Haven't had much time to post the past couple of days, so here's a quick movie run-down:
The African Queen. Can you believe I had never seen this one before? Great movie about Hepburn and Bogart traveling down a treacherous river in Africa with a plan to destroy a German ship during WWI.
Holiday. Starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and written by Philip Barry and Donald Ogden Stewart, this could be seen as a practice run for The Philadelphia Story. But I must admit, it didn't engage me nearly as much. I can't recommend it unless you're a big fan of Hepburn or Grant.
In This Our Life. Fairly wretched film about a horrible woman (Bette Davis) who steals her sister's (Olivia de Havilland) husband, drives him to suicide, commits hit-and-run manslaughter, frames someone for it, gets caught, then conveniently dies in a car crash. 34 year old Davis was wearing heavy make-up to make her look like a young girl, which lent the film a creepy "Baby Jane" overtone. I almost turned it off mid-movie, except for an interesting sub-plot about an African American man trying to become a lawyer. Progressive stuff for 1942. The other odd tidbit is that Davis and de Havilland's characters are called Stanley and Roy. I'm guessing the movie is based on a book in which this is explained.
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