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September 22, 2006
Preconceptions.
I'm someone who believes in truth - what can I say? A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad - and I'm watching Hud tonight.* The cinematographer was someone named James Wong Howe. That struck me as an interesting fact (yeah, yeah - truth?) for 1963. What's someone with the middle name Wong doing in 1963 as the cinematographer for a Larry McMurtry movie? IMDB shows me this list.
Did you know that someone born in Guangzhou in 1899 would be involved in a list of American films starting in 1923? That's a biography worth reading.
Funny Lady.
The Molly Maguires.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Hombre.
Hud.
Bell Book and Candle.
A Farewell to Arms.
Come Back, Little Sheba.
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House.
Confidential Agent.
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Fantasia.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The Prisoner of Zenda.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
And those are only the ones I've seen! This shifts my idea of "what Hollywood was like."
*SUCH a beautiful movie! Made me postpone my latest Netflix arrival. Patricia Neal is . . . way too great.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at September 22, 2006 8:05 PM
Comments
James Wong Howe is one of the best and certainly one of the most famous cinematographers from that era in Hollywood.
Posted by: Undine 
at September 22, 2006 9:22 PM
*smiles at Gregory* I'm actually really surprised you didn't know this, just because, well, you know everything!
.....You know, I leave history of film aside. I like movies - not so much the history part. Odd, hunh? --MCT
Posted by: Another Damned Medievalist at September 23, 2006 11:47 AM
Patricia Neal is a great actress, although she is semi-retired now. You may know that she suffered a stroke a few years after her Academy Award winning performance, made an amazing comeback, and received another Oscar nomination for And the Subject Was Roses in 1969.
In addition, James Wong Howe is probably one of the two or three greatest cinematographers in Hollywood history. He did some amazing work in a movie called Seconds, which came out in 1966. It actually featured a good performance by Rock Hudson(!) and is well worth seeing.
Posted by: John Thomas McGuire at September 24, 2006 9:46 PM
HE DID "SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS" YOU MUST SEE IT NOW!!!!!
*pant pant*
...Right. Calm now. But yes, JWH is amazing. "SSoS" is one of my favorite movies.
ELT
Posted by: Eve Tushnet at September 25, 2006 2:01 AM