The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
They can act, they don't give the director a hard time, they're cheap(ish) – and now they can do the accent British actors in Hollywood are nothing new – Ronald Colman, Herbert Marshall, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains, for example, were all stars of the 1930s. All fought in the same regiment in the first world war, but despite their military experience they didn't exactly "invade...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
RIPTIDE is the fifth and final pre-Code teaming of Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Shearer and Montgomery had previously starred in THEIR OWN DESIRE (1929), THE DIVORCEE (1930), STRANGERS MAY KISS (1931), and PRIVATE LIVES (1931); my favorite of the five films is the lushly romantic THEIR OWN DESIRE. Shearer and Montgomery's characters don't always end up with one another in their films, but they...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
i just found this photograph of genius playwright lillian hellman. lillian wrote miles of brilliant lines but i would kneel before her if all she'd written was 'the little foxes.' this is one of my fave films. the cast is a dream: bette davis, herbert marshall, teresa wright, and to top it off, dan duryea. maybe the photographer robert mapplethorpe was a fan of this image of lillian. the photos he...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Gog is a 1954 science fiction film directed by Herbert Strock and starring Richard Egan and Herbert Marshall . Also in this film is William Schallert , who has an original series Star Trek connection as well as a DS9 appearance. This is filled with the kind of sexism you would expect from a 1950's-era film. Guba has this online: The New York Times calls it "utter nonsense". Reviews are a...
Trouble In Paradise (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Kay and Kenneth MacKenna in The Virtuous Sin 1930 with Walter Huston in The Virtuous Sin 1930 with Al Jolson in Wonderbar 1934 with Herbert Marshall in Trouble in Paradise 1932
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
A few days ago I briefly mentioned the new Icons of Screwball Comedy DVD sets, which came out earlier this week. I thought these new releases deserving of greater attention, particularly given how few classic films have been released on DVD this year. Volume I (click the title of this post for the Amazon link) features Rosalind Russell and Jean Arthur. The four titles are Russell's classic MY SISTER...
Trouble In Paradise (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in Tugboat Annie 1933 Herbert Marshall and Claudette Colbert in Secrets of a Secretary 1931 Lupe Velez and Lee Tracy in The Half Naked Truth 1933 Kay Francis and David Manners in Man Wanted 1932 John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century 1934 Carole Lombard and George Raft in Bolero 1934 Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own 1933 Charles Farrell...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
MGM's WHEN LADIES MEET features an all-star quartet of actors -- Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, and Herbert Marshall -- in an enjoyable romantic comedy-drama. Mary (Crawford) is an author who thinks she loves her married publisher Rogers (Marshall). Jimmy (Taylor) loves Mary and arranges for her to meet Rogers' lovely wife Clare (Garson), with interesting results. WHEN LADIES MEET was...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Angel Face , a 1952 film noir, is directed by Otto Preminger and stars Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons , Barbara O'Neil , Kenneth Tobey , Jim Backus and Herbert Marshall . Youtube has it in 10 sections, which should autoplay from here: Variety says, "Mitchum and Simmons make a good team". The New York Times has a negative review. DVDTalk calls it "one of director Otto Preminger's best"....
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
The BacoFoil dress. TROUBLE IN PARADISE — Miriam Hopkins with Herbert Marshall. Advances in cooking technology went hand-in-glove with those in ladies’ fashions during the pre-code era, resulting in numerous slinky, shimmering gowns to adorn the women of the screen. (Ah, gowns! What heterosexual man does not rejoice when he sees the credit “Gowns by –”?) The patented [...]...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
1. Trouble In Paradise The meet-cute is one of the many standard and stale features of romantic comedies, but there’s never been a better one than the charming encounter between two professional thieves in Ernst Lubitsch’s screwball classic. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins, both extraordinary pickpockets, rob each other blind over dinner and fall in love in the process, each dazzled...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
(1935) William A Seitler's screwball comedy stars Herbert Marshall as Jim Buchanan, a successful car designer who walks out of his job after an argument.
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