Frankly, My Dear's classic film survey

One of my favourite blogs is FRANKLY, MY DEAR by Rianna. 

This is Rianna’s avatar picture – it’s the wonderful Lucille Ball (she is Rianna’s favourite actress) and it fits just marvelously into this month’s theme at AND THEN THEY START TO SPARKLE.. :

 Rianna is just great – and I just adore her blog. It not only has classy looks – it also contains wonderfully written posts. And now she did a classic film survey – and I decided to participate.

Let’s start :

1.       Favorite classic Disney?

Though I adore FANTASIA (1940) – I think I’ll go with SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959): It has my favourite Disney villainess, a corvid, the wonderful music by Tchaikovsky, marvelous characters and some great lines - like

 "Now, father, you're living in the past. This is the 14th century!" ...

2.       Favorite film from the year 1939?

Oh.. there are many I love: DARK VICTORY, THE WIZARD OF OZ, IN NAME ONLY, DODGE CITY, INVISIBLE STRIPES, THE OLD MAID - and so many, many more..

But two of them I like maybe a bit more than the others: THE WOMEN and THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL ...

~ obviously not THE WOMEN.. ~

3.       Favorite Carole Lombard Screwball role?

Irene Bullock in MY MAN GODFREY (1936). 

4.       Favorite off screen couple? (It’s ok if it ended in divorce.)

Spring Byington 

& Marjorie Main

5.       Favorite pair of best friends? (i.e. Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda,  Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck)

Ava Gardner and Lana Turner

6.       Favorite actor with a mustache?

Actually I am very fond of actors with mustaches.. 


And one of them who is really pretty high ranked in my book is 

Felix Bressart

7.       Favorite blonde actress?

Judy Holliday (actually one of my four #1 actresses..)

8.       Favorite pre-code?

42^nd STREET (1933) and FREAKS (1932)

~ very obviously - this picture is not from the film FREAKS.. ~

9.       Which studio would you have liked to join?

I think I would have chosen Warner Bros. They had Cagney, DeHavilland, Garfield, Raft, Flynn, Davis, Crawford, Bogart, Sheridan, and so many, many more..

~ William Keighley, Frank McHugh, James Cagney and Pat O'Brien ~

2^nd choice for the very late 40's to early 60's would have been 20^th Century Fox..

10.   Favorite common on screen pairing that SHOULD have gotten married?

None. But I guess that doesn’t count – so I’ll go with

Doris Day and Gordon McRae..

11.   Favorite I LOVE LUCY episode?

HOLLYWOOD AT LAST - The episode in which  William Holden was the guest star. Love it!

~ Look who it is! ~

12.   Out of these actresses which one do you like best: Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Natalie Wood, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Greer Garson, Grace Kelly, or Katharine Hepburn?

Mhm.. tough one.. Natalie Wood. – with Ingrid Bergman following very, very close behind her..

(tomorrow it could be the other way round..)

13.   Shadowy film noir from the 1940’s or splashy colorful musicals from the 1950’s?

Definitively both! And I also love splashy colorful film noir and shadowy musicals.. 

14.   Actor or actress with the best autograph (photo preferred).

I really don’t know and don’t care too much for their handwriting.. 

but I think I’ll go with Rin Tin Tin..

15.   A baby (or childhood, or teenage) photo of either your favorite actress or actor (or both, if you’d like.)

Here we have Vincent Price as a teenager (he must have been ca. 18 years old here):

and here we have Linda Darnell as a teenager too:

If you like to participate too: here is Rianna's original post – please leave a link to your blog or your answers in a comment there!

This was fun... 

...and now I am thinking about doing a survey myself.. 

We’ll see.. I have at least begun to make a list with questions..

Thank you very much for listening,

Yours

Irene