#anne revere

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Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 – December 18, 1990)

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The Devil Commands (1941)

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Anne Revere: Martha Dobie in The Children's Hour (1934 Broadway); Anna Berniers in Toys in the Attic (1960 Broadway)

Libby Holman: Mari in The Sapphire Ring (1925 Broadway); The Little Show (1929 Broadway); Mme Baltin in You Never Know (1938 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Anne Revere:

this is the loving communists website so i better see people voting for an active member of the american communist party

Libby Holman:

Openly bisexual Jewish woman who loved making a scene. A man allegedly killed himself because she broke his heart. Had affairs with Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead.

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National Velvet (1944) Clarence Brown

March 18th 2024

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Gentleman's Agreement (1947) dir. Elia Kazan.

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“You talk different, but you drive just like the rest of em!”

Fallen Angel (1945) dir. Otto Preminger

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Dragonwyck

Alfred Newman’s blissfully thundering score, replacing the usual 20th Century-Fox fanfare, promises a much better film than Joseph L. Mankiewicz delivers with his first directing effort, DRAGONWYCK (1946, TCM, YouTube). It’s not that the film is bad. It has some strong moments and performances, and you can see hints of the wit and grace that would inform some of his later films. It just doesn’t live up to the promise of its first hour.

It opens in 1844 with Gene Tierney running into a farmhouse, and, to her and Mankiewicz’ s credit, she maintains that level of youthful exuberance through much of the film. She’s being raised by Walter Huston and Anne Revere (who are simply marvelous) in a strict religious farm family in Connecticut. When a wealthy distant relation (Vincent Price) requests they send one of their daughters as a companion for his, she convinces Huston to send her off. She’s soon swept up in the glamour of life on a wealthy landowner’s estate in the Hudson River Valley. She’s also charmed by Price’s urbanity and seeming generosity, particularly in a beautifully staged grand ball scene. When his wife dies suddenly, Price proposes, and then the film goes downhill.

Some of the problem is that Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay, has condensed a 400+ page novel into a 103-minute movie. Characters keep telling us about things we should have seen, and the housekeeper, a wonderfully eccentric and surprisingly malicious Spring Byington, vanishes halfway through. A farmer (Henry Morgan) wrongly arrested for murder is suddenly free with no explanation. Along with those narrative lapses, 1940s values also start getting in the way. The scene in which the recently married Tierney finds out that Price is (<gasp><clutch pearls>) an atheist is almost ludicrous. DRAGONWYCK looks and sounds great, and most of the acting is at a high level. Tierney did very good work for Mankiewicz, and the scene in which she discovers what the film can only hint at, that her husband’s become an opium addict, proves that she really could move her face. Price’s performance feels like a successful tryout for his later Gothic hero-villains in the Roger Corman Poe films. And Jessica Tandy has a nice turn as a maid who can’t cook, iron or sew but is fiercely loyal to her mistress. With what Tierney goes through in the name of gothic suspense, she needs it.

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Director Victor Fleming, Anne Revere, and Spencer Tracy (signing autographs) on location in Ocala National Forest in Florida in 1940 to film a version of THE YEARLING that never happened due to numerous conflicts.

MGM completed the film in 1947 with Gregory Peck, Claude Jarman, and Jane Wyman

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Vincent Price as Nicholas Van Ryn in Dragonwyck 1946 🌓

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Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Ralph Penney, and a ghost in The Devil Commands (1941)

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Nunsense - a queercoded musical 🏳️‍🌈

It makes me so sad that so little people even know about this gem! One of the best musicals ever in my opinion. And one pairing stands out: Reverent Mother Superior Mary Regina and Sister Robert Anne! Played by Rue McClanahan and Christine Anderson❤️

If you don't know them (shame on you! 🤪), here's also a picture "behind the veil":

Regina and Robert Anne are this type of couple who constantly tease each other, are very different and get on each others nerves but also wouldn't want to spend a single day without the other. (which they would never dare to admit ofc)

Some Quotes from Nunsense 1, Nunsense 2 and Nuncrackers:

Regina: "Robert Anne's a good egg, if a bit hard-boiled at times. In fact, you might say she's an entire breakfast"

Regina: "Robert Anne, I'm gonna Un bel di, your vedremo in about one minute. Robert Anne: "Don't ya love it when she talks dirty?"

Regina: "Robert Anne, I'm gonna throttle you"

Robert Anne: "I'm melting!" Regina: "If only she could."

In Nunsense 1 Robert Anne writes a fictional (and naughty!) story featuring Regina under the name Sister Kitty. At the end, there's a photo of Regina in her underwear - which raises the question: How did Robert Anne get that picture?!

Robert Anne: "You gotta understand that you, you're, you're.." Regina: "Yes?" Robert Anne: "Different. You've got to give yourself some more credit. I mean, you've got that indescribable something that no other nun in the universe-" Regina: "It's getting awfully deep in here, Robert." Robert Anne: "I'm serious."

Robert Anne: "I got pizazz, and razzmatazz and all that jazz that every star has. What do you say Rev, shall we give it a whirl? And, you're never gonna believe the tricks I still got up my sleeve. You show yours and I'll show them mine. So whadda ya think, huh Rev?" Regina: "I think you should take your pizazz and razzmatazz and all O' that jazz and you should stick 'em up your.. sleeve"

Robert Anne: "Hey Rev, I could do it, come on. It's my big chance." Regina: "Robert Anne, what we need is a sugar plum fairy, not a dancing ham." Robert Anne: "Give me a break Rev, hey, we can't disappoint those kids. Somebody's gotta be the sugar plum fairy." Regina: " Yeah that's right, somebody's gotta be, but Ill go out there before I let you go out there." Robert Anne: "But look I've been practicing. Look I can-" Regina: "Robert, Robert, Robert Anne, in the words of my sainted mother, don't make me kill ya so close to Christmas."

Regina: "Oh, Robert, Robert, get off of that thing. Robert Anne: "Hey, it's fun, you oughta try it. Here." Regina. "Oh, Robert, I'm gonna smack you in a minute." Robert Anne: "You heard it, folks. Habit abuse."

Robert Anne: "..before they screw you." Regina: "Sister! Robert, you know that's not true. Robert Anne: "Hey I'm teasin' you."

Robert Anne: "It's all because of Sister Rose Francis. She was the head of Saint Clairs and boy oh boy, she... she was something else!" (Robert Anne telling the story of why she became a nun. It's because of Sister Rose Francis and Regina may or may not be a little jealous. There's also a scene where Robert Anne jokingly flirts with someone from the audience and Regina gets all mad and tells her to stop.)

Robert Anne: "Is this cool, or what?" Regina: "You're worse than third-graders."

and many more...

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Dragonwyck (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

March 16th 2024