MGM Exhibitors' Convention 1937- Clark Gable, Louis Mayer, Jean Harlow, John & Ethel Barrymore
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- MGM Exhibitors' Convention 1937- Clark Gable, Louis Mayer, Jean Harlow, John & Ethel Barrymore, Rosalind Russell, and many more!
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I was invited to that swanky affair, but later learned my invitation was somehow lost in the mail. (Oh bloody hell! Sigh...) Cheers and thanks for the wonderful film footage ;-)
As usual, another stunning film emerging from the archives of the past...watchable and wonderful. My fave? Rosalind Russel sauntering in at last.
This May 1937 Jean Harlow is dressed in costume from her last movie "Saratoga " Jean Harlow was dead a month later.
Very nice to see Reginald Owen and Dame May Whitty arms linked at the end this walking in.
This is a few weeks before Jean died. Her kidney failure hit so fast.
Oh darn, I wish you had more of this!
If it was the first week of May Harlow had one more month until she died. 💔💔💔
Wow what a gem this piece of video! Thank you so much for sharing. :)
My eyes must be bad cos I've just watched this half a dozen times and couldn't see Jack Barrymore anywhere!!!
Hello Dee- Isn't he walking with Ethel, dressed in costume- 30 seconds into the clip? Did I make a mistake? Thanks for your comment.
@@soapbxprod Hi there. No, that's not Jack Barrymore! Don't know who that is but 100% certain it isn't JB. Sorry.
@@DeeBarrymore Charles Boyer
Dear Max- Thanks most sincerely! Fascinating information about Stage 27... omg... my grandad was Abner Biberman- his brother was Herbert, one of the Hollywood 10- married to Gale Sondergaard. The third Brother, Edward, was the muralist who painted the interior of the Venice Post Office... What a time to have lived, huh?
What a great snippet of Hollywood history
Saw Marcus Welby back when he was a med student!
Yes, I think the earliest film I've seen him in is "Tugboat Annie" with Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery (my favorite actor). He had quite a career long before he went into television with "Father Knows Best." Another of his movies that really stands out in my mind is Frank Borzage's "The Mortal Storm," one of the most powerful films I've ever seen and one that soon might be as germane as it was then (and maybe quietly suppressed).
Wonderful info- thanks!
I LOVE your channel, Soapbxprod! And this video is fascinating. I also spotted Hal Roach walking with Patsy Kelly, Robert Young and Oliver Hardy...but no Stan.
Very elegant and classy way of dressing. Like royalty.
Is that Freddie Bartholomew in the white shorts?
Great footage! Why wasn't Eleanor Powell there in that 1937 group? Would love to see vintage footage of her.
Why was this filmed . ??? Interesting 🤔...
THE DAYS! Wow, why didn't MGM film the banquet inside? Maybe they did and it's sitting somewhere in Turner's vault~! I would flip to see this type of stuff! Our hero's in REAL LIFE!
Thelma Todd with the Marx Brothers was the ultimate! LMAO!
Most welcome- and thanks for tuning in- we appreciate it! :)
Thanks for the wonderful footage! Is there any more from this occasion? I see Hal Roach, Patsy Kelly and Oliver Hardy, but no Stan Laurel .
I could look at stuff like this all day! I wish that you had some earlier footage, that featured my darling Thelma Todd!
this is from the MGM 1937 convention reel . It was a celebration for the distributors that MGM put on looks like the 1st week of May 1937 from the photo at the end. Unfortunately at a party at a Barn on the RKO lot it got out of hand and a girl was assaulted . Girl 27 on another note, looks like Ginger Rogers in dressed in black last part of scene hurrying to get in then stops. Could be , as party was also on RKO lot ,.
Hello, Holly- and thanks for tuning in- I can't remember which year this was, but I think that someone ID'd it in the comments below- I truly appreciate your watching and commenting. Yes- Girl 27... certainly there were some very nefarious things going on back in the "Golden Age"... but IMHO, nowhere nearly so many as now? Maybe I'm wrong... :)
there is a clip with sound listed as 1937 MGM convention, this is the last part of the clip
Too many scandals over the years. The studio was called before the police were in most cases.
Holly Cranfan
Dear Holly- Thank you so much! Just found it:
MGM Exhibitors Convention 1937
I'll change the title of this clip to match- the other clip is much better quality-
no visible time code, and complete... :)
And so are 110 percent correct about calling Eddie Mannix before the LAPD...
BTW- I don't recognize the gentleman with LB Mayer on the podium-
he must be a major theater distributor... could it be one of the Loews?
Warmest Regards,
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
That's Charles Boyer dressed as Napoleon. He was filming Conquest with Garbo at the time.
Not very likely as John Gilbert died on January 9, 1936, almost a year and a half before this was filmed. Pity though, it would have been splendid to have him there. (Pssssst: "Ethel").
Who's the other guy in uniform, around :53? He looks so familiar.
I read Roz's autobiography and I'm thinking she mentioned this. I can't confirm it, darn it, cuz all my books are in storage. 😕
I wonder if the full video is available somewhere ? It's always interesting to see any of them off-camera.
@soapbxprod
I see. It looks as though it was originally part of a longer film.
Oliver Hardy at 0:49
Thelma! The total wildest! :) Sorry- all we have is this one clip of the banquet- and we don't have any Thelma footage- but we do have lots of clips spanning 1930 to 1970 or so. Hope you enjoy some. :)
Who is the couple at .51? Very glamorous
I think that it's Robert Young with Ann Southern?
Thad Kershaw That looks like Robert. Good catch. But I'm not positive that's Ann. She reminds me of someone else... just not sure who.
Robert Young & Florence Rice.... they were in a film together......😊
Dame May Whitty!
@soapbxprod Believe it or not, I never saw "Crossfire" but I know it packs quite a noir wallop. Most interestingly, speaking of billing, in 1947 Robert Young was billed over noir staples Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan, which is even more surprising than Jerry Lewis and Danny Thomas being billed over Frank Sinatra in Vegas! I see the ultimate noir woman, Gloria Grahame, was the leading lady as well. I have to see that one, don't know quite how I missed it since I live in NYC, Noir Revival City.