Pictures today are more from my weekend. After we left Spring Hammock Reserve http://www.visitseminole.com/things-to-do/parks-preserves/spring-hammock-preserve it was next stop ARTISTIST HAND GALLERY AND STUDIOS http://artistichandgalleryandstudio.com/ from which my personal photos in today’s offerings are from.
“And you’re willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of ‘Minnie The Moocher’ for seventy-five cents. For a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.”
A Night at the Opera (1935)
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There is now a handy table from The Nielsen Company that lays out the viewer ratings for each episode of Outlander.
and found this on the internet about why the show is being cancelled
http://nationalreport.net/outlander-tv-series-canceled-one-season/
This site is a fun—after all they have Cruz and Palin on the heading….especially check out why the show was a failure I like the eye and the hair color bit the best.
One of my favorite articles on this site: Tom Brady’s Trump Endorsement Result Of Concussion, Say Doctors
“It’s a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It’s a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.”
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
SINCE this is Oscar Week and a sad comment on our tastes when Mad Max (a remake) won all those Oscars….I saw the movie and it was good…but this is the best cinema we have?!….So sad….any way I thought today I’d look at our choices (well really Hollywood’s)–and I’ve herd that it’s not how always how good the movie was but who’s friends, or who owes or something along those political lines, depends on the final results and not the talent and/or the greatness of the product itself.
Life is tricky.
– “The Life of Emile Zola,” winner in 1937
Today we look at the Depression years.
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“All Quiet On The Western Front,” winner in 1930 The story of German School boys that become part of the tragedy of World War I. The Depression was setting in and people’s lives were often free falling into tragedy…a fitting movie to start it all?
“Cimarron,” winner in 1931–a couple takes on a relocation to the Oklahoma territory and their efforts and relationship for 40 years on the western frontier.
“Grand Hotel,” winner in 1932 (Greta Garbo’s line that would forever stick with her: “I want to be alone.”) Lavish adaptation of the successful Broadway play, the baron romances one of his marks, the aging ballerina Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo).
“Cavalcade,” winner in 1933 Featuring life’s many triumphs and tragedies in London in the end of the last century.
“It Happened One Night,” winner in 1934 Clark Gable’s only personal Oscar—an odd couple’s movie with a poor little rich girl and a reporter looking for a scoop.
“Mutiny On The Bounty,” winner in 1935 Gable’s 2nd Oscar winning film but no Oscar for him (he did get nominated) A ship’s mutiny that will forever live in infamy
“The Great Ziegfeld,” winner in 1936 One of those lavish musical produced to take your mind off of the state of your economy….they even gave away dishes (now called Depression Glass and selling for a nice bit of cash) to those attending the cinemas, to make movie going more attractive.
“The Life of Emile Zola,” winner in 1937 To be honest I don’t remember ever hearing about this one….not even the name rings a bell….the subject matter would become more pertinent as the years of the late 30’s and early 40’s moved on and the Nazis came to real power. It is the story of an author who becomes involved in the persecution of a Jewish officer, due to anti-Semitism, in Paris.
“You Can’t Take It With You,” winner in 1938 this one I saw recently–I go to a Met Up Group that features old movies–It’s the classic stuffy successful family comes to dinner with the eccentric future in-laws—a plot that that never really grows old.
“Gone With The Wind,” winner in 1939 (the world famous: “Personally my Dear I don’t give a damn” which reportedly really bothered he censors.). Gable’s 3rd Oscar winning movie (and 2nd missed personal award—yes he was nominated) in less than 10 years. This sweeping story based on best selling novel takes us from before, during and after the Civil War through the lives of spoilt southern belle Scarlett O’Hara and social misfit and all round scoundrel Rhett Butler and their associates as they move thru trials and tribulations in good times and bad.
I used to be just like you. Then one morning I was going up in the elevator and it struck me that I wasn’t having any fun. So I came right down and I never went back. That was thirty-five years ago.
– “You Can’t Take It With You,” winner in 1938
The first movie is on a hopeless situation, young boys moving from school to war and thus death and misfortune…a fitting movie for the post (1929) stock market crash. The beginning of the 1930’s were grim with 15 million Americans unemployed and a president (Hoover) doing nothing except urging patience. By 1933 there was a new president in the White House and Roosevelt’s New Deal, which while it didn’t end the Depression, did help millions of suffering Americans.
As the winners show big block busters and lavish musicals were the order of the day to allow the American who could afford the cost: According to Daily Reporter: Back in 1933, the average price of a movie ticket was a quarter. Of course, everything’s more expensive in New York, so Friday’s opening screening of the Mae West-Cary Grant classic “I’m No Angel,” paired with vintage trailers and cartoons, will set you back a grand total of — ready? — 35 cents. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/depression-era-gems-1930s-prices-article-1.389208
Those movies along with the Block Busters and musical escapism, did have one screw-ball comedy with a great cast, a romantic comedy and a British offering…the most out of the usual to me seeming to be the prophetic Life of Zola’s rendering of the anti-Semitic offering. So these seem to fit the needs of the audience who were sunk in Depression in more ways than one.
I haven’t anything to offer you because there’s nothing you really seem to need. You’ve made the most of yourself unassisted and that’s grand. I expect part of your ambition, half of your troubles, two-thirds of your worries, and all of your respect.
– “The Great Ziegfeld,” winner in 1936
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Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me… hide me in your love.
– “Cimarron,” winner in 1931
Thanks to: http://stylecaster.com/best-movie-quotes/#ixzz41ldFKBjP for most of the quotes
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