Italian programme card for Il Cinema Ritrovata 2011. Photo: publicity still for Gentlemen prefer blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953) with Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn and Jane Russell.
Today we heard that Finnish film historian and director Peter von Bagh (1943-2014) passed away on 17 September. We are very sad because we are a huge fan of him. Although we never saw one of his films, we loved his work as the artistic director of the film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. Peter von Bagh introduced many of the films in Bologna. With his passionate, inspiring, informative and witty speeches, he turned every screening into a special event. He was 71. We uploaded 10 programme cards of Il Cinema Ritrovato.
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Dutch postcard for Metropole Palace, Den Haag (The Hague). Photos: 20th Century Fox. Fredric March, June Lang, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, and Gregory Ratoff in The Road to Glory (Howard Hawks, 1936). Caption: We, 5 stars, are represented in the overwhelming Fox 20th Century millions-film work The Way to Glory. European premiere in the new glorious Metropole Palace, Laan van Meerdervoort, telephone 39.22.44.
Set in the French trenches, the WWI melodrama The Road to Glory (Howard Hawks, 1936) was co-written by William Faulkner and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. In 1916, somewhere in the front in France in World War I, the 5th Company in the 2nd Battalion of the 39th Regiment created by Napoleon Bonaparte and led by the tough Captain Paul La Roche (Warner Baxter) receives among the replacements, Lieutenant Michel Denet (Fredric March) and private Morin (Lionel Barrymore). Hard-drinking Captain La Roche delivers the same hollow speech to each wave of fresh soldiers assigned to his command, only to see them senselessly slaughtered by the Germans. When Lt. Denet meets the nurse Monique La Coste (June Lang), who is Capt. La Roche's mistress but he does not know, they fall in love with each other. When Captain La Roche sees the old Private Morin in his inspection, La Roche identifies him as his father using a fake identity. Meanwhile, the 39th Regiment receives orders to go to the trenches, attack the German lines and install a telephone in the front to guide the artillery. As men are killed and replaced, jaunty Lieutenant Denet becomes more and more somber. In a battle, La Roche is blinded. His father helps him direct artillery fire at the front, but both men are slain. Although he has won the girl and La Roche's command, Denet is forced to give the same pointless speech to his doomed recruits.
Claudio Carvalho at IMDb: "The Road to Glory is another great anti-war movie that shows the barbarian life in the trenches in WWI, using a dramatic triangle of love and father-son relationship in a time where the leader headed the attack and soldiers were just numbers. The direction of Howard Hawks and the screenplay are excellent, using adequate pace and lines such as "why do they have to die?" or the contradictory "the fear is just in the imagination" to support the anti-war message of the feature. The scenarios and cinematography depict the horror of the insanity of war in the bloody trenches. The performances of Warner Baxter, in the role of a harsh commander; Fredric March in the role of the ambiguous lieutenant divided between love and loyalty; Lionel Barrymore, in the role of a stubborn old soldier; and the gorgeous June Lang in the important role of a nurse also divided by her moral obligation with her lover and real love, are wonderful and credible." Karl Williams at AllMovie: "Although Hawks had directed an earlier film of the same title, The Road to Glory (1936) was not a remake of that picture, but of a popular French war movie, Les Croix des Bois (1932), from which studio executives cannibalized combat footage for use in the new version."
Sources: Claudio Carvalho (IMDb), Karl Williams (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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French postcard in the Entr'acte series by Éditions Asphodèle. Mâcon, no. 006/7. Collection: B. Courtel / D.R. Dean Martin and Angie Dickinson in 1958 at the set of Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959). Caption: Dean Martin and his partner Angie Dickinson behind the camera for a break.
In 1946, American actor and singer Dean Martin (1917-1995) got his first ticket to stardom, as he teamed up with another hard worker who was also trying to succeed in Hollywood: Jerry Lewis. Films such as At War with the Army (1950) sent the team toward super-stardom. The duo was to become one of Hollywood's truly great teams. They lasted 11 years together and starred in 16 films. Solo, he won critical acclaim for his roles in The Young Lions (1958) and Some Came Running (1958). Box office hits such as Rio Bravo (1959) and Ocean's Eleven (1960) brought him international fame.
American actress Angie Dickinson (1931) has appeared in more than 50 films and starred on television as Sergeant Leann 'Pepper' Anderson in the successful 1970s crime series Police Woman. Her trademarks are her honey blonde hair (on the postcard she still has her original brunette hair colour), her large brown eyes, a voluptuous figure, and her deep sultry voice.
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French postcard by E.D.U.G., no. 51. Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959).
American actress Angie Dickinson (1931) has appeared in more than 50 films and starred on television as Sergeant Leann 'Pepper' Anderson in the successful 1970s crime series Police Woman. Her trademarks are her honey-blonde hair (on the postcard she still has her original brunette hair colour), her large brown eyes, her voluptuous figure and her deep sultry voice.
Angie Dickinson was born Angeline Brown (called Angie) in Kulm, North Dakota, in 1931. She was the daughter of Fredericka (Hehr) and Leo Henry Brown, a newspaper editor and publisher of The Kulm Messenger. The family left North Dakota in 1942, when Angie was 11 years old, moving to Burbank, California. She became Angie Dickinson in 1952 when she married football player Gene Dickinson. In 1953, she entered the local Miss America contest one day before the deadline and took second place. In August of the same year, she was one of five winners in a beauty contest sponsored by NBC and appeared in several television variety shows, including The Colgate Comedy Hour. She soon met Frank Sinatra, who became a lifelong friend. Dickinson got her first bit part in the Doris Day comedy Lucky Me (Jack Donohue, 1954) and gained fame in the television series The Millionaire (1955). She got her first good film role opposite John Wayne and Dean Martin in Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959). Her success then spiralled until she became one of the nation's top film stars.
Angie Dickinson became one of Hollywood's more prominent leading ladies of the 1960s. She appeared in the heist film Ocean's 11 ( Lewis Milestone, 1960) with friends Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. She played the title role in Jean Negulesco's Jessica (1962) with Maurice Chevalier, in which she played a young midwife resented by the married women of the town. In The Killers (Don Siegel, 1964), a film originally intended to be the very first made-for-television movie but released to theatres due to its violent content, Dickinson played a femme fatale opposite future U.S. President Ronald Reagan in his last film role. It was a remake of the 1946 version based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. She appeared in a star-studded The Chase (Arthur Penn, 1966), along with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, and Robert Duvall. Dickinson's best film of this era was arguably the cult classic Point Blank (John Boorman's 1967), a lurid crime drama with Lee Marvin as a criminal betrayed by his wife and best friend and out for revenge. The film epitomized the stark urban mood of the period, and its reputation has grown through the years. In 1971, she played a lascivious substitute high school teacher in the dark comedy Pretty Maids All in a Row (Roger Vadim, 1971), in which her character seduces a sexually inexperienced student against the backdrop of a series of murders of female students at the same high school. It was a box-office failure. The following year, she played opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in the French thriller Un homme est mort/The Outside Man (Jacques Deray, 1972), which was shot in LA. One of Dickinson's best known and most sexually provocative roles was the tawdry widow Wilma McClatchie from the Great Depression romp Big Bad Mama (Steve Carver, 1974) with William Shatner and Tom Skerritt. Although well into her forties at the time, she appeared nude in several scenes, which created interest in the film and a new generation of male fans for Dickinson.
In 1974, Angie Dickinson returned to TV to play in an episode in the hit anthology series Police Story. That one guest appearance proved to be so popular that NBC offered Dickinson her own television show which became a ground-breaking weekly police series called Police Woman, the first successful dramatic television series to feature a woman in the title role. She played Sgt. Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson, an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's Criminal Conspiracy Unit. The show became a hit, reaching number one in many countries, and ran from 1974 to 1978. Dickinson won a Golden Globe award, and received Emmy nominations for three consecutive years. Dickinson returned to the cinema in the erotic thriller Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980). The role of Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated New York housewife, earned her a 1981 Saturn Award for Best Actress. She then starred in several TV movies, and had a pivotal role in the mini-series Hollywood Wives (Robert Day, 1985), based on a novel by Jackie Collins. Dickinson reprised her role as Wilma McClatchie for Big Bad Mama II (Jim Wynorski, 1987). In the TV miniseries Wild Palms (1993), produced by Oliver Stone, she was the sadistic, militant sister of Senator Tony Kruetzer (Robert Loggia). That same year, she starred as a ruthless Montana spa owner in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Gus Van Sant, 1993) with Uma Thurman. Sydney Pollack cast her as the prospective mother-in-law of Greg Kinnear in the romantic comedy Sabrina (1995) starring Harrison Ford, a remake of the Billy Wilder classic. During the first decade of the Third Millennium, Dickinson acted out the alcoholic, homeless mother of Helen Hunt's character in Pay It Forward (Mimi Leder, 2000); the grandmother of Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the road trip film Duets (Bruce Paltrow, 2000), and made a brief cameo in the remake Ocean's 11 (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. After her divorce from Gene Dickinson in 1960, she married Burt Bacharach in 1965. They remained a married couple for 15 years. Their daughter, Lea Nikki, known as Nikki, arrived a year after they were married. Born three months prematurely, Nikki suffered from chronic health problems, including visual impairment; she was later diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Burt composed the music of the song Nikki for their fragile young daughter, and Angie rejected many roles to focus on caring for their daughter. In 2007, the 40-years-old Nikki killed herself by suffocation in her apartment in the Ventura County suburb of Thousand Oaks.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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West-German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/13. Photo: publicity still for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953).
This year Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) would have turned 90. In De Nieuwe Kerk (The New Church) in Amsterdam is a major exhibition (till 5 February 2017), about her life and legacy, including numerous personal items from her house at 5th Helena Drive in Brentwood, California. EYE is presenting a film programme with six classic Marilyn Monroe films. Next Saturday, MM is also the first subject in a new series of 'Imported from the USA' posts at our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1926–1962) spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and married for the first time at the age of sixteen. While working in a factory as part of the war effort in 1944, she met a photographer and began a successful pin-up modeling career. The work led to short-lived film contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox (1946–47) and Columbia Pictures (1948). After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in 1951. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photos before becoming a star, but rather than damaging her career, the story increased interest in her films.
By 1953, Marilyn Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a "dumb blonde". Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project, but returned to star in one of the biggest box office successes of her career, The Seven Year Itch (1955). When the studio was still reluctant to change her contract, Monroe founded a film production company in late 1954, Marilyn Monroe Productions (MMP). She dedicated 1955 to building her company and began studying method acting at the Actors Studio. In late 1955, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. After a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and acting in the first independent production of MMP, The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), made in Great Britain, she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for Some Like It Hot (1959). Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).
Sources: De Nieuwe Kerk and Wikipedia.
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