Davy Crockett’s Almanack | Overlooked Films: Flynn, Rathbone & Niven in THE DAWN PATROL (1938)
Kategorie: Unzugeordnet
Gary Cooper off the set of One Sunday Afternoon, 1933
Uh, patterns go crazy. Happy posterity, this picture is only black and white.
Hurry up and get your Flapper Ring! Quickly, before you realize that those girls aren’t flappers but Girl Scouts in short trousers and floppy rain hats.
flapper ring advert, 1922 (www.retronaut.com) order yours today!
“The Divorcee” (1930) is seen as one of the most important films of the Pre-Code era and it still surprises with the force and courage with which Norma Shearer’s character acts in it. The story of a strong, risqué woman who rebels against the patriarchal ideal of a virtuous wife while the husband is free to have affairs without tarnishing his reputation and hence confronting the hypocrisy of the double standard promoted feminism long before the term was used and made Norma Shearer (along with her other pre-code movies) almost a feminist pioneer. Based on the novel “Ex-Wife” by Ursula Parrott, it was highly controversial back in the day and ended up getting Norma Shearer her Best Actress Oscar for it. The film had a total of four Academy Award nominations including Best Film
