#FridayShort #CartoonEdition Hollywood Sweepstakes (1937)

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Betty Comden

• Graduated New York University in 1938 with a degree in drama
• Acted with the Washington Square Players
• Collaborated on stage/screenplays with creative partner Adolph Green for 6 decades and considered "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history."
• Performed on Broadway in the 1958 revue "A Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green"
• Helped form cabaret act "The Revuers" with Judy Holliday, Adolph Green and two other friends. Leonard Bernstein would join them on some nights.
• First Broadway appearance was in co-penned "On the Town" in Ann Miller's anthropologist's role
• Won three Tony Awards and nominated for two Academy Awards for "The Band Wagon" and "It's Always Fair Weather"

#ManCrushMonday Errol Flynn in Captain Blood (1935)

In his first major Hollywood film (and in one his more rare clean shaven roles), Flynn plays Dr. Peter Blood. Blood is wrongly accused in treason against King James just for treating a high ranking patient which takes him and a group of revolutionaries to the West Indies to become slaves to Colonel Bishop. In attempting to escape, the slaves take over a pirate ship and Blood its Captain. With his sharp square features and flowing hair, Flynn. was. gorgeous!

Remake This: The Original Material to "Crossfire" (1947)

The adaptation of Richard Brooks's The Brick Foxhole ""Crossfire" opened July 22, 1947 at the Rivoli Theatre to mixed reviews. Bosley Crowther gave it an "unqualified A for effort in bringing to the screen a frank and immediate demonstration of the brutality of religious bigotry as it festers and fires ferocity in certain seemingly normal American minds." ("Movie Review - THE SCREEN; 'Crossfire' Study on Tolerance, Starring Robert Young and Robert Ryan, Opens at Rivoli -- Antry and Rogers at Riolato  -- NYTimes") "Variety" praised it as a "hard-hitting film whose whodunit aspects are fundamentally incidental to the overall thesis of bigotry and race prejudice." ("Crossfire | Variety") "Crossfire" would go on to be nominated for 5 Academy Awards. Although the Hay's Code kept "Crossfire" from using the novel's original theme of homosexuality, this film is a perfect candidate for an original adaptation. 

Finlay: Kenny Johnson

Keeley: Samuel Roukin

Montgomery: Matthew Goode

Ginny: Isabelle McNally

Mitchell: Dave Franco

Samuels: Burn Goram

Mary: Emily van Camp

Friday Short: Jack Warner Bloopers 1954

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday 5 Times When Kay Thompson made Lady Power Happen in "Funny Face" (1957)

#ManCrushMonday Rex Harrison in "Night Train to Munich" (1940)

Undercover agent Dickie Randall reunites Anna Bomausch with her anti-Nazi father as the Germans close in on Czechoslovakia. But there are still problems reuniting the family. Anna (Margaret Lockwood) does not know the man she's slowly falling for is actually a Gestapo agent (Paul Henreid) trying to locate her father who has invented a new type of armor plating which the Nazis want to get their hands on. Things don't go exactly as planned for British Intelligence as they hunt down both kidnapped Bomausches and Harrison progressively turns into a '40s version of James Bond. It is very sexy.