Miss Braga

Ensaio de 1984 que saiu na Playboy dos EUA (Outubro) e na do Brasil (Setembro).

As Musas de George Cukor – Parte 1

Porque não faz o mínimo sentido ter feito uma seleção das atrizes de Allen e não do mais notório “diretor de mulheres”, o homem pela qual todas as divas clamavam: Mr Cukor.

Adrienne Ames (Girls About Town)

Agnes Fraser (The Women)

Aileen Pringle (The Women)

Alice Adair (What Price Hollywood?)

Alice Marble (Pat and Mike)

Amanda Blake (A Star Is Born)

Amanda Randolph (Heller in Pink Tights)

Angela Lansbury (Gaslight)

Anita Louise (Our Betters)

Ann Doran (Holiday)

Ann Dvorak (A Life of Her Own)

Ann E. Todd (Zaza)

Ann Harding (The Animal Kingdom)

Ann Morriss (The Women)

Ann Robinson (A Life of Her Own)

Ann Rutherford (Gone with the Wind)

Anna Karina (Justine)

Anna Magnani (Wild Is the Wind)

Anna Massey (The Corn Is Green)

Anna Q. Nilsson (Adam's Rib)

Anouk Aimée (Justine)

Audrey Christie (Keeper of the Flame)

Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady)

Ava Gardner (Bhowani Junction / The Blue Bird)

Barbara Darrow (A Life of Her Own)

Barbara Everest (Gaslight)

Barbara Jo Allen (The Women)

Barbara Pepper (The Women / My Fair Lady)

Barbara Leonard (One Hour with You)

Barrie Chase (Les Girls)

Beatrice Blinn (Holiday)

Beatrice Cole (The Women)

Beryl Wallace (The Women)

Bess Flowers (One Hour with You / Holiday / A Life of Her Own / A Star Is Born / Song Without End)

Betsy Blair (A Double Life)

Betty Blythe (The Women / Lust for Life / My Fair Lady)

Hawks

Mr Hawks realmente muito preocupado com o salto de Miss Dickinson durante as filmagens de Rio Bravo (1959)

Cahiers: What period of work do you prefer? Script, shooting, editing?
Hawks: I hate editing.

Cahiers: But you do the editing of your films?
Hawks: Oh, yes! Simultaneously with the shooting, if possible. When I started out in this profession, the producers were all afraid that I made a film too short because I didn’t give them enough film for editing. And I say: “I don’t wanto the movie in the cutting room, I want to make it myself on the set, and if that doesn’t suit you, too bad”. That’s not to say that editing isn’t a chore, particurlarly when you haven’t done a good job with the shooting. Editing is a horror for me because I look at my work for a second time and say that’s pretty bad, and that, and also that – The difficult work is the preparation: finding the story, deciding how to tell it, what to show. Once you begin shooting you see everything in the best light, develop certain details, and improve the whole. I never follow a script literally and I don’t hesitate to change a script completely if I see a chance to do something interesting. I like to work in the scenarios. Some of my best movies were written in very little time. Scarface took only eleven days, story and scenario.

Howard Hawks Interview – Jacques Becker/Jacques Rivette/François Truffaut, 1956

Nota: Isso explica porque o homem gostava mesmo de fazer remakes dos próprios filmes.

As Musas de George Cukor – Parte 2

Betty Sinclair (Lust for Life)

Beverly Garland (A Life of Her Own)

Beverly Michaels (The Marrying Kind)

Beverly Thompson (A Life of Her Own)

Billie Burke (A Bill of Divorcement / Dinner at Eight)

Binnie Barnes (Holiday)

Blanche Yurka (Keeper of the Flame)

Bonita Granville (Little Women)

Bridget Carr (A Life of Her Own)

Bunny Waters (A Life of Her Own)

Butterfly McQueen (The Women / Gone with the Wind)

Candice Bergen (Rich and Famous)

Capucine (Song Without End)

Carol Brewster (A Life of Her Own)

Carol Hughes (The Women)

Charlotte Wynters (The Women)

Cicely Tyson (The Blue Bird)

Cindy Williams (Travels with My Aunt)

Claire Bloom (The Chapman Report)

Claire Carleton (A Double Life / Born Yesterday)

Claire Dodd (Girls About Town)

Claire Du Brey (Les Girls / Lust for Life)

Clara Blandick (Rockabye)

Claudette Colbert (Zaza)

Claudette Thornton (A Life of Her Own)

Cloris Leachman (The Chapman Report)

Connie Gilchrist (A Woman's Face / It Should Happen to You)

Constance Bennett (What Price Hollywood? / Rockabye / Our Betters / Two-Faced Woman / It Should Happen to You)

Constance Collier (Zaza / Susan and God)

Cora Witherspoon (Tarnished Lady / The Women / It Should Happen to You)

Corinne Marchand (Travels with My Aunt)

Cyd Charisse (Something's Got to Give)

Dawn Bender (The Actress)

Deborah Kerr (Edward, My Son)

Dennie Moore (The Women / The Model and the Marriage Broker)

Diana Douglas (Keeper of the Flame)

As Musas de George Cukor – Parte 3

Diana Mumby (The Model and the Marriage Broker)

Diane Lepvrier (Travels with My Aunt)

Diantha Pattison (A Life of Her Own)

Dolores Hart (Wild Is the Wind)

Dora Clement (The Women)

Doris Nolan (Holiday)

Dorothy Abbott (A Life of Her Own)

Dorothy Appleby (The Women)

Dorothy Dayton (Zaza)

Dorothy Fay Ritter (The Philadelphia Story)

Dorothy Granger (Romeo and Juliet / Camille)

Dorothy Morris (Keeper of the Flame)

Dorothy Sebastian (The Women)

Dorothy Stickney (I Met My Love Again)

Dorothy Stone (I'll Be Seeing You)

Dorothy Tree (Zaza / A Life of Her Own)

Dorothy White (Zaza)

Edna May Oliver (Little Women / David Copperfield / No More Ladies / Romeo and Juliet)

Edna May Wonacott (The Model and the Marriage Broker)

Effie Ellsler (What Price Hollywood? / Camille)

Eileen Heckart (Hot Spell / Heller in Pink Tights)

Eily Malyon (Camille)

Elaine Edwards (A Life of Her Own)

Elise Cavanna (I Met My Love Again)

Elizabeth Allan (David Copperfield / Camille)

Elizabeth Patterson (Tarnished Lady / A Bill of Divorcement / Dinner at Eight / Her Cardboard Lover)

Elizabeth Taylor (The Blue Bird)

Ellen Brill (Rich and Famous)

Eloise Hardt (Something's Got to Give)

Elsa Buchanan (Sylvia Scarlett)

Elsa Lanchester (David Copperfield)

Elspeth Dudgeon (Sylvia Scarlett / Camille)

Emily Fitzroy (Two-Faced Woman)

Esther Dale (The Women)

Evelyn Keyes (Gone with the Wind)

Flora Finch (The Women)

Florence Bates (Desire Me)

Anilza Leoni (1933 – 2009)

Centenário de Alice Adair

Maria Corda e Alice Adair em A Vida Privada de Helena de Tróia (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Alexander Korda, 1927)

Ao Ronnie

Já que Ronnie é fã do cinema italiano dos anos 60 & 70, eis que Miss Fenech se apresenta em sua homenagem. Afinal, é por conta de gente como Ronnie que mantenho este blog, ora bolas. E quem gosta deste blog, acho bom que agradeça ao senhor Ronnie também, pois sem ele o blog não estaria mais aqui, ou estaria em seu lugar um blog sobre o Palmeiras, possivelmente cheio de fotos do Leão nos anos 70/80 usando shortinho.

Antes de Welch havia Carole Landis

Um Milhão de Anos Antes de Cristo (One Million B.C., Hal Roach, 1940)

Seu nome artístico era uma homenagem à Lombard e se matou aos 29 anos por causa do Rex Harrison. Certo, não foi por causa dele, Landis sempre tivera fortes tendências suicidas e o fim do caso com Harrison foi apenas o resto de pavio que faltava. Linda e talentosa (inclusive no ato de cantar) foi mal aproveitada em todos os sentidos.

Tônia Carrero sessentona

Morram de inveja Cher e Madonna.

As Musas de George Cukor – Parte 6

Joan Fontaine (No More Ladies / The Women)

Joan Leslie (Camille / Susan and God)

Joan Roberts (The Model and the Marriage Broker)

Joan Shawlee (The Marrying Kind / A Star Is Born)

Joan Sims (Love Among the Ruins)

Joan Valerie (A Life of Her Own)

Jobyna Howland (The Virtuous Sin / Rockabye)

Jody Lawrance (Hot Spell)

Josephine Dunn (One Hour with You)

Joyce Mackenzie (The Model and the Marriage Broker)

Joyce Mathews (A Double Life)

Judith Allen (The Women)

Judith Wood (Girls About Town)

Judy Garland (A Star Is Born)

Judy Holliday (Winged Victory / Adam's Rib / Born Yesterday / The Marrying Kind / It Should Happen to You)

Julie Haydon (A Bill of Divorcement)

Julie Robinson Belafonte (Lust for Life)

Juliette Compton (No More Ladies)

June Wilkins (Camille)

Karen Morley (Dinner at Eight)

Katharine Hepburn (A Bill of Divorcement / Little Women / Sylvia Scarlett / Holiday / The Philadelphia Story / Keeper of the Flame / Adam's Rib / Pat and Mike / Love Among the Ruins / The Corn Is Green)

Katherine DeMille (Girls About Town / Romeo and Juliet)

Katherine Squire (Song Without End)

Kathleen Freeman (A Life of Her Own)

Kathy Marlowe (A Double Life)

Kay English (The Animal Kingdom / Pat and Mike)

Kay Francis (The Virtuous Sin / Girls About Town)

Kay Kendall (Les Girls)

Kay Williams (The Actress)

Lana Turner (A Life of Her Own)

Laura Hope Crews (Camille / Gone with the Wind)

Leni Lynn (The Women)

Lenita Lane (The Women)

Lenore Ulric (Camille)

Leueen MacGrath (Edward, My Son)

Lili Damita (Une Heure Près de Toi)

As Musas de George Cukor – Parte 7

Lilian Bond (The Women)

Lilyan Chauvin (Les Girls)

Lilyan Tashman (Girls About Town)

Lita Chevret (One Hour with You / What Price Hollywood? / Rockabye / Romeo and Juliet / Camille / The Women / The Philadelphia Story)

Louise Beavers (Girls About Town / What Price Hollywood?)

Louise Closser Hale (Dinner at Eight)

Louise Henry (No More Ladies)

Louise Platt (I Met My Love Again)

Lucile Browne (Girls About Town)

Lucile Watson (The Royal Family of Broadway / The Women)

Lucy Marlow (A Star Is Born)

Lurene Tuttle (A Life of Her Own)

Madge Blake (Adam's Rib / A Life of Her Own)

Madge Evans (Dinner at Eight / David Copperfield)

Madge Kennedy (The Marrying Kind / Let's Make Love / Lust for Life)

Mae Clarke (Pat and Mike)

Mae Marsh (The Model and the Marriage Broker / A Star Is Born)

Mae Questel (One Hour with You)

Dame Maggie Smith (Travels with My Aunt)

Mara Lynn (Let's Make Love)

Margaret Dumont (The Women)

Margaret O'Brien (Heller in Pink Tights)

Margaret Wycherly (Keeper of the Flame)

Margarita Terekhova (The Blue Bird)

Marie Blake (The Women)

Marie Dressler (Dinner at Eight)

Marilyn Knowlden (Little Women / David Copperfield)

Marilyn Monroe (Let's Make Love / Something's Got to Give)

Marina Koshetz (Little Women)

Marion Ross (Lust for Life)

Marjorie Main (The Women / Susan and God / A Woman's Face)

Marjorie Wood (The Women / Adam's Rib / A Life of Her Own)

Marjorie Woodworth (A Double Life / It Should Happen to You)

Marjory Hawtrey (My Fair Lady)

Marlene Hoyt (A Life of Her Own)

Marlene Morrow (My Fair Lady)

Farrah Fawcett (1947 – 2009)

Caine e a mulherada

Playboy, Outubro, 1969 – Ensaio promocional para Assim Nascem Os Heróis (Too Late the Hero, Robert Aldrich, 1970)

Imagina a minha alegria ao visitar o blog do Rudá e dar de cara com este ensaio que ele encontrou no Design You Trust. Roubei sem dó, é claro.

Plus: Marisa Mell em Una Sull’altra (1969)