Peacock Alley (1930) PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Stars: Mae Murray, George Barraud, Jason Robards Sr.
Director: Marcel De Sano
A beautiful cabaret singer is having an affair with millionaire. One night at a posh hotel, the house detective bursts in on the lovers declaring he has evidence that she is a prostitute, and that they must vacate immediately!
I love her face in all those wonderful photos taken of her during the silent days, and before, as a Ziegfeld girl. I give her credit for trying to sustain her career, tackling what was, essentially, an entirely new medium. She was in her mid-forties, and we're still not kind to women for committing the sin of not looking 25 for the rest of their lives. Her eyes still sparkled here, and I hope they continued to do so, until the end. Here's to you, Miss Murray.
Mae Murray was a very unique woman and her interview thirty years later brought me here 💝
Married and divorced four (4) times.
The storyline cracks me up; she gets confused for a Hooker, and her Husband doesn't believe she isn't. Mae? She has a charm that projects over her acting, and makes her Immortal.
Love the chance to see Mae Murray in anything.
Films like this allow us ans future generations to see a glimpse of what was on the minds of the past. Maybe evennsee it's not so different...~history stays the same.its just new people learning about it someone said in so many words. Pre-Codes are the best thanks for sharing it!
This was Jason Robards Sr. (1892-1963), father the son with the same name FYI
The pre code movies were so daring back then and bold that it actually enhanced the storyline and interest. I rate this movie a 9.
❤️ 😍 LOVE Pre-Code 🎥 Films!!
Mae is drop dead gorgeous in that Bolero hat.
This was,without a doubt,quite a different type of movie,nearly so" unrealistic" in the beginning& yet toward the end of the movie,it" became quite believable!" I thought the acting improved as the movie progressed. Thank you for showing it!!
Very early "talkie," they were still learning their craft.
Great film. Prosecutors and detectives haven’t changed in 90+ years.
Sweet little gem of a movie. Thanx. Lovely ending, too.💃
90 years ago this astonishing film nailed the issues plaguing modern marriage and ought to be required reading today for any pre-marriage counselees.
It certainly was a candid and forthright portrayal of some sensitive issues.
Mae Murry was about the cutest little trick on the West Coast.
Simply delightful story.
Interesting movie. Thanks for sharing.
This film shows me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Cheaters will justify it no matter what! I can't be the only one who felt bad for the husband.
I feel bad for both of them. I'm reminded of Mary McGregor's song Torn Between Two Lovers ruclips.net/video/nbn094h1vi8/видео.html Though in the end, she's the one who gets what she really wants.
Worth watching. It does a decent job of showing the east coast/heartland divide. Also, of course, how appearances can be deceiving and communication thorny. One possible puzzle: if Claire had visited Stoddard in his suite on previous occasions, why did the hotel detective not recognize her?
@Nuclear Christian bravo , I say again bravo
@@cartermcafee568 eh?
🎠My Answer: She visited him somewhere else? The hotel employee said that he had just come to stay there fir a while.
@@robkunkel8833 You are right. I watched it again. He'd only been at the hotel for 8 weeks, but they had last seen each other three months before. Thanks for replying.
A very good film. Got a little draggy for a short time and I was SO happy when the "husband" finally got smacked!
Mae was definitely a wee bit too old, by about twenty years to play that part, but she still did a dandy job. I really enjoyed the movie.
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Your right Ms. Murray was a wee bit too old for that part but like you, I enjoyed the movie!
Too bad the studio didn't help their silent stars make a better transition, Mae could 'speak', but this part wasn't right, the dialog was bad. ....it was a shame so many silent talents weren't
given careful consideration like Garbo had from studio. They took every effort to assure her successful move to 'talkies'.
This is my first time seeing Mae with sound, it's great! But she made her last film the following year. She does look fabulous in these late 20s fashions, her hair could be better! Imo
I think she was great ...darling .no matter her age st the time....look at Jean JeanArther Mae West ...Marlene Dietrich all played " younger women when a little older ...I think it's grand....great movie .... Goes 2 show a woman just can't win" ......glad for the ending ...I'm from Texas but I liked the first man BETTER...
She wrongs him by going to her former flame's apartment on the eve of her wedding, hoping the news of her wedding will persuade her former flame to marry her, and you are happy when she slaps her husband? Pathetic.
I do love MaeMurray movies !!
l'd love to see the dresses in colour it would be amazing love these old movies TFS
MAE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.PRETTY GOOD 👍 🤧 ACTRESS TOO.
Mae looks terrific and can pull off 35. She always held her head high to avoid neck wrinkles. The bee stung lips were her trademark. ❤
Nailed it!
Nothing new under the sun!
The issues remain the same for eternity.
And there are no Bibles in New York! LOL!
In the early 1960s I was din 6:43 ing out in a restaurant with a friend. I looked across the room and said that's me Murray sitting over there at that table and it did it was. She was quite on in years but she was still blonde and she still had the cupid bow lips and she was dinning with a gentleman that I recognized from old movies but I never did find out who he was. I wish I had gotten up and gone over and tell her how much I enjoyed her films I'm sure she would have loved it but I was young and shy and I didn't do it I regret it to this day. It's funny you could tell she was a star even then she must have been in her 70s but she still looks like a star as indeed I believe she was.
Better than I expected. Very low budget, bad camera work. Mae could have transitioned to talkies with the right roles.
Yes she could have. That's the tragedy. When she walked out of her contract at MGM in 1926 on the advise of her husband, a fortune hunter, Louis B. Mayer was so enraged that he unofficially blacklisted her in the industry so she wouldn't be hired at other studios. Only RKO took her in for two films. They weren't afraid of Mayer
What's bad about the camera work? And do you know what a 1930 "sound camera" looked like?
That's because the camera work became a little bad with the transition to sound with the emphasis on sound recording film, Happy Librarian. In silent films, the cinematography was exquisite
The camera, being powered by an electric motor (unlike the hand-cranked silent-era models) required, at first, a sound-proof booth. By this time, late 1929, some units had fiber gears, or were wrapped in thick insulated parkas.
Thanks for uploading this. Very old fashioned acting but what do you expect?? Anyway I love Mae Murray. Everything you could want from a silent movie diva. Totally artificial acting; astounding makeup; the works. I wish I lived during that time.
1930 wasn't much fun. There was this Depression, ya see …
@@auletjohnast03638 I don't see her makeup being horrible. It was standard for black and white film. Her eyes are beautiful, her mouth was her trademark, look at that cupid bow! Her lips are accented but not with 20lb of lip stick!
Imo, nothing is worse than 2020 huge fake painted on brows, heavy contouring and thick outlined exaggerated lips! I prefer the natural looks of the 1910s or the late 60s early 70s return to a more natural look. Then watch out big hair and neon makeup!
Easy to spot the decade by the hair and makeup!
A woman like that could ruin my life,bless her.
Mae Murray was born in 1885 making her 45 years old in this picture
I love trivia such as this! ")
Yes. She's looking middle-aged...double chinned and jawline not so firm.
The stilted dialog is what's wrong...delivered in that fake posh accent.
Mae had such gorgeous blue eyes and her famous bee sting pout made her unique. Her voice sounds like young Lana Turner. Close your eyes and listen..its that breathless little girl voice that Lana used in her early movies
I ended up quite enjoying this movie.
Me too...what a waste of time.
Oh... my... still applies Today
Aloha, thanks for shsring.
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you/
Sounds like bacon sizzling throughout the film!
Sound was a decade or more behind visual for quite a while ....Oz & GWTW brought sought up several notches.
Well ... we're lucky to have it is like 90 years old ...just be grateful ..🦋
@@karenhill3970, to think that 90 years earlier than that Queen Victoria was marrying her cousin Prince Albert. That's one of the jabs the movie took at marriage when referencing what was by then an old-fashioned Victorian value.
1/4 the way through and it's not going anywhere. If you disagree with someone on something so basic as marriage, you need to walk away.
Marriage is ANYTHING but basic ....it's Sacred.....🦋
@@karenhill3970
Did I say that marriage is not sacred?
If God made marriage to be the avenue for human reproduction to occur within, it should be obvious that marriage is one of the most essential, most foundational, most BASIC, contracts there are.
If two people don't see eye to eye on what marriage requires they don't have a chance of being a stable team.
Most people who do NOT believe that it is sacred, have ideas about it that are flawed and lead directly to problems.
Overlook the downfalls of the film ..because the story was original.The house detective stole the show. ....Ms.Right🌷
This is a riot. Bad enough in Bachelor Apartment (Lowell Sherman); but this !
A curio... Jason Robards, Sr looks so much like Jason Robards, Jr. Didn't know the father was an actor too....
He was the reason Jason, Jr was exposed to the theater. He was in numerous movies, but usually listed 4th to 6th on the cast listings.
Those days and now present circumstances the people behaviour is as same.
Thanks.
The volume is too low.
She looks like Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot! LOL
Oh that was cruel but way too funny no less! 🙈
9:22 is that a radio or phonograph?
Anybody have an idea of the make or model?
@The Barbarian Infidel
Good point.
Sadly- this has lost the `two-strip Technicolor` sequence that originally appeared about 7 minutes before the end of the film. It was only about three minutes in length, but it seems that no print of this film carries it.
To correct myself- the `colour` sequence appeared about 5 minutes before film ends. This is why Mae is suddenly dressed as a Toreador when she comes through the door. Her `act` which was in early 2 strip Technicolor is missing.
@@alansmith1989those damn silver nitrate strips just couldn’t stand the test of time. The older 16mm silent movie films lasted better than them as it wasn’t a nitrate base. Many historical films are missing parts due to its use.
Was that a pre-earjob Der Bingle singing on the far right (unintended) at about 4:54? Credits and IMDb don't confirm or deny, the new American Way.
That is The Biltmore Trio who fronted Bert Lown's Biltmore Orchestra in L.A. They also appear in "The Broadway Melody" & "Party Girl" & on records..Crosby was still with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys & makes his solo appeteance later in December 1930 in "Reaching For The Moon" .
This lady runs a mean con game.
She reminds me of some of those female con artists I've dated.
Maybe its me but these pre-code movies were better than those later movies that were all 'hearts and flowers' whereas the pre-code movies showed life in the raw. Once censorship was in fake romanticism took over and redefined America's concept of 'love.'
Jason Robards' father.
GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mae Murray, whose career flourished during the silent movie era, here in this early talkie, was 41 years old. Past her prime and showing it. What really stopped her advance into talking movies, however, was her speaking voice which wasn’t suited to sound films. As evidenced here, it’s thin and reedy. Her general acting style too was dated. Relying too much on the facial and body mannerisms necessary in silent movie acting but out of place when conversational dialogue furthered the story. Also featured here is actor Jason Robards whose son Jason Robards Jr. became an actor and the second husband of Lauren Ball after the death of Humphrey Bogart.
Jason Robards, Jr. was at his BEST in "Once Upon A Time In The West"
Very interesting I Thought her husband looked familiar.wow ! Jason Robards Dad !! .......I thought she was very sweet & wonderful in this movie ..no matter .. lovely feminine voice ...very sweet & sensitive actress.....🦋
It was Just barely over a year since SILENT movies gave way to talkies....gosh give em a chance to transition!!....I think Mae did great
Interesting
Missing a reel (of which was to be in color). Anyone know if the full version exists for viewing?
What does Pre Code Hollywood mean?
It means that films made between 1928-34 could be a little "seedier" and "naughty": to me, they are just fantastic. In 1935, a new code was applied and movies were quite "white-washed" thereafter = until the 60's, that is.
When the CODE was enacted, women had to wear brazierres under their see-thru blouses.
Thank you for answering
Those two Texans have the oddest accents! Did they come across the border?
This guy WAS born yesterday. (LOL!)
I miss how things should b
12:46 : Mae Murray actually misspoke her lines, here, regardless of whether or not she was
following the script verbatim. 'Cause Clayton (Gerorge Berraud) only mentioned 2 examples;
"a few" is 3 or more. So, she should have said: "Aren't you choosing a couple of unfortunate
examples?" Besides, "a couple," in this case, would be seen as an abbreviated reference to
"a married couple."
The writers and director instruct her of what words to speak, emphasis, loudness, slowly utter...or machine gun the words.
Good Lord...did *anyone* involved in this movie happen to notice that Mae Murray was at least 20 years too old for the part?
she was still so hot
She was too old, had a horrible figure and a big chin problem, not to mention the bad hair and tons of makeup! Couldn't watch after she tried to convince the younger man marriage was a good idea... Thanks for upload anyway.
she was 45
Oh was was the chin problem?
Rescuepetsrule don’t be such an asshole
I loved it. I think Mae Clark was great in this. Her character was self-confident, grounded and had experienced enough to know what she did not want.
I can't imagine someone like Ginger Rogers (see Ginger in Young Man of Manhattan (1930) ruclips.net/video/i0EV2X6osa0/видео.html for comparison) being able to paint into all the corners of this character, like Mae did.
Mae MURRAY
messed up @ 30:40 her eyes are in the back of her head.
terrible indeed.
and again in the final scene. wow! 😂
i watched this out of curiosity because it was a very early talkie. terrible acting, terrible scripting. i suppose people went to see this movie out of curiosity. the early scene where the guy talks to the girl what seems forever trying to convince her to be his mistress was a perfect example of playing to the novelty of movies with sound that was not just music.
No spring chicken's one thing but this is stretching things too far.
Egad! Talk about a tired woman!
With Mae Murray or not, this is a real turkey.😊
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Mae Murray had had extensive plastic surgery by this point in her flagging career, and her body squeezed with girdles into a more 'girlish' shape. She couldn't act, her silent career was based on hair pulling, looking woeful and breathing hard, which was okay for silent film, but she'd had to make some changes to her 'talents' for sound films. By 1930 she was approaching Has-Been territory but her name still sold tickets. Throughout the 1920's she was remarkably popular and a golden goose for MGM, AND was one expensive star to have on the books: MGM spent 1,000's upon 1,000's of $$ catering to her whims. Her 4th husband, "Prince" Midivani, effectively sent her on a straight course to poverty, loss and humiliation. The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips became the old and broke silent film star doing stage work in rented dresses by the 1940's. She was spending her nights on a park bench and drinking herself into oblivion. No mansion to wonder about in in her twilight years for her, poor absurd creature.
To call her a poor, absurd creature is just mean. I hope you wind up sleeping on a bench.
Weak plot. Clumsy dialogue. Wooden acting. *But I really enjoyed the interior scenes in that hotel. 1930's movies have a special charm lost in the years to come.
it is amazing what were the beauty standards then, or maybe this was just a bad example of female characters. I saw many other women acttresses of that era and they were stunning, like really beautiful and sweet, dolls face with enchanting features, even though the make up was so heavy at that time. This woman though looks like she seems much older than the male characters and a bit too trashy, somehow like Jean Harlow, who at least had an appealing body, but older and uglier. Those lips though ... and the whole makeup, her fat double chin, were so ugly to me or maybe just looked bad on her. PS edited - i see in one of the previous comments that the actress was in her mid forties, which then makes sense for how she looked, but then, why did they choose her to play with younger men at that time? perhaps she was very famous, although i have never heard of her.
Totally ridiculous! It would be ever so nice to call for a rewrite of it were not for the wee bit problem of it being the year 2020!
Charming in a quite pathetic sort of a way!
Personally I would have dumped both thier sorry asses! ")
AungAung
The gowns were gorgeous back then but the older women should have kept their arms & backs covered at all costs!
Bodyshaming, yawn.
SuzieQ Wonder
Why?
If I was around then, I would have welcomed her "climbing on". Being critical NINETY TWO YEARS later is a clear sign of "problems"
within some people
12:59, 26:35, 39:51, 53:05
..HIKE !!
So badly acted,awful,
A 1930 movie still emitting a 1920s Flapper vibe. Women's skirts still shorter than the longer length they would become in the 1930s. And yes, as other people have commented, Mae Murray looks aged and worn, past her prime, not the kind of woman men would lust after.
Ha! Guess what Rosey, men lust after women whatever their age. I'm 55 & nothing special, still getting hit on by younger men I wouldn't dream of approaching. Mostly because I've been through the wringer and am done w/ all that, I hope.
My grandma found a boyfriend in the nursing home in her 80's & a nurse there told me they bust the residents having sex frequently. Nature will out tho' people like to think they're civilized beyond it. That is impossible.
@@hensonlaura sure enough, the 1930s a decade that’s several generations and 80 plus years removed from the year 2022, a new century and new millennium. It’s a whole different world today.
Yes & we need to go BACK to some of these lovely values of these times.......🦋all these nasty little comments about Mae Murray ...so sickening....
The good looking blond is anything but!
I realize they had to wear a lot of makeup then for filming, but her Cupid’s bow is dreadful ~