12/30/2023 0 Comments Starcrossed 1985 full movieI think she had a bucket list – and joining the RSC was part of thatīut screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh and director Paul McGuigan make the film as much about Peter’s family as about the lovers. “Andy Capp and Mrs Mopp” is how Peter characterises such a take. In other hands, this could have been a cheery British farce about the odd-couple pairing of a working-class lad and Hollywood royalty. But the film gets its unusual power from the fact that it has something to offer in place of fame and sexual oppression. In the shadow of Harvey Weinstein, the case of Gloria Grahame – chewed up and spat out by the studios – could not be more relevant. Precise and self-effacing … Grahame with James Stewart in 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life. “The only biography of her is called Suicide Blonde,” says Peter. If you watch her work now, you can see an accomplished actor doing precise, effective, self-effacing work. The star was also bullied into having work done on her face and, during her divorces, highly paid industry lawyers spread hideous stories about her that tame showbiz correspondents made sure stuck. “But,” says Peter, “she wouldn’t ride unaccompanied in the limo with the then head of RKO, Howard Hughes.” So she was thrown aside. Gloria was offered the lead in the 1950 film Born Yesterday. Because, yes, the city has changed and the nature of fame has changed, but one thing hasn’t: how female stars are treated. What really kept him going, of course, was love, the need to do justice to Gloria. I’m interested in how Peter managed to keep faith in the project during the years when, as he says, “It refused to get made”, almost as if “Gloria wouldn’t have it”. This is one of my favourite moments in the film: the crystalline beauty of the actual black-and-white CinemaScope Gloria, peering from under her hooded eyes into the shadowy warmth of a present-day picture house. “Thirty years ago,” says Peter, “we didn’t have DVDs, let alone YouTube.” Peter had to trust his parents for an account of his LA girlfriend’s glory days – and wait for an art-house retrospective. As if to emphasise the point, we are speaking in the Pen Factory, an elegant bar and bistro in the city. The film is now a period piece, the battered Liverpool it portrays having all but vanished. The book, when it was first published, was about a recent memory. The film's direct follow-up, Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss was released in 1988.‘It refused to get made’ … Annette Bening and Jamie Bell as Gloria Grahame and Peter Turner. The movie was followed by a number of sequels, as a part of a larger franchise of films, an adaptation for stage, and a television broadcast adaptation of that play. The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski was released on Februduring an episode of American Playhouse. Jean Shepherd as Ralph Parker/the Narrator.The pair soon discover that their courtship may prove more difficult to manage than necessary. He begins his first serious relationship. With the excitement of new next-door neighbors, Ralph discovers that the daughter is the girl of his dreams. As the holiday approaches, a Polish family moves in. Parker decides that he wants to buy a new family vehicle and starts the processes of purchasing a yellow colored Buick, while his younger brother Randy reluctantly practices for his starring role as a turkey in the school Thanksgiving Day play. Set during the late-1940s to early-1950s America, high school aged Ralph Parker prepares for Thanksgiving celebrations with his family. A middle-aged Ralph Parker introduces the film as the character is going to a movie in theaters directed by a Polish director, which reminds him of a memory from his past.
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