#actor celeste holm

[facesofcinema]

All About Eve (1950)

[oscar-nominee-tournament]

Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

CELESTE HOLM (1917-2012)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1949 for Come to the Stable, 1950 for All About Eve

WINS:

Supporting- 1947 for Gentlemen's Agreement

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BILL NIGHY (1949-)

NOMINATIONS:

Lead- 2023 for Living

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Hi!

I have some announcements to make,

Firstly, I'm currently visiting family right now so the bracket may be up later than I expected, sorry about that (I'll still try and answer any of your asks as best as I can).

Secondly, I can't tag for shit, (I am very new to tumblr) so I don't know what character specific tags to use so let me know if there are any specific tags to use.

Thirdly, I'm proud to reveal the pairs competing in this bracket, in no specific order (sorry there are no pictures):

Dave Strider (Homestuck) & Stiles (Teen Wolf)

Alex Fierro (Magnus Chase) & Elizabeth (Visual Prison)

Link (Legend of Zelda) & Sabi Mehboob (Sort Of)

Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High Host Club) & Bill (Promethea)

Howl (Howl's Moving Castle) & Shiver (Splatoon)

Kris (Deltarune) & Franken Stein (Soul Eater)

Mettaton (Undertale) & Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb)

Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson) & Arya Stark (A Song of Fire and Ice)

Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4) & Yuri Rurikawa (Act Addict Actors!)

Ranma Saotome (Ranma 1/2) & Sokka (Avatar: the Last Airbender)

Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender) & Pidge Gunderson (Voltron)

Hiccup (How to Train your Dragon) & Princess Mononoke (Princess Mononoke)

Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom) & Angel Demon (Chainsaw Man)

Hunter (The Owl House) & Seadall (Fire Emblem)

Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) & Conel.EXE (Megaman Battle Network)

Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) & Garmadon (Ninjajo)

Jim Jimenez (Our Flag Means Death) & Kakashi Hatake (Naruto)

Stevonnie (Steven Universe) & Aubrey (OMORI)

Gonzo (The Muppets) & Sapphire (Princess Knight)

Allen Walker (D. Gray Man) & Raven (Teen Titans)

Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet) & Spock (Star Trek)

Madeline (Celeste) & Oliver Swift (Dialtown)

L Lawliet (Death Note) & Larry Needlemeyer (Amazing World of Gumball)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) & Helia (Winx Club)

Zagreus (Hades) & Yami Yugi (Yugioh)

Lake (Infinity Train) & Kitty Pryde (Marvel comics)

Sherlock Holmes (Various Sources) & Makoto Yuki (Persona 3)

Ed (Cowboy Bebop) & Boyd (Ducktales)

Mulan (Mulan) & Bow (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Fionna the Human (Adventure Time) & Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Inosuke Hashibara (Demon Slayer) & Emily (Thomas and Friends)

ENA (ENA) & Joey/Rojo (Ben 10)

Marshall Lee (Adventure Time) & Alonzo (Cats)

Aziraphale (Good Omens) & Marcy Wu (Amphibia)

Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) & Bee (Bee and Puppycat)

Stanford pines (Gravity Falls) & Yakko Warner (Animaniacs)

Bridget (Guilty Gear) & Ema Skye (Ace Attorney)

Testament (Guilty Gear) & Sailor Uranus (Sailor Moon)

Nagisa (Assassination Classroom) & Allison (The Breakfast Club)

Dirk Strider (Homestuck) & Klaus (Umbrella Academy)

Ghost (Call of Duty) & Sebastian (Stardew Valley)

Grell Sutcliff (Black Butler) & Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Ping (Mulan) & Kaoru Sakurayashiki (Sk8 the Infinity)

Eijiro Kirishima (My Hero Academia) & Kou Seiya (Sailor Moon)

Hawks (My Hero Academia) & Axel (Kingdom Hearts)

Blackbeard (Our Flag Means Death) & Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Princess Ozma (Oz) & Princess Peach (Mario Series)

Team Rocket (Pokemon)

Mizuki Akiyama (Project Sekiai) & Wade Wilson (Marvel comics)

Utena Tenjou (Revolutionary Girl Utena) & Rodrick Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Crona Gorgon (Soul Eater) & Shuichi Saihara (Danganronpa)

Luz (The Owl House) & Spamton (Deltarune)

Morpheus, Dream of the Endless (The Sandman) & Barney Guttman (Dead end Paranormal Park)

Mad Mew Mew (Undertale) & Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) & Trunks (DBZ)

Sheik (Legend of Zelda) & JFK (Clone High)

Kara Zor-El (DC comics) & Legoshi (Beastars)

Wheatley (Portal 2) & Fluttershy (MLP)

Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) & The green M&M (M&M’s)

Yellow (Pokemon Adventures) & Anne Boonchuy (Amphibia)

Yukiko Amagi (Persona 4) & Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Peppino (Pizza Tower) & Jason Todd (DC comics)

Mahiru Koizumi (Danganronpa) & Megamind (Megamind)

Itsuka Kendo (My Hero Academia) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

-Mod Sky

[snicketsquadron]

Jacob and E appearance headcanons

I’ve been on a bit of an internet rabbit hole developing my appearance headcanons and faceclaims for Jacob and E Snicket. Under a readmore because there are a lot of photos.

Now, the photo that best matches my personal mental image for how Jacob Snicket looked like as a young man is this one (with the second man from the left as Jacob):

[Image ID: Grayscale image of four young men in suits from the 1930s. Source: https://www.rebelsmarket.com/blog/posts/retro-fashion-for-men-what-clothing-did-men-wear-in-the-1930s]

Recently I watched a linguistic video on youtube that included a clip of actor George Sanders.

And as soon as I saw that clip, George immediately captivated me as a good Jacob faceclaim. Here are some more photos of him:

Source: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/George_Sanders?file=Sanders_3x4.jpg

(Wikimedia commons, from The Ghost and Ms. Muir)

Source: 1942 publicity photo from The Falcon Takes Over, https://www.facebook.com/TheGoldenAgeOfCinema/photos/a.514988945211180/2538322046211183/?type=3

Retrieved from: https://www.posterazzi.com/a-portrait-of-george-sanders-smoking-a-cigarette-photo-print-item-varcel694675/

Of course, several photos of George are movie stills including his co-stars. And this one from All About Eve captivated me as a great couple shot for Jacob and E Snicket:

Which pointed me to the actress Anne Baxter as an E faceclaim. Such as the following:

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Baxter#/media/File:Anne_Baxter_publicity_photo.JPG

(Apologies for the watermarks but I just love her expression). From Alamy.com

From Getty images. Smoking seems to be a habit of the Snicket parents.

Since George Sanders and Anne Baxter were in several films together, it provides a lot of opportunity for shots of Jacob and E as a couple.

Such as this domestic looking scene. (From the film All About Eve, image source: https://www.royalbooks.com/pages/books/157686/joseph-l-mankiewicz-anne-baxter-bette-davis-thelma-ritter-marilyn-monroe-celeste-holm-george/all-about-eve-original-photograph-from-the-1950-film)

(Another All about Eve still, retrieved from https://twitter.com/tcm/status/1146403550534221824)

[byneddiedingo]

Bette Davis and Thelma Ritter in All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on a story by Mary Orr. Cinematography: Milton R. Krasner. Art direction: George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Alfred Newman. 

Talk, talk, talk. Ever since the movies learned to do it, it has been the glory -- and sometimes the bane -- of the medium. We cherish some films because they do it so well: the films of Preston Sturges, Howard Hawks, and Quentin Tarantino, for example, would be nothing without their characters' abundantly gifted gab. Hardly a year goes by without someone compiling a list of the "greatest movie quotes of all time." And invariably the lists include such lines as "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" or "You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point." Those are spoken by, respectively, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) and Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) in All About Eve, one of the movies' choicest collections of talk. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the best screenplay Oscar for the second consecutive year -- he won the previous year for A Letter to Three Wives -- and in both cases he received the directing Oscar as well. Would we admire Mankiewicz's lines as much if they had not been delivered by Davis and Sanders, along with such essential performers as Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, and, in a small but stellar part, Marilyn Monroe? It could be said that Mankiewicz's dialogue tends to upend All About Eve: The glorious wisecracks and one-liners are what we remember about it, more than its satiric look at the Broadway theater or its portrait of the ambitious Eve Harrington. We also remember the film as the continental divide in Davis's career, the moment in which she ceased to be a leading lady and became the paradigmatic Older Actress, relegated more and more to character roles and campy films like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962). All About Eve, in which Margo turns 40 -- Davis was 42 -- and ever so reluctantly hands over the reins to Eve -- Anne Baxter was 27 -- is a kind of capitulation, an unfortunate acceptance that a female actor's career has passed its peak, when in fact all that is needed is writers and directors and producers who are willing to find material that demonstrates the ways in which life goes on for women as much as for men.

[raybizzle]

"Polly" (1989) is a made-for-television musical that aired on NBC's "Magical World of Disney." Disney adapted the movie from the 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter, "Pollyanna," which Disney originally made a version of the novel in 1960 under the same title. The 1989 version comprises a majority black cast, and Debbie Allen is responsible for the film's direction. Due to the immense popularity of "The Cosby Show" during the mid to late 80s, the actors saw remarkable success in roles outside of their norm. So naturally, Cosby kids was a rating boost for any network that featured them in TV movies or shows. But, this time, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad led an excellent cast of actors in one of the most underrated musicals. This film isn't just any type of musical. It's brilliantly performed and well-made. Most of the leading actors and actresses got to sing and dance. Debbie Allen colorfully illuminates every scene with beauty and grace with her choreography, which the Emmys nominated her for "Outstanding Choreography." Included with Pulliam and Rashad are Dorian Harewood, Barbara Montgomery, T.K. Carter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Brandon Quintin Adams, Larry Riley, and Brock Peters. Notable guest stars also include Butterfly McQueen ("Gone with the Wind") and Celeste Holm ("Oklahoma"). Joel McNeely is responsible for the soundtrack score, which Harold Wheeler ("The Wiz") also supervised. Debbie and her husband, Norm Nixon, composed one of the music numbers called "Stand Up." Some of the tracks are "Shine a Light" (sung by Dorian Harewood and Larry Riley), "Honey Ain't Got Nothin' on You" (Vanessa Bell Calloway), "Something More" (Phylicia Rashas), and "Sweet Little Angel Eyes" (Bandon Adams and TK Carter). I recommend this movie. The music is excellent, and the attire is beautiful. The story is a cheerful one with many feel-good moments. The actors have experience in performing arts, and many came from Broadway. This film has all the essences of Broadway and then some. Director: Debbie Allen Writers: William Blinn (teleplay), Eleanor H. Porter (novel "Pollyanna") Starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad, Dorian Harewood, Barbara Montgomery, T.K. Carter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Brandon Quintin Adams, Ken Page, Larry Riley, Butterfly McQueen, Brock Peters, Celeste Holm, George Anthony Bell, Michael Peters, Vickilyn Reynolds Vickilyn Reynolds Storyline Set in 1955, in times of racial segregation, a mythical all-black Alabama town called Harrington is owned by the non-sense Aunt Polly (Phylicia Rashad). She believes life is a serious matter and frowns upon any joyful noise. However, things change when Polly (Keshia Knight Pulliam) arrives as an orphan from Detroit. She is a ray of sunshine to a stoic Aunt and a town torn between their affliction between each other.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 4.29

Beer Birthdays

Matthew Vassar (1792)

Robert Cain (1826)

Phillip Jacob Ebling Jr. (1861)

Pat McIllhenney (1954)

Tom Riley (1963)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Duke Ellington; jazz composer (1899)

Tommy James; pop singer (1947)

Rafael Sabatini; writer (1875)

Jerry Seinfeld; comedian (1955)

John Waters; film director (1946)

Famous Birthdays

Andre Agassi; tennis player (1970)

Luis Aparicio; Chicago White Sox SS (1934)

John Arbuthnot; Scottish scientist, mathematician (1667)

Thomas Beechum; orchestra conductor (1897)

Philippe Brun; jazz trumpeter (1908)

Daniel Day-Lewis; actor (1958)

Lonnie Donegan; folk singer (1931)

Nora Dunn; actor, comedian (1952)

Dale Earnhardt; automobile racer (1951)

Oliver Ellsworth; Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1745)

William Randolph Hearst; newspaper magnate (1951)

Celeste Holm; actor (1917)

David Icke; writer, conspiracy theorist (1952)

Irvin Kershner; film director (1923)

Rod McKuen; folk singer (1933)

Zubin Mehta; orchestra conductor (1936)

Donald Mills; singer, "Mills Brothers" (1915)

Kate Mulgrew; actor (1955)

Tommy Noonan; actor (1922)

Michelle Pfeiffer; actor (1958)

Eve Plumb; actor (1958)

Henri Poincare; French mathematician (1854)

Malcolm Sargent; orchestra conductor (1879)

Toots Thielmans; jazz musician (1922)

Uma Thurman; actor (1970)

Klaus Voorman; rock bassist (1942)

Rachel Williams; model (1967)

Carnie Wilson; pop singer (1968)

Fred Zinnemann; film director (1907)

[oldtvlover]

Cast: Richard Jordan as Joseph Armagh Ray Bolger as R.J. Squibbs Peter Donat as Clair Montrose Charles Durning as Ed Healey Celeste Holm as Sister Angela Harvey Jason as Harry Zieff Joanna Pettet as Katherine Hennessey Beverly D'Angelo as Miss Emmy and many more 

Story: (aka Chapter I) Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story. —Lars-Toralf Storstrand (from IMDB again) CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS set the template for future TV miniseries such as ROOTS and THE BASTARD, gathering together a cast of beloved veterans and intriguing newcomers in a historical fiction designed to keep audiences coming back for the next installment. Taylor Caldwell's 1972 best seller gets the sprawling treatment, broadcast over 8 weekly installments, from Sept 30-Nov 25 1976, exactly two months of gripping melodrama. We open with the teenaged Joseph Armagh watching his ailing mother die as their ship sits in New York Harbor in 1857, forced to return to Ireland due to America's intolerance for the Irish. With his younger brother and sister, Joseph secretly departs the vessel by night into the water, only to find their father's home in Philadelphia, he too deceased from pneumonia. Now determined to keep his promise to his mother to always look after his siblings, Joseph leaves them safely in the care of an orphanage run by Sister Angela (Celeste Holm), as the boy mines during the week while building a personal nest egg running liquor on Sundays for R.J. Squibbs (Ray Bolger). Four years later, at the dawn of the Civil War, the now adult Joseph (Richard Jordan) is ready to 'borrow' an investment from Squibbs to form his own company in Titusville with the help of companion Harry Zieff (Harvey Jason) and wealthy entrepreneur (and fellow Irishman) Ed Healey (Charles Durning). Ann Sothern and Neville Brand get little more than cameos, Vic Morrow again in unsympathetic mode, Joanna Pettet, Barbara Parkins, and newcomer Beverly D'Angelo (in a literally smashing debut performance) providing eye candy galore. Veteran scene stealer John Carradine kicks things off as Father Hale, whose attempts to comfort young Joseph in the wake of his mother's death are met with steely determination, a fine though brief character study for an actor so often reduced to low budget roles at this stage of his lengthy career. - by kevinolzak on IMDB Thoughts: We mainly start with Joseph and his way to get rich and more. He takes every job he can get, even dirty one just to be paid well. Joseph wants to be the one who makes the rules and so he learns from anyone possible, in each field like oil and others. Even with reading books provided by a wealthy woman, he chooses his life and not the other way around. At the end, he goes out for another great adventure during the Civil War and it includes rifles, a lot of those.  More then tomorrow!

Chapter II Additional cast: Pernell Roberts as Colonel Elbert Braithwaite Robert Vaughn as Charles Desmond Story: A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey. (from IMDB again) The second chapter of CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS picks up at the start of the Civil War, Joseph Armagh (Richard Jordan) joining Clair Montrose (Peter Donat) in a spot of gun running with Colonel Elbert Braithwaite (Pernell Roberts), who cannot resist the generous graft for his certification. A year away and Joseph is back in the arms of the beautiful Martinique (Barbara Parkins), while his second hand man Harry (Harvey Jason) finds himself falling for Ed Healey's ward Miss Emmy (Beverly D'Angelo). His oil speculations are coveted by Healey so eventually the two agree to partner up, Joseph to receive one third of the profit for his efforts to consolidate the refineries, to the delight of railroad baron Charles Desmond (Robert Vaughn). Blair Brown is introduced as Healey's real life daughter Elizabeth, just returned from boarding school, sparking off a series of lustful events that leave the principals dazed and confused. - by kevinolzak on IMDB Thoughts: Well, Joseph has learned a lot and bargains hard to get what he wants, no matter what. His little siblings are still at the orphanage where Mrs. Hennessey takes care of them as well. He loves Martinique but this woman has many secrets but protects him if needed. Harry falls in love with Miss Emmy and they make out in Joseph's room. Harry can flee but Joseph and Emmy are caught by Strickland (Joe Kapp) and Healey. Healey seems to believe them but he's not certain here. Wonder how it will go on. 

Chapter III Additional cast: Patty Duke (Astin) as Bernadette Hennessey Blair Brown as Elizabeth Healey Katherine Crawford as Mary Armagh David Huffman as Sean Armagh George Gaynes as Orestes Bradley Vic Morrow as Tom Hennessey Story: When Elizabeth Healey fails in her attempts to seduce Joseph, she decides to seduce the next attractive man she meets - Tom Hennessey. Tom becomes a senator and Elizabeth tells him she is pregnant with his child. She proposes a plan where Tom will use his political influence to create a false marriage record for her and a friend, Everett Wickersham who has been killed in the war. At a family dinner Ed shares the news of Elizabeth's marriage, the unfortunate death of Everett Wickersham, and the expected baby. He drinks to excess, collapses and dies. Ed's will is extremely generous to everyone - Emmy and Martinique are now both rich women. Martinique announces that she will go to Europe and Emmy marries Harry. Joseph receives 75% of Ed's estate and Elizabeth receives 25% with instructions that Joseph will invest her money for her. Joseph has built his own mansion in Green Hills and proposes to Elizabeth, but she says it's too late. Sean and Mary move into Joseph's new home, but Mary expresses her desire to become a nun and Sean becomes a union organizer. On her deathbed, Katherine Hennessey asks Joseph to marry her daughter, Bernadette and he agrees. (taken from here now) Thoughts: So, good bye to Ed Healey and Joseph has reached his goal, yet his siblings, Sean and Mary are not happy with his lifestyle. Mary decides to stay at the monastery whereas Sean is working against his brother. However, Joseph has too many women at his hand and when he finally makes a decision to wed Elizabeth it's too late. He knew he was in love with Katherine but couldn't say, yet the conflict between him and her husband will escalate for sure. It will be interesting. I have to admit it got me hooked.

Chapter IV Additional cast: Henry Fonda as Sen. Enfield Bassett Richard (T.) Herd as Talmadge Story: Joseph quarrels with Sean over the labor union issue and with Mary over her desire to leave and enter a nunnery. He rages about their lack of gratitude for all the sacrifices he has made in his life to provide for them. He says that Sean can go to Hell and Mary can go to Jesus and severs all ties with both of them. Alone in his big house, he now wants a family of his own and proposes marriage to Bernadette Hennessey. She understands that he does not love her, but hopes that will change once they have children. Sean organizes a strike against Joseph's company and when the militia are called in to intervene, violence erupts and many of the strikers are killed. Years pass and Joseph and Bernadette now have 4 children, Rory, Kevin, Anne-Marie, and Brian. Elizabeth Healey has married Tom Hennessey and Joseph vows to destroy him. Joseph uses his money and influence to expose Tom's involvement in a corruption scandal and he is politically ruined. Sean is falsely accused of an attack on the railroad and is sentenced to hang when he is wrongly convicted. Behind the scenes, Joseph intervenes to prove Sean's innocence - to protect the family name. He begins telling others of his plan to make his son Rory the first Irish Catholic President. (taken from here again) Thoughts: Joseph in his rage cuts all family ties to his siblings but then starts a family of his own, yet without love. Soon he has four kids and well, set his plan in action to make his eldest Rory the first Irish Catholic President - and even get him a future wife, the daughter of his friend Desmond. Oh boy, that might backfire one day. Never mind, he manages to ruin his own father-in-law but deep down, he was always in love with Elizabeh Healey. Oh my, what a complicated relationship will begin. It cannot end good. 

So, I’ll stop here. The remaining four chapters will be posted soon. I think this might be better since it’s way too long anyway. There’s enough to read for you now.

[lindagab248]

Una historia del mar

Hola a todos esta vez cambiaremos un poco el tema de lo que nos hemos centrado ya que hemos hablado sobre la contaminación, datos curiosos y misteriosos información relevante etc. y los contare una historia muy interesante.

Sin amarre y sin tripulación

En 1872 un bergantín llamado Mary Celeste puso rumbo desde la ciudad de Nueva York a Génova, Italia, llevando a siete miembros de la tripulación, el capitán, su esposa y su hija de dos años. Un mes después, un barco británico vio el bergantín, que ya debería haber llegado a su destino, a la deriva en el Atlántico Norte, a cientos de kilómetros de tierra.

Cuando los miembros de su tripulación abordaron el Mary Celeste, encontraron semanas de comida, zapatos y otras pertenencias personales. Un desayuno sin terminar, probablemente el del niño, todavía estaba en la mesa del comedor, cubierto de moho. Para los marineros británicos que investigaron el Mary Celeste, era como si los que estuvieron a bordo hubieran abandonado el barco por completo. Sin embargo, a pesar de algunas salpicaduras de agua de mar en su bodega, el bergantín se consideró marinero.

Debajo de la cubierta, los marineros encontraron 1.701 barriles de alcohol industrial, nueve de ellos vacíos. ¿Podrían sus humos nocivos haber provocado chispas, asustando a todos en el Mary Celeste hasta el bote salvavidas? Si es así, ¿dónde planearon ir, dado que estaban tan lejos de tierra? Nadie pudo decirlo con certeza, porque la tripulación, el capitán y su familia nunca fueron vistos nuevamente.

La historia de Mary Celeste continúa obsesionando a los fanáticos de los barcos fantasmas, ya que puede ser el verdadero análogo más cercano a la leyenda centenaria del Flying Dutchman, el mítico barco que está maldito para navegar por el océano para siempre. Como tal, ha sido alimento para muchos narradores.

En 1884, Arthur Conan Doyle escribió un relato ficticio de lo que ocurrió en el Mary Celeste en una historia corta no relacionada con Sherlock Holmes, y en 1935, el barco inspiró una de las primeras entradas al cañón de terror de Hammen Film Productions con The Misterio o he Mary Celeste, protagonizada por Bela Lugosi, el famoso actor de Drácula. En esa película, los que están a bordo son asesinados uno por uno. ¿Podría haber sido así como conocieron su destino la tripulación real y la familia del capitán?

Les gusto esta historia da un poco de miedo espero que les haya gustado bye

[lifes-commotion]

All About Eve was released 13 October 1950 and was nominated for 14 Academy Awards. It won in 6 of those categories it was nominated in, including Best Costume Design - Black & White for Edith Head.  It starred Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm, George Sanders, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, and Anne Baxter.  All About Eve was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

[oscar-nominee-tournament]

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[sala66]

Celeste Holm y Gregory Peck en “La Barrera Invisible” (Gentleman's Agreement), 1947

[cuntboysupremacy]

4) fave genre 9) fave actors 47) fave tropes

4) Mob movies. I know they're the quintessenial filmbro type of movies and liked by some of the worst people around but I can't help it. I wrote off The Godfather and Goodfellas for YEARS until I was forced to watch The Godfather movies in college for a class and I think it rewired my brain. I watched Goodfellas more recently and had a similar experience. All my life I've been seeing references and rip offs but watching the originals was a totally different experience! The mob movie genre in general is so infamous and its directors pioneered a number of techniques that are used in so many other genres now (Goodfellas was apparently one of the first to use fourth wall breaks for plot exposition) that it's called cliche or bad writing, but the originals had this dynamism to them that I'm still struggling to describe. The closest I can come to it is that they're imbued with this feeling of experimentation that their descendants don't have; the directors who followed their example treated it like rules but the originals were all about breaking rules and finding new ways to tell a story. I'm pretty sure The Godfather pt. 2 is the only time where I've seen such an extended flashback that didn't make the movie worse.

I'm also kind of obsessed with how mob movies have faded into this category of "old movies", like when you think of them, you think of these groundbreaking and extraordinarily famous movies from the 20th century. The last time I heard about a mob movie in the modern day, it was marvel fans clowning on The Irishman bc Martin Scorsese "insulted" their military propaganda faves.

Additionally, when I started reading up on the production of these films, and how they were received in their time, it only deepened my appreciation for the genre. I was genuinely shocked at how many genre-spanning "cliches" or techniques originated from these crime movies. I know I focused on like...the two most famous ones for this answer but if I go on I'm gonna write a ten paragraph essay lmao.

9) full disclosure; I've never had like....a steadfast admiration of any actor. But here goes a shot at some people who I've liked in multiple films and whatever role left the greatest impression on me.

Ian McKellan: Legend, I know, but I think he'll always be my fav for his role in this obscure Sherlock Holmes movie called Mr Holmes about an elderly and regretful Sherlock as he suffers from dementia. I saw it one time when my parents absent mindedly rented it from the video store when I was teenager and it's haunted me ever since. Obviously, Ian McKellan is great in everything but that's what sticks to me.

Nicole Kidman: She's been getting a lot of love for The Northman (which was a good movie and she was good in it) but I'll always remember her for her role as Celeste in Little Big Lies (if you haven't seen it, go and see it now it's so great). It's one of the best portrayals of an abuse victim that I've ever seen and while the writing is great, it's her performance that sells the audience on Celeste being both human and a victim. She also plays really well off Meryl Streep's evil grandma character.

Bowen Yang/Vanessa Bayer: I'm grouping these two bc I've primarily seen them on SNL (guilty pleasure of mine) and they both deserve better as comedic performers. I know Vanessa has gotten some better opportunities in the last couple years but I'm looking forward to when Bowen leaves the show for bigger things bc he's fucking hilarious.

John Noble: he's just so intense. His role as Denethor was pitch perfect casting and he played it all out! I really don't think anyone else (besides maybe like Willem Dafoe) could have pulled off Denethor's unique insane worldview and fucked up relationship with his sons. Every time he's on screen, absolutely capivating (honorable mention his role on Fringe was similarly well done).

Keke Palmer: Criminally underrated, every project I've ever seen her in, she's knocked it out of the park. I'm so excited to see NOPE this summer and hope it propels her to more mainstream projects. Her favorite performance of mine was when she was on Scream Queens. Everyone loves to give Emma Roberts her flowers for that show, but Keke Palmer was acting circles around that other white girl who was the lead in season one and then became the main character for season two. Excellent performances in both seasons, and that show absolutely should have been renewed for a third.

47) ngl this gave me psychic damage bc i started thinking about fanfiction tropes lmao. I also don't really think about plot devices as tropes tbh.

But being real for a second, I'd have to say that my favorite trope is probably the fake relationship one. I've seen it done well and I've seen it done badly, but imo when it's good its really funny and it makes me laugh.

I suppose found family is also a trope and I do like it a lot, but I don't really think of it as a trope? like, for my money, any story with a bunch of unrelated characters going through the plot together is going to feel closer by the end of the story if the story is written well, yknow? a group of characters all going on a journey and then just like saying bye like it's the end of some mandatory group activity is weird to me and I probably won't like the story lmao. So found family is not so much a plot device as it is the natural conclusion to a lot of characters' development in relation to each other.

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The above recording is incredible archival footage, though a trigger warning for yellowface and Asian stereotyping is definitely necessary. Rodgers and Hammerstein would later stand against yellowface in the stage and film productions of Flower Drum Song, insisting that only Asian actors play in their musical about Chinese Americans, but The King and I comes earlier and suffers from attitudes of white people at the time.

But what incredible archival footage it is! This comes from Richard Rodgers’s home movies, filmed through the original run of The King and I. Eagle-eyed viewers will note three actors playing Anna Leonowens opposite Yul Brynner; the original actor, Gertrude Lawrence, Celeste Holm (perhaps better known as the original Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, or Frank Sinatra’s love interest in High Society) and Broadway regular Constance Carpenter. The reason for this is actually very sad; Lawrence became very ill during the run, missing several shows, and eventually collapsed backstage, and died only two weeks later from undiagnosed liver cancer. She was eulogised by Oscar Hammerstein II and was buried in the iconic dress from the Shall We Dance? number, immortalised in most minds by Deborah Kerr in the film as one of the largest dresses ever, and seen in full splendour at the end of the archive footage. Julie Andrews would later play Gertrude Lawrence in the biopic Star, and indeed Andrews would also do a turn as Anna Leonowens, completing the circle!

Yul Brynner, the original King, became obsessed with the role and completed over 4,000 performances in it, including in the film, despite being a hugely in-demand Hollywood actor. This was the role he shaved his head for, which became his signature look - he had to keep shaving it! The first production of The King and I premiered in 1951 - incredibly, Yul Brynner was still performing as the King (although obviously not consistently for all that time - he had a separate career!) in 1985, the year of his death, spending the final three years struggling with terminal cancer even whilst he played the role. There was something about the role which utterly captivated him; it seems he just couldn’t stop.

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All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on a story by Mary Orr. Cinematography: Milton R. Krasner. Art direction: George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Alfred Newman.  Talk, talk, talk. Ever since the movies learned to do it, it has been the glory -- and sometimes the bane -- of the medium. We cherish some films because they do it so well: the films of Preston Sturges, Howard Hawks, and Quentin Tarantino, for example, would be nothing without their characters' abundantly gifted gab. Hardly a year goes by without someone compiling a list of the "greatest movie quotes of all time." And invariably the lists include such lines as "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" or "You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point." Those are spoken by, respectively, Margo Channing and Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, one of the movies' choicest collections of talk. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the best screenplay Oscar for the second consecutive year -- he first won the previous year for A Letter to Three Wives, which, like All About Eve, he also directed -- and in both cases he received the directing Oscar as well. Would we admire Mankiewicz's lines as much if they had not been delivered by Bette Davis and George Sanders, along with such essential performers as Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, and, in a small but stellar part, Marilyn Monroe? It could be said that Mankiewicz's dialogue tends to upend All About Eve: The glorious wisecracks and one-liners are what we remember about it, far more than its satiric look at the Broadway theater or its portrait of the ambitious Eve Harrington. We also remember the film as the continental divide in Bette Davis's career, the moment in which she ceased to be a leading lady and became the paradigmatic Older Actress, relegated more and more to character roles and campy films like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962). All About Eve, in which Margo turns 40 -- Davis was 42 -- and ever so reluctantly hands over the reins to Eve -- Baxter was 27 -- is a kind of capitulation, an unfortunate acceptance that a female actor's career has passed its peak, when in fact all that is needed is writers and directors and producers who are willing to find material that demonstrates the ways in which life goes on for women as much as for men.

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Team Leslie Howard By Susan King

Leslie Howard has gotten a bad rap over the decades. Ironically, it’s because of his most famous role as Ashley Wilkes, who is obsessed with and weakly indecisive over Scarlett O’Hara, and married to his sweet distant cousin Melanie in the Oscar-winning Civil War epic GONE WITH THE WIND (’39). In fact, when I first saw the film at 13 during one of the epic’s reissues, I said “ewww” when I first saw Howard on screen. The British actor was far too old for the part and seemed to be caked in make-up to look younger. And in fact, he was old enough to be the father of Olivia de Havilland, who played Melanie. I kept shaking my head when my mother told me Howard was quite the matinee idol in the 1930s.

He also seemed disinterested in the role. The performance isn’t awful, but he just seemed to be going through the motions. Truth be told, he didn’t want to be in the movie. He even wrote to his daughter: “I hate the damn part. I’m not nearly beautiful or young enough for Ashley, and it makes me sick being fixed up to look attractive.” Howard further said of the movie: “Terrible lot of nonsense. Heaven help me if I ever read the book.”

Then what was the reason he did the movie? Because GONE WITH THE WIND producer, David O. Selznick, gave him an associate producer credit on INTERMEZZO (’39), the romantic melodrama based on the 1936 Swedish hit. INTERMEZZO also marked the Hollywood debut of Ingrid Bergman, who had starred in the original.

Considering I was so unimpressed with Howard as a young teen, I have been a member of Team Leslie since the 1970s. (I can almost forgive him for playing Romeo at the age of 43 in MGM’s ROMEO AND JULIET, ’36.) Though his acting style is of its time, I love his romanticism and his glorious voice. I feel the same way about Ronald Colman, who, like Howard, excelled at suffering from the slings and arrows of love.

Though he made some silent shorts, Howard’s major movie career only lasted 13 years from 1930 to his tragic death in 1943 at the age of 50, when the commercial plane in which he was traveling was shot down by the Nazis. Growing up, Howard’s films were rarely shown on television. Thankfully, TCM and Warner Archive has changed all of that. He was so much more than Ashley Wilkes. Besides being a star on stage and screen, he changed the career of Humphrey Bogart, earned two best actor Oscar nominations and also directed and produced films.

Howard’s career was bookended by the World Wars. Howard, who was of Hungarian/German Jewish heritage, suffered from shyness growing up in a Forest Hill London neighborhood. And, this sensitive young man experienced shell shock during his World War I service. Acting was prescribed as a cure. The debonair, gentlemanly Howard quickly became a star on the London stage and made his Broadway debut in 1920 in Just Suppose. For the next 17 years, he would appear on the Broadway stage often not only starring in plays, but producing, writing and directing.

And he made his Hollywood film debut in one of his Broadway hits, OUTWARD BOUND (’30). With arrival of the talkies, Hollywood look to Broadway and the London stage for talent who, unlike numerous film stars, had had trained voices and could handle dialogue. He earned his first Oscar nomination for the film version of another Broadway vehicle BERKLEY SQUARE (’33). For years, the uber-romantic time-traveling fantasy was unavailable to be seen. I actually bought a bootleg DVD off of eBay, but the print was so bad it was unwatchable.

A few years ago, TCM aired a beautiful print. All I can say, it was worth the wait. It is stagey and creaky, but I just loved it and so will you if you have a romantic bone in your body. The lavish Alexander Korda production of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (’35) was the movie that changed my opinion of Howard. I watched it late at night in a horrible TV print that was riddled with commercials. But I was gob smacked. Howard seemed to be having a field day as a foppish British aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, who is actually the brave and dashing Scarlett Pimpernel, a mysterious man who rescues French nobility from losing their heads during the Reign of Terror.

The actor returned to Broadway in 1935 in Robert Sherwood’s drama The Petrified Forest. He also produced the hit play in which he played the epitome of his disillusioned romantic. This time around he’s Alan Squier, a poetic but disenchanted Englishman hitchhiking across the U.S to seek the meaning of life. He ends up finding love and death at a café in the Petrified Forest. The play also starred Humphrey Bogart who electrified audience as “the world-famous killer” Duke Mantee. 

When Warner Bros. planned to have Howard reprise his role in the 1936 film version, Howard insisted that Bogart, who certainly wasn’t a box office name, play Duke or he would quit the film. Bogart’s career was changed because of Howard, who does take a back seat to the actor’s riveting performance. Though they have diverse acting styles, Howard and Bogart’s scenes together still pack a wallop 84 years after its release. The following year, they reunited for STAND-IN (’37), a kicky but rarely seen comedy about Hollywood. And nine years after Howard’s death, Bogart and Lauren Bacall named their daughter Leslie after the late actor.

Howard earned his second best actor Oscar nomination for the delightful British production of George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION (’38) as Professor Henry Higgins opposite Oscar-nominated Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle. Howard also directed the film, produced by Gabriel Pascal, with Anthony Asquith.

With England at war with Nazi Germany, Howard left Hollywood and went home to London where he began working for the British war effort. He starred in, produced and directed my favorite film of his PIMPERNEL SMITH (’41), a rip-roaring exciting update of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. And it’s hard not to think of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones watching the movie. Howard, the self-assured director, gets a wonderful self-assured performance from Howard the actor. And the final line is a real corker. He also starred with David Niven and directed the well-received aerial propaganda drama THE FIRST OF THE FEW (’42), which was renamed SPITFIRE when it opened in the U.S. shortly after his death.

Howard was on a commercial flight from Lisbon, Portugal bound from London on June 1, 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot the plane, which had 16 other passengers and crew, down over the Bay of Biscay. It would have been so interesting to see where Howard’s career would have gone after the war. Would he return to Hollywood? Broadway? Would he had abandoned acting for directing?

Over the years I have talked to some actresses who worked with him. Despite the fact that de Havilland appeared with Howard in the romantic comedy IT’S LOVE I’M AFTER (’37) and GONE WITH THE WIND and did the Lux Radio Theatre version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, she told me she didn’t get to know him well.

Celeste Holm got to know him maybe a little too well. Though Howard was married, it is no secret he had a wandering eye. She was appearing with Howard in the late 1930s in the touring production of Hamlet as a lady in waiting and Ophelia’s understudy. “I was wearing a gorgeous scarlet dress with a gold wimple and train,” she told me during a 1997 Los Angeles Times interview. “After my scene, I immediately exited to the first wing. I could see the show from there.” Howard soon entered the wing. “He took one look at me and before I could say anything, he took me in his arms and kissed me as beautifully as I had ever been kissed before or since. I was totally unprepared. I had only met him the night before.”

The actor was myopic and as soon as he kissed her, Howard realized it was the wrong woman. Holm went to the dressing room. “One of the actresses I was working said, ‘What happened to you? You look like you have seen a ghost.’” The actress started to laugh at the memory. “She said, ‘He was having an affair with the girl in New York who wore your dress. He probably forgot where he was.’”