Caftan Woman Visits Remake Avenue
From time to time on my classic movie blog, Caftan Woman, movie remakes come under scrutiny on a place I call Remake Avenue. This list is by way of keeping track of those visits.
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- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWarren WilliamJoan BlondellGenevieve TobinFlirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her befuddled husband in Cleveland. Will his savvy secretary save his neck if she is secretly in love with him also?Remade as Honeymoon for Three, 1941
Posted April, 2015
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/04/remake-alley-goodbye-again-1933-and.html - DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsWalter AbelMargot GrahameWallace FordFord Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.Remade as Two O'Clock Courage, 1945
Posted July 2015
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/07/gelett-burgess-on-remake-alley-two-in.html - DirectorTay GarnettStarsWilliam PowellKay FrancisFrank McHughA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.Remade as 'Til We Meet Again, 1940
Posted October 2015
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/10/they-remade-what-blogathon-one-way.html - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsGeorge BrentMargaret LindsayEugene PalletteWhen a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.Remade as When Were You Born, 1938
Posted September 2017
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/09/remake-alley-from-headquarters-1933-and.html - DirectorHarry BeaumontRobert Z. LeonardStarsAnn HardingRobert MontgomeryMyrna LoyMary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.Remade as When Ladies Meet, 1941
Posted November 2018
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/11/the-remake-of-they-remade-what.html - DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsAline MacMahonBasil RathboneMary CarlisleHenry, a homeless artist, is invited in from the cold by Mary. Her kindness is exploited as Henry, his family and friends manipulate their way into living in her home. Mary tries to get rid of them, but they have their own scheme in mind.Remade as Kind Lady, 1951
Posted December 2018
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/12/christmas-on-remake-avenue-kind-lady.html - DirectorCharles VidorStarsRichard DixMargot GrahamePreston FosterIn a film where the leading character is a composite of several American-frontier lawmen (mostly Wyatt Earp,) Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.Remade as The Marshal of Mesa City, 1939
Posted March 2019
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/03/remake-avenue-arizonian-1935-and.html - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsThomas MeighanLouis WolheimMarie PrevostAn honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.Remade as The Racket, 1951
Posted September 2019
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/09/remake-avenue-racket-1928-and-1951.html - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEdward G. RobinsonMarian MarshH.B. WarnerThe City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.Remade as Two Against the World, 1936
Posted June 2020
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/06/remake-avenue-five-star-final-1931-and.html - DirectorFrank TuttleStarsGeorge RaftClaire DoddEdward ArnoldEd Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed---the son of a Madvig political opponent---Madvig's enemies try to pin the crime on him because he is waging a clean-up campaign they oppose. Ed risks his life and his reputation to find the killer and clear his friend.Remade as The Glass Key, 1942
Posted July 2020
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/07/remake-avenue-glass-key-1935-and-1942.html - DirectorSidney FranklinStarsAlfred LuntLynn FontanneRoland YoungA jealous stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty.Remade as The Chocolate Soldier, 1941
Posted September 2020
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/09/remake-avenue-guardsman-1931-and.html - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJoan BlondellAnn DvorakBette DavisAlthough Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.Remade as Broadway Musketeers, 1938
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/09/due-in-december-remake-avenue-three-on.html - DirectorJames FloodElliott NugentStarsLoretta YoungEric LindenAline MacMahonAt a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Grace Sutton is transferred from the prison where she is being held for murder. Most agree that the man she killed deserved to die, and Nurse Bowers sympathetically allows Grace's concerned husband Jed unlimited time with his wife. On the ward, the women have varied feelings about motherhood. Mrs. West, mother of six children, thinks babies are what give meaning to women's lives. In contrast, Florette, a showgirl, just wants to get rid of her twins as soon as possible. Miss Layton has decided opinions about child rearing and has no intention of being a doting mother. While the women debate their various theories, a woman who wants a baby so much that she has become demented wanders in from another ward. An Italian woman quietly sobs when she learns that her newborn has died. After a touching farewell with Jed, Grace, whose health has suffered from prison conditions, is taken into the labor room. While Jed waits anxiously, Florette is appalled by the plans that the prospective adoptive mother of her twins has concocted. She cradles one baby herself and discovers mother love. Miss Layton has also given up on her progressive plans for her baby. Down the hall, things are going badly for Grace. When the doctors ask Jed to choose between saving Grace or the baby, he chooses Grace, but she herself insists that the doctors operate and save the baby. After she dies, Jed refuses to see the baby girl, but wise Nurse Bowers places the child in his arms, and as with the mothers, he cannot resist her charms.Remade as A Child is Born, 1939
https://www.caftanwoman.com/2021/08/remake-avenue-life-begins-1932-and.html - DirectorRobert FloreyStarsBela LugosiSidney FoxLeon AmesA mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.Remade as Phantom of the Rue Morgue, 1954
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