Easy to love is a 1934 american precode romantic comedy film directed by william keighley. Watch easy to love full movie in hd visit movie 203830 carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, john, has grown indiff. Mary astor and adolphe menjou in easy to love 1934. Even the normally effeminate edward everett horton gets in on the action in this one. After graduating from the ludlum school of dramatic art, keighley began acting at the age of 23. Genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou, mary astor, edward everett horton, patricia ellis, guy kibbee, hugh herbert, paul kaye director. Easy to love 1934 is a delightful precode bedroom farce, with charming genevieve tobin heading a terrific cast. In the following attempt to assemble cinemas 50 greatest dance scenes, i prioritized breadth. Combining elements of both science fiction and film noir, alphaville takes place in the future under a ruthless dictatorship that forbids love, poetry, or any sort of outward display of emotion. Easy to love 1934 letterboxd social film discovery. An aquatic performer tries to attract the man she loves.
Easy to love 1934 easy to love 1934 is the kind of witty drawing room comedy that hollywood specialized in during the twenties and thirties, full of high society folks, brazen affairs, jealousy, romantic games, and risqu wit, all swirling around bright, busy farce. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title easy to love. After being turned down by mgm for the merry widow 1934, because she was considered too fat, moore slimmed down and was signed with columbia for this first and best of five deliriously silly, wellmounted and tuneful operettas she made for the studio. In this film, grace moore opens the film by losing a radio talent contest in new york. Practically everyone in the film is sleeping with someone else or at least wants to. Mar 08, 2003 gloria swansons greatest role is a warning to our own celebrity culture. The film is directed by william keighley and was released by warner bros. Ready for love is a 1934 american romantic comedy film directed by marion gering and presented by adolph zukor for paramount pictures.
It begins with genevieve tobin and adolph menjou apparently happily married. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan. Youd be so easy to love is a popular song written by cole porter for william gaxton to sing in the 1934 broadway show anything goes. She was best known for her portrayals of strongwilled heroines, most of them as compellingly enigmatic as garbo herself.
Farrell and blondell were a comedy team in five warner bros. Artistic excellence and integrity were the main criteria for the award. I am not your negro is a coproduction of velvet film, inc. Well yes, but bear with me and hopefully youll see why film really does still have. Edge wear, staining in top corners, surface tear on top middle border, large tear left lower border, small tears top right and bottom right borders, some scuffing throughout, some staining along right. Easy to love is at its best when they are shouting at each other from adjoining bedrooms and exchanging icy innuendoes concerning their respective violations of the marriage contract. The only movies that have won all big 5 oscars reelrundown. It is inspired by the play the whipping by eulalie spence, based on the 1930 novel the whipping by roy flanagan. Music to my ears yoonseok im not a koreaboo wattpad. She disconsolately heads to europe, where the best job she can come up with is singing in a restaurant. Based on the 1930 broadway play as good as new, its set in the mansions and playgrounds of the urban elite. Easy to love is clearly an example of a precode film, as its theme is the joys of adultery. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Consummate professional that she was, williams performed the skiing duties.
This is what menjou wanted to do to the commies, too. Porter rewrote it for the 1936 film born to dance, where it was introduced by eleanor powell, james stewart, and frances langford under its alternate title, easy to love. Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, john, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why. Easy to love 1934 cast and crew a middleaged couples genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou marital woes take a back seat to their daughters intentions to run off with her beau.
Read the full synopsis of easy to love, 1934, directed by william keighley, with genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou, mary astor, at turner classic movies. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. Easy to love 1934 full movie download full hd youtube. Based on the 1930 broadway play as good as new, its set in the mansions and playgrounds of the urban elite, outfitted in handsome. I also believe it features ms williams at her most beautiful, in some of the loveliest clothes she ever wore. But seventy minutes of it is a shade too much, and the suspicion increases toward the end that manufacturing a fulllength film out of it represented. Apr 26, 2018 easy to love 1934 original vintage movie lobby card.
Frank capras seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major academy awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Easy to love presented a few new challenges for the statuesque swimming star namely a big skiing finale. Feb 09, 2018 sirk followed with a remake of the 1934 film imitation of life that was the biggest box office success at universal until airport in 1970 and the fourthmost successful film of 1959. Ready for love 1934 the dark angel 1935 fury 1936 the buccaneer 1938 bad little angel 1939 calling philo vance 1940 twin beds. Jul 19, 2018 the film was singled out as the best film based on or inspired by factual events and people. Hedy lamarr made her american film debut in the late 1930s, costarring with charles boyer in algiers 1938, following her scandalous nude appearance in the czech film ecstasy 1933. Whats good for the gander is good for the goose in this roundelay of romance and romp centered on a smartset quartet of. His films are marked by a macabre sense of humor and a somewhat bleak view of the human condition. It stars richard arlen, ida lupino, and marjorie rambeau. I was kind of curious why i never saw this film on any list of screwball films, and, weirdly, it. Heres a scrumptious 1965 illustration of the munsters by arnold kohn, done for.
Kansas city princess is a 1934 american comedy film starring joan blondell and glenda farrell. Alfred hitchcock, englishborn american motionpicture director whose suspenseful films and television programs won immense popularity and critical acclaim over a long and tremendously productive career. Easy to love 1934 a middleaged couples genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou marital woes take a back seat to their daughters intentions to run off with her beau. At the national museum of american history one day last july, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption. Now, as sunset boulevard is rereleased, the stars daughter, in her first interview, remembers her own fear of her. William jackson keighley august 4, 1889, philadelphia, pennsylvania june 24, 1984, new york, new york was an american stage actor and hollywood film director. Unknown actress and a very happy guy in an ape suit. Jun 27, 20 professor john sylvestus applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and.
Jan 23, 2020 in the long history of the academy awards, it has been very rare for a movie to sweep the socalled big five oscars. Buy easy to love movie poster 11 x 17 inches 28cm x 44cm 1934 french style a genevieve tobinadolphe menjoumary astoredward everett hortonpatricia ellis. Ronald reagan first appeared in a feature film in 1937, in warner bros. The official page for free love a usc thesis film by jon deutsch. Verse i know too well that im just wasting precious time in thinking such a thing could be that you could ever care for me im sure youll hate to hear that i adore. With bible gateway plus, you gain instant access to a digital bible study library, including complete notes from the niv cultural backgrounds study bible and the new bible commentary. The history of the doughnut history smithsonian magazine. Easy to love 1934 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
This was william keighleys solo directorial debut he had codirected two earlier films with howard bretherton. This short 61minute comedy is in the style of a pair of tobins later films, the goose and the gander 1934 and snowed under 1936. However gaxton was unhappy about its wide vocal range and it was cut from the musical. An elite handful double up on appearances vincente.
Easy to love is a 1934 american precode romantic comedy film starring genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou, mary astor, and edward everett horton. Her most famous roles were in anna karenina and camille. It happened one night 1934, one flew over the cuckoos nest 1975, and the silence of the lambs 1991 are the only films to win all five awards. Williams wasnt a skier, and quickly learned that, despite her strong swimmers muscles, shed have to go right back to the drawing board and start from scratch. Easy to love 1934 is a delightful precode bedroom farce, with. The film was completed in 1941 but wasnt actually released widely until 1946, because of the motion picture production associations request that director howard hughes cut down the amount of. Buy easy to love movie posters from movie poster shop. Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, john, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. Easy to love 1934 original vintage movie lobby card film. With esther williams, van johnson, tony martin, john bromfield. Easy money is a 1934 british comedy film directed by redd davis and starring lilian oldland, gerald rawlinson and george carney. Easy to love, originally written by cole porter for the 1934 broadway show, anything goes, but subsequently dropped, was recorded by charlie parker with strings on july 5, 1950 in new york. Find movie and film cast and crew information for easy to love 1934 william keighley on allmovie.
From the soundtrack of the mgm motiion picture easy to love producer. Easy to love movie poster 14 x 36 inches 36cm x 92cm 1934 insert genevieve tobinadolphe menjoumary astoredward everett hortonpatricia ellis. One was in his 1934 film score for lieutenant kije, but the more famous instance is when, in the ballet romeo and juliet, a tenor sax is heard taking up the main tune of the dance of the knights, giving it a lighter, jauntier touch. Easy to love film with unprecedented access, national geographic goes behind the scenes with secret service agents as they work each day to protect the president, foreign leaders, and even our economy. Terry terry was 2 years old when she starred in the wizard of oz trainer carl spitz was the trainer. Some edge wear, some surface tears along top left border and right upper border as well as bottom left section, some scuffing throughout, some staining throughout, singlesided. Terry had done previous screen work some of her other appearances. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on broadway. Edward everett horton in easy to love 1934 genevieve tobin in easy to love 1934 mary astor.
With genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou, mary astor, edward everett horton. The star of a water show esther williams is secretly in love with her boss van johnson, so she tries to make him jealous by coquettishly coming on to both a swimming instructor john bromfield. Cavanaugh, robert greig, harold waldridge, william keighley. Rise of catherine the great, the 1934 movie clip it. The song was cut from the original production of anything goes in 1934 and was only later added to the 1987 and 2011 revivals of anything goes under the complete title youd be so easy to love. Overview of easy to love, 1934, directed by william keighley, with genevieve tobin, adolphe menjou, mary astor, at turner classic movies.
Manuel seff, carl erickson director of photography. Easy to love was excitingly filmed, according to the poster, in cypress gardens in florida, where esther williams would tape a very popular tv special in 1960. Genevieve tobin teasing us in, i believe, easy to love 1934. The film is based upon the 1930 play as good as new by thompson buchanan. Apr 11, 2020 greta garbo, swedish american actress who was one of the most glamorous and popular motionpicture stars of the 1920s and 30s. Nov 25, 20 easy to love was filmed in february through april 1953, and released on christmas day.
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