#Dorothy Mackaill

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Ethel Waters (Rufus Jones for President, On With the Show, Cabin in the Sky)— Came from poverty, made it as a blues singer on the vaudeville circuit, part of the Harlem scene (including drag and rumours of girlfriends 👀), got into the movies! Born on Halloween! Go listen to her sing

Dorothy Mackaill (Safe in Hell, Kept Husbands, The Office Wife, Love Affair)— one of her best remembered movies is the pre-code safe in hell which has a totally luducrous plot that her cool, tough performance impressively manages to ground and find the pathos in

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Ethel Waters:

"When Ethel Waters smiles, the world improves a little."

Dorothy Mackaill:

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Dorothy Mackaill ❤️

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‘Sultry!’

Actress: Dorothy Mackaill

Movie: ‘Safe in Hell’ (1931)

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joan blondell and dorothy mackaill, the office wife

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Dorothy Mackaill from the film Safe in Hell - colorized from B&W original

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Dorothy Mackaill

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Safe in Hell (The Lost Lady) (1931) William A. Wellman

May 16th 2023

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Cosmetics expert Max Factor instructs Dorothy Mackaill in the art of applying her make up.

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Dorothy Mackaill in Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman, 1931)

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Morgan Wallace, John Wray, Ivan Simpson, Victor Varconi, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Noble Johnson, Cecil Cunningham, George F. Marion. Screenplay: Joseph Jackson, Maude Fulton, based on a play by Houston Branch. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Jack Okey. Film editing: Owen Marks. 

Seamy and salacious, Safe in Hell is sometimes cited as an example of what finally scared Hollywood into accepting the Production Code, except that you could hardly find a more conventionally moral fable than this tale of a call girl who gives up her sinful ways when her sailor comes back from sea and proposes marriage. Unfortunately, the man who done her wrong intervenes and Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill) is forced to flee to a Caribbean island populated mostly by men of the wrong sort. Still, she manages to hold on to her renewed virtue and rise to self-sacrificing heights at the end. Mackaill is terrific in the role, making me wonder why she's not well-known today. It's probably because most of her work was done in silent films and she was turning 30 when sound came in, putting her at a disadvantage against younger actresses like Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck when it came to landing lead roles. Director William A. Wellman had a steady hand with this kind of tough-edged melodrama, introducing touches of comedy like the crowd of lecherous barflies who live in the hotel Gilda moves into while waiting the return of Carl (Donald Cook), her sailor. When she moves into her room on the balcony at the top of the stairs, they turn around their chairs to face it, eager for whatever action may occur. They're not disappointed: Piet Van Saal (Ralf Harolde), the man she thought she killed, forcing her to flee to the island, turns up alive, and the island's lawman, its "jailer and executioner" in his words, the unsavory Mr. Bruno (Morgan Wallace), also takes an interest in her. It's a middling movie, mostly of historical interest, particularly in the appearance of two important Black actors, Clarence Muse and Nina Mae McKinney, in roles that don't call for them to kowtow too much to the whites or speak the standard dialect concocted for Black people in the movies. McKinney, best known today for her performance as Chick in King Vidor's Hallelujah (1929). gets to introduce the song "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," which became a jazz standard when Louis Armstrong popularized it. Muse, who plays a hotel porter, was one of its composers, along with Leon René and Otis René. 

#Safe in Hell #William A. Wellman #Dorothy Mackaill

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Dorothy Mackaill ❤️

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‘Sultry!’

Actress: Dorothy Mackaill

Movie: ‘Safe in Hell’(1931)

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Symbolic Flowers in Picture Play magazine, 1929

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Remembering actress DOROTHY MACKAILL today on her birthday.

March 4, 1903

Born in England, but living most of her life in the U.S., Mackaill ran away from her Yorkshire home to London, in hopes of having a career on stage. Persuaded to move to NYC, she made friends with Nita Naldi and Marion Davies, and became a 'Ziegfeld Girl’ at age 17.

She was a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924, in the same class as Clara Bow. She made her first of dozens of silent films in 1920, and made a smooth transition into talkies, starring in over two dozen movies in the Pre-Code era 1929 to 1934.

Her co-stars included such like: Anna May Wong, John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Lon Chaney, Noah Beery, Colleen Moore, George O'Brien, among dozens of others. Mackaill was the female lead, with a young Humphrey Bogart, in 1932's "Love Affair", before retiring in 1937 to care for her ailing mother.

From 1955 until her death in 1990, she lived as an unofficial "artist in residence" at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu - even appearing in two episodes of "Hawaii Five-O", in 1976 and 1980.

Mackaill married three times, and had no children, passing away in 1990 in Hawaii at age 87.

(Photo from: Photoplay Magazine, November 1923). 

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