4 years an international success, A guilty mother a play that reaches the heart.

http://www.loc.gov/item/2014636464/

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4 years an international success, A guilty mother a play that reaches the heart.

http://www.loc.gov/item/2014636465/

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Flesh and the Devil is a 1926 MGM silent melodrama starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. A huge hit which made Garbo a star. Gloriously lurid, steamy, melodramatic and romantic and absolutely dripping with sex. Garbo sizzles. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/flesh-and-devil-1926.html

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Mandalay (1934) belongs to a sub-genre I dearly love, the pre-code tropical melodrama. With Kay Francis as a high-class hooker and sexual adventuress. She wears fabulous slinky 30s dresses. She’s at the top of her game here. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/mandalay-1934.html

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The Damned Don’t Cry (1950), a delightfully overheated noir-tinged Joan Crawford melodrama. She becomes a fashion model and naturally winds up as a gangster's moll. A fine movie although Crawford was fifteen years too old for the part.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-damned-dont-cry-1950.html

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Madonna of the Seven Moons is a 1945 British Gainsborough melodrama but melodrama is hardly an adequate word to describe this truly bizarre film. It's beyond mere melodrama. Over-the-top, outrageously excessive, a delight from start to finish.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2017/08/madonna-of-seven-moons-1945.html

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