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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2020 18:34:51 GMT -6
What is your favorite 1940s Joan film?
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Post by davidmorrocco on Nov 27, 2020 8:23:51 GMT -6
I always thought that Rosalind Russell would have been a great actress to play Susan and God.
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Post by jack on Nov 27, 2020 8:49:00 GMT -6
What is your favorite 1940s Joan film? Although Mildred was truly tour de force and totally Oscar worthy, I found her performance as Helen Wright so much more moving. I always forget until I rewatch it that her role is quite minimal, but each scene Joan performs is so powerful that you walk away from the film thinking only of her. The beach scene deeply affected me more than I can describe. And not only her amazing acting, but I think she is at her most gorgeous and breathtaking in appearance. |
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Post by tom on Apr 5, 2021 17:18:38 GMT -6
The only one I've seen from the 40s. Strange Cargo.
The last pairing of the King and Queen.
JC looks great despite hoofing it through the jungle with Gable.
It's a nice story too.
Interesting tidbit - Strange Cargo is the next movie that Gable made after Gone with the Wind!
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2021 21:17:21 GMT -6
The only one I've seen from the 40s. Strange Cargo. The last pairing of the King and Queen. JC looks great despite hoofing it through the jungle with Gable. It's a nice story too. Interesting tidbit - Strange Cargo is the next movie that Gable made after Gone with the Wind! T RE Gable's first movie after GWTW: AND he still accepted SECOND billing! I don't quite know the behind-the-scenes machinations behind this---did Joan insist on first billing, as she'd always had when the two had previously co-starred? Did Gable, in a gentlemanly fashion, give way without argument because of their past history? I found this tidbit: 1940: February 10. Joan phones MGM after noting that Clark Gable's name has been placed before hers in the title credits for their film Strange Cargo. After numerous memos between execs and from her agent, the studio backs down and Joan's name appears first when the film is released the next month. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2021 21:29:36 GMT -6
What is your favorite 1940s Joan film? Although Mildred was truly tour de force and totally Oscar worthy, I found her performance as Helen Wright so much more moving. I always forget until I rewatch it that her role is quite minimal, but each scene Joan performs is so powerful that you walk away from the film thinking only of her. The beach scene deeply affected me more than I can describe. And not only her amazing acting, but I think she is at her most gorgeous and breathtaking in appearance. "Humoresque" and "Possessed" are my favorites of her '40s films. "Mildred" is, of course, great, but... I found Joan a bit flat/generic and not quite the "hoyden" of the Cain book. In "Humoresque," I thought she was achingly beautiful and tragic. "Possessed": Joan's acting was so acute and painful---took me back to some of my own old painful memories with exes, which is never comfortable---and why her performance was so great. (I always think of "Possessed" along with "Harriet Craig"---In both, Joan was brave enough to portray an utterly unloveable, uncomfortable person. Hard to watch, but amazing to watch because of the emotional honesty.) |
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2021 21:34:57 GMT -6
I always thought that Rosalind Russell would have been a great actress to play Susan and God. It's interesting to me to see Joan in "Susan and God," but I don't love her in it... Honestly, she seems a bit brittle, trying too hard. I think Russell, and the original choice Lombard, would have been better. |
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Post by davidmorrocco on Jul 8, 2021 14:22:15 GMT -6
I watched 1941 When Ladies Meet. It was good. Some trivia I found on When Ladies Meet: Spring Byington created the role of Bridget Drake in the original Broadway production. As she had not yet made a reputation as a screen actress, Byington was passed over for the first film version in 1933. By the time the remake was being planned, Byington was a prominent member of the MGM stock company and was a natural choice to finally reprise her stage. She’s very over the top with her role. Perhaps due to her stage performance got a lot of laughs that came across to me as overplayed in this film. I could appreciate her and do like her though. Nearly every aspect of the scandalous play and pre-Code film version are included in the 1941 remake. A solid box-office hit, the film earned more than $1.8M.
Mona Barrie, who plays Mabel in this film, also played the evil Baroness in Love on the Run (1936) with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. The only notable change made for the 1941 remake was in the role of Clare. With the casting of Greer Garson. Garson and Joan Crawford both possessed physical beauty. I love the girl talk they have in the bedroom. They play so well off each other. Their conversation is worth the price of the movie. The bed that Joan is laying on was the same bed they used for Joan a year before in the movie Susan and God. The character of Walter Del Canto is written as a noticeably ineffectual character who, based on his utter disinterest in Bridget's persistent advances, leaves the impression that he is gay; something Bridget never picks up on. I think he’s a fun sidekick. I enjoyed the movie and Adrian’s designs. Joan wearing fake eyeglasses was part of her character, but l notice how fast they come off when she’s next to another female actress. Robert Taylor as Joan’s boyfriend doesn’t work for me. Yes, he loves Joan, but Joan needs someone with more backbone and worldly, smart and accomplished. Someone like Herbert Marshall? I always try to give you some movie trivia or behind the scenes making of the movie without giving away the plot. I’m one of those people that never wants to know to much of the movie. I want to absorb it and then process what I watched. I’m glad that I watched it. 😊
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Post by tom on Jan 5, 2022 9:07:27 GMT -6
The only one I've seen from the 40s. Strange Cargo. The last pairing of the King and Queen. JC looks great despite hoofing it through the jungle with Gable. It's a nice story too. Interesting tidbit - Strange Cargo is the next movie that Gable made after Gone with the Wind! T RE Gable's first movie after GWTW: AND he still accepted SECOND billing! I don't quite know the behind-the-scenes machinations behind this---did Joan insist on first billing, as she'd always had when the two had previously co-starred? Did Gable, in a gentlemanly fashion, give way without argument because of their past history? I found this tidbit: 1940: February 10. Joan phones MGM after noting that Clark Gable's name has been placed before hers in the title credits for their film Strange Cargo. After numerous memos between execs and from her agent, the studio backs down and Joan's name appears first when the film is released the next month. From Joan's TCM documentary. Attachments:
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