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Classic Hollywood enthusiast. Frequent posts about Ida Lupino.
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The book “Nobody’s Girl Friday” gets a lot more focused when discussing screenwriter Mary McCall Jr.—a fascinating subject. Great to learn about her exploits, one of which is as primary author of the wonderful Maisie series of films starring Ann Sothern.
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Next up: “Edward My Son” (1949) starring Spencer Tracy, directed by George Cukor.
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Ginger Rogers, color portrait in Photoplay, May 1945, promoting “Weekend at the Waldorf”
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The book “Nobody’s Girl Friday” gets a lot more focused when discussing screenwriter Mary McCall Jr.—a fascinating subject. Great to learn about her exploits, one of which is as primary author of the wonderful Maisie series of films starring Ann Sothern.
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Ida Lupino shows ’em how a real movie star takes possession of the screen in Raoul Walsh’s excellent romantic drama The Man I Love, set among night clubs in Long Beach. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the film’s Warner Archive Collection Blu-ray for TFH:
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“No Questions Asked” (1951) — vaguely interesting at times, but largely uninspired. Most notable aspects were the female impersonators/gangsters and the underworld leader who aspired to hold his breath underwater for several minutes. #NoirAlley
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Ida Lupino takes the preliminary oath of United States citizenship in April, 1947. Born in London in 1918, she had moved to Hollywood in 1933. She became a full citizen in 1948.
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Plus soulless readings likely with none of the inspiration the real performers would have put into it. 😔
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Alice Faye in Screen Guide, March 1943
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Ida Lupino interviewed in fall 1972: “‘Certain individuals are fine, but for the most part when you look around today, man seems to be out to destroy man.’ Ida shuddered. She loves most people, but it frightens her to see a world constantly poised on the edge of disaster.”
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Andrea King and Raymond Massey in “Hotel Berlin” (1945). An excellent film, in the style of “Grand Hotel” (1932)—written by the same author, Vicki Baum—with the setting changed to Berlin during Allied air raids in the last weeks of WW2. Also starring Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Helmut Dantine.
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Judy Garland on the cover of Photoplay, November 1945. Photo by Paul Hesse
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As this thread has lost traction, I’ll end it here with a few more fun Glenda films: • Snowed Under (1936) • Smart Blonde (1937), Fly Away Baby (1937) and the other 5 Torchy Blane films Glenda left Hollywood for Broadway in 1939. She came back intermittently, but, alas, only for small roles.
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Some more favorite Glenda Farrel films: • Gold Diggers of 1935 • Gold Diggers of 1937 She has small but very enjoyable roles. The ‘35 edition was where I first discovered Glenda. Despite only around 5 minutes of total screen time, it’s obvious she is a special performer.
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More of my favorite Glenda Farrell pics: Havana Widows (1933) Kansas City Princess (1934) My favorite two of the five 1933-‘35 movies that teamed Glenda Farrell with Joan Blondell as a “gold digging” comic partnership.
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Would love to think that Joe E. Brown, Jack LaRue, James Cagney and Pat O’Brien are all gathered around Glenda Farrell to celebrate her birthday today. 🎂
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Poster for TRAVELLING SALESLADY (1935), starring the fab duo of Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, the latter of whom was BOTD in 1904
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I didn’t even realize it is Susan Hayward’s birthday today.
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Girl Missing (1933) A fun, quick murder mystery with Glenda in the leading role. More of my favorite Glenda Farrell films coming later…
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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Glenda is third billed, yet carries this movie while originating her intrepid investigative reporter character that would lead to the Torchy Blane series a few years later.
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“I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (1932) Glenda Farrell played a small but critical and quite memorable role in this Paul Muni classic. This dramatic part is quite a departure from the light-hearted wisecracking type she would soon popularize.
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Some of my favorite Glenda Farrell films, a thread. Life Begins (1932) — Glenda played a supporting role in this Loretta Young drama, reprising her role in the stage production. This was Glenda’s breakout role in Hollywood.
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It’s Glenda Farrell Day! The consummate fast-talking, wise-cracking blonde of the 1930s was #BOTD, June 30, 1901 (not 1904 as often reported) in Enid, Oklahoma.
Learn more about the great Glenda here: thoughtsandramblingsofhardwickebenthow.wordpress.com/glenda-farre...
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“Oh, it's so hard to be good under the capitalistic system.” Let's hear it for the wise-cracking dames! Happy Birthday, Glenda Farrell!🎞️🎭
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Susan Hayward in Photoplay, July 1952
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Ida Lupino 1949 "I really want to create stories, personalities, pictures. I have never been a fan of acting and sooner or later should like to remain behind instead of in front of the camera.I believe the public wants new faces and that it's interested more in what's in a picture than who's in it"
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Joan Fontaine in Modern Screen, April 1942 “When I.Q. tests proved Joan Fontaine a genius, everyone was a little startled! That is, everyone but Joan who was three and didn’t much care.”
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I’m reading “Nobody’s Girl Friday,” and there’s a lot of fascinating stories about classic Hollywood-era women not discussed very often. The writing is extremely unfocused, bouncing from one subject to another mid-paragraph, with plentiful mid-sentence asides as well. Still worth continuing.
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Jeanne Crain and Thelma Ritter in “The Model and the Marriage Broker” (1951)
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Listening to Count Basie and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and Sidney Bechet and … 👍
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Ida Lupino with her dog Duchess and Olivia de Havilland with her dog on the set of “Devotion” (Warners, 1946)
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Yes, Trump should definitely drop out. An outrage he was on that stage, spewing lies nonstop.
#BidenHarris2024
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Andrea King plays Ida Lupino’s sister in “The Man I Love”
The “official Andrea King web site” has some great behind the scenes photos of the 1945 production — from King’s personal collection.
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Loretta Young in Motion Picture, June 1936 “The POISE of Loretta”
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Claudette Colbert color portrait in Screenland, May 1947 — accompanying an article “Behind the scenes of ‘The Egg and I.’”
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When Warners first purchased Maritta Wolff’s novel “Night Shift” in 1942, it was plugged as a vehicle for Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart. Later, it was to be Joan Crawford’s first picture at Warners. Finally it fell Ida Lupino’s way, filmed in the summer of 1945 as “The Man I Love.”
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Maritta Wolf was in her early 20s when she wrote “Night Shift”. It followed up her “sensation” debut novel “Whistle Stop,” which was also adapted into a film. These books were put back in print in the early 2000s and are still available.
More on Maritta Wolff: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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Celebrating the release of the new restoration of “The Man I Love” (1947), I’ll be posting more about it over the coming days. It is based on the best-selling 1942 novel “Night Shift,” by Maritta Wolff. NY Times: it “manages to be touching and horrible, sentimental and brutal all at the same time.”
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Judy Garland and Fred Astaire at MGM’s 25th anniversary luncheon — Movieland, May 1949 “When Judy Garland tells a story it's complete with gestures. This tale is giving Fred Astaire more than a quiet chuckle.”
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It has arrived!
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Edward G!
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Judy Garland and Fred Astaire at MGM’s 25th anniversary luncheon — Movieland, May 1949 “When Judy Garland tells a story it's complete with gestures. This tale is giving Fred Astaire more than a quiet chuckle.”
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Really looking forward to the new blu-ray release of “The Man I Love” (1947). Warner Archive restored six minutes to the film that hasn’t been seen in decades. The prior DVD release was unrestored and rough in places. One of my favorite of Ida Lupino’s roles from her peak movie star era!
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Next up… a ‘double falcon’ movie: “The Falcon’s Brother” (1942). It’s a good thing Tom Conway has that mustache or it would be very difficult to tell him and brother George Sanders apart.
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Ann Sothern in costume as Maisie, ca. 1940
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Rita Hayworth on the cover of Silver Screen, February 1945. She was promoting Columbia’s “Tonight and Every Night.”
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The photo above may be new to me, but the outfit is not. She’s wearing it also in this cover photo of the Sunday News, “New York’s Picture Newspaper,” from August 26, 1945
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Caption of the photo above: “Ida Lupino chooses definite lines, plaid-on-pink drama, suited to a star who writes, dances, composes... furnishes Hollywood's proof that beauty can be brainy. You’ll see her this summer with Robert Alda in Warner’s ‘The Man I Love.’ Color photograph by John Pepper.”
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It’s not every day that I stumble on a full page color portrait of Ida Lupino that I’ve never encountered before, but it happened yesterday. Here it is, published in a magazine called The Californian, July 1946 issue. Caption in next post…
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