Showing posts with label Actors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Actors. Show all posts
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James Rice Cassidy
James Rice Cassidy
THE FAMOUS ROLLICKING, RACY ,
IRISH ACTOR and COMEDIAN
(1862-1927)
THE FAMOUS ROLLICKING, RACY ,
IRISH ACTOR and COMEDIAN
(1862-1927)
Great Biography along with his also comedian wife on IMDB
I believe it would make a very good movie about actors, their work and their destinies.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
GEORGE BRENT BOUGHT AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC DURING THE 40S?
Just found out something very interesting that I had no idea of. According to Los Angeles Times on their vintage blog, George Brent could have bought in 1941 a tiny island called Mehetia, 75 miles off Tahiti, the Hollywood columnist Jimmie Fidler said.
Then I went to find out about this island and got a full description but saying it is inhabited. No record of previous buyers has been written at least not on the web. Did Brent finally buy the tiny island? If so I would have been very happy for him.
Acabo de leer algo interesante de lo que no tenía ni idea. Según Los Angeles Times en su blog vintage, George Brent podría haber comprado en 1941 una pequeña isla llamada Mehetia, a 75 millas de Tahiti, dice en el blog el columnista de Hollywood Jimmie Fidler. Fuí entonces a buscar sobre esta isla y he obtenido una descripción del lugar pero donde se dice que está deshabitada. No se apunta que fuese comprada previamente, al menos no aparece así en la web. ¿Compró finalmente Brent esta pequeña isla? Si así fuera me habría alegrado por él.
More info here:
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/biogs/P000141b.htm
and the source is here:
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
My Reputation, a classic movie with some erotic hints
Didn't I say yet that I like George Brent? Oh did I… And can never get rid of this actor. Although he never played as the main character, his presence and well acting was brilliant in most cases. I could speak for hours about the lovely feelings he transmits me through the screen but here I will speak about a scene that startled me, because by the time it was on Spanish cinemas, Franco’s film code would not have allowed this movie to be screened. Yet it was. The plot itself is a song for a woman’s freedom, when a woman of those times in Spain should Never think like she does, or go against all odds. And then.. while some scenes where the characters kiss were banned and cut, here we see the original film as it was showed back in 1946-47 in Spanish Theaters, a scene that is more than a kiss, to me is like a hundred kisses, yet it’s not explicit. But it has even more mystery and expression and Was Not Cut. So, normally, today this could sound silly, but to the vintage lovers, we know that this “means something”, like those pre-code movies, so different from the 1940s films. And yet, here, a film made in the 40s shows an erotic scene, very subtle, very funny and that I wanted to share here.
Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent made more than two movies together. My reputation was directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The dialogs are great and as I said, it is rare that this movie was showed back in those times.
Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent made more than two movies together. My reputation was directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The dialogs are great and as I said, it is rare that this movie was showed back in those times.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Throroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie From the Original Motion Picture "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967) directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing and Beatrice Lillie.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
FANTOMAS – OFFICIAL TRAILER
Starring René Navarre and directed by Louis Feuillade, this movie is a classic silent.
The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
When I first got this movie, I didn't watch it right away, thinking
that, most probably it was a light comedy drama movie, but the actors interested me, especially George Brent and Bette Davis. Knowing that, in this movie, starring Ruth Chatterton, who was married with George Brent at that time, was happened to be the movie where Bette Davis and George Brent fell in love, appealed to me. Later on Chatterton and Brent would divorce but Brent and Davis never married although they kept a relationship for quite long.
But when I saw this movie I realized what a great actress Ruth
Chatterton was. And for a time when actors and actresses would say their line the best right and straight forwarded way,
Ruth Chatterton speaks in such natural way, at times repeating one or two words in a sentence, as if there was no camera at all. Something that nowadays actors do, at times not so naturally.
Bette Davis still not being "caught" by the clever camera, appears very glamorous, beautiful and determined, but her eyes, alas, the camera doesn't really focus the moment she is sitting on a couch and looking
to the right, slowly... what would made her later on "Bette Davis' eyes". Anyhow she is so wonderful here that Davis fans will really love her play. The romantic scenes are very well filmed, Bette and Brent have some hilarious moments, Ruth and Brent very charming and romantic, and because everything seems so naturally sophisticated, Brent kisses and embraces in a great gentleman's style. What he was in real life.
This movie's plot is very simple, but it is very well portrayed and love has a great importance as a meaning, like in so many classic movies. Only that in this one, love goes beyond "you and me"…
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Luxury Liner
As these days I am dedicated to discover movies where George Brent played in, yesterday I saw "Luxury Liner", a 1948 MGM Technicolor movie starring Brent, Jane Powell, singer/actor Lauritz Melchior, Frances Gifford, and among others, my dear Xavier Cugat, who seldom speaks but is great with his orchestra and didn't forget to bear his chihuahua.. In his late years, Cugat would live in a room for himself at the Ritz hotel in Barcelona. He died years ago, but he is so remembered here. I would see him getting out from the Ritz sometimes when I went to my father's school near the hotel, and some months ago, I went to have a drink to a bar which had lots of his photos, near The Ritz as well. I asked the owner, a young girl, and she told me that her grandmother used to guest Cugat at that bar years ago. It was like travelling through time and being with Cugat himself there, he loved speaking about his adventures, his career, his ups and downs, and women.
When I started seeing the "Luxury Liner", I remembered the tv series "Love Boat" and asked myself if this movie was the inspiration for the tv series. I have no idea, but it looks quite similar.
Jane Powell sings so beautiful and mixing opera with cha cha cha, how could this be? Cugat made it possible:-)
Regarding Brent, the story has reminiscences of something that happened to me some years ago with someone. But in this case he says "if you love someone you must tell him/her", not that person's case, although this was the only difference.
If you want to spend a time with nice songs, some silly jokes, and feel the glamour of old times's travel by cruise, then perhaps you will like this movie very much. I have to say it made me feel very good after it ended, leaving me a sensation of gaiety.
Had I choose a character to play myself, without doubt I would loved to play Zita Romanka's, hahaha.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
George Brent
I remember when I was little that my mother would give me the names of her favorite actors and I could hear one time and another Gregory Peck, Herbert Marshall… a few others and … George Brent.
After having seen many movies, discovered actors I had no idea of, from different countries as well, belonging to the silent era, talkies, classics, etc., I remember the first time I saw George Brent was in Baby Face (1933) as Courtland Trenholm, the man who finally redeems Barbara Stanwyck (depending if you switch endings, I believe, as I have not seen the “other ending”) What appealed to me of Brent was at first his attitude, his smiling eyes, his smile per se, very charming. His hair, so well done, but something about him, that I could not forget, as no one can forget the charisma someone shows without noticing. Sweet and charming, George Brent appeared to me as a very special actor, gentleman and with a very beautiful debonair.
Then, after a few months I started watching old Bette Davis movies with my brother and there I saw again George Brent who completely mesmerized me in Dark Victory (1939), The Great Lie (1941) The Rains Came (1939), In This Our Life (1942), The Painted Veil (1934),I could add Jezebel, but I saw this movie many years ago and cannot remember very well what happened only that I loved Bette Davis in that movie.
There are so many movies I would love to see featuring George Brent. I am going to watch very soon The Crash (1932) and I hope so many others. In The Crash Brent appears with Ruth Chatterton whom he married and made a few movies together.
George Brent has a peculiar biography if you check his page at imdb. In The Great Lie, he pilots an aeroplane, something that he was used to before he became actor. Needless to say, in those times, I would have loved to live as a journalist and interview so many stars that now are a great part of our nostalgia.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Precognition and Death
IN THE morning of December 16, 1897, Frederick Lane, an
actor in William Terriss's company, entered the Adelphi
Theatre, London, to take part in a rehearsal.
Before arriving at the dressing rooms he encountered Miss
Olive Haygate, also a member of the company, and they ex-
changed greetings.
"There will be no performance to-night! " declared Lane
jovially, and went on to explain that a few hours earlier he had
dreamed that he saw Mr. Terriss lying on the stairs leading
to the dressing rooms. His chest was bare and his clothing torn
aside, so that Lane thought he must be in some kind of fit.
Various people belonging to the theatre were standing by, and
doing their best for him. Immediately afterwards Lane
dreamed that the theatre would not open that night.
He did not take his dream in the least bit seriously. Rather
did he regard it as a waggish story about the chief, and on
entering the dressing rooms he repeated it in this spirit to
several men members of the caste.
In the evening of the same day, as William Terriss reached
the private entrance of the theatre in Maiden Lane, and was
putting his key in the lock, a man who for some time had been
lurking about the lane, rushed forward, and, with a long thin-
bladed knife, stabbed the unfortunate actor in the region of
the heart and again in the back.
Lane, who was himself on his way to the theatre about this
time, heard the outcry resulting from the outrage, and learn-
ing what had happened, rushed for a doctor. When he got
back to the theatre he saw Terriss lying in the place where he
had seen him in the dream. In the interval the wounded man
had been carried inside the theatre, but it had been found im-
possible to take him further than the foot of the stairs leading
to the dressing room, and there in less than twenty minutes he
died. Terriss's clothing was open as Lane had seen it in the
dream, and the same people were standing round and tend-
ing him. There was no performance at the theatre that night.
At the request of the Society for Psychical Research, Miss
Haygate, H. Carter Bligh, and S. Creagh Henry, members of
the caste, wrote out signed statements confirming that Lane
had told the dream to them in detail in the morning, when
neither he nor anyone else attached any serious importance to
it. These statements, with that of Lane himself, are included
in a full report of the case published in the Society 's Proceed-
ings, vol. xiv, 1898-9. 1
Telepathy from the murderer (who, by the way, was found
to be insane) , would not account for this dream, because the
deed was committedwhere the murderer obviously intended
to commit it outside the theatre, and he could not know that
his victim, on being carried inside, would have to be left at the
foot of the stairs.
The case well illustrates that it is the coming experience of
the percipient himself that is precognised, and not the event.
Lane did not foresee the crime. He dreamed a picture ("I saw
it like a tableau") of the scene at the foot of the stairs as it
would be presented to him, individually, in the future. His
dream did not even tell him that Terriss was wounded, let
alone that he would die. So far as the demonstration of Pre-
cognition is concerned Lane's dream could as well have re-
lated to some trivial matter, but then it would never have been
recorded, and even the dreamer himself might not have re-
membered his experience for long.
The too-ready assumption in all ages that experiences un-
der the head of Precognition must be intended as "warnings"
ol what is to come has prevented a detached judgment of
them. The records of mankind teem with legends and anec-
dotes of solemn premonitions given to kings and to every
grade of their subjects. These prophecies or premonitions
generally portended death or some great calamity.
France Olive Haygate, one of the witnesses of Lane’s dream account.
Taken from:
SECOND SIGHT IN DAILY LIFE
By W. H. W. SABINE, 1951
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Vintage Hollywood Flashback: The Golden Globes in the '50s, '60s & '70s!
Eddie Fisher, Liz Taylor , Mike Todd
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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