Cristiane Young
@crisopera1.bsky.social
Old Movie Fanatic, Bleeding-Heart Liberal, Ex-Opera Singer
Please let me recommend two of his pre-Code movies with Kay Francis - One Way Passage (swooningly romantic) and Jewel Robbery (the best Lubitsch movie Lubitsch didn't make). They are completely wonderful.
April 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Please let me recommend two of his pre-Code movies with Kay Francis - One Way Passage (swooningly romantic) and Jewel Robbery (the best Lubitsch movie Lubitsch didn't make). They are completely wonderful.
This was the third version of #TheMalteseFalcon. 1931 is a very lively pre-Code; 1936 (Satan Met a Lady) is disastrously terrible; and 1941? Masterpiece. #TCMParty
April 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This was the third version of #TheMalteseFalcon. 1931 is a very lively pre-Code; 1936 (Satan Met a Lady) is disastrously terrible; and 1941? Masterpiece. #TCMParty
That is DEFINITELY a doozie of an evening gown, Nora #TheThinMan #TCMParty
April 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
That is DEFINITELY a doozie of an evening gown, Nora #TheThinMan #TCMParty
Powell and Loy were two of the actors who benefited the most from the coming of sound. He was mostly cast as heavy-lidded villains, and she was usually "exotic" in silents. But when audiences heard those wonderful voices...voila! Stardom! #TheThinMan #TCMParty
April 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Powell and Loy were two of the actors who benefited the most from the coming of sound. He was mostly cast as heavy-lidded villains, and she was usually "exotic" in silents. But when audiences heard those wonderful voices...voila! Stardom! #TheThinMan #TCMParty
Frances Dee was so extraordinarily beautiful. She and Joel McCrea (married 57 years) were certainly one of the most gorgeous couples in Hollywood. #IWalkedwithaZombie #TCMParty
April 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Frances Dee was so extraordinarily beautiful. She and Joel McCrea (married 57 years) were certainly one of the most gorgeous couples in Hollywood. #IWalkedwithaZombie #TCMParty
Bruce Bennett, forever the leftover other guy (Mildred Pierce, Dark Passage), made The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), under his real name, Herman Brix. He'd been a shot-putter (silver medal) in the 1928 Olympics, but the Tarzan thing didn't work out... #TarzantheApeMan #TCMParty
April 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Bruce Bennett, forever the leftover other guy (Mildred Pierce, Dark Passage), made The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), under his real name, Herman Brix. He'd been a shot-putter (silver medal) in the 1928 Olympics, but the Tarzan thing didn't work out... #TarzantheApeMan #TCMParty
I am very fond of C. Aubrey Smith, the ultimate stiff-upper-lip Brit. Love this photo of him in his cricketing days #TarzantheApeMan #TCMParty
April 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I am very fond of C. Aubrey Smith, the ultimate stiff-upper-lip Brit. Love this photo of him in his cricketing days #TarzantheApeMan #TCMParty
Ivor Novello, one of the screenwriters, was a long time matinee idol on the British stage. He wrote his own vehicles, which tended to be sentimental operettas with titles like The King's Rhapsody, Glamorous Night, and The Dancing Years, #TarzanTheApeMan #TCMParty
April 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Ivor Novello, one of the screenwriters, was a long time matinee idol on the British stage. He wrote his own vehicles, which tended to be sentimental operettas with titles like The King's Rhapsody, Glamorous Night, and The Dancing Years, #TarzanTheApeMan #TCMParty
Oh, I think we can safely say that they'll spend at least SOME time together after the movie in Jewel Robbery...
April 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Oh, I think we can safely say that they'll spend at least SOME time together after the movie in Jewel Robbery...
It always tickled me that the three great noir villains - Ryan, Widmark, Duryea - were apparently wonderful warm family men who were adored by everyone. ACTING! #ClashbyNight #NoirAlley #TCMParty
March 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It always tickled me that the three great noir villains - Ryan, Widmark, Duryea - were apparently wonderful warm family men who were adored by everyone. ACTING! #ClashbyNight #NoirAlley #TCMParty
Orry-Kelly designed my all-time favorite movie gown - Kay Francis in Mandalay (1934). I mean - LOOK AT THIS. #KayEveryDay
March 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Orry-Kelly designed my all-time favorite movie gown - Kay Francis in Mandalay (1934). I mean - LOOK AT THIS. #KayEveryDay
John Cromwell directed one of my all-time favorite movies - pretty much complete perfection
March 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
John Cromwell directed one of my all-time favorite movies - pretty much complete perfection
Please join us next week for the light side of noir, #HomeSweetHomicide, the last offering in our #WomenWriters series. Based on the book by the successful and prolific comic writer Craig Rice (nee Georgiana Craig), this is a loosely autobiographical tale of a mystery writer with 3 children.
March 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Please join us next week for the light side of noir, #HomeSweetHomicide, the last offering in our #WomenWriters series. Based on the book by the successful and prolific comic writer Craig Rice (nee Georgiana Craig), this is a loosely autobiographical tale of a mystery writer with 3 children.
March 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Alice Faye didn't make another film after #FallenAngel until she returned to Fox in 1962 to play the mother in the remake of State Fair. #FilmNoirClub
February 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Alice Faye didn't make another film after #FallenAngel until she returned to Fox in 1962 to play the mother in the remake of State Fair. #FilmNoirClub
Please join #FilmNoirClub tomorrow night at 8 for #FallenAngel (1945), Otto Preminger's follow-up noir to Laura (1944), with its sizzling chemistry between grifter Andrews and tough waitress Darnell. Things don't go so well for Darnell.
Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kJ...
Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kJ...
February 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Please join #FilmNoirClub tomorrow night at 8 for #FallenAngel (1945), Otto Preminger's follow-up noir to Laura (1944), with its sizzling chemistry between grifter Andrews and tough waitress Darnell. Things don't go so well for Darnell.
Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kJ...
Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kJ...
And of course, Claudette Colbert wore them for most of her life #TCMParty
October 7, 2023 at 11:07 PM
And of course, Claudette Colbert wore them for most of her life #TCMParty
