Above: Picture Snatcher (1933)During the Depression, MGM's studio engorged our starving millions with yachts, bassoons, and polar bears. Grand Hotel, Lovers Courageous, The Washington Masquerade, and Dinner at Eight represent Metro frivolity shouting itself from the rooftops. But these were accompanied by other, somewhat more cagey films whose essential message was, "Hey, the rich have problems too!" Take Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) in Dance, Fools, Dance, personifying plutocracy on the skids: a suddenly ex-debutante forced by circumstance to actually earn her living, armed with moxie and—heaven forfend, Ladies and Gentlemen!—a job. Crawford's wish-list physiognomy, seemingly carved from bone in imitation of some marble original, makes us forget that jobs are themselves an American fantasy, post-Crash. Into the oblivion of "Ars Gratia Artis" fly bothersome words: "paycheck," "meal," "ob-jay." Pulling our minds in the opposite direction was that furiously propulsive beast of a studio Warner Bros., forever relieving itself...
- 8/18/2020
- MUBI
Joseline Hernandez’s custody of daughter Bonnie Bella Jordan lost during Marriage Boot Camp TV shoot
Joseline and Balistic have been working out some huge issues this season on Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition, but nothing could prepare them for the news that we’ll see them receive tonight. While filming for WEtv’s popular series, Joseline Hernandez learned that her ex Stevie J had won custody of their daughter, Bonnie Bella Jordan. Devastating news for Joseline...
- 3/19/2020
- by Shaunee Flowers
- Monsters and Critics
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