If you have Turner Classic Movies and you've never seen Jean Harlow take a bath in a barrel before, be sure to tune in tomorrow, Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 9 a.m. for Red Dust. I've only mentioned it tangentially a couple of times, but Red Dust will figure in the next go-round of Katie Awards so you don't want to miss out.
Here's what TCM says about it:
9:00am [Romance] Red Dust (1932) A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening. Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor Dir: Victor Fleming BW-83 mins
Does anyone know how Gable felt remaking this as "Mogambo". If I remember correctly from what little I've read it seemed a little gruesome as Gable was the only main cast member still alive.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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Lady of the evening, morning, noon, and night.
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Does anyone know how Gable felt remaking this as "Mogambo". If I remember correctly from what little I've read it seemed a little gruesome as Gable was the only main cast member still alive.
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