fashions of 1934
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fashions of 1934 only has one berkeley number but it' s a doozy involving a ridiculous mountain of ostrich feathers. it' s one of his best sequences in my opinion .
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fashions of 1934 may be a bit far - fetched and inconsistent, being predicated on a false premise, but it has color, flash, dash, class, girls and plenty of clothes .
part comedy, part musical, part fashion show, fashions of 1934 is a brisk bit of movie fluff with two classic stars of hollywood' s golden age. the fashions on display here are outrageous and over - the - top. like the movie itself they are from a long gone, and much more fabulous, era .
fashions of 1934 feels like a much smaller film than 42nd street and footlight parade and the pace is far from breakneck, but it' s a pleasant, little film with one bonkers berkeley showpiece .
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strange to see bette davis playing second fiddle to someone else. that someone happens to be william powell who in fairness is quite well suited alongside miss davis. the big pull of this movie however, are the many wonderful paris fashions of the 30' s worn superbly by the catwalk models. an entertaining oddity, fashions of 1934 is executed extremely well with the bonus of having two great actors and those magnificent costumes. the supporting cast are certainly up to standard in this recommended comedy .
fashions of 1934 may be a bit far - fetched and inconsistent, being predicated on a false premise, but it has color, flash, dash, class, girls and plenty of clothes. story [ by harry collins and warren duff ] has to do with the boot - legging of exclusive paris models. action starts in the us but quickly shifts to the [ … ]
another fast - paced, thinly plotted musical comedy boasting the magnificent choreography of busby berkeley, fashions of 1934 stars william powell as a fashion designer who has a reputation for stealing other designers' creations and marketing them as his own. when parisian designers begin barring powell' s spies from their shows and salons, powell goes himself, ... read more
i’d not seen “fashions of 1934” in its entirely since a mid - 1970s showing at the old theater 80 st. marks in the east village. released in february 1934, this comedy is most famous for its sole musical number, a real doozy. sammy fain and irving kahal’s “spin a little web of dreams” inspired busby berkeley to some of his most outre work at warners, involving chorines posing as human harps and “venus and her galley slaves” (forming a 60 - foot galleon) as well as showgirls wearing little but ostrich features .
fashions of 1934 is a comedy, drama, musical english movie, directed by william dieterle, starring william powell, bette davis, frank mchugh, hugh herbert along with others. here, on the movie page, you will find every thing that you need to know. check out what others are saying about the movie on twitter .
original music and lyrics by chris jeffries. recorded live at the northwest film forum - july, 2006. featuring footage from fashions (1934), directed by busby berkeley. piano: chris jeffries. vocals: wier harman, erin mcgaughan, scott o. moore, taylor ott, mike shapiro & joel summerlin .
among many other adventurous explorations of the studio’s vast catalogue, the manufacture - on - demand warner archive collection has been particularly active in making available on dvd so - called “pre - code” titles — those sex - and - innuendo drenched early talkies that the studios pumped out to entice depression - era audience into theaters until rigorous enforcement of the production code beginning on july 1, 1934 brought an end to the fun. there are ten (!) more especially rare ones coming next month (see below), but first i want to review two old favorites that came out recently — “hollywood party” and “fashions of 1934” — as well as one i’d never seen before, william wellman’s notorious, eye - popping “safe in hell” (1934) .
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fashions of 1934 is an odd but entertaining little pre - code comedy with music. it' s memorable as the only screen teaming of william powell and bette davis. powell plays his usual dapper, fast talking con man, while davis was in the middle of an identity crisis. the powers that be at warner brothers were trying to reinvent her as a platinum blonde glamor puss, complete with heavy lipstick and false eyelashes. they dressed her in many sophisticated gowns, by their resident fashion designer orry - kelly, that emphasized her rather pendulous breasts .
bette davis as powell' s part - time love interest didn' t really make much of an impression. there just wasn' t much chemistry there between them. there was more of that between him and fake duchess verree teasdale. frank mchugh & hugh herbert was there to bring the humor but didn' t contribute much. so had william powell not been there i' m fairly certain
fashions of 1934
would have been a failure, so all credit to him for making it work and turning this one into a entertaining fashion crook story .
the onscreen title is fashions, from when the print was later retitled to avoid being out - of - date. this is the kind of minor title you' d ordinarily have to wait to see when it' s aired on turner classic movies, yet now it' s a recent release in warner archives' made - on - demand series of dvd - r' s .
harvard film archive 24 quincy street sat. , dec. 17, 2016, 9 – 10: 30 p. m. most notable for mischievously riding the edge of the production code, fashions of 1934 features a lot of naughtiness and a trio of lovably unethical lead characters. william powell plays sherwood nash, a charming shyster who ropes bette davis’ amateur dress designer into a scheme for bootlegging top parisian fashions for high prices. in fact, the berkeley dance number comes as somewhat of a surprise, but when it does appear as an elaborate cog in nash’s complex ostrich - feather racket, “spin a little web of dreams” twists into delectable berkeley decadence, with dancers wearing feather fans, playing living harps and sailing atop an undulating, glistening faux sea. his most astonishing flourish: overhead shots of the plumed dancers forming a beautiful, feathery flower, which opens and closes as if photographed in time - lapse. gazette classification: film category: film library location: harvard film archive more info: hcl. harvard. edu…
fog over frisco is a 1934 american pre - code drama film directed by william dieterle. the screenplay by robert n. lee and eugene solow was based on the short story the five fragments by george dyer .
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there’s the wow feather scene wherein busby berkeley has combined a pageant of ostrich plumes to include a hall of human harps, a web of dreams, and venus and her galley slaves. berkeley again repeats the prismatic formations, dissolves, overhead shots and other of the now established school of bb cinematerps .
classic flix (incidentally, the online place we know of that rents titles from the warner archive collection and other mod programs) also says hen’s tooth video is offering the first authorized dvd release of a pair of excellent dumas swashbucklers from hollywood’s classic era in february: rowland v. lee’s “the count of monte cristo” (1934) starring robert donat and james whale’s “the count of monte cristo” (1939) with louis hayward and joan bennett. hopefully hen’s tooth has licensed “red salute” (1935) the rest of the pre - 1948 edward small productions catalogue, mysteriously unavailable on video since the vhs era .
3 anyway back to the man of the moment and i must record that i considered that bill powell had one of the most deliciously witty personas in the history of movies, a joy to watch – and hear! – and well deserving of this page and its update which nostalgically remind me of sunday afternoons long ago watching regular tv reruns of the thin woman. top marks and nice little miniature of bill with his two stooges .
hollywood didn’t quite know what to do with bette davis in the early thirties, and in fashions of 1934 she is terribly miscast as a fashion designer and love interest to william powell’s con man. done up in a platinum blonde wig and painted with eyeliner meant to make her eyes appear longer, she exclaimed in her memoir, “the bossmen were trying to make me into a greta garbo! ” later that same year, she would finally hit her stride with a career - making performance in of human bondage. aside from the casting error, the film is a brisk pre - code romp, punctuated by a marvel of a busby berkeley number that features countless women in skimpy ostrich feather bikinis. while the romance…
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fashions of 1934 is not a musical. mind you, that doesn' t stop it from pulling off a spectacularly feathery, leggy number from busby berkley' s high period, complete with overhead geometries and women dressed up as harps. without being as long and elaborate as his work in 42nd street or the gold digger series or the great footlight parade, it' s still one of his signature offspring of the soundstage, the editing room and the fever dream that pretends to be somehow performed live in a theatre. there it is, bursting from the movie and berkley' s camera like several dozen dianas from the head of jupiter while the viewer stares. berkley also seems to have staged the climactic fashion show, which looks as if it' s about to burst into song any minute. despite all this, the movie' s not a musical; it' s one of warner brothers' snappy, fast - talking pre - code comedies .
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brisk to the point of confession, fog over frisco is not the best of director william dieterle' s pictures .
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cited as the pre - code to end all pre - codes in several books and documentaries in recent years, “safe in hell” doesn’t offer anything extraordinary in the way of skin or innuendo, but it’s chockablock with the kind of situations and characters that would be verboten on screen for nearly three decades commencing in mid - 1934. dorothy mackaill, an undeservedly forgotten star of early talkies (her 1932 “love affair” with humphrey bogart also turned up on dvd this month from the tcm vault collection) plays a prostitute who flees new orleans with the help of her boyfriend (donald cook) after killing a john (ralf harole). or at least so she thinks .
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william powell (1892 - 1984) seems to be only remembered for two film roles: nick charles in 6 thin man movies (1934 - 1947) and as the good - hearted father in 1947’s life with father. those are only two of many great movie performances in movie career that lasted almost 35 years and produced almost 100 movies. it is hard not to mention myrna loy when discussing powell. he and loy appeared in 14 movies together…. their screen partnership was one of the most successful screen duos ever !
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hey bob…. . that was nice of joan…. plus it let her get close to loy…. with hopes that some of that box office magic might rub off on joan…lol .
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bette davis and willam powell really do a fine job of playing off of one another in this light - hearted drama. it' s nearly a comedy. i enjoyed seeing ...
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i have not seen the last of mrs. cheyney…. . but it sounds like one worth checking out. i can see gable pushing to get loy of the movie so he could star with loy…. she is…as you know…. ”the greatest box office actress of all - time”…lol .
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filming began in ceylon in february 1953. after four weeks of location work the unit moved to hollywood for six weeks of studio filming. however, vivien leigh missed filming on the second day .
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the three of them wind up in paris where they become involved with an old paramour of powell' s. she' s passing herself off as a russian grand duchess (even though she was formerly known as hoboken mabel) and is engaged to the most successful designer of them all named oscar baroque. throw in a man selling thousands of ostrich feathers, a fashion show that predates cukor' s in the women, and a couple of gaudy busby berkeley production numbers and this is the result .
under wellman’s blunt direction, “safe in hell” makes the 1929 version of “the letter” (released by wac earlier this year) look like family entertainment by comparison. the acting is uniformly better than in many early warner talkies of this era. the transfer has scratches and speckles, but looks better than i expected for a film that’s resided in the margins of film history for most of the past 80 years .
this extended number, available for years on dvd as part of a berkeley compilation disc, is finally available in the context of a highly entertaining movie that represents the sole teaming of william powell and bette davis — under the capable direction of william dieterle, normally a drama specialist who also helmed powell in the lubitch - like bauble “jewel thief” (1932), another title crying out for a wac release .
miss davis wasn' t amused by the role. as she complained to kathryn dougherty of photoplay magazine, “look at me in this picture - all done up like a third - rate imitation of the mgm glamour queens. that isn' t me. i' ll never be a clothes horse or romantic symbol. ” later that year, on loan out to rko, she sunk her teeth into the role of slatternly waitress mildred rogers in of human bondage and showed the world what dramatic fireworks she was capable of .
“it’s a nightmare, ” director william beaudine, many years later, quoted himself as saying when he was shown a footage assemblage from “hollywood party, ” an eventual expensive flop that finally limped brieflyu into theaters on june 1, 1934 — one month before the production code took effect. producer harry rapf, who was shepherding perhaps mgm’s most troubled musical (four of other musicals were abandoned on orders of irving thalberg in the early ’30s) hired beaudine to shoot a new ending in which this incoherent musical mismatch is revealed as a … a nightmare suffered by the film’s star, jimmy durante, who is playing “himself. ”
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hey bob…you can have your nickname for loy…. . but the “greatest box office actress of all - time” is used to people trying to bring her down with the crawfords, davis, and de havillands of the world .
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not for the first nor the last time, powell plays a con man. this one starts out selling designs for new paris fashions — surrepticiously sketched by davis and / or photographed by frank mchugh — to new york knockoff artists before graduating to a more elaborate scame. this one involves a former girlfriend from hoboken who’s posing as a duchess (veree teasdale, who warbles the infectious “web of dreams”), her blustering fashion designer lover (reginald owen, whose french accent is even shakier than teasdale’s russian one), ostrich feathers belonging to the tipsy hugh herbert, and a musical revue where the berkeley number turns up .
twenty - two william powell movies crossed the magical $ 100 million domestic gross mark. that is a percentage of 41. 50% of his movies listed. mister robert s (1955) was his biggest box office hit .
2 moreover an extensive survey published a few months ago in wikipedia examined the purchasing power of blockbusters’ worldwide earnings down through the years from birth of a nation onward and it concluded that godpop one ’s total adjusted figure was $ 1. 640 billion in today’s money. as in real terms ticket prices in the thin man’s years were much cheaper than those today the purchasing power in 2017 of the actual worldwide grosses of its 6 movies taking into account the varying inflation rates over the years concerned is just $ 715. 27 million or an average of only about $ 120 globally per movie .
and finally, the criterion collection will be offering a blu - ray upgrade of otto preminger’s “anatomy of a murder” (1959) with james stewart, lee remick and george c. scott, on february 21. features include newsreels shot on the set an excepts from a 1967 episode of william f. buckley’s tv show “firing line” where he interviews preminger .
it’s also worth noting that the digital bits is reporting that universal will be issuing 100th anniversary editions of various catalogue titles on blu - ray as well as dvd in 2012. presumably this will include high - definition bows for their ’30s horror classics and some of their hitchcock titles beyond “psycho. ” universal will be joining paramount, also founded in 1912, which after last week’s column confirmed my suspicion that january’s release of “wings” is the beginning of a new centennial - oriented line .
five william powell movie won at least one oscar® in any category…. . or 9. 43% of his movies .
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twelve william powell movies received at least one oscar® nomination in any category…. . or 22. 64% of his movies .
the plot jumps all over the place and covers a lot of ground in just 77 minutes. powell works illegitimately in the new york fashion industry making knock offs of dresses made by famous designers. davis is his girlfriend who sketches the gowns to be reproduced on the cheap. frank mchugh plays snap, a photographer who also provides much of the comic relief with his horn dog antics .
in the fall of 1933 davis was in the process of a long battle with warner brothers' chief jack warner. she was fed up with being forced to make movies she considered junk and was begging him to allow her to be loaned out to rko for
a like number of writers were involved, with only lyricist howard dietz (who was also head of mgm’s new york publicity office) and playwright arthur kober receiving credit. james wong howe gets sole credit as cinematographer, though you can bet others were involved .
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for which she received a write - in nomination for best actress of 1935 though she was not officially nominated by the academy members .
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a hollywood version of jacques deval' s 1933 french drama un vie perdue, journal of a crime stars ruth chatterton as françoise moliet, a proud parisian who refuses to divorce her playwright husband paul (adolphe menjou), even though he is rather ...
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a very welcome bonus in the warner archive release are surviving pre - recordings are three of the cut rogers and hart numbers, as well as alternate recordings of the title song by ross and another singer. they reported wrote a number called “prayer” for jean harlow, but while the lyrics exist it’s unclear whether she (or one of her voice doubles) ever recorded it before it was scrapped hart wrote new lyrics for rogers’ melody and it was introduced by ross in “manhattan melodrama” as “the bad in every man. ” at the behest of mgm executives, hart wrote another set of more commercial lyrics that finally turned it into a timeless classic — “blue moon. ”
born arthur veary treacher in brighton, east sussex, england, he was the son of a lawyer. he established a stage career after returning from world war i, and by 1928, he had come to america as part of a musical - comedy revue called great temptations. when his film career began in the early 1930s, treacher was hollywood' s idea of the perfect butler, ...
typical hollywood charmer. william powell runs the show and manages to keep this floating above average with an average shot script. with a short moment of assistance of a busby berkeley' ostrich feather' number filled with super sexy girls wearing as little as possible between the feathers .
steve 1 if they had been making the invisible woman instead of the invisible man myrna would have been an excellent choice for the lead .
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up for dec. 13 pre - orders at wac are five double features of pre - code dramas and comedies made by warner bros. : “the office wife” (1930) with dorothy mackaill, lewis stone and joan blondell and “party husband” (1931) with mackaill and donald cook; “loose ankles” (1930) with loretta young and douglas fairbanks jr. and “the naughty flirt” (1931) with alice white and myna loy; “i’ve got your number” (1934) with blondell and pat o’brien and “havana widows” (1933) with blondell and glenda farrell; “the road to paradise” (1930) with loretta young and jack mulhall and “week - end marriage” (1932) with young and norman foster; and “the right of way” (1931) with young and conrad nagel and “the truth about youth” (1930) with young and loy .
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1. whilst the updated adjusted overall gross for the thin man series is healthy it might have earned even more had bill been partnered by a more carefully selected leading lady. status - wise crawford or katie hepburn would have been ideal but they had strong screen personas that probably would not have suited the subordinate part of nora though i am of course aware of this site’s ability to almost convince itself that the series should have been called the thin woman !
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davis was also annoyed at having to play onlooker to some protracted funny business between frank mchugh and hugh herbert in the back of a car, and as the scene plays today, she is obviously impatient and annoyed beneath her tight smile and forced attentiveness.' i' ve spent so much of my life being second fiddle - will it ever end?' she asked the producer, henry blanke... she told kathryn dougherty editor of
hey steve…. i agree 100% …. . when the comment link is not working it is very frustrating to find some of these comments…. hopefully whatever went wrong will stay fixed. so of the comments that have multiple responses very difficult to find…. i am sure john will forgive you. 🙂
2 (1) you and bruce agree on just two of the top five and as he did on myrna’s page bruce has included 2 thin man movies in william’s top 5. i could never understand bruce’s apparent fascination with all of them as for me the series whilst entertaining falls into the category of “once you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all” (2) i liked the closing still of bill and myrna and the one from life with father but an absolute peach was william with joan crawford and robert montgomery in the last of mrs cheyney. crawford actually took over loy’s part in that one as myrna was assigned as gable’s leading lady parnell which joan had turned down. (3) for me the pick of the fine posters were lawyer man, the kennel murder case and double harness with bill and ann harding. i wonder what happened to her? she must have been important enough at one point to get billed before powell in your poster (4) overall an excellent profile of great star william powell who epitomised an era now long gone so 9. 4 / 10 .
story [ by harry collins and warren duff ] has to do with the boot - legging of exclusive paris models. action starts in the us but quickly shifts to the french capital where the slick, racketeering william powell transfers his ingenuity and buncombe to coincide with the ultra - ateliers of the french fashion founts .
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olive films is launching another wave of titles licensed from paramount in the new year, beginning with three jerry lewis titles on feb. 14 that will be available in blu - ray as well as on dvd. they are frank tashlin’s “rock - a - bye baby” (1958), a loose reworking of “the miracle of morgan’s creek”; tashlin’s “the geisha boy” (also 1958) and the utterly atypical “boeing boeing” (1965) with tony curtis, derived from a vintage british farce recently revived on broadway .
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cheers bruce, the comment links are still working. nice. it makes life easier when a link takes you directly to the comment instead of my digging around for it .
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john tells me that freddy mac did appear in a few westerns in the 50s, sadly none of them were on the video, low ratings. i wish i included one .
i remember john replied to an old comment a couple of weeks ago. i wanted to read it but just couldn’t find it and eventually i gave up. sorry john. 🙂
the treasure of the lost canyon wasn’t even on my master list, powell in a western is unusual, almost as unusual as fred macmurray wearing a toga in a historical film. 🙂
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bruce 1 of course we will never know how the thin man series would have panned out had bill powell had a different partner but it has long been recognised that one possible definition of madness is to insist upon doing the same thing in the same way but expecting different results. your ww table shows the series as having a total adjusted global gross of around $ 1. 340 billion for all 6 movies. according to steve’s coppola video the first godfather alone grossed $ 1. 394 billion worldwide and jaws and star wars are each sure to have well exceeded that figure .
the plot of the film is pretty convoluted but in a good, imaginative way. and william powell manages the constantly shifting con with aplomb. bette davis is nicely understated and world - weary as his girl friday (there' s a girl friday in all of these movies, isn' t there ?) and frank mchugh plays their third wheel who apparently giggles uncontrollably at anything sexual .
william powell tries a number of underhanded schemes to take over the fashion industry. the main plot here is fairly interesting, but the romance angle is poorly handled. bette davis is great in the beginning, but then spends most of the film being lightly irritated at william powell for the schemes he undertakes and the other women he' s around. there' s never any strong reason to believe their relationship is actually under threat, and they don' t even really have much interaction on screen for most of the film. it always feels like an afterthought that was pushed into the film .
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bette davis, anxious to portray the slatternly waitress mildred in the rko radio pictures production of human bondage, accepted the relatively small role of arlene in the hope her cooperation would convince jack l. warner to lend her to the rival studio for the film. her ploy worked, and when warner received word about her dynamic performance in bondage, he elevated her to top billing in frisco. [ 1 ]
wac has also taking a bunch of tantalizing pre - orders through mid - december, including richard brooks’ “the brothers karamazov” (1958) with yul brenner, claire bloom and william shatner on nov. 30 .
rest in peace mr. # tabhunter. he was one of my mom' s favorites. our urltoken page ranked his top 25 movies. thoughts and prayers to his friends, family and fans. urltoken
in the world of blu - ray upgrades, dvd beaver is reporting that mgm and fox will be bowing high - def versions of four best picture winners — alfred hitchcock’s “rebecca” (1940), billy wilder’s “the apartment” (1960), john schlesinger’s “midnight cowboy” (1970) and woody allen’s “annie hall” (1977) on jan. 24, the day oscar nominations come out. also reportedly due that day are blu - ray bows for “spellbound” (1945) and “notorious” (1946) — originally announced as part of a hitchcock blu - ray set this fall with “rebecca” — as well as allen’s “manhattan” (1979) .
davis was not fond of this movie, which sees her as glammed up as she ever got during her peroxide period — courtesy of her longtime collaborator, the australian designer william orry - kelly, who also executed those barely - there ostrich feature creations. davis may also have been irked because her character apparently isn’t getting any action in a movie where everyone else, including frank mchugh and hugh herbert, clearly are .
today’s cornucopia of warner achive collection releases include edmund goulding’s legendarily unavailable and terrific “the constant nymph” (1943) with an oscar - nominated joan fontaine, charles boyer, alexis smith, charles coburn and peter lorre .
also long anticipated is the dvd debut of king vidor’s technicolor adventure “northwest passage: book 1– rogers rangers” (1940; book 2 was never filmed) with spencer tracy, robert young and walter brennan. also out today are a pair of other tracy vehicles: fred zinneman’s “the seventh cross” (1944) with hume cronyn and jessica tandy; and john sturges’ noirish “the people against o’hara” (1951) with pat o’brien and diana lynn .
colonial tea planter john wiley, visiting england at the end of world war ii, wins and weds lovely english rose ruth and takes her home to elephant walk, ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation because it blocks their migrating path. ruth' s delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; by her husband' s occasional imperious arrogance; by a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager dick carver; and by the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants. the elephants end up destroying the plantation in a stampede along with a fire .
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i was glamourized beyond recognition. i was made to wear a platinum wig. makeup had been given the green light with nary a? may i? ? the bossmen were trying to make me into a greta garbo. they even dressed the wig like her hair, to say nothing of the false lashes and huge mouth and the slinky clothes .
she had a lot to say about the experience - none of it positive .
that kind of thing was for harlow and crawford - never for me. in that picture i was frightfully ill at ease, and even felt embarrassed at times .
author lawrence w. quirk, in his book
wisely there isn’t an overplus of music. ‘broken melody’ [ by sammy fain and irving kahal ] is the one big number, reprised for the ostrich feather production, with the blonde lookers camera - angled from every stance .
when arlene disappears, her step - sister val (margaret lindsay) steps in to discover what happened to her with the help of society reporter tony sterling (donald woods) and photojournalist izzy wright (hugh herbert) .
2 fred was quite good in a group of passable westerns in the mid to late fifties. here they are with the ratings of imdb [ uk! ] 1953 / the moonlighter 59% * * 1955 / the far horizons 62% * * 1955 / gunpoint 63% 1957 / gun for a coward 60% 1957 / quantez 63% 1958 / day of the badman 61% 1959 / good day for a hanging 64% 1959 / face of a fugitive 66% 1959 / oregon trail 49% * * in the moonlighter fred was teamed for the penultimate time with old sparring partner barbara stanwyck, in the far horizons he co - starred with chuck and fred was 1st billed, and in the other 7 fred was the stand - alone star. only the chuck one was an a movie and over here at least the other 8 were on double bills usually on the 2nd half .
seven other directors — george stevens, edmund goulding, richard boleslvasky, sam wood, charles reisner, russell mack and roy rowland — labored for months over what was originally called “the hollywood revue of 1933, ” and envisoned as a followup to rapf’s plotless all - star musical smash from 1929. the final result is only one of two mgm films from the classic era to emerge with a directorial credit (the other being the 1947 greer garson disaster “desire me”) .
this page is not a completed page. just wanted to show the movies in our database that starred william powell. not sure when we will finish this page but until then, we figured there was no good reason not to share what we do have. a quick look at powell’s career and it looks like their are about 15 missing powell movies from 1931 - 1956. sadly, due to lack of informaton many of powell’s silent films will never be ranked here. we call our website ultimate movie rankings because we try and rank every movie an actor or actress made. since this is only a few of powell’s movies we will just call this a william powell movie ranking page and leave out the ultimate !
besides durante, pearl and a sizeable contingent of scantily - clad chorines, the number employs african “natives” (at least some clearly in blackface) who sing about “trader horn” and “king kong, ” the latter also referenced in pearl’s subsequent monologue .
hey steve…. bob’s comment got me to do a myrna loy versus joan crawford page…. . and the stats do not look to good for joan compared to the box office machine known as myrna “greatest box office actress of all - time” loy. urltoken
as for william powell…. i agree with you 100% on his witty persona……sadly he is not mentioned too often when people name great actors of the past…but looking at this table…. it is real easy to see that his career is among the best ever .
btw the comment links seem to be working today, they are taking me directly to the new comments and not to the first page of comments. i was getting lost searching for new comments that weren’t at the top. i hope it still works tomorrow .
using rottentomatoes. com’s 60% fresh meter. 34 william powell movies are rated as good movies…or 64. 15% of his movies. mister roberts (1955) is his highest rated movie while it’s a big country (1951) is his lowest rated movie .
also today, wac has re - packaged five collections of films previously available as singles and as discounted “value paks” as proper box sets in cardboard sleeves at prices that work out to roughly $ 10 a title. there are five titles apiece starring elizabeth taylor and randolph scott, six with lon chaney (sr .) and a pair of tazan sets, one starring lex barker (five titles) and the other with gordon scott (six). other previously available titles are being discounted for black friday sales that will apparently stretch into next week .
at 1: 40pm we will meet in the theatre lobby near the toronto film society table. you can spot me by looking for someone with messy black hair, a green t - shirt and a black messenger bag. at 1: 45pm we will go grab a bunch of seats together .
an average ultimate movie rankings (umr) score is 40. 00. 31 william powell movies scored higher that average…. or 58. 49% of his movies. life with father (1947) got the the highest umr score while got the lowest mister roberts (1955) umr score .
mister roberts is my favorite of the color movies you mentioned…. . he picked a fine movie to be his last one. 6 color and 30 black and white…. or 16. 66% to 83. 34% . that is of course the only movies listed in this page…. . i am sure the actually% would be around 5% to 95% . thanks for sharing this william powell information. when i update this page…i am sure the 36 movies listed will be in the 50s…as i have already found 10 more powell movie box office numbers since first writing this page .
it was originally intended to star the husband and wife team of laurence olivier and vivien leigh (with olivier in the finch role). however olivier was already committed to the project the beggar' s opera (1953). leigh was enthusiastic about the role and continued in her husband' s absence, but she was forced to withdraw from production shortly after filming began in colombo, ceylon, as a result of bipolar disorder. according to leonard maltin' s annual movie guide book, leigh can be seen in some long shots that were not re - filmed after elizabeth taylor replaced her .
i know her career hadn' t really taken flight yet, but its still a shame that bette davis gets sidelined in favor of william powell doing his william powell thing. the industry politicking that comprises most of this movie' s narrative is really well written, very modern (like a prestige cable drama, a * good prestige cable drama) and genuinely understands the intersection between media, politics, art and gender. there' s also a running gag / subplot involving powell' s slimy, sexually immature pal trying to get laid that is not so well written, but its mostly negligible .
dec. 6 will bring wac’s extremely welcome four - disc, eight - movie “robert montgomery collection” containing the pre - code titles “shipmates” (1931), “the man in posssession” (1931), “faithless” (1932) with tallulah bankhead, “lovers courageous” (1932), “but the flesh is weak” (1932) and “made on broadway” (1933) as well as post - coders “live, love and learn” (1937) with rosalind russell and “the earl of chicago” (1940) with edward arnold and edmund gwenn. concurrently, wac is releasing four made - for - tv biopics starring montgomery’s daughter elizabeth of “bewitched” fame .
van der veer r. (1993) the reception of vygotsky’s ideas in the nineteen thirties. in: stam h. j. , mos l. p. , thorngate w. , kaplan b. (eds) recent trends in theoretical psychology. recent research in psychology. springer, new york, ny
this is the movie that features the famous “human harps” number wherein busby berkeley positioned scantily clad beauties as large harps being played by other scantily clad beauties (see photo). it also features his trademark overhead shot of chorus girls in isometric patterns. this time utilizing huge feathers to imitate a rosebud opening and closing .
also turning up is mickey mouse (voiced by walt disney), who trades imitates and trades insults with durante before introducing a technicolor cartoon, “hot choc - lat soldiers” which is song by none other than lyricst arthur freed (who would eventually move the mgm musical beyond the limitations of the tin - eared rapf) .
hi bob, thanks for the review, rating and trivia, always appreciated. had to laugh at your opening paragraph belittling ‘queen of the box office. myrna loy. bruce and john will no doubt roll their eyes at that remark. come on bob give her some credit for drawing the crowds, was she that anonymous? poor myrna .
the boyfriend takes her to a tawdry carribean island without an extradition treaty with the u. s. , where she checks into a hotel managed by nina mae mckinney with perhaps the biggest collection of sleazeballs i’ve ever seen in a movie — among them gustav von seyffertitz and john wray. vowing to remain faithful to the boyfriend who she “marries” in a minister - free ceremony, mackaill holds them off — as well as the island’s even slimy jailer (morgan wallace), who eventually frames her for murder. another of her twisted admirers (charles middleton), a disgraced lawyer, mounts an able defense, but mackaill finally opts to confess and be executed rather than be turned over to the slimy jailer .
hey steve. wow…. i did not realize the comment link was working again…. i wish i could say it was something i did to fix…. but somehow it fixed it self…. i updated a few widgets this morning…. but the comment one was not one of those…. maybe another widget broke this originally and now they have fixed it.
fashions of 1934 is a 1934 american pre-code musical comedy film directed by william dieterle with musical numbers created and directed by busby berkeley . the screenplay by f. hugh herbert and carl erickson was based on the story the fashion plate by harry collins and warren duff . the film stars william powell , bette davis , hugh herbert and frank mchugh , and has songs by sammy fain ( music ) and irving kahal ( lyrics ) . ( sometime after the initial release , the title " fashions of 1934 " was changed to " fashions " , replacing the original title with an insert card stating william powell in " fashions " ) . 
fashions of 1934 is a 1934 american pre-code musical comedy film directed by william dieterle with musical numbers created and directed by busby berkeley. the screenplay by f. hugh herbert and carl erickson was based on the story the fashion plate by harry collins and warren duff. the film stars william powell, bette davis, hugh herbert and frank mchugh, and has songs by sammy fain (music) and irving kahal (lyrics). ( sometime after the initial release, the title " fashions of 1934 " was changed to " fashions ", replacing the original title with an insert card stating william powell in " fashions ").
fashions of 1934 is a 1934 american pre-code musical comedy film directed by william dieterle with musical numbers created and directed by busby berkeley. the screenplay by f. hugh herbert and carl erickson was based on the story the fashion plate by harry collins and warren duff. the film stars william powell, bette davis, hugh herbert and frank mchugh, and has songs by sammy fain (music) and irving kahal (lyrics). ( sometime after the initial release, the title " fashions of 1934 " was changed to " fashions ", replacing the original title with an insert card stating william powell in " fashions ").