#harry beaumont

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Dance, Fools, Dance (Harry Beaumont, 1931)

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Lois Moran photographed by George Hurrell for WEST OF BROADWAY (1931)

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Marion Davies-Lawrence Gray "The florodora girl" 1930, de Harry Beaumont.

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John Barrymore with Carmel Myers in Beau Brummel, 1924. Directed by Harry Beaumont

It may seem like a hundred years have passed, yet the movies still don't get old. Find time (two hours) and watch this movie.

Death kills but once ��� Life kills many times.

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When Ladies Meet (1933) Harry Beaumont

April 3rd 2024

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Harry Beaumont: From Main Street to Maisie

Harry Beaumont (1888-1966) is not regarded today as a great cinematic auteur, and perhaps he shouldn’t be in terms of such matter as camera placement, shot composition, and so forth (and to be fair, he started directing back in the cinematic Dark Ages). But perhaps he ought to be given a second look at to WHAT he shot, the stories he told, for these seem to coalesce into a voice. Originating in…

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Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont, 1928)

Cast: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Kathlyn Williams, Edward R. Nugent, Dorothy Cumming, Huntley Gordon, Evelyn Hall, Sam De Grasse. Screenplay: Josephine Lovett; Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings (titles). Cinematography: George Barnes. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: William Hamilton. Music: William Axt.  Diana (Joan Crawford) is a Good Girl who people think is a Bad Girl because she likes to dance the Charleston on tabletops. Ann (Anita Page) is a Bad Girl posing as a Good Girl to try to land a rich husband. Beatrice (Dorothy Sebastian) is a Good Girl trying to hide the fact that she used to be a Bad Girl from Norman (Nils Asther), the man she has fallen in love with. And so it goes, as Ann steals Ben (Johnny Mack Brown) away from Diana, and Beatrice confesses her past sins to Norman, who marries her but doesn't really trust her. This romantic melodrama was a big hit that established Crawford as a star. She's lively and funny and dances a mean Charleston -- a far cry from the long-suffering shoulder-padded Crawford of Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) and the melodramas of her middle age, though we can see a hint of the Crawford to come when she squares off against Page, using her big eyes and lipsticked mouth as formidable weapons. The movie is semi-silent: It has a synchronized music track with some forgettable songs and occasional sound effects like the ring of a telephone and the knock on a door, and once there's a spoken line from a bandleader: "Come on, Miss Diane, strut your stuff." But most of the dialogue is confined to intertitles that tell us Diana has asked a boy to dance ("Wouldst fling a hoof with me?") or that Freddie (Edward J. Nugent) has asked Ann if she wants a drink ("Lí'l hot baby want a cool li'l sip?"). The Jazz Age was probably never like this, even at its height, which was several years earlier, but there is fun to be had here. The story, such as it is, was by Josephine Lovett, and those title cards were the work of Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings, who give it a mildly feminist spin: Despite the slut-shaming, the film is solidly on the side of the rights of women to have a good time. Lovett's story and George Barnes's cinematography were considered for Oscars -- there were no official nominations this year -- but lost out. 

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Diana (Joan Crawford) is a Good Girl who people think is a Bad Girl because she likes to dance the Charleston on tabletops. Ann (Anita Page) is a Bad Girl posing as a Good Girl to try to land a rich husband. Beatrice (Dorothy Sebastian) is a Good Girl trying to hide the fact that she used to be a Bad Girl from Norman (Nils Asther), the man she has fallen in love with. And so it goes, as Ann steals Ben (Johnny Mack Brown) away from Diana, and Beatrice confesses her past sins to Norman, who marries her but doesn’t really trust her. This romantic melodrama was a big hit that established Crawford as a star. She’s lively and funny and dances a mean Charleston – a far cry from the long-suffering shoulder-padded Crawford of Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) and the melodramas of her middle age, though we can see a hint of the Crawford to come when she squares off against Page, using her big eyes and lipsticked mouth as formidable weapons. The movie is semi-silent: It has a synchronized music track with some forgettable songs and occasional sound effects like the ring of a telephone and the knock on a door, and once there’s a spoken line from a bandleader: “Come on, Miss Diane, strut your stuff.” But most of the dialogue is confined to intertitles that tell us Diana has asked a boy to dance (“Wouldst fling a hoof with me?”) or that Freddie (Edward J. Nugent) has asked Ann if she wants a drink (“Lí'l hot baby want a cool li'l sip?”). The Jazz Age was probably never like this, even at its height, which was several years earlier, but there is fun to be had here. The story, such as it is, was by Josephine Lovett, and those title cards were the work of Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings, who give it a mildly feminist spin: Despite the slut-shaming, the film is solidly on the side of the rights of women to have a good time. Lovett’s story and George Barnes’s cinematography were considered for Oscars – there were no official nominations this year – but lost out. 

Joan Crawford in the opening moments of Our Dancing Daughters, 1928

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some eighties album covers i redesigned with characters from twin peaks/david lynch stuff

[marypickfords]

Joan Crawford in Dance, Fools, Dance (Harry Beaumont, 1931)

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Backstage Revolve Nonsense

From Chris Leask’s London Theatre Direct Instagram takeover

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Ann Sothern-Ava Gardner "Maise goes to Reno" 1944, de Harry Beaumont.

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Another fun Peter Pan Goes Wrong moment from the other night. After Annie was electrocuted, they took her fairy wings off to give her breathing room and to get a better look at her. But when they took them off they handed the wings to Francis who handed them off to the next person. The next person being a man in the front row. The guy in the audience just kinda held them for a minute before Francis took them back. But the poor guy in the audience just did not know what to do with the wings

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From left to right: Chris Leask as Max, Bianca Horn as Francis, Ellie Morris as Sandra, Henry Shields as Jonathan, Harry Kershaw as Chris, and Jonathan Sayer as himself

From Nancy Zamit’s instagram

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Misapiona and Jimbo Blishwick

•Met at a ball hosted by the Crouch’s and Misapiona actually hated Jimbo. They bumped into each other, spilling Jimbo’s drink all over her white gown

•Ever since that she found him annoying

•They ran into each other once again at the New Years Eve ball hosted by the Fawley’s

•Jimbo joked about not spilling his drink on Misapiona’s now maroon dress to which he earned a sarcastic smirk from her

•He asked for a dance in front of Misapiona’s mother, leaving her with the only option to say yes.

•During the dance they talked and Misapiona uttered on about how annoying Jimbo was

•Whilst Jimbo told her things about him like his name was really Jean-Beaumont but his family and friends called him Jimbo, how he works as junior secretary for the minister of magic and that he was a Ravenclaw.

•Misapiona could not care less however and as soon as the dance was over she went back to the table her mother was seated at

•She went back to Hogwarts after the Christmas/New Years holidays and Jimbo decided to start writing to her

•Misapiona at first found them rather annoying however, without her even realising she was falling for him.

•Once she graduated, they met up at more balls and PureBlood social gatherings and after 6 months Jimbo asked for her hand in marriage

•The Blishwick’s had made an impressive mark on the ministry of magic and although they were new money, they were quite wealthy.

•Therefore, Misa’s dad approved and they married a month later.

•They had three sons and one daughter (Jean-Bernard “Bernie”, Jean-Colbert “Colby”, Jean-Benedict “Ben” and Aster.

• Misa became close with her mother-in-law Nathalie whilst Jimbo didn’t really connect with Misa’s family at all.

•Misapiona lived to see her great-great grandchildren and Jimbo only lived to see his great-grandchildren.