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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Please let me recommend two of his pre-Code movies with Kay Francis - One Way Passage (swooningly romantic) and Jewel Robbery (the best Lubitsch movie Lubitsch didn't make). They are completely wonderful.

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This was the third version of #TheMalteseFalcon. 1931 is a very lively pre-Code; 1936 (Satan Met a Lady) is disastrously terrible; and 1941? Masterpiece. #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

That is DEFINITELY a doozie of an evening gown, Nora #TheThinMan #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Powell and Loy were two of the actors who benefited the most from the coming of sound. He was mostly cast as heavy-lidded villains, and she was usually "exotic" in silents. But when audiences heard those wonderful voices...voila! Stardom! #TheThinMan #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Frances Dee was so extraordinarily beautiful. She and Joel McCrea (married 57 years) were certainly one of the most gorgeous couples in Hollywood. #IWalkedwithaZombie #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Bruce Bennett, forever the leftover other guy (Mildred Pierce, Dark Passage), made The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), under his real name, Herman Brix. He'd been a shot-putter (silver medal) in the 1928 Olympics, but the Tarzan thing didn't work out... #TarzantheApeMan #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I am very fond of C. Aubrey Smith, the ultimate stiff-upper-lip Brit. Love this photo of him in his cricketing days #TarzantheApeMan #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ivor Novello, one of the screenwriters, was a long time matinee idol on the British stage. He wrote his own vehicles, which tended to be sentimental operettas with titles like The King's Rhapsody, Glamorous Night, and The Dancing Years, #TarzanTheApeMan #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Oh, I think we can safely say that they'll spend at least SOME time together after the movie in Jewel Robbery...

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'm very fond of #Lured. Lucy is great and I love the episodic structure, especially the segment with Boris Karloff. And it's nice to see George Zucco as a nice guy, for once. #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It always tickled me that the three great noir villains - Ryan, Widmark, Duryea - were apparently wonderful warm family men who were adored by everyone. ACTING! #ClashbyNight #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Orry-Kelly designed my all-time favorite movie gown - Kay Francis in Mandalay (1934). I mean - LOOK AT THIS. #KayEveryDay

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

John Cromwell directed one of my all-time favorite movies - pretty much complete perfection

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Please join us next week for the light side of noir, #HomeSweetHomicide, the last offering in our #WomenWriters series. Based on the book by the successful and prolific comic writer Craig Rice (nee Georgiana Craig), this is a loosely autobiographical tale of a mystery writer with 3 children.

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Alice Faye didn't make another film after #FallenAngel until she returned to Fox in 1962 to play the mother in the remake of State Fair. #FilmNoirClub

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Please join #FilmNoirClub tomorrow night at 8 for #FallenAngel (1945), Otto Preminger's follow-up noir to Laura (1944), with its sizzling chemistry between grifter Andrews and tough waitress Darnell. Things don't go so well for Darnell. Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kJ...

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Cristiane Young @crisopera1.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

And of course, Claudette Colbert wore them for most of her life #TCMParty

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