feaito
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IMHO: "Dodsworth", "Modern Times", "Rebecca", "Wuthering Heights", "The Great Dictator", "Freaks", "Swing Time", "Portrait of Jennie", "Laura", "Midnight", "Love Me Tonight", "Trouble in Paradise", "Camille", "Shanghai Express", "Alice Adams", "The Smiling Lieutenant", are some that come to my mind.
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Could it be Paramount's 1943 "China" starring Loretta Young and Alan Ladd?? Haven't seen it...But I know it's set in that country.
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I meant not "chinese movies"...but movies "set in China"
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Could it be Warner's 1935 "Oil for the Lamps of China", starring Pat O'Brien?...'cos the only other chinese movies I recall now are "The Good Earth" (1937) and "Dragon Seed", both MGM's based upon Pearl S. Buck's novels...I'd loved if Pearl S. Buck's Book "Imperial Woman" had been filmed in the Classic Age!!! Starring Ona Munson, i.e.!!
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Nope...
Clue # 13: Two of the films "guessed" in these thread, feature as leading player the female lead of this Movie
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Thanks Spencer I've just voted...and it was fun!!
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BTW...after thinking it over & over for years...I bought a second-hand copy of "Letter from an Unknown Woman", at a decent price...the out-of-print VHS of this wonderful film, which I've never seen, have always been too pricy!!
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Maybe Marilyn Monroe?
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Thanks for the info Tom...this site will be a nice "companion" to my Quinlan's Dictionnary of Character Actors.
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Yeah Bracken...I know I am...but dreams may come true! (sighing)...When in my life I would have thought 15 years ago, that I would be able to watch "Female", "Torch Singer", "Love Me Tonight", "The Smiling Lieutenant", "Baby Face"....and so many more...and they're being shown here on TCM, commercial free...and above all, good copies!!
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La Belle Aurore??...
BTW Coffeedan, thanks for complimenting me, but it was "J" who came with the right answer, to your previous question.
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A Jeanette MacDonald-Maurice Chevalier Paramount ("The Love Parade", "One Hour With You" and "Love Me Tonight") Box Set, which should include some of their solo work as well (i.e.: "Monte Carlo", "The Smiling Lieutenant",...), and it would also be nice to include their last film, MGM's "The Merry Widow", the complete, uncensored version, TCM has in its vaults. It'd be nice to include the french version of those flicks ("La Veuve Joyeuse", "Une heure Pres de Toi", etc).
Also it would be nice a Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Box Set.
I'd like Box Sets of DeMille's early '30s films, from MGM and Paramount: "Dynamite", "Madam Satan", "The Squaw Man", "The Sign of The Cross", "Cleopatra", "Four Frightened People"...which could include the Documentary aired by TCM a couple of months ago. A Box Set of his early 20's marital sex-farces would be cool too! "Manslaughter", "Male and Female", "Why Change Your Wife?"...
A Norma Shearer set with all her Pre-Codes. And lots of Bonus of her life, screen tests, background stories, shorts, premieres attended by Norma and Irving Thalberg, etc.
A Warners Pre-Code Set including Kay Francis', Ruth Chatterton's films.
An early 30's Box Set of Frank Capra movies, like "The Bitter Tea of General Yen", "Ladies of Leisure".
Box Sets of Irene Dunne and Ann Harding; Gary Cooper...
Dreaming....
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Nope...
Clue # 12: A Corpse in the back of a car
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Eddie Rochester Anderson with Jack Benny?...He was Van Jones, Benny's valet..
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Nope Lolite...
Clue # 11: The husky-voiced deadly blonde of the film, gets to sing once more, in her former Club, now a guest...
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I Just ended watching Ruth Chatterton's "Frisco Jenny"...she gives a tough, hardboiled perfomance, of a woman who rises from the slums to notoriety as the Madam of a sort of huge "institutionalized" Bordello...well, that after losing her father, lover and everything she had because of the 1906 huge Frisco earthquake....she has to suffer the estrangement from her son, etc...Louis Calhern is good as a corrupt politician...and Donal Cook impersonates the grown-up son...Helen Jerome eddy plays a chinese lady who's loyal to Jenny until the end of the picture...and the plot has some reminiscences of "Madame X", filmed in 1929 with Chatterton on the title role, this time, at MGM...also being shown here at TCM.
In all, a well-done Warners-First National 75 minutes? programmer, with some nice special effects and good performances...sincere acting by Miss Chatterton, rises this above the level of mere soap-opera. Recommmended for early thirties soapers fans....although not as daring, risqu? and "pre-codish" as "Female"...still worthwhile.
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"The Devil's Brother" aka "Fra Diaviolo" is a highly amusing comedy-operetta. You'll enjoy it for sure! Laurel & Hardy, Thelma Todd and Dennis King are in top form! Recommended.
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Somtimes I think that the extreme sweetness & maternality of Luise Beavers, would have been all right for "Mammy's" Role...But, on the other hand, Hattie McDaniel was really "hilarious"....I remember her scene in "Alice Adams", and cannot stop laughing...she wass a treat!
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On seconds thoughts...could have been Buster Keaton's "The General"??
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Just to make another guess "The Gold Rush"?
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Thanks Mary Lou!...
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Excellent movie...somewhat, again on the right "path" (I'll explain this later)...but not that one
Clue # 10: A bartender who's got some "information" is murdered...and our hero is tried to be blamed for that...
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Nope, but somehow you're in the right path...
Clue # 9: A shooting scandal of some years ago...in which the real murderer/ess was not convicted..someone else took the blame....
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I dont know if "Hips Hips Hooray" is a Pre-Code or was filmed after the full enforcement of The Hays Code, but with a cast including the wonderful Thelma Todd, Ruth Etting and Dorothy Lee...it must be something!!
Today on the afternoon I watched "Female" with Ruth Chatterton...For your info, I'm gonna copy-paste what I wrote today at Amazon.com, my feelings after watching it:
"Love these early '30s Pre-Codes
Reviewer: Fedo.
Ruth Chatterton, an actress which I had only seen in one of my very, very fave films of all time, William Wyler's masterpiece, based upon Sinclair Lewis' novel, "Dosworth", carries this picture, which stands remarkably well the "test of time"...in a very different role...not only that...in "Dodsworth" she was the wife of small-town automobile tycoon...here she is the ruthless, sexually liberated, female automobile Co. Tycoon, herself.
Well, recalling better, I had also seen her in MGM's early 1929 soaper "Madame X" (OK) and would love to watch her Paramount Flicks (1928-1931). Universal, who has the rights to them...any chance of releasing them??
In this flick, she manages her company, with no holds-barred, with a hand of steel, surrounded by handsome young men, who are discarded, one after the other, when they have served "her leisure purposes". A refreshing role-reversal (an very daring then), with a woman "on top". She has all the POWER.
But then comes (then husband in real life) George Brent, who impersonates an independent-minded executive, who changes Chatterton's life...as she were expecting such dominant male?.
Nice support by Johnny Mack Brown, Gavin Gordon and Philip Reed (a "very naive" young man or something "else"? (as stated in Vieira's book "Sin in Soft Focus", a must read for Pre-Code Fans), as some of the men, who are invited to "have dinner with her", at her lavish, very luxurious house. Ravishing clothes by Orry-Kelly.
In all, a compelling, entertaining film, with fast-talking entrepreneur Chatterton in top form....I also could obtain her "Frisco Jenny" film, which I'm going to watch right away.
You won't regret buying this great Pre-Code.(I don't have to buy it, since I taped thanks to TCM, an excellent, pristine copy)
P.S. Look for Ferdinand Gottschalk as her (Chatterton's) elder assistant, who gives a very funny performance and delivers some highly-amusing lines.
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You may be right Bracken..."The Good Earth" is a real CLASSIC...but since I saw it when I was a boy, I cannot recall, only remember the Locust Plague...I taped it from TCM and haven't had the time of watching it. Anyway, I'd love to watch "Oil for the Lamps of China", "Dragon Seed" and "China"