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Post by tom on Sept 11, 2021 14:11:06 GMT -6
I like this movie above and beyond the fact that it is Joan's inaugural movie. Watched it a few times. Norma Shearer does a good job in a dual role, which can't be easy for an actor. I always try to freeze frame on the magic moment at which Norma becomes LL!  |
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Post by tom on Sept 11, 2021 14:14:03 GMT -6
Have been watching the intros and outros from when Joan was Star of the Month on TCM. I think JC would like top billing she gets over Norma!  |
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Post by tom on Sept 11, 2021 14:47:56 GMT -6
Stumbled across this quote while Googling. It is from Reddit, not sure the original source...
https://www.reddit.com/r/silentmoviegifs/comments/pj5gzg/a_splitscreen_allowed_two_characters_played_by/
Shearer later wrote: “I found myself sitting in a car and in the other corner was a girl with the most beautiful eyes. They were the biggest eyes I had ever seen. But they didn’t trust me. I could see that. They never have.”
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Post by tom on Sept 11, 2021 14:53:26 GMT -6
From IMDB...
Contrary to popular belief, you see more than Joan Crawford's backside in this film. When Maddy and Florence are sitting in the back of the car, that's a split screen or double exposure of Norma Shearer - until the one shot when they hug. If you look carefully at their profiles you can see a difference in their noses, and the one on the right is Joan Crawford as Molly, in Molly's heavy make-up. Also, that one shot is framed a little wider than the preceding ones where Shearer plays both characters. Previously, there had also been two brief long shots of Crawford as Molly when she first arrives at David's workshop, where Florence, sitting closer to the camera, was already visiting.
I've watched the above scenes and I can't tell if it is JC or not. Never have found a corroroborating source for the above tidbit
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Post by tom on Sept 11, 2021 15:01:09 GMT -6
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Post by tom on Sept 11, 2021 16:25:21 GMT -6
 The scene alluded to above. If correct, LL is at the door. I would have guessed it would have been easier to replace the character with her back to the camera. On the other hand, the more made up character, further away may have made it easier to disguise body double Joan. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2021 0:01:40 GMT -6
Stumbled across this quote while Googling. It is from Reddit, not sure the original source... https://www.reddit.com/r/silentmoviegifs/comments/pj5gzg/a_splitscreen_allowed_two_characters_played_by/ Shearer later wrote: “I found myself sitting in a car and in the other corner was a girl with the most beautiful eyes. They were the biggest eyes I had ever seen. But they didn’t trust me. I could see that. They never have.” Wow! That's pretty honest: "But they didn't trust me. I could see that. They never have." Does Shearer go on to say why she thinks "those eyes" never trusted her? It's pretty basic that Joan, self-made in Hollywood, was aggravated by the fact that, in the early years, Shearer was indeed given the status roles because she was married to Thalberg. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2021 0:03:28 GMT -6
Have been watching the intros and outros from when Joan was Star of the Month on TCM. I think JC would like top billing she gets over Norma! View AttachmentWhat year was this? |
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Post by tom on Sept 12, 2021 20:11:29 GMT -6
Have been watching the intros and outros from when Joan was Star of the Month on TCM. I think JC would like top billing she gets over Norma! View AttachmentWhat year was this? This is the video I did the screen grab from. I just noticed that it has the wrong year for Lady of the Night! Says 1924, should be 1925. The video description says it was aired January 2, 2014. |
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Post by tom on Sept 12, 2021 20:29:04 GMT -6
Stumbled across this quote while Googling. It is from Reddit, not sure the original source... https://www.reddit.com/r/silentmoviegifs/comments/pj5gzg/a_splitscreen_allowed_two_characters_played_by/ Shearer later wrote: “I found myself sitting in a car and in the other corner was a girl with the most beautiful eyes. They were the biggest eyes I had ever seen. But they didn’t trust me. I could see that. They never have.” Wow! That's pretty honest: "But they didn't trust me. I could see that. They never have." Does Shearer go on to say why she thinks "those eyes" never trusted her? It's pretty basic that Joan, self-made in Hollywood, was aggravated by the fact that, in the early years, Shearer was indeed given the status roles because she was married to Thalberg. This URL says the source of the quote is Norma's unpublished autobiography. Unable to find any further amplification on the quote. hollywoodrevue.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/dueling-divas-joan-crawford-vs-norma-shearer/From what I've read online, mid 1950s seems to be when the autobiography was put together. Could it be that this is Norma just filling in blanks ex post facto, 30 years after they worked on Lady of the Night? |
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Post by tom on Jan 20, 2022 17:09:42 GMT -6
ia600805.us.archive.org/6/items/widsweekly192503wids/widsweekly192503wids.pdf  Contemporary review of Joan's first film, Lady of the Night, in which she is a body double for Norma Shearer. From a publication called Wid's. April 1925 edition. I was a bit intrigued and distressed by this comment..."I believe it was truly a mistake to have Shearer play both parts." Yikes! No double part, no need for Joan! How might things have turned out differently for the young LL?
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Post by tom on Jan 23, 2023 6:38:07 GMT -6
It's on the TCM app now!
The great diva's inaugural appearance on celluloid!
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