At the risk of straying off topic a bit, when TCM showed BLANDINGS at their annual Hollywood film festival a year or two ago, I learned new things about the movie's history, including the fact that 100 replicas of the film house were built around the country using the same blueprint, and that a number of them are still standing to this day. (One reason why BLANDINGS has always appealed to me is because of its roots in my post-war baby boom childhood in Connecticut. The Stamford house I grew up in was built from a blueprint mom and dad bought at Macy's, of all places, and presumably there were many replicas of our home all around America at that time.)
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Stefan, FWIW, I like your take on "Without Love." I'm now even more forgiving toward the song than I was before.
What's a sexual stereotype in an old film, Joan Crawford in RAIN, or Jean Harlow in RED DUST? Any male star in any given film from the '30s or '40s? I think pretty much everyone in pre-late '60s had to fit to a sexual stereotype, especially Rock Hudson.
What's a sexual stereotype in an old film, Joan Crawford in RAIN, or Jean Harlow in RED DUST? Any male star in any given film from the '30s or '40s? I think pretty much everyone in pre-late '60s had to fit to a sexual stereotype, especially Rock Hudson.
