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citizenscreen · 11 months

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Minna Gombell with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on set of BLOCK-HEADS (1938), directed by John G. Blystone.

#minna gombell #laurel and hardy

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 5 months

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#The Merry Widow #Maurice Chevalier #Jeanette MacDonald #Edward Everett Horton #Una Merkel #George Barbier #Minna Gombell #Ernst Lubitsch #1934

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tcmparty · 2 years

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, August 29, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Monday, Aug. 29 at 8:00 p.m. THE THIN MAN (1934) A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Saturday, Sept. 03 at 8:00 p.m. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.

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thedabara · 2 years

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ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1973

Veronica Lake at 50 from hepatitis

Betty Grable at 56 from lung cancer

Cleo Moore at 43 from heart attack

Minna Gombell at 80 from heart attack

Lila Lee at 72 from stroke

Claire Dodd at 61 from cancer

Myrna Fahey at 40 from cancer

Franciska Gaal at 68 from thrombosis

Anna Magnani at 65 from pancreatic cancer

Käthe von Nagy at 69 from cancer

#veronica lake #betty grable #cleo moore #minna gombell #lila lee #claire dodd #myrna fahey #franciska gaal #anna magnani #käthe von nagy #thedabara

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letterboxd-loggd · 11 months

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After Tomorrow (1932) Frank Borzage

June 4th 2023

#after tomorrow #1932 #frank borzage #charles farrell #marian nixon #william collier sr.#minna gombell #josephine hull #william pawley #greta granstedt #ferdinand munier #pre-code

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fitesorko · 1 year

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Minna Gombell

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cladriteradio · 2 years

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Here are 10 things you should know about Minna Gombell, born 130 years ago today. A leading lady on stage for nearly two decades, she became a character actress in pictures.

#Minna Gombell #old movies #character actresses #classic film #classic movies #classic Hollywood #Golden Age of Hollywood #classic Broadway #precode #precode movies #pre-code #pre-code movies

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therileyandkimmyshow · 14 days

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Podcast Actress Minna Gombell Golden Age of Radio Tribute

#podcast #radio #nostalgia #talk #otr #golden age #audio #old time radio #actress #Minna Gombell

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ruivieira1950 · 1 year

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#Minna Gombell

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) Cast: Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Elisabeth Risdon, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt. Screenplay: Viña Delmar, based on a novel by Josephine Lawrence and play by Helen Leary and Nolan Leary. Cinematography: William C. Mellor. Art direction: Hans Dreier, Bernard Herzbrun. Film editing: LeRoy Stone. Music: George Antheil, Victor Young. As the music ("Let Me Call You Sweetheart") swelled, and the train taking her husband to California pulled out of the station leaving Lucy Cooper (Beulah Bondi) alone on the platform, I muttered, "Please end it here. Please end it here." And so Leo McCarey, bless him, did. He could have, as the studio wanted, moved on to a mawkish conclusion, pulling a sentimental rabbit out of the hat in which their children relented and found a place where Barkley (Victor Moore) and Lucy Cooper could live together, but thank whatever gods preside over cinema, he didn't. I thought, before my reading confirmed it, that Yasujiro Ozu must have seen Make Way for Tomorrow -- or as seems to have happened, his scenarist Kogo Noda did. This is one Hollywood picture from the '30s and '40s that has its head on straight, keeping its heart in the right place. The film gives us complex, fallible characters instead of sugary and vinegary stereotypes: The elder Coopers are as much to blame for the predicament in which they find themselves as their children are for not finding a satisfactory way to resolve it. As an aged parent, one who once faced the problem of an aged parent, I find the film's willingness not to lay blame on anyone refreshing: Barkley Cooper should not have allowed himself to get in the financial difficulty in which he finds himself; he and Lucy should have come clean to the offspring about their money difficulties long before they did. And though it's easy to see the children as hard-hearted and selfish -- the film does tilt a little more in that direction than it might -- what we see on the screen makes clear that housing Lucy and Barkley is a little harder than it ought to be. She seems oblivious to the burdens she puts on George (Thomas Mitchell) and Anita (Fay Bainter), and he is a cantankerous handful for Cora (Elizabeth Risdon) and Bill (Ralph Remley), refusing to follow the doctor's instructions. McCarey and his wonderful cast handle all of this superbly, with McCarey not only stubbornly refusing to provide a conventional movie ending, but also withholding some information a lesser director would have made much of, such as what Rhoda (Barbara Read) did when she disappeared that night, or what Barkley said to his daughter on the telephone when he informed her that he and Lucy weren't coming to their farewell dinner. (I think it's better that we don't know what he told her to do with that roast she was planning to serve.) A small, surprising treat of a movie.

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#Make Way for Tomorrow #Leo McCarey #Beulah Bondi #Victor Moore

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sanspatronymic · 1 year

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Old Hollywood Asks #10 & #15.

10.) favorite pre-code?

I'd have to say: Merrily We Go to Hell (1932). Sylvia Sidney (my beloved!) and Fredric March (my beloved!) directed by lesbian auteur Dorothy Arzner (my beloved!).

15.) an underrated actor/actress?

In leading roles: Richard Widmark and Marie Dressler

Some of my favorite supporting/character actors: Franklin Pangborn, William Demarest, Lionel Stander, Aline MacMahon, Minna Gombell

#movies #asks

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citizenscreen · 1 year

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Minna Gombell and Clara Bow for HOOP-LA (1933), directed by Frank Lloyd.

#clara bow #minna gombell

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tcmparty · 1 year

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, December 26, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Saturday, Dec. 31 THE THIN MAN Double Feature

8:00 p.m. THE THIN MAN (1934) A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

9:45 p.m. AFTER THE THIN MAN (1939) Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge.