Polly Puts Gable In A Pulpit ... 2013

2013 2013 2013 <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gnnyaMLApoE/UjHG88IuJfI/AAAAAAAAQSA/7JSSwZcT2Ks/s1600/aaawatch6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="492" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gnnyaMLApoE/UjHG88IuJfI/AAAAAAAAQSA/7JSSwZcT2Ks/s640/aaawatch6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Clark Gable and Marion Davies Try Out His-and-Her Lip Rouge for <em>Polly</em> Publicity</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Uncertain Beginnings for a Star-In-Making: <em>Polly Of The Circus</em> (1932)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8JYI-OSX1E/UjHHA4RE1aI/AAAAAAAAQSI/nBKUNnGcajE/s1600/aaawatch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8JYI-OSX1E/UjHHA4RE1aI/AAAAAAAAQSI/nBKUNnGcajE/s640/aaawatch1.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">Talking remake of a yarn that had hit big for Mae Marsh in 1917, fifteen</span> <span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">years&nbsp;separation of the two&nbsp;that might as well have been a hundred for sweeping change&nbsp;in movies. <em>Polly</em>'s main title read "A Marion Davies Production," which I guess was about as meaningful as "A Buster Keaton Production" </span><span style="color: white;">where he had as little creative control. Davies was maybe slipping: <em>Polly</em> barely took a profit,&nbsp;gain likely attributed to Clark Gable support on marquees. He worked like a plow horse that year --- honestly, how much sleep could the man have been getting? CG's wildly</span> miscast as person of the cloth, clerical collar and all, which shows how experimental studio set-up was in days when stars incubated so rapidly. I like Gable's intro however: he's first shown wrestling a gym opponent to the mat, establishing he-man bonafides, then dons the reverse collar, this way assuring us he'll not turn-other-cheek to opposition. Metro would use the same gag to ID Spencer Tracy's two-fist priest in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><em>San Francisco</em></st1:place></st1:city> a few years later, with Gable on receiving end of the knock-down punch.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-groNolGGFRE/UjHHDA6SyKI/AAAAAAAAQSQ/K_hv7-BO0tY/s1600/aaawatch5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="492" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-groNolGGFRE/UjHHDA6SyKI/AAAAAAAAQSQ/K_hv7-BO0tY/s640/aaawatch5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Talk About Walls Of Jericho! Three's Definitely a Crowd So Long As That </span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Massive Bible Stands Guard Over Marion's Bed</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u4Ee3dK7w_A/UjHHGlqgCSI/AAAAAAAAQSY/sTIx-HUJASY/s1600/aaawatch4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u4Ee3dK7w_A/UjHHGlqgCSI/AAAAAAAAQSY/sTIx-HUJASY/s640/aaawatch4.jpg" width="496" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Was Gable the Talkie's First Tendering of a Sexy Preacher Man?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">Davies still has looks and a showgirl figure here, donned in tights for an aerial act that justifies the pic's title. In fact, <em>Polly</em>'s circus is not unlike the one Greta Garbo hooked up with in <em>Susan Lenox</em>, and sure enough</span> <span style="color: white;">it was Gable that crashed those fairground gates as he would again in latter part of <em>Polly</em>. Metro liked their big-tops seedy --- was this to discourage circus attendance in favor of seeing more movies? All <em>Polly</em> needed was overlap with <em>Freaks</em>' cast membership to close the circle. Depression-era circusing was as desperate an enterprise as any struggling business, I suppose. Maybe movie folk identified with big-toppers in a final analysis. There's restraint of piety in <em>Polly</em>: customers weren't there to hear Gable preach to Davies, and being he's not bound by vow of chastity, there's pre-marital kiss-stuff with the pair in nightdress, proof of Christian folk heat-<span style="color: white;">seeking as do we all. Fun here like with all 30's Metro is seeing stars manipulated upon a chessboard&nbsp;of day-to-day studio play, wrong moves often the</span> most engaging ones.</span></span></span><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gnnyaMLApoE/UjHG88IuJfI/AAAAAAAAQSA/7JSSwZcT2Ks/s1600/aaawatch6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="492" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gnnyaMLApoE/UjHG88IuJfI/AAAAAAAAQSA/7JSSwZcT2Ks/s640/aaawatch6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Clark Gable and Marion Davies Try Out His-and-Her Lip Rouge for <em>Polly</em> Publicity</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Uncertain Beginnings for a Star-In-Making: <em>Polly Of The Circus</em> (1932)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8JYI-OSX1E/UjHHA4RE1aI/AAAAAAAAQSI/nBKUNnGcajE/s1600/aaawatch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j8JYI-OSX1E/UjHHA4RE1aI/AAAAAAAAQSI/nBKUNnGcajE/s640/aaawatch1.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">Talking remake of a yarn that had hit big for Mae Marsh in 1917, fifteen</span> <span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">years&nbsp;separation of the two&nbsp;that might as well have been a hundred for sweeping change&nbsp;in movies. <em>Polly</em>'s main title read "A Marion Davies Production," which I guess was about as meaningful as "A Buster Keaton Production" </span><span style="color: white;">where he had as little creative control. Davies was maybe slipping: <em>Polly</em> barely took a profit,&nbsp;gain likely attributed to Clark Gable support on marquees. He worked like a plow horse that year --- honestly, how much sleep could the man have been getting? CG's wildly</span> miscast as person of the cloth, clerical collar and all, which shows how experimental studio set-up was in days when stars incubated so rapidly. I like Gable's intro however: he's first shown wrestling a gym opponent to the mat, establishing he-man bonafides, then dons the reverse collar, this way assuring us he'll not turn-other-cheek to opposition. Metro would use the same gag to ID Spencer Tracy's two-fist priest in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><em>San Francisco</em></st1:place></st1:city> a few years later, with Gable on receiving end of the knock-down punch.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-groNolGGFRE/UjHHDA6SyKI/AAAAAAAAQSQ/K_hv7-BO0tY/s1600/aaawatch5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="492" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-groNolGGFRE/UjHHDA6SyKI/AAAAAAAAQSQ/K_hv7-BO0tY/s640/aaawatch5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Talk About Walls Of Jericho! Three's Definitely a Crowd So Long As That </span><br /><span style="color: yellow;">Massive Bible Stands Guard Over Marion's Bed</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u4Ee3dK7w_A/UjHHGlqgCSI/AAAAAAAAQSY/sTIx-HUJASY/s1600/aaawatch4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u4Ee3dK7w_A/UjHHGlqgCSI/AAAAAAAAQSY/sTIx-HUJASY/s640/aaawatch4.jpg" width="496" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Was Gable the Talkie's First Tendering of a Sexy Preacher Man?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">Davies still has looks and a showgirl figure here, donned in tights for an aerial act that justifies the pic's title. In fact, <em>Polly</em>'s circus is not unlike the one Greta Garbo hooked up with in <em>Susan Lenox</em>, and sure enough</span> <span style="color: white;">it was Gable that crashed those fairground gates as he would again in latter part of <em>Polly</em>. Metro liked their big-tops seedy --- was this to discourage circus attendance in favor of seeing more movies? All <em>Polly</em> needed was overlap with <em>Freaks</em>' cast membership to close the circle. Depression-era circusing was as desperate an enterprise as any struggling business, I suppose. Maybe movie folk identified with big-toppers in a final analysis. There's restraint of piety in <em>Polly</em>: customers weren't there to hear Gable preach to Davies, and being he's not bound by vow of chastity, there's pre-marital kiss-stuff with the pair in nightdress, proof of Christian folk heat-<span style="color: white;">seeking as do we all. Fun here like with all 30's Metro is seeing stars manipulated upon a chessboard&nbsp;of day-to-day studio play, wrong moves often the</span> most engaging ones.</span></span></span><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>