tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post7029109627239512333..comments2015-10-19T11:57:17.786+11:00Comments on The Golden Obsession: Be careful what you wish for, it may just come true.Nellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165718506507279698noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-25683176858445269882010-07-23T16:14:26.741+10:002010-07-23T16:14:26.741+10:00No, they talked about female emigrants to Australi...No, they talked about female emigrants to Australia on that radio program: They think it's swell and then they suffer, because they don't feel treated respectfully. But I don't believe what people tell about far away countries. Just to think what tall stories people tell about Jean. Humans are actually liars. The truth seems to bore most people, they like phony tales much better. But it's always a red rag to me, as Harry Cohn too:<br /><br /><a href="http://cinemalane.blogspot.com/2010/07/barbara-stanwyck-best-actress-never-to.html?showComment=1279641086449#c1354038319378936890" rel="nofollow">www.to-Zoe/phony-tales-we-all-read-about-Jean.xxs</a><br /><br />Actually I'm wasting my time. The phony tales are much easier than the truth and more entertaining. It's actually more entertaining to believe Jean was most capricious. So people hardly listen.<br /><br />Didn't you know Harry Cohn? He was the studio boss of Columbia Pictures. Great big Hollywood mogul. It seems he had chosen that job, because he was obsessed with beautiful girls. Idiot!Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391428399392889593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-23293407866750492672010-07-22T22:33:14.923+10:002010-07-22T22:33:14.923+10:00Hahaha or so my nan would like to pretend, yes. :P...Hahaha or so my nan would like to pretend, yes. :P <br /><br />Yay I'm glad your EeePC is repaired! Yes they were handsome, but still very creepy in the actual movie. <br /><br />Are you talking about men in todays generation or back then? Because I think the majority of society now is fairly equal, though I have to say sometimes it seems more men get more 'higher paid jobs' and they also get paid more then the average woman. So pay is not equal yet. But it's fairly equal as I said in other aspects, of course there are those who believe differently. We actually have just gotten our first female prime minister (granted it was though shady political backstabbings) but whatever. She is also much more popular then her opponent in the polls (who happens to be, sadly, a very egotistic and sexist male). <br /><br />When you phrase it like that it does seem swell; to think that we're close to the golden days *sighs* but still its a tad annoying :P Though it has to be said I live in a small country town so that may have something to do with it.<br /><br />Ooooh enemy number one, eh? Hehe sounds exciting/interesting.Nellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15165718506507279698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-44526242742242415952010-07-22T18:58:02.682+10:002010-07-22T18:58:02.682+10:00So when you were a baby, your nanny was just a lit...So when you were a baby, your nanny was just a little child - and she wore net-hats ... Nelly, you should definitely make a film about this!<br /><br />WOW, now that my EeePC is repaired, I can really see something! I didn't expect the people in your creepy story looking that handsome. Believe me: on my old whirlybird it looked most creepy ...<br /><br />On a radio program I heard Australian men were quite sexist. Is that actually true? I mean they tell a lot of tales about far away countries. To be years behind should actually be the swellest thing for a Goldenholic: your nearer to the golden days. ;)<br /><br />I don't know. I had added a few example from Jean's career. Then Zoe came over with a few things she had read and I had to explain. As you know me, I explained and explained and explained ... Besides it was about Cohn and Cohn is my public enemy number one. He's the red rag and I'm the bull.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391428399392889593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-70683600940584004332010-07-21T21:42:48.896+10:002010-07-21T21:42:48.896+10:00My nanny isn't that old- she keeps insisting t...My nanny isn't that old- she keeps insisting that she's 21 years old XDDD <br /><br />But I think she got the hats from HER mother or something like that. My great nana seemed to be very fond of net hats, in all the photos that exist of her, she is wearing one. <br /><br />But it wouldn't surprise me at all if Australia was still wearing them long after USA and UK and Europe stopped. We were often very behind in things, especially movies. Nowadays it's not so bad, a month at the maximum in regards to music, movies, etc. But I don't know about fashion, I know in cars we are certainly very much behind. <br /><br />I believe an actor is more then what they look like or at the very least they should be. You're right that audiences back then probably wouldn't have accepted Jean Arthur without any make up on, while on film. Today we see lots of actresses go on screen without make up and be praised in doing so, but I can't help but think, back then, in the 1930s-1940s, with the beautiful lighting, etc, how wonderful a actress or actor would have looked any way, regardless of whether they had piles of make up on.<br /><br />Hahah but long comments are great and I'm sure she loves them just as much! :DNellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15165718506507279698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-41485698995497124122010-07-21T17:05:34.205+10:002010-07-21T17:05:34.205+10:00Your nanny must have been very very old. I never s...Your nanny must have been very very old. I never saw a net hat in a 50s film. Or did they wear such hats longer in Australia, than the rest of the world?<br /><br />I sure stuck to my guns, but didn't that make me a bad team worker? Today I'm against imitating string and brass instruments with a synthesizer. Those synthetic strings can't make me cry.<br /><br />Now I think I was silly, not to realize that it's probably politeness, if you thank for a comment so most gushingly. ;)<br /><br />Nelly, those quite feminine faces don't really look beautiful with makeup. This may be a reason why some people adore transvestites - although I think those people overdo this kind of liking: It seems there is no other scene in the world where people are that much crazy about a thing.<br />Jean wanted to play Calamity Jane without any makeup in "The Plainsman". I would have liked that, but I'm afraid the masses wouldn't. They probably would've said: "Is this a boy ore a girl?"<br /><br />Please go on writing out your inner thoughts. You're not on duty here.<br /><br />It wasn't Carole Lombard, it was some other face. But the rest of my description of that ad was correct.<br /><br />Now Zoe gets quite long comments. I can't help it. It just happens.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391428399392889593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-51301215999928103752010-07-20T01:44:24.449+10:002010-07-20T01:44:24.449+10:00Perhaps I will take a photo of my newest outfit......Perhaps I will take a photo of my newest outfit... I was also thinking of posting some photos I took that have a 1920s- 1930s vibe to them. <br /><br />WOW at that 20s thing coming to your town! I wish Australia had awesome things like that! Ah yes a net hat. I am lucky, my nanny kept some of hers so I have one or two. They're very beautiful and I think that in black and white movies in particular they add a touch of mystique and elegance to the wearer. <br /><br />I think it's great that you stuck to your guns and did what you wanted with the movie you made with your friends.And it probably made that song sound better anyway. :P<br /><br />I was thinking of a short film anyway, a very short film, probably only 10-15 minutes long.<br /><br />I know that I will not always get a comment on a post from people- but that's okay. I understand different posts will attract different types of audiences; or none at all. And as I do not comment EVERY blog entry I read and admire, I think it would be hypocritical of me to expect anyone to comment mine all the time. Besides, to be honest I do entries in this blog first and foremost for my own enjoyment. No amount of comments (though appreciated vastly) will ever compare to that feeling of happiness and exhilaration I feel when I write out all the inner thoughts of my mind about a particular subject and hit 'post'. <br /><br />So I am content either way. :)<br /><br />About Carole Lombard-- I think, and I do not mean to be at all insulting here but I think like Katharine Hepburn she had a very, shall we say, masculine face. She was beautiful but at the same time she had this boyish air about her, no doubt because she was a tom boy. I think black and white softened her features and made her appear more feminine, whereas I think color only made more apparent her sometimes harsh features... <br /><br />By the way I looked at the link you provided me about one of your blog entries, the clothes look very beautiful I have to say my favorite is the gray-brown coat! It's beautiful! And I love the skirt as well...<br /><br />Heh, well I better stop typing before blogspot offers me a warning like yours. Silly blogspot, I really think it ought just to let us write however much we'd like- then again, knowing me I'd probably write a 10 page comment if I wasn't stopped :PNellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15165718506507279698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-37726085655450327062010-07-18T18:18:55.103+10:002010-07-18T18:18:55.103+10:00Nelly said...
I know what you mean, I have the cop...<b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I know what you mean, I have the copy of Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard, it is her only color film and I tell you I did not recognize her!</i><br />I saw a 30s' ad yesterday in that new book. I think it was Lombard, was it? They showed her face two times: black&white and colored. And below they wrote something like: "The next time you'll meet her, you'll recognize her." This, Nelly, was an ad to promote technicolor! And I just found her face much prettier in black&white. <br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I think black and white films enhanced the environment and actors, they made everything seem so beautiful, because everything had to be lighted in a precise manner, etc.</i><br />I love those colorful car-ads - you always see brownly grey/black/white cars in old films. In those ads you see bright colors: yellow, red, whatever you like. Cars look beautiful in technicolor, but women aren't cars. :(<br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I don't know if you have seen Schindler's List, but it is the only modern film that I have seen to successfully re-enact the techniques of the golden age of cinema. That film, though of course very very harrowing and depressing, was beautifully shot.</i><br />This film is just important. It's politically necessary. I'm a quite political mind, don't consider history sort of funny playground.<br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>Hmmmm. I may have to order that book.</i><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-American-Ads-30s-Midi-Spanish/dp/3822816205/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a" rel="nofollow">www.amazon.com/All-American-Ads-30s</a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-American-Ads-30s-Jim-Heimann/dp/3822816205" rel="nofollow">www.amazon.co.uk/All-American-Ads-30s</a><br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I am sorry I haven't responded to your last comment on my first post yet, I keep meaning to and then get distracted with RL -.- </i><br />Don't worry Nelly. You don't have to.<br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>But I will reply, I promise. :) Thanks for taking the time to read my long post again and taking the time to comment, as always, it is very much appreciated :D</i><br />Now I'm afraid you might suffer, if you don't get a comment. There are many bloggers who never get a comment, because nobody cares for their stuff. And they're blogging and blogging - it seems they don't ask for comments. I wonder a bit about Renata. It seems she never answers comments on her blog: She just goes over to my blog and answers there (and all my followers don't know what we're talking about). I always like to dive into the discussion about my own issues. I find it most interesting. I even learn something myself. Desarae really changed my mind - I should tell her someday ...<br /><br />But Nelly, I'm used to read long text. I always kind of 'scan' over texts and skip "horror" or "sex and crime" automatically. But I stop scaning as soon as I realize aspects I'm interested in. I couldn't write anything about Cinderella - it's just a fairytale my mother once told me ... later I was kind of Cinderella myself.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391428399392889593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-57895270683546992132010-07-18T17:55:07.301+10:002010-07-18T17:55:07.301+10:00Nelly said...
I actually recently bought a modern-...<b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I actually recently bought a modern-esque 1930 dress with a cute sweater, I love it and have been wearing it everywhere. XD</i><br />Nelly, WOW! This could be another issue - you could photograph that dress in sephia-black&white and then in color again. That'd be interesting ...<br /><br />These are 'normal' 1990' and 2000s' clothes, but after realizing how much they look 30s-like I stopped wearing them daily. But I wore them on my last jam-session and I used plenty of curlers ... - I guess most movie-bloggers don't find these clothes too hot, because they prefer fancy dresses with spangles and so, but my taste is different: I like street clothes of the 30s. I just wanna dive into the daily routine of the golden days.<br /><a href="http://strings-and-trumpets.blogspot.com/2010/04/swell-bargain-hunting.html" rel="nofollow">www.swell-bagain-hunting</a><br /><br />In August there'll be kind of living 20s in my town, and there will be sellers too on a market. They have 30s clothes too, I heard there'll be even a lady who makes hats! Well, I need a net-hat deperately!! Actually I had planed to spare some money this summer, but im 'afraid' I won't ... :)<br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I would love to see such a comedy!! I would probably be the first in line at my local cinema if you did release such a film :)</i><br />I think you shouldn't just watch. I hate watching and listening, I wanna be active myself. Well, I certainly love to watch my idols, but I hardly listen to live-bands - I'm just waiting for the next jam-session ...<br /><br /><b>Nelly said...</b><br /><i>I have often thought about making a silent film, a real silent film. Perhaps I shall one day and put it on youtube.</i><br />You can always make short films. Otherwise the work might eat you - above all your time. It's always nice to make a film with friends. But maybe they won't be your friends any longer after a 1hour-film project, because you had fuss with them all the time, because they just had different ideas about making a film ...<br />For example I had to sing Lilly Marlene in our big movie. They filmed me outdoors singing at night with an old street lamp. Well, I don't like that song very much, so I twisted it around: I complicated the chords and put a great big Hollywood orchestra under my voice. That way I liked it, but all the Lilly-fans were just horrified. Our director was too, but I answered: "I can't do that flat stuff!" Well, he isn't a friend any more. :D<br /><br /><b>blogspot said...</b><br /><i>! Your HTML cannot be accepted: Must be at most 4,096 characters</i><br />*sight* - just another post ...Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391428399392889593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-655885950541236902010-07-18T14:35:45.076+10:002010-07-18T14:35:45.076+10:00Oh I know what you mean I absolutely adore sephia ...Oh I know what you mean I absolutely adore sephia as well, I often make my photos in a sephia tone too, I think this was influenced by Wizard Of Oz... I have a really good photo editing program called GIMP, and there are a different range of effects one can use to make it appear from a time long ago... <br /><br />Actually sound and color have existed all along, it was just very expensive to implement such things into movies and the general public was seemingly pleased enough with the new moving images that had plaque cards, that the company's just kept at it, as it where. <br /><br />I know that there are a few technicolor silent films out there, that were made long before this movie. And also Don Juan that was made in 1926 was the first of it's kind to use sychronized music... Of course there are also the cartoon shorts from then, and the Disney movies, so color and sound has always been around, it just wasn't used as much. <br /><br />I think that what astounded me about the color in this movie was because it went from black and white, then suddenly to color, then back again.And it was not at all distracting, it was very effective, but not at all distracting. <br /><br />That to me is simply wonderful. Hehe.<br /><br />I LOVE 1930s fashion, and I think that they are as you say still so very modern. I also love the early 1940s fashion, the smart suits, the beautiful hair... *sigh* <br /><br />I actually recently bought a modern-esque 1930 dress with a cute sweater, I love it and have been wearing it everywhere. XD<br /><br />I would love to see such a comedy!! I would probably be the first in line at my local cinema if you did release such a film :)<br /><br />I have often thought about making a silent film, a real silent film. Perhaps I shall one day and put it on youtube.<br /><br />I know what you mean, I have the copy of Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard, it is her only color film and I tell you I did not recognize her! <br /><br />I think black and white films enhanced the environment and actors, they made everything seem so beautiful, because everything had to be lighted in a precise manner, etc.<br /><br />I don't know if you have seen Schindler's List, but it is the only modern film that I have seen to successfully re-enact the techniques of the golden age of cinema. That film, though of course very very harrowing and depressing, was beautifully shot. <br /><br />Ooooh Busby Berkeley restored, I can only imagine how wonderful that would be!! I find it incredibly cool that you know a bit about sound engineering. <br /><br />Hmmmm. I may have to order that book. <br /><br />I am sorry I haven't responded to your last comment on my first post yet, I keep meaning to and then get distracted with RL -.- <br /><br />But I will reply, I promise. :) Thanks for taking the time to read my long post again and taking the time to comment, as always, it is very much appreciated :DNellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15165718506507279698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4634423805037927156.post-91217181274513804042010-07-18T05:15:08.884+10:002010-07-18T05:15:08.884+10:00I heard they had Technicolor long before "Gon...I heard they had Technicolor long before "Gone With the Wind" in the 30s, but they hardly used it, because too expensive. Whatever, I like black&white much more anyway: I look prettier in black&white myself, so why should I present my rather pale skin? And I do film in black&white, even with a brownly sephia-touch (my little sony-camera can do that nicely). When I saw Ginger the first time in "The Barkleys of Broadway", I was confused: "Heavens, that can't be Ginger!" It took me weeks until I was able to see a resemblance to my 30s Ginger. I rather see her in black&white..<br /><br />Yes, Warner Bros. does enhance the sound of classic films. I was excited when I heard the sound of "The Gold Diggers of 1933" - my very first Busby Berkeley DVD. I never heard the sound of an old 30s film so brilliantly. - Well, I know a little about sound engineering, had been working with a guy who had a studio years ago. Nowadays the possibilities are even greater.<br /><br />Today the mailman brought me the book "All-American Ads", C.K. Dexter Haven is talking about these days: There one can see how colorful the 30s have been. Partly the fashion looks absolutely modern too me. We have 30s fashion anyway in boutiques of the 2000s - you can also find pieces in department stores, that look like 30s' fashion.<br /><br />Maybe I will make a little comedy in black&white one day. The sound certainly must be very good, but the pictures please in black&white, with a sephia-touch. (;Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391428399392889593noreply@blogger.com