Definite fifties vibe. I keep thinking Cry-baby, but Tracy Lord's is always wearing white pants, and Amy Locane has a black top during the swim dance sequence. Susan Tyrrell has fringes, gunbelts or some junk hung around her waist. I don't think this is it, but I thought I should at least give it a shot. I've also looked at Grease, Wild Angels and The Wild Ride from the period. Can't say I didn't try
I really applaud your effort in trying to solve this one Jay. Some assistance now would seem to be in order here.
The film is not only set in the 1950s, but it was also filmed in this decade as well.
A final clue is that the actress pictured was in real life a major Hollywood star.
Correct for 221. The Barefoot Contessa from 1954. The gypsy camp dance scene I have never forgotten about, which is more than I can say in general about the film itself.
Having to perform some detective work does make it interesting though?
Both are the legs of great musical dancers. I'll do 224 as Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom. An overlooked gem that everyone should see.
Correct. Strictly Ballroom from 1992. Early Baz Luhrmann artistry. It was on our national television broadcaster just recently and on rewatching it found that ir has lost none of it's magic.
Lana Turner had been making movies for EIGHTEEN years when she showed off her still very sexy body in The Prodigal! She was born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in 1921 in Idaho, and her father was murdered when she was a young girl, and her mother moved to California.
In 1937, she was discovered at a soda fountain (not Schwab's, but one close by), and she had a small role in 1937's "They Won't Forget", and she became very popular very quickly. She remained a top leading actress for over 20 years, though her turbulent personal life definitely affected her career (including the murder of her violent gangster lover, Johnny Stompanato, by her own 14 year old daughter Cheryl Crane).
She also had EIGHT husbands, the first of which was bandleader Artie Shaw, who himself was married EIGHT times, including to Ava Gardner and Shaw married both Turner and Gardner when they were young and at the height of their beauty. Some of her movies include: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life, The Bad and the Beautiful, Peyton Place and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She passed away in 1995 at the age of 74.
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Lana Turner's first screen role in They Won't Forger in 1937 certainly kick-started her Hollywood career, She was ramed ''the sweater girl'' after her appearance in the film. A small role certainly, but it did make an impression. The film is certainly one to seek out id you haven't seen it.
This 1937 Mervyn LeRoy anti-Semitic frame-up Southern courtroom lawyer murder mystery crime melodrama is taken directly from the 1915 Mary Phagan murder case, and it follows the facts very closely; in that case, a 14 year-old white Georgia girl was found murdered, and she worked in a factory owned by a Jewish man named Leo Frank, and even though all evidence pointed towards the black janitor, the publisher of the leading Atlanta newspaper chose to create a case against Frank, both because he was a Northerner and because he was Jewish.
After a sensational case with little evidence, Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death; the governor of Georgia commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, which ended his career; while on the way to prison, Frank was kidnapped and lynched; the entire sordid story was documented in the novel "Death in the Deep South" by Aben Kandel, and it was that novel that was the basis for this movie; in reality, one year after the events, the black janitor in fact confessed to the murder.
The movie had one substantial difference from the book and from reality, which is that it did not ever explicitly state in any way in the movie that the man was Jewish, but we believe most viewers were able to "put two and two together"!
Note that Hollywood is known for its willingness to bend and stretch the truth, but surely one of the most amazing examples of this was when this movie was re-released in 1956, Lana Turner was top billed, even though she was barely in the movie, and a much older image of her was used on the poster. We can't imagine how deceived those 1956 moviegoers felt!
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I really applaud your effort in trying to solve this one Jay. Some assistance now would seem to be in order here.
The film is not only set in the 1950s, but it was also filmed in this decade as well.
A final clue is that the actress pictured was in real life a major Hollywood star.
Having to perform some detective work does make it interesting though?
One image should be easily more recognisable than the other.
A clue for this actress is that she should be best remembered for one film roll.
And to think that I had thought that this one was going to be very easy to identify.
I'll do 224 as Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom. An overlooked gem that everyone should see.
Early Baz Luhrmann artistry. It was on our national television broadcaster just recently and on rewatching it found that ir has lost none of it's magic.
A clue for 225 is thar this actress created a lot of publicity with her first film appearance.
I'll answer tonight if nobody jumps in
And I have watched Strictly Ballroom multiple times, including with both my daughters.
And oddly, for someone who can't dance in the slightest, I also love Shall We Dance (the Japanese version)!
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If all the included posted images were from very obvious well known films, where would some of the fun be then?
Two more images for you to have a think about.
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In 1937, she was discovered at a soda fountain (not Schwab's, but one close by), and she had a small role in 1937's "They Won't Forget", and she became very popular very quickly. She remained a top leading actress for over 20 years, though her turbulent personal life definitely affected her career (including the murder of her violent gangster lover, Johnny Stompanato, by her own 14 year old daughter Cheryl Crane).
She also had EIGHT husbands, the first of which was bandleader Artie Shaw, who himself was married EIGHT times, including to Ava Gardner and Shaw married both Turner and Gardner when they were young and at the height of their beauty. Some of her movies include: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Imitation of Life, The Bad and the Beautiful, Peyton Place and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She passed away in 1995 at the age of 74.
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Lana Turner's first screen role in They Won't Forger in 1937 certainly kick-started her Hollywood career, She was ramed ''the sweater girl'' after her appearance in the film. A small role certainly, but it did make an impression. The film is certainly one to seek out id you haven't seen it.
This 1937 Mervyn LeRoy anti-Semitic frame-up Southern courtroom lawyer murder mystery crime melodrama is taken directly from the 1915 Mary Phagan murder case, and it follows the facts very closely; in that case, a 14 year-old white Georgia girl was found murdered, and she worked in a factory owned by a Jewish man named Leo Frank, and even though all evidence pointed towards the black janitor, the publisher of the leading Atlanta newspaper chose to create a case against Frank, both because he was a Northerner and because he was Jewish.
After a sensational case with little evidence, Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death; the governor of Georgia commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, which ended his career; while on the way to prison, Frank was kidnapped and lynched; the entire sordid story was documented in the novel "Death in the Deep South" by Aben Kandel, and it was that novel that was the basis for this movie; in reality, one year after the events, the black janitor in fact confessed to the murder.
The movie had one substantial difference from the book and from reality, which is that it did not ever explicitly state in any way in the movie that the man was Jewish, but we believe most viewers were able to "put two and two together"!
The movie starred Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger, Allyn Joslyn, Lana Turner (super young in her very first role, as the sexy teenager who is murdered early in the movie!), and Elisabeth Risdon.
Note that Hollywood is known for its willingness to bend and stretch the truth, but surely one of the most amazing examples of this was when this movie was re-released in 1956, Lana Turner was top billed, even though she was barely in the movie, and a much older image of her was used on the poster. We can't imagine how deceived those 1956 moviegoers felt!
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Warner Brothers in the 1930's made some excellent ' social conscious'' films including the above four titles.