just checked: it's not. what movie am i thinking of?
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it's the goddess: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051667/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_22
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 28 December 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
yes, The Actress was scripted from her own autobiographical play by Ruth Gordon. It's really solid; Tracy is near his best, supported by JS and Teresa Wright, looking plausibly older than 34 as Ruth's mother.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
teresa wright moved frighteningly quickly from ingenue to playing matronly roles
teresa wright is the bomb btw
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Sunday, 29 December 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Brody on Cukor's themes of secrets and disclosure
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/12/the-celebrity-masks-of-george-cukor.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
The discreet charm of Cukor
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 December 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
David Phelps compares him to McCarey and LaCava as a "piano" director:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-second-hand-illusion-notes-on-cukor
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Hepburn and Olivier really got a star vehicle worthy of them in Love Among the Ruins, which won a bunch of Emmys. It's maybe her flat-out funniest performance aside from Bringing Up Baby, and he does some really great Oliver Hardy takes reacting to her. (The tender stuff mostly works too.)
It's "unavailable" but seems to be on YouTube in its entirety -- shame about the quality, very nicely shot by Douglas Slocombe.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
It Should Happen to You and Born Yesterday are two faves but I can't get anyone to watch them more than the first few minutes with me.
― *tera, Thursday, 2 January 2014 05:33 (ten years ago) link
more Bogdo index cards -- nice Welles story at the very end.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/00000143-5a25-d395-a377-7e6faa680000
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-cukor-file-part-5
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:01 (ten years ago) link
holy shit alfred otm abt lew ayers in holiday. completely robbed the movie for me. his monologue to k-hep abt what it's like to get drunk just stopped it. the realest saddest thing. runners-up: "mother tried to be a seton a while, till she gave up and died" and his exit line: "and... to grandfather!"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 9 August 2014 08:36 (nine years ago) link
Here's a list..
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 August 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
A Woman's Face is addled in the best way.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
Rich and Famous comes to the Warner Archive: https://www.wbshop.com/products/rich-and-famous-1981-mod
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
Koresky on Sylvia Scarlett
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-then-1935-katherine-hepburn-cary-grant-george-cukor/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 July 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
A marvelous read, and I've enjoyed his series.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/05f931fc02d365516a299774f13732fb/w0FMh8OYztwqUX6hYASaLhdr7lmeXL_small.jpg
Coming In January!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
The 20% of Dinner at Eight that is pure soap opera I'm happy to ignore, given how dazzlingly crafted the rest of it is. Harlow, Dressler, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy (who has two great long scenes with John Barrymore) all near career heights. Wallace Beery and Harlow are doing an early (better) version of Born Yesterday.
And Lionel Barrymore is almost... restrained? How the hell did Cukor pull that off? (Maybe just by whispering "Dressler will eat you alive.")
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 July 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
also... Marie Dressler's Carlotta has a dog named Mussolini, but they redubbed it as "Tarzan" by release date.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link