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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:05:54 GMT
Whatever happened to Joyce Heath? 30 years before Whatever... Baby Jane. Funny how themes in lives and careers are repeated.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:06:14 GMT
Supposedly Joyce is based on real-life actress Jeanne Eagels (later played by Kim Novak in a full-blown biopic).
Two of Miss Eagels' films, THE LETTER and JEALOUSY were remade by Bette Davis in the 1940s.
Eagels was much more than an alcoholic...she was a heroin addict. Her version of "The Letter" is powerful and I've only seen bad copies of it.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:06:55 GMT
Too much expository dialogue in this men's club scene. Just show us, don't explain or tell us everything about the characters' backgrounds. A bit, but compulsory about Davis' character.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:06:59 GMT
Too much expository dialogue in this men's club scene. Just show us, don't explain or tell us everything about the characters' backgrounds. Agreed, but they had a lot of ground to cover in in 78 minutes.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:07:22 GMT
Andrea, are you with us?
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:07:31 GMT
Margaret Lindsay looks a lot like Barbara Stanwyck at this stage of their careers. She and Stanwyck were pals off screen.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:07:40 GMT
Supposedly Joyce is based on real-life actress Jeanne Eagels (later played by Kim Novak in a full-blown biopic).
Two of Miss Eagels' films, THE LETTER and JEALOUSY were remade by Bette Davis in the 1940s.
Eagels was much more than an alcoholic...she was a heroin addict. Her version of "The Letter" is powerful and I've only seen bad copies of it. Which Davis did over - and very well, too.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:07:49 GMT
Lindsay is cute as all heck.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:08:29 GMT
Margaret Lindsay looks a lot like Barbara Stanwyck at this stage of their careers. She and Stanwyck were pals off screen. That's a neat tidbit.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:08:47 GMT
Dick Foran, later billed as Richard Foran, who at this point was being used as a singing cowboy in a series of B westerns at Warner Brothers.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:09:20 GMT
Her version of "The Letter" is powerful and I've only seen bad copies of it. Which Davis did over - and very well, too. Davis' version is fantastic and polished, Eagle's is raw.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:10:07 GMT
Lindsay is cute as all heck. Davis' female co-stars seems to fall in the same "lady" category while she plays the b*&#%.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:10:47 GMT
Which Davis did over - and very well, too. Davis' version is fantastic and polished, Eagle's is raw. Interesting. Have to see it sometime. Thanks.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:10:48 GMT
Dick Foran, later billed as Richard Foran, who at this point was being used as a singing cowboy in a series of B westerns at Warner Brothers. He had a minor but critical role in one of my favorite '30s/Davis movies - "The Petrified Forest."
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:10:56 GMT
Bar scene...Bette auditioning for her later role as Apple Annie in POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES!
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