@HannahHowe@toot.wales

HannahHowe

@HannahHowe@toot.wales

Mother, author, publisher, genealogist, SOE historian, Welsh, European, vintage movie and music fan. 👩 ✍️ 📚 🌳 💼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🎥 🎼 Joined 2019. Active since November 2022.

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HannahHowe, to movies

Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, 1931. In Mary Shelley’s novel, the monster is articulate and speaks frequently. Also, in movie adaptations of novels a character’s thoughts are externalised as dialogue. However, director James Whale decided that his monster should remain practically mute, adding to his sense of isolation and ostracism.

HannahHowe, to movies

Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls. The accompanying article in Picturegoer, July 1943 discussed how Hollywood had become obsessed with glamour highlighting Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake nursing wounded soldiers in So Proudly We Hail with their make-up perfectly in place. The article continued that many in Hollywood longed for the grit and realism of European cinema.

HannahHowe, to movies

January 1939. Fred MacMurray and Shirley Ross reading the morning newspapers on the set of Cafe Society.

HannahHowe, to movies
  1. King Kong offers Tyrannosaurus a lesson in dental hygiene while Fay Wray screams from the trees.

Fay Wray achieved fame as Ann Darrow in her 58th (!) movie, King Kong. Selected as one of the “WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926”, her career developed and spanned six decades. Regarded as one of the early “Scream Queens” she featured in a variety of roles until her retirement in 1980.

HannahHowe, to spain

I don’t normally do politics on Mastodon, but the Tories painting over the Mickey Mouse mural because it was “too welcoming” to refugee children was one of the most sinister and soulless things I’ve ever seen. It reminded me of my research into the Spanish Civil War. A thread 🧵

HannahHowe, to movies

It’s an “Ashes Summer”, one of sport’s great rivalries, Australia v England at cricket, which dates back to the late 1800s. Here’s Boris Karloff playing cricket for the Hollywood Cricket Club. Other team members included Ronald Colman, Clive Brook and C. Aubrey Smith.

HannahHowe,

I can relate to this story, because I had an encounter with a huge spider this week.

When making Fu Manchu, the script called for Karloff to crush a huge hairy spider beneath his heel. He refused. “I can’t,” he said. “I simply can’t. Even that ugly thing has a right to live.”

HannahHowe, to movies

Robby the Robot combs Anne Francis’ hair, Forbidden Planet, 1956.

HannahHowe, to movies

A 1930s “Golden Age of Hollywood” menu, served on luxury liners.

HannahHowe, to France

Operation Butterfly and Operation Liberty are books eleven and twelve in my Eve’s War Heroines of SOE series. The books, which bring the series to a close, will be released this summer and autumn. I’m delighted to say that both books are currently in the top ten of Amazon’s Hot New Releases 🙂

HannahHowe, to books

The opening chapter of my Golden Age of Hollywood novel, Tula, takes place in Kings County Asylum, Brooklyn, where Tula introduces her story. The asylum looks bleak, and it was. The building was smaller when Tula was there; additional storeys were added in the 1930s.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BG5NGZ6H

HannahHowe, to art

Overall, the quality of movie posters declined with each passing decade, true or false? If true, why should that be?

A woman and man dressed in 1920s clothes

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