Showing posts with label Rosalind Russell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rosalind Russell. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Some puppy love.. ..with Don Ameche (& some "devotees"..)



... today with

Don Ameche and his little pal:


That does look like fun, doesn't it?

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Don Ameche

* May 31, 1908 (Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA)

† December 6, 1993 (Scottsdale, Arizona, USA)

Don't you just love him? I do. And so do a lot of other ladies around:

Rosalind Russell and Kay Francis

- and Rita Hayworth, too:

(this is maybe my favourite picture of her - and him.. doesn't she just look gorgeous?)


Though my favourite film with Don Ameche is HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943) - I am going to watch SLEEP, MY LOVE (1948) tonight..

Hope you all are able to watch great films!

Thank you all for listening!

Yours (very well and) truly

Irene

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Some puppy love.. ..with Rosalind Russell


Our guest today - the wonderful Rosalind Russell - with four very cute friends..


Yours

Irene

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

It could happen to you..



Rosalind Russell

June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976

Diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer

Forever remembered as Roz


Friday, 19 August 2011

Don't want to bark on the wrong tree..

Poor pun...

I know..

And I am sorry..

..but because lately there are so many cat pics at AND THEN THEY START TO SPARKLE I have a feeling I should also post some dog pictures - though I am a tiny bit more of a "cat character" - I adore dogs, too..

Here for all of you who prefer canine before feline - or like them alike.. or just like to watch pictures:


Clark Gable knows that the sophisticated man rather drives to the dogs..



Alfred Hitchock having a dog and warm thoughts - but no actual fire..




Very cute Truus van Aalten and an even cuter friend..




Little companion seems to be ok with sharing the couch with Rosalind Russell - but maybe not too fond of the thought to share Roz.. (well - who would??) - or is Roz holding him back so she can have him for her own? (well.. who wouldn't?)




Finally: Joan Fontaine and awwwwwwwww..... (can't say who is lovlier..)



Hope you enjoyed this..

Yours truly

Irene

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

"Most of my friends exit horizontally"

Clare Booth Luce is reported to have heard some gossip-loaded talk at a powderroom in a nightclub and got the inspiration to write a play, which became a Broadway-hit: The Women.

In 1939 it was adapted to screen. George Cukor was director and Anita Loos wrote together with Jane Murfin the screenplay.

In a nutshell:
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) considers her life as perfect. She is happily married and has a daughter, who she loves a lot. Then - with a little help from her friends, esp. her cousin Sylvia (Rosalind Russell) - she finds out, that her husband Stephen has an affair with Chrystal Allen (Joan Crawford) - a femme fatale selling perfume. Eventually Mary goes to Reno, gets a divorce and new friends.

Two years go by and Chrystal Allen is now good friends with Sylvia and married to Stephen Haines, whom she betrays with a singin' cowboy. Mary figures that out and finally gets her man back.



Watch out for:
Butterfly McQueen (her film debut!), Virginia Grey, Ruth Hussey, Hedda Hopper, Hattie McDaniel and Dorothy Sebastian in bit parts.


Schmooze:
Margaret Dumont played a Mrs. Wagstaff (probably the wife of Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff of "Horsefeathers" - a Dumont-free Marx Bros. movie?? Wouldn't that be great?!) but her scene were deleted.

In the fightscene Rosalind Russell bites Paulette Goddard (Mrs. Charles Chaplin at that time). Miss Goddard maintained a scar from that bite. Anyway they remained friends.

Allegedly there are (in addition to an all female cast) only female animals in this movie. Even art, books etc. are penned by women.

Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell are rumoured to have a quarrel till George Cukor stepped in.

Joan Fontaine is the only cast member who is still alive.


My favourite feature:

"Sydneys" - the beauty parlour! It is just marvellous! I love the opening scene when these women are chatting and running through that awesome setting. "Sydneys" was named after Sydney Guilaroff - MGMs chief hairstylist.

Wishlist:
I'd like to get that perfume flakon for "Summer Rain"!! Or some of the dresses from the Adrian fashion show (the only part in this film in Technicolor.)


This film is one of my alltime favourite - it would be among my top ten. I love the opening credits when all the bigger parts are presented with a picture of an animal and a portrait of the actrice. Although the end scene is way to corny. (Norma Shearer, what's that supposed to mean? Do you never ever went out of a picture that way! That's so Norma Desmond!), this picture contains all I love about comedies: Pretty ladies, opulent settings and decor, marvellous costumes (Rosalind Russells' hats!!) and hairstyles and most important of all: a witty script. I really love these tartly ladies of "The Women" (1939)!
If you don't want to see the whole film watch Rosalind Russell doing her excersises or.. or.. *er*. No, you've got to watch that movie!

There were two remakes: one of 1956 ("The Opposite Sex"), which I will review some day and a 2008 version (also called "The Women") which I avoid to see - so somebody out there has to do that review.
And here the most famous quote out of "The Women" (1939):

"I've had two years to grow claws, mother! Jungle red!"

Good bye! I got to go and watch another movie! So:

"Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it!"