WUTHERING HEIGHTS Screening
The 1939 Best Picture nominee Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The Wuthering Heights screening will take place on Monday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Starting at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fourth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short The Pointer, starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto.
According to Samuel Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg, Wuthering Heights was the producer’s favorite among his films. [...]
by Andre Soares | June 3, 2009
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QUEEN CHRISTINA – Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
Queen Christina (1933)
Direction: Rouben Mamoulian
Screenplay: H. M. Harwood and S. N. Behrman
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, David Torrence
One of the most ambitious productions of the early 1930s, Queen Christina remains surprisingly modern in its execution thanks in large part to Rouben Mamoulian’s assured hand. Those looking for historical accuracy in the film, however, will be greatly disappointed, for credited screenwriters H. M. Harwood and S. N. Behrman kept themselves busy concocting a highly fictionalized version of the Swedish queen; one who experiences an all-consuming and ultimately tragic love affair with a Spanish envoy. (Garbo biographer Mark Vieira explains [see below] that credited screenwriter — and close Garbo friend [...]
by Andre Soares | April 14, 2009
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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
Rouben Mamoulian Retrospective at Film Forum
"Mamoulian," a complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987), one of cinema’s greatest stylists and innovators, will run at the Film Forum from Friday, September 7 through Tuesday, September 18.
As per the Film Forum’s press release, Mamoulian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to an Armenian family. He worked at the Moscow Art Theater while attending university, and, following a chance meeting with industrialist/philanthropist George Eastman (founder of the Kodak film company) he moved to Rochester, New York, to direct plays.
Shortly thereafter he was on Broadway, directing Dorothy and Dubose Heyward’s Porgy, which became the basis for George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, a musical that Mamoulian would also direct. [See Porgy and Bess screening in New York.]
That initial [...]
by Andre Soares | August 22, 2007
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Tags: Applause, Arthur Miller, Becky Sharp, Bess Meredyth, Blood and Sand, Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Film Festivals, Film Forum, Greta Garbo, Jeanette MacDonald, Linda Darnell, Love Me Tonight, Maurice Chevalier, Miriam Hopkins, Porgy and Bess, Pre-Code Hollywood, Queen Christina, Ray Rennahan, Rouben Mamoulian, The Mark of Zorro, Tyrone Power
