Frances Dee movies: From 'An American Tragedy' to 'Four Faces West' Frances Dee began her film career at the dawn of the sound era, going from extra to leading lady within a matter of months. Her rapid ascencion came about thanks to Maurice Chevalier, who got her as his romantic interested in Ludwig Berger's 1930 romantic comedy Playboy of Paris. Despite her dark(-haired) good looks and pleasant personality, Dee's Hollywood career never quite progressed to major – or even moderate – stardom. But she was to remain a busy leading lady for about 15 years. Tonight, Turner Classic Movies is showing seven Frances Dee films, ranging from heavy dramas to Westerns. Unfortunately missing is one of Dee's most curious efforts, the raunchy pre-Coder Blood Money, which possibly features her most unusual – and most effective – performance. Having said that, William A. Wellman's Love Is a Racket is a worthwhile subsitute, though the...
- 5/18/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Exclusive: In their latest collaboration, Audience Network and Fullscreen have teamed to co-produce Cassandra French’s Finishing School, a half-hour series based on Eric Garcia’s (Matchstick Men) novel. The eight-episode series, which has been fully cast, will debut on At&T-owned DirecTV and U-verse on February 17 and will air all eight episodes before moving to the millenial-focused Svod service of Fullscreen, owned by Otter Media, the digital-media joint venture of…...
- 11/21/2016
- Deadline TV
Within the first few moments of Sleepy Hollow‘s Season 3 opener, the Headless Horseman is magicked into vapor and sucked into a box — a fitting metaphor for how the Fox series is handling the remains of its troubling second season as it moves into a hopeful third.
But what’s left to fear when the drama’s central bad guy is so easily dispatched? And why should we care about this new, hooded woman and her weird ramblings? Fear not, kind friends.
The premiere reinstates (with vigor!) what we’ve loved about the smirkingly supernatural tale, quickly reuniting apocalypse fighters...
But what’s left to fear when the drama’s central bad guy is so easily dispatched? And why should we care about this new, hooded woman and her weird ramblings? Fear not, kind friends.
The premiere reinstates (with vigor!) what we’ve loved about the smirkingly supernatural tale, quickly reuniting apocalypse fighters...
- 10/2/2015
- TVLine.com
Right up until the end of the Production Code era of filmmaking in 1930’s Hollywood, the various studios churned out stories that pushed the boundaries of transgression for audiences everywhere. These films may seem more than a little tame today, but what these films did for the time cannot be overstated. Women were allowed to have fun, without having to be punished afterwards for it. They could be unashamedly free with their sexuality. These films looked at their promiscuity as a concrete normality; not as something that in any way needed to be fixed. The early thirties in studio filmmaking is a special and thoroughly fun era. In another Warner Archives DVD release, Finishing School, released in 1934, mere months before the Code began to be enforced, is just one example of the many forgotten or overlooked films from that era.
With such an extraordinarily large number of films being released by studios each year,...
With such an extraordinarily large number of films being released by studios each year,...
- 4/7/2011
- by Catherine Stebbins
- CriterionCast
Finishing School might be one of the most tepid stories of youthful rebellion in the name of love that you’ll ever see. A stodgy, overly strict head matron is defied, a love connection is made, and we learn that sometimes you have to fight authority while listening to it. Alright, the film’s take on authority is shaky at best, but it has a firm position on the pursuit of love: love is something to be pursued. Well, that is, if it has good job prospects. Your love interest is a blue collar man paying his way through school as a waiter? Stay away. Oh, he’s paying his way through med school? He’s going to be a respectable doctor? Well, still no, he’s a waiter first and foremost. Apparently.
Finishing School wants to tell the love story between a girl from a rich family training for...
Finishing School wants to tell the love story between a girl from a rich family training for...
- 3/8/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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