Animal life was cheap in Hollywood that's true. I can understand (but don't like the fact) that horses are lost in stampede scenes and such but it's almost too much to bear that they might be shot just to make the scene more real
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I'm not going to think about it anymore, I shall put it out of my mind.
Wasn't Mayo Methot Bogie's third wife, my memory is telling me he was married 4 times the last being Lauren Bacall and I'm sure the wife that preceded Lauren was Mayo. Sorry I know it's nit picking
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perhaps someone else knows
Last night I added another Lubitsch film to my repertoire.
Trouble In Paradise . It's truly a lesson in precode perfection.
Did anyone match Lubitsch for dialogue and suggestion?
Miriam Hopkins reminded me in part of a young Carole Lombard and played the part the part of Lily making her worldly and vulnerable in her love for Gaston at the same time. She might say she prefers the money but when one of their conquests comes close to breaking her relationship with Gaston it isn't really the money she is bothered about.
Kay Francis's Mariette leads a blameless life, yet the audience aren't in sympathy with her because she wantonly spends her money when others are truly in need. It's not that she's cruel but that she's from the privileged world and therefore doesn't she deserve to be done over?
Herbert Marshall plays the French crook as only an English man can with a uppercrust English accent he's exceedingly dashing and charming and I can well understand both ladies for falling for him.
I truly adore Edward Everett Horton and he's at his best in this film. I used to think he was just a stalwart of the Fred And Ginger films. Not at all he appears in all sorts of films.
All in all I think the film had the right ending. It wasn't a film about everyone getting their just desserts but a film about set in the richest surroundings about people who have money and people clever enough to part them from it. The crooks don't have the redeeming qualities of a Robin Hood but because of their utter charm they can't allowed to be punished. After all it's only a story.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself - Charlie Chaplin