Today, we're featuring Dorothy Lamour circa 1988. Some of Lamour's notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane 1937, Spawn of the North 1938 with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore, Disputed Passage 1939, Johnny Apollo 1940 with Tyrone Power, Aloma of the South Seas 1941, Beyond the Blue Horizon 1942, Dixie 1943 with Bing Crosby, A Medal for Benny 1945, My Favorite Brunette 1947 with Bob Hope, On Our Merry Way 1948 and a supporting role in the best picture Oscar-winner The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 with Charlton Heston. She became more active in the legitimate theater, headlining a road company of Hello Dolly for over a year.
- 10/2/2012
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paulette Goddard, Modern Times Paulette Goddard on TCM Part I: Modern Times, Reap The Wild Wind I've never watched Alexander Korda's British-made An Ideal Husband, a 1948 adaptation (by Lajos Biro) of Oscar Wilde's play, but it should be at least worth a look. The respectable cast includes Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, C. Aubrey Smith, Hugh Williams, Constance Collier, and Glynis Johns. George Cukor's film version of Clare Boothe Luce's hilarious The Women ("officially" adapted by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin) is definitely worth numerous looks; once or twice or even three times isn't/aren't enough to catch the machine-gun dialogue spewed forth by the likes of Goddard, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Mary Boland, Phyllis Povah, Lucile Watson, et al. A big hit at the time, The Women actually ended up in the red because of its high cost. Norma Shearer, aka The Widow Thalberg, was the nominal star; curiously,...
- 8/2/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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