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Post by topbilled on Jul 19, 2023 15:43:31 GMT
Joan Crawford made two films with this title, the first one was a drama at MGM in 1931 with Clark Gable. In fact, Crawford tried to get Jack Warner to change the title of the 1947 melodrama we will be watching this Sunday, before it was released...because she was concerned that it would confuse her fans who remembered the earlier picture.
I suppose it's a good thing they kept the title, because it's apt for a story about a woman struggling to overcome demons that control her life.
This is one of Crawford's more intense roles, playing a mental patient who tries to put the pieces of a violent past together. She earned her second Oscar nomination and said it was one of the most challenging acting assignments she ever had.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jul 19, 2023 18:34:12 GMT
Possessed (1947) is another solid Crawford film made with the "A" production Warner Bros. studio crew. A B&W film with a 2.5-million-dollar budget is somewhat surprising, since it is mostly shot indoors but there are a few nice outdoor scenes at the lake house (that are very well filmed).
Crawford is in fine form as are the two male stars, Van Helfin and Raymond Massy. For me Van Helfin was at his peak post WWII till the end of the decade. He played the leading man to some of the most high profile actresses of the era: Stange Love of Martha Ivers (1946 - Stanwyck), Possessed (1947 - Crawford), Green Dolfin Street (1947 - Turner), Tap Roots (1948 - Wayward), Madame Bovary (1949 - Jones), and East Side West Side again with Stanwyck in 1949 (and a very mean but lovely Ava Garner, but Heflin doesn't have any scenes with her).
He also made the noir Act of Violence (1949) with Robert Ryan and a young Janet Leigh and in a very different supporting role Mary Astor.
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Post by topbilled on Jul 22, 2023 2:20:54 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Jul 23, 2023 17:31:22 GMT
The description for the film on the IMDb:
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 23, 2023 18:53:12 GMT
What is that you ask? Is there a slap in this film?
I will answer it this way, it is a Joan Crawford movie.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jul 23, 2023 18:57:32 GMT
Oh boy, I don't think I've seen this one!
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 23, 2023 18:58:08 GMT
"I'm coming, I'm coming, don't eat all the popcorn before the movie starts!"
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Post by topbilled on Jul 23, 2023 18:58:46 GMT
The housecleaning lady, very sweet lady, came by late today. She just finished. At first I thought I was going to be watching today's film with the sound of a vacuum cleaner in the background.
But all is right now. LOL
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 23, 2023 18:59:38 GMT
The housecleaning lady, very sweet lady, came by late today. She just finished. At first I thought I was going to be watching today's film with the sound of a vacuum cleaner in the background.
But all is right now. LOL |
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Post by topbilled on Jul 23, 2023 19:00:01 GMT
Joan says it's time to press play.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jul 23, 2023 19:01:48 GMT
Glad the vacuuming stopped so we can hear the beautiful piano opening.
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Post by topbilled on Jul 23, 2023 19:02:25 GMT
She needs to find David.
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Post by topbilled on Jul 23, 2023 19:04:32 GMT
Glad the vacuuming stopped so we can hear the beautiful piano opening.
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Post by topbilled on Jul 23, 2023 19:05:29 GMT
The background music in the psych ward scenes is very atmospheric.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jul 23, 2023 19:05:38 GMT
At least they had those white wagons back then. These days they send the police and the patient has to ride to the hospital in the back of the car.
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