Post by kijii on Dec 29, 2017 3:13:56 GMT
For me, this was Bette's show, she shines all around, especially as the movie progresses. Hard for me to understand she had to make a "comeback" later on in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? What was wrong with movie audiences back then?
Peter Falk really stands out here, no wonder he went on to stardom, and nice to see lovely Ann-Margret in her film debut.
This movie has made me very curious to see Capra's original, Lady For a Day. I wonder why he wanted to remake his own movie, that's a rarity in films.
I love Bette Davis. Just about everything she made is good to great for me!!
In a way, I never thought of her as making a "comeback" since she seems to have so many of them--- OR never left in the first place.
There are so many facets and/or phase to her career that it boggles the mind to think of them all.
I guess I will always think of her as a Warner Brothers regular since she made so many of her really great movies with that studio and starred with so many Warner Brothers regulars during the 30s and 40s helping many to get Oscar nominations of their own.
--Fay Bainter Jezebel (1938) which gave them both an Oscar!
--Mary Astor The Great Lie (1941).
--Claude Rains Mr. Skeffington (1944)
--John Dall and Joan Lorring The Corn Is Green (1945)
--Paul Lukas and Lucile Watson Watch on the Rhine (1943)
--Gladys Cooper Now, Voyager (1942)
--Barbara O'Neil All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
--Brian Aherne Juarez (1939)
--Patricia Collinge & Teresa Wright The Little Foxes (1941)
--Victor Buono What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), etc.
If you want to see a great Bette Davis movie on TCM next week, look into Payment on Demand (1951).
This is a gem to me.