Lea, classic hollywood enthusiast, cinephile. Norma Shearer and Myrna Loy are my queens.
Such an unholy mess of a girl
250 Films Meme | 152 | Dr. Jerkyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
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Five Favourite Myrna Loy Films
→ The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
“We never had any trouble.” How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me; that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?”
Norma Shearer and Fredric March in “Smilin’ Through” (1932)
250 Films in 2012 | 197 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
► New To Me (42/50)
57/50 75 • {Norma Shearer}
Norma Shearer entertains Maurice Chevalier, who was filming The Merry Widow on a neighbouring stage with Fredric March on set of The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
Hollywood before the Code
“Elizabeth, you can’t do it.”
It was not that Claudette discouraged familiarity; it was rather that she was in such control of her sexuality that she could channel it into her characters. Fredric March realized early in the Manslaughter shoot that Claudette had a rare combination of sensuality and propriety: “There was such a tremendous, smoldering sensuality to her, and that kind of chemistry usually would make the average woman a wanton, but Claudette had dignity and a sense of fitness of things.”
For The Sign of the Cross casting was almost complete but DeMille lacked a Poppea, the empress-wife of Nero. He was aware of Claudette, a regular on the Paramount lot; she intrigued him with her banked-down sensuality that could flare up, enkindling a scene of intimacy and leaving a residue of embers when passion was spent. Poppea was really a supporting role (Claudette had a total of five scenes), but DeMille was determined to give her enough screen time to leave an impression. Claudette enjoyed playing the oversexed Poppea. The first time she appears on screen, she is luxuriating in a sunken pool of black marble supposedly filled with donkey’s milk, the empress’s favorite form of bathing.
Carole Lombard and Fredric March on set of “Nothing Sacred”
Myrna Loy with Basil Rathbone, husband Arthur Hornblow Jr. and Fredric March at a costume event at the Rathbones´, 1937.
The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 (Directed by William Wyler)
Fredric March and Gary Cooper.
