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Post by Admin on Sept 1, 2021 16:44:20 GMT -6
August was disappointingly sparse on TCM for Joan fans, but September looks a lot better! Sunday, Sept 5, 11:45am. The WomenTuesday, Sept 14, 7:45am. The Gorgeous HussyThursday, Sept 16, 1:45am. Susan and GodWednesday, Sept 22, 8:00pm. Autumn Leaves
Saturday, Sept 25, 8:00pm. Daisy KenyonSaturday, Sept 25, 10:00pm. Harriet Craig Maybe some of you remember better than I, but I don't recall ever seeing "Autumn" or "Daisy" or "Harriet" scheduled on TCM before... |
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Post by tom on Sept 2, 2021 8:19:44 GMT -6
August was disappointingly sparse on TCM for Joan fans, but September looks a lot better! Sunday, Sept 5, 11:45am. The WomenTuesday, Sept 14, 7:45am. The Gorgeous HussyThursday, Sept 16, 1:45am. Susan and GodWednesday, Sept 22, 8:00pm. Autumn Leaves
Saturday, Sept 25, 8:00pm. Daisy KenyonSaturday, Sept 25, 10:00pm. Harriet Craig Maybe some of you remember better than I, but I don't recall ever seeing "Autumn" or "Daisy" or "Harriet" scheduled on TCM before... They must have done when she was TCM's Star of the Month?!? Mankiewicz says they did 60+ of her films. I think this is the list... www.classicmoviefavorites.com/joan-crawford-star-month-january-tcm/At any rate, good to see them adding some less aired Joanie films to the mix. I, for one, have 9/14 marked on my calendar. Great cast in Gorgeous Hussy. Beulah Bondi as Rachel Jackson, and Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson are delightful! |
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2021 20:31:53 GMT -6
August was disappointingly sparse on TCM for Joan fans, but September looks a lot better! Sunday, Sept 5, 11:45am. The WomenTuesday, Sept 14, 7:45am. The Gorgeous HussyThursday, Sept 16, 1:45am. Susan and GodWednesday, Sept 22, 8:00pm. Autumn Leaves
Saturday, Sept 25, 8:00pm. Daisy KenyonSaturday, Sept 25, 10:00pm. Harriet Craig Maybe some of you remember better than I, but I don't recall ever seeing "Autumn" or "Daisy" or "Harriet" scheduled on TCM before... They must have done when she was TCM's Star of the Month?!? Mankiewicz says they did 60+ of her films. I think this is the list... www.classicmoviefavorites.com/joan-crawford-star-month-january-tcm/At any rate, good to see them adding some less aired Joanie films to the mix. I, for one, have 9/14 marked on my calendar. Great cast in Gorgeous Hussy. Beulah Bondi as Rachel Jackson, and Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson are delightful! Whoa! Back in 2014, seems they showed just about everything! Quite a schedule! (Not so generous on TCM today.) I'm not a big fan of "Gorgeous Hussy" myself (to me, it seems kind of slow-pokey, plus after multiple viewings, it still seems convoluted re which of the men Joan's character is supposed to be in love with!). I'm most looking forward to the Saturday night Sept. 25 double feature of "Daisy Kenyon" and "Harriet Craig." |
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Post by tom on Sept 8, 2021 13:52:39 GMT -6
If you throw out her dozen or so lost or never shown silents, Letty Lynton, low 60s means not much missing in her filmography.
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Post by davidmorrocco on Sept 9, 2021 12:53:05 GMT -6
I’m going to give Gorgeous Hussy another try. I watched it twice, maybe the third time will be a charm for me. I’ll let you know. I have all the other movies listed above marked on my calendar. I can’t wait. 😛
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2021 21:01:24 GMT -6
I’m going to give Gorgeous Hussy another try. I watched it twice, maybe the third time will be a charm for me. I’ll let you know. I have all the other movies listed above marked on my calendar. I can’t wait. 😛 Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 7:45am! I think I've seen it three times now over the years...to me, it never gets any better!  Kind of "slow-pokey historical," plus I found it hard to keep up with which man was supposed to be the love interest... |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Sept 16, 2021 10:24:45 GMT -6
I watched it last night and the 3rd time seeing it was a charm. 😃
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2021 6:36:21 GMT -6
August was disappointingly sparse on TCM for Joan fans, but September looks a lot better! Sunday, Sept 5, 11:45am. The WomenTuesday, Sept 14, 7:45am. The Gorgeous HussyThursday, Sept 16, 1:45am. Susan and GodWednesday, Sept 22, 8:00pm. Autumn Leaves
Saturday, Sept 25, 8:00pm. Daisy KenyonSaturday, Sept 25, 10:00pm. Harriet Craig Maybe some of you remember better than I, but I don't recall ever seeing "Autumn" or "Daisy" or "Harriet" scheduled on TCM before... They must have done when she was TCM's Star of the Month?!? Mankiewicz says they did 60+ of her films. I think this is the list... www.classicmoviefavorites.com/joan-crawford-star-month-january-tcm/At any rate, good to see them adding some less aired Joanie films to the mix. I, for one, have 9/14 marked on my calendar. Great cast in Gorgeous Hussy. Beulah Bondi as Rachel Jackson, and Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson are delightful! |
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2021 6:46:19 GMT -6
August was disappointingly sparse on TCM for Joan fans, but September looks a lot better! Sunday, Sept 5, 11:45am. The WomenTuesday, Sept 14, 7:45am. The Gorgeous HussyThursday, Sept 16, 1:45am. Susan and GodWednesday, Sept 22, 8:00pm. Autumn Leaves
Saturday, Sept 25, 8:00pm. Daisy KenyonSaturday, Sept 25, 10:00pm. Harriet Craig Maybe some of you remember better than I, but I don't recall ever seeing "Autumn" or "Daisy" or "Harriet" scheduled on TCM before... Spent 4 hours this Saturday eve watching "Daisy Kenyon" and "Harriet Craig" on TCM. Hadn't seen "Daisy" since a showing in NYC in 2009 or so, when I lived there and trekked to Union Square in 20-degree weather as part of a Preminger festival. Out of five stars, I'd give "Daisy" 3 and "Harriet" 4. I've always though "Harriet" was a tight, interesting (albeit dismaying) film; and I've always thought "Daisy" was kind of boring---upon this viewing, though, I was older and thus more patient, and found it more interesting. One thing that was extremely annoying: TCM host Mankiewicz's comments at the end of "Harriet": Along the lines of "Joan was a control freak, just like in this movie, and just like Christina said in 'Mommie Dearest'..." YAWN. The glib refs to MD are decades-old now. Couldn't TCM find something more interesting to say about the performance? |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Sept 30, 2021 0:32:54 GMT -6
1950 Harriet Craig is one of my favorite Joan Crawford movies. You know I love the behind the scenes juice. Here is some trivia I found on the movie: The original Broadway play "Craig's Wife" by George Kelly opened on October 12, 1925 at the Morosco Theater, and ran for 360 performances before winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1926. It is the screenplay source for this film. In this film, Harriet recounts to several people her negative experiences working in a laundry in her youth. In her own life, Joan Crawford also had to work in a laundry because of her family's poverty, and hated it. Though uncredited, Crawford's dear friend, former film actor and by then renowned interior decorator William Haines designed the sets. This is a remake of the 1930s film, Craig's Wife (1936), directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Rosalind Russell, itself a remake of Craig's Wife (1928), directed by William C. de Mille and starring Irene Rich. Under the advice of director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford originally declined the title role when it was offered to her. Sherman felt she was ill suited for the part. However, after Sherman was ultimately contracted to direct the film, Crawford, aware of their previous success with The Damned Don't Cry (1950), changed her mind and signed on. Margaret Sullavan, who had taken the role after Crawford's initial rejection of it, was assigned elsewhere. Harriet's speech at the climax, "I wouldn't trust [...] me about love" was entirely written by Joan Crawford, incorporating elements of her own past. The original play was written by actress Grace Kelly's uncle, the famous playwright George Kelly. I do have to admit that I also wonder about what Christina Crawford said out load while watching this movie in the theater, “She’s not acting. she’s NOT acting!” I don’t remember what part of the movie Christina was referring to; or was it the whole movie? Don’t get me wrong;I personally love the movie. I LOVE our Joan and always will. There will always be a little bit of a Mommie Dearest questioning from people since the book came out. This website gives us a chance to show and admire Joan. To let others know her in a good, kind, and generous way. She was one hell of a beautifully talented actress that we will defend to the end. I did find some articles on how someone would interpret Joan as Harriet. This is only one of them. This is by Paul Mavis Indeed, since Crawford’s legacy is now (fairly or unfairly) inextricably tied-in with the literary and subsequent cinematic portrait drawn from her adopted daughter Christina’s excoriating tell-all, Mommie Dearest, it’s difficult not to watch Harriet Craig and look upon the character’s actions as almost a backwards incarnation of our own perceptions today of who and what Joan Crawford was off-screen—a weird, self-reflexive exercise that only makes Harriet Craig all that much more enjoyable. Another bad exploration of Joan as Harriet is below. You may need your MagnifyGlass to read it. I couldn’t copy and paste it.  |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Oct 1, 2021 1:25:31 GMT -6
1947 Daisy Kenyon
Wikipedia reports noted:
The Motion Picture Production Code administrators, with whom Preminger often sparred, took issue with the screenplay's "lack of regard for the sanctity of marriage." The studio was advised to avoid referencing explicit sexual intercourse, and to emphasize the moral wrongness of the relationship between the characters of Daisy and Dan. Preminger was also forced to work around the PCA's concerns over alcohol - characters pour alcoholic drinks in several scenes, but never drink them. The code administrators also suggested that the divorcing characters Dan and Lucille reunite at the end of the film.
Before Crawford was allowed to be "borrowed" from her contract with Warner Bros. The casting of Crawford was somewhat problematic, as she was 42, while the character of Daisy as depicted in the novel is 32. A make-up artist and shadowy cinematography were employed to disguise Crawford's age. Andrews and Fonda were not fond of the script, but completed the film to fulfill their contracts.
Production of the film was completed without setback, two days ahead of schedule and only $100 over the set budget.
The only apparent problem on set was the maintenance of a temperature of 50°F to ease Crawford's hot flashes. According to Warrick, "she was always in tennis shorts and a thin blouse because she was so hot, while I had to wear a fur coat to keep warm. Otto said not one word about the temperature." Crawford presented Andrews and Fonda with long underwear as appeasement.
Daisy Kenyon currently holds a 100% rating on review aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.
Critics Roundup, a website that describes itself as "the first movie review aggregator to select reviews based on writing quality instead of popularity", also reports that 100% of 12 critics reviewed the film positively.
Initial dismissal of Daisy Kenyon has given way to some critical reappraisal in recent years; it has earned a cult following, with some calling it a misunderstood masterpiece and one of Preminger's best films. Mike D'Angelo, giving the film a grade of 99 out of a possible 100 points.
Daisy Keyon Trivia:
Joan Crawford' later said about this film, "If Otto Preminger hadn't directed it, the picture would have been a mess. It came off. Sort of."
Joan Crawford''s contract stipulated that the set be kept at temperatures that Henry Fonda and 'Dana Andrews' found too cold, so Crawford bought both of them long underwear.
Otto Preminger told an interviewer in the 1970s that he had no memory of this film.
For me, the movie and character of Daisy stayed with me for a while. I liked her hair and noticed her lips are shaped more into her 1950’s noir style. I actually liked seeing Joan/Daisy in a position of not really being 100% sure of her self. I loved the plot of being in love with the one that has baggage and the other doesn’t. Do you choose the up scale high roller with the baggage of a family? Can you honestly be the other woman for an indefinite amount of time? Or do you choose someone that is able to give you love, comfort and no drama? Do you hope that one day his love may bring you to love him back the same? Two totally different men that both want you at the same time is flattering, but confusing. Hmmm?
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2021 20:54:45 GMT -6
My own initial "problem" with "Daisy" was that it was a bit boring. Even after seeing it in a theater (in NYC) during a Preminger film fest (which would normally hype you up for a film). As I said earlier, though, when I saw it again on TCM last week after a 10-year gap in viewing, I found it more psychologically interesting; the characters of Joan, Fonda, and Andrews were all more sympathetic (although having Andrews' wife hit the kids and posing Andrews as a lawyer for a Japanese man deprived of his property post-WWII were way over-the-top---that kind of overt PC stuff could/should have been omitted).
Also: Joan as a bohemian artist in post-war Greenwich Village? Ha!
Ultimately, though, upon last week's TCM viewing: I liked Fonda's quiet character more, and his character's closing comment about psychological warfare (transferred from the battlefield to home life). Andrews' character was a jerk, but an exciting, forceful jerk; Fonda's character, with his immediate declaration of love and mental problems, was kind of needy and annoying, but... He was THERE for Daisy. Story of a mid-life choice!
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Kind of "slow-pokey historical," plus I found it hard to keep up with which man was supposed to be the love interest...