#Magnificent Obsession

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Gregg Palmer and Rock Hudson Magnificent Obsession (1954) dir. Douglas Sirk

#Magnificent Obsession #Gregg Palmer #Rock Hudson #Douglas Sirk #guys #movies #smoking #gay subtext #* #** #filmedit #rockhudsonedit #usergina #usertom #userteri #ritahayworrth #uservienna #userlenie #userlenny #userpedro

[of-fear-and-love]

Outfits from Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Art direction by Bernard Herzbrun, Emrich Nicholson Costume design by Bill Thomas (gowns) Hair stylist Joan St. Oegger Makeup artist Bud Westmore

#magnificent obsession #1954 #douglas sirk #outfits #costume design #50s fashion #joan st. oegger #bud westmore #jane wyman #rock hudson #1950s film #50s movies #agnes moorehead #otto kruger #barbara rush #gregg palmer #fashion #movie costumes

[womansfilm]

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

#and the world was never the same #magnificent obsession #magnificent obsession 1954 #douglas sirk #trailers #m

[emeraldexplorer2]

Nothing like a lush Douglas Sirk melodrama. 1954

#1954 #classic actress #hollywood #classic movies #classic hollywood #classic film #magnificent obsession #jane wyman #rock hudson #barbara rush

[heisokay]

Rock Hudson

#rock hudson #old pics #vintage #couch #sofa #man reading #men reading #books #Black and White #giant #actor #magnificent obsession

[popculturetarot]

The Six of Pentacles is about giving and receiving out of charity and compassion, it is understanding that it is a cyclical relationship that giving is receiving and be open to receiving help is giving to others.

#tarot #six of pentacles #magnificent obsession #rock hudson #classic hollywood #Lloyd C. Douglas #Jane Wyman #sixes #pentacles #minor arcana

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Rest in peace, Barbara Rush (1927-2024).

#barbara rush #rest in peace #when worlds collide #it came from outer space #magnificent obsession #bigger than life #robin and the 7 hoods #hombre

[byneddiedingo]

Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)

Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Paul Cavanaugh, Sara Shane, Richard H. Cutting, Judy Nugent, Helen Kleeb. Screenplay: Robert Blees, Wells Root, based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas and a screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman. Cinematography: Russell Metty. Art direction: Bernard Herzbrun, Emrich Nicholson. Film editing: Milton Carruth. Music: Frank Skinner.

Lloyd C. Douglas, Lutheran pastor turned novelist, was in some ways the anti-Ayn Rand. His Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929 and first filmed in 1935 with Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor directed by John M. Stahl, advocates a kind of "pay it forward" altruism, the obverse of Rand's laissez-faire individualism. Douglas preached a gospel of service to others with no expectation of rewards to oneself. Fortunately, director Douglas Sirk and screenwriters Robert Blees and Wells Root keep the preaching in the 1954 remake down to a minimum -- mostly confining it to the preachiest of the film's characters, the artist Edward Randolph (Otto Kruger), but also using it as an essential element in the development of the central character, Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson), in his transition from heel to hero. This was Hudson's first major dramatic role, the one that launched him from Universal contract player into stardom. Not coincidentally, it was the second of nine films he made with Sirk, movies that range from the negligible Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) to the near-great Written on the Wind (1956). More than anyone, perhaps, Sirk was responsible for turning Hudson from just a handsome hunk with a publicist-concocted screen name into a movie actor of distinct skill. In Magnificent Obsession he demonstrates that essential film-acting technique: letting thought and emotion show on the face. It's a more effective performance than that of his co-star, Jane Wyman, though she was the one who got an Oscar nomination for the movie. As Helen Phillips, whose miseries are brought upon her by Merrick (through no actual fault of his own), Wyman has little to do but suffer stoically and unfocus her eyes to play blind. Hudson has an actual character arc to follow, and he does it quite well -- though reportedly not without multiple takes of his scenes, as Sirk coached him into what he wanted. What Sirk wanted, apparently, is a lush, Technicolor melodrama that somehow manages to make sense -- Sirk's great gift as a director being an ability to take melodrama seriously. Magnificent Obsession, like most of Sirk's films during the 1950s, was underestimated at the time by serious critics, but has undergone reevaluation after feminist critics began asking why films that center on women's lives were being treated as somehow inferior to those about men's. It's not, I think, a great film by any real critical standards -- there's still a little too much preaching and too much angelic choiring on the soundtrack, and the premise that a blind woman assisted by a nurse (Agnes Moorehead) with bright orange hair could elude discovery for months despite widespread efforts to find them stretches credulity a little too far. But it's made and acted with such conviction that I found myself yielding to it anyway.

#Magnificent Obsession #Douglas Sirk #Rock Hudson #Jane Wyman

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#magnificent obsession #jane wyman #rock hudson #agnes moorehead #otto kruger #barbara rush #gregg palmer #douglas sirk #1954

[dweemeister]

“The public and private Rock Hudson” - reported by Tracy Smith for CBS Sunday Morning (originally broadcasted June 26, 2023)

For nearly four decades as a star of films and TV, Rock Hudson was Hollywood's epitome of heterosexual desire. But he also led a secret life as a closeted gay man, and in 1985 became the first celebrity to die of AIDS. Correspondent Tracy Smith looks back on the public and private lives of Hudson, and talks with Stephen Kijak, director of the new HBO documentary Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed; biographer Mark Griffin; and actress Linda Evans, who shared a romantic scene with Hudson on Dynasty at a time when some feared that a kiss could transmit HIV.

#Rock Hudson #Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed #Tracy Smith #Stephen Kijak #Doris Day #LGBTQ #Magnificent Obsession #All That Heaven Allows #Pillow Talk #Lover Come Back #Elizabeth Taylor #Jane Wyman #Linda Evans #Send Me No Flowers #McMillan and Wife #Dynasty #HIV AIDS #CBS Sunday Morning #CBS News #CBS #Youtube

[mydarkmaterials]

#film #magnificent obsession #douglas sirk #rock hudson #jane wyman

[craigfernandez]

#Magnificent Obsession #Jane Wyman #Rock Hudson

[passed-out-real]

Agnes Moorehead Filmography Part 1

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Journey Into Fear (1943)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Mrs. Parkington (1944)

Dark Passage (1947)

The Lost Moment (1947)

Summer Holiday (1948)

Station West (1948)

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

#Agnes Moorehead #Citizen Kane #The Magnificent Ambersons #Journey Into Fear #Since You Went Away #Mrs. Parkington #Dark Passage #The Lost Moment #Summer Holiday #Station West #Magnificent Obsession

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Small Town Girl, 1936, Is Playing on TCM on June 6 (USA)

Small Town Girl, 1936, Is Playing on TCM on June 6 (USA)

Small Town Girl, 1936, is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, June 6 at 12 noon Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor For most of her career Janet Gaynor did nothing but play small town girls, the best known being Esther Blodgett. But I’ve seen her in films like State Fair and Three Loves Has Nancy and it’s the same part, the girl from the tiny hamlet who conquers the big city and the men in…

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#Binnie Barnes #doctors #Golden Era #hollywood #Isabel Jewell #James Stewart #Janet Gaynor #Lewis Stone #Magnificent Obsession #MGM #Robert Taylor #Small Town Girl #TCM #Turner Classic Movies

[veryslowreader]

The Real Mother Goose

Magnificent Obsession

#the real mother goose #blanche fisher wright #magnificent obsession #irene dunne #cora sue collins

[kristsune]

So my obsession with the orchestration of tmp has not abated and though we don't have the full theme isolated yet, I had to do the best I could, and simply gathered the intro and outro for the first episode to hear as much of that beautiful orchestra as possible.

#the magnus protocol #tmp #tmagp #my audio #im bloody obsessed with the orchestra #sam jones you did an absolutely magnificent job #stunning #beautiful #everything within the episodes is absolutely stunning #i cant wait til i can listen to it all