New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
WITH the possibility of a second Great Depression looming closer every day, it's a perfect time to re- visit Carole Lombard, the queen of the screwball comedies that Hollywood offered as a diversion from the economic meltdown of the 1930s...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
With immaculate timing, Film Forum has scheduled a series of Carole Lombard films: the perfect response to recession, depression, and other ills, whether of the economy or the soul. One of her most glittering works, showing on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22, is “My Man Godfrey,” directed by Gregory La . . .
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
RKO Package 1 - Stage Door1:10am Monday, 03 Nov 2008 Repeat CC G The lives of tough, smart-talking girls in a theatrical boarding house. CAST: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolph Menjou, Constance Collier, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Ralph Forbes DIR: Gregory La Cava (1937)
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Click Here to download full episode One of the best of the so-called “screwball” comedies, this 1936 classic stars Carole Lombard as a Depression-era society woman who makes a vagrant (William Powell) her family’s butler. Before long, employer starts falling for employee, resulting in a sharply written satire of the class system. Director Gregory La Cava’s [...]
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Primrose Path1:25am Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 Repeat CC PG The youngest in a long line of 'working girls' falls in love with a common working-class lout. CAST: Ginger Rogers, Joel McRae, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers DIR: Gregory La Cava (1940)
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
The way the movies tell it, a park bench was a good place for a wholesome, penniless Depression-era girl to meet a kind, wealthy man and then land a job. Jean Arthur met Herbert Marshall while sitting in a park in IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK , and in tonight's film, Ginger Rogers meets wealthy Walter Connolly on a park bench and soon finds herself living the life of a 5TH AVE GIRL. This is a somewhat strange...
Chaos Theory (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Slacker love movies. "Usually, she’s the same age as he is but seems older, as if the disparity between boys and girls in ninth grade had been recapitulated fifteen years later. She dresses in Donna Karan or Ralph Lauren or...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 11/25/2007
I used to do this once a month, but haven't since July; if I'm ever going to get to movies that came out after I was born, I'd better get to it. Picture: THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, "The Awful Truth" , "Captains Courageous" , "Dead End", "The Good Earth", "In Old Chicago", "Lost Horizon" , "One Hundred Men and a Girl", "Stage Door" , "A Star is Born" Actor: SPENCER TRACY in "Captains Courageous" , Charles...
