Propaganda
May Whitty (The Lady Vanishes, Gaslight, Bill of Divorcement, Suspicion, Mrs Miniver)—Wonderful character actress who light up every film she's in. First actress to be invested as a Dame in 1918 started her career on stage with Sir Henry Irving, [editor's note: the propaganda abruptly cuts off post-comma. The propaganda vanishes]
Martita Hunt (Great Expectations, Anastasia)—The original Miss Havisham - hot mad old lady for the win!
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Oscar Nominee of All Time: Round 1, Group A
(info about nominees under the poll)
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (1967-2014)
NOMINATIONS:
Supporting- 2008 for Charlie Wilson's War, 2009 for Doubt, 2013 for The Master
WINS:
Lead- 2006 for Capote
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MAY WHITTY (1865-1948)
NOMINATIONS:
Supporting- 1937 for Night Must Fall, 1942 for Mrs. Miniver
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Edward G. Robinson, Dame May Whitty, and Vincent Price preparing to perform “ Flesh and Fantasy” on CBS Radio’s “Screen Guild Players” in 1945.
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Dame May Whitty, with Pal, in Lassie Come Home (1943).
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If you're going to kill someone, do it simply.
Suspicion, Alfred Hitchcock (1941)
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"A Burlesque on Carmen" 1916
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If I Had a Million
MGM showcased its stars in GRAND HOTEL (1932) and DINNER AT EIGHT (1933), while Paramount did much the same with ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933) and IF I HAD A MILLION (1932, Criterion until last night). Though the latter isn’t as lustrous as MGM’s projects, it sure is a lot of fun. Disgusted with friends and family, millionaire Richard Bennett decides not just to leave his fortune to eight complete strangers, but to deliver the money personally. There follow eight segments of varying quality in which he delivers checks to China store clerk Charlie Ruggles (a delight as usual), prostitute Wynne Gibson, forger George Raft, retired vaudevillian Alison Skipworth (fortuitously married to W.C. Fields), death row inmate Gene Raymond (godawful), bookkeeper Charles Laughton, marine Gary Cooper (talking rapidly for a change) and the magnificent Dame May Whitty. The prologue and epilogue are gracefully directed by Norman Taurog, whose camera moves are to be treasured. Comedy veteran Norman Z. MacLeod directed Ruggles as a clerk tired of having his salary docked for breakage and saddled with nagging wife Mary Boland (the two were a popular team for a while). He also directed Fields and Skipworth, who are hilarious together as they use her riches to get revenge on road hogs (it would take more than a million to do that in Atlanta). Whitty’s segment, directed by the little-known Stephen Roberts, paints a grim picture of life in a home for elderly women and features an exaltation of beautiful character actresses. But the highlight is Laughton’s segment, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It’s a masterpiece of restraint by both actor and director, setting up one of the film’s most satisfying punchlines (and the rare joke that’s as funny when you don’t know what’s coming as it is when you do). Segments featuring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Sylvia Sidney were either left unfilmed or abandoned unfinished. For the Fields episode, Joseph L. Mankiewicz created what would become the comic’s catchphrase, “My little chickadee,” which Fields bought from him for $50.
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The Lady Vanishes
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Suspicion (1941) Review
When handsome playboy Johnnie Aysgarth meets Lina McLaidlaw on a train in England and they take a walk together. After hearing her parents claim she will never marry this pushes her further into this relationship and marriage!
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May Whitty in My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)
Cast: Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Doris Lloyd. Screenplay: Muriel Roy Bolton, based on a novel by Anthony Gilbert. Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Art direction: Jerome Pycha Jr. Film editing: Henry Batista. Costume design: Jean Louis.
A tidy, twisty thriller about a woman (Nina Foch) who, when she gets hired as a secretary to a wealthy elderly woman (May Whitty) who lives in a lonely, isolated old house by the sea, becomes a pawn in a plot to cover up a murder. It's one of the films -- another is Gun Crazy (1950) -- that suggest that Joseph H. Lewis could have been more than just a B-movie director. Short (65 minutes) and to the point.
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Dame May Whitty (June 19, 1865 – May 29, 1948)
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I FINALLY BEAT BALLISTIC ON HARD I'M FUCKING SHAKING
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