Tag: Paul Henreid

September 22, 2014 /

A couple of moths ago I heard an utterly beguiling director say this on set, “The moment of creating is over, NOW is the moment of matching.” Be still my beating heart – and watch those wineglasses, my darlings.

September 22, 2014 /

A blizzard was raging in New York, so she had read on the bulletin-board before she left the ship. It was difficult to visualize sheets of fine snow driving obliquely against facades, while sitting on an open terrace in the sun gazing at calla lilies in bloom bordered by freesia.…

February 3, 2014 /

This was from a stinker of a movie, circa 1946. The Warners have simplified matters to an almost irreducible extreme and have found an explanation for the Brontës in Louisa May Alcott terms. They have visioned sombrous Emily, the author of “Wuthering Heights,” and Charlotte, the writer of “Jane Eyre,”…

January 22, 2013 /

Zachary Scott; Eddie Bracken; Van Johnson; Margaret O’Brien; Diana Lynn; Angela Lansbury; Paul Henreid; Alexis Smith; Reginald Gardiner; unidentified woman on their way to FDR’s birthday, January 28th, 1946. Photographer: Abbie Rowe FDR’s Birthday 1945, who can you spot? 1944, there’s John Garfield and…

November 5, 2012 /

A Warner Bros. picture directed by Irving Rapper, produced by Hal B. Wallis, starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, and Gladys Cooper. –