"Well, I'll be damned - the little Puritan, Fanny Hopwood."
To borrow a Wilde-ism from a later Asquith picture, "To lose one parent . . . may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." Well, by Fanny by Gaslight's 52-minute mark, our titular heroine (a radiant Phyllis Calvert) has managed to lose the man she believed to be her father (trampled under a cabbie's horse), her mother (a fatal case of scriptconvenientitus), and her newly discovered…
"It's useless to call the Police - I'll cable SCOTLAND YARD!"
Yes, when the Fuzz-Faced Phantom™ is wreaking non-sequitur havoc in a New York abode, Scotland Yard is the only logical place to turn for help. As in a yard filled with kilted men. Where did you think I meant?
My first exposure to Charley Bowers, and while his anarchistic, movie wizardry-heavy style may not be exactly my cup of silent comedy tea, was Chaplin (or Keaton or Lloyd) ever…
"Show me your jewels, will you?"
When you hear "pre-Code" and "Warner Bros.", several things may spring to mind: gritty rise-and-fall tales of short-statured hoodlums, socially conscious Depression-era gut punches, Busby Berkeley doing his maniacal kaleidoscopic chorine schtick, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - with or without mustache - tousling his tresses (okay, that one is possibly just a me-thing).
But leave it to William Dieterle & Co. to prove that the studio could also give Paramount a run for its money in…
This story is taken from life. There was a real Maddalena. The medical world have verified her case and other cases like it.
Really, Gainsborough? Which mysterious medical case would that be, exactly? One of sexual assault trauma precipitating a highly respectable and devout upper-class wife to develop a splintered personality with a hunger for dangly earrings, peasant blouses, and a closed shirt-averse Florentine jewel thief? Or one that justifies casting Phyllis Calvert as mother to four-months-her-junior Patricia Roc?
Just…
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