The black spot others in the comments have pointed out mysteriously showing up on Joan’s face is what was known as a beauty mark. Sophisticated women ( and others not so sophisticated) placed them on their faces either with a little stick on ornament or colored on with an eyebrow pencil. Remember now that she has been to Paris, changed her look and even feigned marriage she would also have added the beauty mark to signify her new found sophistication. It’s something from a by-gone era. It was still very common all way into the sixties. It seemed to have disappeared by the seventies.
@@ChrisCarlin-is8wv You beat me to it! I was going to say the same thing. Most people don't know about her cheating on Walter Wanger with her agent, Jennings Lang. Wanger shot Lang in the groin...............must have ruined his whole day.
Thank you for uploading this rare and charming Joan Bennett romantic comedy from her Fox tenure. Most viewers seem forget that Bennett went through this blonde ingenue phase before metamorphizing into the dark Femme Fatale of Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street . I appreciate both periods of her illustrious career that by far surpassed Constance's reputation. Some interesting support in the suave John Boles and the forgotten Nora Lane.
I kid you not.This film waxes to true romance, and never tires. Bennett created an Oscar- worthy role. Flawless. Infinitely beautiful. Few films have ever come to a seriously loving climax like this.
As the delectable plot undolds we are treated to possibly the sweetest coming of age event imaginable. Joan is the glorious conqueror, quite understandably. Her eyes are truly devastating.
what a difference 90 years can make. Such a different lifestyle, way of expressing, interests and fashion. I wish movies were invented hundreds of years ago so we could see how people really lived in the past.
@dumitriudaniela It's still only Hollywood. Then letting us see what THEY wanted us to see and believe. Visit a library if nothing else and find some non fiction books about the pre code and thereafter and all the other dirty secrets that were actually occuring off camera. Especially the fact that about 85% of the biggest actresses we know we wishing they didn't have to only kiss chaste kisses to their co stars onscreen. And the naughty stuff that started getting by was to lure movie fans back in as quick as they could squeeze together some hard to find depression era change.
This script is so charmingly spicy that I cannot believe I never heard of this film before. It is a triumph for that time, and would never have survived the Censors. Thank you ever so much for publishing this precious jewel. Bennett's peformance is commandingly persuasive.
Joan showed a great deal of promise early on on her career ❣️ Minna Gombel was always a great addition to every film she was in. Watching this, I just thought this would have make a good Constance Bennett vehicle...🤣😊
Joan's incomparablev skill in turning from the ingenue into a believably, almost innocent, true seductrice left us with few good rivals in screen history of the era.
Bennett's beauty had yet to blossom fully. And, it would take about 6 more years before she realized she needed to dye her hair black. That was a sensation!
I can't believe joan bennett is so young and so innocent and how she changed over the years with the dark hair and the sultry voice.She's so beautiful in this movie
Her hair style really takes off too. I love her final cut. And the low cut back to the elegant dress with the added necklace decoration is lovely. I watch these movies for the men's and women's wardrobes, set designs, lamps, sculpture... And the cars! I particularly love scenes in crowded areas just to get a look at the people and backgrounds. This movie with its clashing cymbols, tinny music, the art nuveau, wonderful.
Every young woman should have a good friend like Minna Gombell in this film, or Lilyan Tashman in Joan Bennett's wonderful film from the same period, Puttin' On the Ritz, which I've seen three times and just adore. I was surprised that Joan's hair is dark here - I thought the switch from blond didn't happen until Trade Winds, where it was part of the plot.
Looks like an electric carriage early in the flick. Interesting that passengers were seated in front of the driver; facing him. Might have been an issue w/ 'visibility'; but at least he could've blamed Joan as the 'distraction' in an accident....
Wasn’t that Josephine Hull (she played Jimmy Stewart’s sister in the movie Harvey) in the car as Bennett was leaving for NYC in the beginning of the movie?
Racy pre code movie;speakeasy bust,Joan in a bathtub,cute little dog,decadent Paris and the business with the bed. The serenade to the cleaner was a nice touch. Fun even 92 years later.
Her hair's blonde after settling in to her hotel in Paris, but still looks dark ... just the poor quality of the print, I guess....but still an enjoyable film.
Of course, her greatest mistake was to go blonde, when her coal black hair contrasted perfectly with her complexion, and especially her searching eyes.
🔵THERE'S NO EXPLANATION WHY SHE HAD NO WARP IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE MOVIE THEN AT TIME 54:45 A WARP OR MOLE APPEARED AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER FACE BY HER NOSE. AND AFTER HER PRESUME HUSBAND(JOHN BOLES) MET HER AGAIN AT HER HOME TOWN HE DIDN'T ASKED HER HOW SHE GOT THE WARP OR MOLE ON HER FACE. I SEE THAT NONE OF THE COMMENTERS DIDN'T COMMENT ON THIS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AS OBSERVANT AS ME. LETS SEE IF SOMEONE OR THE MOVIE DIRECTOR🎥 OR PRODUCER WILL ANSWER ME.🔴
Ah, do you mean wart? And it's a beauty patch--a little silk or moleskin patch or just a little dot of an eyebrow pencil. Meant to draw attention to a feature, usually placed near the corner of the mouth or an eye.
Innocent Sally brown (Joan Bennett) thinks men are only attracted to experienced women,so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman (John boles) on a trip to Paris! Her charade almost goes too far- the guy pursues her all th the way back wthe
This film 90 years later falls a little flat. Boles does a good job as the interested suitor with his classic good looks but Joan Bennet's character is a spoiled twit and to my 21st century old eyes not that attractive. I was born 20 years after this film was made. I do not know whether the way of life among the upper classes in the 1930s was portrayed accurately or not.
I agree. Didn't care much for Joan Bennett's acting, but mainly can't imagine any man falling madly in love with her bland and/or ill-tempered character.
