#theodora goes wild 1936

[jeanharlowshair]

Movie Classic Magazine, December 1936.

#melvyn douglas #irene dunne #richard boleslawski #theodora goes wild 1936 #1930s #movie classic magazine #old hollywood #old magazines #old movies #old movie stars #old hollywood glamour #classic hollywood #old hollywood actors #1930s movies #30s movies #1930s cinema #1930s hollywood #30s film

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#theodora goes wild #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #thomas mitchell #thurston hall #rosalind keith #spring byington #richard boleslawski #1936

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Richard Boleslawski

December 8th 2022

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Propaganda

Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth, Theodora Goes Wild, My Favorite Wife)— The first time I saw her in Theodora Goes Wild she struck me dumb because who is that BEAUTIFUL woman being so funny and clever??? She was primarily known as a dramatic actress (and believe you me those are muscles she can FLEX, Penny Serenade hurts my feelings) but she’s also one of the funniest screwball leading ladies I’ve ever seen. Her films with Cary Grant are especially charming, but all her characters have this knowing quality in the heart of them that’s so intriguing, and her screwball girlies have this freedom to go after what (or who) they want that is delightfully subversive. I want to be her, I want to fuck her, I want to see every movie she’s ever done, she is a brilliant actress and she is my dream woman.

Devika Rani (Achhut Kanya)—She was grandniece of Rabindranath Tagore (laureate). She was sent to boarding school in England at age nine and grew up there. After completing her schooling, she joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the Royal Academy of Music to study acting and music, at a time when aristocratic women did not enter showbiz. She studied filmmaking in Berlin. It is well known that she underwent training at the UFA Studios in the art and technique of acting under Eric Pommer, and other aspects of film production including costume and set designing and make-up, under eminent directors like GW Pabst, Fritz Lang, Emil Jannings and Josef von Sternberg. She is also reported to have worked with Marlene Dietrich. She had a multi-faceted personality and took on many responsibilities of film production at Bombay Talkies, a studio that she co-founded with Himanshu Rai in Mumbai in 1934. She often took care of hair and make up, supervised set design and editing, scouted for new talent and mentored them. She was the face of Bombay Talkies, and also the reason behind the political and financial backing the studio received, at a time when even women from red light districts refused to work as actresses. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, when it was instituted in 1970.

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Irene Dunne:

irene excelled in screwball comedies, musicals, melodramas...she could do it all. she often played elegant society ladies and brought sparkling charisma and poise for days to anything she did, and sang like an angel (she pursued opera before going into moves), her rendition of jerome kern's "smoke gets in your eyes" in roberta moves me to tears every time.

A fantastic star of screwball comedies Irene Dunne is an undersung hot woman in my opinion. She rose to fame in her roles alongside the likes of Cary Grant, and was usually the funniest person in her movies. And the hottest.

She's snarky, and quick, prone to rolling her eyes, and eager to trip her counterparts up. In short, she was a devilish, charming, problem of a woman in many of her films, the pinnacle of hotness.

She’s so gorgeous and funny and her way of acting is so fresh and timeless! She’s the complete package of hotness to me with her talents, humor, and, of course, hot looks. I named my left tit after her to hopefully attract even a smidgen of her beauty and charm.

Devika Rani:

Achhut Kanya (1936) is the only one of hers I've seen but hot DAMN

#devika rani #irene dunne #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 2 #Youtube

[hollywoodlady]

Irene Dunne for 'Theodora Goes Wild' (1936).

#irene dunne #Theodora Goes Wild #30's #by lady hollywood

[citizenscreen]

Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas for THEODORA GOES WILD (1936), directed by Richard Boleslawski

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #old hollywood #classic movies

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Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

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[glennfitzgerald]

Irene Dunne

Theodora Goes Wild

1936

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #theodora goes wild

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Seen in 2022:

Theodora Goes Wild (Richard Boleslawski), 1936

#films #movies #stills #Theodora Goes Wild #Richard Boleslawski #Irene Dunne #1930s #Hollywood #seen in 2022

[lizyork8509]

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Theodora (Irene Dunne) lives in a snooty small town that is scandalized by a popular romance novel. If only they knew the writer was actually Theodora! While visiting her publisher in NY, Theodora meets Michael (Melvyn Douglas), the pushy artist of her book cover. He wants to free her & let her live her life. When Theodora falls in love with Michael & discovers his own secret life, can she free him as well?

A very fun, cute screwball comedy that lets Irene Dunne shine. A precursor to The Awful Truth (1937) & My Favorite Wife (1940). This time her partner is Melvyn Douglas - he’s always done well in comedy. And yes, Irene gets a chance to sing here as well.

The only thing was that the small town was so full of nasty cats (led by deliciously evil Spring Byington) that I wanted to throw things at the screen. I could relate to Theodora’s frustration as I grew up in a small town & every time I visit it’s torture. The bit about Theodora protecting the lead busybody’s daughter (who is pregnant but also married - thank you Hays Code) by hiding her with Theodora’s uncle in NY was interesting - because mama didn’t approve of the husband or some such nonsense. It did make for a fun note at the end of the film.

Available as part of The Criterion Channel’s awesome Screwball Comedy collection.

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #classic film #criterion channel

[foxingpeculiar]

You get it.

(Theodora Goes Wild, 1936, d. Richard Boleslawski)

#movies #memes #I dunno it made me laugh #this is a pretty good movie though #and Irene Dunne is great

[byneddiedingo]

Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)

Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton, John Ashley, Val Avery, George Petrie. Screenplay: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., based on a novel by Larry McMurtry. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Tambi Larsen, Hal Pereira. Film editing: Frank Bracht. Music: Elmer Bernstein. Like a lot of very good pictures, Hud sometimes has the feeling of having been made at the wrong time in film history. It's still hamstrung a little by the moribund Production Code: Characters in it say things like "crap" and "crud" instead of "shit." But it was the exact right time for the actor who played Hud. Paul Newman was just on the cusp of turning 40, an age when vitality can curdle into meanness. The character himself becomes an embodiment of the film's central theme: the passing of a way of life. Think of the hopefulness of the cattle drivers in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948) as compared with the sour fate of the Bannons in Hud. The mantra of Red River was Dunson's "Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make 'em strong, make 'em grow." In Hud it might be Homer Bannon's "It don't take long to kill things, not like it does to grow." But mostly the strength of Hud is in the performances: Newman's obviously, and Patricia Neal's as Alma, but most especially Melvyn Douglas's as Homer, when you remember Douglas as the actor who wooed Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild (Richard Boleslawski, 1936), Marlene Dietrich in Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937), and Greta Garbo in Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939). The movie won Oscars for Neal and Douglas, as it should have. Only Brandon De Wilde's performance didn't quite work for me: He seems a little too soft and well-scrubbed for someone who grew up in a landscape as lean and hard as the one James Wong Howe's (also Oscar-winning) images display. We have to think of the randy teenagers in The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971), also based on a novel by Larry McMurtry, to see what the character might really have been -- a young Jeff Bridges would have been wonderful as Lonnie Bannon. 

#Hud #Martin Ritt

[elcinelateleymickyandonie]

''LOS PECADOS DE TEODORA''

(Theodora Goes Wild)

Año: 1936

Dirección: Ricardo Boleslawski

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bLmd8lYh0

[jennifergarlen]

New on the blog - a review of THEODORA GOES WILD (1936), currently streaming on The Criterion Channel.

#classic movies #screwball comedy #criterion channel #irene dunne #melvyn douglas #romantic comedy #classic hollywood #1930s

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Honorable Mentions mid 30s

1933 (12): Bosco's Picture Show (the first of 101 Looney Tunes through 1964) -- Eagle and the Hawk -- Employee's Entrance -- Flying Down to Rio -- Hard to Handle -- Lady for a Day -- The Life of Jimmy Dolan -- Little Women -- Song of Songs -- State Fair -- The Vampire Bat -- Wild Boys of the Road

1934 (16): Anne of Green Gables -- As the Earth Turns -- The Barretts of Wimpole Street -- Easy to Love -- Fog Over Frisco -- Four Frightened People -- The Goddess -- Imitation of Life -- Judge Priest -- Little Miss Marker -- Manhattan Melodrama -- Murder in the Private Car -- The Old Fashioned Way -- The Scarlet Empress -- Sons of the Desert -- Thirty Day Princess

1935 (11): Alibi Ike -- Cardinal Richelieu -- Crime and Punishment -- The Devil is a Woman -- Folies Bergere -- Four Hours to Kill -- The Glass Key -- Hands Across the Table -- Mark of the Vampire -- Music is Magic -- The Scoundrel

1936 (20): Big Brown Eyes -- Born to Dance -- Broadway Melody of 1936 -- Bullets or Ballots -- Craig's Wife -- Girl's Dormitory -- Green Pastures -- Olympische Spiele -- Rembrandt -- The Road to Glory -- Sabotage -- Showboat -- The Story of a Cheat -- Tarzan Escapes -- Texas Rangers -- Theodora Goes Wild -- These Three -- Three Godfathers -- Trail of the Lonesome Pine -- Wife vs Secretary

#honorable mentions

[onefootin1941]

Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas in Theodora Goes Wild, 1936.

#irene dunne #melvyn douglas #theodora goes wild #1936