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January & February Favorites

The first favorites post of 2024, cute! I’m really trying to focus in on who I am at this very moment because every December I forget who January/February Kim was and feel like she surely existed years earlier. But alas, here I am, here we are, the January/February versions of ourselves, guiding us through the beginning of the year, doing our very best. Let’s get into it. . Books I heard so…

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BRANDON SKLENAR as Spencer Dutton 1923 (2022 TV Series) created by Taylor Sheridan

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Harrison Ford at the "81st Annual Golden Globe Awards" ~ 01/07/24 ~ CBS/Paramount+

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The Complete Dutton Family Tree from the 7th generation to the 1st.

Yellowstone, 1923 and 1883 Explained

The first thing you think of when you here Yellowstone...Dutton.

Since the airing of the finale episode "Life Is a Promise" I will be updating anything that needs updating with the family tree and generations of the Dutton's.

1923's Season 2 premiere is Feb 23, 2025 and I'm betting the ranch Spencer and Alexandra will end up being the parents of John Dutton II (Who at this point seems to be the only male member of the family who died of old age and wasn't murdered beforehand due to the Ranch)

Here is a link list of the family trees broken down by generations, hope you all enjoy because it took a long time to get all this together for Tumblr specifically.

1st Generation of 1883

2nd Generation of 1883

3rd Generation of 1923

4th Generation of 1923

5th Generation of Yellowstone

6th Generation of Yellowstone

7th Generation of Yellowstone

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[1923 - 1x6 - “One Ocean Closer to Destiny”]

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Movie poster by an unknown artist for the 1923 Paramount motion picture Bluebeards 8th Wife. This was Gloria Swanson's 24th film and 16th for Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount. It's considered a lost film.

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Lost, but Not Forgotten: Prodigal Daughters (1923)

Direction: Sam Wood

Scenario: Monte M. Katterjohn

Original Novel: Joseph Hocking

Camera: Alfred Gilks

Studio: Paramount (production) & Famous Players-Lasky (distribution)

Performers: Gloria Swanson, Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, Theodore Roberts, Louise Dresser, Charles Clary, Robert Agnew, Maude Wayne, Jiquel Lanoe, George Fawcett, Eric Mayne

Flying Stunts: Leo Nomis

Premiere: 15 April 1923

Status: presumed entirely lost

Length: 6,216 feet, or roughly 70 minutes.*

Synopsis (synthesized from magazine summaries of the plot):

Elinor “Swiftie” Forbes (Gloria Swanson) and her sister Marjory (Vera Reynolds) are committed to living life on the “jazz route” at their comfy estate on Long Island. With their freshly bobbed hair, they attend the links on Sunday instead of church, party all night, smoke cigarettes, and drink. They live by the “Seven Deadly Whims:”

New Lips to Kiss. 

Freedom from Conventions. 

A New World for Women. 

No More Chaperons. 

Life with a Kick in It. 

The Single Moral Standard. 

Our Own Latchkeys.

Their mother (Louise Dresser) also thinks young and doesn’t try to restrict or discipline her daughters. The patriarch of the family is J.D. Forbes (Theodore Roberts), a locomotive magnate who became a millionaire off WWI. J.D. has been away on business in Europe for three years.

Back in New York around the Fourth of July, Stanley Garside (Charles Clary), who runs a gambling den, throws a party for Swiftie, which includes a firework display in her honor. On the radio, the crowd hears a lecture by a Doctor Marco Strong (Eric Mayne) decrying the moral degradation of the younger generation. Swiftie broadcasts her rebuttal from her own device.

Roger Corbin (Ralph Graves), an aviator who also happens to be an engineer at J.D.’s locomotive works, is flying nearby and hears Swiftie’s rebuttal. Corbin decides to make a landing at the party and invites Swiftie for a ride. She accepts, but bad weather forces them to land and they get waylaid overnight at a local inn. Swiftie’s friends pick her up in the morning and Corbin and Swiftie part without Swiftie knowing Corbin’s identity.

Meanwhile, Marjory is being pursued by songwriter Lester Hodges (Robert Agnew).

J.D. returns from Europe soon after with no one to meet him but his chauffeur. He’s horrified to see how the women in his family are living. They’ve even converted his billiard room into a dance parlor complete with buffet bar! J.D. bans smoking, drinking, parties, and Lester.

Theodore Roberts in Prodigal Daughters from Motion Picture Magazine, August 1923

Swiftie meets Corbin at her father’s house and learns he works for dad. Corbin proposes marriage to her, but she rejects him. The daughters rebel against their newly returned father and decide to make their own way in Greenwich Village. 

Marjory marries Lester and Swiftie gets to earning a living on her own. Garside persues Swiftie and she takes to gambling at his establishment. Marjory finds out that Lester was only interested in her for her dad’s money and they split. Swiftie escorts Marjory back to their parents house, but vows to stick to her new independent lifestyle. 

Unfortunately, Swiftie begins losing heavily at Garside’s. Garside agrees to a wager against Swiftie’s debt so that, if she loses again, he’ll clear her debt, but she has to marry him within 60 days. Swiftie loses.

On Christmas Eve, Swiftie and Garside are partying at a speakeasy when the joint gets raided by prohibition agents. Luckily for Swiftie, Corbin has been out looking for her and he finds her just in time to help her escape.

The climax features an accident with a newly designed locomotive and Swiftie and Garside in his automobile. Garside is killed, but Corbin is able to rescue Swiftie and they escape via airplane.

Swiftie and Corbin get together and she returns to her parent’s home, penitent.

Scenes from Prodigal Daughters from Motion Picture News, 29 December 1923

Additional Info:

There is a sequence in the film that depicts the operation of a high-tech beauty parlor, wherein Louise Dresser’s character gets a face lift. It takes place before her husband returns from abroad, but I’m not certain with any more detail than that where it fits chronologically in the summary above.

There appears to be two sequences or at least two parts to the climatic sequence where Garside dies and Swiftie is rescued by Corbin. I’m not sure based on the summaries available precisely how they fit together, so I just described both instead of hypothesizing with no data.

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Points of Interest:

This movie was Swanson’s 9th film out of a total of 10 with director Sam Wood. 

The full list goes:

The Great Moment (1921, only a fragment survives at BFI),

Under the Lash (1921, presumed lost),

Don’t Tell Everything (1921, presumed lost),

Her Husband’s Trademark (1922, extant on 16mm at George Eastman House & Gosfilmofond),

Her Gilded Cage (1922, presumed lost), 

Beyond the Rocks (1922, extant at Nederlands Filmmuseum, and available on home video via Milestone Films.), 

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922, presumed lost), 

My American Wife (1922, presumed lost),

Prodigal Daughters (1923, presumed lost),

Bluebeard’s 8th Wife (1923, presumed lost)

That is only a 20 percent survival rate! 

[Survival status checked via LOC’s Silent Feature Film Database, and re-checked at relevant archives when available]

If you happened to read my post profiling Racing Hearts (1923), you may remember that Theodore Roberts also plays a magnate who goes abroad to Europe and has a flapper daughter, with whom he doesn’t see eye to eye. These two films were released only two months apart, so I imagine it was pretty nice for Roberts to be able to take the “two birds, one stone” approach in preparing for his work. What a type to specialize in! 

*The film was edited by censors in various state markets, so the runtime of a print in NY wouldn’t be identical to a print in Kansas.

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Transcribed Sources & Annotation over on the WMM Blog!

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Paramount+|Demi Moore está no elenco de Landman

'Landman', nova produção original da Paramount+, tem Demi Moore no elenco principal #DemiMoore #Paramount+ #TaylorSheridan #Landman

Demi Moore está escalada pra viver uma das protagonistas em Landman, nova série do diretor Taylor Sheridan em parceria com a Paramount+. Essa é a sétima produção exclusiva do diretor para o catálogo do streaming que garante uma história recheada de reviravoltas, ação e muito luxo. Inspirada no podcast ‘Boomtown’, a narrativa de Landman retrata as histórias dos grandes magnatas no esquema de…

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I really want to like 1923 but it is such a soap with 2 bad storylines. It saw no real connection between these 3 storylines in my eyes and tbh I hope the 2. season will solve some of these problems.

The native america storyline is super interesting but with every new scene it felt more and more like torture porn. Also what was the connection to the main story?

Then there is the really stupid story line with Spencer and Alex who declare after half a day the truest and biggest love to each other. In almost all their scenes they say the most cringe worthy stuff and let their hormons rule. Even when their lifes are in danger. I fought against myself to skip these scenes.

The third storyline is the most interesting because it is finally the one which plays in Yellowstone and has the Duttons as the main characters.

It shows the fight between the various farmers. Corruption, power struggles, murders, tears, the love between family members.

I hate the two villains. I mean the villains in the native americans story are horrible but almost like a carricature?

In this storyline we have villains that I can totally see living in the USA.

Also the older main couple is really good. It shows so much trust and love in each other. Even when they fight with each other.

Please I need more of them. ❤️

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[1923 - 1x3 - “The War Has Come Home”]

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1923 Season 2 Episode Guide

Season 2

The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.

#2.1 - "???" (Season Premiere) () Sun, Feb 23, 2025 #2.2 "???" () Sun, Mar 2, 2025 #2.3 - "???" () Sun, Mar 9, 2025

WILL BE UPDATED

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Binge Watching Between the Deluge and the Floods

In California the idea of “average annual rainfall” is complete garbage.  We either have way too much rain or a drought.  In that situation the average is like the guy with his feet in the oven and his head in the freezer: On the average he is the right temperature. This year was a rainy year.  The initial floods have subsided for now, but the snow pack up in the mountains will soon be melting…