Lea, classic hollywood enthusiast, cinephile. Norma Shearer and Myrna Loy are my queens.
Such an unholy mess of a girl
While shooting exteriors in San Francisco, Myrna, Bill Powell and his unofficial fiancée Jean Harlow were to stay at the St. Francis Hotel:
“At the St. Francis in San Francisco, they had reserved a Flyshaker Suite for Bill and me. The management assumed we were married. Already they considered us a couple after only five pictures together! Well, of course it was hysterical. Here was Jean, but we couldn´t be obvious about the situation with the press on our heels. To complicate the matters further, conventioneers had taken every other room except a little hall bedroom downstairs somewhere. I didn´t know what to do, but Jean was marvellous. “There is nothing for you to do,” she said. “We’ll just have to put Bill downstairs.” I never saw this room, so I don’t know how bad it was, but Bill complained bitterly, let me tell you, angling to get upstairs.”
Myrna Loy
Scewball comedies
(Screw-ball [skrue’bol] Noun, Slang, meaning unbalanced, erratic, irrational, unconventional), became a popular slang word in the 1930s. It was applied to films where everything was a juxtaposition: educated and uneducated, rich and poor, intelligent and stupid, honest and dishonest, and most of all male and female. When two people fell in love, they did not simply surrender to their feelings, they battled it out. They lied to one another, often assuming indifferent personas toward each other. They often employed hideous tricks on each other, until finally after running out of inventions, fall into each others arms. It was fossilized comedy, physical and often painful, but mixed with the highest level of wit and sophistication, depending wholly on elegant and inventive writing. Even the supporting cast was always of first-rate. Character actors playing eccentric types as well as a stable of familiar faces in leading roles (Cary Grant, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn) [x].
When William Powell and director Jack Conway went fishing one evening at dusk while filming “Libeled Lady”, the two got separated. When Jack had found his way back to Bill he found that Bill hadn’t caught a single fish, but instead there was a bat at the end of his fishing line. Apparently the bat had swooped down out of the trees and swallowed the dry fly at the end of the line.
Five Favourite Myrna Loy Films
→ Libeled Lady (1936)
Bill Chandler: I thought that was rather clever of me.
Connie Allenbury: Yes, I thought you thought so.
Forever Favorite Films → Libeled Lady (1936)
That man is a first-class angler!
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FILMS YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
⌐ Libeled Lady (1936)
250 Films Meme | 95 | Libeled Lady (1936)
↳ Favourite 17/50
