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Bernard Herrmann's Prelude music for Hangover Square (1945)
Recalling "The Lubitsch Touch"Huffington Post (blog)... assured that he'll be rebuffed in Paradise, aristocratic New Yorker Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) pays a visit to His Excellency (Laird Cregar), ...
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Milwaukee Event CalendarOnMilwaukee.comThe film stars Laird Cregar and Linda Darnell and is presented by the FOCUS Film Society as part of their ongoing screenings of classic and vintage movies, ...
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Local film fests, seriesMilwaukee Journal SentinelLaird Cregar plays a composer who, when he hears a loud, discordant sound, is driven to murder. Cregar, a character actor and up-and-coming movie villain at ...
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New York Post (blog)DVD Extra: Flynn as BarrymoreNew York Post (blog)According to Leonard Maltin, Barrymore did indeed film a test, as did Orson Welles, Laird Cregar, George Sanders and the man who created the role on stage, ...
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...with the great John Barrymore. According to Leonard Maltin, Barrymore did indeed film a test, as did Orson Welles, Laird Cregar and the man who created the role on stage, Monty Woolley. After viewing the tests, Jack Warner decided on Welles but couldn't pry...
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Audiophile AuditionBERNARD HERRMANN: Hangover Square; Citizen Kane – Orla Boylan, soprano ...Audiophile AuditionBone was played by Laird Cregar (1913-1944) in his last film before dying at the early age of 31. The music on the disc opens with 17 minutes of incidental ...
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Pejino.com...Blog de Cine - Juana de Paris - Joana of Paris - Robert Stevenson - Michele Morgan - Paul Henreid - Alan Ladd -Thomas Mitchel - Laird Cregar - May Robson - Proverbios 25:13 - Libro de Job 39:10 - Libro de los Salmos 23 - Usa - 1941
Veronica Lake serenades Laird Cregar as part of a plan to defeat Axis agents, in the 1942 film noir, This Gun For Hire.
extracted from the DVD extras of The Lodger, PS: sorry for the out of sync audio
The making of The Lodger, the 1944 John Brahm film, loosely based on the jack the ripper murders, or rather in the book written by a woman whose name escapes me right now (you can see it in the doc). Best thing about this is Laird Cregar performance as The Lodger, massive man physically and in terms of talent. He died before his time, at only 31. What could've been...! PS: sorry for the out of sync
Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922 July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model who enjoyed both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, as well as her peek-a-boo hairstyle. Her success did not last. Following a string of broken marriages and long struggles with mental illness and alcoholism, she died almost destitute. This Gun for Hire (1942) is a crime drama film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene. The drama features Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, among others.
There is attempt of making music video. I used some clips from old classic films : Arsenic and old lace (1944) I wake up screaming (1941) M (1931) Mad love (1935) Psycho (1960) Vicki (1953) Let me know what you thinking about.
Little tradition of film noir : there was a cop in love with dead beautiful woman. I used the clips from: I Wake Up Screaming (1941) Laura (1944) Vicki (1953) Only Laura was not really dead.
THE LODGER (1944) & HANGOVER SQUARE (1945) The brilliant Laird Cregar stars in these two brooding murder/melodramas set in turn of the century London. The fog, the dark, the shadows, a scream in the night and Jack The Ripper has struck again. Cregars larger than life size and bulging eyeballs loom into the frame to scare the wits out of you, while at the same time his quiet demeanor and sensitivity with underlying gay overtones bring about an unexpected pathos. Director John Brahm proves its not what you see, but what you dont that haunts your dreams. George Harvey Bone: All my life I've had black little moods. Laird Cregar www.youtube.com Linda Darnell Photo Tribute www.youtube.com Hangover Square Pyre Scene www.youtube.com Please Rate, Favorite and Subscribe!
This scene is an important scene from the film. Bernard Herrmann did the score for this film. And I thought Herrmann's score for this scene was brilliant. So I decided to post this video. Great Performance from Laird Cregar.
I have limited material, sorry. Hangover Square (1946) is effective Gaslight Gothic, shot in opulent trimmings of 1940´s Hollywood, and telling sympathetically mad composer (Laird Cregar), femme fatale (Linda Darnell) and good girl (Faye Marlowe). Although Cregar´s character is serial killer (!), he is not inspired by any filthy perversions but uncontrollable blackouts. Innocent by the reason of insanity, quite literally.
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...public's imagination for more than a century. This 1944 thriller revolves around a singer who suspects her aunt and uncle's newest tenant is the scalpel-wielding maniac of Victorian-era London. Merle Oberon and Laird Cregar star. 7 p.m., TCM, Channel 65....
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Laird Cregar as Mr. Slade in The Lodger (1944). This scene could be interpreted in several ways - is Mr. Slade just randomly peculiar? Crazy? In love with his dead brother? Many analysts believe Cregar's characterization of Mr. Slade have many incestuous undertones. ... "laird cregar" 1944 "the lodger"
A suspenseful scene from The Lodger (1944), where the enchanting Laird Cregar freaks out over Merle Oberon's beauty. ... Destroyer of Men
A little compilation I made of Laird Cregar in some of his films. I know that I should have included "I Wake Up Screaming". Perhaps some other time! I felt that YouTube was a little short in Cregar, so here's my contribution.
Veronica Lake's felicitous manager is looking out for her best interests. From 1942's "This Gun For Hire". Laird Cregar plays the villanous night club owner. ... +Veronica+Lake +This+Gun+For+Hire
Veronica Lake's felicitous manager is looking out for her best interests. From 1942's "This Gun For Hire". Laird Cregar plays the villanous night club owner.
France. And if this means that Joan must face death at the hands of slimy Gestapo chief Herr Funk (Laird Cregar), she's eager and willing to make that sacrifice. One of the earliest French Underground dramas, Joan of Paris posted a neat profit for ever-in-the-red RKO Radio Pictures. Michèle Morgan - Joan Paul Henreid - Paul Lavallier Thomas Mitchell - Father Antoine Laird Cregar - Herr Funk May Robson - Mlle. Rosay Alexander Granach - Gestapo Agent Alan Ladd - Baby Jack Briggs - Robin ...
Veronica Lake gets herself in trouble over dinner at villain Laird Cregar's mansion. ... +Veronica+Lake +Alan+Ladd +Laird+Cregar +This+Gun+For+Hire
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...Skelton Knaggs making Boris Karloff look pretty in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome and, more striking still, the vast Laird Cregar glowering blankly from the shadows in 1941's fine pulp-noir I Wake Up Screaming. A rum and tragic case, Cregar was a naturally large...
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a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won one for Best Cinematography, Color. Plot! After England and Spain make peace, notorious pirate Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar) decides to reform. As a reward, he is made Governor of Jamaica, with a mandate to rid the Caribbean of his former comrades, by persuasion or force if necessary. He replaces the former governor, Lord Denby (George Zucco), but is not trusted by ...
Having just escaped the deadly Alan Ladd after a train ride, Veronica Lake sings in villain Laird Cregar's nightclub, in the 1942 film noir classic, This Gun For Hire. ... Veronica+Lake Alan+Ladd Laird+Cregar This+Gun+For+Hire
Alan Ladd meets Veronica Lake on a train to Los Angeles, with villain Laird Cregar also aboard. From the 1942 film noir, This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd's breakthrough movie, and the first of a number of memorable pairings with Veronica Lake. ... Alan+Ladd Veronica+Lake Laird+Cregar This+Gun+For+Hire
manners hide the truth... Based on Patrick Hamilton´s play on a man trying to make her wife mad. Hangover square (1945). Basically remake of The lodger, with the same opulent setting and innocent-by-the-reason-of-insanity psychotic giving especially sanitized version of serial killing. Some atmospheric and strikingly beautiful images. Music from Halloween. ... gaslight 1944 hangover square 1945 jekyll hyde 1941 lodger jack the ripper laird cregar linda darnell ingrid bergman lana turner ...
, but eventually decides to reform his ways when he falls in love with Margaret Denby Maureen O'Hara, the gorgeous daughter of the former Jamaican governor Lord Denby George Zucco. Before the final obligatory sail into the sunset, however, Margaret is kidnapped and manhandled on a seemingly hourly basis, while Jamie is subjected to even more abuse at the hands of pirates and officials alike. Henry King handles the derring-do in Black Swan with commendable sobriety, leaving the story's ...
films as "Blood And Sand" (1941) as the vixenish Dona Sol (a role that Gene was considered at one time for), and the musical "My Gal Sal" (1942). They costarred with some of the same actors onscreen, such as Tyrone Power, Victor Mature, Laird Cregar, Glenn Ford, Spencer Tracy, Judith Anderson, Jose Ferrer and Rex Harrison. Although both were popular with the public in the early 40s, it wasn't until mid-decade that they both became household names and part of public imagination when they ...
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...Oakie and the real-life Baby June from "Gypsy," June Havoc, inject badly needed zip into the film. In an odd bit of casting, Laird Cregar has a small role as a drunken gold-miner. Despite engaging dashes of comedy and music, "Hello Frisco, Hello." is a pleasant,...
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...Ameche plays a wealthy, deceased old goat at the gates of hell, regaling the devil (Laird Cregar) about his sinful life. Lubitsch's warm-hearted comedy is also a stinging attack on a fin-de-siècle US; he conjures a beautifully lurid under-world, and, on the...
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A scene from the 1941 film "I Wake Up Screaming" featuring the bent Police Inspector Ed Cornell / Laird Cregar needling boxing promoter / murder suspect Frankie Christopher (Botticelli) / Victor Mature while driving in New York City.
A scene from the 1941 film "I Wake Up Screaming" featuring the bent Police Inspector Ed Cornell / Laird Cregar chatting with crabby Assistant District Attorney / Morris Ankrum.
A scene from the 1941 film "I Wake Up Screaming" featuring Jill Lynn / Betty Grable hacksawing the handcuffs of her boyfriend boxing promoter / murder suspect Frankie Christopher (Botticelli) / Victor Mature to the strains of "Over the Rainbow"? ... Wake Up Screaming 1941 Laird Cregar Victor Mature detective murder mystery handcuffs sawing Betty Grable
A scene from the 1941 film "I Wake Up Screaming" featuring the bent Police Inspector Ed Cornell / Laird Cregar harassing boxing promoter / murder suspect Frankie Christopher (Botticelli) / Victor Mature.
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...send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. He's the bad guy: Laird Cregar, left, and Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire . Conversation guidelines: USA TODAY welcomes your thoughts, stories and information...
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...at 29 six years later (over Rex Harrison). Stealing the film as the Landis-fixated cop who harasses Mature, actor Laird Cregar was a 300-pounder looking 50 here when he was really 27. He died of a heart attack three years later, after a crash diet that took...
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