#a free soul

[theseventhveil1945]

A FREE SOUL (1931) Dir. Clarence Brown

#filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmblr #classicfilmsource #uservintage #romanceedit #a free soul #a free soul 1931 #norma shearer #clark gable

[moonlightsdream]

FILMS IN 2023: → A Free Soul (1931) — dir. clarence brown

#a free soul #afreesouledit #norma shearer #classicfilmblr #classicfilmsource #filmgifs #moviegifs #userfilm #fyeahmovies #cinematv #cinemapix #motionpicturesource #userbbelcher #userstream #chewieblog #useroptional #userthing #cinematicsource #!gifs #films2023

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A Free Soul (1931) dir. Clarence Brown

#a free soul #norma shearer #leslie howard #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #ours #by jonah #1930s #film #classicfilmsource #userteri #userdeforest #uservita #usermichi #uservini #filmgifs

[vintageshearer]

Happy birthday to the lovely NORMA SHEARER💗✨ (August 10/11, 1903)

#norma shearer #old hollywood #pre code hollywood #old hollywood actress #the divorcee #1920s #1930s #silent film #silent era #golden age of hollywood #irving thalberg #he who gets slapped #a free soul #the women #smilin through #marie antoinette #happy birthday #vintage #vintageshearer

[mimsyfarmerfanclub]

Norma Shearer, smoldering, in A Free Soul (1931)

#norma shearer #a free soul #pre-code #b&w #old hollywood

[colorhollywood]

Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable

Film: A Free Soul (1931)

#leslie howard #norma shearer #clark gable #a free soul #lesliehowardforever #colorhollywood

[eerieandabandoned]

Gif dump of Norma Shearer because I’m being the change I want to see in the world

Feel free to use them!

#norma shearer #vintage #old hollywood #old hollywod glamour #1930s movies #1930s hollywood #a free soul

[byneddiedingo]

Clark Gable and Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (Clarence Brown, 1931)

Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason. Screenplay: John Meehan, Becky Gardiner, based on a novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns and a play by Willard Mack. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art director: Cedric Gibbons. Costume design: Adrian. Film editing: Hugh Wynn.

Norma Shearer made the transition to talkies easily, demonstrating a natural way of handling dialogue. Unfortunately, A Free Soul doesn't call for much in the way of "natural" for Shearer, and it's one of the films that suggest why, of the major female stars of the 1930s (Garbo, Crawford, Loy, Harlow, Stanwyck, Dietrich, Hepburn, Colbert), she is the least remembered. She works hard at her role as the free-spirited daughter of an alcoholic defense attorney, but too often her work is undone by a tendency, perhaps carried over from silent films, to strike mannered poses: typically, hands on hips, shoulders back, chin high. She looks great, however, in the barely-there gowns designed for her by Adrian, which seem to be held in place by will power (or double-sided tape). The plot calls on her to try to dry out her drunken father (Lionel Barrymore) by wagering that if he can sober up, she'll give up her relationship with the sexy gangster her father managed to save from a murder rap. That gangster is played by Clark Gable, who got fifth billing (after James Gleason!), a sign of his status at the time. Gable had been making movies, usually in bit parts, since 1923, but this was the film that catapulted him, at age 30, into stardom. He still stands out in the movie as a natural, unaffected presence amid the mannered Shearer, hammy Lionel Barrymore, and pasty-looking Leslie Howard. It doesn't even hurt Gable that he's cast as a heel named Ace Wilfong, which brings to mind the insurance salesman in It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934) who annoys W.C. Fields with his search for Carl LaFong, "Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong." The improbable story comes from a novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns that had been adapted into a play by Willard Mack that been directed on Broadway in 1928 by George Cukor and starred Melvyn Douglas as Ace Wilfong. Barrymore won the best actor Oscar on the strength of the courtroom speech he gives at the film's end. Barrymore claimed that he did it in one take with the help of multiple cameras, but the logistics of lighting for that many cameras makes his story hard to credit.

#A Free Soul #Clarence Brown #Clark Gable #Norma Shearer

[blacknarcissus]

A Free Soul (1931)

Directed by Clarence Brown

#a free soul #a free soul 1931 #norma shearer #leslie howard #clark gable #lionel barrymore #old hollywood #classic hollywood #classic film #1930s movies #1930s film #1930s #30s film #movies

[peoplevsbirds]

#i only posted an excerpt #the whole article is worth reading #free palestine #palestine #jews for palestine #free gaza #gaza #anti zionisim #anti zionist jew #kaddish for the soul of judaism

[stil-lindigo]

Ahmed Saad, a Palestinian man who had to jump through an insane amount of loops to get the funds necessary for escaping Gaza, is asking us all to donate to his friend’s family fund.

Mohamed is a hemophilia patient who needs access to medicine and to do surgery on his knees, his 11-year-old daughter also needs thigh surgery (she was supposed to do it outside Gaza in November but couldn't travel due to the border issues). Mohammed’s condition is worsening rapidly and, with Israel destroying the last functional hospital in Gaza, things are looking dire.

Please donate generously!

#Ahmed has truly an incredibly empathetic soul #and Israel is so ludicrously and inconceivably evil #there were 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip four months ago and now there are none #these fucking monsters deserve nothing #so please feel for the Palestinians desperate to leave and get help #you can make a difference in a persons life today #please donate generously #palestine #free Palestine #call to action #from the river to the sea #free gaza #free West Bank

[theseventhveil1945]

A FREE SOUL (1931) Dir. Clarence Brown

#filmedit #filmgifs #classicfilmsource #oldhollywoodedit #a free soul #a free soul 1931 #norma shearer #why is no one talking about this........

[monoidea]

#zolu #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #one piece #one piece fanart #i have died three thousand deaths already and i'm still dying over them #they live rent free in my heart and brain and soul

[megalo-station]

I know Bethesda has the (well deserved) reputation of creating their games out of hacked together duct-tape-laden spaghetti code on an ancient quirky engine but I feel like FromSoft deserves their fair mention too. Bonfires aren't objects, they're a visual mesh with an invisible NPC standing on top of it that you "talk to" when you want to sit. Tons of enemies are just two NPCs glued on top of one another because they didn't know how to make an enemy have more than one attack that can fire off at a time. Winter lanterns' frenzy buildup attack comes from an invisible guy sitting on their heads shooting you with an invisible gun. Djura doesn't shoot you with his gatling gun, he just sits there doing nothing (with his cape sitting right around his ears due to how the game renders cloth physics from far away) because the actual NPC shooting you is the gun itself. Lothric and Lorian aren't two separate NPCs holding onto each other, they're one NPC with a second, invisible NPC glued to its back that takes damage on behalf of Lothric. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride on another one. They straight up went "We couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride another, so we combined two NPCs into one and then glued another one to its back, simple." Really it's amazing how much of FromSoft's game design is just "we put an invisible guy here to do things because we couldn't figure out how to make the visible guy do it"

Even Elden Ring for all its advancements in mounts and whatnot has hilarious behind the scenes quirks. When Radahn does his meteor attack he doesn't track you, he teleports his horse underneath you and then aims at the horse

#fromsoftware #fromsoft #dark souls #bloodborne #elden ring #please feel free to add on #i've lowkey gotten into dark souls and other fromsoft games lately #and learning about all the code and stuff behind the scenes is hilarious and fascinating

[ehgood-enough]

More precode Hollywood this morning. A free soul also staring Norma shearer. Another good movie courtroom scene was a bit out of place don’t know why there’d be a trial for a man who plead guilty. Clark gable played a possessive boyfriend very well. Norma shearer was still the star of the film. She really was an incredible actress

#movies i’ve watched #a free soul #1930s cinema #norma shearer #clark gable #pre code hollywood #good movie

[rheakira]

Been sitting on this joke for ages.

The Original Comic

#UTDR #UTY #Flowey #Bravery Soul #Clover UTY #UTDR OC #Léo #Doodles #That comic lives rent free in my head #It's the quickest way I can describe Léo to someone who doesn't know him at all