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James Flagg, Love’s Greatest Mistake, 1920s
This picture seems to be model for the Wynant sibelings in movie “The Thin Man”…
Das Mädchen im Film und der Junge!
Schlagwort: cinema
Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money – and a woman – and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?
Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder for ever…
Happy 116th Birthday, Frank Capra
(May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991)“Maybe there really wasn’t an America, maybe it was only Frank Capra.”
– John Cassavetes“When I see a crowd, I see a collection of free individuals: each a unique person; each a king or a queen; each a story that would fill a book; each an island of human dignity.”
“Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film. “
Gary Cooper off the set of One Sunday Afternoon, 1933
Uh, patterns go crazy. Happy posterity, this picture is only black and white.
“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
Raymond Voinquel et Michel Simon sur le tournage de La Chienne, de Jean Renoir, 1931