#Hurd Hatfield

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Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

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Twin brothers Malvin Marr Albright and Ivan Albright painting The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945)

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Singer, actress Lena Horne visits actor Hurd Hatfield on the set of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)

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The Unsuspected (1947) Michael Curtiz

October 24th 2024

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Hurd Hatfield and Angela Lansbury in Albert Lewin’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)

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Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane, embracing Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in a publicity shot for THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945).

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Bad movie I have Her Alibi 1989

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The Unsuspected

Michael Curtiz’s THE UNSUSPECTED (1947, TCM) starts with a bang. A secretary in a posh mansion is murdered and strung up from the chandelier to appear to be a suicide. In one brief shot, we see the killer (Claude Rains, in a role originally intended for Orson Welles and then Humphrey Bogart). A week later, Rains is presenting his radio show, in which he describes famous murders. As he speaks of an unsolved case, the camera catches shadowy glimpses of various men looking guilty, including one in a cheap hotel room lit by a neon sign outside, with only the letters “K-I-L-L” visible. A week later we see a party at Rains’ home, which contains enough scandalous stories to keep a prime-time soap going for years. And then it all fizzles out. Even with two more murders and great camera work by Woody Bredell, there’s no real excitement. Part of the problem is that the film is too long. The other is the top-billed star, Joan Caulfield, an actress with all the charisma of stewed prunes who was briefly a top-ten box-office star on the strength of a few films in which she teamed with Bing Crosby (some have suggested they were involved; kissy, kissy). She’s Rains’ ward, whose fortune he’s living on. At the start, she’s presumed dead in a shipwreck. Unfortunately, she turns up, having been rescued by a fisherman with no taste in acting. Her scenes are a total downer. Rains has a niece (Audrey Totter) with an alcoholic husband (Hurt Hatfield) who was supposed to marry Caulfield (see what I mean about those prime-time soaps). They burn up the screen, only for Caulfield to turn up and throw a wet blanket over everything. The only person who can get anything out of her is Rains, who’s so good he seems to be dragging a performance of her. There’s also an amateur detective (Michael North), who’s almost as bland as Caulfield and a homicide detective (Fred Clark) who says, “Find the killer and you’ll find the motive.” Only we never really find out what the motive was, so I guess he was wrong. Constance Bennett is also on hand, in a role originally announced for Eve Arden, as Rains’ wisecracking producer. She’s stylish, witty and energetic, and, as with Arden in most of her films, there’s not nearly enough of her.

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At work, my dad just casually dropped that he met Hurd Hatfield (most known for playing Dorian Gray) and got invited over to his country house like, 30 years ago or something??

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Asked for Hurd Hatfield. End up getting Ben Barnes lol.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

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The Norliss Tapes (1973, Dan Curtis)

5/16/24

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26 dicembre … ricordiamo …

26 dicembre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2019: Sue Lyon, attrice statunitense, conosciuta principalmente per aver interpretato il personaggio di Lolita nell’omonimo film. (n. 1946) 2000: Jason Robards, nome completo Jason Nelson Robards Jr., attore statunitense. Esordì sugli schermi in età matura. (n. 1922) 1998: Hurd Hatfield, William Rukard Hurd Hatfield, è stato un attore cinematografico, teatrale e televisivo statunitense.  (n.…

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Statt Bibelspektakel zur Abwechslung mal ein Ritterspektakel mit Charlton Heston. Der prinzipientreue El Cid eint seinem zweifelhaften König zum Trotz die Spanier samt verständigen Mauren gegen Islamistische Welteroberungspläne. So ist recht! Nur die gute Sophia hat nicht so recht was von ihm. Am Ende ist er tot, aber legendär und reitet dem Sonnenuntergang entgegen, in Technicolor und ..hm.. Supertechnirama.

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