Hollywood Hotel(1937).

Hollywood Hotel(1937). Directed by Busby Berkeley. Cast: Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, and Ted Healy. Ronald Reagan, Benny Goodman and Harry James (a member of Goodman's band).

It is best remembered for the song "Hooray for Hollywood" by Johnny Mercer and Richard A. Whiting, sung in the film by Johnnie Davis and Frances Langford, accompanied by Benny Goodman and his orchestra. The song has become a standard part of the soundtrack to movie award ceremonies, including the Academy Awards.

Ronnie Bowers, a singer and saxophone player with Benny Goodman's orchestra wins a contract with All Star Pictures. They book him into the Hollywood Hotel, which is also the home of Mona Marshall. The afternoon before the premiere of her latest movie, Mona is interviewed by Louella Parsons, who breaks the news that Mona will not get the lead in a new film.

Heartbroken, Mona decides not to go to the premiere and goes into hiding. Publicist Bernie Walton holds a casting call to find a woman who "looks like" Mona, to  show up at the premiere and finds Virginia Stanton, who worked as Mona's stunt double. Worried that Mona's escort, Alexander Dupre, will know the difference, they ask Ronnie to be her date.

The next day, Mona returns and demands that Ronnie and Virginia be fired. Ronnie confused by Mona's behavior until Bernie tells him what is going on. Virginia gets Ronnie a job as a car hop, where director Walter Kelton overhears his singing. Kelton offers Ronnie a job dubbing Dupre's voice in the new Mona Marshall movie.

After the first screening the actor is invited by Louella Parsons to sing in her program "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, but he doesn't know that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again.

Some of the he best moments of the film are the Goodman's numbers which include a good look at vibraphonist Lional Hampton and drummer Gene Krupa, along with jazz trumpeter Harry James.

I just love this video:


Fun Facts:

The actual "Hollywood Hotel" was a sprawling building that had formal gardens, grand lobby, 2 towers and a ballroom. It was the hangout for many stars over the years. It was finally torn down in 1956. The site today is now occupied by the Hollywood-Highland shopping complex and Kodak Theater, where the Oscars are now presented every year.

The drive-in restaurant where Dick Powell's character works is called "Callahans" in the film. The actual coffee shop in Hollywood was called "Carpenter's" and was located at the southeast corner of Sunset and Vine Streets. It was one of the earliest "drive-in" restaurants in the U.S. The uniform worn is based on the actual uniforms the mostly male waiters wore. They were based on the uniforms that service station attendants wore. The reason for this new type of restaurant was to cater to the new younger movie star who wanted to be seen in their expensive automobiles. The restaurant was open all night.

Ginger Rogers was offered a leading role in this movie, but turned it down.

Louella Parsons (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) was an American gossip columnist who, was often feared and hated by actors, whose careers she could negatively impact via her radio show and newspaper columns.

Parsons also appeared in numerous cameo spots in movies including: Hollywood Hotel (1937), Without Reservations (1946) and Starlift (1951).

What I'm Watching:

On July 22nd. TCM, is celebrating 5 of Astaire-Rogers films. Beginning with the musical, The Gay Divorcee(1934). The movie features the classic song, "The Continental" which was a hit song from the movie. Also, It was the first song to win the Academy Award, for Best Original Song. I hope you will enjoy spending time with the original "dancing with the stars" in the following films:

The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Top Hat (1935)
Follow The Fleet (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle(1939)

On July 23rd TCM, is showing the classic film, By Love Possessed(1961). With Lana Turner, who plays the alcoholic, wife of a handicapped lawyer. She begins an affair with his law partner, despite the fact that he is married and has a son. This is not one of Lana's better films. Although, worth seeing at least once.

Movie trailer:

On July 24th TCM, is showing the classic film, Foreign Correspondent(1940). A story about
Johnny Jones, who is an reporter for a New York newspaper. His editor sends him to Europe and his assignment, is to get the inside story on a secret treaty between two European countries. Things become complicated when Jones, enlists the help of a young woman, to help track down a group of spies. There are certain scenes that are signature Hitchcock: The assassination chase through the sea of umbrellas, and through the beautiful Dutch countryside. The tower murder scene and the plane crash scene.              

On July 25th TCM, is going to show a wonderful line up of films featuring Twins. It will make you wonder, whats is the best thing about being one of the two peas in a pod?
The Black Room (1935)
Our Relations (1936)
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
Dead Men Walk (1943)
A Stolen Life (1947)
The Woman In White(1948)
The Scapegoat(1959)
video:

On TCM, July 26th Francois Truffaut Friday Night Spotlight: French film director Francois Truffaut, who's film career lasting over a quarter of a century, remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Tonight's film line up:
Day For Night (1973)
The Last Metro (1980)
The Wild Child (1970) 
The Story Of Adele H.(1975)
 Wuthering Heights (1939)

The 80's is when the "what if?" scenario films were introduced. The movies were known for their short plots and could be summarized in one or two sentences. So, on July 27th TCM, is going to celebrate a few of those comedies from 1982:
Tootsie (1982)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Diner (1982) Video:

July 28th Phantom (1922). A silent film about city clerk Lorenz Lubota, who on his way to work is run over by a woman, driving a chariot and he tries everything he can to win her heart.

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah.

We all know that Tony Curtis, lived on a grand scale over the years. He lived in a 18-room Hollywood villa in 1966 with four acres and a garage that kept the actor’s new Lincoln Continental, a 1934 Rolls-Royce, 1937 Bentley and 1935 Duesenberg, among his other cars. He acquired this Rolls Royce Drophead Convertible in 1959. Here are these photos of him in 1961, shot by Ralph Crane for LIFE magazine.

Me TV Summer of Classic TV Blogathon: I Dream of Jeannie.

I Dream of Jeannie, is a very charming TV show starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love with. The series was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon, who had trouble finding the perfect genie, until he contacted Barbara Eden's agent.

"Jeannie's" costume was created by Hollywood costume designer Gwen Wakeling. (March 3, 1901 – June 16, 1982), who was a personal favorite of Cecil B. DeMille. Her first film was his 1927 epic "The King of Kings", and she earned an Academy Award for her work on his version of "Samson and Delilah" (1950).

In a career spanning over 140 films, she also worked for director John Ford on films: "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), and provided the costumes for most of the Shirley Temple films.

One of her last assignments was creating Barbara Eden's "Jeannie" costumes for I Dream Of Jeannie. Barbara Eden selected the pink/maroon color combination of Jeannie's harem outfit (The two colors symbolize different aspects of Jeannie's personality: pink symbolizes the playful, girlish aspects of her personality while maroon symbolizes the fiery, headstrong aspects of her personality.) Barbara also selected the purple trim of her bottle. Jeannie's '60's-era harem costume is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..

Censors allowed "Jeannie" to be living in a house with an unmarried man because early episodes made it clear that she slept in her bottle, but did not want Eden's navel to be seen.

The makers of the series were also presented with the problem of filming around Eden's real-life pregnancy during the first eleven episodes of season one, without writing it into the story-line.  At first, she wore veils to hide her abdomen. As her pregnancy progressed, producers used body doubles and filmed Eden only above the waist, although her belly is visible in some profile shots.

In the pilot episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", astronaut Captain Tony Nelson, US Air Force, is on a space flight when his capsule "Stardust One" comes down on a deserted island in the South Pacific.

On the beach, Tony notices a strange bottle that rolls by itself. When he rubs it after removing the stopper, smoke starts billowing out and a Persian-speaking female genie materializes and kisses Tony.

They cannot understand each other until Tony makes a wish that Jeannie speak English, which she does, then he wishes to be rescued. Tony, who is so grateful that he tells her she's free.

But Jeannie, who has fallen in love with Tony at first sight after being trapped for 2000 years, re-enters her bottle and rolls it into Tony's duffel bag so she can go home with him.

Tony at first keeps Jeannie in her bottle most of the time, but as time goes by he allows her more time out of the bottle. Her desire to please her "Master" gets them in all kinds of trouble.

Tony' wants to keep her hidden because he is worried that he might be dismissed from the space program if her existence were known. Dr. Bellows tries to prove to his superiors that Tony is either crazy or hiding something.

Fun Facts:

The first bottle was a special Christmas 1964 Jim Beam liquor decanter containing "Beam's Choice" bourbon whiskey. It was designed by Roy Kramer for the Wheaton Bottle Company. For years, it was said that Sidney Sheldon received one as a gift and thought it would be a perfect design for the series.

Several people in the Screen Gems art department also take credit for finding the bottle. There is strong evidence, however, that it was first season director Gene Nelson who saw one in a liquor store and bought it, bringing it to Sidney Sheldon. Jeannie's bottle was left its original dark, smoke-green color, with a painted gold leaf pattern (to make it look like an antique), during the first season.

Since the show was originally filmed in black and white, a lot of colors and patterns were not necessary. When the show switched to color, the show's Art Director came up with a brightly colored purple bottle to replace the original. The first season bottle had a clear glass stopper that Tony took from a 1956 Old Grand-Dad Bourbon bottle in his home, as the original stopper was left behind on the beach where Tony found Jeannie.

In the first color episode, Jeannie returns to the beach and her bottle is seen to have its original stopper (painted to match the bottle), presumably retrieved by her upon her return there. The rest of the TV series (and the movies) used the original bottle stopper. During the first season, in black and white, the smoke effect was usually a screen overlay of billowing smoke, sometimes combined with animation. Early color episodes used a purely animated smoke effect. Sometime later a live smoke pack, lifted out of the bottle on a wire, was used. Jeannie's color-episodes bottle was painted mainly in pinks and purples, while the bottle for the Blue Djinn was a first-season design with a heavy green wash.

No one knows exactly how many bottles were used during the show, but members of the production have estimated that twelve bottles were painted and used during the run of the series. The stunt bottle used mostly for the smoke effect was broken frequently by the heat and chemicals used to produce Jeannie's smoke.

In the pilot episode, several bottles were used for the opening scene on the beach one was drilled through the bottom for smoke and another was used to walk across the sand and slip into Tony's pack. Two bottles were used from promotional tours to kick off the first season and one bottle was used for the first-season production.



Barbara Eden was allowed to keep the color stunt bottle used on the last day of filming the final episode of the television series. It was given to her by her make-up woman after the show was canceled while the show was on hiatus.

You can own your own Jeannie Bottle by clicking here.

This post is part of Me-TV's Summer of Classic TV Blogathon, hosted by the Classic TV Blog Association. You can go to www.metvnetwork.com to learn more about Me-TV and its summer line-up of classic TV shows.

Participating blogs:

Monday, July 15
Columbo ("The Most Dangerous Match") - Made for TV Mayhem
A Classic Kimble-Gerard Episode of The Fugitive - Classic Film & TV Cafe
Get Smart - Classic Movie Hub
The Green Hornet - Ramblings of a Broadway, Film, and TV Fan
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Outspoken & Freckled
My Three Sons - Caftan Woman
That Girl ("Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid") - Christmas TV History

Tuesday, July 16
Adam-12 - Comet Over Hollywood
Bob Crane and The Donna Reed Show - Vote for Bob Crane
Burke's Law - It's About TV
Family Affair - Michael's TV Tray
The Honeymooners - The Lady Eve's Reel Life
Make Room for Daddy - How Sweet It Was (Aurora)

Wednesday, July 17
The Mothers-in-Law - Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
The Odd Couple - Classic Sports TV and Media
Route 66 - The Stalking Moon
Star Trek Begins: The Origins of James T. Kirk - Pastimescapes
Svengoolie - Journeys in Classic Film
Working Women of Classic TV - Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland

Thursday, July 18
Car 54, Where Are You? - The Horn Section
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Classicfilmboy's Movie Paradise
Dragnet - Comfort TV
I Dream of Jeannie - Noir and Chick Flicks
The Five Best Episodes of Mission: Impossible - Classic Film & TV Cafe
Adam-12: Where is a Show So Realistic That Its Actors Win
    LAPD Awards? - Durham on the Cheap

Friday, July 19
Bewitched , Bothered, and Belittled - Christy's Inkwells
Columbo - How Sweet It Was (Paul)
Leave It to Beaver: A Father's Journey - Embarrassing Treasures
Family Affair - Silver Scenes
The Odd Couple - Twenty Four Frames
Rhoda - Made for TV Mayhem
Thriller - The Last Drive in

The Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon: Barbara Stanwyck's performance in the classic film Titanic(1953).

This is my contribution to "The Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon". Please click on poster located on the side- bar to view the other bloggers participating in the event.

Barbara Stanwyck, one of Hollywood's most natural and talented actresses, throws herself whole-heartedly into the role of Julia. She perfectly performs all of Julia's wide-ranging emotions ranging from: frustration, vindictive, calculating, loving, blunt, empathetic and heartbroken.

The film opens with the wealthy, Sturges family, who enjoy traveling from one exotic location to another. Julia worries that her children, Annette and Norman, will grow up spoiled and conceded. She lies to her husband Richard, saying that she is going back home to America for a visit. Julia books reservations for herself and the children on the Titanic, with no plans of returning to Europe.

Video: boarding the ship..

Her husband Richard wanting to change her mind boards the liner at the last minute. Once they are face to face the couple lets loose with 20 years of repressed anger and bringing out in the open a shocking heartbreaking secret.

Richard Sturges: My dear Julia, I've been around enough bridge tables to recognize someone who's holding a high trump - play it now if you will.

Julia Sturges: We'll discuss it later.

Richard Sturges: Now!

Julia Sturges: All right, Richard. One question first?

Richard Sturges: If it's about Norman, you know the answer. No court in the world, no power in the heavens can force me to give up my son.

Julia Sturges: He is not your son....

After, the ship hits an iceberg, their argument seems unimportant and eventually bringing their relationship full circle.....

Julia Sturges: Oh Richard, where did we miss out on each other? I beg your pardon, Sir. I put you down as a useless man, someone to lead a cotillion.

Richard Sturges: After all, it was my major talent.

Julia Sturges: I'm sorry, sorry about everything.

Richard Sturges: We have no time to catalog our regrets. All we can do is pretend 20 years didn't happen. It's June again. You were walking under some Elm trees in a white muslin dress, the loveliest creature I ever laid eyes on. That summer, when I asked you to marry me, I pledged my eternal devotion. I would take it as a very great favor Julia, if you would accept a restatement of that pledge.

They embrace passionately...

You know that Stanwyck took her part very seriously when she said: "It was bitter cold. I was 47 feet up in the air in a lifeboat...the water below was agitated. We were re-creating an actual tragedy and I burst into tears. I shook with great racking sobs and couldn't stop."

Please click here to view past Noir and Chick Flicks Titanic movie review.

Costume: Dorothy Jeakins Courtesy of the Icon Museum.

Dorothy Jeakins (January 11, 1914 – November 21, 1995). After graduating High School, she was offered a scholarship to study at the Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design).

Jeakins got her start working as a Disney artist in the 1930's. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was spotted by director Victor Fleming.

She worked steadily for the next thirty-nine years and was best known for her period costumes. Jeakins, who retired in 1990, once summed up her designing: "I can put my world down to two words: Make beauty. It's my cue and my private passion."




The Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon Schedule

July 16

• No Man of Her Own (Vienna's Classic Hollywood)
• Remember the Night (A Thousand Words)
• Sorry, Wrong Number (Thrilling Days of Yesteryear)
• The Miracle Woman (Pre-Code.com)
• Lady of Burlesque (3B Theater: Micro-Brewed Reviews)
• Stella Dallas (Faster, Pussycat! Blog! Blog!)
• Stanwyck the femme fatale (The Scarlett Olive)
• Barbara Stanwyck: an appreciation (The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog)
• Stanwyck's costumes in Ball of Fire (Stardust)

July 17

• Christmas in Connecticut (A Person in the Dark)
• Forty Guns (Lerner International Enterprises)
• Crime of Passion (Running After My Hat)
• Baby Face (Classic Movies)
• Stanwyck and Dynasty (Wide Screen World)
• Titanic (Noir and Chick Flicks)
• Capra and Stanwyck (The Motion Pictures)
• Undecided (The Hollywood Revue)

July 18

• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Silver Screenings)
• Witness to Murder (Who Can Turn The World Off With Her Smile?)
• Night Nurse (Comet Over Hollywood)
• A Lost Lady (Tinseltown Royalty)
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show (Caftan Woman)
• Annie Oakley (Silver Scenes)
• Golden Boy (Hollywoodland This N That)
• Stanwyck: a career in pictures (Let's Go to the Movies)
• Blonde Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (Film Noir Blonde)

July 19

• The Lady Eve (Classic Movie Hub
• Gambling Lady (Immortal Ephemera)
• These Wilder Years (Citizen Screen)
• The File on Thelma Jordon (Krell Laboratories)
• All I Desire/There's Always Tomorrow (Pensamientos Filmicos)
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls (The Last Drive In)
• Ladies of Leisure (The Girl with the White Parasol)

July 20

• My Reputation (Portraits by Jenni)
• Ball of Fire (Old Movies Nostalgia)
• Union Pacific (The Kitty Packard Pictorial)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Ferdy on Film)
• A Taste of Evil (3B Theater: Micro-Brewed Reviews)
• The Big Valley (Hamlette's Soliloquy)
• Always Goodbye (Movie Classics)

July 21

• This is My Affair (Crítica Retrô)
• Banjo on My Knee (True Classics)
• Clash by Night (Silver Scenes)
• Forbidden (Shadows and Satin)
• The Night Walker (WeirdFlix)
• Meet John Doe (The Joy and Agony of Movies)
• Undecided (I Wonder if You Wonder)
• "Barbara in the Boardroom" (Fair Warning: Reconsidering Todd Rundgren)

July 22

• Ladies They Talk About (The Man on the Flying Trapeze)
• The Mad Miss Manton (Close Ups and Long Shots)
• Double Indemnity (Classic Movie Hub)
• The Purchase Price (The Nitrate Diva)
• Jeopardy (Pensamientos Filmicos)
• The Thorn Birds (FlorenceFallon.com)
• Walk on the Wild Side (The Last Drive In)
• Stanwyck the anti-heroine (The Great Katharine Hepburn) 

What I'm Watching...

On TCM July 15th. English actor Stewart Granger, who was a popular leading man of the 1940's, caught the eye of Hollywood. Soon after, signing with MGM in 1950, he was getting star billing in heroic and romantic leading roles such as the films being spotlighted today:

The Whole Truth(1958)
The Light Touch (1952)
The Last Hunt (1956)

July 16th. Lucky Partners(1940). Cast: Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson and Spring Byington. Ginger Rogers turned down the role of Hildy Johnson (eventually played by Rosalind Russell) in the Howard Hawks comedy His Girl Friday so she could co-star with Ronald Colman in this movie. 

Artist David Grant, wishes book store owner Jean Newton, good luck when she passes by. When, Jean is given a beautiful dress she decides that David has brought her good luck. She then asks him to buy a sweep stake ticket with her.  He agrees on the condition that if they win, she will take a trip with him, before she marries Freddie. When David promises that the trip will be kept on a strictly impersonal basis, Freddie agrees. Their ticket is picked and with their winnings they decide to vacation in, Niagara Falls, with Freddie not far behind. Expecting to find the couple together, Freddie breaks down their door, only to find that David has checked out of the hotel and is driving back to Manhattan. While driving home David is stopped on the road and arrested for stealing Jean's car. In court, Jean and Freddie try to explain the situation, but their story fails to convince the judge. After, David and Jean cross-examine each other, the judge fines Freddie for breaking down the door. Will Jean and David ever declare their love for each other. Tune in today to find out..

July 17th. Unholy Partners(1941). Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold, and Marsha Hunt. Newspaper reporter Bruce Corey, returns from war reporting to his old job at the newspaper. His editor doesn't like his ideas and Corey and his friends start their own tabloid style newspaper. Corey gambles with a mob boss and wins the money to start up his own paper, the New York Mercury. They run into trouble after his stories implicate the newspaper's silent partner in a few crimes. Corey and his staff find themselves in big trouble..Video: Movie trailer.

July 18th Guest Programmer: Frank Rich, began his writing career as the editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson, the university's daily student newspaper. Rich was an honorary Harvard College scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship. He graduated in 1971 with an A.B. magna cum laude in American history and literature. Before writing for the The New York Times in 1980, Rich was a film critic for Time and the New York Post, and film critic and senior editor of New Times Magazine. In the early 1970's, he was a founding editor of the Richmond (Va.) Mercury. Rich served as chief theatre critic of the New York Times from 1980 to 1993. In 1994, Rich became a columnist for The New York Times from 2003 to 2011. Rich is married to Alexandra Rachelle Witchel, who writes for The New York Times, as "Alex Witchel". He has two sons from his previous marriage to Gail Winston. Simon Rich, was a writer for Saturday Night Live, a live, late-night television show and the other, Nathaniel Rich, is a novelist and was an editor for The Paris Review. Frank's movie picks are:

The Palm Beach Story(1942)
The Manchurian Candidate(1962)
Rules of the Game (1939)
Petulia (1968)

July 19th Friday Night Spotlight: French film director Francois Truffaut, who's film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Tonight's film line up:

The Soft Skin(1964)
Jules And Jim (1962)
Two English Girls (1971)
A Story of Water(1961)
The Woman Next Door(1981)
The Man Who Loved Women(1977)Video:


                                 

On TCM July 20th Charles Boyer, who studied philosophy before going into the theater. Not really planning to go into silent films, made a successful transition into talkies. He became famous for his whispered declarations of love to... Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman. Tonight's Charles Boyer films:
Gaslight (1944)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Une Parisienne (1957) Video:



July 21st Silent Sunday Spotlight:

Modern Times(1936).comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin.

Mickey(1918), a silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks. The movie was produced by the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company.

Dynamic Duos in Classic Film Blogathon: Cary Grant and Carole Lombard.

Who, does not love a classic movie Dynamic Duo? My personal pick for one of the most romantic movie couples of all time for this Blogathon, is Cary Grant and Carole Lombard. Their performance are realistic and believable and they made it look easy. The memory of their love stays with you long after the classic movie, In Name Only is over. The only movie that they were a romantic couple.

I fell in love with the performances of Lombard and Grant in the classic film, In Name Only(1939). Alec, who in a loveless marriage, still looking for a true love. Alec, is kind and trusting and Julie is patiently waiting for her man, dealing with the pressures of society and what other people might think. Will Julie and Alec ever get to be together? A wonderful drama directed by John Cromwell. Music by Roy Webb created the mood.

Video: A charming scene "gone fishing".



I would have also liked to see them as a Dynamic Duo in the classic films:

They co-starred early in their career in The Eagle and The Hawk(1933) with Fredric March, but they shared no scenes together. March is Grant's training officer and he washes him out as a pilot. Grant resents this and slugs him and becomes tail-gunner. Eventually, March becomes an air ace. But soon all the deaths of his comrades really takes it's toll on him. He's a sensitive soul and he starts to crack up. By then Grant is on the scene as his tail-gunner, but they're still not getting along. Cary Grant plays very much against type. Jack Oakie is around to do the comic relief. Carole Lombard is in this as well for about 10 minutes as a woman March encounters while on a 10 day leave. It's a good anti-war film and the ending will surprise you.

Cary had a small role in one of Carole's earlier films, Sinners in The Sun(1932). A beautifully written movie, where Chester Morris and Carole Lombard love each other, but she is terrified of the life of poverty. So they break up and they drift into lives as a kept woman and a gigolo. Cary Grant, in his second movie, but if you're not paying attention you could easily miss him, his voice was far more distinctive than his good looks at this stage of his career..

Participating Blogs

The Hollywood Revue – Greta Garbo and John Gilbert

Outspoken & Freckled - Nick and Nora Charles

Bogie Film Blog – Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre

Picture Spoilers – Dynamic Duos in Libeled Lady

Stardust – Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck

Caftan Woman – Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Comet Over Hollywood – Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear – Martin and Lewis

Silver Scenes – Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson

Movies Silently - Vilma Banky & Ronald Colman in The Winning of Barbara Worth

Critica Retro – Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp film depictions

Shadows and Satin – Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

The Joy and Agony of Movies – Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Greg McCambley on Citizen Screenings - Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in The Third Man

Durnmoose Movie Musings – Abbott & Costello

Silver Screenings – Bob Hope & Bing Crosby in a “Road” picture

The Nitrate Diva – Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich

Weird Flix - Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, 50th Anniversary of Beach Party

The Man on the Flying Trapeze — Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, focus on Hold Your Man

Viv and Larry — Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier (on-screen and off-screen)

The Baz – Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone

Lime Reviews - Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom in Limelight

Furious Cinema - Lemmon and Matthau in The Odd Couple

Vienna’s Classic Hollywood – Thelma Ritter and Connie Gilchrist

Cinematic Catharsis – Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula

Krell Laboratories - Special Japanese legends Pairings

Film Flare - Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren

Lindsay’s Movie Musings – Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda’s friendship

The Vintage Cameo – Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra

The Jeanette MacDonald Blog – Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

The Great Katharine Hepburn – Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant

Classic Movie Man – Irene Dunne and Cary Grant

Virtual Virago – Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney

Be Careful! Your Hand! - Maleficent and her crow Diablo from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty

Noir and Chick Flicks – Carole Lombard and Cary Grant

The Motion Pictures – Cary Grant and Joan Bennett in Big Brown Eyes and Wedding Present

The Stop Button – Lon Chaney Jr and Bela Lugosi

She Blogged by Night – Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi

Hitless Wonder Movie Blog – Evelyn Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr.

Movie Classics – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Hero Histories – The Lone Ranger & Tonto – film incarnations – Part 1

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video – The Lone Ranger & Tonto – Part 2

Western Comics Adventures – The Lone Ranger & Tonto – Part 3

The Last Drive In – Bette vs. Joan, “Get Back in the Chair Blanche”

The Last Drive In – Bette vs. Joan, “I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on Fire”

Trocadero Baby – Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train

Terrible Movies – Godzilla and Mothra

Frankly My Dear - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Too Many Girls, The Long Long Trailer and Forever Darling

We Recycle Movies – Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson

The World’s Funniest Dissertation – Laurel and Hardy

Cinemalacrum – Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Godard’s Breathless

Classic Movie Hub – Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont

Citizen Screenings – Batman (1966)

Once Upon a Screen - Crawford and Gable

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Wide Screen World

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