Paola

[theroseinthedarkness]

Period Drama Appreciation Week 2022

Day 4 - Favorite Film

↳ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[gatabella]

Brigitte Bardot during the filming of A Woman Like Satan, Spain 1958

[normasshearer]

NORMA SHEARER in THE DIVORCEE (1930) dir. Robert Z. Leonard

[misssusanvance]

The Women-1939

Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) can’t believe her husband’s having an affair with salesgirl Crystal (Joan Crawford). But when Sylvia (Rosalind Russell) and Edith (Phyllis Povah) deliver the gossip firsthand, Mary heads to Reno for a divorce. En route she meets Countess de Lave (Mary Boland) and Miriam (Paulette Goddard), who coincidentally is having an affair with Sylvia’s husband. Once in Reno, the Countess finds another beau, Sylvia shows up for a divorce and Mary plots to win back her man.

I decided to take a little break from looking for classic films to cast Jon and Sansa in and make this just for fun!  The Women is the kind of movie that makes you laugh out loud and shows that frenemies aren’t a recent invention. There’s not a single man in the whole thing; the men are talked about but never seen-it’s all about the women! I highly recommend it, check it out!

[carygrantism]

Elizabeth Taylor makes up her eyes.

[silverscreendames]

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Linda Darnell

[vampirecorleone]

365 Movies Challenge #255; How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco: “You don’t think he’s a little old?“ | “Wealthy men are never old.”

[hayscodeviolation]

Ginger Rogers in TOP HAT (1935) Costume Design by Bernard Newman

[mostlydaydreaming]

Gene Kelly & Kay Kendall “You’re Just Too, Too” Les Girls (1957)

“We had Cole Porter write a special song called ‘You’re Just Too, Too.’ We tried to do a little kind of Noel Coward joke and a little ‘dancy wancy,’ and Kay was frightened to death to dance with me. It took a lot of coaching to get Kay out of the dressing room to rehearse. She didn’t think she could do it. After about half an hour. She swung into it.”

I think you can see the chemistry between the two when you run this, and the funny jokes Gene did to make Kay feel comfortable.

(Genekellylegacy)

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Loretta Young as Letty Strong

Born to Be Bad (1934)

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Ann Sheridan as Sarah Jane Ryan

It All Came True (1940)

[vintage-every-day]

Ann Sheridan performing “The Gaucho Serenade” in “It All Came True”, a 1940 musical comedy crime film starring Ann Sheridan as a fledgling singer and Humphrey Bogart, as a gangster who hides from the police in a boarding house.

[cinemaspam]

Bombshell (1933) dir. Victor Fleming

[cinematicsource]

GRACE KELLY as Frances Stevens in TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[deforest]

BETTY GRABLE in I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941) — dir. H. Bruce Humberstone

[margotfonteyns]

“As for Liz’s performance in Suddenly Last Summer, if it did nothing else, it demonstrated her ability to rise above miscasting. She was marvelously well cast as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and that’s when she should have got her Oscar. But it stretched my credulity to believe that such a hip doll as our Liz wouldn’t know at once in the film that she was ‘being used for something evil’. I think that Liz would have dragged Sebastian home by his ears, and so saved them both from considerable embarrassment that summer.” – Tennessee Williams

[outlawpetegsc]

Miss Vera Vance in a C&C Expo publicity photo, August 1926.