#Ona Munson

[diioonysus]

lgbtqia women in old hollywood

#i did another part titled the sewing circle so i decided to make another one #old hollywood #history #lgbtqia #jodi lansing #fay tincher #lisabeth scott #kay francis #lili damita #josephine hutchinson #lilyan tashman #ona munson #jean acker #dorothy arzner #women in history #photography #vintage photography #vintage #gay history

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Bela Lugosi, Marjorie White, Joe E Brown, Thelma Todd and Ona Munson in Mervyn LeRoy’s BROADMINDED (1931)

#bela lugosi #marjorie white #joe e brown #thelma todd #ona munson #classic movies #old hollywood

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Five Star Final (1931) Mervyn LeRoy

April 6th 2024

#five star final #1931 #mervyn leroy #edward g. robinson #marian marsh #frances starr #h.b. warner #aline macmahon #anthony bushell #boris karloff #ona munson #oscar apfel #george e. stone #harold waldridge #evelyn hall #david torrence #pre-code #PreCodeApril #favourite

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 120 years ago: actress Ona Munson (16 June 1903 - 11 February 1955). Munson is inevitably best remembered for her role as bordello madam Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind (1939), but I love her best for her majestic performance as the villainess Mother Gin Sling in Josef von Sternberg’s decadent masterpiece The Shanghai Gesture (1941).

#ona munson #belle watling #gone with the wind #the shanghai gesture #mother gin sling #josef von sternberg #lobotomy room

[fitesorko]

Ona Munson

#ona munson

[thedabara]

ACTRESSES BORN IN 1903

Claudette Colbert

Billie Dove

Dolores Costello

Nancy Carroll

Verree Teasdale

Camilla Horn

Jeanette MacDonald

Ona Munson

Dorothy Sebastian

Elinor Fair

#claudette colbert #billie dove #dolores costello #nancy carroll #verree teasdale #camilla horn #jeanette macdonald #ona munson #dorothy sebastian #elinor fair #thedabara

[fashioninpaper]

Belle Watling, the “madam” in Gone with the Wind. Played by Ona Munson. Art by Tom Tierney.

(I realized that her left arm is positioned behind her torso but at first glance…)

#paper dolls #tom tierney #gone with the wind #Belle watling #Ona Munson

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2022:

66. Five Star Final (1931) - Dir. Mervyn LeRoy

#Five Star Final #Mervyn LeRoy #Edward G. Robinson #Marian Marsh #H.B. Warner #Anthony Bushell #Frances Starr #Boris Karloff #George E. Stone #Ona Munson #Films Watched in 2022 #My Edits #My Post

[my-brutal-heart]

#ona munson #actress #lady from louisiana

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

Five Star Final

Edward G. Robinson had one of his best roles as the muckraking newspaper editor in Mervyn LeRoy’s FIVE STAR FINAL (1931, TCM), one of the films that established Warner Bros.’ hard-hitting house style. He’s been trying to elevate his paper’s news coverage, but when circulation slips, his venal publisher (Oscar Apfel) orders him to revive a sensational 20-year-old murder case, with disastrous results. LeRoy directs with a rapid pace and a creative use of sound, from the opening titles played over news vendors’ cries and whirring presses rather than music to a tense scene scored to jazzy music playing on a radio. And though some of the actors are still stuck in dated styles that suggest their inability to adjust stage-trained acting to the camera (as the murderer trying to escape her past, Frances Starr has a tendency to sing her lines), there’s a lot of good honest work in the film, particularly from Boris Karloff as a reporter given to posing as a clergyman, Ona Munson as a female reporter with ice water in her veins, H. B. Warner as Starr’s husband, Marian Marsh as her daughter and particularly Aline MacMahon, in her film debut, as Robinson’s critical yet adoring secretary. Her drunk scene is a study in how to play against inebriation and a later scene with Robinson in a speakeasy is a feast of good acting. But it’s really Robinson who’s the whole show. Like most of Warners’ top stars, he was a master of fast-paced dialogue. But he also has an expressiveness about the eyes that pulls you in. When he discovers what his coverage of the story has led to, he manages to communicate his growing sense of guilt even while barking out orders on how to cover the latest development. This is a master working at the height of his powers.  The film was remade as TWO AGAINST THE WORLD (1936) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead and as a live television broadcast in 1954 with Edmond O’Brien as the editor and Joanne Woodward as the daughter.

#newspaper films #edward g. robinson #mervyn leroy #aline macmahon #boris karloff #h.b. warner #ona munson #marian marsh #warner bros.

[entrehormigones]

#The Shanghai Gesture #movie #film #movie gif #Ona Munson

[ulrichgebert]

Es brauchte mehr als einen Film um von Sternbergs Namen in Shanghai Joe zu ändern. 1941 verschlägt es ihn mit The Shanghai Gesture nochmal dorthin, diesmal mit der ungewöhlich zickigen Gene Tierney, die dem kessen Victor Mature verfällt -Allah sei gepriesen!-, sowie dem Glücksspiel. Die Casinobetreiberin, Ona Munson in die Behauptung, sie hätte nach Gone with the Wind nur noch ähnliche Rollen bekommen eigentlich widerlegender prächtiger Dragon-Lady-Verkleidung nutzt sie für einen komplizierten Racheplan an einem alten Liebhaber aus, und es ist alles wieder herrlichst Sternberg-typisch-schwülstig-exotisch-opulent-abenteuerlich, sowie -nicht minder typisch- ein bisschen unsinnig.

#The Shanghai Gesture #Ona Munson #Gene Tierney #Victor Mature #Phyllis Brooks #Walter Huston #Albert Bassermann #Eric Blore #Film gesehen #Josef von Sternberg

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Ona Munson, producer Crane Wilbur, and Edward G. Robinson during rehearsal of the CBS Radio program, “Big Town” in 1940

#ona munson #edward g. robinson

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Broadminded (1931) Mervyn LeRoy

March 24th 2024

#broadminded #1931 #mervyn leroy #joe e. brown #william collier jnr. #ona munson #marjorie white #bela lugosi #thelma todd #margaret livingston #grayce hampton #pre code

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Victor McLaglen as Bill Whitlock and Ona Munson as his wife Mary in an original publicity still for The Big Guy (1939). This is Vic's second honorable mention, after Captain Fury, also 1939. Ona has two entries among my best 1,001 movies - The Shanghai Gesture (as Mother Gin Sling) and Gone with the Wind (as Belle Watling).

#victor mclaglen #ona munson #big guy

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Ona Munson

#ona munson