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the sense i've developed during my Rosalind Russell obsession is that she always found herself playing characters who found conventional glamour kind of stupid, so she's rarely framed that way in her movies. This shot from FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM is an exception. god, what a human being.

Because Colman is capable of going very big but also in quiet, intimate, haunting performances in things that are more muted. What bugs me is that SING SING wasn't a breakout movie this year. It got a good NYer review and elsewhere but I don't see people online keeping it alive

anyway, here's Joan and Van in Possessed (the 1947, not the 1931: I know - it's confusing). Don't they look great together?

grown-ass adult romances like GOODBYE MY FANCY. Robert Young is okay (he's always okay, sometimes really good, but rarely), but Van - methinks - would make this a classic.

Van is terrific as a scheming romancer in THE FEMININE TOUCH, so much so that he outshines Don Ameche - this would lead to his rising star and his Oscar win for JOHNNY EAGER later.

this is maybe my favorite title card ever. two of my absolute favorites. i wish, in addition to this movie where Van is the reason for Joan's emotional torture, they had made a romantic comedy as well.

The thing that delighted me most, of course, is that Harold is at one point flipping through this book, published in 1968 by Lawrence Quirk, which I am going to hunt down

here's what I told my students on Discord about Lupe/Dolores

this after Anna May Wong - the documentary ANNA MAY WONG: IN HER OWN WORDS (short, affecting, illuminating), and the not-very-good Lady from Chungking - I wanted to show it because 1) the 40s 2) the war but students saw clips in the doc from SHANGHAI EXPRESS and wanted to watch that instead

just finished a virtual class week on Lupe Velez and Dolores Del Rio for my 40s women class. This was one of those "I haven't read this so I'll read it before class" type things. Their representation and their vehicles was/were troubling, but their charisma/intelligence something else.

Wish I knew more about Montague Summers. Love this Behn pic. She looks like a character in a CATHY comic (ack!)

And since the football team is bad, then they’ll buy his contract out and pay someone else on top of that

going through Aphra Behn's poetry today and sharing highlights:

We demand to be taken seriously.

More sighs! From Aphra Behn's (or the Aphra Behn-ish) Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister. Sylvia trapped in a morass of desire that can't be totally mediated by the letters she depends on. But there's also a "rhetoric" in "sighs and silent touches" that gives "a sense and soft meaning.."

hi all - I'm going to use this social pace to comment on my book project, which is about sighs: so I'm going to offer my favorite sighs here every now and then. first up, Johnny/Jackie D's Holy Sonnet: