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byneddiedingo · 2 years ago

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Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936)

Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Andy Devine, Conway Tearle, Ralph Forbes, Henry Kolker. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Frederic Hope, Oliver Messel, Edwin B. Willis. Film editing: Margaret Booth. Music: Herbert Stothart.

If Shakespeare's Juliet could be played, as it was in its first performances, by a boy, then why shouldn't she be played by 34-year-old Norma Shearer? Truth be told, I don't find Shearer's performance that bad: She lightens her voice effectively and her girlish manner never gets too coy. It also helps that William H. Daniels photographs her through filters that soften the signs of aging: She looks maybe five years younger than her actual age, if not the 20 years younger that the play's Juliet is supposed to be. I'm more bothered by the balding 43-year-old Leslie Howard as her Romeo, though he had the theatrical training that makes the verse sound convincing in his delivery. And then there's the 54-year-old John Barrymore as Mercutio, who could be Romeo's fey uncle but not his contemporary. In fact, Barrymore's over-the-top performance almost makes this version of the play a must-see -- we miss him more than we do most Mercutios after his death. Edna May Oliver's turn as Juliet's Nurse is enjoyable, if a bit of a surprise: She usually played eccentric spinsters like Aunt Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935) or sour dowagers like Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard, 1940). In the play, the Nurse rarely speaks without risqué double-entendres, but most of them have been cut in Talbot Jennings's adaptation, thus avoiding the ridiculous spectacle of Shakespeare being subjected to the Production Code censors. (Somehow the studio managed to slip in Mercutio's line, "the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.") Some of the other pleasures of the film are camp ones, such as Agnes deMille's choreography for the ball, along with the costume designs by Oliver Messel and Adrian, which evoke early 20th-century illustrators like Walter Crane or Maxfield Parrish. No, this Romeo and Juliet won't do, except as a representation of how Shakespeare's play was seen at a particular time and place: a Hollywood film studio in the heyday of the star system. In that respect, it's invaluable.

#Romeo and Juliet #George Cukor #Leslie Howard #Norma Shearer

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youphoriaot7 · 1 year ago

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helloooo!! i am sen, nice to meet you all :D been hanging around a bunch on tumblr and i'm starting to brainrot on all sorts of subjects so i figured i'd update my pinned.

sen – they/them – over 21 i write fic on ao3 here, and cosplay over on tiktok here! if you want more links, you can check out my carrd here! online series: life series, qsmp, ordem paranormal, generation loss streamers/yters: cellbit, tazercraft (pactw / mikethelink), fitmc, goodtimeswithscar, grian, ranboo other: dead boy detectives, the sandman, good omens, sherlock holmes (frogwares games, bbc sherlock), the magnus archives/protocol, malevolent, arcane, supernatural, doctor who, hannibal, baldur's gate 3

if you're an rp/writing account and you received a follow from me, it's likely because i found your account through one of my sideblogs. these are @hcpewings @malum-incessu and @shlpwreckd . i'm likely interested in writing with you—check those accounts for more information!

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ljones41 · 1 year ago

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"RANDOM HARVEST" (1942) Review

Between 1936 and 1942, author James Hilton enjoyed a prolific period of successful collaborations with the Hollywood studios. Some of those collaborations included writing screenplays for a handful of movies. However, three of those collaborations featured the screen adaptions of a handful of his best-selling novels. One of tho latter proved to be his 1941 novel, "Random Harvest".

Like some of Hilton's previous novels, "Random Harvest" proved to a very popular piece of work that became a major best-selling hit. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) purchased the film rights to novel and set an adaptation of it in motion. Mervyn LeRoy served as the movie's director and both Ronald Colman and Greer Garson were cast in the leads.

Unlike Hilton's novel, screenwriters Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel and Claudine West abandoned the flashback narrative device for "RANDOM HARVEST". Because the novel had kept the duel identities of "Paula Ridgeway"/Margaret Hanson a secret until the very end, the screenwriters had decided to take a different approach, realizing it would have been difficult to maintain such a secret in this particular film, especially since the characters' faces - especially the leading lady's - must be seen. So . . . instead of treating the November 1918 sequence as a flashback, the screenwriters began the movie at that very moment with a British Army officer named "John Smith" confined to an asylum as an unidentified inmate.

On the day the war ends, the asylum's gatekeepers abandon their posts to join the celebration in the nearby Midlands town of Melbridge, and Smith follows him into town. There, he meets a music hall named Paula Ridgeway (stage name). Following a violent encounter with the leader of Paula's traveling theatrical group, she leads Smith away from Melbridge and they end up at a small Devon village. There, the couple fall in love, get married and conceive a son. Two years after they first met, Smith heads to Liverpool for a job interview at a newspaper. After a taxi hits him, while he was crossing the street, Smith regains his memories of his true self - Charles Rainier, the son of a wealthy Midlands businessman. Charles' return occurred on the day of his father's death and within a few years, assume control of the family's business. Unfortunately, Charles has lost his memories of his three years as "John Smith", including his relationship with Paula. The latter eventually discovers his whereabouts after a few years. When Paula - or Margaret Hanson - realizes that he does not remember her, she becomes his executive assistant in the hopes that her presence will jog his memories of those lost three years.

"RANDOM HARVEST" is not a perfect movie. What movie is? However, I can only think of one or two aspects about it that failed to impressed. It is quite clear that most of "RANDOM HARVEST" had been filmed inside a soundstage or on the MGM backlot. I have no general issues with this. In fact, I really admired Cedric Gibbons' art directions and Edwin B. Willis' set designs for the Melbridge street scenes. But there is one particular sequence - "Smith" and Paula's time in Devon - that looked particularly fake to me. I just did not find the Devon countryside featured in this movie convincing. But I really had a problem with the film's costume designs and hairstyles. "RANDOM HARVEST" was set during the years between 1918 and 1935. The movie had been shot and released in 1942. Robert Kalloch's costume designs did not reflect the movie's time period, as shown in the images below:

There was nothing about the dresses, suits, gowns, shoes and even the hairstyles that seemed to convey 1918-1919, the 1920s, or the early-to-mid 1930s.

But aside from these quibbles, I must be honest. I really enjoyed "RANDOM HARVEST". I have always enjoyed "RANDOM HARVEST". Between Mervyn LeRoy's direction and the screenplay written by Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis; MGM released a movie that I believe proved to be one of the best romantic films I have ever seen. But the film's romance was enhanced by World War I's consequences upon Charles Ranier/John Smith's life and memories. "RANDOM HARVEST" not only struck me as a romantic film, but also a melancholic and sometimes, heartbreaking movie. Also, for a movie with a running time of 125 minutes, "RANDOM HARVEST" managed to maintain a steady pace, thanks to Mervyn LeRoy's direction. I found this mind boggling, considering I have found the pacing of many old movies from the 1930s and 1940s to be rather slow . . . almost to the point of dragging the movies to a stop. Thankfully, "RANDOM HARVEST" managed to convey a poignant and melancholy romance without putting me to sleep.

Certain aspects in the film's narrative managed rise "RANDOM HARVEST" above the usual tearjerker. The emotional impact of World War I upon Charles resulted in the creation of the melancholic and sad man struggling to deal with his amnesic state during the film's first half hour or so. Another scene featured Kitty Chilcet's - the stepdaughter of Charles' sister and his fiancee - discovery that he was not in love her. It proved to be one of the film's most haunting and emotionally devasting moments. One fabulous scene featured the revelation of Charles' secretary Margaret Hanson as Paula Ridgeway, the music hall entertainer he had married not long after the war. This revelation had led to a heartbreaking conversation between Margaret and Charles' former analyst and head of the Melridge asylum, Dr. Jonathan Benet, in which he advised her not to force her true identity upon Charles for the sake of his mental health. What made the film's second half even more poignant was Margaret's struggles to remain silent about hers and Charles' past, while stuck in what seemed like an arranged marriage between businessman and secretary.

"RANDOM HARVEST" managed to earn seven Academy Award nominations. Two of them were in the acting category - Best Actor for Ronald Colman and Best Supporting Actress for Susan Peters. For me, the two acting nominations served as a hint of the film's level of acting skills from the cast. There was not a performance that did not trouble me. The movie featured solid performances from Bramwell Fletcher, Rhys Williams, Melville Cooper, Jill Esmond, Alan Rapier, Ivan F. Simpson, Margaret Whycherly and Arthur Margetson. Una O'Connor and Reginald Owen both provided brief, yet entertaining performances as Melbridge citizens that Charles/"Smithy" had encountered on the night he had left the asylum. Henry Travers gave a poignant performance as doctor that the pair had befriended during their stay in Devon. Dutch actor Philip Dorn gave an intelligent, yet surprisingly emotional performance as Dr. Jonathan Benet, the gentle head doctor of the Melbridge asylum, who fell in love with Margaret/Paula years later.

Susan Peters reached the peak of her career in her portrayal of Kitty Chilcet, the step-daughter of Charles' sister. She gave an intelligent, yet lively performance as the charming, yet patient schoolgirl who managed to win Charles' heart. But in one scene in which Kitty realizes that Charles had memories of another love that would lead him to regard her as a stranger, Peters elevated her game and gave a subtle, yet skillful performance that led to an Oscar nomination for her. Of the three main leads, Greer Garson did not receive an acting nomination for her performance in "RANDOM HEART". Which seemed a pity to me, because I believe she really knocked it out of the ballpark as Margaret Hanson/"Paula Ridgeway", the music hall entertainer-turned-secretary who managed to win over Charles with her quiet wit, charm and warmth. Her rendition of the music hall song, "She's Ma Daisy", is something to behold. I believe Garson really shined in the film's second half, as her character struggled to nudge Charles into regaining his memories as "Smithy" and at the same time, keep her emotions and other identity in check during her "marriage of convenience" to him. In the end, Garson ended up being nominated for her performance in "MRS. MINIVER". She won in the end, but I cannot help wishing she had been nominated for her performance in "RANDOM HARVEST". For years, I have always pinpointed Ronald Colman as an actor known for his charm, dash and some pretty good acting skills. But in recent years, I have realized that I had underestimated just how skillful an actor he truly was. I thought he had given a phenomenon performance as a World War I amnesiac, who discovers he is a scion of a wealthy family. In scenes that featured "Smithy"'s confusion during the film's first thirty minutes, his confusion over his growing emotional dependence on Margaret and especially that one moment in which he regarded Kitty as a stranger, when his memories as Smithy returned briefly made me realize what a superb actor Colman truly was. It seemed a pity that he did not win the Best Actor award for that year.

It seems a miracle to me that Hollywood or anyone else has never considered making another serious adaptation of James Hilton's 1941 novel. Granted, that filmmaker or television producer would probably have great difficulty overcoming the ghost of the 1942 adaptation. I might as well say it . . . "RANDOM HARVEST" is excellent adaptation of Hilton's novel. Mervyn LeRoy did an excellent job in maintaining a strong pacing for such a melancholic story. Screenwriters Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis had made some changes that proved to be very effective for the film's narrative. But without the excellent cast led by superb performances from Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, who knows if "RANDOM HARVEST" would have become the classic it now is.

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kwebtv · 2 years ago

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Sandburg's Lincoln - NBC - September 6, 1974 - April 14, 1976

Historical Drama (6 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln

Sada Thompson as Mary Todd Lincoln

Michael Cristofer as John Nicolay

James Carrol Jordan as Robert Todd Lincoln

John Levin as Thomas "Tad" Lincoln

Norman Burton as General Ulysses S. Grant

Richard Dysart as Judge David Davis

John Randolph as Simon Cameron

Bert Freed as Edwin Cameron

Michael-James Wixted as "Willie" Lincoln

Robert Foxworth as Major John T. Stuart

Roy Poole as Salmon P. Chase

Elizabeth Ashley as Kate Chase Sprague

Ed Flanders as General George B. McClellan

Catherine Burns as Mary Owens

Beulah Bondi as Sarah Bush

Severn Darden as Gideon Welles

John Beal as Senator Fogelson

Lloyd Nolan and Whit Bissell as William H. Seward

#Sandberg's Lincoln #TV #NBC #Historical Drama #1976 #Hal Holbrook #Sada Thompson

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project1939 · 1 year ago

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100+ Films of 1952

Film number 112: I Dream of Jeanie

Release date: June 15th, 1952

Studio: Republic Pictures

Genre: musical

Director: Allan Dwan

Producer: Herbert J. Yates

Actors: Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Ray Middleton, Lynn Bari

Plot Summary: An almost entirely fictional account of American composer Steven Foster’s life. As his music career takes off, he tries to marry a society girl named Inez... but is it her little sister Jeanie that truly loves him?

My Rating (out of five stars): **¾ (with a warning- see below)

When I saw this was a full color musical by Republic Pictures, I was very intrigued. Republic was one of the cheapest B movie studios in Hollywood, known mostly for westerns and serials on shoestring budgets. Why did they do a musical in color? Because Steven Foster’s music was in the Public Domain, and they didn’t have to pay a cent for it! Maybe because my expectations were very low, I thought the movie overall wasn’t too bad. It had tons of music, and the actors were all pretty good. However, there’s a huge caveat- Foster's early music was associated with pre-Civil War minstrel shows, so there is a long segment in the film of white entertainers performing in blackface. It was extremely difficult to watch, and most people today probably wouldn’t want to. Because of that, I would NOT recommend watching it. (I markered over the blackface characters on the poster above, considering this will be semi-publicly posted.)

The Good:

The cast was quite good for a low budget film. I liked Eileen Christy as Jeanie- she was a fine actress with a nice voice and a cute look. Bill Shirley as Foster was also pretty charming and likeable.

Lots and Lots of music! I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of the film was musical performances. Foster’s music is antiquated now but generally enjoyable, and it’s a big part of the early American cultural zeitgeist. The singers were all talented and easy to listen to, even if the performances were more pleasant than remarkable.

The character of Edwin P. Christy, the famous minstrel leader. Ray Middleton’s portrayal brought life and humor to the film as a vain celebrity. His singing voice was especially good.

The color looked nicer than I expected. It was something called Trucolor, which certainly wasn’t Technicolor, but it was decent.

The film tried, emphasis tried, to have Foster pay homage to the debt he owed African American music. Most people today would shout “cultural appropriation” about much of his music, which is valid, and I appreciated that the film didn’t totally sweep that under the rug.

The Bad:

Blackface. It’s a terrible shameful part of American entertainment history that we can’t deny, but I never want to actually see it on screen. It was horrifying.

There was definitely racism in other places, even when the filmmakers seemed to have good intentions. As an example, Foster was friendly with a little black boy, even giving up his savings to pay his hospital bill, but... the kid’s nickname was Chitlin for god’s sake.

The story had almost no relation to the real Foster. The movie inexplicably took place in Cincinnati, where Foster never even lived. His life was portrayed as simple and relatively easy, when in real life he died at 37 of possible suicide.

Some of the sets looked comically cheap. At one point there was a river with water that was freaking identical to the chocolate river in 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!

The actress who played Inez was the weakest in the cast. Not only was her acting sub-par, her character was so awful she made me want to scream.

When the movie is called I Dream of Jeanie and a main character is named Jeanie, there’s not exactly any suspense about whether or not she will end up with Steven Foster!

#100 films of 1952 #200 films of 1952 #200 films of 1952 film 112

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legends-of-time · 1 year ago

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The Strength of a High and Noble Hill (Outlander Story) Timeline - Fraser Descendants

A/N: Is this needed? Maybe, maybe not but I find this kind of thing satisfying to look at.

Spoilers!!!!

Masterlist

Up to August 1771

Brian Robert David Fraser (b. 1691 - d. October 1740) m. Ellen Catriona Sileas Mackenzie (b. 1695 - d. 1729) on 1716

Their children:

(1) William Simon Murtagh Mackenzie Fraser (b. 1716 - d. 1727)

(2) Janet (Jenny) Flora Arabella Mackenzie Fraser (b. 1719 - ) m. Ian Alastair Robert MacLeod Murray (b. May 1720 - ) on 1740

(1) James (Young Jamie) Alexander Gordon Fraser Murray (b. 1741 - ) m. Joan

Henry Murray (b. before 1766 - )

Matthew Murray (b. before 1766 - )

Caroline Murray (b. before 1766 - )

Benjamin Murray (b. 1766 - )

(2) Margaret (Maggie) Ellen Fraser Murray (b. November 1743 - ) m. Paul Lyle

Angus Walter Edwin Murray Lyle (b. before 1766 - )

Unnamed child (b. before 1766 - )

Anthony Brian Montgomery Lyle (b. between 1767 to 1770 - )

Angelica Lyle (b. September 1771 - )

(3) Katherine (Kitty) Mary Fraser Murray (b. February 1745 - ) m. George (Geordie) Silvers

Josephine Silvers (b. before 1766 - )

Abigail Silvers (b. before 1766 - )

(4) Michael Brian Fraser Murray (b. 1748 - ) m. Lilliane (Lillie)

Unborn child (1766/67)

(5) Janet Ellen Fraser Murray (b. 1748 - )

(6) Caitlin Maisri Fraser Murray (b&d. December 1749)

(7) Ian (Young Ian) James Fitzgibbons Fraser Murray (b. 15 November 1752 - ) m. Wakyo'teyehsnonhsa (Emily) on May 1770

(3) James (Jamie) Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser (b. 1 May 1721 - ) m1. Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp (b. 20 October 1918 - ) on November 1743; m2. Laoghaire MacKenzie MacKimmie (b. 1726 - ) on 1765 to ann. 1766

(1) Fergus Claudel Fraser (b. 1735 - ) m. Marsali Jane MacKimmie (b. 1751 - ) on Spring 1767

Germain Alexander Claudel Mackenzie Fraser (b. December 1767 - )

Joan Laoghaire Claire Fraser (b. September 1770 - )

(2) Brian Ian Randall Fraser (b. 12 May 1744 - )

(3) Ellen Julia Randall Fraser (b. 23 November 1948 - ) m. Roger Jeremiah Wakefield MacKenzie (b. 1941 - ) on October 1770

Jeremiah (Jem or Jemmy) Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie (b. May 1770 - )

(4) William (Willie) Clarence Henry George Ransom (illegitimate son by Geneva Dunsany Ransom (b. 1739 - d. 9 January 1758)); (b. 9 January 1758 - )

(4) Robert Brian Gordon Mackenzie Fraser (b&d. 1729)

#outlander

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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years ago

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The Clock (Vincente Minnelli & Fred Zinnemann, 1945).

#the clock (1945)#vincente minnellli #fred zinnemann #judy garland #robert walker #george j. folsey #george white #william ferrari #cedric gibbons #edwin b. willis #dorothy ponedel

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manganic-malaria · 8 years ago

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Adam's Rib, 1949

#Adam's Rib #George Cukor #George J. Folsey #Cedric Gibbons #Edwin B. Willis #Spencer Tracy #Katharine Hepburn #1949

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dweemeister · 8 years ago

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Lili (1953)

There is something whimsical about certain old Hollywood Studio System movies that makes it unimaginable that such films of that type would ever be greenlighted by studio executives today. One of those films is Charles Walters’ Lili, adapted from Paul Gallico’s 1950 short story “The Man Who Hated People”. Lili is a peculiar film that defies categorization – it is neither a pure drama or comedy, and it also lightly draws upon on elements from fantasy films and musicals. Given a turn towards mature themes in American cinema in the 1960s and 70s and long-standing cultural attitudes towards lighthearted fantasy, Lili might be insufferable to some. For those willing to give it a chance and allowing it to whisk them from anything resembling reality, Leslie Caron’s starring performance – two years following a triumphant screen debut opposite Gene Kelly in An American in Paris – elevates the flimsy material.

Sixteen-year-old Lili Daurier (Caron) is an orphaned country girl wandering post-WWII France, seeking a close friend to her recently-deceased father as she hopes to find employment. That friend has recently died, and his successor harasses Lili. She is rescued by a traveling carnival magician named Marc (Jean-Pierre Aumont). Lili becomes infatuated with Marc, as he secures her a job as a carnival waitress. But instead of waiting tables, Lili – who has never experienced magic tricks before – neglects her duties as she is transfixed with Marc’s dinnertime show. Lili is sacked as a result, with Marc displaying little sympathy for her naïveté. Told to home, Lili instead attempts suicide but not before the carnival’s puppeteer Paul (Mel Ferrer, who voices the puppets but does not control their movements) strikes conversation through his puppets. Lili obviously has never heard of or experienced a puppet show either, as she treats Paul’s cast of puppet characters as if they were real. Their interactions draw a crowd, thanks to Lili’s earnestness and belief that these puppets are her friends. Paul and his partner Jacquot (Kurt Kasznar) offer Lili a job of being part of the show. She accepts, and several of heartfelt conversations between girl and puppets follow.

A special type of performance is required for this film, and Caron’s acting is the appropriate mixture to make this amalgam of fantasy, musical, and drama work. Like numerous actors that might act in front of Big Bird or Kermit, Caron must treat the puppet characters as if they were real (the script demands it, in addition to the magic needed to make Lili work). With no Muppets or Sesame Street in the 1950s to act as a thespian precedent, Caron – as well as the puppeteers – drew from a then-popular television program named Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. From there, Caron and puppeteers Walton and O’Rourke (a famous cabaret puppeteer act) and George Latshaw must be attuned to the other’s nuances in physicality and personality. Never annoying nor cloying, Caron is simply in her element here. A few years prior, Caron was a teenage ballerina in a Paris troupe when she was noticed by an admiring Gene Kelly. With Kelly’s lobbying of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) executives, Caron became an MGM contractee before production on An American in Paris – Lili would be her fifth film with MGM and her second major starring role. Her appearance as the titular Gigi would be five years away.

The screenplay, written by Helen Deutsch, allows for some rather intimate exchanges of dialogue between Lili and the puppets as the puppets display their sensitivity to her anxieties and sources of joyfulness. This combination of excellent acting and puppetry as well as attentive screenwriting delivers Lili past sugary mediocrity.

For outside of the several puppet show scenes, Lili is overflowing with lackadaisical performances and a romance between Caron and Ferrer’s character that is never fully realized and is, frankly, a tinge unbelievable and creepy if one thinks too hard about it. Outside of Caron’s central performance, the remainder of the supporting cast feels wasted – whether they are playing caricatures (Zsa Zsa Gabor, like in so many of the films she starred in, is a peculiar afterthought) or are just there (Mel Ferrer, despite being billed second, dials in an undemanding, charisma-bereft turn that gets sucked into the mire of the story despite his obvious possessiveness... would his character just fucking smile for once?). When leaving the interactions between Caron and the puppets, Lili becomes a film without sturdy supports, with very little amid the meritorious production design from the team of Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, and Arthur Krams. The film’s carnival tentpoles are on the verge of snapping at the slightest application of subplot stress.

A lushly-composed score by Polish-American Bronislau Kaper is rooted in the lone original song appearing in Lili. That song is “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo” (Kaper wrote the melody, which sounds rather German for a film set in France; Deutsch with the lyrics), which appears in the first encounter between Lili and the puppets. It appears immediately after Lili’s most despairing episode – a song with heartbreaking lyrics becoming a source of immense uplift. “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo” will never appear on a list on the most memorable musical moments from that musical factory known as MGM (okay, it was featured in 1976′s That’s Entertainment, Part II and it was a minor commercial hit that did better in continental Europe than America), but Kaper and Deutsch’s song embodies that MGM musical mentality to near-perfection. Sing though your head and heart might be in agony, these films espoused. Smile and put on the show because that’s what movie stars are meant to do.

Those who have seen La La Land (2016) and have seen next to zero MGM musicals may recognize a narrative device employed at Lili’s conclusion. Despite the fact Lili is not a pure musical, the sloppy narrative is concluded with an abstract sequence where Lili’s imagination and most internal thoughts are expressed through dance. This concluding scene is not as technically accomplished as other such sequences, instead appearing perfunctory.

It’s as if Charles Walters – a director with an established track record of solid musicals including Good News (1947), Easter Parade (1948), and Summer Stock (1950) – could not decide on what exactly he wished this film to be. The structure and the parameters for a worthwhile musical, maybe even a fantasy or light romance, is there. But Walters and Deutsch never commit to a direction, and Lili – even providing for Caron’s magnificent acting and the emotional fragility she brings to her character – suffers from that indecision. But that indecision is not enough to prevent me from ever recommending Lili to anyone. Its deficiencies make it fascinating to watch, returning viewers briefly to a time of prolonged innocence, when the world outside one’s doorstep was never anything but enthralling.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating.

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hellostarrynightblr · 2 years ago

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highlights of March

1. Favourite movies: it's the first time I'm not impressed with any film I've seen.... Most of them are just good or solid, but I'm sure I won't rewatch any of these. The closest one to this category is The Magnificent Seven (1960), a great film, just not a favourite of mine, just a clear standout among the rest. 2. Decent movies I liked / appreciated but not loved: I'm going to skip this one, otherwise I'll leave the rest of the films here. 3. wtf movie/ending: some moments of Elvis (2022). Tom Hanks in general, the editing, the music. Some of it is truly baffling. 4. Best scenes: the dance on the deck (Honolulu, 1939); dancing while changing clothes (Silk Stockings, 1957), taking the hearse to bury a guy / Britt's introduction / the final shootout (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). 5. Favourite genres: crime, drama, western. 6. Favourite directors: John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). 7. Favourite actors: Michel Simon (Panique, 1946); Dennis O'Keefe (T-Men (1947), Austin Butler (Elvis, 2022); James Cagney ('G' Men, 1935); Cyd Charisse (Silk Stockings, 1957); Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). 8. Least favourite performances: Fred Astaire (Silk Stockings, 1957). It's just awkward and... boring. Same, same, same... And Tom Hanks in Elvis (2022). That was just unbearable. 9. The most wasted cast: no one really. 10. The best wasted premise: O. Henry's Full House (1952). I like the idea of an anthology and I mostly like the films that use it, but this one is deeply boring. 11. Best premise: none of them? Again. But if I have to choose, then Panique (1946). 12. Favourite cast: The Magnificent Seven (1960). Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Eli Wallach and even Horst Buchholz. 13. Favourite on-screen duos: Yul Brynner x Steve McQueen (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). 14. Favourite on-screen relationships: none. 15. Favourite characters: Dennis O'Brien, a.k.a. Vannie Harrigan (T-Men (1947); Chris, Vin, Bernardo, Britt (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). 15. Favourite quote: I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything. (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). 16. Favourite fact discovered in 2023: Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen had a feud on the set of The Magnificent Seven (1960). It didn't look like that to me, but then again, the film was supposed to be tense, so it might have helped. 17. The most overrated film: Elvis (2022). It's okay, it just has a lot of issues. 18. The most disappointing film: O. Henry's Full House (1952). I can barely remember anything about it. 19. The biggest surprise: T-Men (1947). 20. Best cinematography: Nicolas Hayer (Panique, 1946). 21. Best set design: Hugh Hunt, Edwin B. Willis (Silk Stockings, 1957). 22. Best costume design: Helen Rose (Silk Stockings, 1957). 23. Best music: Silk Stockings (1957). 24. Best prooduction choice: raising the stakes in T-Men (1947). 25. Worst production choice: the romance subplot in The Magnificent Seven (1960). I wish they'd either get rid of it or write it differently, with a bit more care. 26. Film of the month: The Magnificent Seven (1960).

#march #months #2023 #best #highlights

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wrecktangle music artist real name list

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Henry Daniell and Greta Garbo in Camille (George Cukor, 1936) Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Henry Daniell, Lionel Barrymore, Laura Hope Crews, Jessie Ralph, Lenore Ulric, Rex O'Malley, Elizabeth Allan. Screenplay: Zoe Akins, Frances Marion, James Hilton, based on a novel and play by Alexandre Dumas fils. Cinematography: William H. Daniels, Karl Freund. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope, Edwin B. Willis. Music: Herbert Stothart. Costume design: Adrian. MGM was notoriously a producers' studio, a factory system in which the director was rarely allowed to stand out as the guiding influence on a movie. But somehow out of MGM's producer-driven concentration on high style in sets and costumes, and above all on the production of "more stars than there are in the heavens," George Cukor managed to emerge as one of the great directors. He did it in part by his ability to elicit definitive performances from actresses like Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford -- and later Judy Holliday and Judy Garland -- but most especially from Greta Garbo in Camille. Garbo's Marguerite Gautier is one of the great creations by an actress in the movies, but the remarkable thing about Camille is that Cukor is able to keep her performance from swamping the film. He remembers that there is an ensemble to work with that includes not only such formidable scene-stealers as Lionel Barrymore and Laura Hope Crews, but also a raw, untrained leading man, Robert Taylor. It's to Cukor's credit that Taylor holds up as well as he does against a luminous presence like Garbo, though it's perhaps to Garbo's credit that she makes us believe Marguerite is so profoundly infatuated with a man who has nothing but good looks to work with. Though Camille was always destined to be The Greta Garbo Show, Cukor makes her part of a very entertaining whole. He manages to modulate Barrymore's usual camera-hogging and turn him into a credible concerned paterfamilias -- in fact, Cukor directed two of the few Barrymore performances I really find myself enjoying, the other being Mr. Peggotty in David Copperfield (1935). He tames another performance that could have got out of hand in Henry Daniell's arrogant Baron de Varville, though he might have reined in Daniell's attempt to turn the French baron into an English upperclass ass: Daniell lays on the r-tapping (e.g., "veddy" for "very") a little heavily, and when he's asked if he wants to dine replies, "Ai'm not hungreh." Which brings us back to Garbo, who is glorious from her febrile first moment, clutching the camellias as if they were life itself slipping away, to her last, a death scene that has never been equaled. Garbo knew that the best performances are the most "actressy," the ones that transcend realism, that throw down a challenge to other actresses: Top this if you can. It's a knowledge demonstrated by many others, from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford to Jessica Lange and Meryl Streep. (Jennifer Lawrence shows signs of learning it, too.) Call it camp if you will, label them divas if you want, but the movies would be poorer without it.

#Camille #George Cukor #Henry Daniell #Greta Garbo

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Minutes of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 3/6/1956

“Mr. Walter reported to the Committee that on his way back from Tokyo he stopped in Hawaii for the purpose of investigating reports of penetration of the International Longshoremen Workers Union and other unions operating within the Territory of Hawaii. He stated that following interviews with various individuals in Hawaii, the situation appeared to be even worse than when the Committee conducted its investigation in 1950.”

File Unit: Minutes of Full Committee and Subcommittee Meetings of the Internal Security Committee During the 80th through 93rd Congresses, 1945 - 1976

Series: Committee Papers, 1945 - 1975

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015

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COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

MARCH 6, 1956

The Committee on Un-American Activities met in executive session on March 6, 1956, at 10:40 A.M., in Room 225, Old House Office Building. The following members were present:

Francis E. Walter, Chairman

Morgan M. Moulder

Clyde Doyle

James B. Frazier, Jr., (entered at 10:55)

Donald L. Jackson

Gordon H. Scherer (entered at 11:05)

Mrs. Juliette P. Joray, Acting Clerk, was also present.

Mr. Walter reported to the Committee that on his way back from Tokyo he stopped in Hawaii for the purpose of investigating reports of penetration of the International Longshoremen Workers Union and other unions operating within the Territory of Hawaii. He stated that following interviews with various individuals in Hawaii, the situation appeared to be even worse than when the Committee conducted its investigation in 1950.

Mr. Hall and six other Smith Act defendants are free on bond pending the decision of the Court of Appeals, and are very active on behalf of the Communist cause. Mr. Walter further stated that he had discussed the delay in the handling of appeals filed by the Smith Act defendants in Hawaii with Chief Justice Warren. Mr. Warren agreed to take this matter up with Circuit Judge Denman, and to advise Mr. Walter of the outcome of his meeting with Judge Denman. It was agreed that the Committee would defer action until Mr. Warren had made his report.

The Chairman appointed a subcommittee consisting of Messrs. Doyle, Jackson and Scherer for the hearings to be held in Los Angeles beginning April 16.

Without objection, the Committee authorized a preliminary investigation and preparation for a hearing to be held in St. Louis sometime in June.

Without objection, the Save Our Sons Committee hearing originally scheduled to be held in April, was postponed until June.

The subcommittee composed of Representative Morgan M. Moulder, Chairman, Edwin E. Willis and Gordon H. Scherer who recommended to the full Committee at its January 11, 1956 meeting, that Ellis Olim who appeared as a witness in Chicago on December 15, 1955, to be granted immunity under the provisions of Public Law 600, recommended to the full Committee that the offer of immunity be cancelled, inasmuch as Mr. Olim had decided not to testify.

Without objection it was so agreed. The Chairman directed that the same subcommittee who had heard Ellis Olim in California should sit when he is heard in open session.

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The matter of releasing the testimony of Robert H. Williams who was mentioned unfavorably in the Committee's Neo Fascist Report, was discussed. It was agreed that no action would be taken until each member had an opportunity to read the allegations appearing in the Committee's report and to examine the testimony as given by Mr. Williams in Executive Session in Los Angeles, on June 28, 1955. The Clerk was directed to have this testimony set in galleys so that each member could be handed a copy for study.

The matter of investigating the NAACP was discussed but no decision was reached.

The question of inviting Hulan E. Jack to appear before the Committee was discussed but no decision was reached.

The Chairman requested Investigator Owens to outline to the Committee the outcome of the staff interrogations of current employees in the NLRB, held March 5. Mr. Owens advised the Committee that on that date, Mr. Arens and he (Owens) had questioned, under oath, four current employees of the NLRB in Washington, D.C. He advised further that there were an additional number to be subpoenaed. He stated that the basis for these staff interrogations were the confidential memoranda afforded this Committee by Senator McClellan's Committee. He also stated that each of the witnesses exhibited to the staff a letter to each of them dated March 5, 1956, and signed by Boyd Leedom, present Chairman of the NLRB, precluding their divulging to this Committee, in accordance with proper executive orders, any information contained in loyalty documents, files, hearing transcripts, etc. Mr. Owens advised that these witnesses interpreted this letter as preventing them from giving this Committee information which they independently possessed, of their own knowledge, which also had found its way into the above-described files or documents. Mr. Owens further advised the Committee that the staff, during the interrogation, made it completely clear that it was not asking for excerpts or information from any security or loyalty files, but merely information which each witness independently possessed as a matter of his own personal knowledge. The Committee instructed the staff to continue with the interrogations as scheduled. However, in the issuance of any new subpoenas, the staff was instructed no to include the duces tecum portion.

Mr. Scherer moved that the testimony of Helen Roark Hill be referred to the Department of Justice for possible perjury prosection. Mr. Doyle seconded the motion and it carried unanimously.

Following some discussion, the C ommittee authorized a preliminary investigation of the alleged Communist activities of one Jean capers of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Chairman instructed that an investigator be assigned to this case.

Mr. Scherer brought up the matter of an investigation of Communism in the field of art. However, the chairman stated that he thought the Committee had an ambitious program at the moment, adn that such investigation should be deferred until a later date.

The Committee adjourned at 11:30 A.M.

Francis E. Walter

Chairman

Juliette P. Jaray

Clerk

#archivesgov #March 6 #1956 #1950s #HUAC #House Un-American Activities Committee #Hawaii #unions #International Longshoremen Workers Union

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belamourelysianlimerence · 4 years ago

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In 2018, on my birthday, I gave gifts to all my F/Os...

Phantom- a golden version of his mask.

Hare-Golden Rose seeds.

Jack Frost- Snowflake lapel pins.

Jareth- a device that shuts the goblins up through high pitched sound and a baby navigator.

Doctor-11- a gold bow tie.

12-flavored whiskey.

13- 3 dresses 1 yellow 1 green 1 blue.

Joker- A collection of rare knives.

Joker B- a tux and a big box of explosives.

Severus- A miniature doe patronus.

Alan- Better computer and an actual house off of a door.

Beetlejuice- Actual beetle juice.

Willy Wonka JD- a purple sparkly W clip.

Willy Wonka GW-a black satin top hat.

Rumplestiltskin- Rose colored glasses and weed.

Hector Barbossa- his own ship in a bottle for emergencies.

Willy Wonka DH- A bouquet of honey Rose's and each one is a different type of honey.

Tarrant Hightoop- whispering babies breath.

Edward Scissorhands-blade sharpeners, bumpers for blades, a holographic dog that he can do hair cuts on forever.

Graf-Drew- Blood of Egyptians.

Ivan- Blood of Amazons.

Stephen- Blood of Siamese.

Durza- potions.

Jack Sparrow- a sparrow.

RK- a rat Nutcracker that crushes tiny NCs.

Balem- a green house housing various plants from earth.

Edward Hyde- a tiger engraved knife.

Hook- a gold hook.

Fegan Floop- more and multiple colored clay.

Roach- his tongue.

Loki- a tesseract mask.

Ambrose "Glitch"- modern inventing tools "muglug".

Kurt Wagner-the ability to not have to know what's on the other side before porting.

Hades-a group of beautifully colored flowers that never die.

Vorik- a device that takes the edge off of pon farr if needed.

Armand- "toys".

Lestat- jewellery in gold and silver.

Alexander- Free passage to and from his home planet.

Daniel- Actual scientific discoveries.

Nick- A suit that never gets dirty or tears.

Mr. March- a modern suit.

Tate- freedom to go anywhere any time, limited to 12 hours.

Kit- the movie grease.

Kyle- removal of scars.

Jimmy- separate fingers.

Quasimodo- disfigurement fixed.

Frank- new "toys".

Joker- gun made out of ivory.

Scarecrow- pack of anti crow crows.

Maestro- ability to at least go outside.

Riff Raff- a lovely "outfit".

Eachuin McLean- a language book.

Gabriel- permanent young look.

Sportacus- rare fruits and vegetables.

Robbie- weighed blanket.

Spock- pills to become more Vulcan or more human.

Sylar- a watch that tells him about anyone's specific schedule.

Larten-a little coffin for madame Octa.

Newt-little buds that eat marshmallows.

Pennywise- containers of meat (non children) and different kinds of seasonings and sauces.

Peter Pan- a wrist band that holds glowing marbles that inside hold entire fairy worlds.

Niles- a tie with a stripe of silver in the middle, a best butler mug and champagne glass.

Michael- a wedding experience.

[Bonus: all fathers/mothers get to spend time with their children]

Elphaba- sleeping pills that keep her from dreaming.

Xena- extra preparations for camping and fighting including clothes, food, sleeping arrangements, and weapons.

Vastra- a red gown.

Alaya- a silver gown.

Restac- a gold gown.

Constance- a massage.

Mombi- more heads.

Witch HW- glowing flowers.

Witch V- glowing flowers.

Maddie- an inky green top hat with a inky green feather.

Muriel- resistance to blessed items.

Missy- a box containing a vessel which carries a bit of her old fire.

Witch MS- glowing flowers.

Nicky- freedom.

Harley- gold and silver hair bands.

Cruella- dalmatian coat (not real dalmatians)

Edwin- a modern ascot.

Ava- a pretty dress.

Buck- beer and porn.

Lili- peace of mind.

Albert- a new suit and a dress.

Grell- red dress.

#self ship #self ship positivity #f/o community #f/o post #f/o #f/o stuff #f/o tag #self insert #f/o gush #self insert community #self ship community #self shipper #self shipping #self shipping community #selfshipping #selfshipping community

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