By Robert Cochran
Lights! digicam! Arkansas! lines the jobs performed via Arkansans within the first century of Hollywood’s movie undefined, from the 1st cowboy superstar, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and so on. The Arkansas panorama additionally performs a starring function: North Little Rock’s cameo in Gone with the Wind, Crittenden County as a environment for Hallelujah (1929), and diverse destinations within the state’s southeastern quadrant in 2012’s Mud are all given attention-grabbing exploration.
Robert Cochran and Suzanne McCray screened just about 2 hundred films—from laughable box-office bombs to laudable examples of filmmaking -- of their examine for this e-book. They’ve superior their lively chronological narrative with an appendix on documentary movies, a scores part, and illustrations selected through Jo Ellen Maack of the outdated country residence Museum, the place Lights! digicam! Arkansas! debuted as an express curated by means of the authors in 2013. the result's a e-book certain to entertain and tell these attracted to Arkansas and the films for years to come.
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30 shows, at least eight of them with Jimmy Stewart. At times Stewart must have wondered if he had moved to Arkansas—Julie Adams was his wife in TV’s Jimmy Stewart Show, Peggy Shannon shared the stage in his Broadway debut in Page Miss Glory, and Anthony Mann’s western Bend of the River (1952) featured Stewart with both Adams and Flippen. Flippen’s long and varied career continued almost to his death—he lost a leg when his diabetes worsened during the filming of Cat Ballou (1965) but turned in a scary bit part as a wheelchair-bound political boss in 1971’s The Seven Minutes.
The Glass Key, in particular, has been described by Gaylyn Studlar as offering Ladd’s blonde good looks for homoerotic contemplation, meanwhile taking care to have the plot condemn such bonds as leading invariably to sadism. When Ladd’s character (Ed Beaumont), attempting to infiltrate a gang, is beaten by a thuggish henchman (a very convincing William Bendix), the whole interaction is unmistakably sexualized. ” he asks. In short, Ed Beaumont is a gunsel, and there’s every reason to believe author Dashiell Hammet knew exactly what he was doing when he created him.
He made his first film in Canada in 1959 but was in good company in Hollywood the same year, appearing in The Hanging Tree Melinda Dillon. True Grit, Fake Monsters, and Many Explosions 53 Ben Piazza. 54 with Gary Cooper. Piazza’s 1970s films include Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), followed in the next decade by the likes of The Blues Brothers (1980), Waltz Across Texas (1983), and Rocky V (1990).