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The Ring (1927) Alfred Hitchcock

March 18th 2024

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The Last Act of Lillian Hall-Davis

Lillian Hall-Davis (1898-1933) was one of the top British film actresses of the silent era. Then things changed — brace yourself for an unpleasant finish. A taxi driver’s daughter, Hall-Davis was only 20 when she was cast in the 1918 screen version of J.M. Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton, her first English language film (she’d been in one French film prior to this). Nearly four dozen films…

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Early Hitchcock

Ian Hunter, Carl Brisson, and Eugene Corri in The Ring

Lillian Hall-Davis and Jameson Thomas in The Farmer's Wife

Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, and Malcolm Keen in The Manxman

The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)

Cast: Carl Brisson, Ian Hunter, Lillian Hall-Davis, Forrester Harvey, Harry Terry, Gordon Harker. Screenplay: Alfred Hitchcock. Cinematography: Jack E. Cox.

The Farmer's Wife (Alfred Hitchcock, 1928)

Cast: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Louie Pounds, Maud Gill, Olga Slade, Ruth Maitland. Screenplay: Eliot Stannard, based on a play by Eden Phillpotts. Cinematography: Jack E. Cox.

The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)

Cast: Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton, Clare Greet. Screenplay: Eliot Stannard, based on a novel by Hall Caine. Cinematography: Jack E. Cox.

These nicely restored silent Hitchcock films don't have a lot that's "Hitchcockian" about them except his ability to tell a story visually. Even compared to his other silents like Downhill (1927) and especially The Lodger (1927), they feel a little routine. What sets them apart from his later work is the focus on working-class people: carnival workers, farmers, and fishermen. Two of them are romantic melodramas involving a love triangle, the other a comedy about a widower in search of a wife. The Ring is the liveliest, with an impressive opening sequence that establishes the carnival setting with some kinetic camerawork and introduces the hero, "One-Round" Jack Sander (Carl Brisson), a carny boxer who takes on all comers, with the promise that anyone who lasts more than one round with him wins a pound. His girlfriend, Mabel (Lillian Hall-Davis), is the ticket-taker, and our first sight of Jack in the ring comes as she pulls up a flap between her booth and the interior -- a characteristic Hitchcock point-of-view take. Hitchcock also doesn't show the fights at first, only the boastful contenders being knocked back by Jack's punches, until his real antagonist, the professional fighter Bob Corby (Ian Hunter), puts up a real fight. From there, it's a story of Jack's rise as a pro and Mabel's increasing infatuation with Corby, even after she marries Jack. This is the only film on which Hitchcock took a solo credit as screenwriter, and though it's an entirely predictable plot, it's a workable one. Brisson, the handsome Danish actor who plays Jack, returns in The Manxman, which is somewhat overplotted -- it's based on a popular novel. Once again, he's on the outs in a marriage. Pete (Brisson), a fisherman, loves Kate (Anny Ondra), a publican's daughter, who agrees to wait for him while he earns his fortune on an overseas voyage, but she also loves Philip (Malcolm Keen), Pete's best friend, a lawyer with ambitions to become a "deemster," the name for a judge on the Isle of Man. And when a report comes that Pete has been killed, she and Philip feel free to indulge their love, though his family opposes their marriage as destructive to his ambitions -- apparently Philip's father damaged his career by marrying beneath him. When Pete turns up very much alive, he marries Kate, who is pregnant with Philip's child, whereupon much anguish ensues. Eliot Stannard wrangles the material from the Hall Caine novel into something coherent, but Hitchcock rarely seems terribly interested in it. The Farmer's Wife gives Hitchcock a chance to show off a talent for comic pacing that he rarely exhibited in his later career except in the "lighter side" moments of his thrillers and in such marginally successful comedies as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and The Trouble With Harry (1955). The film opens with Farmer Sweetland's (Jameson Thomas) wife on her deathbed, followed shortly by the marriage of their daughter, leaving the farmer open to suggestions that he needs to take a new wife. Completely, and somewhat illogically, ignoring the pretty housekeeper, Araminta (Lillian Hall-Davis), he courts -- disastrously -- some obviously unsuitable local women before realizing that Araminta is the one for him. A hint of misogyny pervades The Farmer's Wife in the comic portrayals of the mannish Widow Windeatt (Louie Pounds), the prudish Thirza Tapper (Maud Gill), and the hysterics-prone Mary Hearn (Olga Slade). It could be said that a similar misogyny colors the portrayals of Mabel in The Ring and Kate in The Manxman, women who seem to have no fixity in their affections. But Hitchcock was never the most "woke" director when it came to the treatment of women in his films.

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Lillian Hall Davis ❤️

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On stage at Radio City Music Hall for the finale of the "Night of 100 Stars" benefitting the Actor’s Fund are those who participated - many more than 100. Front row: Ruth Gorden, Lillian Gish, Danielle Brisebois, James Steward, George Burns, Bette Davis, and Orson Welles. #DailyBette

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Hunter's Moon by Lori Handeland

Insatiable by Meg Cabot

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We Are Nepenthe series by Octavia Hyde | The Witch’s Wolves by Ellie Mae MacGregor

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Romain de Tirtoff, better known as Erté, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on November 23rd, 1892 and was raised amidst Russia's social elite. At the age of five he created an evening gown for his mother and managed to persuade the adults to craft it, they were astounded by the results. Romain, in 1912, left St. Petersburg for Paris at the age of nineteen with the aim of becoming an artist.After working with Paul " Le Magnifique" Poiret on several theatrical productions Romain, still under the pseudonym of Erte, began to work independently. He hand-crafted original costume and fashion designs for many of the era’s most renowned actresses, including Joan Crawford, Lillian Gish, Marion Davies, Anna Pavlova, Norma Shearer, and others. His masterpieces for the stage included extravagant production designs at venues such as New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the Casino de Paris, and the Paris Opera. In 1915 he began his long professional relationship with Harper's Bazaar and created 240 covers for the esteemed magazine. For 6 months in 1916, Erté simultaneously worked with Vogue as well. As a result of his highly publicized success, Erté would later be called the father of the ‘Art Deco’ movement.Today, some of his original designs are in the permanent collections of prestigious museums such as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.

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Chapter Eight: The Head of the Slytherin House (RW&tSP) [D. Malfoy]

Rose woke up early the next morning. She got dressed and hurried to the Common Room. She was hoping to meet up with Blaze and Draco.

However, she saw her two new roommates, Sally-Anne and Lily, about to head out the secret door. Lilly had straight brown hair with brown eyes. Sally-Anne had strawberry blonde hair and hazel eyes.

“Wait up!” She cried after them.

The two girls stopped. Clearly the two know each other.

“Can we help you?” Lily kindly asked. She was gentle. Almost motherly. Unlike most Slytherins.

Rose smiled at them.

“I’m Rosalie,” she introduced herself. “My friends, the Malfoy twins, call me ‘Rose.’”

“I’m Lillian Moon,” Lily says. “Sally-Anne calls me ‘Lily.’”

“And I’m Sally-Anne,” Sally-Anne says.

“Thanks for letting me crash with you guys,” Rose says. “I appreciate it. I’d rather share a room with strangers than Parkinson.”

Her face twisted in disgust.

The other two girls giggled.

“Speaking of,” the strawberry blonde says. “What is up with her?”

“She seemed to have been glaring at you the entire dinner,” the brunette continues.

Rose shrugs. “She’s had the longest crush on Draco for a few months now. I just am her number one rival. Even though they’re both my best friends; Draco and Blaze.”

The girls looked skeptical but shrugged it off.

The three girls were talking and getting to know each other on the way to the Great Hall.

They got to the Great Hall with smiles on their faes. They were happy to become fast friends.

Rose had no problems finding her classes. As if she had been there before. Yet, she’s never been here before. She helped some other people find their ways. Others, mostly Parkinson and her new entourage, Millicent Bulstrode and Tracey Davis, she does not help them. She purposely sends them in the opposite direction. As she likes to mess with Parkinson.

She was on okay terms with Filch but Salem didn’t like Mrs. Norris, Filch’s cat, at all. Mrs. Norris seems to like Salem, though. She looked scrawny, dusty-colored with bulging lamplike eyes.

She got to study the stars on Tuesdays at midnight. Learning the stars’ names and the planets through telescopes. Three times a week, they went to Herbology outside in the greenhouses. Professor Sprout was their Herbology teacher, she was the Hufflepuff Head of House. They learned all sorts of stuff.

She did not like, as everyone else, was History of Magic. Professor Binns was so boring. It put her to sleep. She had no problems catching up on her own. She just knew this stuff. And she never read up on any of the books either.

Professor Flitwick, a tiny little wizard, taught Charms. He had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. It was, by far, her favorite class. Just like it was her mother’s. She inherited her mother’s talent with Charms.

Professor McGonagall was definitely strict with her rules. She was also clever, too. However, she had always been one to follow the rules.

“Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts,” she said. “Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned.”

She watches as McGonagall had turned her desk into a pig and back again. She was extremely impressed, but saw that Draco and Blaze were not. However, she was eager to learn. She had a bit of trouble turning a match into a needle (after taking lots of notes). Besides Hermione, she had been just as close to turning her match into a needle. She, too, got a rare smile from Professor McGonagall.

Unaware that Draco and Blaze were slightly jealous that she was close.

She was not a fan of Defense Against the Dark Arts. And having Professor Quirrell, a stuttering buffoon, solidified it. He was just a joke. His classroom smelled highly of garlic. She heard from some people that it was mostly to ward off a vampire that he met in Romania; afraid that it will come back to get him someday. That the turban he wears was given to him by an African prince (which is bull crap to her) as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie. This story is one she absolutely didn’t believe. She just had an off-putting feeling about the turban. She felt uncomfortable whenever Professor Quirrell had his back turned. And she had no reason to feel this way. Lily had questioned this story. She asked him how he did it, but he just turned pink and talked about the weather. Then there was a god-awful odor from the turban. She could not put her finger on the stench.

She had a bit more of a head start compared to her classmates. However, her parents kept ninety-five percent of it to themselves.

Friday rolled around. Rose was sitting with Draco and Blaze. She was eating some eggs and toast while she worked on some homework.

“Ugh,” Blaze says as he shared his schedule with Draco.

“Double Potions,” Draco responds. A sneer on his face.

“With Gryffindors.”

Rose rolles her eyes.

“Why not just ignore the lot of them?” She suggests. “So, you’re not getting all riled up.”

The twins laughed, manically. Clearly, they loved torturing Harry, Ron and Hermione. She sighs to herself.

“Why are you so soft on Potter?” Draco taunts.

“Got a crush on him, do ya?” Blaze taunts as well.

She glares at them. “I just find your bullying so intolerable,” she snaps. She gets up and storms off.

As she is heading for the dungeons, she is stopped by a voice behind her.

“You okay?” Harry softly asks. As if he was not sure.

She turns around, smiling softly at him.

“I’m sorry for the way I treated you back in Diagon Alley,” she said. “That was not very nice of me… Want to start over?” She sounded shy when asking. As she did not think that she deserved a second chance.

Harry looked shocked, but he smiled.

“I’m Harry,” he says. “Harry Potter.” He holds out his hand.

She smiles, gigglin. She reaches out and shakes his hand.

“I’m Rosalie,” she tells him. “Rosalie Watson. My friends call me ‘Rose’ for short.”

Ron and Hermione come up behind him.

“Want to head to Potions with us?” He asks her. Ron and Hermione waited.

“I think I’ll head to Potions wiht Draco and Blaze,” she said. Then she widened her eyes. “Not that I do not want to. They’re just my best friends.”

He nods, smiling a bit. He goes down into the dungeons.

She waits a bit. She sees Blaze and Draco exiting the Great Hall. She waits for them to catch up before walking between the twins.

Snape had been in the middle of role call when he stopped at Harry’s name.

“Ah, yes,” he said softly. “Harry Potter. Our new -- celebrity.”

She heard the Malfoy twins, Crabbe and Goyle sniggering behind their hands. She stomped on the twins’ feet. A glare on her face when she looked at them. She listened to Snape finishing role call and watched him look up at the class. His eyes were black. They were cold and empty. Except when he looks at Rose. Probably because of her parents helping him.

“You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making,” he began. He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word -- like Professor McGonagall, Snape had the gift of keeping a class silent without effort. “As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through the human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses… I can teach you to brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.”

Then there was silence. She was quiet as everyone looked at each other.

“Potter!” said Snape suddenly. Causing her to jump out of her skin. “What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?”

She saw Harry glance at Ron, noticing Hermione’s hand shooting up in the air.

“I don’t know, sir,” said Harry.

She watched Snape’s lips curl into a sneer.

“Tut, tut -- fame clearly isn’t everything.”

He was ignoring Hermione’s hand.

“Let’s try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?”

She saw Hermione raising her hand high into the air. As far as she could without ever leaving her seat. However, she saw his confusion about the question. She saw Blaze, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle shaking with quieter laughter.

“I don’t know, sir,” said Harry.

“Thought you wouldn’t open a book before coming, eh, Potter?”

She saw Harry keep eye contact with Snape. She could tell that Snape was still ignoring Hermione’s hand.

“What is the difference, Potter, between monkshood and wolfsbane?”

Hermione stood up with her hand, stretching toward the ceiling.

“I don't know, sir,” said Harry quietly. “I think Hermione does, though…”

Then Rose raised her hand. Which Snape immediately saw.

“Miss Watson,” he calles out. He turns to her. “Do you know the answers to these questions?”

“Asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion called the Draught of Living Death,” said Rose. “A bezoar is a stone taken from a goat. It will save you from most poisons. Monkhood and wolfsbane are the same planet. A similar name for them is aconite.”

She lowered her hand when she finished her speech.

Snape looked slightly proud. Then he glared at the class. “Why aren’t you copying it down?” He asks.

Then she saw everyone writing down all she had said.

“Ten points to Miss Watson,” Snape states over the noise. “And a point will be deducted from Gryffindor for your cheek, Potter.”

She looked sad that Harry is getting such a hard time from Snape. Same for all the Gryffindors as the lesson continued. Snape put them into pairs, her partner was Draco and Blaze was paired with Goyle, to mix up a simple potion to cure boils.

She heard Snape’s cloak moving around, watching them all weigh dried nettles and crush snake fangs. Criticizing almost everyone except her, Draco and Blaze. She could tell that Harry was a bit upset that Snape seemed to be favoring her.

Snape was telling everyone to look at the perfect way Rose, Blaze and Draco had stewed his horned slugs when clouds of acid green smoke and a loud hissing filled the dungeon. She looked over to see Neville had somehow managed to melt Seamus’s cauldron into a twisted blob, and their potion was seeping across the stone floor, burning holes in people’s shoes. Within seconds, the whole class was standing on their stools while Neville, who had been drenched in the potion when the cauldron collapsed, moaned in pain as angry red boils sprang up all over his arms and legs.

“Idiot boy!” snarled Snape, clearing the spilled potion away with one wave of his wand. “I suppose you added the porcupine quills before taking the cauldron off the fire?”

Neville whimpered as boils started to pop all over his nose.

“Take him up to the hospital wing,” Snape spat at Seamus. Then he rounded on Harry and Ron, who had been working next to Neville.

“You -- Potter -- why didn’t you tell him not to add the quills? Thought he’d make you look good if he got it wrong, did you? That’s --”

“Excuse me, Professor?” Rose asks, raising her hand as she spoke.

Professor Snape turned towards her. “Yes, Miss Watson?” He asks in a curious tone.

Harry looked shocked that she was standing up for him. Again.

“I don’t think Potter meant to let Longbottom to put the quills in before taking the cauldron off the fire. Longbottom just seems really stupid on his own.”

Snape takes a moment, but nods. As if agreeing to what she’s saying.

They all went back to making the boils potion.

Until it’s time for them to go. Her and her friends get to leave with the Gryffindors.

“Meow!” Salem mewls between a piece of paper.

She takes the paper and sees that its the Daily Prophet with her mom’s handwriting at the top. “Thought that you might be interested in this article. -Mom”

The article her mom was talking about was a Gringotts bank.

*Gringotts Break-In*

She was reading as she walked. Letting her best friends to hear.

The twins looked shocked.

“A break-in at Gringotts?!” They exclaimed.

They discussed it over a pot roast dinner with vegetables. Talking about the break-in. Unsure who would do such a thing.

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Previously

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Round 1 Results

Jesse White vs Joe Besser

Ed Wynn vs Broderick Crawford

Halliwell Hobbes vs Lionel Barrymore

Charlie Ruggles vs Ernest Thesiger

Frank Morgan vs Frank Jenks - tie

Betty Garrett vs Rags Ragland

Josephine Hull vs Mischa Auer

S.Z. Sakall vs Tom Dugan

Patsy Kelly vs Al St. John

Margaret Hamilton vs Edward Everett Horton

Nella Walker vs Hans Conried

Hattie McDaniel vs Billy Gilbert

Thurston Hall vs Leonid Kinskey

Marjorie White vs Eve Arden

Edward van Sloan vs Jack Oakie - tie

Charles Winninger vs Butterfly McQueen

Alan Mowbray vs Zasu Pitts

Charlotte Greenwood vs Henry Armetta

Marjorie Main vs Pat Buttram

William Demarest vs Bert Lahr

Marie Dressler vs Beulah Bondi

Una O'Connor vs Martha Raye

Dwight Frye vs Charles Coburn

Ned Sparks vs Esther Muir

Thelma Todd vs Elisha Cook Jr.

Christian Rub vs Samuel S. Hinds

Doodles Weaver vs Gail Patrick

Sydney Greenstreet vs Alice Brady

Roland Young vs John Carradine

James Gleason vs Verna Felton

Una Merkel vs Eugene Pallette

Willie Best vs Conrad Veidt

Maude Eburn vs Scatman Crothers

Guy Kibbee vs Walter Brennan - tie

Nat Pendleton vs Clarence Kolb

Jane Darwell vs Raymond Massey

Erich von Stroheim vs Barry Fitzgerald

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson vs Jack Carson

El Brendel vs Reginald Gardiner

Joseph Calleia vs Warren Hymer

Walter Slezak vs Sam Levene

Edna May Oliver vs Richard Lane

C. Aubrey Smith vs Charles Laughton

Gabby Hayes vs Red Buttons

Franklin Pangborn vs Elsa Lanchester

Lionel Atwill vs Martha Mattox

Bill Robinson vs Jessie Ralph

Andy Devine vs Harry Davenport

Richard Carle vs Ernest Truex

Edward Arnold vs Herman Bing

Cliff Edwards vs Sterling Holloway

George Zucco vs Nancy Kulp

Warner Oland vs Jean Adair

Gregory Ratoff vs Grady Sutton

Helen Broderick vs Glenda Farrell

Lillian Yarbo vs Arthur Edmund Carewe

Marjorie Gateson vs Hugh Herbert

Phil Silvers vs Joy Hodges

Ray Bolger vs George E. Stone

George Davis vs Donald Meek

Warner Baxter vs Jerry Colonna - tie

Spring Byington vs Stuart Erwin

Felix Bressart vs Angelo Rossitto

Eric Blore vs Billy Barty

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LAST UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2024.

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melissa mccarthy- gg, mike & molly

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16. A Mulher do Fazendeiro (The Farmer’s Wife, 1928), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Kinuyo Tanaka in Dragnet Girl (Yasujiro Ozu, 1933)

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Joji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo, Koji Mitsui, Yumeko Aizome, Yoshio Takayama, Koji Kaga, Yasuo Nanjo. Screenplay: Tadao Ikeda, based on a story by Yasujiro Ozu (as James Maki). Cinematography: Hideo Shigehara. Art direction: Yonekazu Wakita.

Yasujiro Ozu clung to silent film for a long time, but who needs sound when you and your cinematographer, Hideo Shigehara, can use the camera as eloquently as they do in Dragnet Girl? Early in the film, the camera explores an office setting, panning over rows of young women at typewriters, clocks slowly ticking away the workday, and rows of men's hats hanging in a hallway. In the last take, one of the hats drops from its hook, as if impatient for quitting time. One of the typists, Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), is summoned from her machine to the office of the president, where she finds his son, Okazaki (Yasuo Nanjo), who has been putting the moves on her by giving her jewelry, this time a ruby ring. She shrugs off his advances but accepts the ring -- she's living with a gangster, an ex-boxer named Joji (Joji Oka), and it's his world that she prefers. This is one of Ozu's forays into the underworld made familiar to us by Hollywood, and it's permeated with echoes of Warner Bros. movies of the 1930s. American culture creeps in everywhere: Even the rules of conduct in a pool hall are written in English on the wall, and in the boxing gym that Joji frequents a sign proclaims the virtues of "The Manly Art of Self-Defense." When an eager young kid named Hiroshi (Koji Mitsui) shows up in the gym wanting to become a champion fighter, Joji takes an interest in him, and through him meets his sister, Kazuko (Sumiko Mizukubo), who works in a record store that prominently features the RCA Victor mascot, Nipper. Tokiko gets jealous of Joji's interest in Kazuko, but when she decides to emulate her rival by taking up knitting and other domestic pursuits, she and Joji quarrel. She storms out, but later returns to persuade Joji that it might be a good thing to go straight. Things get complicated, however, when Hiroshi, Joji's protégé, steals money from the cash register at his sister's store. Joji persuades Tokiko that they should pull off one last heist, robbing from the office where Tokiko works to get cash so Hiroshi can pay back what he stole. Ah, but crime does not pay. All of this melodramatic business is elevated not only by Ozu's sure-footed direction and attention to visual detail but also by the performances, especially that of  Tanaka, who once again shows why she should be honored as one of the great film actresses. She has Bette Davis's toughness combined with Lillian Gish's gift for pathos.

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Lillian Hall Davis ❤️

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12.16.19