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*Miller, David* - Joan Crawford's director in _Sudden Fear_ ('52) and _The Story of Esther Costello_ ('57), and her date to the March '53 Academy Awards show. (He also directed the remake of The Women, The Opposite Sex, in '56.)
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Raymond Chandler - All but one of his novels have been cinematically adapted. Most notable was _The Big Sleep_ (1946), by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe. William Faulkner was a co-writer on the screenplay. Raymond Chandler's few screen writing efforts and the cinematic adaptation of his novels proved stylistically and thematically influential upon the American film noir genre.
*Celebri-links .... William Faulkner!!!*
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Eva Marie Saint was in: _I Dreamed of Africa_ (2000) with Kim Basinger!
*NEW STAR: Kim Basinger!*
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*_Race with the Devil_ (1975)*
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*In Old Chicago (1938)*
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*_The Bride Wore Red_ (1937) - Various Publicity Materials! Cool Stuff!*
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*The Gavel Falls on Tavern on the Green*
January 15, 2010
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/the-gavel-falls-on-tavern-on-the-green/
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*Check Out my "Happy 50th Anniversary ...House on Haunted Hill (1959)! Thanks Mr. Castle" thread!*
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8307592
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DON'T FORGET:
*January 25, 2010 - _Rain_ (1932) - 8am - Crawford was loaned out by MGM to United Artists for this film.*
*Rain was not well-received either critically or financially upon initial release. The unglamorous role for Crawford and bold story (religious hypocrisy being its main theme) caught Depression-era audiences off-guard.*
*_Notes_:*
? Filmed on Catalina Island off the coast of California.
? This was Joan's first film made on loan-out to a studio other than MGM.
? Other famous "Sadie Thompson"s: Jeanne Eagels (1922, stage); Gloria Swanson (1928 silent film); 1935 (Tallulah Bankhead, stage); Rita Hayworth (1953 film). Carroll Baker appeared in a 1970 TV version.
? Screenwriter Maxwell Anderson also wrote a radio play that Joan appeared in later in the 1930s: "Mary of Scotland" for the Lux Radio Theater.
? Joan's fellow cast members were cool to her during filming. Walter Catlett went so far as to tell her, "Listen, fishcake, when Jeanne Eagels died, Rain died with her." (JCB)
? While filming on Catalina Island, Joan usually stayed in her cottage evenings, playing Bing Crosby records over and over, to the annoyance of her fellow cast and crew. (JCB)
? Joan's marriage to first husband Doug Fairbanks, Jr., was on the rocks during filming. She often refused to take his calls and was short with him when he sailed out for a visit, claiming he was ruining her concentration. She went into seclusion after the film wrapped in the summer of '32, and a belated honeymoon trip to Europe proved fruitless. The couple were officially divorced 7 months after Rain's release.
? Joan discovered she was pregnant during filming and told Fairbanks that she had slipped on the deck of a ship while shooting, losing the baby. (LW)
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*In uncredited roles as peasant girls, both Adriana Caselotti and Ann Rutherford went on to bigger and better roles, both holding different but equally important places in Hollywood history.*
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Adriana Caselotti (May 16, 1916 ? January 19, 1997) was an American actress and singer. She is the voice of Snow White in Walt Disney's _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_.
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Everytime Marlon Brando sings ...I just have to laugh!!! This is when _Guys and Dolls_ (1955) heads into the world of the "unconventional" and strange!
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handkerchief .... _The Yellow Handkerchief_ (2008)
*NEW WORD: Jan. 24th is known as: _Compliment_ Day!*
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*_Across to Singapore_ (1928)*
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*Lee, Gwen*
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*_Chained_ (1934)*
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Eleanor Parker was in the film: _Caged_ (1950), in which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role directed by John Cromwell!
*NEW DIRECTOR: John Cromwell!*
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*Interesting hair style for Joan!!!*
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It's a cult classic (& more than a slaher film!!!!) ...1st time on DVD... OOP for years on VHS!!!!
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*Date Shift for Corman's Piranha DVD and Blu-ray and More*
*Sometimes a bun just needs a bit more time in the oven, ya know? Dread Central has learned today that Shout! Factory's upcoming (and we're sure to be stellar) DVD and Blu-ray release of the Roger Corman classic Piranha has been pushed back until August 2010.*
The film was originally supposed to hit stores on DVD in April 2010, then Blu-ray a bit later, but now both packages will be hitting on the same day -- August 3rd. The push will no doubt give Shout! Factory more time to shape the final form of bonus content, and that's always a good thing. These cats know how to deliver quality!
Also hitting that very same day will be the DVD releases of Humanoids from Deep and the Up from the Depths and Demon of Paradise double feature. Stay tuned for more as we get it.
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*Actress Jean Simmons dies at 80*
Jan. 23, 2010
*LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jean Simmons, whose ethereal screen presence and starring roles with Hollywood's top actors made her a mid-century film icon, has died at age 80.*
The actress, who sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls;" costarred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas; and played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, died Friday at her home in Santa Monica, her agent Judy Page told the Los Angeles Times. She had lung cancer.
Already a stunning beauty at 14, Simmons made her movie debut in the 1944 British production "Give Us the Moon."
Several minor films followed before British director David Lean gave the London-born actress her breakthrough role of Estella, companion to the reclusive Miss Havisham in 1946's "Great Expectations." That was followed by the exotic "Black Narcissus," and then Olivier's Oscar-winning "Hamlet" in 1948, for which Simmons was nominated as best supporting actress.
She would be nominated for another Oscar, for best actress for 1969's "The Happy Ending," before moving largely to television roles in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
She won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s miniseries "The Thorn Birds."
Her other notable films included "Elmer Gantry" (with Burt Lancaster), "Until They Sail" (with Newman), "The Big Country" (Peck), "Spartacus," (Douglas), "This Earth Is Mine" (Rock Hudson), "All the Way Home" (Robert Preston), "Mister Buddwing" (James Garner) and "Rough Night in Jericho" (Dean Martin).
Simmons had left Britain for Hollywood in 1950, accompanied by her future husband Stewart Granger. There, they were befriended by reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes, who flew them to Tucson, Ariz., for a surprise wedding.
"When I returned from the honeymoon," Simmons told a reporter in 1964, "I learned that Hughes owned me ? he had bought me from (British producer) J. Arthur Rank like a piece of meat."
What followed was a string of films that she would later dismiss as terrible, although she took some solace in the fact Hughes, legendary in those days as a womanizer, never bothered her.
"I was married to Jimmy (Granger's real name was James Stewart), so Hughes remained at a distance," she recalled. "But those movies! So terrible they aren't even on videocassettes."
Among the titles: "Angel Face," "Affair with a Stranger" and "She Couldn't Say No."
Simmons finally ended up suing Hughes for the right to make more prestigious films at other studios, and the result was "Young Bess" (as young Queen Elizabeth I), "The Robe" (the first movie filmed in CinemaScope), "The Actress," "The Egyptian" and "Desiree."
In the latter film, in 1954, she played the title role opposite Brando's Napoleon.
The pair teamed again in 1955 for "Guys and Dolls," the Samuel Goldwyn-produced musical in which Simmons is Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army-style reformer conned into a weekend fling in Havana by gambler Sky Masterson.
She loved the rehearsals for that film, Simmons recalled in 1988, "especially the dancing routines with Marlon trying not to step on me and choreographer Michael Kidd looking very worried."
"I got to sing," she added, "because Sam Goldwyn said, `You might as well wreck it with your own voice than somebody else's.'"
By the 1970s, her career as a lead film actress had ended, but Simmons continued to work regularly on stage and in television.
In the 1980s and '90s she appeared on such television shows as "Murder, She Wrote," "In the Heat of the Night" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." She also appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries, including a 1991 version of "Great Expectations," in which she played Miss Havisham this time.
The careers of both Simmons and her husband Granger had flourished in the 1950s, he as a swashbuckler, she as the demure heroine. But long absences on film locations strained their relationship, and they divorced in 1960. They had a daughter, Tracy.
Shortly after her divorce, Simmons married Richard Brooks, who had directed her in "Elmer Gantry" and would again in "The Happy Ending." Their marriage, which produced a daughter, Kate, ended in divorce in 1977.
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*Very ... very strange Crawford film!* I *liked it ...but what a strange sitting for a film.. Set among an upper class resort hotel in the Alps!* *Umn Ok ... MGM I will buy that!*
*Interesting Trivia*
As early as 1937, soon after the release of this film, Joan was cruelly labeled, 'box office poison.'
Luise Rainier was originally considered for Joan's role.
The show stopping, Adrian designed, red gown that Joan wears at the end of the film in the ball scene can be seen in two other films. It was used in a catwalk sequence in The Big Store (1941), and then in it's full glory, thanks to the introduction of color film, in DuBarry Was A Lady (1943).
Joan was married to Franchot Tone (Guilio) at the time of the production, however this was their final film together and they were divorced soon after. Again, their marriage lasted the usual Joan Crawford run of four years (1935-1939).
The picture was filmed partially on location in the Mammoth Lakes area of the Sierra Mountains, CA, and background footage obtained by Fred Wilcox on an Austrian trip were included in this film and in Paradise for Three.
The Bride Wore Red was directed by Hollywood's best known female director, Dorothy Arzner, at the time. Joan was quoted as saying that Arzner "scared the hell out of her." Arzner later directed Pepsi Cola commercials for Crawford's companies.
The red dress Joan wears in The Bride Wore Red still exists today and was shown in 2005 as part of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) museum show "Glamour: Fashion to Die For."
In uncredited roles as peasant girls, both Adriana Caselotti and Ann Rutherford went on to bigger and better roles, both holding different but equally important places in Hollywood history. Ann Rutherford went on to play Scarlett O'Hara's sister in Gone With The Wind (1939) and Adriana Caselotti gave voice to one of the most beloved animated characters of our time - Snow White.
Child star Dickie Moore appeared in this film. He is best known for being the first actor to kiss Shirley Temple on the big screen.
Cost: $960,000
Box Office Receipts: $1.2 million
Inflation Value in 2008: $18,231,916.67
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Legend JC Website!
Director Dorothy Arzner (Left) and actors George Zucco & Joan Crawford
"The Bride Wore Red"
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Joanne Woodward continued to act, in such films as _Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams_ and _Philadelphia_ (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character!
*Celebri-links .. Tom Hanks!*