Best Films – 1933
Greta Garbo in Queen Christina
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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
Marie Dressler V: Lesbian Rumors, Film Possibilities
Marie Dressler in Dinner at 8
Marie Dressler IV: DINNER AT 8, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN
Marie Dressler and Claire Du Brey. Were they really lovers? Did you go through Du Brey’s papers? (I believe actor John Phillip Law is in possession of them.)
Ah, the lesbian love question! I talked with Mr. Law, and met with the actress Sierra Pecheur, who knew Du Brey and shared portions of her writing. But Du Brey is problematic as a source. First of all, Marie was dying of cancer during much of the time the two were together. Du Brey wrote exacting details on medical treatments, surgeries, and recoveries, but her papers are of no help on the subject of a sexual relationship, which is [...]
by Andre Soares | February 23, 2008
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Tags: Books, Claire Du Brey, Classic Movies, Interviews, Jean Harlow, Lady for a Day, Lesbian Interest, Marie Dressler, Matthew Kennedy
Jean Parker
Actress Jean Parker died on Nov. 30 following a stroke. She was 90.
Parker is perhaps best remembered as one of the four sisters — Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Frances Dee were the other three (above, with Spring Byington’s Marmee) — in the George Cukor-directed 1933 version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Although never a major star, Parker’s film career lasted more than two decades.
Much information about Jean Parker’s early years differs according to the source. She was born either Lois Mae Green (as per an IMDb bio apparently written by her son) or Louise Stephanie Zelinska (as per the Associated Press obit) in either Deer Lodge or Butte, Montana, on most probably August 11, 1915 [...]
by Andre Soares | December 11, 2005
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Tags: Classic Movies, Jean Parker, Joan Bennett, Katharine Hepburn, Lady for a Day, Little Women, May Robson, Sequoia, The Ghost Goes West, The Gunfighter
