FOR DIFFERENT REASONS...AND ALL INTERESTING:
Hi there! I figure with the impending Hurricane Sandy barrelling down on New York City, I might as well hunker down and do some writing:
If you click onto each photo, you can read and see some interesting writing and editing.
DIAHANN CARROLL: Not a career filled with top “A” film projects, but she had Broadway and television success. And she was a successful nightclub singer as well. Never falling into stereotyped roles, she had class, bearing and style. If you’re curious at all about this beautiful actress click on her photo and read a good thorough article on
WHERE she gets this from.
Karen Noske has a website that covers all manner of style, fashion and biographical material:
MOVIE STAR MAKEOVER. I remember seeing Ms. Carroll on tv when I was a teenager, in “JULIA”; this was earth-shattering to me as a kid. See, real life is one thing...but the images coming back to me on the medium I was addicted to, was another thing. When she appeared in
“DYNASTY” it was an ‘A-HA’ moment for me. Well of course she could match Joan Collins champagne glass to champagne glass. She WOULD be rich and classy. I admit, I keep forgetting about Diahann Carroll b’cuz she didn’t have a strong film career; but when I’m reminded of her (
“Claudine” and the fantastic -
“Eve’s Bayou” ) she is
my ‘ oasis. ’
( Do check out the "Movie Star Makeover" website. It's not boringly wordy, it's heavy in photographs...and it's a great read covering some of your favorites. Here are some of my faves including my 1960's favorite:
Paula Prentiss: )
Please click on the fotos above if you have the chance.
JOAN CRAWFORD: In this enterprising YouTube video, some enterprising editor put together brief clips of almost-every Joan Crawford movie from the 20’s - 70’s. It was so interesting to see Joan in one fell swoop; how she changed with the times. She had different looks ( my favorite is...yes...those shoulder-padded 40’s ) and flipping through that Rolodex of roles, she had a pretty good run. There’s a clip of her running her fingers over William Haines’ lips in the 20’s, that was pretty racy. Energetic flapper ( 20’s ), shopgirl (30’s ), business woman (40’s ), harridan/gargoyle ( 50’s); I know I’m generalizing with those personas...but her career is pretty amazing as an actor and being a working woman, a working mom.
I just watched her stand toe-to-toe with Walter Huston in
"RAIN" and boy, I gotta tell ya...
MELVYN DOUGLAS:
He’s alright. I kind of tolerate him to get to the leading ladies that I like. He’s doable. But then something
JaxxXxxon wrote piqued my interest:
[u][color=#BF0000]Jack[/color][/u] [u][color=#BF0000]Favell[/color][/u] wrote:Whenever there's a question about Melvyn Douglas and why he was a star I pull out this very enjoyable article. It made me realize I like him better than I think I do.
Well she hasn’t steered me wrong yet so I read the article by
Danusha V. Goska:
...Douglas’s suavity moved me because he looked like he knew. He looked like he knew what he was doing. He looked like he knew himself. He looked like he knew what the rules were and he knew how to make things go the way he wanted by following or bending those rules as he saw fit. He looked like he knew what it is about women that most men so insistently don’t know.
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On my subway ride home I read the entire article. Twice. By the time I got to my subway stop, my takeaway from this article...my thoughts are:
I AM NOW IN LOVE WITH MELVYN DOUGLAS.
Melvyn Douglas as a carrier of an erotic charge, though new to me, had plenty of company in the ’20s and ’30s. William Powell, who played Nick Charles in the Thin Man series, George Brent, who often starred opposite Bette Davis, most memorably in Dark Victory, and Herbert Marshall also played men who seemed born middle-aged, but whom heroines often chose over fare more obviously appealing in our day. In Victory, Davis turned down Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan for George Brent, after all. -Danusha V. Goska.
What the heck?!!!! Seduced by good writing...yet again!! You’ve got to read the whole article. She really breaks down his appeal and why he has “
IT.”
Now I have my sights set on Melvyn Douglas.