Tag Archives: Clark Gable

San Francisco (1936)

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Mark DuPré

I had always thought of 1936’s San Francisco as the ultimate early studio disaster movie I hadn’t seen yet, with then-groundbreaking effects dominating the film. Actually, the amount of film covering the devastating 1906 earthquake is relatively small, but the … Continue reading →

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Dancing Lady (1933)

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Mark DuPré

For a film historian and even for just a film buff, there is almost too much going on in 1933’s Dancing Lady. It’s pre-Code, coming at the end of 1933, which already makes it worthy of special attention, i.e., what … Continue reading →

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A Trip to the ‘30s: Peg O’ My Heart, Lady for a Day, Morning Glory, and King of Jazz

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Mark DuPré

Saw a trio of films that turned to be central to the 1933 Best Actress race. Katherine Hepburn won her first Oscar for a somewhat strange performance in Morning Glory, playing an actress who goes from young, innocent, naïve, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Star is Born, Adolph Menjou, Bing Crosby, Busby Berkeley, C. Aubrey Smith, Cavalcade, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Frank Capra, Frank Lloyd, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Harvey Weinstein, It Happened One Night, John Boles, Katherine Hepburn, King of Jazz, Lady for a Day, Laurette Taylor, Lowell Sherman, Marion Davies, May Robson, Morning Glory, Onslow Stevens, Paul Whiteman, Peg O' My Heart, Robert Riskin, The Great Ziegfeld, The Rhythm Boys, three-strip Technicolor, two-strip Technicolor, Universal, What Price Hollywood?, Will Rogers, William Randolph Heart | Leave a comment

Two French Classics: Lola Montès (1955) and Pépé le Moko (1937)

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Mark DuPré

My new FilmStruck subscription (thank you, children) is giving me access to many older films that help fill in my cinematic gaps. Recently, I saw two French classics that couldn’t be more different from one another—Lola Montès (1955) and Pépé … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Algiers, Andrew Sarris, Anton Walbrook, Barry Lyndon, Charles Boyer, Clark Gable, Forrest Gump, Franz Liszt, Graham Greene, Hedy Lamarr, Jean Gabin, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, La Regle du Jeu, Lola Montes, Marine Carol, Max Ophuls, Oscar Werner, Pépé le Moko, Pepé le Pew, Peter Ustinov, Renoir, Rules of the Game, Ryan O'Neal, Technicolor, The Earrings of Madame de... | Leave a comment

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Mark DuPré

I’ve heard over the years that Foreign Correspondent is “minor Hitchcock,” which of course begs an understanding of what “minor” means here. In more recent years, however, I kept hearing that it’s not so much minor as simply half-forgotten and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Alfred Basserman, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, Foreign Correspondent, Gary Cooper, George Sanders, Gone with the Wind, Herbert Marshall, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Laurence Olivier, Lifeboat, Rear Window, Rebecca, Robert Donat, Sullivan’s Travels, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, The Locket, The More the Merrier, The Palm Beach Story, Walter Wanger, World War Two | Leave a comment

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Mark DuPré

The second installment of the Guardians series is nearly critic-proof. At this point, the franchise has a life of its own, and is successful enough at entertaining that snipes are harmless to the films and serious analysis is nearly pointless. … Continue reading →

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#OscarsSoSilly

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Mark DuPré

The Oscars should be taken seriously on a few levels. Sometimes they actually reward and encourage great work. At other times, they at least call attention to work that might otherwise be ignored. They can jumpstart a stalling career (or … Continue reading →

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Babes in Arms (1939)

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Opening time capsules can be fun. That was my experience recently saw Babes in Arms, a 1939 classic that’s also a surprising curiosity. It’s known as the first in a series of Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland “let’s put on a show” … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Clark Gable

San Francisco (1936)

Dancing Lady (1933)

A Trip to the ‘30s: Peg O’ My Heart, Lady for a Day, Morning Glory, and King of Jazz

Two French Classics: Lola Montès (1955) and Pépé le Moko (1937)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Babes in Arms (1939)

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