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BFI Cary Grant Season: Part Two

October 19, 2019

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And that’s a wrap! Much like the previous month, September was largely spent in NFT1-3 at the BFI, ignoring all the big releases at the end of summer in favour of more of Grant’s back catalogue. The second half of the BFI’s Cary Grant season features films from the mid-1940s until the end of his career in the 1960s.

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BFI Cary Grant Season: Part One

September 18, 2019

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Throughout August and September the BFI has been hosting a season called Cary Grant: Britain’s Greatest Export. This means that I’ve been spending even more time there than usual, and I’ve watched a lot of his movies over the past few weeks (with even more to come over the next few!). The season is divided into two parts, so I wanted to talk about the films I’ve seen so far in the first part, which spans from the beginning of his career in the early 1930s until the mid-1940s, when he was fully established as a major Hollywood star.

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Classic Pre-1950s Christmas Movies

December 5, 2018

Hollywood Boulevard, 1933

 

It’s that time of year! Here are a few of my favourite Christmas movies from early Hollywood.

 

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“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and “Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”⁣
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Happy birthday to Elizabeth Taylor #botd in 1932⁣
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Ingrid Bergman on the set of Intermezzo (1939), he Ingrid Bergman on the set of Intermezzo (1939), her first Hollywood film ⁣
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Invited by David Selznick to reprise her starring role in the Swedish original, Bergman didn’t think she’d be popular with US audiences, and expected to head home after shooting finished⁣
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“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated t “I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”⁣
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Happy birthday to Cary Grant #botd in 1904⁣
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“A woman has just as much right in this world as “A woman has just as much right in this world as a man, and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.”⁣
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Happy birthday to Carole Lombard #botd in 1908 (pictured July 1938)⁣
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"We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We st "We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair."⁣
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Happy birthday to Clara Bow #botd in 1905⁣
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‪“V stands for Vampire, and it stands for Veng ‪“V stands for Vampire, and it stands for Vengeance. The vampire I play is the vengeance of my sex upon its exploiters. You see, I have the face of a vampire, perhaps, but the heart of a feminist.”‬⁣
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‪Happy birthday to Theda Bara #botd in 1885‬⁣
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‪Olivia de Havilland on the set of In This Our L ‪Olivia de Havilland on the set of In This Our Life (1942)‬⁣
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‪Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine attend Ma ‪Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine attend Marlene Dietrich’s opening night party at the Rainbow Room in NYC, September 1962‬⁣
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‪“Do you know, people say I am a terrible flir ‪“Do you know, people say I am a terrible flirt. You know what made me that way? American pictures! They show a girl how to vamp!”‬⁣
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‪Happy birthday to Lupe Vélez #botd in 1908‬⁣
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