2021- Fixed dead Flickr embed. Awaiting dead Pinterest embed… I’m partial to Veronica Lake, but she’s yet another example of someone whose most notable years on film occurred in an era where fur fashion simply wasn’t all that great. That makes it hard to find anything worth posting a full update. It seems she was not without… Read More Veronica Lake in White Fox
Back to my favorite part of the 1940s, the bit where costume designers didn’t get the memo about how “fur is boring this decade.” Father Takes a Wife is from 1941 and quite nicely falls into that period. This was Gloria Swanson’s last film before a nine-year hiatus that would eventually lead to her “comeback”… Read More Furs on Film – Father Takes a Wife (1941)
Finally, we are back with a full-on, legit, single film update post. It has been a while, TCM; thanks for finally ponying up a good one. This one fits into a few of my favorite categories. Foremost, it’s another entry from 1940 where the costume director didn’t get the memo about that regrettable sea change… Read More Furs on Film – Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Time to revisit the gentleman detective genre with what is arguably the most iconic of them all: The Thin Man. The adventures of Nick and Nora Charles spanned six films between 1934 and 1947, and as you can imagine, the ones from the 1930s will be featured a bit more prominently in this update. The… Read More Furs on Film – The Thin Man Films
TCM finally showed Easy to Wed again, so I can do my “remake comparison post.” The idea of remaking things as musicals didn’t start in the ’50s. No, that trend started a while back, and Easy to Wed is one of the examples from the ’40s. What film was it? Well, something long-time readers will… Read More Furs on Film – Easy to Wed (1946)
I know what you’re thinking… I like the Lone Wolf, but what do you have in an ornithologically themed gentleman detective? Well, you are in luck. Today we have the films of a gentleman (and his brother) called The Falcon. Michael Arlen created The Falcon in a short story in Town and Country and was… Read More Furs in Film – The Films of The Falcon (1941-1945)
Since TCM hasn’t run a Thin Man marathon in at least two weeks, we’ll stick with The Lone Wolf. This Lone Wolf guy knows a lot of women with fine taste in furs, it seems. This is the first time I’ve reviewed a sequel right after the original. Now, if they’d just made a series… Read More Furs In Film – The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
Films show up here for two reasons, what I’ve come to call “1 Epic Fur” or “Fur Overload.” 1 Epic Fur is pretty obvious, that’s The Great Bank Hoax from last week, or the poster child of the entire “genre” The Awful Truth. Fur Overload is the Roberta’s of film, a bunch of good stuff… Read More Furs in Film – The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Another film in the costumed-like-it’s-1939 category, we have 1942’s They All Kissed the Bride, with a 37-year-old Joan Crawford. If your mental image of Miss Crawford snaps to the ’50s and beyond, that’s unfortunate, as vintage 30’s and early 40’s, Crawford is a genuinely spectacular beauty. Sadly most b-roll of Crawford always defaults to this… Read More Furs in Film – They All Kissed The Bride (1942)
An Oscar-winning film you’ve probably never heard of, mainly because there are a bunch of Oscars most people don’t consider all that memorable. The winner for Best Original Song in 1942 isn’t really what earns a feature on the Oscar B-reel. That would be Lady Be Good, by the way, for the song “The Last… Read More Furs in Film – Lady Be Good (1941)
