what are some other film history channels? I need more of this kind of content!

The best.

Oh, yes, it is!!!!

I feel this so hard

green book was the best film of the year-period

wsd Drama No it wasn’t. Green Book most certainly did not deserve it.

or because Roma is a foreign language film. The oscars can't accept a film of the year being non-american

Bernardo Abreu true, but when movies like Spotlight and Moonlight has won the big prize, plus more diverse people being accepted into the Academy as voters, you would expect all that diverse community to want more stories from around the world, but I guess that will take more time to do.

Yeah, and how overquoted it is.

Fred Astaire did everything that Ginger Rogers did, but forwards and in flats

Rogers danced frontwards 98% of the time, except for initial dance starts. Watch the dances! Astaire could dance backwards too; additionally he choreographed everything.

Yes. but. The dancing works because of Astraire’s many hours of rehearsal. What is wonderful about her is her physical toughness. She had to learn to dance with Adelle Astaire’s partner and rise occasionally to that level. This according to someone who had seen Adele. Ginger had the same joie d’ vive if not quite the same skill. Plus the romantic touch. of course.

And a quote she herself would refute as nonsense.

... I'm reading one of the best Bette Davis biographies (my fave actor of all time) and I remember Bette mentioned being good friends with Hepburn, and ironically one actor she would have loved to work with many times was Spencer Tracy. She had high esteem for Tracy, as she had for Hepburn.

I know one similarity between them--and I'm assuming from Hepburn's clipped but "flat" speaking voice, she may also be a New Englander like Bette. Another similarity is that both women who lived fairly long lives didn't stop working until sudden illness/death.

There are differences I can find between Davis and Hepburn is that although both Yankee women, Davis never really observed the yankee way and she always was drunk with the legendary status she rightfully deserved. Hepburn was probably more of a yankee woman even though she was born to a wealthy family. Davis love to fight for her roles but at a consequence brought by her attitude. Hepburn got artistic control and said who or what is in a film before the other person even got a chance to rebuttal. Davis did it the hard way while Hepburn did her way quickly before you had a chance to say anything opposite of her way.

It’s too bad Bette didn’t follow Kate’s example by limiting herself to only one husband and having no children.

@@alpe1987 Katherine was from a rich and patrician background. Bette was not. Proper but not in the same economic class. Katherine and Spensor were together for years. The press left them alone. Bette used to say. that the hotel detectives would watch the stars and their boyfriends. You were not allowed to "shack up", that's why there were so many marriages those days. Today, some stars are left alone by the press and engage in all sorts of things and maintain their boy and girl next door image. However, Angelina was not the only "other woman."

Phillip Amura 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Courtesy of MGM's Gilbert Adrian, dresser of Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, and (less happily but just as gorgeously) Greta Garbo.

you should watch The women (1939), the costumes are amazing and designed by Adrian as well

All the movies in this era are just drowning in beautiful clothes!

The dress she wears to the party is my favorite, but Ruth Hussy's knocks my socks off.

This is what modern Hollywood does not get not all of the actors of that era were good but what they did have was screen presence and charm. Far too many serious poe faced actors today that in many instances make light hearted scenes look boring and dreary. Films today are also just too dark in their style.

Me too!

Pelakin lucah agaknya korang ni.

Same omg

Hoping for the day I get my own “be kind rewind” video lol

I'm with you. I find old Hollywood fascinating and I read and watch everything I can about old Hollywood.

Stage door was an amazing movie . Loved it.

I think it’s the best film of the 1930s about female friendship, not to mention showbiz.

@@cam21333 The Women in 1939 was the best and huge all female friendship cast movie.

Keegan Thorpe good point.

Weird logic

@@subliminalcity6892 How is that weird logic? It's pretty much widely accepted that that is what happened in the case of Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and Jodie Foster...when the vote for the two Thelma & Louise actresses was split, and Jodie Foster took home the prize.

What's a Fontain???

Doubtful. That assumes a fairly even split for Rogers to still end up with the majority. If there was a split vote, it was more likely between two of those roles.

Angel the Cinephile - Yes! I’ve been disgusted by how up until a few years ago, it was not uncommon to read critics saying her win was undeserved bc he was “just a Deaf actress playing a Deaf character”, I literally grew up reading that and thought it was normal, and with time I’ve realized how awful that is, especially after finally watching the movie and seeing how fantastic she was in it.

Anna Mae Wong. Great!

@@chucho_qmpThe problem is she has never tried to grow beyond that. Why hasn’t she taken speech therapy as many deaf have done to be able to expand her range?

@Keyth Danielsen Maybe she doesn't want to follow everyone else's path?

Seriously!

Yes! In fact, it would be interesting to see videos on actors turned academy members or even just on AMPAS presidents like Bette Davis and Cheryl Boone-Issacs.

Yes, and in doing so he pushed out the more deserving Henry Fonda for The Grapes of Wrath.

Joan should have won. I mean, Ginger is fun to watch but not the best actress that year.

He deserved it for Philadelphia Story and I will die on this hill. His character is the most pivotal element to making the whole film and its various tones hang together, it would have been incredibly easy for it to go wrong with the slightest misstep from him, and he does it so perfectly that it seems effortless and inevitable.

Or Ingrid Bergman losing out for Casablanca but winning for Gaslight the following year.

Mark Hyde you should watch mommy dearest on the actress Joan Crawford! It’s a great movie!

Lew Archer 1949 “I just went gay all of a sudden” and “I'm standing in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus!” are two of my favourite lines from any comedy film ever.

I know right?!

The reason Howard Hawks added Ralph Bellamy to the cast of His Girl Friday is because Hawks thought that 'Baby' was a flop because the audience had no 'normal' person to identify with.....they were all nutty! So Ralph Bellamy makes the rest of the cast in 'Friday' funnier by being a regular guy. Baby had no such character.

Many great films were flops on their original release, but grew in stature over time.

@@KngFish I had forgotten about that fact and it makes a lot of sense, when I first attempted to watch Baby I had to stop because it all seemed too stupid and over the top, then I gave it another try -with full awareness of the tone- and fell in love with it.

Joan was brilliant in Rebecca. I always rewatch it just for her.

Aysha Zaheen oh absolutely

Mildred Pierce and and Rain , Joan Crawford.

The Pasty British Guy From Wonderwoman any of those three could have won and I would’ve been happy

The Pasty British Guy From Wonderwoman agreed!

I've always like it. Quite frankly, it's also just so nice to see an ensemble film be entirely women.

The greatest film of that era about female friendship, in my opinion.

I went and watched it because of this video, and I was not sorry. One of my favorites now. I love how most of the cast is female and they carry it so well!

Full name: Virginia Katherine McMath.

I think the most interesting fact about Ginger Rogers is that her parents were in such a heated custody battle that one kidnapped ginger and didn't reveal the location of their daughter to the other

She was magnificent.

I have fallen under the spell of Ginger Roger's charm. Outside of Maria Callas I can't think of anyone I admire as much.

Yes please!

Both Gone With the Wind and Streetcar.

Bette Davis once said that it was criminal that Rosalind Russel never won an Oscar. Cheers.

She’s great in The Women too! Rosalind was such a comedic genius

Rosalind Rusell was AMAZINGGG..especially in HGF...she was one of the few actors who could equal Cary Grant's comedic genius. I always feel the Academy has never been kind to comedic actors, especially to women who excelled in comedy.

@@ladym.7594 Like Irene Dunne with Cary in the brilliant The Awful Truth.

@@kelseyk530 Of course how could I forget! It's criminal that Irene Dunne never gets the attention she deserves

The Oscars used to be about the actual overall entertainment production. It meant actors could win on the basis of a good performance and being entertaining. It was in later years that all the crap started about acting performance what ever that is suppose to mean.

Katie Hepburn always get underrated! Many men are not fans of her cos she's a very strong, dominant, modern. Not a trait men love. Well the video tells you all...I think she was even box office poison. I love Katharine ❤️

"Fix me a Bromo and put a little Gin in it. " From "The Women"

@@dollydagger4306 I like Katharine Hepburn but the reason she was never as popular as other strong female stars like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford is that she is inherently coldand quite unlikable.

@@dollydagger4306 You take a very dismissive view of criticism of Hepburn. I think that her acting range was very limited because she played basically herself in every role- a Neurotic Patrician Yankee. She made no attempt to change her heavy accent that made her dialogue difficult to understand. She was also paired with some of the greatest leading men of all time Cary, Spencer, Henry, etc. Let's see her drag John Boles or Dennis Morgan through 6 reels.

I'm not a fan of Katharine because four Oscars?! Way too many.

Gingers mother famously endorsed the Hollywood "casting couch". She had a lot of influence over young up and coming actors in the industry because of the way she had already forged her daughters career, all the younger actors really respected her business savvy. So RKO had her teach workshops on the studio lot and Lucille Ball regularly participated in it because Ginger was her mentor and Lucille really respected Gingers mother. She encouraged those young up and comers to take any opportunity even and especially if it meant having to lay on a casting couch. There's no shame in doing what was necessary to get ahead and have a career for the rest of your life. Lucille Ball said better to lay on a casting couch then to lay on a cold hard floor.

Harry - and what way is that?

haha my same exact thought too

I third that.🙌🏾

a fan of Lindsay AND BKR? yaaaaaay

The Best Years.. is one of the best films ever made. No WW2 film is better.

I agree with you. A lovely warm humorous actress

Jane Kirk A video on Vivien Leigh is already here!

Back then they all knew who won in advance.

Pink Monkey Bird I always loved her talented, intelligent and a real beauty.

Judy Holliday robbing Gloria Swanson!

@@fadhilramadhani1847 That one as well, since Bette, Baxter and Swandon all got robbed in one of the tightest Oscar races ever!!!

@@MikeSmith74653 As the narrator said, the Academy favored heavy drama over comedies. The same goes for ct to those other nominees' performances, they were not robbed of the Oscar in 1950. The great Judy Holliday gave a singular performance in "Born Yesterday" that was as nuanced and heartbreaking as those performances given by Swanson and Davis. What about Eleanor Parker, who also gave a riveting performance in and was nominated for "Caged"? Why do you not include her in the "list" of "robbed" Oscar nominees in 1950?

@@caraqueno comedy at times reigned. Agreed

Regarding that loss of Bette's at the 63 Oscars. A good point to make is that Bette diluted herself into believing she was going to win. She was that sure of herself and her performance in effect screw the other nominees because they don't count. And then Crawford accepting for Bancroft fed into Davis who convinced herself that Crawford had a hand in the loss. She was dead set on that notion until her death.

Some of those actresses you listed are terrible and then some of them are just too serious and poe faced most of the time. And most of what female actresses are staring in today are just political activist films trying to push some message about something. Anne Bancroft was in the Golden era some of the other actresses you listed were not.

@@greyLeicester I mean correct I like all theses actress but honestly it boils down to style personal I think the actress who played catelyn stark aka michelle Fairely is spelt on and we need to set our alarm clocks on her

That movie is everything!

Ginger was not as good a dancer nor had she the exact screen presence of Astair. That is just the honest truth of the matter. She was her own thing and people loved her for what she was and put in some great performances. It is sad that cinema has moved away from that era to the era of cynicism.

@@bighands69 No that's just your opinion on the matter. No one was, or has been a good a dancer as Astaire, he is mesmeric to watch. But outside of Eleanor Powell and Cyd Charisse (primarily incredible dancers both) I defy you to name one he danced with on screen better than Rogers was (Hayworth was no better than Rogers I would submit), And neither Powell nor Charisse bring the same magic away from the dance, because neither were remotely as good as actors.. the reason Astaire/Rogers movies clicked was precisely because she absolutely matched him on screen in terms of screen presence. She was by far the better actor. Her career is testament to that. She gave him the acting chops he lacked...she had the sass and the bite, and the vulnerability he did not have...and their chemistry together whether dancing or not, was never matched by anyone else he worked with.

@@LFire12 My point was that Rodgers was not as good a dancer as Astaire. Rodgers was more of an actor with really good dancing skills on screen. I would say Astaire was more of a dancer who had good acting screen skills. I like both of them and I feel I am just stating the obvious but it still is only my opinion.

This is an old post. LoL, but Judy Garland was a co-star of Fred in the Easter Parade and definitely had her own light ❤️. Fred wasn't my favorite co-star for Judy, though. I like her with Gene Kelly and Mickey Rooney (of course)!

@@bighands69 I mean who was as good a dancer as Astaire.As for screen presence Ginger had Fred beat in spades my friend.

Really? I thought it was horrendous behavior. What an absolute, thorough bitch.

Was that when Hepburn from a window threw a glass of water onto Roger's mink coat?

@@vih6650 Lol just my opinion. "Get over it."

@@minxella6764 Yup.

@@minxella6764 have you ever read that ginger affair with howard hughes while he was with katharine? I mean it's kind of jealously knowing your bf having affair with another actress