#melodrama — Public Fediverse posts

Ernst Lubitsch's Eyes of the Mummy (1918) sounds like a horror film but it's a romantic melodrama although there's an ancient Egyptian tomb and a curse, and strange and inexplicable events. Pola Negri stars. Early Lubitsch is so wild and crazy.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/08/eyes-of-mummy-1918.html

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The Painted Veil, a 1934 Greta Garbo romantic melodrama. Based on a Somerset Maugham story. The introduction of the Production Code earlier in 1934 results in characters whose behaviours make no sense but it looks good and Garbo is terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-painted-veil-1934.html

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The Temptress (1926), one of Greta Garbo's first major hits. She plays a vamp who may or may not be entirely wicked. Beautifully crafted unabashed melodrama with Garbo's subtlety and star quality already very evident. She is stunning and sexy.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-temptress-1926.html

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Flesh and the Devil is a 1926 MGM silent melodrama starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. A huge hit which made Garbo a star. Gloriously lurid, steamy, melodramatic and romantic and absolutely dripping with sex. Garbo sizzles. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/flesh-and-devil-1926.html

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Mandalay (1934) belongs to a sub-genre I dearly love, the pre-code tropical melodrama. With Kay Francis as a high-class hooker and sexual adventuress. She wears fabulous slinky 30s dresses. She’s at the top of her game here. Great movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/mandalay-1934.html

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Madonna of the Seven Moons is a 1945 British Gainsborough melodrama but melodrama is hardly an adequate word to describe this truly bizarre film. It's beyond mere melodrama. Over-the-top, outrageously excessive, a delight from start to finish.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2017/08/madonna-of-seven-moons-1945.html

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All That Heaven Allows (1955), a glorious melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter. Middle-aged widow Jane Wyman falls in love with her gardener (Rock Hudson).

Melodrama has always been despised by critics but I enjoy it, and this one has class.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/all-that-heaven-allows-1955.html

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Futures Vedettes AKA School for Love AKA Sweet Sixteen (1955) is an early Brigitte Bardot romantic melodrama co-written by Roger Vadim. There are a few comic touches but it’s always romance that takes centre stage. It can also be seen as a coming-of-age movie.

The main reason for seeing this movie today is of course Bardot. but it's a pretty good movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/10/futures-vedettes-1955.html

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The Female Animal was Hedy Lamarr’s last movie. Not at all a bad way for her career to end. She has a really juicy part and she makes the most of it.

Hedy plays a fading movie stars who acquires a new toy boy (played by George Nader). This causes problems with her (Jane Powell).

A very entertaining noirish grown-up sex melodrama and Lamarr is terrific.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-female-animal-1958.html

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