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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 3, 2023 20:11:53 GMT
"Jeanne Eagels' outstanding scene in the earlier version."
Must see now!
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:18:07 GMT
"We used to 'meet' each other once or twice a week."
"Even my agony was a kind of joy."
"I couldn't give him up."
For this he paid $10,000 (~$200,000) all the money he had in the world.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:18:40 GMT
Great scene with the husband finding out the truth.
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"There is no excuse for me. I don't deserve to live."
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:19:42 GMT
"Jeanne Eagels' outstanding scene in the earlier version."
Must see now! Had Eagels been born ten years later (so she'd have been in her prime for the talkies) and not, sadly, been a drug addict, she'd have had an incredible career.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:22:13 GMT
Cecil Kellaway would play Lana Turner's husband in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE...another film where a wife cheated and was caught up in murder.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:25:09 GMT
Marshall is the only one who was honorable and just in this one.
Stephenson sold out, obviously, but so did Sondergaard. For all her "high majesty" act in the scene with Davis, she'd took money over justice for her husband.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:28:45 GMT
Marshall: "Can you go on?"
Davis: "I'll try, I'll really try."
Marshall: "No more cheating', I stand firm on this one."
Davis: "Well, how 'bout we pick a low number for me each year as a target?"
Marshall: "Oh for God Sakes."
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:29:41 GMT
Marshall is the only one who was honorable and just in this one.
Stephenson sold out, obviously, but so did Sondergaard. For all her "high majesty" act in the scene with Davis, she'd took money over justice for her husband. In a way this is the ideal film for the production code office...the sinful wife has to spend time in prison; then has to pay, financially; then pay emotionally when the husband learns about the betrayal and she realizes she still loves the man she killed; then she has to pay with her life at the end. She is punished in multiple ways for her transgressions and crimes.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:31:21 GMT
He's still planing on buying the plantation, but which what money exactly?
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:32:50 GMT
Good night, Mrs. Crosbie.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:34:16 GMT
Per Warner Brothers advertising department:
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:35:41 GMT
He's still planing on buying the plantation, but which what money exactly? Yeah, I thought maybe he was just saying that...like he was in denial that all his plans for the future were ruined. But maybe he took a loan or came into some new money.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:36:40 GMT
He's still planing on buying the plantation, but which what money exactly? Yeah, I thought maybe he was just saying that...like he was in denial that all his plans for the future were ruined. But maybe he took a loan or came into some new money. I think you're right with your first guess, he was cracking up a bit.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 3, 2023 20:37:10 GMT
What an enjoyable movie.
Great choice, Andrea.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 3, 2023 20:56:22 GMT
Yes, thank you Andrea. It was fun.
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Bette Davis was a big fan of Jeanne Eagels. It's a shame that Warners didn't do a biopic about Eagels in the 40s when Bette could have played the role. Instead a biopic was produced by Columbia in the late 50s with Kim Novak, who was miscast.
Eagels was only in two sound films...the 1929 version of THE LETTER and JEALOUSY, also released in 1929, a month before her death.
JEALOUSY (1929) is a lost Paramount talkie that costarred Fredric March and was based on a hit Broadway play from 1928. In 1946, Warner Brothers issued a remake called DECEPTION, starring guess who-- Bette Davis.
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