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Elsie
 Jan 1, 07 - 11:45 AM |
Leading Ladies
I have a goal for 2007, to watch two films from each of the actresses in TCM's Leading Ladies book. I need some assistance finding films for some, though. I like decent films (little/no language, sin handled correctly, etc.) and I'm having some trouble with pre-code movies (and some later ones). I'd like a bit of information on Dancing Lady, Dinner at Eight, West Side Story, It, and....I can't recall the other titles I was thinking of, but I'll get back to you ;-) And if anyone has good suggestions for the harder actresses, like Mae West and Louise Brooks, I'd really appreciate it! (spoilers for any of these movies would be fine with me :-) I don't mean to sound prudish, but some things I just don't want to see and hear.) Thanks! |
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ROBERT M.
Jan 1st, 2007 - 4:55 PM |
Re: Leading Ladies
"Dancing Lady" was made in 1933, starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and was the first starring role in a movie for the one and only -a very young looking- Fred Astaire (aged 34 when making the movie), fresh from his success on the Broadway and London stage. I cannot see anything from 1933 being very offensive to you Elsie in this movie 
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mel walton
Jul 11th, 2007 - 6:12 PM |
Re: Leading Ladies
more on your post, Elsie; in 'Dinner at Eight'Marie Dreassler spars with Jean Harlow. Harlow says that she read a book which makes Dressler do a triple take, then adds, it was about machines replacing people and Dressler tells her,'You have nothing to worry about'. The most objectionable thing about 'Dancing Lady' was Ted Healy slapping the three Stooges. I never saw a movie with Louise Brooks; she had a very difficult life - reads like a soap opera, a tragic one. Robert M was right, any offensive material used in a film from the mid thirties was very, very mild. |
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mel walton
Jul 11th, 2007 - 6:31 PM |
Re: Leading Ladies
hello Elsie Robert M hit the nail on the head, saying 'you wont find much objectionable about domestic films from the thirties';Mae West got in a few innuendos before the Hayes people caught up with her but they were mild; ex; in a scene from her first film (I think it was 'night after night' a woman notices her jewelry and says,'Goodness, what a beautiful bracelet (or something)and Mae tells her, 'Goodness had nothing to do with it' that was about the extent of it. I heard her stage plays were quite different but didn't see any. |
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