Here’s the film trailer for That Hamilton Woman! It will be included on the soon-to-be released Criterion DVD.
Thanks to Jackie for sending me the link.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nePXfEF0omQ]
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July2nd
That Hamilton Woman Trailer
Posted in: dvd, video
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June23rd
Gone With The Wind star confirms one of Hollywood's most talked-about romances
Posted in: current news, olivia de havilland
The lovely Olivia de Havilland is in the news. Read the article below:
Written by Ben Leach for the Telegraph
For the first time – at the age of 92 – Miss de Havilland has confirmed they had a relationship, but one that was not fully consummated.
The double Oscar winner starred with Flynn in his breakthrough film, Captain Blood, in 1935, and seven others, including The Charge Of The Light Brigade in 1936 and The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938.
Despite Miss de Havilland’s earlier denials, decades of speculation suggested she and Flynn had had an affair, due in part to his reputation as a notorious womaniser.
Now she has admitted: “We were very attracted to each other. In his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, he wrote about falling in love with me.
“Yes, we did fall in love and I believe that this is evident in the screen chemistry between us. But his circumstances at the time [Flynn was married to Lili Damita, an actress five years his senior when he met Miss de Havilland] prevented the relationship going further.
“I have not talked about it a great deal but the relationship was not consummated. Chemistry was there though. It was there.”
Miss de Havilland made her comments about Flynn when questioned by Royal Society of Chemistry researchers investigating on-screen chemistry.
Flynn died of a heart attack aged 50 in 1959. He had become stereotyped for swashbuckling roles involving lots of sword fights.
He starred in The Sea Hawk in 1940 and Adventures of Don Juan in 1948 but by the 1950s had succumbed to heavy alcohol and drug abuse.
Miss de Havilland, who won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own in 1946 and The Heiress in 1949, is the last living star of Gone With The Wind from 1939 in which she played Melanie Hamilton Wilkes.
In 1946, she married Marcus Goodrich, a novelist with whom she had a son. They divorced in 1953 and she married Paris Match editor Pierre Galante. After having a daughter they divorced in 1979.
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June14th
WCLV interview with Ann Rutherford on April 20, 2009. She discusses everything from David Selznick, Gone with the Wind, and Laurence Olivier.
click this link: http://cuesheets.wclv.com/Public_Specials/Interviews/arutherford.mp3
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June14th
"Gone with the Wind' actress at KSU Ann Rutherford played Careen O'Hara in famous movie
Posted in: Gone with the Wind, the book, Gone with the Wind, the film, gone with the wind
By Colin McEwen
May 1, 2009
Record-Courier staff writer
Legendary film star Ann Rutherford shared memories, thoughts and stories about the “Golden Age” of Hollywood with an eager crowd at Kent State University on Thursday.
The 88-year-old actress starred in many films in the 1930s and the 1940s, but perhaps her most famous role was as Careen O’Hara in the silver screen classic, “Gone with the Wind.”
“I fell in love with the book, but I never imagined I’d be in the film,” she said. “I think I got the job by a hair.”
The more than 150 people in attendance in the packed Murphy Auditorium in Rockwell Hall watched a 15-minute video of her many roles — right alongside one of Hollywood’s legends.
Christopher Sullivan, of the Gone with the Wind Museum in Georgia, moderated the discussion with Rutherford, asking her questions about roles and the people she starred with.
“It’s been an interesting life and I’ve enjoyed every moment of it,” she said.
Rutherford said Clark Gable was “gorgeous,” well liked by the crew, and was known to play cards on the set; John Wayne was a giant gentleman, who was “all-guy;” and Judy Garland was one of the most talented singers and actresses Rutherford said she has ever known.
And, with her credentials, she has known quite a few.
The Canadian-born Rutherford appeared as Polly Benedict in the Andy Hardy film series as well as in numerous Westerns.
But her favorite role — with the most success — was almost certainly “Gone with the Wind,” a film that was also a crowd favorite, Rutherford said.
“Show business has been kind to me,” she said. “If someone told me in 1939 that people would prop me up to talk about ‘Gone with the Wind,’ I wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised.”
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