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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:21:42 GMT
I can't watch Claudett Colbert movies for that very reason, I find myself constantly thinking about it and trying to catch that other side. I always see the silent film actress in her
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:23:01 GMT
An alcoholic woman smashing into a bar to have a drink in the morning. Not your average precode.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:23:21 GMT
This older "companion" can't compare to "Birdie" in All About Eve. But she's a funny precursor.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:24:39 GMT
Blue serge suit references come up an amazing amount of time in '30 - '50s movies, once you are aware of them.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:24:58 GMT
Over the top scene where Tone has left and our heroine breaks glass to get a drink.
Do alcoholics really behave this way. Usually they had hidden flasks and they connive others for drinks when they've run out.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:25:24 GMT
Hard to have sympathy for Davis in this one, though. At least she had Eve as a legitimate threat. Here she's mostly feeling sorry for herself. TB's lack of subtlety point was apt.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:25:54 GMT
Over the top scene where Tone has left and our heroine breaks glass to get a drink.
Do alcoholics really behave this way. Usually they had hidden flasks and they connive others for drinks when they've run out. To be fair, she's in a strange house.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:27:52 GMT
Nice to see some outdoor scenes, away from the usual sound stage and backlot.
Probably where Foran's singing cowboy movies were made!
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:29:09 GMT
Put the top up on the convertible.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:29:13 GMT
Over the top scene where Tone has left and our heroine breaks glass to get a drink.
Do alcoholics really behave this way. Usually they had hidden flasks and they connive others for drinks when they've run out. To be fair, she's in a strange house. But it's still not really how drunk people behave. I think the writing is off point. This isn't Bette's fault. It's Laird Doyle's fault...the screenplay lacks realism.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:33:03 GMT
That a lot of blah, blah, blah to say we can sex without any strings attached.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jan 22, 2023 20:33:34 GMT
She's certainly more articulate than most slurring drunks. Maybe we're supposed to think great actresses never lose their ability to enunciate and project their voices to the balcony seats.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:33:40 GMT
DANGEROUS was Franchot Tone's 20th motion picture, and his Hollywood career had only begun three years earlier.
Between 1936 and 1951 he would make 40 more movies, usually as the lead or second lead.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:35:15 GMT
And poor Margaret Lindsay doesn't know it yet, but her fiancé was just unfaithful.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:35:37 GMT
The theme of a young actress not getting offered parts deserving of her talent mirrored what Davis was actually going through at Warners. A year later a frustrated Davis would leave Hollywood for England on a two picture deal after which she was promtly suspended by WB. She lost the famous case but it changed the course of "the Hollywood contract"; Olivia de Havilland later sued WB for similar reasons and won.
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