#phyllis thaxter

[marypickfords]

Bewitched (Arch Oboler, 1945)

[jetslay]

The Kents in live action.

[citizenscreen]

James Cagney and Phyllis Thaxter in COME FILL THE CUP (Gordon Douglas, 1951)

[gatutor]

Phyllis Thaxter-Barbara Stanwyck "Mentira latente" (No man or her own) 1950, de Mitchell Leisen.

[toughtalkers]

📽 1957: Man Afraid  is an American film noir starring George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter, Eduard Franz and Tim Hovey.

• A minister (Nader) accidentally kills a young burglar. The father of the burglar (Franz) sets out to avenge his son's death by threatening the minister's son. (Universal Pictures)

[kelleep]

THE BREAKING POINT (1950)

While Michael Curtiz would go on to make more films (22 more) in the decade following 1950, it is with good reason that I have chosen THE BREAKING POINT as the film to finish out our Curtiz journey. “Noir Czar” Eddie Muller while being interviewed on TCM by Robert Osborn once described this film as” brilliant,” and his favorite Michael Curtiz film; and yes, he included CASABLANCA on that list. If…

THE BREAKING POINT (1950)

[kent-farm]

The truck getting lifted up? In the script Superman lifts up the truck, a lot like the original shot from the Donner film. I didn’t realize what that necessarily meant in the fact that in the Donner film, baby Superman is looking over Jonathan Sr. and Martha. In this Superman, it is full grown Clark lifting it over his wife and kids.

—Alex Garfin about Superman and Lois, “Pilot” + Superman: The Movie

[mostlydaydreaming]

Gene Kelly & Phyllis Thaxter as “just friends” in Living in a Big Way (1947)