by Lesley Gaspar | Jan 25, 2015 | 1930s, Classic movies, Pre-Code films, Pre-Code Horror
At first Miriam Hopkins did not want to play ?Champagne Ivy? Pearson, the charmingly carnal little bird who is infatuated with Jekyll and abused and terrorized by Hyde. When director Rouben Mamoulian offered her the part, she set her jaw and said No. She would play...
by Lesley Gaspar | Jan 17, 2015 | 1930s, Barbara Stanwyck, Blogathons, Classic movies, Women's Films
This post is part of the?Contrary to Popular Opinion Blogathon,?where we set the consensus on its head by defending a maligned film, performer or director or toppling a beloved one! Stella Dallas?is still much beloved 78 years after it was made, and a favorite to many...
by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 26, 2014 | 1930s, Running Wild II: Genres in Pre-Code Cinema
Wild Boys of the Road?is one of the movies I read about 40 years ago in?We?re in the Money,?by Andrew Bergman?the first book about Depression movies I ever saw. The story is one of those Warner Bros. ?ripped from the headlines? affairs?among the many horrors of the...
by Lesley Gaspar | Oct 14, 2014 | 1930s, Classic movies, Pre-Code films, Running Wild II: Genres in Pre-Code Cinema
?If you were to see?Love Me Tonight,? Mamoulian said in an interview in 1970, ?although it is a very light, gay musical, you?d see in it most clearly what motivates me, what I like. The whole of?Love Me Tonight?is a poem, from beginning to end. Everything is rhythm,...
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