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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:40:43 GMT
I think it would have been better if the wife (Vivienne Osborne) had been an invalid in a wheelchair, so that when Price danced with Tierney at the ball it was even more devastating for her.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Oct 8, 2023 19:42:22 GMT
Price and Tierney had previously costarred in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) in which they played very different characters. He seemed sort of nerdy in that and he's anything but that here.
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 8, 2023 19:42:25 GMT
I think it would have been better if the wife (Vivienne Osborne) had been an invalid in a wheelchair, so that when Price danced with Tierney at the ball it was even more devastating for her. I'm not getting the wife's character at all, yet, other than the generic point that it ain't easy being married to Price.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Oct 8, 2023 19:43:51 GMT
I think it would have been better if the wife (Vivienne Osborne) had been an invalid in a wheelchair, so that when Price danced with Tierney at the ball it was even more devastating for her. I think she should be really obese. Didn't calories count back then?
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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:44:41 GMT
I think it would have been better if the wife (Vivienne Osborne) had been an invalid in a wheelchair, so that when Price danced with Tierney at the ball it was even more devastating for her. I'm not getting the wife's character at all, yet, other than the generic point that it ain't easy being married to Price. She's not exactly in love with him, even though he brings the oleander to her.
Her health quickly deteriorates.
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 8, 2023 19:47:23 GMT
I'm not getting the wife's character at all, yet, other than the generic point that it ain't easy being married to Price. She's not exactly in love with him, even though he brings the oleander to her.
Her health quickly deteriorates.
A belladonna.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:47:46 GMT
Glenn Langan was being groomed by 20th Century Fox for big things, but stardom seemed to elude him.
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 8, 2023 19:49:48 GMT
Glenn Langan was being groomed by 20th Century Fox for big things, but stardom seemed to elude him.
I know I've seen him in other movies, but I couldn't list one.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:50:33 GMT
The studio pulled out all the stops on this production. The set for the Dragonwyck mansion is ever so ornate and elaborate.
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 8, 2023 19:51:54 GMT
The studio pulled out all the stops on this production. The set for the Dragonwyck mansion is ever so ornate and elaborate. So far, it feels a bit too much, too forced for me.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:52:15 GMT
Glenn Langan was being groomed by 20th Century Fox for big things, but stardom seemed to elude him.
I know I've seen him in other movies, but I couldn't list one. He had a starring role in Fox's nostalgic period piece MARGIE (1946) alongside Jeanne Crain.
He was also in FOREVER AMBER, playing a supporting character.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:52:54 GMT
The studio pulled out all the stops on this production. The set for the Dragonwyck mansion is ever so ornate and elaborate. So far, it feels a bit too much, too forced for me. What feels forced...the sets, the costuming, the story??
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 8, 2023 19:54:06 GMT
Glenn Langan was being groomed by 20th Century Fox for big things, but stardom seemed to elude him.
It's not that he's doing a bad job here, but he feels "modern," not of the period the way the others do.
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Post by Fading Fast on Oct 8, 2023 19:54:29 GMT
So far, it feels a bit too much, too forced for me. What feels forced...the sets, the costuming, the story?? The story.
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Post by topbilled on Oct 8, 2023 19:56:24 GMT
Notice how after the wife died, there is a lingering shot on the oleander.
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