I currently run two podcasts, Citizen Dame and Ticklish Business. The major problem was with the advance hype the movie generated, a phenomenon that has never been matched. As a result, many people were just waiting for a chance to pounce on it, eager to denounce it as a flop, regardless of how it turned out. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. It even earned a condemning editorial in the Vatican newspaper (although not, as sometimes reported, by the Pope himself). As a result, … This movie didn’t need Laurence Olivier. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. (I incorrectly listed this as the next episode last week.

The film’s on quite a bit on the Fox Movie Channel (now FXM), so if it’s available give it a look.

Raised in 1844 Greenwich, Connecticut by her strait-laced low church parents, Ephraim (Walter Huston) and Abigail (Anne Revere), Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) is a farm girl who often daydreams of a more romantic and luxurious life outside the farm. I've been featured in the L.A. Times.

( Log Out /  Interested in purchasing today’s film? The movie was literally years in the making, for most of which time you couldn’t pass a magazine rack without seeing at least a half-dozen publications with Liz and Burton on the cover. Price tries conveying the smooth, slightly malevolent character, but it works better in the climax where he goes completely off-the-rails and channels his later Hammer horror work.

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( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. ), There are many versions of A Star is Born but the Ticklish Trio are discussing the best version (don't yell at us!) A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion. The biggest one involves Nicholas’ role as a “patroon,” holding the land various farmers work on, but there’s no pay-off. So why is it thought of by many as a flop? Rebecca Oleander Aliens movie, (1946) Dragonwyck ... Fisher) during the filmmaking process made headlines and marked the true birth of the paparazzi in Italy, where it was filmed. Miranda manages to convince her parents to let her go to Nicholas's estate of Dragonwyck manor as c… You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Sure, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Dragonwyck tries to keep things moving, but with so little originality the whole movie is one big game of Mad Libs. If you use the handy link below a small portion is donated to this site! Mason joins us to talk about his famous grandfather, the role that put him opposite Judy, and what James Mason famously said […], Summer Under the Stars Blogathon: Day 1 – Gene Tierney |, César Franck: Les Djinns (2nd Vs)/Dragonwyck | Frank T. Zumbachs Mysterious World, The Woman in White (1948) | Journeys in Classic Film, The Spiral Staircase (1946) – Journeys in Classic Film, Gaslight (1944) – Journeys in Classic Film, #96: Interview With Actress Carroll Baker, #94: Marlene Dietrich, Grand Dame of Moviedom, https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

The film was parodied on prime-time television even before it opened.

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In the latter two films, Price was definitely at the mercy of Tierney’s characters; Leave Her to Heaven has Tierney’s Ellen toying with Price’s character, while Tierney’s Laura and Price’s Shelby were equals but it was apparent they didn’t belong together.

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Like with Forever Amber, it’s hard seeing Gene Tierney play an average Connecticut girl coming up against the wealthy elite. When it opened in the original reserved-seat roadshow run, it was sold out for four solid months. Instead, the movie is a costume romance with shades of a mystery/thriller at the edge and packed with every literary cliche you could imagine. One scene has Miranda sparring against a bunch of rich women at a party where she’s seen as the charming country cousin who people don’t associate with. If you’ve sat and enjoyed Rebecca, Jane Eyre, or Wuthering Heights than Dragonwyck has a lot of merit with its sumptuous costumes and sets inhabited by a decadent Gene Tierney and Vincent Price. Contrary to popular belief, it did NOT lose money, even though it was the most expensive film made up to that time (and, if you adjust for inflation, of all time). Dragonwyck DVD (1946) Walter Huston, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price. The second half of the film, after the death of Johanna, starts imitating The Woman in White and Rebecca, the latter of which audiences had to have known since Hitchcock directed it six years earlier. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Nicholas fosters an obsessive desire for a son – Henry VIII in the 1800s – and Miranda’s almost Jane Seymour (Henry’s Queen, not the actress) tries and fails.

Actress Carroll Baker talks about her time in Hollywood, working with the legendary Elia Kazan on Baby Doll, and more. The remaining plot lines are both there to pack the runtime – a long-feeling hour and forty-three minutes – and create additional conflicts. Find out more about Carroll's latest book here. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out / 

Miranda Wells (Tierney) is a simple Connecticut farm girl invited to stay at the legendary Dragonwyck estate with her cousin, Nicholas Van Ryn (Price). The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won four. I went to see it four times during its first run, and e. This entry was posted on February 24, 2009 at 6:12 am and is filed under 1. This plays a lot on FXM (formerly Fox Movie Channel) here in the States, and I’m curious on how much Fox content TCM owns because of that. It is reported that Mankeiwicz wanted to edit it as two three-hour films, but that Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck would not permit it, resulting in a film that ran slightly over four hours–for a few weeks, at least.

I’ve been wanting to see this movie now for, like, four years but I can never find it! Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). A freelance film critic whose work fuels the Rotten Tomatoes meter.

Miranda gets her opportunity when her mother receives a letter from their distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), a wealthy patroon in Hudson, New York.

Upon entering the house, Miranda realizes Nicholas and his wife Johanna (Vivienne Osborne) don’t have quite the marriage she assumed.

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The murder angle sets the plot in motion, even if it takes awhile for any pay-off or fear for Miranda’s life to be established.

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This was the third pairing of Tierney and Price after the one-two punch of Laura and Leave Her to Heaven.

It even earned a condemning editorial in the Vatican newspaper (although not, as sometimes reported, by the Pope himself). They’re one of the more forgotten on-screen duos and their chemistry is different than any other duos. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

The film was parodied on prime-time television even before it opened.

Sorry ladies, but if you look like Gene Tierney everyone should be your best friend! I've been published on The Hollywood Reporter, Remezcla, and The Daily Beast.

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