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Advent Day 2. Provence is slowly appearing in my living room. Baking one batch of cookies per week has now become two. Too many good recipes. Must. try. them. all. Really in the mood for black and white Christmas films: Shop Around The Corner, The Great Rupert, Christmas In Connecticut, and Holiday.

Advent Day 2. Provence is slowly appearing in my living room. Baking one batch of cookies per week has now become two. Too many good recipes. Must. try. them. all.

Really in the mood for black and white Christmas films: Shop Around The Corner, The Great Rupert, Christmas In Connecticut, and Holiday.

Filed under Baking Christmas Cookies Decorating For Your Dancing Pleasure LP Record Sammy Kaye Swing And Sway Vintage Vinyl Jimmy Durante The Great Rupert Black And White Film Christmas Movie Classic Film Holiday Shop Around The Corner Jimmy Stewart Ernst Lubitsch Margaret Sullavan Margaret Sullavan Joseph Schildkraut Samson Raphaelson Miklós László Ben Hecht George Cukor Donald Ogden Stewart Sidney Buchman Advent

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oldhollywood: William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, & Claire Trevor on the set of Dead End (1937, dir. William Wyler) “What we remember is the gangster, the man who in a sentimental moment returns to the old home. He wants to see his mother and his girl: sentiment is mixed with pride -he’s travelled places; he shows his shirtsleeve - ‘Look - silk, twenty bucks.’ And in two memorable scenes sentimentality turns savage in him. His mother slaps his face (‘just stay away and leave us alone and die’), his girl is diseased and on the streets. This is the finest performance Bogart has ever given - the ruthless sentimentalist who has melodramatized himself from the start up against the truth, and the fine flexible direction supplies a background of beetle-ridden staircases and mud and mist.” -Graham Greene, Night and Day (1937)

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William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, & Claire Trevor on the set of Dead End (1937, dir. William Wyler)

“What we remember is the gangster, the man who in a sentimental moment returns to the old home. He wants to see his mother and his girl: sentiment is mixed with pride -he’s travelled places; he shows his shirtsleeve - ‘Look - silk, twenty bucks.’ And in two memorable scenes sentimentality turns savage in him. His mother slaps his face (‘just stay away and leave us alone and die’), his girl is diseased and on the streets.

This is the finest performance Bogart has ever given - the ruthless sentimentalist who has melodramatized himself from the start up against the truth, and the fine flexible direction supplies a background of beetle-ridden staircases and mud and mist.”

-Graham Greene, Night and Day (1937)

Filed under Dead End William Wyler Humphrey Bogart Lillian Hellman Sidney Kingsley Sylvia Sidney Joel McCrea The Dead End Kids Based On A Play Movie Film Vintage Movies Films Cinema Classic Film Black and White Black And White Film