tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post3171397502969749170..comments2024-03-27T08:00:18.425-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: Ready, Willing and Gable!Poseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-30115515978612583312014-08-07T10:33:00.819-04:002014-08-07T10:33:00.819-04:00Wonderful job! Given a choice between the two I wo...Wonderful job! Given a choice between the two I would still take Gable over Clooney any day. NotFelixUngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812102754911699275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-54675425937005663662014-08-07T08:42:47.960-04:002014-08-07T08:42:47.960-04:00Joel, Thank you for your compliments! You are a ve...Joel, Thank you for your compliments! You are a very loyal subject and I'm glad you enjoy the variety of things I put up. :-)<br /><br />NotFelix, isn't it weird the way our tastes can change/mature over the years? It sometimes pays to revisit movies as we have aged a bit whereupon we appreciate people and things that went right over our heads the first time. <br /><br />And Matt (and NotFelix), I am a HUGE fan of Mr. Clooney - he is from the same general area in which I live - but somehow never made the connection between him and Clark Gable. Now that it's been pointed out, I do see it! I do know that for years George has been pointed out as one who recalls "Old Hollywood Glamour" and so I was fully aware of that, just not how closely he suggests Mr. Gable. I did a little photo-experiment that I'm going to attach at the tail end of this post. You'll want to come back and see it for sure! Thanks!Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-85158925965782336552014-08-06T16:51:41.709-04:002014-08-06T16:51:41.709-04:00BTW, I forgot to add: All George Clooney compariso...BTW, I forgot to add: All George Clooney comparisons are quite appropriate. There are many similarities. Some pictures are downright eerie when it comes to facial features. However, GC has grown to look more like CG over time. In his younger years the resemblance was much more fleeting. Today it is uncanny. NotFelixUngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812102754911699275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-30401423226831042532014-08-06T07:36:57.454-04:002014-08-06T07:36:57.454-04:00I remember watching "Gone with the Wind"...I remember watching "Gone with the Wind" the first time it played [CBS, I think] in the 70s. After all the hoopla I sat my 10 year old butt down to watch and came away wondering what the big deal was. I certainly did not understand the sexy magnetism of Gable as it was described by everyone. <br /><br />Boy do times [and tastes!] change. About 2 years ago I saw "Red Dust" and shortly thereafter "Mogambo." I loved Gable in both [though "Red Dust" is superior in my opinion] enough to sit my then 45 year old butt down and watch "Gone with the Wind" in its entirety once more. And, I understood. I got it. It took 35 years to appreciate that man. What a hunk. Especially with the stubble!NotFelixUngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812102754911699275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-10211075623143206942014-08-05T18:55:39.906-04:002014-08-05T18:55:39.906-04:00In some of these photographs, I suddenly struck by...In some of these photographs, I suddenly struck by how much George Clooney & Clark Gable favor one another. At times it's almost eerie.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13767206117921073873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-61989393014080788462014-08-05T18:54:26.236-04:002014-08-05T18:54:26.236-04:00I forgot, I wanted to comment on you trying to lea...I forgot, I wanted to comment on you trying to learn to do shorter posts. I enjoy whichever you put up but I LOVE the long incredibly detailed posts that you normally do. If we have to wait a little while for them well...good things come to those who wait!joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-33816681210996220472014-08-05T18:46:01.525-04:002014-08-05T18:46:01.525-04:00Poseidon,
I'm in complete accord with you on ...Poseidon, <br />I'm in complete accord with you on Carole Lombard, she was so wonderfully versatile. I first saw her in My Man Godfrey and then Made for Each Other with Jimmy Stewart and the two called for such different emotions. I adore "In Name Only", it's one of my favorite movies actually even if it gets a bit soapy. All three leads are amazing. It always makes me sad that this was almost the end of Kay Francis's career and certainly one of her last quality pictures. She's so wonderfully venal, I would have thought it would have opened a whole new avenue for her as a noir villainess. <br /><br />The movie "Gable & Lombard" is such a stinking pile and an insult to both stars, their memory and good film making at that. I like Jill Clayburgh but she was terrible in that, completely miscast and apparently without understanding of the character. She's still better than Brolin was as Gable. That it's sunk into obscurity is its deserved fate.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-43273961482711673032014-08-05T16:32:32.067-04:002014-08-05T16:32:32.067-04:00Now Dave, you know that FOR ME this is a short pos...Now Dave, you know that FOR ME this is a short post! I'm actually considering offering up more compact posts instead of the ridonkulously long ones that take so long in-between. It's difficult to re-train myself to be brief and to the point! We'll see...<br /><br />Joel, Carole Lombard amazes me because she was so adept at both comedy and drama. The first time I ever saw her was in "In Name Only" as a lovely woman in love with Cary Grant, who was married to the spiteful Kay Francis, and I adored her. Never even realized then that she did comedy so successfully as well. (That was my first exposure to Francis, too, and I enjoyed her a lot as well.) I still shudder when I think of the way she was played (not portrayed!) by Jill Clayburgh in "Gable & Lombard." <br /><br />And of course I thought of you when I was mentioning "Red Dust." I recalled your similar reaction to Gable in that as my own. <br /><br />Thanks!Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-47049024911683673772014-08-05T14:47:07.266-04:002014-08-05T14:47:07.266-04:00I've always liked Gable pre or post moustache ...I've always liked Gable pre or post moustache but I tend to agree he looked sexier without it. Either way he exudes a certain brand of rugged masculinity that jumps off the screen.<br /><br />Those two pictures you posted of him looking uneasy are the only two I think I've ever seen where he didn't look completely at home in his surroundings. I think once Metro took him on and buffed up his rough edges just enough it gave him the confidence to fully relax into his natural charisma. He wore clothes extremely well, dressy or casual they never wore him. Of course he had the most fabled studio in the world customizing his clothes especially for him but tailoring only goes so far if you don't have the proper attitude they can still look like a sack.<br /><br />I think I've commented elsewhere on the site how astonishingly hot I thought he was in Red Dust. It's too bad that the close cropped look he sported in it wasn't in fashion at the time because it suited him so well, the jungle sheen didn't hurt either! His blatant sexuality as well as Jean Harlow's were ideal for the pre-code era and while they were still appealing after the code because of their star quality their sensuality was muted.<br /><br />That's a great collection of photos you've pulled together, love the two of Carole Lombard & he. It always strikes me how contemporary she looks in her photos. She rarely wore the elaborate hairstyles of the period and like Gable seemed to prefer simple lines in her attire so her pictures don't date like some. Veronica Lake's look has similarly weathered the passage of time well and actually the two ladies favor each other.<br /><br />I've seen that Garbo/Gable costarrer Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise and it's like watching two magnetic forces repel each other. Individually they're riveting and great but they don't interact well at all.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-47911906100879974722014-08-05T14:43:29.040-04:002014-08-05T14:43:29.040-04:00Wait, I thought you said it was going to be short!...Wait, I thought you said it was going to be short! :-) I really quite like Clark Gable as an actor and he has been in at least a handful of "classic" movies that I watch over and over like It Happened One Night, San Francisco, GWTW, and Mutiny On The Bounty.<br /><br />It's strange that after GWTW, his career just faded away mostly. I guess because of the War and Carole Lombard's death, etc.<br /><br />I love how they try to minimize his ears in the early shots by making sure at least one of them is in the shadows, but audiences didn't really care. He did a very good impression of a "man's man."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10845967694366470260noreply@blogger.com