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Post by snsurone on Sept 6, 2017 14:44:39 GMT
I saw her last night in the small role as Empress Eugenie in THE SONG OF BERNADETTE.
She was drop-dead gorgeous, looked a little like Loretta Young.
According to Wiki, much of her career was spent playing the "other woman" or villainesses.
And...she is still alive!
She turned 102 last March 19.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 6, 2017 17:44:39 GMT
 She made it to a cover of a Swedish Movie Fans magazine, sadly I don't now what year it's from.  1960, playing Georges Sand, with Dirk Bogarde (playing Franz Liszt). |
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Post by snsurone on Sept 7, 2017 20:38:11 GMT
Spidey, I clicked on to your link, but all that appeared were a number of posts on Ms. Morrison.
Posts which are not indicated on the home page.
What happened???
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Post by snsurone on Sept 7, 2017 21:07:44 GMT
What I meant by "home page" is the one that lists the threads of a certain topic, like "Classic Film", and the number of replies each thread receives.
On this thread, it says there are currently 4 replies, but from your link, there are many more.
Perhaps this new format hasn't been perfected yet.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 7, 2017 22:16:52 GMT
snsuroneI first saw the lovely Miss Morison in Dressed to Kill ('46), in which she traded barbs with Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes as the series' "Irene Adler" figure, by and large. (Yes, Gale Sondergaard was a "female Moriarty" in The Spider Woman, but both she and Hillary Brook's Woman in Green were a little too evil to seem like Irene.) I feel that she relished the opportunity in this villainous role, for her performance is better than [the slightly bored, by this point] Rathbone's, to be honest. It is really too bad when a fine performer is denied the ability to exercise his or her acting chops, but you are absolutely correct in saying that, when she did get a plum role, she really did well with it. Wikipedia notes that she spent a long while on Broadway--here's hoping all went well for her there. I didn't know she was still with us--God bless her! Great to hear.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 8, 2017 0:06:10 GMT
  Unfortunately Svengoolie's trivia was the best part of the movie ! But Morison ... oooo la la ! |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 8, 2017 0:56:10 GMT
She made it to a cover of a Swedish Movie Fans magazine, sadly I don't now what year it's from. 1960, playing Georges Sand, with Dirk Bogarde (playing Franz Liszt). Pardon me for picking nits, teleadm, but that's Capucine in the photo with Bogarde. Morison as Sand appears below:  |
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Post by teleadm on Sept 8, 2017 15:10:54 GMT
Doghouse6 In my defence I picked that pic up since it said it was Patricia Morison, and offcourse it was my fault not to fact check.   Two ladies on this poster, who is Patricia Morison? or are both? one thing I'm very sure of it's not is Jane Darwell (the other female name on the poster). I could've edited my first post, but I let it be. Good sport telling me! Now everyone knows how Capucine looked like!
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Post by teleadm on Sept 8, 2017 15:24:43 GMT
NalkarjShe did very well on Broadway:  In 1948, Morison again abandoned her film career and returned to the stage, and achieved her greatest success. Cole Porter had heard her sing while in Hollywood and decided that she had the vocal expertise and feistiness to play the female lead in his new show, Kiss Me, Kate. Morison went on to major Broadway stardom when she created the role of Lilli Vanessi (from Wikipedia). The above pic is from a Hallmark Hall of Fame version 1958, that's apparently saved for the afterworld to see.
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Post by snsurone on Sept 8, 2017 16:44:36 GMT
If that was Patricia on the cover of that Swedish "fannie", well, she bears a striking resemblance to Dolores del Rio!
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Post by teleadm on Sept 8, 2017 17:01:49 GMT
If that was Patricia on the cover of that Swedish "fannie", well, she bears a striking resemblance to Dolores del Rio! Down in the left corner it says Patricia Morison, so I hope it's right.... |
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Post by snsurone on Sept 8, 2017 18:15:18 GMT
If that was Patricia on the cover of that Swedish "fannie", well, she bears a striking resemblance to Dolores del Rio! Down in the left corner it says Patricia Morison, so I hope it's right.... I do too, but it wouldn't surprise me if that signature was a fake. "Fannies" were (and still are) notorious for their lies. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 8, 2017 18:16:15 GMT
Doghouse6 In my defence I picked that pic up since it said it was Patricia Morison, and offcourse it was my fault not to fact check. Two ladies on this poster, who is Patricia Morison? or are both? one thing I'm very sure of it's not is Jane Darwell (the other female name on the poster). I could've edited my first post, but I let it be. Good sport telling me! Now everyone knows how Capucine looked like! That's a good question. I take the one front and center to be Morison, but the one in Milland's arms doesn't much resemble her (she looks to me more like Kaaren Verne, but she's not in the film). The only really decent likeness is that of Akim Tamiroff. Those poster painters sometimes got rather fanciful. And whoever lit that photo of Capucine didn't do her any favors. Here she was three years later as the one and only Mrs. Clouseau in The Pink Panther, looking much healthier:  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 8, 2017 18:32:32 GMT
Untamed cast list Both ladies on the poster are probably Morison as there seem to be no other contenders for apparent comforting by Milland. Here she is with some of the other ladies in the cast :  and with the director George Archainbaud  oOpsie courtesy of Google Image edited .. thanks to eagle eyed Doghouse6 
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 8, 2017 18:51:25 GMT
Untamed cast list Both ladies on the poster are probably Morison as there seem to be no other contenders for apparent comforting by Milland.  I saw that photo on another site, Bat, and they identified her as Barbara Britton (with Milland in Till We Meet Again). I thought for a moment you'd stumbled upon another mystery worthy of Salzmank: the girl on the Untamed poster who doesn't show up in the cast. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 8, 2017 18:58:15 GMT
Doghouse6 Thanks : Barbara Britton it sure is. Nuking the above photo of Not-Patricia ! So we're sticking with BOTH girls on the poster are Morison. Yay ! Did you read the plot summary ? Sounds like a lulu of a story even for 1940.
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Post by snsurone on Sept 8, 2017 19:02:42 GMT
My goodness, it's amazing how Ms. Morison is mistaken for other actresses!
Could that be the reason she never became an A-list star?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 8, 2017 19:08:27 GMT
Doghouse6 Thanks : Barbara Britton it sure is. Nuking the above photo of Not-Patricia ! So we're sticking with BOTH girls on the poster are Morison. Yay ! Did you read the plot summary ? Sounds like a lulu of a story even for 1940. Yeah, quite a potboiler. If the opportunity ever presents itself, I'll give it a look; could be fun. I guess we have no choice but to accept her as both poster girls, but the one at the upper left sure doesn't look like her to me. Just the same, I'll stop short of being dragged off as Morison was at the end of Calling Dr. Death screaming, "You have no proof, you have no PROOF!" |
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Post by snsurone on Sept 8, 2017 19:09:06 GMT
snsurone I first saw the lovely Miss Morison in Dressed to Kill ('46), in which she traded barbs with Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes as the series' "Irene Adler" figure, by and large. (Yes, Gale Sondergaard was a "female Moriarty" in The Spider Woman, but both she and Hillary Brook's Woman in Green were a little too evil to seem like Irene.) I feel that she relished the opportunity in this villainous role, for her performance is better than [the slightly bored, by this point] Rathbone's, to be honest. It is really too bad when a fine performer is denied the ability to exercise his or her acting chops, but you are absolutely correct in saying that, when she did get a plum role, she really did well with it. Wikipedia notes that she spent a long while on Broadway--here's hoping all went well for her there. I didn't know she was still with us--God bless her! Great to hear. Sal, if I remember correctly, DRESSED TO KILL was Basil Rathbone's last film appearance as Sherlock Holmes. He had grown bored with the series, which had disintegrated into B movies. I remember the final scene ended with Holmes closing a door, rather than his usual soliloquy. Symbolic for the end of the series, no? |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 8, 2017 19:19:21 GMT
Doghouse6I saw Calling Dr. Death around the time of the Birthday , It was on Svengoolie again recently but that Chaney voice over whispered narration was just too much and I didn't hang around for the end this time, Patricia Morison or NO Patricia Morison.
I'll stop short of being dragged off as Morison was at the end of Calling Dr. Death screaming, "You have no proof, you have no PROOF!" You do know that saying things like that is just askin' for a Nalkarj novella ! "Tune in tomorrow, same time, same station for the continuing saga of (fill in great title here) " Canardly wait ! 
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