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Buster Keaton and Hope Emerson in “Playhouse 90” 1958 episode, “The Innocent Sleep” directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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#WIPWednesday Buster Keaton & Hope Emerson on the set of “The Innocent Sleep,” a Playhouse 90 that aired on CBS 66 years ago today.

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Caged (1950) John Cromwell

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Hope Emerson-Robert Taylor "Ese impulso maravilloso" (That wonderful urge) 1948, de Robert B. Sinclair.

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Caged, 1950

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Caged

“Pile out, you tramps. It’s the end of the line!”

“In this cage, you get tough, or you get killed.”

“Who’s the cute trick?”

“Kindly omit the flowers.”

“Keep it active. She’ll be back.”

Screenwriter Virginia Kellogg went behind bars to capture slang and elements of prison routine, and boy did it pay off. John Cromwell’s CAGED (1950, TCM, Plex) is a punchy good time, even when it’s hectoring the audience about the need for prison reform. It set many of the tropes of the women’s picture, but stands on its own perched on the dividng line between camp and high drama. It’s also unusual in that it got veiled lesbianism and references to drugs and prostitution past the Production Code. Eleanor Parker stars as the young innocent sent to prison because she was in the car while her husband got himself killed trying to rob a gas station. She’s thrown into a world of corruption, sadism, sexuale exploitation and terrific character women. A lot of the fun comes from watching the situation change her, and Parker gives a carefully modulated performance in which the young innocent is as interesting and believable as the woman she becomes. She’s not the whole show. You also get Ellen Corby as a crazed husband killer, Jan Sterling as a dumb blonde, Betty Garde (the original Aunt Eller) as the recruiter for a shop-lifting ring, Lee Patrick as a vice queen who could be the dictionary illustration for “lipstick lesbian,” Olive Deering as a suicidal inmate, Jane Darwell as matron of the isolation room, Gertrude W. Hoffmann as a lifer and Gertrude Michael as a fallen society woman. Best of all are Agnes Moorehead, who could ring nuance out of a laundry list, as the sympathetic warden and Hope Emerson as the sadistic matron who looks on Parker as a source of income and possibly something more. Cromwell was always a whiz at directing actors and melds the cast into a solid ensemble. He and cinematographer Carl E. Guthrie create some powerful visuals, but one of the most stunning effects uses sound. In her first night in the cell block, Allen has to adjust to sleeping in a room full of people as the soundtrack fills with coughs, yawns, and sobs that gradually overwhelm her and us.

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CAGED (1950)

A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.

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Westward the Women, 1951, Is Paying on TCM on October 14 (USA)

Westward the Women (1951) is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday, October 14 at 3:45 p.m. Robert Taylor and John McIntire interview the women who want to go west. John McIntire approaches wagonmaster Robert Taylor with an interesting job and challenge. He wants to bring brides west to the settlement he’s founded in [California]. Taylor hires on a bunch of hands to escort the women and…

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You're my type of man! Of course, you could stand to have a little more meat on you.

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Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the 'Cry of the City' on Criterion Channel

Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the ‘Cry of the City’ on Criterion Channel

Robert Siodmak made more film noirs than any other director. It’s not like he set out to do so—they were considered crime thrillers and murder dramas by the studios and the term film noir was given to the shadowy subset long after Siodmak stopped making them—but he helped define the genre (or the style and attitude, if you prefer) in its glory days. Cry of the City (1948) is one of his darkest…

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Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 - April 25, 1960)

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This Day in Buster…June 5, 1958

"The Innocent Sleep" airs on Playhouse 90 CBS TV.  Playwright Tad Mosel recalls his experience filming it with Buster Keaton cast as a mute caretaker.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Hope Emerson, born 125 years ago today. An imposing figure at 6'2" and 190 pounds, she enjoyed success in vaudeville, burlesque, on Broadway and in pictures, nightclubs and television.

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Hope Emerson "Caravana de mujeres" (Westward the women) 1951, de William A. Wellman.

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