#Alfred J. Goulding

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look pleasant, please |1918|

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Carole Lombard "Run, girl, run" 1928, de Alfred J. Goulding.

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Haunted Spooks (1920) Hal Roach and Alfred J. Goulding

March 15th 2024

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2023: 59. A Chump at Oxford (1939) - Dir. Alfred J. Goulding

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Carmen Jr. (1923)  

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Archive: Stumfilm by The Danish Film Institute

Director: Alfred J. Goulding

Performers: Baby Peggy, Tommy Wonder

Languages: Danish intertitles

Music: None

Runtime: 11 min.

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Seen in 2023:

Bashful (Alfred J. Goulding), 1917

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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own (Wesley Ruggles, 1932)

Cast: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, George Barbier, J. Farrell MacDonald, Tommy Conlon, Walter Walker, Paul Ellis, Charley Grapewin. Screenplay: Maurine Dallas Watkins, Milton Herbert Gropper, Edmund Goulding, Benjamin Glazer, based on a novel by Val Lewton. Cinematography: Lee Tover. Film editing: Otho Lovering. Costume design: Travis Banton. 

If actors weren't cattle, as Alfred Hitchcock is reported to have said, they were at least property, and their studios treated them as such. Clark Gable was becoming one of MGM's most valuable properties when he was loaned out to Paramount to make the only film in which he starred with Carole Lombard, who later became his wife. It was part of a complicated talent swamp initiated by Marion Davies, who had clout with MGM because of her relationship with William Randolph Hearst, who produced films for her that were distributed by MGM. Davies wanted Bing Crosby for a movie, so Paramount traded him to MGM for Gable and No Man of Her Own. Lombard became his co-star only because Miriam Hopkins didn't want to take second billing to Gable. The studio mountains labored to bring forth a cinematic mouse: a passable romantic comedy remembered only for the star teaming. Gable and Lombard are very good in it, though he comes off somewhat better than she does. Lombard was best in movies that gave her license to clown, like Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934) and My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936). In No Man of Her Own she's simply a woman who knows what she wants, and it isn't necessarily Gable, it's just to get out of the dull little town where she's the librarian. Gable on the other hand is in a role tailor-made for him: "Babe" Stewart, a raffish professional poker player who's as adept at wooing women as he is at cheating at cards. On the verge of getting caught by the detective (J. Farrell MacDonald) who's been tailing him, he skips town and winds up in the burg that Lombard's Connie Randall wants to escape. She catches his eye -- in one pre-Code scene she climbs a ladder and he looks up her skirt -- and with improbable speed they get married. Eventually she finds out that he's not the stockbroker he pretends to be, but nothing fazes her. He gets in trouble again, but just as he's about to take it on the lam, deserting her, he finds of course that he really loves her. The story lacks snap and tension: It was cobbled together from several sources, nominally from a novel by Val Lewton called No Bed of Her Own, a title the Hays Office nixed, but also from another story in Paramount's files. What life the film has comes from Wesley Ruggles's direction and from its performers, including Dorothy Mackaill as Babe's former partner in card-sharping. Lombard and Gable work well together, but reportedly didn't strike any off-screen sparks at the time -- they were both married to other people. They met again at a party four years later and were married in 1939.   

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April 2023 Media Breakdown

Movies:

By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) - Alfred J. Goulding

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) - Ian Samuels

This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) - Simon Aboud

Un certain matin (A Certain Morning) (1991) - Fanta Régina Nacro

Hairat (2017) - Jessica Beshir

Isole di fuoco (Islands of Fire) (1955) - Vittorio De Seta

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - Joe Johnston

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - Anthony & Joe Russo

Dune (1984) - David Lynch

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - Hayao Miyazaki

The Big Lebowski (1998) - Joel & Ethan Coen

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Ang Lee

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) - David Lynch

TV Shows:

N/A

Books: Completed

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (2019) - Jai Tolentino

The Dragon Republic (2019) - R.F. Kuang

Hamnet (2020) - Maggie O’Farrell

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (2020) - Marcia Chatelain

Legends & Lattes (2022) - Travis Baldree

Books: In Progress

The Strange (2023) - Nathan Ballingurd | 38%

The Burning God (2020) - R.F. Kuang | 16%

Top 3 Albums:

the record - boygenius (2023) | indie rock

labour (single) - Paris Paloma (2023) | folk/indie rock

Hamp: The Legendary Decca Recordings of Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra (1996) | jazz

Crafts:

Still working on the scrap yarn blanket

[criteriondiary]

By the Sad Sea Waves Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States Starring Harold Lloyd, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

https://www.criterionchannel.com/by-the-sad-sea-waves

ハロルド・ロイド

娘（７歳、熱で学校休む）とともに、鑑賞。

ロイドが、ビーチでベベをナンパしようと奮闘する話。

更衣室とシャワールームの看板を取り替えるドタバタ。

最後は、ベベを海から救出してハッピーエンド。

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

bashful |1917|

[gatutor]

Jack Earle-Baby Peggy "Peg o´the mounted" 1924, de Alfred J. Goulding.

[ozu-teapot]

A Chump at Oxford | Alfred J. Goulding | 1939

Eddie Borden

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Run, Girl, Run (1928) Alfred J. Goulding

September 28th 2022

[jeanpascalmattei]

http://lemiroirdesfantomes.blogspot.com/2022/08/fantome-avec-chauffeur.html

[visualfilmdiary]

14/07/2018

By the Sad Sea Waves (Dir. Alfred J. Goulding, 1917)

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Ramblin' Round Radio Row

Alfred J. Goulding USA, 1932