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Posted on Monday, January 18, 2021 10:23 PM
KISS OF DEATH (1947)
Richard Widmark (1914-2008)
Richard Widmark was a film, stage and television actor as
well as a producer. He was nominated for
a Best Supporting Actor academy award for his first film part playing Tommy Udo
in “Kiss of Death” (1947).
Widmark started college wanting to be a lawyer, but as the
story goes, he played the part of a lawyer in a college play. He was hooked. He then studied acting at Lake Forest College. After graduation in 1936, he taught acting at
the same college. |
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Posted on Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:15 PM
You can watch "Kiss of Death" (1947) here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2145ex
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Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2021 3:10 PM
KISS OF DEATH (1947) Blog #2 Crime in Classic Films Topics: Film-Noir, Crime, Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Director: Henry Hathaway Writer: Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer (screen play) from a
story by Eleazar Lipsky Starring Victor Mature, Brian Donleavy, Collen Gray,
Richard Widmmark, Karl Malden, Robert Adler
Crime in the Movies
This film, Kiss of Death (1947) raises some interesting topics
for discussion about the way crime is portrayed in the movies during different
eras.
Kiss of Death (1947), marks a transition in the portrayal
of crime in a way that is difficult to perceive now, when we are so used to
films that show all sorts of psychologically perverted and defective people. |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 8:00 PM
Kiss of Death (1947)
Topics: Film-Noir, Crime, Victor Mature, Richard Widmark,
Director: Henry Hathaway Writer: Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer (screen play) from a
story by Eleazar Lipsky
Starring Victor Mature, Brian Donleavy, Collen Gray, Richard
Widmmark, Karl Malden, Robert Adler
Minor players: Mildred Dunnock (Mrs. Rizzo), Harry Landers
(Convict), Millard Mitchell (Detective Shelby, uncredited), Tito Vuolo (Luigi,
uncredited)
Set Decoration, Thomas Little
Costumes: Charles Le Maire |
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Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 5:53 PM
Gown created for Greta Garbo in "The Painted Veil."
Both the Greta Garbo version and the 2017 version of the
Painted Veil leave out the husband’s dying words. In the novel, Kitty pleads with her dying
husband to forgive her. She says this is
to unburden him, his soul, not for her.
After pleading with him, he utters one sentence. “The dog it was that died.” She realizes that he has not understood
anything she has been saying to him.
Then, feeling that the sentence is familiar she asks her
friend. |
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Posted on Monday, November 2, 2020 3:43 PM
 The netflix series "Medici" is beautiful to watch and also includes some fascinating characters. Also, Kindle is offering a free novel "Sabina" which includes Medici family characters.
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Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2020 4:15 PM
The Painted Veil (2006) Blog Entry
Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Live Schreiber
Director: JohnCurran.
Screenplay: Ron Nyswaner
This adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s novel is much closer
to the original than the Greta Garbo vehicle (1934). The Garbo version inserts a whitewashed
family life for Kitty in London before she marries, and a romanticized
reconciliation of Kitty and her husband Walter at the end. In between, Garbo’s affair with Charlie (George
Brent) is used, but much of the wonderful, painful, insightful, dialogue
between Kitty and Charlie and Kitty and her husband is left out. |
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Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:39 PM
The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham,
published in 1925. First published in
serialized form in Cosmopolitan (1924).
The title of Maugham’s novel is
taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, which begins "Lift not the
painted veil which those who live / Call Life.”
Maugham originally wrote the story
about a character whose name was Lane, but after the success of a case for
libel against the publishers by a Hong Kong couple, he changed it to Fane. After the then Assistant Colonial Secretary
in Hong Kong also threatened legal action, the name of the colony was changed to
Tching-Yen. |
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Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 2:15 PM
You can listen to "The Painted Veil" on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Painted-Veil-Audiobook/B002V1C4VY?qid=1602007867&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=YBYT0V68KV969C7WYMK4
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Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:04 PM
https://www.amazon.com/Gowns-Adrian-MGM-Years-1928-1941/dp/0810908980/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=adrian+costumes+design&qid=1601488578&sr=8-2
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