Vintage Glass Slides Celebrate Classic Horror Films + An Interview with Colin Clive! Perhaps to put it more bluntly, an irresistible combination of sex and death.The Warner Bros. Archives released a terrific dvd set of Jean’s films earlier this year but, after all, films are carefully rehearsed, reshot if there are mistakes, and carefully edited to delete other shortcomings. Flag this item for. Posts about 1930s film written by arlissarchives. Both enjoyed very long lives post-Hollywood, so why couldn’t we have the same expectation for Jean? In 2013 the University of Zurich and the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded additional funding for the elaboration of this web resource. It was no coincidence that their new film, PERSONAL PROPERTY, was just going into movie theaters for the holidays. The host is Hollywood pioneer director Cecil B. DeMille, and Jean Harlow’s co-star is Robert Taylor. But no, her name is barely introduced to us and it is embraced by tragedy. I can’t place the film but it may be from BLONDE BOMBSHELL (1933), a pre-Code satire on a sexy Hollywood star who looks just like Jean Harlow:On the set of CHINA SEAS (1935) with co-star Wallace Beery and his daughter, Mary Ann, who had a small part in the film, and director Tay Garnett:Jean Harlow made quite a number of good films during her brief life but legend will always claim first and foremost that her most memorable performance was as the sultry vixen in Howard Hughes’ First World War epic, HELL’S ANGELS (1930).

Yet, like Rudolph Valentino before her, or Marilyn Monroe after her, through her films Jean Harlow proves to be an endlessly fascinating embodiment of love and mortality. After all, Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo (see our previous post) were contemporaries of Harlow who left their screen careers circa 1940 and basically disappeared. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! New generations today find Chaney Sr. did not rest on his laurels with PHANTOM, but followed it up with edgy dramas such as American horror films didn’t become established until the talkie era with DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN, both released in 1931. Let’s begin the tour.Decades before JURASSIC PARK let loose an army of angry dinosaurs, movie audiences were awed by living prehistoric creatures in Lon Chaney scored a huge hit with one of the most memorable films of all time. We've got you covered with our map collection.Need a reference? Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Learn more about the world with our collection of regional and country maps.Brush up on your geography and finally learn what countries are in Eastern Europe with our maps.Not sure about the geography of the middle east? Here is Karloff again in two works as Ardath Bey aka Everybody’s favorite Halloween couple, Karloff and Elsa Lancaster in It just wouldn’t seem like Halloween without Bela Lugosi. No_Favorite. Timeline of Historical Film Colors was started with Barbara Flueckiger’s research at Harvard University in the framework of her project Film History Re-mastered, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, 2011-2013. First, that she was a beautiful blonde movie star of the 1930s, and second, that she died at the age of 26. Typical of many actors of that time, Mr. Clive was unhappy with his being cast in these so-called “horror films.” But unlike other actors, he had no hesitation to go public with his concerns. Further, the Technicolor Corporation insisted that a Technicolor expert be present in the filmmaking process, determining color schemes and so heavily affecting the look of a film.

Halloween 2015 gives us a good reason to take a fresh look at some of the greatest horror film classics ever made. Here then at just a click of the button below is the complete hour-long live broadcast of MADAME SANS-GENE as heard on December 14, 1936:A rare photo of the prinicipal cast rehearsing for the broadcast – from left to right Robert Taylor, Jean Harlow, Claude Rains, and C. Henry Gordon:While you’re listening, enjoy some OHIC color transfers of Jean Harlow:Jean seems more concerned with that overhead microphone than with the famous and feared gossip columnist Louella Parsons:Later in 1937, Louella Parsons published this souvenir biography:Jean and Clark Gable heat up the screen in RED DUST (1932), the first of several films they made together.

Unbelievably, it was done precisely as the name implies. In part because of Eastman Color technology, and in part because of some government trust-busting of Eastman and Technicolor in the 1940s, a host of other color companies emerged, beginning in the 1950s: DeLuxe, TruColor, and Warner Color, for example.

Thus, Miss Harlow rarely has a chance to be “living” for us, if you know what I mean.

So, after Technicolor's supremacy in the 1930s and the 1940s, other companies came forward with easier technologies. But not by viewing the familiar artwork found in vintage posters and lobby cards. That brings us to our current post on OHIC – a rare, truly live performance by Jean Harlow on the Lux Radio Theater in December 1936 less than six months before her death. By the 1950s, Eastman Color's "monopack" color film contained all color on one strip of celluloid, a much less cumbersome technology than Technicolor's three-strip process.