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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 8, 2023 4:07:42 GMT
This Sunday, August 13th at 3pm ET / 1pm MT / 12pm PT, we will be watching and sharing our thoughts about the 1938 movie "Spring Madness," starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Burgess Meredith and Ruth Hussey.
"Spring Madness" is a typical 1930s Code-era college movie where good-looking and well-to-do kids go off to pretty colleges to have fun and maybe learn something, while a concerned faculty and administration try to keep "the kids" from getting into any real trouble.
The enjoyable "conflict" in this one is watching Maureen O'Sullivan and Lew Ayres fall in love, but spend a lot of time denying they're falling in love. Smart O'Sullivan - looking insanely pretty - knows it's more effective to play it cool, while less-mature Ayres is trying to act indifferent as he shows off a bit for his goofy friend played by Burgess Meredith.
Link to the movie: "Spring Madness"
This link is to a just okay copy, but I could not find a better copy anywhere. I tried Youtube, Internet Archive and just Googling and slogging, but I had no luck. If someone knows of a better copy, please post a link or reach out to me if you have questions. Thank you.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 8, 2023 14:51:25 GMT
Fading Fast,
I think your link redirects back to this page.
A good copy of SPRING MADNESS can be found on the Russian site:
ok.ru/video/1240314546690
I forgot Sterling Holloway was in this film.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 8, 2023 15:17:53 GMT
Fading Fast,
I think your link redirects back to this page.
A good copy of SPRING MADNESS can be found on the Russian site:
ok.ru/video/1240314546690
I forgot Sterling Holloway was in this film. Thank you. That's a good catch as I messed that up (I'll change it now). Your link, again thank you, is to one of the two Russian site version of the movie, which is a good, but not great copy. I was hoping someone might know of a clear copy as, when I saw it on TCM, it was a very clear copy.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 10, 2023 4:43:00 GMT
Please join us Sunday, August 13th at 3pm ET / 1pm MT / 12pm PT, for "Spring Madness" to see this super-cute girl and handsome boy find all sorts of reasons to make falling in love harder than it should be.
Link to the movie: "Spring Madness"
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 12, 2023 4:44:03 GMT
Please join us tomorrow, August 13th at 3pm ET / 1pm MT / 12pm PT, for "Spring Madness," a fun Hollywood look at college life in the 1930s.
Bonus pic, note Maureen O'Sullivan's pointed hat. We'll see a similar hat later this month as pointed hats for women were clearly in for college girls in the 1930s.
Link to the movie: "Spring Madness"
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Post by topbilled on Aug 12, 2023 7:25:38 GMT
I love how huge the desks were back then.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 12, 2023 10:37:03 GMT
I love how huge the desks were back then. I live in NYC and his desk is bigger than my first apartment was.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 12, 2023 13:45:03 GMT
I love how huge the desks were back then. I live in NYC and his desk is bigger than my first apartment was. That's funny! I was going to say it looks more like a dining room table than a desk.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Aug 12, 2023 19:46:23 GMT
I've been a Maureen O'Sullivan fan since I was a little girl watching Tarzan movies.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 17:30:48 GMT
I've been a Maureen O'Sullivan fan since I was a little girl watching Tarzan movies.
Great pic. I wonder if it's colorized as I don't remember ever seeing a color picture of her like this one from her Tarzan days.
The second of the Tarzan movies, "Tarzan and His Mate," is famous for the nude swimming scene (in which O'Sullivan had a body double, at least that's what I've read), but what is also cool about it is how much of a girl-power movie it is. From my comments years ago on it:
Jane is no shrinking violet - she's in there fighting with the boys and showing most of them how it's done. I love at the end, when she's out of bullets, that she uses the gun itself as a weapon - swinging it at the lions. Then, for more survival time, she builds a fire to keep the lions back. When she's out of fire wood, it's time to play dead. This women is not going down until she's tried everything she can. So much for Hollywood stereotyping her / women in this role.
One of the great things about precodes is we see how the 1930s weren't as backwards as the movies produced under the Code would leave us to believe. Plus, heck, O'Sullivan is just so darn cute as Jane.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 18:57:13 GMT
Fawn (head snaps up): "Did you just hear a twig snap about a hundred yards away?" Me: "No, and I never do, that's your thing." Fawn (on alert): "I think I heard one snap." Me: "Let's not worry about it and just watch the movie." Fawn (calming down): "Okay, but can you turn the sound up a bit?" Me: "Are you freakin' kidding me?"
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Post by Andrea Doria on Aug 13, 2023 18:57:20 GMT
Other than the delicate figure, I could never see any likeness to Mia in her -- then I saw what John Farrow looked like and Mia is her father's daughter all the way.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 13, 2023 18:59:41 GMT
Ready to start...
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:02:05 GMT
Ayers' tab collar, knit tie and Tweed sport coat combo is awesome, just like I used to dress for college in the '80s, Bahahahahaha.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Aug 13, 2023 19:03:00 GMT
That must be an early Dixie cup, later used to hold McDonald's fries.
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