Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

In celebration of Olivia deHavilland's birthday, I watched 'Gone With the Wind' last night. And Mammy steals each and every scene she's in...
"It ain't fittin'. It ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin'! ...It ain't fittin'."

I caught big bleeding chunks of this on Saturday night (it was a TCM "Essential") I agree with you whole-heartedly on your commentary on Hattie McDaniel, she was simply marvelous in every scene. Richly deserved her Academy Award.

Ernie Haller gets the real props on this film for me, it was stunningly photographed. I need to see this in the theater again sometime, it really needs a big screen.

True to form, on Olivia's birthday on Saturday, I enjoyed Adventures of Robin Hood. Pure fluff, but one of the best of the adventure/swashbuckler films of that or any period if you ask me. Flynn was never more handsome, deHavilland never more lovely, Rathbone and Rains, never more evil. Lots of good sword fighting, loads of lovely scenary all in glorious technicolor. Sadly the parkland in Pasadena they filmed in, plowed over now.