#spring byington

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Spring Byington, Gene Tierney, and Henry Fonda in RINGS ON HER FINGERS (1942), directed by Rouben Mamoulian

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In The Good Old Summertime (1949).

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Leslie Howard, Olivia DeHavilland, Bette Davis, Spring Byington

Film: It's love I'm after (1937)

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Silver Screen magazine, April 1938

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Meet John Doe (1941) Frank Capra

November 28th 2023

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1959.

The Beatnik episode of December Bride.

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Horror Movie of the day: Werewolf of London (1935)

In the mountains of Tibet, botanist Wilfred Glendon is on an expedition. His objective? Find a rare flower called Mariphasa lumina lupina, who apparently only blooms under the moonlight. Just as he finds one, he's attacked by a strange, humanoid creature and ends up being bitten in the arm.

Back at London, Glendon has become quite the hermit to the dismay of his stranged wife Lisa. Just in time for her childhood sweetheart Paul to try and win her back, too. But the botanist has little time to worry about this rather unsubtle suitor, having met another botanist from abroad in Dr. Yogami. He seems a little too interested and knowledgeable in the Mariphasa, as it's the only cure for the werewolf condition. One contracted when bitten by another. And each night of moonlight, the creature must kill should it want to turn back to a human. With Scottland Yard on his tail after the murder of a woman he found on the streets, Glendon is in a race against time... as he yearns for the blood of Lisa.

Directed by Stuart Walker, this movie set the template of cinematic werewolf stories to come. Not unlike Nosferatu started the tradition of sunlight killing vampires, this movie started the idea of the full moon being the trigger to Lycanthropy once infected, and the themes of loss of self-control and human vs animal that have been synonym with the monster (No silver bullet yet, though). Henry Hull's performance as the tormented Glendon does paint the image of a conflicted if not always well meaning man; the creature makeup certianly heping to create this inbetween of man and animal, in spite of being rather subdued compared to other werewolf designs.

Being a movie this old it's representation of Asian cultures is... less than stellar with Yogami being portrayed by Warner Oland (a Swedish man). And you might see the tragedy coming a mile away, but it doesn't make the journey any less entertaining.

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From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere / Pilot

December Bride - Lily Ruskin Arrives - CBS - October 4, 1954

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Parke Levy and Phil Sharp

Produced by Frederick de Cordova

Directed by Jerry Thorpe

Stars:

Spring Byington as Lily Ruskin

Dean Miller as Matt Henshaw

Frances Rafferty as Ruth Henshaw

Harry Morgan as Pete Porter

Harry Cheshire as Gus

Moroni Olsen as Lt. Morgan

Sam McDaniel as Porter at train Station

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Henry Hull in Werewolf Of London (1935)

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Round 7, match 1 (final match)

Conrad Veidt vs Spring Byington

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Spring Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971)

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When Ladies Meet, 1941, Is Playing on TCM on November 13 (USA)

When Ladies Meet, 1941, is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, November 13 at 10 a.m. est. Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor and Greer Garson in “When Ladies Meet,” 1941. It is the story of a married couple, a lady author and a charming single journalist. Joan Crawford, the author, considers herself a “modern woman” freed from tiresome conventions and moral imperatives. Despite the movie’s…

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Judy Garland with Spring Byington and others on the set of Presenting Lily Mars (1943).

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Dodsworth (1936) William Wyler

August 20th 2024