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i was a bit surprised by how many tributes and deep dive analyses of o hara s life and career accompanied her passing in atlantic magazine the new york times the washington post and others she was great no question still but of course she was the mom in home alone a cultural touchstone for a generation and while the movie centers on the kid and his buffoonish tormenters catherine o hara gives the movie its heart i mean she s not going to win any awards for mother of the year and she s as unhinged as anybody else maybe more so but she d also do anything to rescue her son and that s what writers have noted over and over again o hara s gift for finding the humanity in even the craziest characters so my pick for best supporting actress comedy in 1990 catherine o hara home alone which of course wasn t my pick a week ago well that s the mythical monkey s dirty secret nothing is final ever until presumably i die or the world ends there is no received wisdom dispensed by priests or politicians only the diploma you work for and never receive from what my depression era dad called the college of hard knocks or as somerset maugham put it the path to salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor s edge that applies to movies as well as far as i can see sure you can study film in school i studied law and the philadelphia redhead but you still have to watch the movies with your opinion of the latest one informed by what you ve seen before and what you ve seen before re evaluated in light of what you ve just newly seen your knowledge of the movies and your take on them is forever in a state of flux just like life it never ends until finally it ends every man owes a death shakespeare said and if you pay that debt today well you don t have to pay it tomorrow or something like that in the meantime you walk the path always approaching never arriving posted by mythical monkey at 11 32 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1990 catherine o hara comedy review self portrait television saturday january 24 2026 glenda farrell 400 words in 40 seconds when she talked fast as she almost always did it was like the strident clackety clack of a typewriter you half expected her to ring at the end of a sentence margaret talbot writing about glenda farrell it s said that glenda farrell could speak 400 words in 40 seconds which considering how quiet i am could come in handy at a dinner party she could also act both comedy and drama which came in really handy in a career that lasted nearly sixty years unless you re a fan of pre code hollywood movies it s likely you ve never heard of glenda farrell but she s worth getting to know pushed by a mother whose own dreams of becoming an actress were never realized farrrell began working on the stage at the age of seven in enid oklahoma the beginning of a career that only ended with her death in 1971 at the age of sixty six farrell worked on broadway in the late 1920s and made her film debut in lucky boy a george jessel vehicle i ve never heard of but really took off in 1931 with little caesar the gangster classic that made james cagney a star in short order farrell appeared in three on a match i am a fugitive from a chain gang her best performance as paul muni s gold digging wife and mystery of the wax museum an early two strip technicolor horror classic in which fay wray screamed and farrell did all the acting she also had a nice role in the frank capra comedy lady for a day based on a damon runyon story about a poor apple seller s efforts to pass as a classy society maven in front of her long lost daughter a terrific movie if you ve never seen it come to think of it maybe that s glenda farrell s best performance she s best known now for her recurring role as torchy blane a smart wisecracking newspaper reporter who solves crimes playing the part seven times in three years between 1937 and 1939 so before i undertook to do the first torchy she said years later i determined to create a real human being and not an exaggerated comedy type i met those newswomen who visited hollywood and watched them work on visits to new york city they were generally young intelligent refined and attractive by making torchy true to life i tried to create a character practically unique in movies according to joe shuster and jerry siegel the creators of superman farrell s performance as torchy inspired the character of lois lane after she left warner brothers in 1939 farrell split her time between hollywood and the broadway stage a decade later she made her television debut on the chevrolet tele theater and worked steadily as a guest star in such shows as route 66 the fugitive bonanza and bewitched in 1963 she won an emmy for her supporting performance in a two part episode of ben casey her later film work included roles in the 1942 film noir johnny eager the cary grant comedy the talk of the town a funny turn as dick powell s secretary in susan slept here and a part in kissin cousins one of those million or so movies elvis presley churned out in the 1960s farrell was married twice first in the 1920s to thomas richards and then in 1941 to henry ross an army air force flight surgeon to whom she remained married until death did them part she was marvelous said her son tommy himself a film actor she never got a bad notice in her life posted by mythical monkey at 9 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dick powell elvis presley fay wray frank capra glenda farrell paul muni production code review saturday january 17 2026 alternate oscars 1931 32 as the depression now its third year ground on with no end in sight movie goers and oscar voters alike flocked to a big budget spectacle about rich people behaving badly starring greta garbo john barrymore wallace beery joan crawford and lionel barrymore grand hotel is the story of five very different people a ballerina a thief a factory owner his secretary and a dying man who cross paths at a luxury hotel in berlin with tragic consequences with its sumptuous art deco sets and its foreign locale grand hotel was about as far removed from the daily lives of the audiences who paid to see it as a movie could get yet it was the highest grossing film of the year for mgm one of the few studios to turn a profit during this particularly harsh year of the depression on november 18 1932 the academy named grand hotel the best movie of the year a triumph for producer irving thalberg who had bought the rights to vicki baum s 1929 novel and shepherded it through every stage of production honing the screenplay choosing the cast and putting his personal stamp on the film s every detail grand hotel won for best picture despite failing to receive a single nomination in any other category the award for best actor went to both fredric march dr jekyll and mr hyde and wallace beery the champ the first tie in oscar history it almost didn t turn out that way during the ceremony itself norma shearer announced march alone as the winner moments later the president of the academy conrad nagel came on stage to announce that under academy rules candidates for an award who finished within three votes of each other were deemed to have tied beery who had finished a single vote in back of march came up on stage and accepted a second best actor trophy the only problem was while such a rule had been in place the year before it had been discarded before the 1932 ceremony stories abound regarding the backstage shenanigans that resulted in the tie the most fun of which is that beery was so incensed at losing to march he went to mgm studio chief louis b mayer and insisted he be given an oscar too whatever the truth by 1935 the accounting firm of price waterhouse would begin tabulating and certifying the results another step out of louis b mayer s smoke filled office into the fresh air of oscar democracy the best actress trophy went to helen hayes a broadway legend making her film debut in the sin of madelon claudet a 75 minute super soaper about a woman who has a child out of wedlock and then endures unimaginable hardships to care for a son who doesn t know she exists her performance was a bit stagy and theatrical not bad not great but her pedigree appealed to oscar voters who were eager to promote movies thought of as lowbrow entertainment for the masses as the equal of the legitimate theater we here at the monkey have no such agenda the only real horror among the major winners was frank borzage who picked up his second career oscar this time for directing bad girl the story of a couple struggling through depression era difficulties a jaded girl meets a cranky radio salesman gets pregnant then gets married that turns into an idiot plot and fizzles a damp squib now deservedly forgotten oh well that s what alternate oscars are for lot of good movies came out between august 1 1931 and july 31 1932 including dr jekyll and mr hyde frankenstein freaks the aforementioned grand hotel monkey business the music box private lives scarface waterloo bridge my picks 1931 32 picture drama winner frankenstein prod carl laemmle jr nominees dr jekyll and mr hyde prod rouben mamoulian freaks prod tod browning grand hotel prod irving thalberg scarface prod howard hughes waterloo bridge prod carl laemmle jr picture comedy musical winner the music box prod hal roach nominees monkey business prod herman j mankiewicz private lives prod irving thalberg the smiling lieutenant prod ernst lubitsch picture foreign language winner à nous la liberté prod frank clifford nominees la chienne prod pierre braunberger and roger richebé i was born but prod shochiku mädchen in uniform prod carl froelich and friedrich pflughaupt marius prod robert kane and marcel pagnol actor drama winner fredric march dr jekyll and mr hyde nominees john barrymore grand hotel lionel barrymore grand hotel wallace beery the champ colin clive frankenstein paul muni scarface edward g robinson five star final warren william skyscraper souls actor comedy musical winner stan laurel and oliver hardy the music box nominees james cagney blonde crazy maurice chevalier the smiling lieutenant and one hour with you the marx brothers monkey business robert montgomery private lives actress drama winner mae clarke waterloo bridge nominees constance bennett what price hollywood joan crawford grand hotel marlene dietrich shanghai express greta garbo susan lenox her fall and rise mata hari grand hotel and as you desire me helen hayes the sin of madelon claudet and arrowsmith barbara stanwyck the miracle woman dorothea wieck mädchen in uniform actress comedy musical winner norma shearer private lives nominees joan blondell blonde crazy claudette colbert the smiling lieutenant lynn fontanne the guardsman jean harlow platinum blonde and red headed woman director drama winner tod browning freaks nominees edmund goulding grand hotel howard hawks scarface rouben mamoulian dr jekyll and mr hyde james whale frankenstein and waterloo bridge director comedy musical winner rené clair à nous la liberté nominees sidney franklin the guardsman and private lives ernst lubitsch the smiling lieutenant and one hour with you yasujirô ozu i was born but james parrott the music box supporting actor drama winner george raft scarface nominees boris karloff frankenstein lewis stone the sin of madelon claudet mata hari and grand hotel supporting actor comedy musical winner roland young the guardsman and one hour with you nominees raimu marius supporting actress drama winner miriam hopkins dr jekyll and mr hyde nominees ann dvorak scarface aline macmahon five star final anna may wong shanghai express supporting actress comedy musical winner thelma todd monkey business nominees miriam hopkins the smiling lieutenant una merkel private lives and red headed woman screenplay winner ben hecht continuity and dialogue by seton i miller john lee mahin and w r burnett from a novel by armitage trail scarface nominees rené clair à nous la liberté frances marion story leonard praskins dialogue continuity and wanda tuchock additional dialogue the champ garrett fort and francis edward faragoh screenplay adaptation by john l balderston from the novel frankenstein or the modern prometheus by mary shelley and the play frankenstein an adventure in the macabre by peggy webling frankenstein christa winsloe and friedrich dammann as f d andam from the play by christa winsloe mädchen in uniform s j perelman and will b johnstone screenplay arthur sheekman additional dialogue monkey business special awards lee garmes shanghai express and scarface cinematography c roy hunter frankenstein sound charles d hall and kenneth strickfaden frankenstein art direction set decoration jack pierce and pauline eells frankenstein makeup wally westmore dr jekyll and mr hyde special effects posted by mythical monkey at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1931 1932 alternate oscars fredric march greta garbo helen hayes joan crawford john barrymore lionel barrymore oscar history review wallace beery saturday january 10 2026 howard hawks a baker s dozen british film historian david thomson once opined that if he could only save ten movies from a sinking ship he d take ten by howard hawks and leave the rest to the ocean deep me i d reserve room for a dvd on boat building and another on edible plants but i understand the sentiment hawks more than any other director covered the waterfront westerns comedies crime war action sci fi musicals straight up drama and even silent movies and he didn t just make entertaining movies he made genre defining classics hawks gave john wayne his first great acting showcase taught katharine hepburn how to play comedy and lauren bacall how to whistle helped define 1930s gangster movies 1940s film noir and 1950s sci fi spectacles and put marilyn monroe in a slinky pink dress as she sang her signature song diamonds are a girl s best friend that he also directed two of the greatest westerns in history well that s just showing off so what are my favorite howard hawks movies glad you asked in chronological order scarface 1932 although hawks had been directing since 1926 including 1928 s a girl in every port which put louise brooks on the map and the first best version of the dawn patrol in 1930 scarface was the first indispensable movie of his career i ve written about scarface at length here here and here and i won t rehash any of that except to note that along with little caesar and the public enemy this is one of the three great gangster pictures of its era brian de palma remade it in 1983 with al pacino bringing up baby 1938 some people such as the aforementioned david thomson would include hawks s 1934 comedy twentieth century here but although it made a star of carole lombard to me it s more shrill than funny instead i ll list hawks s other screwball classic bringing up baby...