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vimpse · 1 year
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Tomato-time! <3
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leatherhearted · 2 years
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Mary Astor in DODSWORTH (1936, dir. William Wyler)
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mydarkmaterials · 3 months
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WALTER HUSTON in DODSWORTH (1936)
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termiteterraceclub · 1 year
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Termite Terrace Club - March 28th
1942 - The Wabbit Who Came to Supper - Dir. Friz Freleng
1953 - A Peck o' Trouble - Dir. Robert McKimson
1964 - Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare - Dir. Robert McKimson
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Sylvester: Take that to Granny, please.
Dodsworth: She's got legs.
Sylvester: Take it to her anyway!
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891movies · 1 year
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Camille (1936, dir. George Cukor): I’m not all that big on 19th century costume dramas but Greta Garbo is so electrifying, she could make reading from the phone book compelling. Every time she smiles in this thing, I wanted to pluck out my heart and hand it to her.
Sabotage (1936, dir. Alfred Hitchcock): Apparently Hitchcock later said he didn’t like the bus scene? Ridiculous, that’s the most suspenseful, nail-biting sequence of his entire career.
Dodsworth (1936,, dir. William Wyler): A daring melodrama and one of the only films I’ve seen from the era that openly discuss how difficult it is for women to grow older in a society that so prizes their youth. I would have liked the main conflict to be a little less one-sided but I do appreciate what nuance there is.
The Story of a Cheat (1936, dir. Sacha Guitry): A very charming little comedy with a premise that could have easily gotten tiring if not for one of the best narrators in the history of cinema. And I don’t normally like narration!
Whisky Galore! (1949, dir. Alexander Mackendrick): Funniest closing lines since Some Like It Hot. 
The Reckless Moment (1949, dir. Max Ophüls): A fairly straightforward and simple film noir with a very unusual point of view. I’m not the biggest fan of noir but Ophüls could convert me!
The Heiress (1949, dir. William Wyler): This movie keeps trying to convince you that Olivia de Havilland isn’t beautiful, and her performance is so great I almost believed it. 
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byneddiedingo · 1 year
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Walter Huston in Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936) Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor, Paul Lukas, David Niven, Gregory Gaye, Maria Ouspenskaya, Spring Byington, Harlan Briggs, Odette Myrtil, Kathryn Marlowe, John Payne. Screenplay: Sidney Howard, based on his play adapted from a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Cinematography: Rudolph Maté. Art direction: Richard Day. Music: Alfred Newman.  I have a feeling that Dodsworth is not quite as well known as it ought to be. It's one of the few Hollywood dramas of the 1930s that seem to have been made for grownups, avoiding melodrama and sentimentality in its treatment of marriage and growing old, and sidestepping the Production Code's infantilizing attitudes toward adultery and divorce. And most of all, it has a wonderful performance by Walter Huston, who was nominated for an Oscar but lost, rather shamefully, to Paul Muni's hammy turn in The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936). Huston's Sam Dodsworth is a captain of industry, founder of an automobile company, who decides to sell the business and spend the rest of his life figuring out what to do with himself. His wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton), knows exactly what she wants to do: Sail to Europe and flirt with all those interesting men who can't be found in the Midwestern city of Zenith -- which was also the setting for Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt, whose title character became a byword for Midwestern fatuousness. Fran is a few years younger than Sam -- Chatterton was 44, Huston 53 -- and unwilling to grow old gracefully, claiming to be 35 and unwilling to reveal that she has just become a grandmother. Opportunity presents itself immediately on shipboard in the form of a British military officer (David Niven), but after flirting shamelessly with him, Fran takes fright when they reach England and he wants to take their relationship another step. But when the Dodsworths move on to Paris, Fran becomes bolder and after Sam, bored with life in Europe, returns alone to the United States for a visit with their daughter and her husband, she begins an affair with a suave European (Paul Lukas). Getting wind of the affair, Sam returns to Paris and confronts Fran, who breaks it off. But their efforts to patch things up fail and Fran asks him for a divorce. In Vienna she finds another suitor, a younger, rather effete aristocrat named Kurt Von Obersdorf (Gregory Gaye), and is ready to marry him once the divorce goes through. Meanwhile, Sam travels on his own and in Naples is reunited with Edith Cortright (Mary Astor), a divorcee he had met earlier. Sam moves in with Edith in the villa she is renting, but their happiness is interrupted by Fran's misery: Kurt's mother, the baroness (Maria Ouspenskaya), forbids their marriage on the grounds that Fran is not only divorced but also too old to provide an heir for the family line. A distraught Fran, facing up to failure, urges Sam to return to America with her, presenting him with the dilemma of continuing a marriage that has proved hopeless or exploring the new vistas that have opened for him. Lewis's novel is more in the satirical vein of Babbitt than Sidney Howard's screenplay, based on his Broadway play, which also starred Huston. It evokes Henry James's stories about American encounters with Europeans. William Wyler, with his smooth, unobtrusive professionalism, is the perfect director for the film, which was made under the aegis of producer Samuel Goldwyn, who aimed for polish and prestige and for once achieved it. Lewis's novel was published in 1929, but by the time Dodsworth was filmed, Nazism was on the rise in Germany and fascism had taken hold in Italy, so Sam and Edith's dream of traveling the world together feels more than a little naive in the context of the period. The only reference to the rumblings of war perceptible in the film comes in Sam's comment that he prefers the United States because there are "no soldiers along the Canadian border."
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eohoppeofficial · 3 months
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Sinclair Lewis, Writer, 1921.
©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.
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oscarupsets · 8 months
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This year's match-up is between The Great Ziegfeld, an aggressively long musical drama, and Dodsworth, a melodramatic romance.
The Great Ziegfeld was QUITE expensive to produce and lasted almost 3 hours. Many critics praised the story and musical numbers, mostly given the relevance of Ziegfeld at the time. However, they also almost all questioned why it couldn't have been cut by at least an hour.
I just finished this one, and I agree it was too long. The musical numbers were over the top, but overall the plot did not warrant the run time. It wasn't bad though. It had an entire scene with SIX borzois!!
Dodsworth seemed equally as successful at the time, but overall really didn't get much press. It had a solid plot, directing, and casting.
I enjoyed Dodsworth. Honestly, the movie could have been avoided entirely if this husband and wife would have communicated at least ONCE prior to his retirement, but whatever. The plot was engaging, and it wasn't 3 hours long!
The 9th Academy Awards added new Supporting Actor and Actress categories, bringing the total number of categories to 20.
Both films were nominated for 7 Oscars each, with The Great Ziegfeld grabbing 3 and Dodsworth only walking away with 1.
Overtime though, Dodsworth has retained much higher ratings among critics and the general audience. Where Dodsworth has a classic, well-executed plot, The Great Ziegfeld seemed to fall out of touch with audiences with little connection to the actual Ziegfeld.
Unofficial review: An upset! Give it to Dodsworth.
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vimpse · 1 year
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The Dodsworth-round ends with baby jingles.
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rmsqueenmaryonthisday · 9 months
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From the “Hollywood” column of The Pittsburgh Press on July 1, 1936: On an entire sound stage there is built a reproduction of many sections of the steamship “Queen Mary.” There is the gangplank, an upper deck, a lower deck, the smokestacks, etc. It is being used in the flicker “Dodsworth” when the Dodsworth-Ruth Chatterton and Walter Huston get started on that trip to Europe. The “Queen Mary”…
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WALTER HUSTON in DODSWORTH (1936)
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quo-usque-tandem · 11 months
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Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
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