, Gary Cooper, George Cukor, George J. Folsey, George Oppenheimer, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Gregg Toland, Gregory La Cava, H. B. Warner, Harold Lamb, Harold Rosson, Harriet Hilliard, Hattie McDaniel, Herbert Stothart, Howard Emmett Rogers, Howard Lindsay, Irene Dunne, Irving Berlin, Jack Conway, Jacques Deval, James Whale, Jean Arthur, Jean Bourgoin, Jean Renoir, Jerome Kern, John Barrymore, Joseph Kosma, Le Roman d'un tricheur, Leslie Howard, Libeled Lady, Lillian Hellman, Love Before Breakfast, Luise Rainer, Lynn Riggs, Marcel Pagnol, Marguerite Moreno, Mark Sandrich, Maurine Watkins, Melvyn Douglas, Miriam Hopkins, Mischa Auer, Modern Times, Morrie Ryskind, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, My Man Godfrey, Norma Shearer, Oliver T. Marsh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Partie de campagne, Paulette Goddard, Raimu, Ray June, Richard Boleslawsky, Robert de Grasse, Robert Riskin, Romeo and Juliet, Roy Mack, Rudolph Maté, Ruth Chatterton, Sacha Guitry, Samuel Hoffenstein, Show Boat, Sidney Buchman, Sidney Howard, Sol Polito, Spring Byington, Stowaway, Swing Time, Sylvia Sidney, Talbot Jennings, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Garden of Allah, The Great Ziegfeld, The Petrified Forest, The Plainsman, The Prisoner of Shark Island, The Story of a Cheat, Theodora Goes Wild, These Three, Tony Gaudio, W. Howard Greene, Waldemar Young, Walter Huston, William H. Daniels, William Powell, William Wyler
Best Films – 1946
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in Gilda
FILM
Anna and the King of Siam
d: John Cromwell; scr: Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson
The Best Years of Our Lives
d: William Wyler; scr: Robert E. Sherwood
Cloak and Dagger
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr.
From This Day Forward
d: John Berry; scr: Hugo Butler, Garson Kanin
Gilda
d: Charles Vidor; scr: Marion Parsonnet
Margie
d: Henry King; scr: F. Hugh Herbert
A Night in Casablanca
d: Archie Mayo; scr: Joseph Fields, Roland Kibbee, Frank Tashlin
Le Père tranquille / Mr. Orchid
d: René Clément; scr: Noël-Noël
Sciuscià / Shoeshine
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
The Spiral Staircase
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Mel Dinelli
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My Darling Clementine
d: John Ford; scr: [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Matter of Life and Death, A Night in Casablanca, Adolfo Franci, Albert Maltz, Anna and the King of Siam, Anthony Wager, Archie Mayo, Arthur C. Miller, Ava Gardner, Bernard Herrmann, Best Films, Burt Lancaster, Butterfly McQueen, Cecil Kellaway, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini, Charles G. Clarke, Charles Vidor, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Cloak and Dagger, David Niven, David O. Selznick, Deception, Dorothy McGuire, Duel in the Sun, Elwood Bredell, Ernest Haller, F. Hugh Herbert, Finlay Currie, Florence Bates, Frank Tashlin, Fredric March, Fritz Lang, From This Day Forward, Gale Sondergaard, Garson Kanin, Gary Cooper, George Barnes, George Brent, Gilda, Glenn Ford, Great Expectations, Gregory Peck, Guy Green, Harold Rosson, Henry King, Hugo Butler, Humoresque, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Dunne, Jane Wyman, Jeanne Crain, Jennifer Jones, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, John Berry, John Cromwell, John Ford, John Garfield, Joseph Fields, Joseph P. MacDonald, King Vidor, Le Père tranquille, Lee Garmes, Leopoldine Konstantin, Lilli Palmer, Linda Darnell, Margie, Marion Parsonnet, Marius Goring, Mel Dinelli, Mr. Orchid, My Darling Clementine, Myrna Loy, Nicholas Musuraca, Noël Noël, Notorious, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Paul Osborn, Queenie Smith, Ray Rennahan, René Clement, Ring Lardner Jr., Rita Hayworth, Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Siodmak, Roland Kibbee, Sally Benson, Samuel G. Engel, Saratoga Trunk, Sciuscià, Sergio Amidei, Shoeshine, Talbot Jennings, Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Spiral Staircase, The Yearling, Vittorio De Sica, Walter Huston, William Wyler, Winston Miller
