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byneddiedingo · 9 months

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Clark Gable and Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (Clarence Brown, 1931)

Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason. Screenplay: John Meehan, Becky Gardiner, based on a novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns and a play by Willard Mack. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art director: Cedric Gibbons. Costume design: Adrian. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

Norma Shearer made the transition to talkies easily, demonstrating a natural way of handling dialogue. Unfortunately, A Free Soul doesn't call for much in the way of "natural" for Shearer, and it's one of the films that suggest why, of the major female stars of the 1930s (Garbo, Crawford, Loy, Harlow, Stanwyck, Dietrich, Hepburn, Colbert), she is the least remembered. She works hard at her role as the free-spirited daughter of an alcoholic defense attorney, but too often her work is undone by a tendency, perhaps carried over from silent films, to strike mannered poses: typically, hands on hips, shoulders back, chin high. She looks great, however, in the barely-there gowns designed for her by Adrian, which seem to be held in place by will power (or double-sided tape). The plot calls on her to try to dry out her drunken father (Lionel Barrymore) by wagering that if he can sober up, she'll give up her relationship with the sexy gangster her father managed to save from a murder rap. That gangster is played by Clark Gable, who got fifth billing (after James Gleason!), a sign of his status at the time. Gable had been making movies, usually in bit parts, since 1923, but this was the film that catapulted him, at age 30, into stardom. He still stands out in the movie as a natural, unaffected presence amid the mannered Shearer, hammy Lionel Barrymore, and pasty-looking Leslie Howard. It doesn't even hurt Gable that he's cast as a heel named Ace Wilfong, which brings to mind the insurance salesman in It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934) who annoys W.C. Fields with his search for Carl LaFong, "Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong." The improbable story comes from a novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns that had been adapted into a play by Willard Mack that been directed on Broadway in 1928 by George Cukor and starred Melvyn Douglas as Ace Wilfong. Barrymore won the best actor Oscar on the strength of the courtroom speech he gives at the film's end. Barrymore claimed that he did it in one take with the help of multiple cameras, but the logistics of lighting for that many cameras makes his story hard to credit.

#A Free Soul #Clarence Brown #Clark Gable #Norma Shearer

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brennerrama · 6 months

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong.”

T. Roy Barnes in It’s A Gift

#ItsAGift #NormanZMcLeod #WCFields #Moviequotes #MovieQuoteOfTheDay

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these-summer-nights-in-december · 6 years

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#w.c. fields #Carl LaFong

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dearyallfrommatt · 5 years

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Out on the Porch from "It's A Gift", W.C. Fields

#w.c. fields #it's a gift #carl lafong

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grandoldmovies · 6 years

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W.C. Fields on the virtues of not knowing Carl LaFong (capital-L-small-a, capital-F-small-o-small-n-small-g).

#W.C. Fields #it's a gift #1930s movies #carl lafong

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pauldelancey · 3 years

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Comfort Rocks Banned on Airlines

Banned Comfort Companions It was bound to happen. Today, all the major airlines banned the use of rocks as comfort companions. “It was getting out of hand,” said Carl LaFong, CEO of Duluth Airlines. “First it was comfort dogs, then comfort cats–boy did they hide everywhere. Then it was comfort mice–boy oh boy, didn’t they cause a lot of shrieking. Then it was a comfort rhino. It caused an…

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trippinglynet · 5 years

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Suicide Club Events

A list of most of the events held by the San Francisco Suicide Club, which was active from 1977 to 1982. Details on many of these events can be found here. The Suicide Club archive can be found here. And the history of the SF Suicide Club can be found here.

February 14, 1977 nooseletter – First Calendar of Events!

Weird Walk Caving in Santa Cruz Moonie Dinner Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Treasure Hunt Sliding down South S.F. Letters Baby Beautiful Contest Capturing the Golden Hinde Killer Voyeurism – An American Way of Life The Projectionist Crashing a Bon Voyage Party Ghiradelli Square Squirt Gun Infiltrating Eckankar Naked Cable Car Union Square Stunt Sewers of Oakland Kennedy Hotel Merry Mouth Mental Health Tour Santa Cruz Mystery Spot

May Frog Jump Planning meeting Midnight Ride Mythology and Folklore of Wolves The Last Supper Be Super, Not Superstitious Weekend in Hell Big Time Wrestling at the Cow Palace Pink Flamingos at the Roxie Old and in the Way Caleveras County Frog Jumping Contest Humiliating a Lecturer Teacher Party for Communiversity Fuuuuuucked up with Agamoto and Audium Walking Tour of Dashiel Hammett and Fritz Lieber

June New Games with Juvenile Delinquents Vaudeville Auditions Return to the Kennedy Hotel Performing at a Vaudeville Show The Day the Earth Stood Still Spending the Night in a Ghost Town History’s First Nighttime Capture the Flag Game Second Mysterious Suicide Club Initiation Extra Terrestrial Tourists Massive Assault on an Amusement Park Certified D.O.A. Commencement Exercises

July Mystery Tour Alcatraz Harrassing a Famous Comedian Square Dance and New Games After Midnight in SF Orgy Time Infiltration – Railroaders and Scientology Summer of Love Reenactment Texas Chainsaw Massacre Slapstick Army Meets the Three Stooges

August Bay Bridge Occupy a Nuclear Power Site Transvestites Explore other lifetimes Daisies & Sweet Movie at Roxie Water Sports in Marin at Nude Lake Play Dead Exploring a Dead Hospital The Question Man Beer as in Braindeer Jaws Becoming our Own Heros Enter Unknown #2 (Max Factor Billboard)

September Inner Tubing Swashing our own Buckles Suicide for our Ears Be a Real Cutup – Human Jigsaw Puzzle Jitterbug Can Kill – Dance lessons Death, Sticks, Dance Getting the Most out of being Arrested Living History – The Barbary Coast Enter The Unknown #3 Hour of the Wolf Daffy Duck Musical Roadshow Caving at Pinnacles Golden Gate Bridge Climb Food Fight

October An Evening at the Straight Theater Amusement Appreciation #1 Canoeing under the Wharves Maritime Time Warp Teddy Bear’s Tea Potluck in a Hole Invasion of the Body Snatchers Communiversity Garage Sale Punk Rockers Invade Rocky Horror Picture Show Bring on the Clowns Tupperware for the Masses Enter Unknown #4 & #5 Nude Photos Star Wars Intergalactic Battle Initiation (Goddess) Scorpio Slumber Party

November 1977 Nooseletter

A Crime Will be Committed Star Wars Intergalactic Battle Show & Tell Evening with Psycho/movies Suicide for our Ears The Whole Earth Volleyball Talk about other behind their backs Carl LaFong Motorcade Battle of the Titans Carl LaFongs Victory Celebration Ocktoberfest Twenty four hour Amusement Park Birds Under the Bridge Food can be Fun (to play with) Grim Reaper’s Junk Sculpture From Flower to Flour Sex in San Francisco The Predictable Disaster A Crime You are Powerless to Prevent Will be Committed A Day at the Races Star Wars Intergalactic Battle

December 1977 Nooseletter

A Walk with Love and Death An Evening with Psychopaths Suicide for Our Ears Break Down the Library Doors With Poetry and Song Fantasy Film Society Reunion Sensory Bombardment Collaborative Writing Workshop A Childs Xmas in S.F. Show and Tell National Ding-A-Ling Day Attending a Hysterical Mob Scene Premiere Attack of the Variables A Group Discussion Pieing! Continental Detective Agency vs. The Legion of Crime Sam Spade Costume Ball Greet the Holiday Season Enter The Unknown Climbing the Golden Gate Bridge Commando Raid on the Naval Reserve Fleet Return to the Maritime Time Warp New Years at Falstaff Brewery

1978

Big Time Wrestling Suicide on Ice Bringing Out the Criminal Element in the S.F.S.C. Communiversity Potluck Follow the Foghorns Free Marijuana Day Making Death Glisten Assault on Flight 815 Communing with the Spirits of San Francisco Rehearsing our Lines 1st Regular Bad Luck Ball and Potluck Buffet Movie Crowd Formation The Patchwork Quilt Adventure From Movies to Real Life Decoy Street Return of the Pie Bureaucratic Treasure Hunt 2nd Annual Suicide Club Treasure Hunt

Feb 1978 Nooseletter

Taking the Death Out of Suicide Brazilian Parade Patchwork Quilt Adventure II Monthly Battle – McDonald#146;s Food Fight Communiversity Garage Sale Redwood Chainsaw Massacre Treasure Hunt and Initiations Enter the Unknown #? Sassy Sallying Enter the Unknown #7 Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Getting Wet Trivia Contest

March 1978 Nooseletter

Magical Fantastical Dream Society If Sewing what youve Ripped Enter the Unknown #9 Out of your Casket Separate Realities Patchwork Quilt III Fantasy Film Society Reunion Money, Snakes, and Leprachauns This is Your Death Games!!! The Sewers of Oakland SFSC Benefit at the Roxie Star Wars Intergalactic Battle Fun and Games with the Easter Rabbit The Church of the Microwave Poodle Funfair The Very Last Show Commando Raid (aborted due to lock change)

April 1978 Nooseletter

Playland Lives Infiltrating an Orgy Garage Sailing Fast Fast Fast Relief Communing with the Spirits of San Francisco Patchwork Quilt Adventure IV The Night the World Ended Suicide Club Card Game Enter the Unknown Persona Return to Enter the Unknown Daedalus Delight

May 1978 nooseletter

Ringolevio : A Game Played for Keeps New Games in Berkley The Maltese Falcon Santa Cruzin 2nd Annual Watergun Fight and Potluck Dinner Moonlight Canoe Races Becoming a Functioning Member of Society First Semihemidemiannual Suicide Club Markspersonship Contest Enter The Unknown Capn Kid Treasure Hunt

June 1978 Nooseletter

Patchwork Quilt V Ropes Course Communiversity Garage Sale Kostumed Kooks A Little Night Music Initiation Papas Day Orienteering Final Stakeout

July Breakfast at the Palace Targets Star Wars InterHotelic Battle A Day at Wohler Bridge

August S.T.U.P.I D. #1 Caving Ringolevio 2

September Rollerball Alley An Evening Underground Fox & Hounds Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Croquet Match Dist. Comm. Calanders Garage Sale Initiation Hammet/Lieber Tour The Lord of the Rings Ringolevio 3 Moonies Enter Unknown Naval Reserve Fleet

November 1978 Nooseletter #13

Suicide for Our Ears #2 The Whole Earth Volleyball Talk about others behind their backs The Carl LaFong Motorcade Battle of the Titans Carl LaFong’s Victory Celebration Roll Out the Barrels – Oktoberfest in Nov. 24 Hour Amusement Park Birds under the Bridge and Hospital Hangover Food can be Fun (to play with) Grim Reapers#146;s Junk Sculpture From Flower to Flour Sex in San Francisco Film – The Predictable Disaster A Crime You are Powerless to Prevent A Day at the Races

1979

Techniques of Persuasion Descent into the Unknown Treasure Hunt Industrial Landscape Play Dead Initiation Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Enter Unknown Tarzan & Green Goddess Capture the Flag Aura You Lonesome Tonight? Sleeping Around S.F. Piedmont Conjunction

May 1979 Nooseletter

Creating a Disturbance on BART (subway) Be It Damned or Be It Dead Nuremberg Trials An Old Tradition Revisited Rush Hour Run Local Bucolia Are You Tied Up Tonight? Portals of Illumination Invasion of the BodySnatchers S.F.S.C. vs. A.L.T.A.

July 1979 Nooseletter

Clown Parade Paint the Damn Thing Green Infilitrating Daniel Camping Out! Questions Daemonic Scavenger Hunt The Lock Merced Monster Return to Paradise Hoboing in America or Riding the Rails

November 1979 Nooseletter

Garage Sailing Enter the Unknown – Journey to a Time Long Ago More Buffoonery Top O The Mark Patchwork Quilt Adventure XIII Lifespring

Christmas Tree Hunt Pinball Madness Patchwork Quilt #14 Do you Like Pie? Federal Express…Going Down The Mysterious Macho Event

1980

Eat Twinkies and Commit Crimes Its not Our Fault The Goldiggers of 1980 Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Treasure Hunt Dawn of the Dead The Wild Bunch The Body Brigade The Third Man S.T.U.P.I.D. #2 Riding the Rails “Chaos, Cacophony and Dark Saturnalia ” Playdead The Unknown Enters Night on Devil Reef Tom Sawyer Float Enter Unknown Alien Landing Initiation into Chaos 43 Person Squamish

1981

Jack Tales Movies: Repulsion / The Tenant Mt. St. Helen?s Slide Show Treasure Hunt Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Hunchback Sherwood Forest 43 Man Squamish Industrial Landscapes The Thing in the Burying Ground Fatty Arbuckle Detective Event Potluck The Sandglass Marshall Tito?s Shorts Casablanca Squamish Paths of the Dead Carnival of Dead Souls Death of a Salesman

1982

Treasure Hunt Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Capture the Cadaver (year?) Showdown at the Hyde St. Corral (year?)

#SF Suicide Club #Gary Warne #John Law #Nooseletter

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cljrealty · 5 years

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Hey Carl LaFong(@VedantaJiva), thank you for following me

— Cornelius L. Jackson (@CLJRealty) March 6, 2019

#IFTTT #Twitter

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nothoward · 7 years

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W.C. Fields

Larson E. Whipsnade, William Claude Dukenfield, William Rexford Fields Morris, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Otis Criblecoblis, Egbert Souse, Charles Bogle, Ambrose Wolfinger, The Great McGonigle, Eustace McGargle, Carl LaFong & of course; Whitey.

#w.c.fields #pennames #alias #nondeplume #characters #names #comedy #film #cinema #movies #comic #humour #humor #Stage #Professional

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warpwoof · 8 years

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Salesman: Is this 1726 Prill Avenue? Harold: No. Salesman: Is there a Prill Avenue in this neighborhood? Harold: I don't know. Salesman: Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong! Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong! Carl LaFong! Harold: No, I don't know Carl LaFong, capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. And if I did know Carl LaFong, I wouldn't admit it. Salesman: Well, he's a railroad man and he leaves home very early in the morning. Harold: Well then he's a chump.

W.C. Fields - It’s A Gift

#w.c. fields #it's a gift #carl lafong

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egoschwank · 5 years

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #686

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henry herbert la thangue -- "the watersplash" (1900)

"is this 1726 prill avenue?" ... salesman

"art gets what it wants and art gets what it deserves" ... will toledo

"is there a prill avenue in this neighborhood?" ... salesman

"in 1929 [henry herbert la thangue] was reportedly deeply affected by the loss of two of his paintings when the ship manuka carrying them foundered off the new zealand coast. in that same year he died in london on 21 december. on 26 december the paintings were recovered near long point, new zealand, in fairly good condition" ... wikipedia

"do you know a man by the name of La Fong? Carl LaFong! Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong! Carl LaFong!" ... harold bissonette

"NO! i don't know henry herbert la thangue ... capital L, small a ... capital T, small h, small a, small n, small g, small u, small e ... and if i did, i wouldn't tell you!" ... al janik

#henry herbert la thangue #the watersplash #it's a gift #w.c. fields #salesman #1726 prill avenue #will toledo #art #neighborhood #wikipedia #manuka #harold bissonette #carl LaFong #geese #al things considered

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trippinglynet · 5 years

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Chronology of the SF Suicide Club (as of 1982)

1977

The Beginning 1st Initiation

Feb 14, 1977 nooseletter – First Calendar of Events!

November 1977 Nooseletter

December 1977 Nooseletter

1978

Feb 1978 Nooseletter

March 1978 Nooseletter

April 1978 Nooseletter

May 1978 nooseletter

June 1978 Nooseletter

Patchwork Quilt V Ropes Course Communiversity Garage Sale Kostumed Kooks A Little Night Music Initiation Papas Day Orienteering Final Stakeout

July Breakfast at the Palace Targets Star Wars InterHotelic Battle A Day at Wohler Bridge

August S.T.U.P.I D. #1 Caving Ringolevio 2

November 1978 Nooseletter #13

1979

May 1979 Nooseletter

July 1979 Nooseletter

Clown Parade Paint the Damn Thing Green Infilitrating Daniel Camping Out! Questions Daemonic Scavenger Hunt The Lock Merced Monster Return to Paradise Hoboing in America or Riding the Rails

November 1979 Nooseletter

Garage Sailing Enter the Unknown – Journey to a Time Long Ago More Buffoonery Top O The Mark Patchwork Quilt Adventure XIII Lifespring

Christmas Tree Hunt Pinball Madness Patchwork Quilt #14 Do you Like Pie? Federal Express…Going Down The Mysterious Macho Event

1980

1981

1982

Treasure Hunt Golden Gate Bridge Dinner Capture the Cadaver (year?) Showdown at the Hyde St. Corral (year?)

#Suicide Club

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