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Steve Hayes’s Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
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Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young and Zasu Pitts are in comic heaven in Leo McCarey’s delightful satire RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935) written by Harry Leon Wilson. Laughton plays a proper British butler who his employer loses in a poker game to Roland Young. Laughton is forced to go the American west at the turn of the century with his unsophisticated new employers Ruggles and Boland. There, he discovers what rustic America is all about and brings sophistication and class to the community in return. It’s by far Laughton’s greatest comedy and Boland, Young, Ruggles and Pitts are perfection!
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Steve Hayes’ Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Bette Davis in ‘Dark Victory’
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Bette Davis gives an unforgettable performance as a woman on borrowed time, in her personal favorite of all her films, Edmund Goulding’s DARK VICTORY (’39). Costarring George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan and the refreshing Irish actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, in her screen debut, it’s a lush, romantic, melodrama that will keep you in tears and on the edge of your seat as you watch one of the legendary actresses do what seemingly nobody did better. Stream DARK VICTORY now! https://amzn.to/3wXKwDx
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Steve Hayes’ Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Joan Crawford in ‘Possessed’ (1947)
Joan Crawford tackles what she once described as the most difficult role of her career as a woman on the brink of madness in Curtis Bernhardt’s noir classic POSSESSED (1947). Helping her to earn her second Oscar nomination are Van Heflin, Raymond Massey and Geraldine Brooks. It’s producer Jerry Wald (MILDRED PIERCE and HUMORESQUE) and Warner Brothers at their melodramatic best.
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Steve Hayes / Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Lady of Burlesque
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Barbara Stanwyck shakes, rattles and rocks as a stripper trying to solve a series of murders in William Wellman’s comic mystery “Lady Of Burlesque” (1943). Based on a novel by Gypsy Rose Lee, it boasts a cast of fabulous “hard boiled dames” including Iris Adrian, Marion Martin, Gloria Dixon and Stephanie Bachelor, as well as vaudeville comics Michael O’Shea and Pinky Lee. With a witty script and terrific backstage atmosphere, it’s a riotous, backstage comedy/ whodunnit that’ll have you guessing right up to the surprise climax. If you’ve gotta’ stay in, this is the one to settle in with!
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
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Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut star Lewis Milestone’s classic noir; “The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers” (’46). Filled with fabulous performances, an ending worthy of James M. Cain, and loaded with murder, mayhem and fabulous plot twists, it’s a trip down the dark side you won’t soon forget. Catch Steve and Johnny in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at Red House Performing Arts Center in Syracuse, NY, May 31st – June 10th, 2018 TICKETS: http://www.theredhouse.org/la-cage-au…
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Gentlemen’s Agreement
Gregory Peck heads an all star cast in Darryl F Zanuck’s Oscar winning Best Picture of 1947; Elia Kazan’s “Gentlemen’s Agreement”. Based on the bestselling novel by Laura Z Hobson, it deals with the problem of antisemitism just after the World War II. Also in the cast are Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Anne Revere, June Havoc and Celeste Holm in the role of the sympathetic reporter that won her an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Brilliantly written by Moss Hart, it’s subtly acted, directed and as relevant today as the day it premiered.
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: The Damned Don’t Cry, with Joan Crawford
From Steve Hayes, Tired Old Queen at the Movies
Once again, Joan Crawford wallows in the underworld with some very questionable characters in Vincent Sherman’s “The Damned Don’t Cry,” 1950. Surrounded by a bevy of handsome thugs, that include David Brian, Richard Egan and hunkie Steve Cochran, Joan tries seduces them all with varying degrees of success as she works her way up from cigarette girl to gangsters moll in this quintessential Fabulous Film Noir!
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