arriving to this very late but i just wanna let you know i just watched my first Fredric March movie! (design for living), and i get it now. i really really do.
also for an extra fun fact know that i was sitting here wondering if this was my first gary cooper movie too but then realized it wasn't bc i've already seen Morocco. but my 12yo gaygirl brain fully did not register him bc i was busy having complicated thoughts about marlene dietrich. this is hilarious to me and now i have to rewatch Morocco, oh no! the sacrifice!
oh my god the design for living people are going to go feral over this
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I Married a Witch (1942) dir. René Clair
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"Moonlight... quiet... romance... champagne."
CAROLE LOMBARD and FREDRIC MARCH in The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
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Merrily We Go To Hell (1932)
A complex look at open relationships, marriage, and alcoholism. Dorothy Arzner broke new ground as a woman behind the camera. I watched this film for the first time last year, but it was even better on a rewatch last night.
It starts with a lot of fun and it clearly wears its pre-Code sensibilities on its sleeve for an act or two, but then the film gets serious, sad and heavy, with the charming alcoholic lead (Fredric March) making a mess of himself before the woman who loves him (Sylvia Sidney) and our very eyes. Human and real, it pulls no punches.
There was a greater diversity of human experience and experimentation during the pre-code era, even when the films weren't objectively good or deep, that was stamped out under the code and it's a shame.
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In all the time we've been together, you've never once said, "I love you."
Sylvia Sidney & Fredric March
in Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
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Propaganda
Fredric March (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I Married a Witch)—no propaganda submitted
Lex Barker (Tarzan's Magic Fountain, The Price of Fear)—no propaganda submitted
This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.
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Fredric March on the set of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931).
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I Married a Witch (1942) dir. René Clair
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