she ( 1935 film )
empire of the imagination: rediscovering she (1935) by matthew c. hoffman
‎she (1935) directed by lansing c. holden, irving pichel • reviews, film + cast • letterboxd
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brief exerpt from the 1935 fantasy epic she, starring helen gahagan. (the full movie is a available on dvd from amazon and other stores. )
the novella by michael egremont, published at the time of the film' s 1935 release, included several scenes not in the film, expanding on characters and situations - and reveals the surname of
little maria
as kramer .
i described the 1887 novel briefly in my review of the book. the 1935 film version starring helen gahagan as ayesha and randolph scott as leo vincey is different in many ways .
evidence (1935): first film used in an english court of law to prosecute an illegal gambling ring in the town of chesterfield, with an appearance by three circus elephants .
just watched the colorized version of the 1935 film “she” and found it to be a fun movie. i agree, that any one calling the film campy and dated, has no sense or meaning of those terms. for the purest, the legend dvd has both the colorized and black and white .
films revealing the development of british sign language (1935) from the deaf association shot in weston - super - mare .
excellent film! in the same school as the wizard of oz - terrific. it is a classic - 1935, but one of the best i' ve seen from that era .
released in 1935 and loosely based on h. rider haggard’s novel, “she” stars randolph scott and nigel bruce as explorers leading an expedition to the arctic to find a lost ...
was it when she saw the scene at the fountain? when she gives up on her play? when she reads the letter from robbie to cecilia? when she mistakenly observes robbie and cecilia making love in the library? when she witnesses lola' s rape? or when she officially accuses robbie of the assault to authorities? each one of these is a plausible response .
vivien leigh made both her onstage and film debuts in 1935. she starred in the play the bash, which, although wasn & apos; t particularly successful, allowed leigh to make an impression on producer sydney carroll, who soon cast the actress in her first london play; and landed the lead role in the aptly titled movie things are looking up (1935) .
although the bride of frankenstein is one of most iconic universal monsters, she only had 3 minutes of screen time in the entire film .
a midsummer night' s dream - 1935 oberon :
be as thou wast wont to be; ... ...
claude rains was offered the role of dr. pretorius but he was unavailable due to filming the mystery of edwin drood (1935) .
she. rko radio pictures, 1935. helen gahagan, randolph scott, helen mack, nigel bruce. based on the novel by h. rider haggard. directors: lansing c. holden & irving pichel .
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james whale' s movie bride of frankenstein (1935) - boris karloff (monster), colin clive, elsa lanchester. universal studios .
valerie hobson, who plays dr. frankenstein' s fiancé / bride in the film, was only 17 years old when she appeared in the film (colin clive, who portrayed henry frankenstein, was 35. )
it wasn' t easy. hoping to write for film, she traveled to hollywood, where she found that the studios had little interest in her work. she supported herself as a waitress, a movie extra, a clerk in a studio wardrobe department. she gradually perfected her english, making herself one of a small handful of creative writers who have mastered the language in their adulthood. in 1935 she enjoyed her first success: her play, night of january 16th, was produced on the new york stage. her first novel, we the living, appeared in 1936 .
in 1935, seymour hicks reprised the part he had made his own in thousands of stage versions, plus the 1913 film adaptation, and played the title role in this, the first talking version of the dickens classic .
an mgm talent scout saw rainer performing in a viennese production of an american tragedy in 1934, and she was immediately signed to a seven - year contract as the studio’s secret weapon to keep greta garbo in line. so, in 1935, in her late teens, speaking fluent french and german, but little english, rainer arrived in hollywood. her first film for the studio, the spy drama escapade (1935), in which she replaced myrna loy as a viennese girl opposite william powell, made her a star .
in order to gain that “heart, ” the little princess’ tormentor underwent a significant evolution. a heavy - set, daffy, oblivious, and egotistical comedy queen gave way to a cold and heartless, but elegant, stately, and beautiful monarch modeled after the ageless ice goddess (“she who must be obeyed”), from the 1935 film adaptation of h. rider haggard’s tale “she. ”
mike leigh is a british film director and playwright who' s known for his use of improvisation. he won best director at cannes for his film naked .
the film is included on roger ebert' s
great movies
list .
one of the film' s deleted sequences included the monster murdering the burgomaster .
the second layer to the guilt theme has to do with the history of literature. aside from the crime she committed as a child, briony feels guilty for her powers as a writer. she knows she has the autonomy to write whatever story she so chooses. just like she could send robbie to prison, she can make him survive the war. the reliance readers put in briony to tell them
what really happened
leaves her feeling guilty about her life' s work, and she projects that guilt onto the history of the english literature canon .
both moses & apos; father and her stepfather died when she was a child, and she went to live at the darke county infirmary, where she received schooling and sewing instruction while helping in the care of orphaned children. she returned to living with her mother and her second stepfather in her early teens, when she was able to help the family by hunting game for a grocery store. she earned so much from her skills that by the time she was 15, moses was able to pay off the mortgage on her mother & apos; s home .
colin clive' s alcoholism had worsened since the first film, but james whale did not recast the role because his
hysterical quality
was necessary for the film .
as a result of audience reactions from the film' s preview screenings during the first week of april 1935, the film was extensively re - edited. many scenes were deleted and trimmed, and at least one, the scene where the monster stumbles into the gypsy camp, was added in. as a result of the editing, the original uncut film was approx. 15 minutes longer than its official release length of 75 minutes .
but so convinced was rainer that she had no chance of winning the coveted oscar for the second year running that on the night of the ceremony she stayed at home in her pyjamas. at 8. 35pm, the names of the winners were given to the press, and a member of the academy telephoned her to tell her she had won. she had to change quickly into evening dress and dash across town with odets, whom she had married the previous year, to receive her second statuette. that night, she recalled, she and odets were having a terrific row. she was in tears by the time they got to the biltmore hotel, and they had to walk around the building five times before she had calmed down sufficiently to go in and accept the award .
before she left hollywood, rainer was told by brecht that he would like to write a play for her. she suggested an adaptation of der kreidekreis (the chalk circle) by ah klabund, based on a chinese tale, which became the caucasian chalk circle. later, she and the playwright fell out, and she never performed in it .
in part three of the book, briony has become a nurse, but she is given a badge with an incorrect first initial. she has been completely emasculated by the war and her social condition, as well as her guilt. when she sits with the dying french soldier, he thinks her to be someone else, and she goes along with his fantasy out of pity, but she tells him her real name in the end .
briony tallis has the imagination to make herself anything. when the story opens she is briony the serious child, briony the famous writer, and arabella, the star of a play she has just written. whenever briony is upset, she wanders by herself to water, where she can daydream into any persona she wishes - - a murderer, fencing champion, successful author (notice the water motif for this - - a formless element) .
either that, or the film' s budget would only stretch to one musical number .
but, i digress. back to the future... . sorry, film .
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broadway star margaret garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. when she meets carefree dan webster, she learns how to have fun for the first time .
it had nothing to do with the 1953 movie she, it is was 9 mins. long and is a boot leg, you are not getting the 1953 version of she ,
heather said “i’ve never seen my family on film before so it was a wonderful surprise to discover three generations together. there’s a perennial joy in location spotting; couple this with the emotional power of film and britain on film has the potential to touch everyone in the uk. ”
the 1935 film is based on the outstanding 1887 adventure novel by h. rider haggard. it had been filmed several times in the silent era, and would be remade again in the 1960s by hammer studios. she is the story of a centuries old queen who awaits the return of her reincarnated dead lover. it’s an allegorical tale about the quest for eternal life. the fountain of youth of historical legend becomes the flame of life within she’s empire of kor .
i grew up with shirley temple. in 1932 she made 12 movies as an adorable baby doll of four years old. in 1933 she made four films; in 1934 eleven films the best was
stand up & cheer
and
baby, take a bow
. in 1935 four films; in 1936 captain january
, in 1937
heidi
; in 1938
rebecca of sunnybrook farm
and
the little princess
. in 1940 two movies, and in 1941 her first flop. 1944 she made a comeback in
since you went away
and
i' ll be seeing you
. 1947 she made three films including
bachelor & the bobby soxer
. 1948
fort apache
when she met her first husband john agar. in 1949 she made four good films the best of which was
a kiss for corliss
. nobody wanted little shirley to grow up, so i must say my favorite film of hers was
the little colonel
in which she sang and danced so well with the famed bill robinson. in that film she played against the great lionel barrymore .
she (digitally remastered in colour) [ 1935 ] [ dvd ]: urltoken helen gahagan, randolph scott, helen mack, nigel bruce, lansing c. holden, irving pichel, merian c. cooper, h. rider haggard, ruth rose: dvd & blu - ray
stage actress helen gahagan portrays she– hasha - mo - tep, as she is also known. this would be her only film role before leaving hollywood for politics. she served two terms as a california congresswoman before running against richard nixon in 1950 in a bitter senate race. gahagan was red - baited by nixon, who labelled her the “pink lady. ” she would lose the election, but the nickname she coined for nixon would remain with him for the rest of his life: “tricky dick. ” there is a biography on helen gahagan called the pink lady. though there is scant mention of she in it, i’d still recommend it to anyone interested in gahagan’s political career and how she became inspired by the plight of americans during the depression .
hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the uk’s key film and tv archives .
vintage hollywood classics, vol. 17: sunset boulevard & she (original motion picture soundtracks )
a little girl named star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. a truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she' s rescued by relatives .
in my opinion, briony is a criminal. she knowingly accuses robbie of rape merely because of what she has witnessed between robbie and her sister. this is, of course, my opinion .
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mary jackson was one of the
human computers
portrayed in the film
hidden figures .
it is, so the credits claim, the earliest known version of a christmas carol on film .
a superlative restoration of a key film in alfred hitchcock’s evolution as a master explorer of sexual neuroses .
in the judgment of many critics, leigh & apos; s acting in streetcar surpassed even her star turn in gone with the wind; she won a second best actress oscar, as well as a new york film critics award and a british academy of film and television arts award, for the part .
interviews with ray harryhausen are split into two brief featurettes in the menu for each film, she (1080i; 4: 32) and things to come (1080i; 3: 47), though both were obviously culled from the same sit down. harryhausen talks about the influence each film had on him .
the burst of chopin under a sky lit up with brilliancies... there wasn' t a breath of wind and the music spread all over the dark boat, like a heavenly injunction whose import was unknown, like an order from god whose meaning was inscrutable... and afterwards, she wept because she thought of the man from cholon and suddenly she wasn' t sure she hadn' t loved him with a love she hadn' t seen because it had lost itself in the affair like water in sand and she rediscovered it only now, through this moment of music flung across the sea .
, paramount' s second color film, starring a luminous frances farmer, stalwart ray milland, just plain weird oscar homolka and a rather oddly cast lloyd nolan as that film' s island bound madman) .
' hidden figures':' the right stuff' vs. real stuff in new film about nasa history
two directors were apparently needed to supervise the film’s visual look. but it was cooper who was the driving force behind the production. it was his vision, as well as his values, that shaped its creation. she was conceived by cooper as a color film in three - strip technicolor. rko allocated a million dollar budget for the film with a hundred thousand dollars for the technicolor process. but before the cameras could roll, the studio executives, lacking cooper’s vision, pulled the plug on shooting the film in color .
i watched first the b & w version of she, then a few sections of the colorized version .
she scoured telephone directories, local newspapers, employee newsletters and the nasa archives to add to her growing list of names. she also chased down stray memos, obituaries, wedding announcements and more for any hint at the richness of these women’s lives. “it was a lot of connecting the dots, ” she says .
james whale was so set on having o. p. heggie play the blind hermit that he shut down production from february 19 to march 2, 1935 while waiting for heggie to finish a production at rko .
after olivier remarried and started a new family, leigh moved in with a younger actor named jack merivale. the change of pace seemed to do her good, as she re - emerged to take part in several successful performances during the 1960s. in 1963, she headlined in a musical adaptation of tovarich and earned her a first tony award. two years later, she starred in the oscar - winning film ship of fools .
she is one of the great movie adventures of the 1930s, but it’s a film many have never seen. if not for buster keaton, tonight’s film might not exist at all. after its re - issue in the late 1940s, the film was out of circulation for many years, and then disaster struck when the rko studio vault, which housed the negative, suffered a fire. she was feared lost until a 35mm print of the film turned up in the silent comedian’s garage. along with buster keaton’s own films, she was turned over to preservationist raymond rohauer. in the book screen deco, howard mandelbaum and eric myers write that the film was “revived during radio city music hall’s 1976 art deco week, and during its los angeles engagement the following year, the los angeles times complimented its ‘monumental sets designed in a kind of art deco barbaric.' ” now, decades later, this wonderful film has been restored in the digital medium of dvd .
after 30 years with naca and nasa (at which point she was an engineer), jackson decided to become an equal opportunity specialist to help women and minorities. although described as a behind - the - scenes sort of worker, she helped many people get promoted or become supervisors. she retired from nasa in 1985 .
the deeper elements of the story are expressed through the words of she, and there is something beautiful in her reflection on the endless flow of time. she is a haunted figure, and her poetic dialogue and delivery captures that. the screenplay was written by ruth rose and dudley nichols. rose was an important contributor to the films of merian c. cooper, having penned many of his greatest adventures. i wish more people were aware of her contributions to film history. she gave king kong its fairy tale quality, and she brought a verbal poetry to she. rose maintained the essence of an epic novel that contained vast themes and subtleties .
in trinidad, palestine and hungary the film was rejected completely
simply because it is a horror picture
( 2). other countries (e. g. china, singapore, japan) deleted important parts of the film and in sweden censorship cuts were so excessive that bride of frankenstein was only released as a short film .
in 1938, cassell and company published the book in britain, but it did not find an american publisher. it remained virtually unknown in this country until 1946, when one of rand' s friends, leonard e. read, creator of the foundation for economic education, arranged for it to be republished in a series of pamphlets advocating individualism. rand took the occasion to edit the work. she repudiated none of its essentials, but she subjected every sentence to close analysis, and she eliminated every expression she considered unnecessary. she made the intense yet more intense .
on coming to the door, mrs cratchit exclaims ,
it' s a prize turkey
and you can' t be sure whether she' s referring to the bird or the film that you' ve just sat through .
make film – greatest generation is a uk - wide filmmaking project organised by the education charity into film, bfi, bbc learning and the british council. the project invites children aged 7 - 11 to record interviews with members of the wartime generation and combine the footage with britain on film archive clips to create their own short documentaries. for information visit urltoken
gahagan possessed a wonderful speaking voice which only adds to the great moment in which she is first introduced to us behind the smoke at the top of the palace staircase. at that moment, gahagan immediately brings a different kind of energy to the film. prior to her introduction, the storyline had skirted pulp fiction. though she lacks the blinding beauty of the literary she, gahagan makes you feel she is indeed older than her years. additionally, other writers have commented on her appearance and its influence on walt disney when he envisioned the evil queen from snow white and the seven dwarfs .
britain on film changes the film and tv archive landscape forever. it’s vital that the uk’s film and tv archives – britain’s national collection – can be enjoyed by everyone, and now they can. the unprecedented scale of this project is a testament to the collaborative effort and skills of the bfi national archive and the regional and national archives of the uk. ”
the summer of that year found her living temporarily in stony creek, connecticut. her husband, frank o' connor, was working as an actor in summer stock, and she was planning her next novel. it was an elaborate project. she decided to take some time off and write a story that she had long had in mind—the story of anthem .
i saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. i do not remember how i explained my presence or my camera to her, but i do remember she asked me no questions. i made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. i did not ask her name or her history. she told me her age, that she was thirty - two. she said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. she had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. there she sat in that lean - to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. there was a sort of equality about it. (from :
in both the novel and in real life, the jilted and lovelorn marguerite duras traveled by steamship to france, where she studied law and political science at the sorbonne. upon her graduation in 1935, she worked as a secreraty at the ministry of colonies until 1941, and shortly thereafter, published her first book, les impudents, in 1942. duras served as a member of french resistance during world war ii, in which she lays claim to the rescue of french president françois mitterand during his days as resistance fighter. after the war, duras worked as a journalist for several magazines, including the observateur. she later joined the communist party, but was expelled for condemning its policies and lobbying for revisionism in 1950 .
there was an epilogue to this movie featuring elsa lanchester as mary shelley, but it was cut from the final film .
one of the cast cut from the film after the preview was helen parrish, who played a
communion girl .
while researching the project, heather stewart, creative director, bfi, discovered her great grandmother, grandmother and mother together on film in scenes from children’s excursion (1952) featuring moniaive in dumfries and galloway, the village she grew up in .
it' s the 1930s and great swathes of the globe are ripe for exploration. intrepid actors discover shangra - la in the himalayas, king solomon' s mines in africa, the uncharted skull island somewhere at sea, and the deco kingdom of kor in the arctic circle - home to she who must be obeyed (she for short). she has been hanging round in her kingdom, pining over the one who got away - randolph scott (he who must act as wood). he and she should be a we or so she thinks. randolph is not so convinced - he' s a simple chap and wants an ordinary small capital kinda we. she is not amused. 1 star for she - helen gahagan - actor, opera singer, politician, activist 1 star for the fabulous sets and costumes 1 star for polystyrene avalanches
behind closed doors, she studied the part of lulu in pandora’s box by frank wedekind. after she auditioned at the theatre in düsseldorf, no one could believe that she had had no previous training. “i could feel the warmth and the love coming to me from the audience and yet i could remain at a protective distance. it was what i needed. ”
as i mentioned, merian cooper had grander ideas for his final film under his rko contract. you have the feeling that there were set pieces cooper was forced to cut because of the budget, ideas that were put on ice like the inanimate saber - toothed tiger—frozen ideas thawed out now in the realm of what could’ve been. we can only imagine what she might’ve been had a visionary like cooper been given an open checkbook. but we must judge only what is there on the screen. she is a cerebral action film that has great moments of solemn beauty. it has an other - worldly quality unlike any other film of its era. its poetic interludes recall universal’s the mummy, which was another film about lost love and reincarnation .
“what do you know of immortal dreams, immortal memories? i am yesterday, today and tomorrow. i am sorrow, and longing and hope unfulfilled. i am hasha - mo - tep– she, she - who - must - be - obeyed. i am… i… it’s not enough that i should hope and wait unending years in pain…” ~ she (helen gahagan )
“it’s not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with ‘the 39 steps, ’ ” robert towne, the screenwriter of “chinatown, ” once remarked of the 1935 alfred hitchcock thriller, which has just been rereleased by criterion .
point of view · scout narrates in the first person, telling what she saw and heard at the time and augmenting this narration with thoughts and assessments of her experiences in retrospect. although she is by no means an omniscient narrator, she has matured considerably over the intervening years and often implicitly and humorously comments on the naïveté she displayed in her thoughts and actions as a young girl. scout mostly tells of her own thoughts but also devotes considerable time to recounting and analyzing jem ’s thoughts and actions .
i don' t quite get legend' s mindset. they claim to be a leader in film preservation (although their ratty - looking dvd double feature of killer shrews / giant gila monster calls that into question), yet their versions of beyond tomorrow (released as beyond christmas by fox) and she include deleted footage as a bonus feature, rather than acutally
restoring
it back into the film. (even my pd copy of beyond tomorrow had the missing footage actually in the film. )
this dvd is the best version of the movie she and is in colour, a must buy from this market place seller .
but the more shetterly dug, the more computers she discovered. “my investigation became more like an obsession, ” she writes in the book. “i would walk any trail if it meant finding a trace of one of the computers at its end. ”
despite these successes and her capability, she was constantly passed over for promotions herself. as spencer tells popular mechanics, vaughan struggled with the same things all female computers did while at nasa .
the conflict of working outside of the home to provide the best life for your children and, yet, not physically being there. but she knew she was changing the world .
britain on film is the result of the bfi national archive and the uk’s national and regional film archives and rights holders joining forces to bring these films together with a major programme of curation and digitisation that started in 2012 and continues until the end of 2017 .
the book and movie don’t mark the end of shetterly’s work she continues to collect these names, hoping to eventually make the list available online. she hopes to find the many names that have been sifted out over the years and document their respective life’s work .
in the kino deluxe set, both the colorized and b & w versions have the footage restored to the body of the film .
bought for ray harryhousen special effects i was not dissapointed and was pleased with the quality of the remasted colour. enjoyed the film .
every year, around early december, i prepare myself for my dickens christmas walk by both reading the book and watching the film .
the earliest version i have been able to track down is this incomplete silent film by robert w. paul that dates from 1901 .
through the project, britain on film curators have found extraordinary footage of ordinary people and places from across the collections. these include :
sorry i' m late ebenezer
, she says, when she eventually turns up, and we realise that the reason for the delay was to give sally fraser enough time to change out of her ghost costume and into her belle of the ball outfit .
in the late 50s, rainer and her family moved to britain. she appeared in some television plays on the bbc, including stone faces (1957), a play written for her by jb priestley. she also played regina in lillian hellman’s the little foxes at the theater in der josefstadt in vienna, where she had performed with reinhardt many years before. in 1973, she took the taxing part of the narrator in honegger’s oratorio judith, in french, with the pittsburgh symphony orchestra, with jessye norman singing the soprano part .
briony is at a point where she is too young to fully grasp the adult world she is quickly becoming a part of, yet old enough to presume she understands her social environment on a mature level. this wavering, transient positioning in her psychological development, along with the circumstances she happens to observe (the fountain scene, the letter, the library scene, and the rape) all lead to a misappropriation of her emotions. briony is still a child, there is no arguing that. her obsession with order, her fantasizing about playwriting and fencing, and the seriousness with which she takes her play all represent her at a point where she is too young to see the world beyond her own existence. this flaw is not her fault. it is a part of the psychological maturing process .
supporting scott is nigel bruce as holly. bruce is best known for playing dr. watson in the sherlock holmes film series at universal, which starred basil rathbone. also starring is rko ingénue helen mack, who had appeared in son of kong. mack was born in rock island, illinois, and she would go on to have a long career on stage and in film before eventually turning to radio as a writer. her performance in she is very expressive, and she makes a good foil for helen gahagan. three other actors who give exceptional performances are samuel hinds as leo vincey’s dying uncle, lumsden hare as the arctic trader, and the german - born gustav von seyffertitz as she’s calculating servant, billali. the latter is an interesting character whose jealousies and motivations could’ve easily been developed into a subplot .
after oakley and butler were in a railroad accident in 1901, she was partially paralyzed for a time, yet she recovered and continued to perform. she did stage work in the 1903 melodrama the western girl and joined the young buffalo show in 1911. oakley and butler retired in 1913, settling in cambridge, maryland, and adopting a dog, dave, who would become part of their later shows .
the musical soundtrack for this film proved so popular, it was used again in the flash gordon and buck rogers serials starring buster crabbe .
barrymore, however, did get to introduce the film' s trailer which was billed as a
fireside chat
with lionel barrymore .
i' m sorry mr jones ,
carole replies ,
but mr cohen would only let us film outside his grocery shop if we let his grandson appear in the film. and the lad' s got a lovely voice, don' t you think?'
“i get emails all the time from people whose grandmothers or mothers worked there, ” she says. “just today i got an email from a woman asking if i was still searching for computers. [ she ] had worked at langley from july 1951 through august 1957. ”
part of oakley & apos; s lasting legacy is the irving berlin musical annie get your gun (1946), based on her life story, with the initial run starring ethel merman and later broadway incarnations starring reba mcentire and bernadette peters. other media treatments of the markswoman & apos; s life have appeared as well, including the 1935 film annie oakley (which is noted for being historically inaccurate), the 1950 film adaptation of annie get your gun, starring betty hutton, and a variety of books geared toward both children and adults .
many argue that frankenstein ought to be called
the monster
and not
frankenstein
, however this second film' s title, bride of frankenstein (1935) settles this debate once and for all: the monster is nicknamed by his creator' s last name, and is simply known as
frankenstein
, since
the bride
was created for him, and not for his doctor creator .
though the color was never realized, a great film score was. one of she ’s greatest realizations is max steiner’s music. it’s a moderne score that is truly haunting. it gives she its mystery and grandeur. it’s one of his best compositions, in fact. the complete recording has been preserved by the aforementioned james d’arc at byu. i have a copy of this wonderful cd, and i can’t recommend it enough. if anyone ever had to be convinced of the importance of film music, i can think of no better example than this .
the duo of pretorius and frankenstein can also be interpreted as a gay couple, who are still able to produce offspring, without any participation of women. film critic gary morris sees the whole film as a gay assault on standard sex roles and family values. in his essay
at the time of its initial release, she lost money– $ 180, 000 to be exact. its disappointing box office eliminated any chance of filming haggard’s sequel, ayesha, the return of she. theatre - goers perhaps expected more non - stop thrills. she didn’t make any money until 1948 when it was re - issued on a double bill with the last days of pompeii. modern reviews of she are all over the map, and i’m amused by many of the “critiques” i read on the imdb. i’m all for democracy, but the user comments empower morons. she is not camp or kitsch. those are terms viewers use to describe what they don’t understand– films that can’t be appreciated in the era they were made in. some people call she a laughably bad movie or refer to its dated acting, and i’m not even sure what that term “dated” means. if it doesn’t measure up to modern standards it’s somehow less? it’s nonsense and low - grade film criticism .
tilda swinton is an oscar - winning british actress known for her arthouse film roles and for acclaimed performances in more mainstream pictures like michael clayton .
the screen;' she,' a lavish screen version of h. rider haggard' s adventure tale, opens at the music hall .
two years later, when the college chose to integrate its graduate schools, johnson and two male students were offered spots. she quickly enrolled, but left to have children. in 1953, when she was back in the workforce, johnson joined the west area computing section at langley .
get the girl to check the numbers... if she says the numbers are good, i' m ready to go .
elizabeth was played by brunette valerie hobson who replaced blonde mae clarke from the original frankenstein (1931) due to clarke' s illness at the time. this change of hair color is a bit jarring since bride of frankenstein (1935) picks up right where the original leaves off .
' she who must be obeyed' rules a' kingdom of the imagination' called kor, somewhere deep in the himalayas. and a pretty wild place it is too, replete with cave men and a huge pyramid castle decked out with massive art deco interiors. she is played by helen gahagan, who would go on to become the first woman from california elected to congress for the democats. here, though, she' s a tyrant who rules by fear and arbitrarily puts people to death because she' grows weary of them'. her actions are probably the result of psychosis brought on by being immortal rather than a political ideology, but everyone is still on tender hooks as to what she decides to do next. which…
film actress janet leigh, once tony curtis’s wife, is best remembered for her shower scene as marion crane in alfred hitchcock’s classic thriller, psycho .
she - adventure. by h. rider haggard. stars: helen gahagan, randolph scott. leo vincey tries to discover the secret of immortality that
herewith my reconsideration of she, bringing, i hope, a close to my rediscovery (thanks to your astute reviewers) of my earlier review .
i mentioned the various dvd versions of the film that are available through kino and legend films, but nothing could ever beat the thrill of actually owning a film print, and for a number of years i had a 16mm print which contained some scenes deleted from the film when it was re - released. it wasn’t an original print, just a dupe, but i opened one of my programs at the lasalle bank theatre with it. of course, today few people collect film prints anymore, and that’s a shame. anyone can buy a factory - sealed, shrink - wrapped dvd or order one off amazon, but few will understand the joy of simply holding a film strip up to the light and seeing the images, one atop another, unfold a story on a piece of celluloid. films come alive when projected on film onto a big screen, and people have lost contact with that experience. modern media only simulates the theatrical experience. movies weren’t meant to be watched on a phone or computer, and they certainly weren’t meant to be beamed digitally from a satellite into a cineplex, which will be the wave of the future. film stock itself may die in a cold future of digital pixels, but not the films themselves. as long as there are places like our classic film series, movies like she will indeed live on through the millennium .
the bfi today launches britain on film, a new project that reveals hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the uk’s key film and tv archives. from today the archives go digital on bfi player, giving everybody in the uk free access to 1, 000s of film and tv titles featuring where they live, grew up, went to school, holidayed as a child, or any place of interest in britain. by 2017, thanks to national lottery funding and the support of the esmée fairbairn foundation, 10, 000 film and tv titles from 1895 to the present day will be digitised .
her increasingly troubled personal life forced leigh to take occasional breaks from work throughout the 1940s, but she continued to take on many high - profile roles, both on the stage and screen. none could match the critical or commercial success she had won for playing scarlett o & apos; hara, however .
the ghost of christmas past is so feminine and pretty, that you almost fall off your chair when she addresses scrooge in a deep and masculine voice .
beginning in 1935, the national advisory committee for aeronautics (naca), a precursor of nasa, hired hundreds of women as computers. the job title designated someone who performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand, according to a nasa history. the computers worked at the langley memorial aeronautical laboratory in virginia .
buy dvd distributor rko runtime 102 min rating nr year 1935 director irving pichel, lancing c. holden screenwriter ruth rose, dudley nichols cast helen gahagan, randolph scott, helen mack, nigel bruce, julius adler, lumsden hare, samuel s. hinds, noble johnson, jim thorpe, gustav von seyffertitz
commentary by ray harryhausen and mark vaz on she. this is an appealing if not especially informative commentary with vaz coaxing tidbits of information from harryhausen on why harryhausen selected certain colors for the colorized version. harryhausen does talk about the history of the film and a little bit about his mentor merian c. cooper .
around that same time, she wrote and published three more novels: un barrage contre le pasifique, depicting the struggles of a poor french family in indochina, le marin de gibraltar, a cerebral romantic work, and le square, an abstract literary work for which she was indoctrinated into the new novel group .
it’s a recording as powerful and dramatic as anything written by the great classical composers. steiner’s score has been described as “an opera without the arias. ” max steiner was a brilliant hollywood composer, the best in my opinion, and his score for she imbues the film with scope and depth it might not have otherwise had. one of his best music cues comes during the festival of the sacred well, a dance number in the hall of kings that goes on for over ten minutes. it’s one of the biggest highlights of the film because it fuses the film’s two greatest strengths: the music and the art deco decor .
perfect 30s film - - the costumes, the music, the story line, the sets, the actors. it doesn' t get better than this .
the name of little maria' s father has been changed from
ludwig
in the original frankenstein (1931) to
hans
in this film .
the bfi film audience network (fan) will be staging 85 screening events in 46 locations from belfast to canterbury and southern wales to inverness. highlights include :
the second crime is briony' s lie, the accusation she makes against robbie as the man who raped lola... .. a false accusation .
thereafter her films were mediocre, except for the great waltz (1938), though her part as johann strauss’s wife was considerably trimmed. a nonconformist, rainer walked around hollywood in slacks, wearing no make - up, her hair in disarray at the height of 1930s glamour. she also decided to expend her energies elsewhere than on her film career. she helped refugee children from spain and later, with the us first lady eleanor roosevelt, assisted european victims of nazi germany .
jackson hailed from hampton, virginia. she graduated with high marks from high school and received a bachelor of science degree from the hampton institute in mathematics and physical science, according to a biography posted on nasa' s website. she began her career as a schoolteacher, and took on several other jobs before joining naca .
when her disastrous marriage to odets ended in divorce in 1940, she was living in new york. there she became friendly with nin, famous for her erotica and her passionate affair with the writer henry miller. “my strongest impression when i met her [ rainer ] was that you were twins of a sort, ” miller wrote to nin. “neither of you belong in this world. ” after nin attended a play in which rainer was performing, she wrote long descriptions of the actor in her diary. rainer becomes a “flame” when she performs, says nin, and certainly “would have been loved by [ the french playwright antonin ] artaud” .
there are very few actors whose culture and friendships ranged so widely, and who knew so many of the great names of the 20th century, as luise rainer, who has died aged 104. she was married for three tempestuous years to the radical american playwright clifford odets; she was a key member of max reinhardt’s theatre company; she was the lover of the german expressionist playwright ernst toller; bertolt brecht wrote the caucasian chalk circle for her. she is frequently mentioned in the diaries of the writer anaïs nin, who was fascinated by her; she was an intimate of erich maria remarque and albert einstein; federico fellini begged her to be in la dolce vita; and george gershwin gave her a first edition of the score of porgy and bess, with a fulsome dedication to her from the composer .
kino for the extras and the longer version of the film. note the deleted scenes reel on the legend release is the footage edited out of the main feature .
helen gahagan is not conventionally attractive, but her imperious manner contrasts very effectively with helen mack’s performance, two roles that are the strong emotional underpinnings of the film.
she is a 1935 american film produced by merian c. cooper . based on h. rider haggard 's novel of the same name , the screenplay combines elements from all the books in the series : she : a history of adventure , she and allan , ayesha : the return of she and wisdom 's daughter . the film reached a new generation of moviegoers with a 1949 re-release . the ancient civilization of kor is depicted in an art deco style with imaginative special effects . the setting is arctic siberia , rather than in africa , as in the first book . the third book is set in the himalayas . with music by max steiner , the film stars helen gahagan , randolph scott and nigel bruce . it was hoped that she would follow cooper 's previous success , king kong . cooper had originally intended to shoot the film in color , but budget cuts by rko forced him to shoot the film in black and white at the last minute . however , the black and white film had disappointing results at the box office . it initially lost $ 180,000 , although it later had a successful re-release . the film is listed in golden raspberry award founder john wilson 's book the official razzie movie guide as one of the the 100 most enjoyably bad movies ever made . in 2006 , legend films and ray harryhausen colorized the film as a tribute to cooper . the colorized trailer for she premiered at the 2006 comic-con . she was considered a lost film for many years until an original print , stored in silent film star buster keaton 's garage , was turned over to film distributor raymond rohauer for preservation . she originally had a running time of 102 minutes , but on its 1949 re-release , was edited down to 94 minutes , to better fit on a double bill with cooper 's the last days of pompeii . the 8 minutes of missing scenes , taken from a slightly lower quality 16 mm print , were finally reinstated in 2007 by kino video . 
she is a 1935 american film produced by merian c. cooper. based on h. rider haggard's novel of the same name, the screenplay combines elements from all the books in the series: she: a history of adventure, she and allan, ayesha: the return of she and wisdom's daughter. the film reached a new generation of moviegoers with a 1949 re-release. the ancient civilization of kor is depicted in an art deco style with imaginative special effects. the setting is arctic siberia, rather than in africa, as in the first book. the third book is set in the himalayas. with music by max steiner, the film stars helen gahagan, randolph scott and nigel bruce. it was hoped that she would follow cooper's previous success, king kong. cooper had originally intended to shoot the film in color, but budget cuts by rko forced him to shoot the film in black and white at the last minute. however, the black and white film had disappointing results at the box office. it initially lost $ 180,000, although it later had a successful re-release. the film is listed in golden raspberry award founder john wilson's book the official razzie movie guide as one of the the 100 most enjoyably bad movies ever made. in 2006, legend films and ray harryhausen colorized the film as a tribute to cooper. the colorized trailer for she premiered at the 2006 comic-con. she was considered a lost film for many years until an original print, stored in silent film star buster keaton's garage, was turned over to film distributor raymond rohauer for preservation. she originally had a running time of 102 minutes, but on its 1949 re-release, was edited down to 94 minutes, to better fit on a double bill with cooper's the last days of pompeii. the 8 minutes of missing scenes, taken from a slightly lower quality 16 mm print, were finally reinstated in 2007 by kino video.
she is a 1935 american film produced by merian c. cooper. based on h. rider haggard's novel of the same name, the screenplay combines elements from all the books in the series: she: a history of adventure, she and allan, ayesha: the return of she and wisdom's daughter. the film reached a new generation of moviegoers with a 1949 re-release. the ancient civilization of kor is depicted in an art deco style with imaginative special effects. the setting is arctic siberia, rather than in africa, as in the first book. the third book is set in the himalayas. with music by max steiner, the film stars helen gahagan, randolph scott and nigel bruce. it was hoped that she would follow cooper's previous success, king kong. cooper had originally intended to shoot the film in color, but budget cuts by rko forced him to shoot the film in black and white at the last minute. however, the black and white film had disappointing results at the box office. it initially lost $ 180,000, although it later had a successful re-release. the film is listed in golden raspberry award founder john wilson's book the official razzie movie guide as one of the the 100 most enjoyably bad movies ever made. in 2006, legend films and ray harryhausen colorized the film as a tribute to cooper. the colorized trailer for she premiered at the 2006 comic-con. she was considered a lost film for many years until an original print, stored in silent film star buster keaton's garage, was turned over to film distributor raymond rohauer for preservation. she originally had a running time of 102 minutes, but on its 1949 re-release, was edited down to 94 minutes, to better fit on a double bill with cooper's the last days of pompeii. the 8 minutes of missing scenes, taken from a slightly lower quality 16 mm print, were finally reinstated in 2007 by kino video.