It always amazes me; Ginger Rogers was the "spit 'n image" of my mother. I watch these 1930's movies for entertainment and because they're seldom over an hour long. The sets are so informative. The coin bank on the desk as Ginger made a call is now worth a small fortune. The furniture of these B movies is informative to a cultural anthropologist. I enjoy the dialogue,the clothing, the cars, and the directness of the productions. They're told to tell a story and they do it. Thks for the movie.
Yeah, that is always strange. At one point in my mother's life, she was the spittin' image of Susan Hayward, as adults. Always interesting to watch the movies at the times they resemble. But Mom didn't have the same kind of voice as Susan.
Wow. I wish I could see a photo of your mother for comparison. She obviously must've been a beautiful woman, in her own right of course, not just because Ginger was gorgeous as well. I do so love the old films. Let's just say, "I see in black and white"😁
My mother met Ginger when she was at the opening of the Penny's store during the early 70s at the mall in Hagerstown MD. She was hired by Penny's to promote new stores. The store is still there. For now.
She became a big star but Lyle Talbot became a character actor in movies and on TV for the rest of his very long career. Few people remembered his name but everyone knew his face.
Oldest movies had bodies falling from a height and they show the landing on a hard surface. Old movies had devious ways to kill, from time delayed mechanisms to golf club guns that shoot a poisonous tipped needle up and out of the handle. They certainly don’t show such explicit content in modern movies.
Yes 💯 Indeed Ginger Roger's to me was one of the most Talented/Prettiest Actresses in TV History, She could do Comedy/Drama & Danced Ball Room to Freestyle. Great 🎬 Movie, Old School/Retro Sryle👏💙❤️👍
We have young Ginger Rogers as a wisecracking reporter, a maid who reads detective stories, & Louise Beavers as a stubborn housekeeper. Weird plot. Have fun!
*Ginger* She along with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are some of my favorite dames. Nice use of curtains around the foyer entrance. And good use of shadows. Louis Beavers was fun and feisty as the maid. She had a good attitude, "I didn't like that man alive, what makes you think that I'm going to like him dead."
Good film,fun as well,this had me laughing many times although a murder mystery,it appears they've mixed it up making this a comical murder mystery! Great share,& good quality,much gratitude 🙂
Even the cheap B movies were entertaining in the old days. More than we can say for the big budget flops of today. They don't make good writers and good actors like they used to. Thanks for posting! :-)
@@geraldinegallegos6146 Liberals were the ones who did the writing of these movies and most of the acting back then. Nowadays people just write a lot of trashy sensationalism because that's what sells, to liberals and conservatives both, unfortunately! 😢
Did anyone notice the letter addressed as Miss Terry the apartment house name and simply "City?" I remember as a kid when people addressed letters like that.
You gotta check her out with Fred Astaire - world's greatest dancer. She kept up - dancing backwards to him and wearing heels! "Swingtime" or "Top Hat" - excellent stories, wonderful sets, and the dancing superb 💖 🇨🇦
How complex our society has become in just about a 100 years. We need a Pizza-fix to remind us of our humble beginnings seeing no one reads History these days. The film as archieval historical resource. We need to see that these old films stay preserved.
Actually there are no words to describe how Beautiful, Brilliant Castings, Story or whatever it is but nowadays this type of story writer didn't Born in Hollywood Industry ❤❤
I thought she was going to get hit by a car when she was running away. I was thinking how ironic it would be that she would end up in that very same morgue!🪦⚰️
This is a worthy film for restoration. Some of my proofs of this are: 25:00 "I think you're trying to flirt with me". 27:12 a more sophisticated African-American performance with some good stunt work. 29:50 "that's funny, man". 35:13. 56:32 a powerful scene where the janitor molests woman, then stuffs her body into the furnace.
Let's see, oh yeah, the blue steel revolver was a semi automatic pistol. Just saying. Ginger Rogers before she teamed up with Fred Astaire. I really enjoyed this movie!
Lyle & Ginger re-team again in another highly enjoyable classic murder/mystery comedy. The last 10 minutes almost reminds me of a modern day horror film what with the crazed janitor about to stuff GR.............well, you'll see.......ha...ha....ha...
Suicide by jumping hit close to home for people who witnessed the Stock Market collapse. Sound had just hit movies. This must have been really incredible to those first audiences used to silent movies...
AHHHHH MY BABY GINGER ROGERS. I LOVE Y'ALL BABY. IMA GO TO SLEEP TO YOUR VOICE SOOTHING ME. Y'ALL ARE PERHAPS TOO GOOD TO ME. TELL GOD I SAID THANKS. 🌞🌝
I always like having Purnell Pratt in a cast. A wooden ham but something endearing about his presence. Like Russell Hicks, a little later tho not smarmy like Hicks. No offense to any relatives; the acting styles were different then.
At 43:50, Lyle Talbot pulls out a .45 automatic pistol and says to Ginger Rogers that it is a 'revolver'. A minor point, but I've seen that same exact thing done many times in these old B&W movies.
I've taken note of the same thing, even up into some 1950's films. It must have been contemporary usage and the "term" changed as semi-autos beame more apparent after WWII. Also, "Black-jacks" ("saps") have disappeared, along wirh nightsticks. You're not to cause an insrirution liability for insurane policy, no matter if you get the **** beat out of yourself. You can carry a firearm, but it's illegal for a non-police person to carry a non-lethal taser. Point of fact, even gun magazines don't use revolver as a term anymore. It's apparently more cool to use the word "wheelgun."
Love Louise Beavers! And Ginger Rogers young and spry! Loved this one had me guessing all the way! The janitor was a bit over the top, oh, yeah, and that ignorant maid was too ignorant!
It never ceases to amaze me that the writers of these older films didn't know the difference between an 'Automatic and a Revolver hand gun' as happened in one instance in this film.....
Cute movie, Ginger plays a secretary 👨💼 who's boss turns up dead. Accident or Suicide? The sound is a little bad, but it's a really old movie, that's Free so don't complain. Hehe. 😉
@@trilbywilby7826 I didn't name the 'dodo'; but that little man kept trying to give info (deductions) to his boss and was always told to bug off. Three or four times he approached his chief and was waved away.
Getting sufficient calories and nutrients prior to 1960 was a constant event for most people. I collect old cookbooks printed before 1970. And those pre-1960 are very deliberate in their nutritional and caloric economics chapters. And the further back you go, the more dominant it becomes. But life was a lot more physical than now. And getting food was still more work than it is now with distribution still done locally and limiting.
I was born in the wrong time men were men and women looked acted n were women n they stood by their man n the men stood up for what was right even if alone
Don't be silly. Storylines are ALWAYS being set in other eras. Many writers prefer to write period pieces. Cell phones would only play a prominent role in films set within the last twenty years.
There's no wm Powell's cooper Wayne's Stewart's ginger Rogers Shirley temples Cary grant's Walter Brennan James Gleason's n bout the only one who can really act is tommy lee jones n a couple others
