“Buster” Crabbe
I watched You're Telling Me for Larry “Buster” Crabbe's birthday. He has such a small role in the film that it is really difficult to say what type of actor he really was. He was not your classically handsome leading actor of the early 30's but you could tell that he was athletic and had a large presence on screen. He had a small role as the rich boyfriend of W.C. Fields daughter.
He was quite a western actor so I tried to find some of those films, but I could not find any available in my area. His biggest role was probably in the film serials of Flash Gordon. In looking up information about him on Wicipedia he had a wide and variety of work in his life. He was a medal winning Olympic swimmer, he thought about going into law school before acting. In the down times of his acting he was a stockbroker and businessman.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
February 6
Happy Birthday to Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ramon Navarro, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, Rip Torn, Francois Truffaut and Mamie Van Dorn.
I did not have anyone listed for the 5th so I thought of watching directorial films of Ida Lupino (2-4) but her items were so popular they were all checked out. I then thought to celebrate baseball to counter the Super Bowl by watching Babe Ruth films. There are several films were he was himself, because who else could he be but Babe Ruth. I thought I have a silent film DVD of baseball theme cartoons, shorts and feature film. Babe Ruth was in Speedy by Harold Lloyd so I watched the few minutes of that. I then went in a totally different direction and watched season two of Parks and Recreation. I watched all the episodes, specials and commentaries. I really like that show and am SO happy it is finally back on air.
For Zsa Zsa Gabor I watched Queen of Outer Space. Zsa Zsa who stars in the film is not the Queen. She is a scientist who wears stunning evening gowns and fabulous jewelry. She changed gowns several times and looks great. Astronauts are going to the space station to check out some disturbing things (they don't say what the disturbing things are). Along the way there are these paths of light, that look like shooting stars. They eventually hit the space station and it explodes. The rocket is caught in either the explosion or the path of the light and is taken off course and it ends up on another planet. When they explore the planet they are taken over by women. When they are taken into the building they notice it is all women, no men. After they meet the queen and her court, who are all covered with masks and find out they are on Venus. They are then taken to a cell. At this cell Zsa Zsa comes in and wants to help them. She explains that there was a war and most of the men were killed. The queen basically took over because the men underestimated her because she was female (I have to admit this is my favorite scene). She got rid of the men, but kept some men, scientists, mathematicians and put them in a penal colony somewhere on the planet. The queen takes a fancy to the Captain and he goes to her rooms where he takes off her mask and she has radiation damage to her face, which is why she blames and hates men and determines the captain and his men must die. The men escape but are recaptured. The women are running around trying to find the men with heels, they don't run that well. The queen plans to blow up Earth and makes the astronauts watch. The machine has been compromised and explodes, killing the queen. Zsa Zsa then becomes queen in a glorious gold gown with red ruby earrings, necklace and tierra. The astronauts have to stay until a replacement ship can be sent. Needless to say the men and the women are happy with this result. They don't say anything about what is going to happen to the men in the penal colony.
This film was made in 1958. The crew who worked on the original Star Trek series must have either seen this film or worked on the crew. The costumes the women in the army wore were red, blue or tan. The same exact shade of the uniforms of the Star Trek crew. The outdoor and inside backgrounds were very similar to what was on the series. The soldiers had silver diamonds as their emblem. They even had a televiewer and weapons that were similar. The DVD packaging does say that sets, costumes, and effects were from Flight to Mars, Forbidden Planet and World Without End so it could be that NBC made due with what was already created.
I did not have anyone listed for the 5th so I thought of watching directorial films of Ida Lupino (2-4) but her items were so popular they were all checked out. I then thought to celebrate baseball to counter the Super Bowl by watching Babe Ruth films. There are several films were he was himself, because who else could he be but Babe Ruth. I thought I have a silent film DVD of baseball theme cartoons, shorts and feature film. Babe Ruth was in Speedy by Harold Lloyd so I watched the few minutes of that. I then went in a totally different direction and watched season two of Parks and Recreation. I watched all the episodes, specials and commentaries. I really like that show and am SO happy it is finally back on air.
For Zsa Zsa Gabor I watched Queen of Outer Space. Zsa Zsa who stars in the film is not the Queen. She is a scientist who wears stunning evening gowns and fabulous jewelry. She changed gowns several times and looks great. Astronauts are going to the space station to check out some disturbing things (they don't say what the disturbing things are). Along the way there are these paths of light, that look like shooting stars. They eventually hit the space station and it explodes. The rocket is caught in either the explosion or the path of the light and is taken off course and it ends up on another planet. When they explore the planet they are taken over by women. When they are taken into the building they notice it is all women, no men. After they meet the queen and her court, who are all covered with masks and find out they are on Venus. They are then taken to a cell. At this cell Zsa Zsa comes in and wants to help them. She explains that there was a war and most of the men were killed. The queen basically took over because the men underestimated her because she was female (I have to admit this is my favorite scene). She got rid of the men, but kept some men, scientists, mathematicians and put them in a penal colony somewhere on the planet. The queen takes a fancy to the Captain and he goes to her rooms where he takes off her mask and she has radiation damage to her face, which is why she blames and hates men and determines the captain and his men must die. The men escape but are recaptured. The women are running around trying to find the men with heels, they don't run that well. The queen plans to blow up Earth and makes the astronauts watch. The machine has been compromised and explodes, killing the queen. Zsa Zsa then becomes queen in a glorious gold gown with red ruby earrings, necklace and tierra. The astronauts have to stay until a replacement ship can be sent. Needless to say the men and the women are happy with this result. They don't say anything about what is going to happen to the men in the penal colony.
This film was made in 1958. The crew who worked on the original Star Trek series must have either seen this film or worked on the crew. The costumes the women in the army wore were red, blue or tan. The same exact shade of the uniforms of the Star Trek crew. The outdoor and inside backgrounds were very similar to what was on the series. The soldiers had silver diamonds as their emblem. They even had a televiewer and weapons that were similar. The DVD packaging does say that sets, costumes, and effects were from Flight to Mars, Forbidden Planet and World Without End so it could be that NBC made due with what was already created.
Friday, February 4, 2011
February 4
Ida Lupino
I watched The Big Knife for Ida Lupino's birthday. Ida is married to Jack Palance who is a movie star living in Hollywood. In front of the press they are very happily married. Once the press agent leaves they they argue and are really separated. When Jack meets with his agent and entourage he states “I didn't wake up, I came to”. Jack decides he has had enough of Hollywood and doesn't want to renew his contract, even though he can name his own price. Rod Stieger convinces (by blackmail) Jack to sign a new contract. Jack finds out that a friend asked Ida to marry him. Jack becomes very jealous and wants her back. Ida thinks that Jack needs her and comes back, but another woman, Shelley Winters is in the house. Jack tries to convince her that nothing was going on and they argue, verbally and physically. The film really shows the dark side of Hollywood and how far the studio would go to cover up for their stars. Jack was in an accident while drunk and Shelley was in the car with him and he hit and killed a child. The studio covers up the story and decides to take care of Shelley so she doesn't talk, because she can't. She ends up getting beat up. The studio asks him to get her out of the bar and take her home, he is supposed to get her so drunk she passes out then he is to leave, his obligation cleared. The studio will take care of her after that. Jack believes that they will kill her and he refuses. He states she is his friend. Rod decides that if Jack doesn't go along with the idea he will not cover up him and will have the family of the killed child sue him and takes everything he has. Shelley ends up leaving the bar on her own and gets killed. The press agent is happy at this, a problem solved. Water drips from the ceiling. As you hear the commotion above, the camera is on Ida's face, you see the confusion, the fear until she can make it upstairs. When she comes back downstairs slowly, she is covered in dark stains, whether is blood or water, you can't tell. Her face reflects shock and pain she gets his coat and trembles.
There is an awful sound in the film. I can't tell if it is sliding door or dramatic music. When the sound comes men are talking or walking into a room, so I can't really tell. The music at a few points is very startling. I almost jumped off the couch at one point from the shock when the music suddenly erupted.
I like the way that the people are photographed. In one scene the agent is standing up looking down at Jack on the right side of the screen vertical and Jack bent over a table on the left side of the screen horizontal. Later on at a dinner party Ida is on the right side of the scene sitting on the couch and Jack is standing up on the left side of the screen in front of a stone fireplace looking at Ida. Later when Ida comes back and sees Jack with another woman you see her standing behind a wooden decorative room divider. There are several shots where the camera is lower so you look up at the actors and you see the top of the wall. You don't see that shot very often. There are also a lot of shots where the camera is overhead looking down on all the actors. If I were to watch the film several more times, I would probably notice more great shots.
I really like the house. The living room, where most of the action takes place, is beautiful. It is a sunken room with modern 50's furniture. There is one wall that is all stone with a fireplace in that wall and a large wall plaque of a sun, with drama/comedy masks. On the side of the room there is a large spiral staircase that leads to the bedrooms and bath upstairs. On the other side of the wooden room divider is wallpaper with elongated diamond shapes, I can't tell what colors in black and white, but there are dark and light shapes. On another wall there is a built in bar, made of the same stone as the wall with the fire place. On the same wall as the bar is a large glass and wooden door to the patio. The hallway floor leading into the living room has black and white tile. There are several large statues: Buddha head on a pedestal and an ivory horse, head down either on the floor or on top of a table behind one of the couches. There are several large paintings on the wall next too the bar. There is only one scene where you see the fourth wall and it looks like a jumbled mess compared to the rest of the room. Maybe because the TV is in the center of the wall, right underneath a large picture window. Off to the side is the library. They don't go into that room but it is often in the background.
It is a good film. It is not a film I could watch every day, but it is well acted, by everyone. Rod Steiger (who is a little too realistic as as studio executive a******) has the best dialog in the film.
I am going to return the film at the library and get a few more DVD for next week. I don't have anyone listed for the 5th, but there are a number for the 6th. At this point I don't know if I will watch Ida Lupino directorial films or if I will watch someones films on the 6th for the 5th.
I watched The Big Knife for Ida Lupino's birthday. Ida is married to Jack Palance who is a movie star living in Hollywood. In front of the press they are very happily married. Once the press agent leaves they they argue and are really separated. When Jack meets with his agent and entourage he states “I didn't wake up, I came to”. Jack decides he has had enough of Hollywood and doesn't want to renew his contract, even though he can name his own price. Rod Stieger convinces (by blackmail) Jack to sign a new contract. Jack finds out that a friend asked Ida to marry him. Jack becomes very jealous and wants her back. Ida thinks that Jack needs her and comes back, but another woman, Shelley Winters is in the house. Jack tries to convince her that nothing was going on and they argue, verbally and physically. The film really shows the dark side of Hollywood and how far the studio would go to cover up for their stars. Jack was in an accident while drunk and Shelley was in the car with him and he hit and killed a child. The studio covers up the story and decides to take care of Shelley so she doesn't talk, because she can't. She ends up getting beat up. The studio asks him to get her out of the bar and take her home, he is supposed to get her so drunk she passes out then he is to leave, his obligation cleared. The studio will take care of her after that. Jack believes that they will kill her and he refuses. He states she is his friend. Rod decides that if Jack doesn't go along with the idea he will not cover up him and will have the family of the killed child sue him and takes everything he has. Shelley ends up leaving the bar on her own and gets killed. The press agent is happy at this, a problem solved. Water drips from the ceiling. As you hear the commotion above, the camera is on Ida's face, you see the confusion, the fear until she can make it upstairs. When she comes back downstairs slowly, she is covered in dark stains, whether is blood or water, you can't tell. Her face reflects shock and pain she gets his coat and trembles.
There is an awful sound in the film. I can't tell if it is sliding door or dramatic music. When the sound comes men are talking or walking into a room, so I can't really tell. The music at a few points is very startling. I almost jumped off the couch at one point from the shock when the music suddenly erupted.
I like the way that the people are photographed. In one scene the agent is standing up looking down at Jack on the right side of the screen vertical and Jack bent over a table on the left side of the screen horizontal. Later on at a dinner party Ida is on the right side of the scene sitting on the couch and Jack is standing up on the left side of the screen in front of a stone fireplace looking at Ida. Later when Ida comes back and sees Jack with another woman you see her standing behind a wooden decorative room divider. There are several shots where the camera is lower so you look up at the actors and you see the top of the wall. You don't see that shot very often. There are also a lot of shots where the camera is overhead looking down on all the actors. If I were to watch the film several more times, I would probably notice more great shots.
I really like the house. The living room, where most of the action takes place, is beautiful. It is a sunken room with modern 50's furniture. There is one wall that is all stone with a fireplace in that wall and a large wall plaque of a sun, with drama/comedy masks. On the side of the room there is a large spiral staircase that leads to the bedrooms and bath upstairs. On the other side of the wooden room divider is wallpaper with elongated diamond shapes, I can't tell what colors in black and white, but there are dark and light shapes. On another wall there is a built in bar, made of the same stone as the wall with the fire place. On the same wall as the bar is a large glass and wooden door to the patio. The hallway floor leading into the living room has black and white tile. There are several large statues: Buddha head on a pedestal and an ivory horse, head down either on the floor or on top of a table behind one of the couches. There are several large paintings on the wall next too the bar. There is only one scene where you see the fourth wall and it looks like a jumbled mess compared to the rest of the room. Maybe because the TV is in the center of the wall, right underneath a large picture window. Off to the side is the library. They don't go into that room but it is often in the background.
It is a good film. It is not a film I could watch every day, but it is well acted, by everyone. Rod Steiger (who is a little too realistic as as studio executive a******) has the best dialog in the film.
I am going to return the film at the library and get a few more DVD for next week. I don't have anyone listed for the 5th, but there are a number for the 6th. At this point I don't know if I will watch Ida Lupino directorial films or if I will watch someones films on the 6th for the 5th.
February 3
Peggy Ann Garner
I have to be honest and say I don't know this actor. The films I saw her in were as a child actress. I watch Daisy Kenyon. I had to go through the interactive pressbook to find her name and role. She played Roseamund, Dana Andrews daughter in the film. She was closer to her mother than father. Her role she played the good daughter, who covered for her mother when she beat the other child who was closer to her father. She was very vibrant. It is literally a dark film. In watching the documentary about the film it was talked about the photography being dark for two reasons, one being Joan Crawford having an affair with a married man, that their relationship had to be kept in the shadows and the other is to hide Joan Crawford's age, that she was too old for the role. This is too much information on the film really and it somewhat detracts from the film. I watch film for the sake of film and I don't necessarily get the subtle undertones the director and crew are going for. Based on the book Joan Crawford may have been too old as the Daisy character, but she was really good in the film. I found her very believable as Daisy struggling to decide between two men and leading a fulfilling career. In one scene Joan drives in the snow and has a car accident. It was very realistic. She managed to walk away, but it was stunning.
I managed to watch another film Blondie Brings Up Baby (my 2nd favorite Blondie film). A salesman determines that Baby Dumpling is a genius and Blondie enrolls the 5 year old in kindergarten. The 2nd day of school Baby Dumpling goes to school escorted by Daisy. Daisy gets taken by the dog catcher (unbeknownst to Baby). Baby Dumpling in despair goes looking for her the next day, missing school. While looking for Daisy he hears her barking and finds her playing with a young girl, Peggy Ann in a wheelchair. Due to an illness Peggy Ann can't walk. Peggy Ann and Baby Dumpling decide to go to find a real swing with Daisy following. The parents find the children and Peggy Ann walks several feet from the swing to the wheelchair. She walks as though she is balancing on a tight rope, arms in a U shape and tottering back and forth. Baby Dumpling pushes the wheelchair and they both say Choo-Choo.
I have to be honest and say I don't know this actor. The films I saw her in were as a child actress. I watch Daisy Kenyon. I had to go through the interactive pressbook to find her name and role. She played Roseamund, Dana Andrews daughter in the film. She was closer to her mother than father. Her role she played the good daughter, who covered for her mother when she beat the other child who was closer to her father. She was very vibrant. It is literally a dark film. In watching the documentary about the film it was talked about the photography being dark for two reasons, one being Joan Crawford having an affair with a married man, that their relationship had to be kept in the shadows and the other is to hide Joan Crawford's age, that she was too old for the role. This is too much information on the film really and it somewhat detracts from the film. I watch film for the sake of film and I don't necessarily get the subtle undertones the director and crew are going for. Based on the book Joan Crawford may have been too old as the Daisy character, but she was really good in the film. I found her very believable as Daisy struggling to decide between two men and leading a fulfilling career. In one scene Joan drives in the snow and has a car accident. It was very realistic. She managed to walk away, but it was stunning.
I managed to watch another film Blondie Brings Up Baby (my 2nd favorite Blondie film). A salesman determines that Baby Dumpling is a genius and Blondie enrolls the 5 year old in kindergarten. The 2nd day of school Baby Dumpling goes to school escorted by Daisy. Daisy gets taken by the dog catcher (unbeknownst to Baby). Baby Dumpling in despair goes looking for her the next day, missing school. While looking for Daisy he hears her barking and finds her playing with a young girl, Peggy Ann in a wheelchair. Due to an illness Peggy Ann can't walk. Peggy Ann and Baby Dumpling decide to go to find a real swing with Daisy following. The parents find the children and Peggy Ann walks several feet from the swing to the wheelchair. She walks as though she is balancing on a tight rope, arms in a U shape and tottering back and forth. Baby Dumpling pushes the wheelchair and they both say Choo-Choo.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
February 2
Happy Birthday to S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall and Bonita Granville. In looking at the list of Bonita Granville films I realized I have seen a number of her films where she played a supporting character. I tried to find a film where she was the lead. In a library 20 miles away they had copy of the “Original Nancy Drew” on DVD. I was going to go on Sunday before the storm hit to borrow the set. I was still not feeling well and did not have the energy to drive that far. TCM has shown those films before so I will have to watch for those films to be shown again.
I watched the Andy Hardy double feature Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble and Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. Bonita played Kay a fellow Wainwright College student. She played a very mature student. She was pretty as a teenager, but as an adult she was beautiful. She had grace and style and sophistication that that a lot of college students don't possess. Her role was small in both films. In Blonde Trouble (she is not the trouble) she has a few scenes with Herbert Marshall who plays the dean. He sends her a corsage, but she thinks it is from Andy. When she finds out it is from the dean, she puts the flowers in a glass on his desk and adds water, giving him the flowers back. Graceful and dignified way to show thank you, but to let him know that she doesn't feel the same.
In Love Laughs (my favorite Andy Hardy film)while Andy was fighting in WWII all he could think of was Bonita, but he finds out his feelings were not returned. Shortly after Andy's return to college Bonita goes home to deal with a family event. When she comes back she tells Andy that she is going to marry her guardian and that she would like him to be best man. Andy ever the gentleman agrees and throws rice as they drive away.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is my favorite film because of Dorothy Ford. She is 6'2”. A college mate fixes up Andy and Dorothy for a college dance. She says that she would probably be taller than any man and he says he would have probably been shorter than any girl they got fixed up with. They go to the party and dance. They start dancing with Andy on the podium where they are about the same height. They then proceed to dance a jitterbug. He has to jump to get his arms over her head. The end he tries to get her on his back, but he can't so she lifts him up and he kicks his legs up. Dorothy then gets asked to dance by other men, taller than Andy, but still shorter than Dorothy.
I watched the Andy Hardy double feature Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble and Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. Bonita played Kay a fellow Wainwright College student. She played a very mature student. She was pretty as a teenager, but as an adult she was beautiful. She had grace and style and sophistication that that a lot of college students don't possess. Her role was small in both films. In Blonde Trouble (she is not the trouble) she has a few scenes with Herbert Marshall who plays the dean. He sends her a corsage, but she thinks it is from Andy. When she finds out it is from the dean, she puts the flowers in a glass on his desk and adds water, giving him the flowers back. Graceful and dignified way to show thank you, but to let him know that she doesn't feel the same.
In Love Laughs (my favorite Andy Hardy film)while Andy was fighting in WWII all he could think of was Bonita, but he finds out his feelings were not returned. Shortly after Andy's return to college Bonita goes home to deal with a family event. When she comes back she tells Andy that she is going to marry her guardian and that she would like him to be best man. Andy ever the gentleman agrees and throws rice as they drive away.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is my favorite film because of Dorothy Ford. She is 6'2”. A college mate fixes up Andy and Dorothy for a college dance. She says that she would probably be taller than any man and he says he would have probably been shorter than any girl they got fixed up with. They go to the party and dance. They start dancing with Andy on the podium where they are about the same height. They then proceed to dance a jitterbug. He has to jump to get his arms over her head. The end he tries to get her on his back, but he can't so she lifts him up and he kicks his legs up. Dorothy then gets asked to dance by other men, taller than Andy, but still shorter than Dorothy.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
February 1st
Happy Birthday to Clark Gable and my niece Melissa (Due to the weather in Kansas we cannot be together to celebrate her 11th birthday, but she got several days off school to make up for the disappointment).
Clark Gable is probably most known for Rhett Butler. I think Rhett is the best character in Gone With The Wind. When Scarlett asks what will happen to her, Rhett states the famous line “Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn” and leaves, I cheer.
I watched Command Decision. Clark Gable plays a leader of jet fighters. He plays a very good commander who supports his men and stands up for them. The film is a different type of war film. The focus is not the action but as the title states, it is the decisions that the officers make that the men follow. It is a lot of talk and little action yet it is very intriguing an intense. It is a side of war films I have not seen before. The story takes place in England and the military has to deal with congress people who come over to see what is going on, public relations, and the almost publicity style or propaganda the generals deal with the camera crews. It gives a new take on the war that we are currently fighting in the Middle East.
In an early scene where the men are coming back from a mission a plane is in trouble. Gable has to talk him down and the plane crashes and explodes. The hand holding the microphone shakes and the men on the podium watching the action are very still. There are close ups of the men to show their reaction.
There is a voice over scene explaining the action of the crews to get the planes ready and go over the maps and the targets. When the men are on the planes ready to go, the scene cuts to one watch to another watch to another watch to show the passing of seconds until the command to go finally happens. Gable's friend dies in the battle and Gable goes to sit alone in the combat room. There is voice over is of the men on the radio in combat and sound of bombs, fighting and planes. The camera starts as a wide shot and slowly comes closer to Gable to show him in profile with the map in the background. It is a somber moment of reflection.
Clark Gable is probably most known for Rhett Butler. I think Rhett is the best character in Gone With The Wind. When Scarlett asks what will happen to her, Rhett states the famous line “Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn” and leaves, I cheer.
I watched Command Decision. Clark Gable plays a leader of jet fighters. He plays a very good commander who supports his men and stands up for them. The film is a different type of war film. The focus is not the action but as the title states, it is the decisions that the officers make that the men follow. It is a lot of talk and little action yet it is very intriguing an intense. It is a side of war films I have not seen before. The story takes place in England and the military has to deal with congress people who come over to see what is going on, public relations, and the almost publicity style or propaganda the generals deal with the camera crews. It gives a new take on the war that we are currently fighting in the Middle East.
In an early scene where the men are coming back from a mission a plane is in trouble. Gable has to talk him down and the plane crashes and explodes. The hand holding the microphone shakes and the men on the podium watching the action are very still. There are close ups of the men to show their reaction.
There is a voice over scene explaining the action of the crews to get the planes ready and go over the maps and the targets. When the men are on the planes ready to go, the scene cuts to one watch to another watch to another watch to show the passing of seconds until the command to go finally happens. Gable's friend dies in the battle and Gable goes to sit alone in the combat room. There is voice over is of the men on the radio in combat and sound of bombs, fighting and planes. The camera starts as a wide shot and slowly comes closer to Gable to show him in profile with the map in the background. It is a somber moment of reflection.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
January 31
Happy Birthday to Jean Simmons and Suzanne Pleshette. TCM aired films for Jean Simmons. I have to admit I wasn't sure what exactly to make of Ms. Simmons. Her face doesn't really seem to move very much. Her face is very sculpted and her eyes seem very large. Her eyes show expression and she smiles, but she has a stillness to her overall facial movements. The films that I watched she played a young person but she seemed older. Maybe it is that stillness or the characters attitude. I will have to try some films from later in her career.
In Adam & Evelyne Ms. Simmons played Evelyne as a young girl in a childrens home. She was an older child in the home and she takes care of the younger children, chores and teaching. Her father dies and his friend comes to tell her, but she thinks he is her father. Her father signed his friends name and sent his picture. Adam becomes her guardian and takes her to his home. Evelyne does find out the truth. She goes away to boarding school. After she finishes school she comes back and discovers that Adam runs a gambling room out of his apartment. When the cops raid, she admits to the police that it is a gaming establishment because she loves Adam and it will stop him from gambling. I did not like this film. Ms. Simmons acted like a spoiled school girl that everything should go her way.
The next film I saw is So Long at the Fair. Ms. Simmons and her brother go to Paris in 1898 traveling from Italy on the way to England. Several days after they arrive is the start of the exposition. The night they arrive they go out to eat and to the Moulin Rouge. The brother is tired and they go back to the hotel to go to bed. Sometime in the night the bell rings for the bothers room. The next morning Ms. Simmons go to her brothers room, but the room is gone. She goes to the hotel staff and they state she checked in alone. She finds a man who talked with her brother the night before and they try to find out what happened. The story is imaginative and well planned. I won't give away the ending, but it seemed strange, maybe not complete or there should have been another scene to wrap up the story.
In She Couldn't Say No Ms. Simmons plays a young woman who received funds as a toddler to cover the cost of transportation and surgery goes back to the town to pay them back in any way she can. She plays 21 but seemed 30. I don't know how old she really was in the film, but maybe it is a sophisticated style of acting or the way she saw the character. Having faced so much so young, experience aged the girl. Robert Mitchum plays a doctor who is the son of the doctor that originally operated on her. This is a little more lighter role for him, but he plays the country doctor very well.
In Adam & Evelyne Ms. Simmons played Evelyne as a young girl in a childrens home. She was an older child in the home and she takes care of the younger children, chores and teaching. Her father dies and his friend comes to tell her, but she thinks he is her father. Her father signed his friends name and sent his picture. Adam becomes her guardian and takes her to his home. Evelyne does find out the truth. She goes away to boarding school. After she finishes school she comes back and discovers that Adam runs a gambling room out of his apartment. When the cops raid, she admits to the police that it is a gaming establishment because she loves Adam and it will stop him from gambling. I did not like this film. Ms. Simmons acted like a spoiled school girl that everything should go her way.
The next film I saw is So Long at the Fair. Ms. Simmons and her brother go to Paris in 1898 traveling from Italy on the way to England. Several days after they arrive is the start of the exposition. The night they arrive they go out to eat and to the Moulin Rouge. The brother is tired and they go back to the hotel to go to bed. Sometime in the night the bell rings for the bothers room. The next morning Ms. Simmons go to her brothers room, but the room is gone. She goes to the hotel staff and they state she checked in alone. She finds a man who talked with her brother the night before and they try to find out what happened. The story is imaginative and well planned. I won't give away the ending, but it seemed strange, maybe not complete or there should have been another scene to wrap up the story.
In She Couldn't Say No Ms. Simmons plays a young woman who received funds as a toddler to cover the cost of transportation and surgery goes back to the town to pay them back in any way she can. She plays 21 but seemed 30. I don't know how old she really was in the film, but maybe it is a sophisticated style of acting or the way she saw the character. Having faced so much so young, experience aged the girl. Robert Mitchum plays a doctor who is the son of the doctor that originally operated on her. This is a little more lighter role for him, but he plays the country doctor very well.
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