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href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-9/" title="8:52 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 26, 2024</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/laura-grieve/" title="View all posts by Laura Grieve">Laura Grieve</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>Western Film Book Library – Part 9</strong></h3> <p>It’s time for another survey of books on Western movies!</p> <p>This month’s column is prompted in large part by the publication of an important new book, <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3CHlmhv">The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns</a></em><a href="https://amzn.to/3CHlmhv"> by Michael F. Blake</a>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CalvaryTrilogy.jpg?w=640" alt="The Calvary Trilogy by Michael F Blake" class="wp-image-30236" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CalvaryTrilogy.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CalvaryTrilogy.jpg?resize=202%2C300&ssl=1 202w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Blake, the son of character actor Larry Blake, is himself a noted movie makeup artist and film historian whose earlier works include books on Lon Chaney and <em><a href="https://amzn.to/4hW6uwe">Code of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns</a></em>. In this new book, a 292-page paperback from Rowman & Littlefield’s TwoDot Books, Blake brings together extensive new research on the making of <em>Fort Apache</em> (1948), <em>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</em> (1949), and <em>Rio Grande</em> (1950).</p> <p>This engagingly written book features numerous photos I’d never seen before, along with an impressive three dozen pages of footnotes. Given that the second two films in the trilogy are among my all-time favorite movies and that I’ve visited their locations in Monument Valley and Moab, I found this “deep dive” into the making of the movies an extremely enjoyable and informative reading experience, filled with new-to-me stories.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PatrickWayneMichaelBlakeRobWord.jpg?w=640" alt="Patrick Wayne, Michael Blake , Rob Word" class="wp-image-30244" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PatrickWayneMichaelBlakeRobWord.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PatrickWayneMichaelBlakeRobWord.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Patrick Wayne, Michael Blake , Rob Word</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Above, my photo of author Blake (center) with Patrick Wayne and Rob Word at a 75th anniversary screening of <em>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</em> at the October 2024 Lone Pine Film Festival.</p> <p>While I’m on the topic of Michael Blake, I have not yet read <em>Code of Honor</em>, but I recently realized it was in the film book collection I inherited when my father passed away last year. I look forward to reading it soon and expect great things, given my enjoyment of <em>The Cavalry Trilogy</em>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CodeofHonor.jpg?w=640" alt="Code of Honor by Michael F Blake" class="wp-image-30237" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CodeofHonor.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CodeofHonor.jpg?resize=281%2C300&ssl=1 281w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p><em>Code of Honor</em> is a 260-page paperback on the filming of <em>High Noon</em> (1952), <em>Shane</em> (1953), and <em>The Searchers</em> (1956). I can say it contains some remarkable photographs; my favorite is of John Qualen, Natalie Wood, and Olive Carey filming the final scene of <em>The Searchers</em> (1956). <em>Code of Honor</em> was published in 2003 by Taylor Trade Publishing.</p> <p>Switching from books on “A” Westerns to the stars of “B” Westerns, I made a fantastic discovery in <em>The Fabulous Holts</em> by Buck Rainey. Rainey, who passed away in 2009, also wrote <em>Shoot-Em-Ups</em>, which I discussed here <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-8/">earlier this year</a>, and <em>Sweethearts of the Sage</em>, which I discussed in a <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-7/">2023</a> column. <em>The Fabulous Holts</em> covers the lives and films of Western actors Jack Holt and his children Tim and Jennifer.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FabulousHolts.jpg?w=640" alt="The Fabulous Holts by Buck Rainey" class="wp-image-30240" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FabulousHolts.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FabulousHolts.jpg?resize=196%2C300&ssl=1 196w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>I first learned of the Holt book from the back cover of another of Rainey’s books, and thanks to a kind friend’s assistance I found an affordable copy on eBay. It’s a 215-page book originally published in 1976 by Western Film Collector Press.</p> <p>The book has relatively small print and is packed with information, including detailed biographies of the family and close looks at their films. The author personally interviewed both Jennifer and Tim; Tim passed away before the book’s publication, but his widow provided family photographs to the author. Other photos in the book were from Jennifer’s collection.</p> <p>Along with the late <a href="https://amzn.to/3AB5P2t">David Rothel’s book </a><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3AB5P2t">Tim Hol</a>t</em>, which I discussed here in my <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-7/">November 2019</a> column, <em>The Fabulous Holts</em> is an absolute “must” for fans of this acting family.</p> <p>I’ve been interested in Dale Evans and Roy Rogers, on and off screen, since I met Dale as a child at the Lighthouse Christian Bookstore in Long Beach, California. Dale was signing her 1971 book <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3YVR7Lu">Dale: My Personal Picture Album</a></em>, and I was in awe, as I often watched afternoon TV reruns of <em>The Roy Rogers Show</em>; she was one of the first celebrities I ever met in person. Her book filled with stories and photos of her large family fascinated me, and I went on to read several other books by Dale.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/QueenoftheWest.jpg?w=640" alt="Queen of the West by Theresa Kaminski" class="wp-image-30245" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/QueenoftheWest.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/QueenoftheWest.jpg?resize=195%2C300&ssl=1 195w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p><em><a href="https://amzn.to/40YnFXA">Queen of the West: The Life and Times of Dale Evans</a></em>, was written by Theresa Kaminski and published by Rowan & Littlefield’s Lyons Press imprint in 2022. I just picked it up in a sale this year and found it a very “readable” and insightful book. It’s extensively researched, with over 50 pages of footnotes, and also had the advantage of being fact-checked by Dale’s oldest stepdaughter, Cheryl Rogers Barnett.</p> <p>This is a good place to also mention the very enjoyable memoirs written by Cheryl, <em><a href="https://amzn.to/3AOBrl8">Cowboy Princess: Life With My Parents, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans</a></em> and <em><a href="https://amzn.to/4hUtMm4">Cowboy Princess Rides Again</a></em>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CowboyPrincess.jpg?w=640" alt="Cowboy Princess by Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and Frank Thompson" class="wp-image-30238" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CowboyPrincess.jpg?w=326&ssl=1 326w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CowboyPrincess.jpg?resize=196%2C300&ssl=1 196w" sizes="(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CowboyPrincessRidesAgain-1.jpg?w=640" alt="Cowboy Princess Rides Again by Cheryl Rogers Barnett" class="wp-image-30251" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CowboyPrincessRidesAgain-1.jpg?w=326&ssl=1 326w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CowboyPrincessRidesAgain-1.jpg?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w" sizes="(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>I’ve been fortunate to meet Cheryl on multiple occasions at the Lone Pine Film Festival, where she’s a regular guest. Her books are charming stories of growing up in Hollywood as part of the large Rogers family; she’s also honest about some of the struggles she faced as a teen, loving yet clashing with her stepmother Dale. She continues to be a wonderful historian and ambassador for the Rogers family.</p> <p>As I’ve mentioned here in the past, I’ve always had a particular interest in actress Julie Adams as I appeared on stage with her in a bit role in a theatrical production of <em>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</em> in the late ’70s. Adams got her start in movies appearing in low-budget Lippert Pictures Westerns, a couple of which I’ve written about in past columns. As her career developed she starred in numerous Universal Pictures Westerns, as well as appearing in TV Westerns such as <em>Maverick, Cheyenne, </em>and <em>The Rifleman</em>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams1.jpg?w=640" alt="The Lucky Southern Star by Julie Adams" class="wp-image-30241" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams1.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams1.jpg?resize=208%2C300&ssl=1 208w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Adams published the charming memoir <em><a href="https://amzn.to/4hMhrQR">The Lucky Southern Star: Reflections From the Black Lagoon</a></em> in 2011. It was cowritten with her son Mitchell Danton, who was also the son of actor Ray Danton. It’s a marvelous book, with 263 heavy, glossy pages and dozens of photos from her personal collection.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams2-1.jpg?w=640" alt="Julie Adams book 2" class="wp-image-30248" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams2-1.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams2-1.jpg?resize=188%2C300&ssl=1 188w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams3.jpg?w=640" alt="Julie Adams book 3" class="wp-image-30243" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams3.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/JulieAdams3.jpg?resize=187%2C300&ssl=1 187w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Above, a montage of color posters for Adams’ films which are seen inside the cover, along with a set of photos from one of my all-time favorite Westerns, <em>Bend of the River</em> (1952). The book includes many fun anecdotes, including how she learned moviemaking while shooting several Lippert Westerns simultaneously!</p> <p>For even more ideas on books on Western movies, please visit my lists from <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library/">July 2019</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-2/">November 2019</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-3/">May 2020</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-4/">January 2021</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-5/">July 2021</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-6/">August 2022</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-7/">May 2023</a>, and <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-western-film-book-library-part-8/">April 2024</a>.</p> <p>…</p> <p>– Laura Grieve for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p>Laura can be found at her blog, <a href="http://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/">Laura’s Miscellaneous Musings,</a> where she’s been writing about movies since 2005, and on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurasMiscMovie">@LaurasMiscMovie</a>. 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tag-the-countryman-and-the-cinematograph-1901 tag-thomas-edison tag-uncle-josh-at-the-moving-picture-show-1902 tag-vitascope tag-william-dickson"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/silents-are-golden-the-growing-pains-of-very-early-cinema/" rel="bookmark">Silents Are Golden: The Growing Pains of (Very) Early Cinema</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/silents-are-golden-the-growing-pains-of-very-early-cinema/" title="9:04 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 21, 2024</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/lea-stans/" title="View all posts by Lea Stans">Lea Stans</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>The Growing Pains of (Very) Early Cinema </strong></h3> <p>It’s easy to assume that “moving pictures” burst onto the scene in the late 19th century all at once. We often imagine that pop culture history can be neatly sliced into “before cinema” and “after cinema,” positive that the traditional forms of stage entertainment swiftly became passe. The truth, of course, is always more complicated. In a 1940 interview, early filmmaker Edwin S. Porter recalled his uncertainty over whether cinema could retain a steady audience until he saw an exciting new film called <em>A Trip to the Moon–</em>which, as we know, was released all the way back in 1902!</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/a-trip-to-the-moon.png?w=640" alt="a trip to the moon" class="wp-image-30223" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/a-trip-to-the-moon.png?w=635&ssl=1 635w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/a-trip-to-the-moon.png?resize=300%2C237&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Even determining what films count as the “earliest” can be tricky. Should we, for instance, count the pioneering methods of Eadweard Muybridge, who discovered how to photograph an animal’s precise movements one quick shot at a time? What about Étienne-Jules Marey’s similar experiments with his chronophotographic “gun,” which created strips of crisp images of moving animals and people? </p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/one-of-Marey’s-chronophotograph.png?w=640" alt="one of Marey’s chronophotograph" class="wp-image-30225" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/one-of-Marey’s-chronophotograph.png?w=814&ssl=1 814w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/one-of-Marey’s-chronophotograph.png?resize=300%2C149&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/one-of-Marey’s-chronophotograph.png?resize=768%2C381&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>One of Marey’s chronophotographs.</figcaption></figure> <p>Along with the various optical illusion toys and magic lantern shows that were common at the time, these did indeed play a hand in the creation of motion pictures. However, it’s often agreed that the earliest “true” films were the ones shot on light-sensitive strips of material. Thus, French inventor Louis Le Prince may be the strongest contender for the creator of motion pictures as they’re known today. His stubby wooden box-like structure used strips of fragile paper film from the Eastman Kodak Company, and in Leeds, England, he shot some brief footage of family and friends clowning in a backyard. The surviving fragment, <em>Roundhay Garden Scene</em> (1888), is considered the oldest film in the world.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Roundhay-Garden-Scene-1888.png?w=640" alt="Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)" class="wp-image-30227" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Roundhay-Garden-Scene-1888.png?w=637&ssl=1 637w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Roundhay-Garden-Scene-1888.png?resize=300%2C220&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Once we settle on what counts as film, there’s the equally confusing question of credit. Who made the first motion picture camera? Who made the first projector? In the late 19th century patents for innumerable film-related inventions flew like confetti (indeed, patents for <em>every </em>type of invention were legion). During a span of just a few years inventors around the world–especially the U.S., U.K., France and Germany–were feverishly working on cameras, projectors and other movie making accessories, practically stumbling over each other in the rush to corner the market. </p> <p>Auguste and Louis Lumière, Thomas Edison, William K.-L. Dickson, Grey and Otway Latham, and Max and Emil Skladanowsky are just a few prominent names among these pioneering inventors–and were certainly well aware of each other’s work. Dickson even secretly went behind his boss Edison’s back to help the Latham brothers design their “Latham loop,” a slack loop of film in the motion picture camera that reduces tension on the filmstrip. The Lumière brothers’ first public screening of their projected films in Paris on December 28, 1895, is justly famous, but they were technically beaten to the punch by the Skladanowsky brothers in Germany, who held their first screening in November 1895. They in turn were beaten by the Latham brothers, who exhibited in May.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Lathams-demonstrate-their-machine.png?w=640" alt="The Lathams demonstrate their machine" class="wp-image-30228" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Lathams-demonstrate-their-machine.png?w=737&ssl=1 737w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Lathams-demonstrate-their-machine.png?resize=300%2C134&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>The Lathams demonstrate their machine.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Can we say, then, that these 1895 screenings opened the floodgate of interest in the brand-new technology of motion pictures? We can, and we might also say that as 1896 was the year that films really took off. The films themselves were simple, of course–very brief and simply capturing dancers dancing, or boxers sparring, or footage of a busy city street. But audiences marveled at how the camera could capture details like smoke rising from a pipe, or leaves waving in the wind–details which couldn’t be captured by still photography. For a time, the sheer novelty of the film itself was exciting enough for amazed audiences around the world.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Illustration-of-a-Vitascope-picture-show.png?w=640" alt="Illustration of a Vitascope picture show" class="wp-image-30224" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Illustration-of-a-Vitascope-picture-show.png?w=643&ssl=1 643w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Illustration-of-a-Vitascope-picture-show.png?resize=300%2C226&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Illustration of a Vitascope picture show.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>But behind the scenes, all wasn’t smooth sailing. Competitions over the various patents only grew more fierce. Edison in particular managed to seize control of many of the motion picture camera components and his company frequently started lawsuits with competitors. In the meantime filmmakers themselves were constantly “borrowing” from each other–if one film grew popular then other studios often made their own, identical versions. </p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Uncle-Josh-at-the-Moving-Picture-Show-1902-a-copy-of-The-Countryman-and-the-Cinematograph-1901-.png?w=640" alt="Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902), a copy of The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)" class="wp-image-30229" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Uncle-Josh-at-the-Moving-Picture-Show-1902-a-copy-of-The-Countryman-and-the-Cinematograph-1901-.png?w=643&ssl=1 643w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Uncle-Josh-at-the-Moving-Picture-Show-1902-a-copy-of-The-Countryman-and-the-Cinematograph-1901-.png?resize=300%2C226&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption><em>Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show </em>(1902), <br /> a copy of <em>The Countryman and the Cinematograph </em>(1901).</figcaption></figure></div> <p>By the early 1900s, films were not only familiar to the general public (thanks mainly to traveling shows and “theaters” set up in rented buildings), but they were <em>so </em>familiar that, strange as it sounds today, the novelty was finally wearing off. The rented “storefront theaters” were having a harder time sustaining business, the films that were formerly a prominent part of vaudeville programs were relegated to being “chasers” (stuck at the very end of the program), and audiences were growing tired of seeing the same types of subjects over and over again. Vaudeville and “legitimate” theater still dominated, and the nickelodeon wouldn’t start popping up until 1905.</p> <p>But if there was one film that helped breathe a bit of fresh inspiration into the competitive industry, it was George Méliès’ <em>A Trip to the Moon </em>(1902). Running around 15 minutes long, it was one of the lengthier early silents. With its whimsical story of astronomers who travel to the winking, blinking moon and its fantastical hand-colored imagery, it was a treat for both the eyes and the imagination. When the film quickly became a hit around the world, many filmmakers began to realize that story-centric films were the way forward.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Trip-to-the-Moon-1902.png?w=640" alt="A Trip to the Moon (1902)" class="wp-image-30222" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Trip-to-the-Moon-1902.png?w=662&ssl=1 662w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Trip-to-the-Moon-1902.png?resize=300%2C229&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption> <em>A Trip to the Moon</em> (1902).</figcaption></figure></div> <p>By the end of the 1900s, it was clear that motion pictures would not just be a passing fad or a novelty. A fresh new kind of storytelling had emerged, with its own particular language that was evolving every week. 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--> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>Thankful Noir</strong><br /></h3> <p>Noirvember and Thanksgiving season. </p> <p>The weather is getting cooler and the leaves are continuing to turn and fall. So, what better time to pull up a chair, grab a cup o’ cider, and join me as I serve up a heaping platter of noir-related goodies that I’m thankful for? Here goes . . .</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Barbara-Stanwyck-copy.jpg?w=640" alt="Barbara Stanwyck Double Indemnity" class="wp-image-30205" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Barbara-Stanwyck-copy.jpg?w=548&ssl=1 548w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Barbara-Stanwyck-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C228&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity</figcaption></figure></div> <ul><li>The expression on Phyllis Dietrichson’s face in <em>Double Indemnity</em> (1944) as her hapless hubby is murdered by her lover, inches away from her. She doesn’t flinch or gasp, or look afraid or even repulsed. Her eyes are cold and emotionless – and the faintest of smiles curves her lips as the deed is done.</li></ul> <ul><li>The crafty badassery that Myra Hudson (Joan Crawford) employs in <em>Sudden Fear </em>(1952) after learning that her husband (Jack Palance) and his lover (Gloria Grahame) are plotting her murder. Her initial reaction upon learning of the scheme is understandably unhinged, but once she gets a good night’s sleep, she goes on the offense, and it’s a beautiful thing to see.</li></ul> <ul><li><em>Nora Prentiss</em> (1947) and its unique plot, which centers around a man faking his own death in order to be with the woman he has fallen for. </li></ul> <ul><li>The many, many great lines in <em>Detour </em>(1945). Here’s one of my favorites: “Not only don’t you have any scruples, you don’t have any brains.”</li></ul> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Richard-Conte-copy.jpg?w=640" alt="Richard Conte The Big Combo" class="wp-image-30206" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Richard-Conte-copy.jpg?w=768&ssl=1 768w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Richard-Conte-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C241&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Richard Conte, The Big Combo</figcaption></figure></div> <ul><li>Richard Conte in anything, but especially in <em>The Big Combo</em> (1955), where he plays a mobster so ruthless that he doesn’t even need a first name – he’s simply Mr. Brown. He’s scary. He’s cruel. He’s cold-blooded. And he doesn’t care about anybody. Except Mr. Brown. </li></ul> <ul><li>Noirs that don’t have a happy ending – I’m looking at you, <em>Scarlet Street </em>(1945), <em>The Breaking Point</em> (1950), and <em>The Killing</em> (1956). I love a lot of elements about film noir, but one of my favorite things is an absolutely and completely downbeat ending. The last words uttered by Sterling Hayden’s character perfectly capture this feeling: “Eh, what’s the difference?”</li></ul> <ul><li>First-rate neo-noirs like <em>Body Heat</em> (1981), <em>Blood Simple</em> (1984), <em>One False Move</em> (1992), <em>The Last Seduction</em> (1994), and <em>A Simple Plan</em> (1998).</li></ul> <ul><li>Supporting characters like Marty Waterman and Mrs. Kraft (Elisha Cook, Jr. and Esther Howard) in <em>Born to Kill</em> (1947). The stars of this film are the murderous and aptly named Sam Wild (Lawrence Tierney) and Helen Trent (Claire Trevor), who is Sam’s equal in the depravity department. But Marty and Mrs. Kraft are unforgettable standouts in their own right. Marty is the kind of friend anyone would want to have – loyal, understanding, and literally willing to kill for you. And Mrs. Kraft may be a beer-guzzling matron who cheats at cards, but she’s not one to cross – not as long as there’s a hatpin in the vicinity.</li></ul> <ul><li>Percy Helton.</li></ul> <ul><li>The fabulous ensemble cast of <em>The Asphalt Jungle</em> (1950). This feature has so many characters who are memorably and distinctively drawn, not to mention excellently brought to life, from the main characters like the mastermind of the heist, Doc Reidenschneider (Sam Jaffe), and Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden), the hooligan who serves as the muscle for the operation, to lesser-seen characters like the cat-loving hunchback Gus Minissi (James Whitmore) and the child-like mistress (Marilyn Monroe) of the lawyer charged with fencing the stolen diamonds. Every single character was both necessary and noteworthy. </li></ul> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_The-Asphalt-Jungle-copy.jpg?w=640" alt="The Asphalt Jungle" class="wp-image-30208" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_The-Asphalt-Jungle-copy.jpg?w=400&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_The-Asphalt-Jungle-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>The Asphalt Jungle</figcaption></figure></div> <ul><li>The fact that I don’t really know what’s going on in <em>The Big Sleep</em> (1946) half the time, but that never stops me from watching it every chance I get.</li></ul> <ul><li>Discovering offshoots of classic noir, like western noir (<em>The Violent Men</em>, 1955; <em>Man of the West</em>, 1958), British noir (<em>It Always Rains on Sunday</em>, 1947; <em>Odd Man Out</em>, 1947), and Gaslight noir (<em>So Evil, My Love</em>, 1948; and <em>Blanche Fury</em>, 1948). There are so many excellent titles within these genres, and it’s so much fun unearthing them.</li></ul> <ul><li>The scene in <em>Gun Crazy</em> (1950) where Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) and Bart Tare (John Dall) eat a hamburger at a diner. I don’t even eat red meat, and those burgers look mouth-wateringly delectable. </li></ul> <ul><li>Iconic moments like the scalding coffee thrown in Gloria Grahame’s face in <em>The Big Heat </em>(1953), Gene Tierney watching her brother-in-law drown in <em>Leave Her to Heaven</em> (1945), and Gloria Swanson’s film-ending close-up in <em>Sunset Boulevard </em>(1950) – moments that I knew and appreciated long before I ever saw the films.</li></ul> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Shield-for-Murder.jpg?w=640" alt="Shield for Murder" class="wp-image-30207" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Shield-for-Murder.jpg?w=456&ssl=1 456w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CMH_Thankful_Shield-for-Murder.jpg?resize=300%2C229&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Shield for Murder</figcaption></figure></div> <ul><li>Noirs that are accessible for free on streaming platforms like YouTube, Pluto, and Tubi. Here’s just a fraction of the gems you can watch right now at no cost: <em>Leave Her to Heaven</em> (1945), <em>The Strange Love of Martha Ivers</em> (1946), <em>Brute Force</em> (1947), <em>Cry of the City</em> (1948), <em>Pitfall</em> (1948), <em>House of Strangers</em> (1949), <em>Shakedown</em> (1950), <em>Pickup on South Street</em> (1953), <em>Shield for Murder</em> (1954), <em>Private Hell 36 </em>(1954), and <em>Odds Against Tomorrow</em> (1959). You can’t go wrong with a single one of these, trust me. Treat yourself!</li></ul> <p>Happy Noirvember and happy Thanksgiving!</p> <p>…</p> <p>– Karen Burroughs Hannsberry for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/karen-burroughs-hannsberry/">You can read all of Karen’s Noir Nook articles here.</a></p> <p>Karen Burroughs Hannsberry is the author of the <a href="https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/">Shadows and Satin blog</a>, which focuses on movies and performers from the film noir and pre-Code eras, and the editor-in-chief of <a href="http://www.allthatnoir.com/newsletter/"><em>The Dark Pages</em></a>, a bimonthly newsletter devoted to all things film noir. Karen is also the author of two books on film noir – <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786404299?ie=UTF8&tag=classicmovi04-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0786404299"><em>Femme Noir: The Bad Girls of Film</em></a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Boys-Actors-Film-Noir/dp/0786437391/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500658390&sr=1-1&keywords=Bad+Boys%3A+The+Actors+of+Film+Noir"><em>Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir</em></a>. 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class="entry-date">November 14, 2024</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/jennifer-garlen/" title="View all posts by Jennifer Garlen">Jennifer Garlen</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>My Favorite Wife (1940)</strong></h3> <p>I’ve shown a lot of comedies to my lifetime learners over the years, but I’ve rarely heard an audience laugh as uproariously as they did during a recent screening of <em>My Favorite Wife</em> (1940), which we watched as part of a series featuring Cary Grant. The peals of laughter prove that Grant and his costar, Irene Dunne, can still enchant an audience with their screwball antics more than 80 years later, even if the original production of the picture was marred by Leo McCarey’s unexpected absence and problems with the preview version that required last-minute corrections. You don’t need to know about any of that to enjoy <em>My Favorite Wife</em>, and you don’t need to know about the personal histories of the major players, either, but the knowledge does add some fascinating layers to this wacky, fast-paced romp about a couple who get a second chance at being a family.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Grant-Patrick.jpg?w=640" alt="My Favorite Wife, Cary Grant, Gail Patrick" class="wp-image-30197" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Grant-Patrick.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Grant-Patrick.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Nick (Cary Grant) repeatedly tries to explain to his bride, Bianca (Gail Patrick), that her predecessor has returned, but he loses his nerve.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Irene Dunne stars as Ellen Arden, whose disappearance in a shipwreck leads her husband, Nick (Cary Grant), to have her declared legally dead seven years later so that he can marry a new wife, Bianca (Gail Patrick). Ironically, Ellen returns from being marooned on an island on the same day as the declaration and wedding, which creates problems for the confused and now bigamous Nick. Ellen pressures Nick to break the news to Bianca but fails to mention that her companion on the island was the ruggedly handsome Stephen (Randolph Scott), whom she refers to as “Adam.” Seething with jealousy over his first wife, but unable to tell his second wife the truth, Nick suffers comedic torment inflicted by Ellen, Bianca, and Stephen as they force him to confront the situation he has inadvertently created.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Grant-Dunne-Scott.jpg?w=640" alt="My Favorite Wife, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott" class="wp-image-30196" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Grant-Dunne-Scott.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Grant-Dunne-Scott.jpg?resize=300%2C229&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Nick is deeply concerned that Ellen’s companion on the desert island for seven years was the handsome Stephen (Randolph Scott).</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>My Favorite Wife</em> is the second of three pictures starring Grant and Dunne, following their first successful pairing in <em>The Awful Truth</em> (1937), which Leo McCarey had directed. A car accident sidelined McCarey and led to Garson Kanin stepping in as director, but the cast and crew felt the strain of worrying about McCarey during production. McCarey was able to return for the editing process, and he helped create a new third act to address problems with the preview cut. None of those issues are apparent in the final version of the movie, which showcases both the onscreen chemistry and the comedic talent of the two leads. The movie also marks the second and final screen pairing of Grant and Randolph Scott, who had first met when they made <em>Hot Saturday</em> in 1932. Grant and Scott then moved in together and were housemates off and on for the next decade, leading to much speculation about the nature of their relationship. You can read a great deal more about that in David Canfield’s 2024 <em>Vanity Fair</em> article, “<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/cary-grant-randolph-scott-hollywood-story">Cary Grant and Randolph Scott’s Hollywood Story</a>.” Knowing about their shared history adds another layer of interest to the movie’s depiction of them as romantic rivals, especially when Nick obsessively imagines the swimsuit clad Stephen turning somersaults and demonstrating his attractive physique.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-kids-Grant.jpg?w=640" alt="My Favorite Wife, Cary Grant with kids" class="wp-image-30198" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-kids-Grant.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-kids-Grant.jpg?resize=300%2C229&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Nick and Ellen also have to figure out how to tell their two children (Mary Lou Harrington and Scotty Beckett) that Ellen is actually their mother.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Because my lifetime learners and I live in Alabama, we also find the movie’s cluster of Southern actors noteworthy, especially because both <em>The Awful Truth</em> and <em>My Favorite Wife</em> include scenes with Irene Dunne speaking in an exaggerated Southern drawl. In the earlier picture, Dunne mimics the over-the-top accent of Dixie Belle Lee, played by Lexington, Kentucky native Joyce Compton, but Dunne herself was born nearby in Louisville. In <em>My Favorite Wife</em>, Ellen causes Bianca to sniff at her assumption of a Southern accent while pretending to be an old family friend of the Ardens, but Gail Patrick, the actress who plays Bianca, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and actually studied law at the University of Alabama before embarking on her Hollywood career. Randolph Scott was born in Virginia, grew up in North Carolina, and attended both Georgia Tech and the University of North Carolina, making him quite the embodiment of Southern gentility, and of the three Southern stars in <em>My Favorite Wife</em> he’s the only one sporting a natural sounding regional accent. In both pictures, Dunne seems to flirt with being Southern while also perpetuating Hollywood stereotypes about how Southerners talk, and that’s both fascinating and frustrating to those of us whose accents are being simultaneously erased and parodied in classic Hollywood films.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Dunne-bed.jpg?w=640" alt="Irene Dunne My Favorite Wife bed" class="wp-image-30195" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Dunne-bed.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fav-Wife-Dunne-bed.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>In classic screwball style, Ellen keeps Nick floundering until the very end of the picture.</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>My Favorite Wife </em>earned three Oscar nominations, with nods for Original Story, Art Direction, and Original Score, but it went home empty-handed. 1940 was a big year for Cary Grant, with <em>His Girl Friday</em> and <em>The Philadelphia Story</em> also coming out that same year. Irene Dunne picked up her third Best Actress nomination for <em>The Awful Truth</em>, and in 1940 she earned a fourth for <em>Love Affair</em> (1939), but, sadly, her five career nominations never produced a win. Grant and Dunne’s third and final collaboration would be the domestic melodrama <em>Penny Serenade</em> (1941). Randolph Scott is, of course, best remembered as a Western star in films like <em>7 Men from Now</em> (1956), <em>The Tall T</em> (1957), and <em>Ride the High Country</em> (1962), but you can find both Scott and Gail Patrick in <em>Murders in the Zoo</em> (1933). Patrick eventually became the executive producer of the iconic TV series, <em>Perry Mason </em>(1957-1966), but you’ll also find her in memorable roles in <em>My Man Godfrey</em> (1936) and <em>Stage Door</em> (1937).</p> <p style="text-align:center">…</p> <p>— Jennifer Garlen for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p>Jennifer Garlen pens our monthly Silver Screen Standards column. <a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/category/posts-by-jennifer-garlen/">You can read all of Jennifer’s Silver Screen Standards articles here.</a></p> <p>Jennifer is a former college professor with a PhD in English Literature and a lifelong obsession with film. She writes about classic movies at her blog, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://virtualvirago.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Virtual Virago</a>, and presents classic film programs for lifetime learning groups and retirement communities. 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</div><!-- #post-## --> <div id="post-30201" class="post-30201 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-classic-movie-horror category-monsters-and-matinees category-posts-by-toni-ruberto tag-attack-of-the-crab-monsters tag-gilligans-island tag-it-came-from-outer-space tag-jack-arnold tag-roger-corman tag-russell-johnson tag-this-island-earth"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/monsters-and-matinees-before-professor-russell-johnson-used-his-wits-in-3-sci-fi-classics/" rel="bookmark">Monsters and Matinees: Before ‘Professor,’ Russell Johnson used his wits in 3 sci-fi classics</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/monsters-and-matinees-before-professor-russell-johnson-used-his-wits-in-3-sci-fi-classics/" title="6:00 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 9, 2024</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/toni-ruberto/" title="View all posts by Toni Ruberto">Toni Ruberto</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <p>As classic movie fans, we’ve all had those “wow” moments with actors we may not expect to see in a film as in “Wow! Is that (fill in the blank) …” Or “Wait – I think that’s …” This usually happens in their early films and it’s always fun to make that connection.</p> <p>One of my favorite “wow” moments was in the great sci-fi film <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="t Came from Outer Space (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/it-came-from-outer-space-1953/" target="_blank">It Came from Outer Space</a></em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="t Came from Outer Space (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/it-came-from-outer-space-1953/" target="_blank"> </a>when I excitedly said out loud (to an empty room) – “Hey, that’s the Professor!”</p> <p>Yes, it was <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Russell Johnson (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/russell-johnson/" target="_blank">Russell Johnson </a>in a film made a decade before he would become cemented in pop-culture history as the Professor on the CBS hit comedy <em>Gilligan’s Island.</em> And instead of wondering aloud if it was Russell Johnson, I indeed called him Professor, the character he is most remembered for playing.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-publicity.jpg?resize=640%2C417" alt="" class="wp-image-30191" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-publicity.jpg?resize=1024%2C667&ssl=1 1024w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-publicity.jpg?resize=300%2C195&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-publicity.jpg?resize=768%2C500&ssl=1 768w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-publicity.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-publicity.jpg?w=1920 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Russell Johnson is best known for playing Professor on <em>Gilligan’s Island</em>, but he also played roles in three great sci-fi films of the 1950s.</figcaption></figure> <p>While the series made household names out of the seven actors playing the castaways on an uncharted island, it also made it difficult for them to separate themselves from those distinct TV characters. It was almost like the work they did before <em>Gilligan’s Island</em> didn’t exist; then, after the series ended, they were typecast as those characters.</p> <p>For Johnson, that meant he would always be recognized as Professor Roy Hinkley – shorted simply to Professor – an amiable and intelligent man who used his skills to create all sorts of interesting gadgets.</p> <p>But before he played that iconic role, he appeared in three notable sci-fi films of the 1950s and I thought the centennial of his birth – he was born Nov. 10, 1924 – is a good time to celebrate that legacy.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-lobby-card-good.jpg?resize=469%2C367" alt="" class="wp-image-30215" width="469" height="367" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-lobby-card-good.jpg?w=469&ssl=1 469w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-lobby-card-good.jpg?resize=300%2C235&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>A lobby card for <em>Attack of the Crab Monsters</em> shows Leslie Bradley, left, Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan and Russell Johnson.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>In <em>It Came from Outer Space</em> (1953), Johnson was a telephone worker whose body was borrowed by aliens to share messages with clueless humans. In <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="This Island Earth (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/this-island-earth-1955/" target="_blank">This Island Earth</a></em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="This Island Earth (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/this-island-earth-1955/" target="_blank"> </a>(1955) he was a scientist chosen by an alien race to help them survive, and in <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Attack of the Crab Monsters (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/attack-of-the-crab-monsters-1957/" target="_blank">Attack of the Crab Monsters</a></em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Attack of the Crab Monsters (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/attack-of-the-crab-monsters-1957/" target="_blank"> </a>(1956) he was a Navy radio specialist trapped with others on an island by the title creatures.</p> <p>Those weren’t lead roles, but his characters were integral to the plot. Plus, the three films are noted for their technological advances and feature such lauded names as directors Jack Arnold and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Roger Corman (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/roger-corman/" target="_blank">Roger Corman</a> and producer <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="William Alland (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/william-alland/" target="_blank">William Alland</a>.</p> <p>Before getting to the films, here’s a very brief look at the life of Russell Johnson.</p> <p style="text-align:center">* * * * * *</p> <p>Russell Johnson was born Nov. 10, 1924 in the small borough of Ashley, Pa. (near Wilkes-Barre). The oldest of seven children, he took on a lot of responsibility in caring for his younger siblings. After his father died, he was sent to a private school/orphanage with his brothers.</p> <p>Following high school, Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Air Force where he had a decorated military career. He flew 44 combat missions during World War II and received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star after his B-52 was shot down and he broke both of his ankles.</p> <p>He used his G.I. Bill to study acting at the Actors Lab in Hollywood where other students included <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/audie-murphy/">Audie Murphy</a>, who would become a good friend, plus Marilyn Monroe, Hume Cronyn, Dorothy Dandridge and Leo J. Cobb. His first role was in the 1952 noir “For Men Only,” directed by Paul Henreid, and he followed that with four more films that year.</p> <p>Johnson continued acting for nearly 40 years, starring in a healthy mix of film and television. He made three early Westerns with Audie Murphy: <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Tumbleweed (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/tumbleweed-1953/" target="_blank">Tumbleweed</a></em> (1953), <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Column South (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/column-south-1953/" target="_blank">Column South</a></em> (1953) and <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Ride Clear of Diablo (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/ride-clear-of-diablo-1954/" target="_blank">Ride Clear of Diablo</a></em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Ride Clear of Diablo (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/ride-clear-of-diablo-1954/" target="_blank"> </a>(1954); co-starred with <em>Gilligan’s Island</em> pal Alan Hale Jr. in the Western <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Many Rivers to Cross (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/many-rivers-to-cross-1955/" target="_blank">Many Rivers to Cross</a></em> (1955) and the TV series <em>Casey Jones</em> (1957); and had guest spots on a large number of popular TV shows including <em>Gunsmoke</em>, <em>The Californians</em>, <em>Wagon Train</em>, <em>The Real McCoys </em>and <em>Tales of Wells Fargo</em>. Other guest roles were on <em>Alfred Hitchcock Presents</em>, <em>The Outer Limits</em> and two episodes of <em>The Twilight Zone</em> (<em>Execution</em> and <em>Back There).</em></p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-Gilligans-Island-1.jpg?w=640" alt="" class="wp-image-30217" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-Gilligans-Island-1.jpg?w=496&ssl=1 496w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Russell-Johnson-Gilligans-Island-1.jpg?resize=300%2C224&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Russell Johnson as Professor on <em>Gilligan’s Island.</em></figcaption></figure></div> <p>He starred for two seasons on <em>Black Saddle</em> and fittingly appeared multiple times on the military documentary anthology series, <em>The Silent Service</em> (1957), that told true stories about the U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet. Other films included the epics <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="The Greatest Story Ever Told (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/the-greatest-story-ever-told-1965/" target="_blank">The Greatest Story Ever Told</a></em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="The Greatest Story Ever Told (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/the-greatest-story-ever-told-1965/" target="_blank"> </a>(1965) and <em><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/macarthur-1977/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="MacArthur (opens in a new tab)">MacArthur</a></em><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/macarthur-1977/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="MacArthur (opens in a new tab)"> </a>(1977).</p> <p>The early 1960s brought <em>Gilligan’s Island</em>. The series ran only from 1964 to 1967 and if you thought – like me – that it aired much longer, that’s because it never really went away. Even today, we can watch the comedy series on MeTV and streaming services such as Tubi. Plus there are there are three <em>Gilligan’s Island</em> made-for-TV movies – <em>Rescue from Gilligan’s Island</em> (1978), <em>The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island </em>(1979) and <em>The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island</em> (1981) – and two animated series. </p> <p>Johnson died Jan. 16, 2014 at age 89.</p> <p>While it’s an achievement to be known 60 years later for a role as Johnson is for <em>Gilligan’s Island,</em> we are here to celebrate him for his performances battling aliens and giant telepathic crabs. Following are capsule looks at the three films and Johnson’s roles in them.</p> <p style="text-align:center">* * * * * *</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-From-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson-2.jpg?w=640" alt="" class="wp-image-30214" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-From-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson-2.jpg?w=680&ssl=1 680w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-From-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson-2.jpg?resize=300%2C226&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Richard Carlson, left, and Barbara Rush are puzzled by the odd behavior of their friend played by Russell Johnson in <em>It Came from Outer Space</em>.</figcaption></figure> <p><strong><em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="It Came from Outer Space (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/it-came-from-outer-space-1953/" target="_blank">It Came from Outer Space</a></em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="It Came from Outer Space (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/it-came-from-outer-space-1953/" target="_blank"> </a></strong>(1953)</p> <p>John (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Richard Carlson (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/richard-carlson/" target="_blank">Richard Carlson</a>), a writer and amateur astronomer, and his fiancée Ellen (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Barbara Rush (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/barbara-rush/" target="_blank">Barbara Rush</a>), a teacher, are first on the scene after a meteorite crash in the desert. When they discover to their shock that it’s a spaceship, they try to convince town residents of what they’ve seen. Instead, they are ridiculed for their outlandish claims. </p> <p>Johnson plays George who is working the lines along the desert highway with his partner Frank (Joe Sawyer) for the Sand Rock Telephone Exchange. These two average guys have a big, and at times, creepy role to play. When we first meet them, handsome George’s mind is on his big date that night, while Frank is checking out a phone line up a pole. When John and Ellen arrive while their looking for proof of aliens, Frank lets them listen to the strange sounds he’s hearing. Though they pass it off as probably nothing, the two parties split up to investigate and that’s when George and Frank have a close encounter of the alien kind. (Note to self: If you hear high-pitched sounds and see a big creature resembling an eye, you should run in the other direction.)</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-from-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson.jpg?w=640" alt="" class="wp-image-30190" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-from-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson.jpg?w=817&ssl=1 817w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-from-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson.jpg?resize=300%2C222&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/It-Came-from-Outer-Space-Russell-Johnson.jpg?resize=768%2C568&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Joe Sawyer, left, and Russell Johnson play telephone repair men who are under an alien influence in a very creepy scene from <em>It Came from Outer Space</em>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The next time the men meet John and Ellen they are a shadow of their former selves, speaking in monotone with glazed eyes and slow, zombie-like movements. Something is clearly wrong. George and Frank will provide the movie’s most chilling moment when they appear as shadowy figures in a doorway after John chases them down an alley. He asks questions but learns he may not like the answers.</p> <p><em>It Came from Outer Space</em> ultimately shows itself as a very thoughtful film that touches the surface of how we treat those who aren’t like us. When the townsfolk finally believe there are aliens, they are afraid of the “other,” and John is surprised to find himself trying to protect the aliens by fighting off the angry mob bent on destroying them.</p> <p>The film is directed by Jack Arnold and based on a Ray Bradbury story. </p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/This-Island-Earth-1-trio.jpg?w=640" alt="" class="wp-image-30192" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/This-Island-Earth-1-trio.jpg?w=512&ssl=1 512w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/This-Island-Earth-1-trio.jpg?resize=300%2C219&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Three well-dressed atomic specialists (Russell Johnson, left, Faith Domergue and Rex Reason) are brought together to help another planet in <em>This Island Earth.</em></figcaption></figure></div> <p><strong><em><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/this-island-earth-1955/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="This Island Earth (opens in a new tab)">This Island Earth</a></em></strong> (1955)</p> <p>Johnson has a smaller part in this film, but it’s a key role in whether the Earth’s survives or not. He is Dr. Steve Carlson, one of three exceptional (as we’re told multiple times) U.S. atomic scientists chosen by aliens to save their planet. The other two are played by Rex Reason and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Faith Domergue (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/faith-domergue/" target="_blank">Faith Domergue</a>. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Jeff Morrow (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/jeff-morrow/" target="_blank">Jeff Morrow </a>is the mysterious platinum-blonde Exeter, a scientist from the distant planet of Metaluna who guides them. (Morrow and Reason would co-star the following year in <em>The Creature Walks Among</em> <em>Us</em>.)</p> <p>Exeter has tested scientists from around the world to find the ones who can create desperately needed nuclear energy to save Metaluna from a dangerous ongoing assault. But convincing the scientists to do that work is another thing as the characters – and viewers – must decide whether Exeter is telling the truth or will use their skills to turn on the people of Earth. (It doesn’t help that the aliens have a machine called the “thought transformer” that is like mind-control for those who don’t obey.) Just know that Johnson’s Dr. Steve is integral in learning the answer.</p> <p>Joseph Newman is the film’s official director, but Jack Arnold directed most of the Metaluna sequences. The film was widely hailed for its use of Technicolor and special effects, being called “imaginative, fantastic and cleverly conceived” by Variety at the time. The influential film pops up in various ways in films including <em>E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial</em> (1982), <em>Explorers</em> (1985), <em>UHF</em> (1989) and <em>Looney Tunes Back in Action</em> (2003) as well as in song and video. You’ll know the movie from its images of a mutant with a giant head (it doesn’t appear until late in that film) that is said to be one of the inspirations for the work done by artist H.R. Giger for his work with aliens (and <em>Alien</em>).</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-Johnson-IMG_3804.jpg?resize=640%2C406" alt="" class="wp-image-30189" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-Johnson-IMG_3804.jpg?resize=1024%2C649&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-Johnson-IMG_3804.jpg?resize=300%2C190&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-Johnson-IMG_3804.jpg?resize=768%2C487&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-Johnson-IMG_3804.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Attack-of-the-Crab-Monsters-Johnson-IMG_3804.jpg?w=1920 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Pamela Duncan is happy to see Russell Johnson making progress on fixing the radio<br /> in <em>Attack of the Crab Monsters</em>.</figcaption></figure> <p><strong><em><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/attack-of-the-crab-monsters-1957/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Attack of the Crab Monsters (opens in a new tab)">Attack of the Crab Monsters</a></em></strong><a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/film/attack-of-the-crab-monsters-1957/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Attack of the Crab Monsters (opens in a new tab)"> </a>(1957)</p> <p>Gosh, this is a fun film with the eye-raising hypothesis that not only giant crabs exist, but that they can speak the thoughts of humans. Roger Corman produced and directed this film that finds a group of scientists and sailors – including Johnson as a radio technician – arriving on a remote Pacific Island to find members of a previous expedition that seems to have disappeared. </p> <p>But there’s not a body – alive or dead – to be found. Not even bones, if we want to be gross about it. And the journal left by the lead researcher has puzzling notes about a giant worm before the entries abruptly end. (They’ll soon wish it was just a worm.)</p> <p>Soon, the new group is being killed off (the seaplane explodes, a sailor is quickly decapitated after falling into the water), and there are multiple earthquakes that open cavernous holes and send parts of the island into the ocean. A core group of five must fend off those strange occurrences and be wary of voices calling to them that are of the missing or dead. (These crabs have strange powers.) Perhaps that ominous clickity-click sound – described by one unnerved character as like a “kid dragging a stick across a picket fence” – is a warning of what’s to come.</p> <p>Johnson’s character, who did TV and radio repairs with the Navy during the war, becomes the only hope for those left alive. While they fend off giant, intelligent crabs and the island continues to break apart, he races against time to cobble together a radio to get a distress signal out. Can he do it? Don’t forget he was later called the Professor.</p> <p><em>–</em> Toni Ruberto for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/category/posts-by-toni-ruberto/">You can read all of Toni’s Monsters and Matinees articles here.</a></p> <p>Toni Ruberto, born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., is an editor and writer at The Buffalo News. She shares her love for classic movies in her blog, <a href="https://watchingforever.wordpress.com/">Watching Forever</a> and is a writer and board member of the <a href="http://clamba.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Classic Movie Blog Association</a>. Toni was the president of the former Buffalo chapter of TCM Backlot and led the offshoot group, Buffalo Classic Movie Buffs. She is proud to have put Buffalo and its glorious old movie palaces in the spotlight as the inaugural winner of the TCM in Your Hometown contest. 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on</span> <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/classic-movie-travels-valeska-suratt/" title="9:15 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 7, 2024</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/annette-bochenek/" title="View all posts by Annette Bochenek">Annette Bochenek</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>Valeska Suratt</strong></h3> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/valeska.jpg?w=640" alt="valeska suratt" class="wp-image-29984" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/valeska.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/valeska.jpg?resize=300%2C241&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Valeska Suratt</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Valeska Suratt was born on June 28, 1882, in Owensville, Indiana, to Ralph and Anna Suratt. When Suratt was six years old, her family relocated to Terre Haute, Indiana. By 1899, she dropped out of school to work at a photography studio, later moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, to work as an assistant in a department store millinery. </p> <p>Suratt had an interest in performing, and eventually began working as an actress onstage in Chicago, Illinois. She began by working in vaudeville and was part of a duo act with Billy Gould. The two of them had an Apache dance number. Gould and Suratt married in 1904. </p> <p>Suratt made her Broadway debut in <em>The Belle of Mayfair</em>, followed by additional roles. In 1908, Suratt and her husband had separated and ultimately divorced in 1911. During this time, she started a solo singing act, wearing intricate gowns. In 1910, she gained notoriety for appearing in a show called <em>The Girl with the Whooping Cough</em> which was deemed “salacious” by New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor and was shut down due to its suggestive themes. </p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/whoop.jpg?w=640" alt="valeska suratt the girl with the whooping cough" class="wp-image-29985" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/whoop.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/whoop.jpg?resize=300%2C216&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>The Girl with the Whooping Cough</figcaption></figure></div> <p>In the same year, she partnered with Fletcher Norton for another duo act. She and Norton married in 1911 and remained together for eight weeks before divorcing.</p> <p>Suratt self-proclaimed herself as “Vaudeville’s Greatest Star” but was more known for the high-fashion clothing she wore onstage. For this reason, she was nicknamed “Empress of Fashions.” Moreover, she is purported to be one of the models for Gibson Girl sketches. </p> <p>In 1915, she turned to film roles, signing with Fox. She was portrayed as a vamp, cast as a seductive character in her film roles. Her first film appearance occurred in <em>The Soul of Broadway </em>(1915), in which she reportedly wore more than 150 gowns. In 1916, she traveled internationally to France for the purpose of buying costumes and motion picture equipment; to Great Britain as a special representative of William Fox; and to Monte Carlo to select motion picture locations. Altogether, she performed in 11 silent films during her film career. Today, all of them are considered lost films.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/film.jpg?w=640" alt="valeska suratt jealousy" class="wp-image-29983" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/film.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/film.jpg?resize=226%2C300&ssl=1 226w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Jealousy</figcaption></figure></div> <p>In 1920, her career waned due to vaudeville’s decline and the vamp image no longer being popular among moviegoers. To complicate matters, she and scholar Mirza Ahmad Sohrab sued Cecil B. DeMille for purportedly stealing the scenario for <em>The King of Kings </em>(1927) from them. The case was ultimately settled without publicity and Suratt was unofficially blacklisted following the lawsuit. </p> <p>In the 1930s, Suratt was living in a cheap New York City hotel, nearly destitute. Novelist Fannie Hurst discovered her situation and organized a benefit for her, raising $2000. Soon after receiving the funds, Suratt spent the funds while gambling and was penniless again. </p> <p>Suratt tried to restore her career and funds by selling her life story to newspapers, but one reporter who read the manuscript noted that Suratt was writing about herself as the mother of God. Suratt’s career was never revived in any capacity.</p> <p>Suratt died in a nursing home in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1962. She was a member of the Bahai faith and her ashes were interred at Highland Lawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was 80 years old. </p> <p>Today, few places of relevance to Suratt remain. In 1910, she resided at 47 E. 44<sup>th</sup> St., New York, New York. This location no longer remains.</p> <p>However, her 1925 home at 306 W. 76<sup>th</sup>, New York, New York, remains.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/76th.png?w=640" alt="306 W. 76th, New York City" class="wp-image-29981" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/76th.png?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/76th.png?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>306 W. 76th, New York City</figcaption></figure></div> <p>In addition, in 1931, she lived at 240 W. 98<sup>th</sup> St., New York, New York, which also stands.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/98th.png?w=640" alt="240 W. 98th St., New York City" class="wp-image-29982" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/98th.png?w=674&ssl=1 674w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/98th.png?resize=257%2C300&ssl=1 257w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>240 W. 98th St., New York City</figcaption></figure></div> <p>For 60 years, Suratt’s grave was unmarked. A local fundraising campaign led to the grave finally being marked in 2022. In addition, Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett declared June 28 Valeska Suratt Day in Terre Haute during a proclamation. Presently, this is the most significant tribute to Suratt.</p> <p>…</p> <p>–Annette Bochenek for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p>Annette Bochenek pens our monthly Classic Movie Travels column. <a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/annette-bochenek/">You can read all of Annette’s Classic Movie Travel articles here.</a></p> <p>Annette Bochenek of Chicago, Illinois, is a PhD student at Dominican University and an independent scholar of Hollywood’s Golden Age. She manages the <a href="https://home2hollywood.wordpress.com/">Hometowns to Hollywood</a> blog, in which she writes about her trips exploring the legacies and hometowns of Golden Age stars. Annette also hosts the “Hometowns to Hollywood” film series throughout the Chicago area. 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2024</strong></h3> <p>I had an amazing time again this year at the annual Lone Pine Film Festival held in Lone Pine, California.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePinePeak.jpg?w=640" alt="Lone Pine Peak" class="wp-image-30169" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePinePeak.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePinePeak.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePinePeak.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>This was the 34th festival, of which I’ve attended around 10. As has become our habit in recent years, we arrived in town a day ahead of the four-day event so my husband could prepare for his volunteer work guiding three horseback movie location tours.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePine.jpg?w=640" alt="Lone Pine red sky" class="wp-image-30171" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePine.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePine.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePine.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Lone Pine, as I’ve written about here many times, was a filming location in hundreds of Westerns. The festival focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on movies shot in the Lone Pine area, and it includes numerous movie location tours along with screenings and discussions.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePineFilmFestival2024Poster.jpg?w=640" alt="Lone Pine Film Festival 2024 Poster" class="wp-image-30170" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePineFilmFestival2024Poster.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LonePineFilmFestival2024Poster.jpg?resize=194%2C300&ssl=1 194w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Below is a plaque in the Alabama Hills outside town, located at the intersection of Whitney Portal Road and Movie Road. It commemorates the extensive filming which has taken place here and was dedicated by Roy Rogers in 1990.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MovieRoadPlaque.jpg?w=640" alt="Movie Road Plaque" class="wp-image-30167" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MovieRoadPlaque.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MovieRoadPlaque.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MovieRoadPlaque.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>The festival got underway on Thursday, October 10th, with its annual opening night barbecue in the parking lot of Lone Pine’s Museum of Western Film History.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MuseumofWesternFilmHistory.jpg?w=640" alt="Museum of Western Film History" class="wp-image-30166" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MuseumofWesternFilmHistory.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MuseumofWesternFilmHistory.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Festival guests seen at the barbecue included actor Bruce Boxleitner; Joel McCrea’s grandson Wyatt and his wife Lisa; and stuntman Diamond Farnsworth, son of actor-stuntman Richard Farnsworth:</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BoxleitnerMcCreasFarnsworth.jpg?w=640" alt="Bruce Boxleitner; Joel McCrea's grandson Wyatt and his wife Lisa; and stuntman Diamond Farnsworth, son of actor-stuntman Richard Farnsworth" class="wp-image-30175" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BoxleitnerMcCreasFarnsworth.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BoxleitnerMcCreasFarnsworth.jpg?resize=300%2C151&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BoxleitnerMcCreasFarnsworth.jpg?resize=768%2C386&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Bruce Boxleitner, Wyatt and Lisa McCrea, and Diamond Farnsworth</figcaption></figure> <p>Another opening night shot of film historians Scott Eyman with his wife, Lynn Kalber; Alan K. Rode; and Michael Blake.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EymanKalberRodeBlake.jpg?w=640" alt="Scott Eyman with his wife, Lynn Kalber; Alan K. Rode; and Michael Blake" class="wp-image-30174" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EymanKalberRodeBlake.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EymanKalberRodeBlake.jpg?resize=300%2C150&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EymanKalberRodeBlake.jpg?resize=768%2C383&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Scott Eyman, Lynn Kalber, Alan K. Rode, and Michael Blake</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Additional guests at this year’s festival included Patrick Wayne, Robert Carradine, Darby Hinton, Rory Flynn (daughter of Errol), Cheryl Rogers Barnett (daughter of Roy Rogers and stepdaughter of Dale Evans), Sandra Slepski (niece of actor Tom Tyler), and Jay Dee Witney (son of director William Witney).</p> <p>The very congenial Rory Flynn is seen here with Rob Word before a screening of her father’s <em>Rocky Mountain</em> (1950) on Friday evening.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FlynnWord.jpg?w=640" alt="Rory Flynn and Rob Word" class="wp-image-30172" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FlynnWord.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FlynnWord.jpg?resize=190%2C300&ssl=1 190w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Rory Flynn and Rob Word</figcaption></figure></div> <p>After the barbecue it was off to the Lone Pine High School auditorium for the opening night movie, a 75th anniversary screening of John Ford’s classic <em>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</em> (1949), starring John Wayne.</p> <p>Prior to the movie moderator Rob Word interviewed Wayne’s son Patrick and Michael Blake. Blake, the son of actor Larry Blake and a renowned movie makeup artist in his own right, is also a film historian whose latest book is <em>The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns</em>. One of that trio, of course, is <em>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</em>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WayneBlakeWord.jpg?w=640" alt="Rob Word interviewed Wayne's son Patrick and Michael Blake. Blake, the son of actor Larry Blake" class="wp-image-30157" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WayneBlakeWord.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WayneBlakeWord.jpg?resize=300%2C203&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WayneBlakeWord.jpg?resize=768%2C519&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Patrick Wayne, Michael Blake, and Rob Word</figcaption></figure></div> <p>This year, in addition to <em>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</em>, I enjoyed watching two episodes of <em>Have Gun, Will Travel</em> filmed in Lone Pine – “The Outlaw” and “The Bride” – along with a 28-minute short, <em>The Prospector</em> (1998), and four feature films, <em>Rip Roarin’ Buckaroo</em> (1936), <em>The Arizona Ranger</em> (1948), <em>Cattle Empire</em> (1958), and <em>Trail of Robin Hood</em> (1950).</p> <p>Below, filmmakers Owen Renfroe and Jeremy Arnold with moderator C. Courtney Joyner after the screening of their very enjoyable short silent movie <em>The Prospector</em>, which was filmed entirely in the Alabama Hills:</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RenfroeArnoldJoyner.jpg?w=640" alt="Owen Renfroe and Jeremy Arnold with moderator C. Courtney Joyner" class="wp-image-30164" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RenfroeArnoldJoyner.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RenfroeArnoldJoyner.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RenfroeArnoldJoyner.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Owen Renfroe, Jeremy Arnold, and C. Courtney Joyner</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>Rip Roarin’ Buckaroo</em> was accompanied by an interview of Tyler’s niece, Sandra Slepski, by Henry C. Parke; Tyler had lived with her family in his last years and she knew him well. Tyler also had supporting roles in two other films seen over the weekend, <em>She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</em> and <em>Trail of Robin Hood</em>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SlepskiParke.jpg?w=640" alt="Sandra Slepski interviewed by Henry C. Parke" class="wp-image-30159" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SlepskiParke.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SlepskiParke.jpg?resize=300%2C237&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SlepskiParke.jpg?resize=768%2C606&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Sandra Slepski and Henry C. Parke</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>Cattle Empire</em> included Steve Latshaw interviewing Wyatt McCrea about the movie’s star, his grandfather Joel McCrea. It’s always a great pleasure to hear Wyatt’s remembrances of his grandfather.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/McCreaLatshaw.jpg?w=640" alt="Steve Latshaw interviewing Wyatt McCrea" class="wp-image-30168" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/McCreaLatshaw.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/McCreaLatshaw.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/McCreaLatshaw.jpg?resize=768%2C511&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Wyatt McCrea and Steve Latshaw</figcaption></figure></div> <p>In what Latshaw later told me was a “pinch me” moment, he interviewed Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Jay Dee Witney, and Republic Pictures expert Bart Romans at the <em>Trail of Robin Hood</em> screening. Barnett and Witney were both on the film’s set as young children, and Barnett even had a bit role with a line of dialogue asking costar Jack Holt for his autograph.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RomansBarnettWitneyLatshaw.jpg?w=640" alt="Steve Latshaw interviewed Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Jay Dee Witney, and Republic Pictures expert Bart Romans" class="wp-image-30161" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RomansBarnettWitneyLatshaw.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RomansBarnettWitneyLatshaw.jpg?resize=300%2C193&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RomansBarnettWitneyLatshaw.jpg?resize=768%2C494&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Bart Romans, Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Jay Dee Witney, and Steve Latshaw</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>Trail of Robin Hood</em> is a charming Western Christmas film which I wrote about here back in <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-christmas-in-the-west/">2018</a>. The movie is greatly loved by many, including director Quentin Tarantino; I find his love for this innocent movie a bit ironic given the types of movies he makes! In fact, when Tarantino filmed <em>Django Unchained</em> (2012) in Lone Pine he even used <em>Trail of Robin Hood</em> director William Witney’s clapperboard, which is on display in the museum:</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tarantino.jpg?w=640" alt="Tarantino" class="wp-image-30158" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tarantino.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tarantino.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>I also had the pleasure of hearing Michael Curtiz biographer Alan K. Rode interviewed by Henry C. Parke regarding Curtiz’s <em>The Charge of the Light Brigade</em> (1936), which filmed in Lone Pine and starred Errol Flynn.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeParke.jpg?w=640" alt="Alan K. Rode interviewed by Henry C. Parke" class="wp-image-30162" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeParke.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeParke.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeParke.jpg?resize=768%2C513&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Alan K. Rode and Ross Schnioffsky</figcaption></figure></div> <p>One of my favorite experiences during the festival was an evening at Cuffe Ranch, which I’d never visited in previous trips to Lone Pine. George Montgomery filmed the Zane Grey tale <em>Riders of the Purple Sage</em> (1941) there, and a “waterfall” was created at the ranch in the location seen here.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch1.jpg?w=640" alt="Cuffe Ranch 1 Lone Pine" class="wp-image-30179" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch1.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch1.jpg?resize=209%2C300&ssl=1 209w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>What was a bit mind-blowing was that a water hose and plaster of Paris used by the production company are still in place on this rock over 80 years later! The hose is held here by Lone Pine tour guide coordinator Greg Parker.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch2.jpg?w=640" alt="Cuffe Ranch 2 Lone Pine" class="wp-image-30178" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch2.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch3.jpg?w=640" alt="Cuffe Ranch 3 Lone Pine" class="wp-image-30177" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch3.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CuffeRanch3.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Speaking of George Montgomery, he was also a talented artist, and his sculpture of Randolph Scott is one of my favorite things in the Museum of Western Film History. The chance to spend considerable time exploring the exhibits and memorabilia in the museum is another wonderful aspect of the festival.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ScottByMontgomery.jpg?w=640" alt="Randolph Scott sculpture by George Montgomery" class="wp-image-30160" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ScottByMontgomery.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ScottByMontgomery.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Randolph Scott sculpture by George Montgomery</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Of course, it wouldn’t be the Lone Pine Film Festival without going on at least a couple of movie location tours! In addition to exploring the Alabama Hills with friends, we took two official festival tours this year, Don Kelsen’s <em>Have Gun, Will Travel</em> tour and Dennis Liff’s <em>Nevada</em> (1944) tour.</p> <p>Below, a group can be seen investigating where Robert Mitchum filmed <em>Nevada</em> early in his career, on his way to movie stardom:</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Nevada1944Location.jpg?w=640" alt="Nevada 1944 Film Location" class="wp-image-30165" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Nevada1944Location.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Nevada1944Location.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1 225w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Here’s a beautiful Sunday morning shot of festival guests Jeremy Arnold, Diamond Farnsworth, and Wyatt McCrea, with Lone Pine Peak and Mount Whitney in the background. Mt. Whitney, seen in the deep background to the right of center, is the highest point in the contiguous United States.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ArnoldFarnsworthMcCrea.jpg?w=640" alt="Jeremy Arnold, Diamond Farnsworth, and Wyatt McCrea" class="wp-image-30176" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ArnoldFarnsworthMcCrea.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ArnoldFarnsworthMcCrea.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ArnoldFarnsworthMcCrea.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Jeremy Arnold, Diamond Farnsworth, and Wyatt McCrea</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Finally, a favorite photo of this author with some of the great people I was privileged to spend time with in Lone Pine this year, Alan K. Rode, Scott Eyman, and Bruce Boxleitner.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeEymanLauraBoxleitner.jpg?w=640" alt="Alan K. Rode, Scott Eyman, Laura Grieve, and Bruce Boxleitner" class="wp-image-30163" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeEymanLauraBoxleitner.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeEymanLauraBoxleitner.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RodeEymanLauraBoxleitner.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Alan K. Rode, Scott Eyman, Laura Grieve, and Bruce Boxleitner</figcaption></figure></div> <p>I’ve covered the festival and Lone Pine locations here numerous times over the years, and I invite anyone interested in Lone Pine’s history – or planning a trip! – to visit the past Western RoundUp columns linked below.</p> <p>Lone Pine movie locations: <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-lone-pine-favorites/">2018</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-hop-a-long-cassidy-1935-on-location-in-lone-pine/">2019</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-lone-pine-film-locations/">2021</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-iverson-movie-ranch/">2022</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-lone-pine-film-locations-2/">2023</a>, and <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-lone-pine-locations-2024/">2024</a>.</p> <p>Lone Pine Film Festival: <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-preview-of-the-2019-lone-pine-film-festival/">2019</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-lone-pine-virtual-film-festival/">2020</a>, <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/western-roundup-preview-2021-lone-pine-film-festival/">2021</a>, and <a href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/__news_roundup/">2023</a>.</p> <p>For more information, please visit the <a href="https://museumofwesternfilmhistory.org/">Museum of Western Film History</a> and <a href="https://lonepinefilmfestival.org/">Lone Pine Film Festival </a>websites.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FestivalPrograms.jpg?w=640" alt="Lone Pine Festival Programs" class="wp-image-30173" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FestivalPrograms.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FestivalPrograms.jpg?resize=229%2C300&ssl=1 229w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>As can be seen from all of the above, the Lone Pine Film Festival is absolutely packed with many wonderful movie-related experiences, and I hope to see more of my readers there in 2025!</p> <p><em>The photographs accompanying this article are from the author’s personal collection.</em></p> <p>…</p> <p>– Laura Grieve for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p>Laura can be found at her blog, <a href="http://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/">Laura’s Miscellaneous Musings,</a> where she’s been writing about movies since 2005, and on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurasMiscMovie">@LaurasMiscMovie</a>. 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class="entry-date">October 27, 2024</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/karen-burroughs-hannsberry/" title="View all posts by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry">Karen Burroughs Hannsberry</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>Noir Nook: Noir’s Scariest Characters</strong></h3> <p>October is a month for ghosts and goblins, bats and jack-o’-lanterns, black cats and skeletons. Not necessarily the characteristics that come to mind when one thinks of film noir.</p> <p>But there’s one thing that’s common to both October and noir – scary characters.</p> <p>In the spirit of the month, I’m taking a look at four of my favorite scary folks from the classic film noir era – men and women who embody the concept of “looking out for number one.” They have no arc, as they possess no redeeming qualities; it’s their sociopathic self-absorption, their mercenary self-indulgence, and their unyielding sense of self-preservation that makes them so darn scary. </p> <p style="text-align:center">…..</p> <p><strong>Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) in <em>The Big Combo</em> (1955)</strong></p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_RichardConte_TheBigCombo-copy.jpg?w=640" alt="Scary Characters, Richard Conte, The Big Combo" class="wp-image-30141" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_RichardConte_TheBigCombo-copy.jpg?w=400&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_RichardConte_TheBigCombo-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Richard Conte, The Big Combo</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>The Big Combo</em> stars Cornel Wilde as police lieutenant Richard Diamond, who has a single-minded determination to bring to justice a mobster by the name of Mr. Brown. He also happens to be obsessed with Mr. Brown’s troubled girlfriend (played by Wilde’s real-life wife, Jean Wallace).</p> <p>Mr. Brown is one of the most ruthless dudes you’ll ever want (or don’t want) to encounter – we see him methodically arranging the elimination of anyone possessing information that might lead to his downfall, and that includes his right-hand man (Brian Donlevy) and his two devoted underlings, Mingo (Earl Holliman) and Fante (Lee Van Cleef). They’re all completely disposable. And Mr. Brown has even less regard for Lt. Diamond; in a typical demonstration, he has his minions abduct Brown, then proceeds to torture him by blasting music in his ear and pouring hair tonic down his throat. He’s not a nice guy.</p> <p style="text-align:center">…..</p> <p><strong>Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie) in <em>Decoy</em> (1946)</strong></p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_JeanGillie_Decoy-copy.jpg?w=640" alt="Scary Characters, Jean Gillie, Decoy" class="wp-image-30139" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_JeanGillie_Decoy-copy.jpg?w=475&ssl=1 475w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_JeanGillie_Decoy-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C224&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Jean Gillie, Decoy</figcaption></figure></div> <p>The plot of <em>Decoy</em> is one of noir’s most unique: convicted criminal Frankie Olins (Robert Armstrong) is sentenced to death for knocking off an armored car and making off with a cool $400,000. He refuses to divulge where he’s hidden the money, but his devoted (and I use the word loosely) lover, Margot, has a plan – to team up with a local doctor, arrange for Frankie to be resuscitated after his execution . . . and then get her hands on that money.</p> <p>Margot is a classic femme fatale; she’s an expert at employing her wiles to get her way. She applies a combination of sweet talk, promises of favors (you know the kind), and hard-boiled street smarts to ensnare and juggle three men at the same time: Frankie; his henchman, Jim Vincent (Edward Norris); and the hapless doctor (Herbert Rudley), using each of them and then, like Mr. Brown, discarding of them when they’ve served their purpose. She even manages to wrap the local detective (Sheldon Leonard) around her finger – no male is safe with her around.</p> <p style="text-align:center">…..</p> <p><strong>Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten) in <em>Shadow of a Doubt</em> (1943)</strong></p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_JosephCotten_ShadowOfADoubt.jpg?w=640" alt="Scary Characters, Joseph Cotten, Shadow Of A Doubt" class="wp-image-30140" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_JosephCotten_ShadowOfADoubt.jpg?w=605&ssl=1 605w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_JosephCotten_ShadowOfADoubt.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Joseph Cotten, Shadow Of A Doubt</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Young Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright) is bored with her humdrum life in picturesque Santa Rosa, California, but she’s delighted when her family gets a visit from her beloved uncle, after whom she was named. Unfortunately, before long, Young Charlie’s jubilance turns to dread as she begins to suspect that her uncle is the “Merry Widow” serial killer being sought by police.</p> <p>Uncle Charlie is charming, affable, sophisticated – everything admirable to a young girl. But it doesn’t take long for us to see that there’s something very wrong with Uncle Charlie; there are numerous clues, like when he roughly grabs his niece after she discovers a newspaper article he’s tried to hide, or when he starts talking about wealthy widows, calling them “horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.” It soon becomes apparent that Uncle Charlie views the entire world with contempt – and his namesake is no different.</p> <p style="text-align:center">…..</p> <p><strong>Vera (Ann Savage) in <em>Detour</em> (1945)</strong></p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_AnnSavage_Detour.jpg?w=640" alt="Scary Characters, Ann Savage, Detour" class="wp-image-30138" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_AnnSavage_Detour.jpg?w=701&ssl=1 701w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CMH_ScaryCharacters_AnnSavage_Detour.jpg?resize=300%2C228&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Ann Savage, Detour</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Tom Neal stars as Al Roberts, a piano player who gets more than he bargained for when he hitchhikes from New York to California to join his singer-girlfriend. First, Roberts catches a ride with a well-heeled gambler, Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald), but when the man winds up dead, Al panics, leaves Haskell on the side of the road, and takes his car. And when Al picks up a hitchhiker of his own – Vera – things really kick into high gear.</p> <p>Unlike Margot, Vera isn’t your typical femme fatale. When we first meet her, she’s dusty from travel, with an unkempt hairdo and a simple pencil skirt and blouse, and she falls asleep soon after she and Al get back on the road. But when she wakes up, she’s got fire in her eyes and accusations on her lips. She knows Al’s car belongs to Charles Haskell and she suspects that Al “kissed him with a wrench.” From that moment on, Vera is in charge; she doesn’t utilize feminine charms, but aggression and threats, forcing Al into a series of actions that he’s too afraid to challenge. And we don’t blame him. Vera is one scary dame.</p> <p>Who are some of your scariest noir characters? 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href="https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/lea-stans/" title="View all posts by Lea Stans">Lea Stans</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>A Closer Look At “London After Midnight” (1927)</strong></h3> <p>It’s probably the most famous, most sought-after lost silent film of all time: <em>London After Midnight </em>(1927), starring the screen legend Lon Chaney and directed by the macabre-minded Tod Browning. Despite constant attempts to track it down, it remains stubbornly elusive–in spite of the classic film community’s annual April Fool’s Day gags claiming, “It’s resurfaced at last!” </p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster.png?w=640" alt="london after midnight poster" class="wp-image-30150" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster.png?w=670&ssl=1 670w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster.png?resize=300%2C219&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>But even though no footage currently exists, you might be surprised to know that the <a href="https://oldhollywoodincolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/london-after-midnight-loc-script-copy.pdf">original 1927 continuity script</a> survives in full–giving us a shot-by-shot view of <em>precisely </em>what the film is like. When we examine this script along with surviving stills and reviews, we find that <em>London After Midnight </em>was perhaps less of a horror film and more of a convoluted murder mystery drama. Still, it remains tantalizing to imagine the Gothic atmosphere and imagery that we might never get to experience.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lon-chaney-london-after-midnight.png?w=640" alt="lon chaney london after midnight" class="wp-image-30146" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lon-chaney-london-after-midnight.png?w=472&ssl=1 472w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lon-chaney-london-after-midnight.png?resize=218%2C300&ssl=1 218w" sizes="(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Lon Chaney</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Nicknamed the “Edgar Allan Poe” of classic cinema, Tod Browning was certainly the right fit for this ghoulish story. A veteran of carnivals and circuses, he started performing in films in the mid-1910s and soon became a director. Specializing in crime films and mystery stories, he had a deep interest in the macabre and enjoyed revolving his plots around “freakish” characters. Happily, the multi-talented Lon Chaney had both the acting and the makeup skills to bring such twisted characters to life, and he would make a number of classic dramas with Browning.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster-2.png?w=640" alt="london after midnight poster 2" class="wp-image-30148" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster-2.png?w=764&ssl=1 764w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster-2.png?resize=300%2C236&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>After the release of <em>The Unknown </em>(1927), Browning worked with scenario writer Waldemar Young to craft an original murder mystery story revolving around vampires. The cast would include Chaney, the beautiful Marceline Day (who would soon costar with Buster Keaton in 1929’s <em>The Cameraman</em>), the dignified Henry B. Walthall, clean-cut Conrad Nagel and slapstick comedienne Polly Moran. It was filmed at MGM Studios and Culver City for the approximate cost of $152,000.00. </p> <p>Apparently, a lot of creativity went into the spooky atmosphere. Scenes in and around the Balfour mansion included owls and armadillos–much like Browning would use in <em>Dracula </em>(1931)–as well as bats. Chaney’s eye-popping makeup was achieved by holding back his eyelids with wires fitted around his eye sockets. The mouthpiece he wore with its signature sharp teeth was painfully uncomfortable and he only kept it in a few minutes at a time. His character’s long-ish hair, beaver hat, and lantern-carrying evidently made such an impression that similar-looking “crypt keeper” costumes are common around Halloween today.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lon-Chaney-and-Edna-Tichenor-Bat-Girl-London-After-Midnight.png?w=640" alt="Lon Chaney and Edna Tichenor (Bat Girl), London After Midnight" class="wp-image-30145" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lon-Chaney-and-Edna-Tichenor-Bat-Girl-London-After-Midnight.png?w=727&ssl=1 727w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lon-Chaney-and-Edna-Tichenor-Bat-Girl-London-After-Midnight.png?resize=300%2C180&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Lon Chaney (Man in the Beaver Hat) and Edna Tichenor (Bat Girl)</figcaption></figure> <p>So, what was the plot of <em>London After Midnight</em>?A rough summary: Roger Balfour is found dead in his London mansion of a gunshot wound, and Inspector Burke of Scotland Yard investigates the death and declares it a suicide. But Sir James Hamlin, the executor of Balfour’s estate who lives next door, says the man wasn’t suicidal. Hamlin takes in Balfour’s teenaged daughter Lucille, who grows up to be a lovely young woman. </p> <p>The Balfour house sits abandoned for five years and then two strange renters move in: the freakish “Man in the Beaver Hat,” and his ghoul-like companion the “Bat Girl.” Hamlin suspects the two were involved in Balfour’s death and brings Inspector Burke back on the case. Soon creepy events start happening: Balfour’s body disappears from its tomb, the maid is frightened by the Man in the Beaver Hat, Burke sees a ghoulish figure trying to enter his room and wounds it with a gunshot, and the undead Balfour himself is somehow spotted inside the mansion. </p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster-3.png?w=640" alt="london after midnight poster 3" class="wp-image-30149" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster-3.png?w=735&ssl=1 735w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/london-after-midnight-poster-3.png?resize=300%2C233&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>Burke believes hypnosis can make murder suspects relive past events, and tries putting the suspects into a trance. Then Lucy is kidnapped and whisked off to the spooky mansion. Burke sends Hamlin to the house and the mysterious Man in the Beaver Hat puts him into a trance. This turn of events actually winds up solving the mystery of Balfour’s death–and we learn just who the spooky tenants are, too.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lon-chaney-london-after-midnight-closeup.png?w=640" alt="lon chaney, london after midnight closeup" class="wp-image-30152" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lon-chaney-london-after-midnight-closeup.png?w=583&ssl=1 583w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lon-chaney-london-after-midnight-closeup.png?resize=300%2C214&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>This doesn’t cover all the details of the confusing plot, which was frequently criticized at the time. In their review, the<em> New Yorker</em> wrote: “…It strives too hard to create effect. Mr. Browning can create pictorial terrors and Lon Chaney can get himself up in a completely repulsive manner, but both their efforts are wasted when the story makes no sense.” <em>Variety </em>wrote similarly: “Young, Browning and Chaney have made a good combination in the past but the story on which this production is based is not of the quality that results in broken house records.” However, not all the reviews were lukewarm. <em>The</em> <em>Film Daily</em>’s review just might make your longing for this film to turn up even stronger: “If [sensitive patrons] don’t get the creeps from flashes of grimy bats swooping around, cobweb-bedecked mystery chambers and the grotesque inhabitants of the haunted house, then they’ve passed the third degree.”</p> <p><em>London</em> <em>After Midnight </em>was clearly part of the “eerie mansion” mystery movie trend of the 1920s, other examples being <em>The Bat </em>(1926), <em>The Gorilla</em> (1927) and <em>The Cat and the Canary </em>(1927). These types of films abound with murder mysteries and mansions haunted by ghouls. Interestingly enough, in the U.S. silent films supernatural explanations were never involved. Maybe this served to keep from offending religious groups, or maybe “actual” ghosts were deemed too scary.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lon-Chaney-Claude-King-and-Percy-Williams-in-London-After-Midnight.png?w=640" alt="Lon Chaney, London After Midnight" class="wp-image-30147" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lon-Chaney-Claude-King-and-Percy-Williams-in-London-After-Midnight.png?w=702&ssl=1 702w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lon-Chaney-Claude-King-and-Percy-Williams-in-London-After-Midnight.png?resize=300%2C238&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p><em>London After Midnight</em>’s box office is thought to be over $1,000,000–not bad for its budget. And then it seemed to drop out of sight. One print was known to have existed in the MGM vaults until 1965. The last people who viewed it were likely historians David Bradley and William K. Everson, who watched it in the early 1950s (they said that much of the film revolved around Burke’s detective scenes and Polly Moran’s comic relief). Sadly, in August of 1965 the storage vault caught on fire, completely annihilating the print and many others. </p> <p>But in spite of that abrupt end the memory of this strange Browning film stayed alive, mainly through the efforts of Forrest J. Ackerman, the editor of <em>Famous Monsters of Filmland</em>. Ackerman featured stills from <em>London After Midnight </em>in several issues, helping it to achieve the status of the Holy Grail of Lost Silents ever since. In more recent years, books on silent horror have covered the film and Turner Classic Movies featured a reconstructed version using the existing continuity and surviving stills. And fans and historians continue to hold onto hope that in the not-too-distant future, footage of Chaney in that startling makeup will somehow, someday make it back to the big screen.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the-monsters-comic-book.png?w=640" alt="the monsters comic book, London After Midnight" class="wp-image-30151" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the-monsters-comic-book.png?w=327&ssl=1 327w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the-monsters-comic-book.png?resize=216%2C300&ssl=1 216w" sizes="(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div> <p>…</p> <p>–Lea Stans for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/author/lea-stans/">You can read all of Lea’s Silents are Golden articles here.</a></p> <p>Lea Stans is a born-and-raised Minnesotan with a degree in English and an obsessive interest in the silent film era (which she largely blames on Buster Keaton). 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Jennifer Garlen">Jennifer Garlen</a></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> <div class="entry-content"> <h3 style="text-align:center"><strong>House on Haunted Hill (1959)</strong></h3> <p>I fell in love with the wacky low-budget horror films of the 1950s and 60s as a kid, when public domain chillers aired late at night and I secretly stayed up to watch them on the tiny black-and-white TV in my room. I didn’t pay much attention to the filmmakers behind them then, but by the time <em>Matinee</em> (1993) hit theaters I was in college and knew enough to recognize a tribute to horror king William Castle, who never met a gimmick he didn’t like. <em>House on Haunted Hill</em> (1959) is probably the most famous and widely available of Castle’s horror pictures, and it’s a great favorite at my house, especially around Halloween. What could be more fun than Vincent Price and Elisha Cook, Jr. in a spooky house full of possible ghosts and at least one very real murderer? It’s not particularly scary by modern horror standards, but <em>House on Haunted Hill</em> has all the charm of an old school haunted house ride, with jump scares, skeletons, bleeding ceilings, and lots of macabre humor.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Price-Ohmart.jpg?w=640" alt="House on Haunted Hill, Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart" class="wp-image-30135" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Price-Ohmart.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Price-Ohmart.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) is unhappily married to Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), who returns his hatred in equal measure.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Vincent Price takes the lead as wealthy Frederick Loren, who invites a select group of guests to spend the night at a supposedly haunted house. Although his wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), dislikes Frederick’s plans, the rest of the party agree to attend because Frederick promises to pay each of them $10,000 if they stay until morning. The owner of the house, Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook, Jr.), warns the others that the ghosts are eager to add to their number, and soon enough strange happenings set everyone on edge, especially young Nora Manning (Carolyn Craig). When Annabelle is found hanged in the middle of the night, the guests realize that a murderer must be hiding among them.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Cook-group.jpg?w=640" alt="House on Haunted Hill, Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook, Jr.), Ruth (Julie Mitchum), Nora (Carolyn Craig), and Lance (Richard Long)" class="wp-image-30133" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Cook-group.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Cook-group.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook, Jr.) tours the house with Ruth (Julie Mitchum), Nora (Carolyn Craig), and Lance (Richard Long).</figcaption></figure></div> <p><em>House on Haunted Hill</em> boasts a surprisingly good cast for a low-budget horror movie, with Price in fine form as the sardonic party host. Carol Ohmart radiates ice cold beauty and malice as Annabelle; she and Price have some delightfully scathing scenes together early in the picture, and it’s great fun to see how much they loathe one another as they trade pet names and barbed remarks. Elisha Cook, Jr. cracks up brilliantly as the traumatized Watson, who serves as the keeper of the house’s gruesome history and a true believer in its supernatural residents. Julie Mitchum, sister of the more famous Robert, drinks her way through a series of scotches as Ruth Bridges, while Alan Marshal frequently opines about hysteria as the psychiatrist David Trent. There’s a budding romance between Carolyn Craig’s Nora and Lance, a dashing pilot played by Richard Long, although their all-American normalcy is threatened by the weird things that keep happening to an increasingly terrified Nora. While Castle even credits the skeleton for playing itself, I have to give props to silent film veteran Leona Anderson, here making her final screen appearance as the aptly named Mrs. Slydes. She has no lines, but she sure can make an entrance.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Anderson.jpg?w=640" alt="House on Haunted Hill, Leona Anderson" class="wp-image-30132" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Anderson.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i2.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Anderson.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>Mrs. Slydes (Leona Anderson) might be the scariest thing in the whole movie.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>The solid cast and Castle’s trademark gimmicks breathe new life into the familiar “old dark house” genre that springs from classic Gothic tales of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In its original theatrical run, Castle rigged “Emergo” effects that flew a skeleton over the audience at key moments (feel free to have a friend throw a plastic skeleton over the couch if you need to recreate this effect at home). <em>House on Haunted Hill </em>continues the tradition of films like <em>The Cat and the Canary</em> (1927), <em>The Old Dark House</em> (1932), <em>The Ghost Walks</em> (1934), and many others that depict a group of people spending the night in a spooky mansion, although the crowning achievement of the genre would come a few years later with <em>The Haunting</em> (1963). Without spoiling too much of the plot, I’ll point out that <em>House on Haunted Hill</em> is also an example of a type of Gothic first mastered by the novelist Ann Radcliffe, in which the appearance of the supernatural is eventually explained to the reader/audience. Radcliffe’s 1794 novel, <em>The Mysteries of Udolpho</em>, is still a great read if you want to dive deep into the genre’s history.For the original old dark house in Gothic fiction, you have to go even farther back to Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel, <em>The Castle of Otranto</em>, which involves such spectacular supernatural events that I wish William Castle had made a film adaptation of it. Walpole and Castle would have been a match made in spooky Gothic heaven, and Vincent Price could even have played the villain.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Ohmart-Skeleton.jpg?w=640" alt="A menacing skeleton confronts Annabelle ICarol Ohmart) in the basement" class="wp-image-30134" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Ohmart-Skeleton.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-Haunted-Ohmart-Skeleton.jpg?resize=300%2C167&ssl=1 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption>A menacing skeleton confronts Annabelle in the basement.</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Castle actually directed his own version of <em>The Old Dark House</em> in 1963, but of his other films I especially enjoy <em>The Tingler</em> (1959), which also stars Vincent Price, and <em>13 Ghosts</em> (1960), just because it’s bonkers. If you want even more, try <em>Mr. Sardonicus</em> (1961) and <em>Strait-Jacket</em> (1964). Several of Castle’s pictures have been remade, but I much prefer the originals, even if the 1999 <em>House on Haunted Hill</em> features Geoffrey Rush looking a lot like Vincent Price. If you love campy classic horror but haven’t yet seen it, I absolutely recommend tracking down <em>Matinee</em>, in which John Goodman plays the showman inspired by William Castle.</p> <p style="text-align:center">…</p> <p>— Jennifer Garlen for Classic Movie Hub</p> <p>Jennifer Garlen pens our monthly Silver Screen Standards column. <a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/category/posts-by-jennifer-garlen/">You can read all of Jennifer’s Silver Screen Standards articles here.</a></p> <p>Jennifer is a former college professor with a PhD in English Literature and a lifelong obsession with film. 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Z. Sakall</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3470">Sidney Poitier</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=663" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=2748">Sterling Holloway</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3089">Todd Karns</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=423" title="Tony Curtis">Tony Curtis</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3126">Victor Buono</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1358" title="Victor Spinetti">Victor Spinetti</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3278">Walter Catlett</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=892" title="William Powell">William Powell</a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="media_image-20" class="widget-container widget_media_image"><h3 class="widget-title">TCM Film Festival 2014 Posts:</h3><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?tag=tcm-film-festival-2014"><img width="200" height="200" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tcmff2014border.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1" class="image wp-image-6835 alignnone attachment-full size-full" alt="Turner Classic Movies Film Festival 2014" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tcmff2014border.jpg?w=200&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tcmff2014border.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a></li><li id="linkcat-1711" class="widget-container widget_links"><h3 class="widget-title">Actresses (posts about)</h3> <ul class='xoxo blogroll'> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=4641">Adriana Caselotti</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?tag=agnes-moorehead">Agnes Moorehead</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1828">Alice Brady</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1749" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=4331">Ann B. 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Kerr</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=610" title="Dorothy McGuire">Dorothy McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?tag=elaine-stritch" title="Elaine Stritch">Elaine Stritch</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=4798">Elizabeth Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1512" title="Fay Wray">Fay Wray</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=5364">Georgia Hale</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=861" title="Ginger Rogers">Ginger Rogers</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3740">Gloria Swanson</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1868" title="Grace Kelly">Grace Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1661" title="Greer Garson">Greer Garson</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3038">Gwen Verdon</a></li> <li><a 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Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=2534">Marlene Dietrich</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=4281">Mary Astor</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=5136">Mary Wickes</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1049" title="Maureen O’Hara">Maureen O'Hara</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=963" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=778" title="Olivia de Havilland">Olivia de Havilland</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3050">Patricia Neal</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3808">Paula Winslowe</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3019">Sara Berner</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=1044" title="Shelley Winters">Shelley Winters</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/?p=3111">Tallulah 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S. 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