What Made John Garfield a Sex Symbol?
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Essay and Narration by Cheryl Chapman Video by Mark Laurila
When New York Group Theatre actor John Garfield made his movie debut in 1938 opposite Priscilla Lane, he became a sex symbol overnight when female audiences fell in love with his character, Mickey Borden. In his first film, Four Daughters directed by Michael Curtiz, the Mickey Borden character became a template for similar romantic outsider roles that Warner Bros. created to appeal to Garfield's female fans.
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My grandmother often told the story of seeing Four Daughters with her friends as a teen. Garfield walked into that house and that was it. The girls all went crazy for him and Hollywood was never the same.
John Garfield was James Dean before James Dean
Mickey Rourke, too.
Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro years later.
He was absolutely gorgeous xxx
He had that air of "wrong side of the tracks" which added to his allure. He and Priscilla Lane are terrific together in "Four Daughters", his breakthrough, where her character falls hard for the "wrong" type of guy. Every note rings true.
Garfield was a natural!
Thank you for posting this. I will share your link.
Beautiful Actor. Beautiful Guy.
"The Originator" 🙌
Finally, a critique that doesn’t paint the female lead as a hapless victim but instead as a living breathing human being with agency. Well done!
John Garfield was and is a superior actor!
The inner strength of Hollywood's lady stars- from Garbo to Stanwyck- is reflected in the powerfully independent personae they projected. They fought the moguls for respect. Even Alice Faye and Betty Grable had that core of determination. They liked men but did not hang on them.
Women, the drivers of the box office in the first 20 years of talkies, appreciated that kind of practical feminism. Their role models, such as Davis, Crawford or K Hepburn, or more ladylike ones such as Irene Dunne or Greer Garson, always ran their show, with men such as Robert Taylor or Herbert Marshall as their cavaliers.
Strangely it was after many American women had experienced autonomy in WW2 that a male backlash began. Lady moviegoers stayed home minding their Boomer brats and adolescent males became the target audience for the shrinking theatrical exhibition trade, as they have been ever since. Production spiraled down through violent, sex-ridden schlock to today's vacuous comic book fantasies.
In the first phase of this narrowing of taste, women on screen increasingly became wriggling sexpots such as Jane Russell and Monroe, fashion-plate child-women such as Audrey Hepburn, neurotic divas such as Garland or, later, characterless bed fodder in Swinging Sixties stuff about 'chicks'. The heroines of the Golden Age had to play post-menopausal witches and maniacs, while their successors, serious actresses such as Anne Bancroft and Joanne Woodford, were not 'bankable'.
In the 1930s there was only one (lesbian) woman director in Hollywood and no senior female execs. Yet on screen ladies ruled much more of the roost than in 2022's post-MeToo, tickbox quota atmosphere. Today's women's pictures which insert feminine stars into male setups, such as the 'Ghostbusters' remake, convince neither sex. But the most popular movie ever, 'Gone with the Wind', was first and foremost a 'chick flick' of the old school.
Essay very well written. More, please!
They don't make them like this anymore.
He was handsome a brilliant actor who they placed with beautiful actresses
just try watching the awful 80' s remake the postman always rings twice
after seeing the original
The Original!
Love these two together. Magic!
Omg how gorgeous is John garfield ❤xxx❤❤
I think it was his demeanor...
Thanks so much for making this video. Mickey has been muh dude (and subsequently johnny) since I first saw fkur daughters 25 years ago