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Post by tom on Sept 15, 2021 16:29:32 GMT -6
JC, back in black and white. And, with what appears to be similar dresses to that she wore 8 years earlier in Across to Singapore, except they now have the Adrian touch.
The supporting cast is excellent. Lionel Barrymore is a hoot as Andrew Jackson. Beulah Bondi is a great Rachel Jackson. I believe she got an Oscar nom for this role.
Jimmy Stewart and Robert Taylor are relatively early in their careers. Melvin Douglas is also in the cast.
The scene where they boys and girls get sewn into their beds (would that really stop anyone! 😃) is both funny and adorable.
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Post by tom on Sept 15, 2021 18:21:57 GMT -6
The old lady with the ear trumpet was Grandma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath. And, Daniel Webster is played by Sidney Toler AKA Charlie Chan. Oh yeah, Franchot Tone! 😃
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2021 20:30:49 GMT -6
JC, back in black and white. And, with what appears to be similar dresses to that she wore 8 years earlier in Across to Singapore, except they now have the Adrian touch. The supporting cast is excellent. Lionel Barrymore is a hoot as Andrew Jackson. Beulah Bondi is a great Rachel Jackson. I believe she got an Oscar nom for this role. Jimmy Stewart and Robert Taylor are relatively early in their careers. Melvin Douglas is also in the cast. The scene where they boys and girls get sewn into their beds (would that really stop anyone! 😃) is both funny and adorable. In the film, "Rawchel" is an old bag, but she scandalized Washington society at the time of Andrew Jackson's inauguration for being a divorcee. And then Joan's character, and Andrew Jackson's support of her, was also a big scandal in Washington---the "Petticoat Affair." Much more interesting than the 1936 movie! From Wikipedia: The Petticoat Affair (also known as the Eaton Affair) was a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831. Led by Floride Calhoun, wife of Vice President John C. Calhoun, these women, dubbed the "Petticoats", socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife, Peggy Eaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eatons' marriage and what they deemed her failure to meet the "moral standards of a Cabinet Wife" ... The Petticoat Affair rattled the entire Jackson Administration and eventually led to the resignation of all but one Cabinet member. The ordeal facilitated Martin Van Buren's rise to the presidency and was in part responsible for Vice President Calhoun's transformation from a nationwide political figure with presidential aspirations into a sectional leader of the southern states. Margaret "Peggy" Eaton was the eldest daughter of William O'Neill, owner of the Franklin House, a boarding house and tavern located in Washington, D.C., a short distance from the White House, that was a well-known social hub popular with politicians and military officials. Peggy was well-educated for a woman of that era – she studied French and was known for her ability to play the piano.[1] William T. Barry, who later served as Postmaster General, wrote "of a charming little girl ... who very frequently plays the piano, and entertains us with agreeable songs".[2] As a young girl, her reputation had already begun to come under scrutiny because of her employment in a bar frequented by men, as well as her casual bantering with the boarding house's clientele. In her later years, Peggy reminisced, "While I was still in pantalettes and rolling hoops with other girls, I had the attention of men, young and old; enough to turn a girl's head."[3] ... When Peggy was 15 years old, her father intervened to prevent her attempt to elope with an Army officer.[4] In 1816, the 17-year-old Peggy married John B. Timberlake, a purser in the United States Navy.[5] Timberlake, aged 39, had a reputation as a drunkard and was heavily in debt.[5] The Timberlakes became acquainted with John Eaton in 1818.[6] At the time, Eaton was a wealthy 28-year-old widower and newly elected U.S. Senator from Tennessee, despite not yet having reached the constitutionally-mandated minimum age of 30.[7] He was also a long-time friend of Andrew Jackson.[8] When Jackson assumed the presidency, he appointed Eaton as Secretary of War. Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States, led the wives of other Washington political figures, mostly those of Jackson's cabinet members, in an "anti-Peggy" coalition, which served to shun the Eatons socially and publicly. The women refused to pay courtesy calls to the Eatons at their home and to receive them as visitors, and denied them invitations to parties and other social events.[13]... Jackson's sympathy for the Eatons stemmed in part from his late wife Rachel being the subject of innuendo during the presidential campaign, when questions arose as to whether her first marriage had been legally ended before she married Jackson. Jackson believed these attacks were the cause of Rachel's death on December 22, 1828, several weeks after his election to the presidency.[18][19] |
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Post by tom on Sept 16, 2021 16:19:29 GMT -6
Indeed, neither Peggy Eaton nor Rachel Jackson were as one dimensional as the movie suggests. The one problem I have with it is why the made made-up romance between Randolph and Eaton. It would have been interesting to see how this movie might have differed if it were made in the pre-code era.
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Post by davidmorrocco on Sept 20, 2021 0:21:35 GMT -6
You know that I love the behind the scenes juice. I thought the cast was believably good. The information from the movie The Gorgeous Hussy about Andrew Jackson’s family and personal life is something I never knew. You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Thanks Admin Stephanie for posting more details about Andrew Jackson and his family life. Very interesting indeed. I’m so glad that I watched it again.
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Post by davidmorrocco on Oct 4, 2021 0:03:31 GMT -6
Dear Admin Stephanie; I just spent an hour looking at your October 3, 2021 posting of the BOE website checking out the cigarette cards - TOBACCIANA: 1939 UK Godfrey Phillips cig card (front and back) featuring The Gorgeous Hussy. You have quite a collection of really interesting promotions describing Joan’s early career. It was fun to read the comments on the cigarette cards. The photos are priceless. I really appreciate all the time you spent to put that together. Thanks so very much. I really enjoyed it.
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