Bette Davis’ DARK VICTORY Screening
The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fifth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the Warner Bros. cartoon Dangerous Dan McFoo, directed by Tex Avery.
Adapted by Casey Robinson from a play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, Dark Victory is one of Bette Davis’ [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
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Jean Arthur Month on TCM II
Jean Arthur on TCM: Part I
But I actually do like both You Can’t Take It with You and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington despite Frank Capra’s overbearingly idealistic mindset and the presence of James Stewart as Arthur’s romantic interest. Stewart — seemingly most everyone’s idea of the perfect all-American Average Man — is my idea of the perfectly phony All-Hollywood Actor. (In the photo, Stewart hugs Arthur while Lionel Barrymore plays the harmonica in the madcap You Can’t Take It with You.)
Jean Arthur, however, shines in both Capra films (even though her role in Mr. Smith is subordinate to Stewart’s), and in The Whole Town’s Talking, in which she initially feels superior to and then [...]
by Andre Soares | January 6, 2007
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Tags: Classic Movies, George Brent, George Stevens, Jean Arthur, More Than a Secretary, Shane, TCM, Too Many Husbands, Turner Classic Movies
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 picture was initially released in all its sauciness, but had to be withdrawn shortly thereafter because of vociferous protests against its purported immorality: a woman uses her body, her sensuality, and her determination to ascend the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
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
