#Karen Morley

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Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)

#karen morley #scarface #howard hawks #caps

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Karen Morley

#vintage #beauty #hollywood #actress #vintage lingerie #classic actress #vintage actress #vintage hollywood #classic hollywood #karen morley

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The Mask of Fu Manchu will be released on Blu-ray on May 7 via Warner Archive. Based on Sax Rohmer's 1932 novel of the same name, the 1932 horror film stars genre legend Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu.

Charles Brabin directs from a script by Edgar Allan Woolf (The Wizard of Oz), Irene Kuhn, and John Willard (The Cat and the Canary). Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, and Jean Hersholt round out the cast.

The Mask of Fu Manchu has been newly restored uncut in 4K from the best preservation elements available. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Greg Mank

Freddy the Freshman - 1932 cartoon short

The Queen Was in the Parlor - 1932 cartoon short

The diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff) patiently awaits the discovery of Genghis Khan's tomb. For he is certain that possession of Khan's mask and sword will enable him to rule the East and lead it to victory over the hated Western world. When British scientists in the Gobi Desert discover the tomb, Fu captures and tortures them in his elaborate Torture Garden, hoping they will take him to the treasure he craves. But an unexpected traitor has other plans for the doctor.

Pre-order The Mask of Fu Manchu.

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Karen Morley (December 12, 1909 – March 8, 2003)

#karen morley #old hollywood

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SCARFACE (1932, dir. Howard Hawks)

#old hollywood #scarface #classicfilmsource #fyeahmovies #karen morley #paul muni #howard hawks #1930s

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Arsène Lupin (1932) Jack Conway

April 16th 2024

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Karen Morley (1930s)

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Karen Morley

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Scarface - Howard Hawks - 1932 - USA

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Watching Framed, and wow, how had I never heard of Karen Morley before?

#Karen Morley #Framed #also where can i find the photoshoot of the black-listed actors? #because that sounds awesome

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Paul Muni, Karen Morley, and Ann Dvorak in the shadowy scenes from Scarface (1932)

#karen morley #paul muni #ann dvorak #scarface

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Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)

#karen morley #scarface #howard hawks #caps

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ACTRESSES WHO DIED 2003

Katharine Hepburn at 96 from cancer

Vera Ralston at 81 from cancer

Jeanne Crain at 78 from heart attack

Ewa Krzyżewska at 64 from car crash

Jinx Falkenburg at 84 from natural causes

Kellie Waymire at 36 from cardiac arrest

Christiane Schmidtmer at 63 from illness

Andrea King at 84 from natural causes

Karen Morley at 93 from pneumonia

Vera Zorina at 86 from brain hemorrhage

#katharine hepburn #vera ralston #jeanne crain #ewa krzyzewska #jinx falkenburg #kellie waymire #christiane schmidtmer #andrea king #vera zorina #karen morley #thedabara

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Scarface (1932; dir. by Howard Hawks)

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Karen Morley (December 12, 1909 – March 8, 2003)

#karen morley

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Vince Barnett, Paul Muni, and Karen Morley in Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)

Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Osgood Perkins, Boris Karloff, C. Henry Gordon, Inez Palange. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett, based on a novel by Armitage Trail. Cinematography: Lee Garmes, L. William O'Connell. Set designer: Harry Oliver. Film editing: Edward Curtiss

Like so many early talkies, Scarface feels a little off in its pacing at times, especially in scenes with dialogue, as if the director was uncertain how much of the exposition was getting across to the audience. Which is surprising, considering the director is Howard Hawks, the master of fast-paced repartee. But the real Hawks shows up eventually, especially in the action scenes, and in some brilliant bits, such as the murder of Boris Karloff's Tom Gaffney in the bowling alley. We see Gaffney start to fall after the shot, but the camera follows the track of the ball he has just bowled: It's a strike, but one pin wobbles uncertainly for a second before toppling. François Truffaut commented on the scene, "This isn't literature. It may be dance or poetry. It is certainly cinema." For many, Hawks's Scarface has been overshadowed by Brian De Palma's 1983 version, and its rough contemporaries Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931) and The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931), the gangster films that set Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney on their road to fame, shadowed the Hawks film at the time, delaying its release as Hawks and producer Howard Hughes wrangled with the Hays Office censors, who were edgy about the plethora of gangster films. In response to their objections, the film has no fewer than three screens full of text before the movie actually starts, proclaiming that it's "an indictment of gang rule in America and the callous indifference of the government to this constantly increasing menace," and exhorting the audience to demand that the government do something about it. Later there are clearly interpolated scenes that suggest some of the things the government can do include gun control and immigration reform or even the imposition of martial law. The film was even released with a subtitle, Scarface: The Shame of a Nation. This heavy-handedness suggests that Hughes had less clout with the Hays Office than did Warner Bros., which didn't jump through quite so many hoops in releasing Little Caesar and The Public Enemy. Nevertheless, Scarface was a box office success, largely because it's a hugely entertaining film, showcasing what may be Paul Muni's best screen performance -- the only other contender would be I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932). Muni has a leering, gleeful quality as Tony Camonte; he's almost sexy, which is something that would never be said of the actor after he began to take himself seriously in William Dieterle's stodgy biopic celebrations of Great Men like The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and The Life of Emile Zola (1937). Because Scarface was made before the Production Code clampdown on sex, it's pretty clear what's going on between Tony and Karen Morley's Poppy, but also that Tony's relationship with his sister, Cesca (Ann Dvorak), has a touch of the perverse about it. The film is full of delicious asides, too, like a minor character, a reporter known as "MacArthur from the Journal," a tip of the hat to screenwriter Ben Hecht's former colleague in Chicago journalism, Charles MacArthur, who was also his co-writer on the play The Front Page. The character is played by Hecht and MacArthur's friend John Lee Mahin, one of the screenwriters on Scarface. 

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