Post by Doghouse6 on May 22, 2020 16:56:47 GMT
Just finished watching one: 1954's Black Widow.
It's a whodunit/wrongly accused man melodrama centered around colorful Broadway theater personalities, but doesn't involve anything, figuratively or literally, suggested by the title. Come to that, Ginger Rogers, in spite of her top billing, has far less screen time than costars Van Heflin, Gene Tierney or Reginald Gardner, but makes the most of what she's got, chewing the scenery from one end of the CinemaScope screen to the other as an extravagantly grand stage star (usually waving a cigarette in a long holder, and looking fabulous while doing it). Otto Kruger and a grown-up Peggy Ann Garner lend support, along with George Raft, doing his customary impression of a wood carving, as the investigating detective. Over the top, but fun.
Just no black widows of any kind (unless you count the main titles).
It's a whodunit/wrongly accused man melodrama centered around colorful Broadway theater personalities, but doesn't involve anything, figuratively or literally, suggested by the title. Come to that, Ginger Rogers, in spite of her top billing, has far less screen time than costars Van Heflin, Gene Tierney or Reginald Gardner, but makes the most of what she's got, chewing the scenery from one end of the CinemaScope screen to the other as an extravagantly grand stage star (usually waving a cigarette in a long holder, and looking fabulous while doing it). Otto Kruger and a grown-up Peggy Ann Garner lend support, along with George Raft, doing his customary impression of a wood carving, as the investigating detective. Over the top, but fun.
Just no black widows of any kind (unless you count the main titles).