tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post6844844571775745101..comments2024-01-05T14:37:03.930-06:00Comments on Gingerology: Ginger Rogers Film Review #17 - Don't Bet On LoveVKMfanHueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17360524951726605370noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-41247646025026017882015-09-18T23:00:16.202-05:002015-09-18T23:00:16.202-05:00This movie is fantastic on dvd
http://www.classi...This movie is fantastic on dvd<br /><br /><br />http://www.classicmoviesandtvcom.com/product/dont-bet-on-love-dvd-ginger-rogers-1933Classic Manualshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814491340687259856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-44714708422481131252011-11-26T08:56:48.518-06:002011-11-26T08:56:48.518-06:00F&GM: That's good to know, as it seems we ...F&GM: That's good to know, as it seems we have quite a few enemies at this point, unfortunately... Ginger would have made quite the ambassador, I believe... I always think of her 'speech' at the end of 'Magnificent Doll'...a bit on the 'corny' side, I guess, but then again, it definitely hits on the reason the U.S. is what it is, for better or worse...usually for the better.<br />Well, hope y'all are having a great 'non-descript' weekend, Kat!!!<br /><br />Lady F: Thanks for the kind words! I typically work on these 'late at night', and so I have to 'revisit' them the next morning to make sure if they are OK...typically they turn out pretty neat... this one was my fave so far. I can tell the story in the 'review' part, and 'riff' on the caps. <br />Everything turned out well regarding the turkey ceremony... I'll probably do a 'general post' here in a minute about miscellaneous stuff... hope your turkey day was a great one, too!!!<br /><br />VKMfanHuey<br />---VKMfanHueyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17360524951726605370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-64924576454505141492011-11-24T01:14:10.622-06:002011-11-24T01:14:10.622-06:00Another excellent review, Huey! I love that the C...Another excellent review, Huey! I love that the Cabana Boy was weaved into the fabric of your review. Your captions crack me up.<br /><br />I will say that Ginger and Ayres made an adorable couple....looked so nice together. If only it had worked out...<br /><br />Have a great Thanksgiving, Huey. Remember place the turkey gently into the pot of oil. Do not pretend the pot is a basketball hoop and try a 3 pointer :DLady Fioraonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14168926169097506136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-11473426325211848632011-11-20T19:20:37.200-06:002011-11-20T19:20:37.200-06:00No Thanksgiving for us, we seem to give everyone e...No Thanksgiving for us, we seem to give everyone else independence, nothing for us to celebrate really haha. its been 235 years i think can forgive ya'll, you can thank Ginger for that!! ;)FredandGingerMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219608263701805469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-42347488974706272752011-11-20T00:30:37.353-06:002011-11-20T00:30:37.353-06:00Whitney: Thanks for the kind words! SO glad you en...Whitney: Thanks for the kind words! SO glad you enjoyed it... it's pretty fun to make these things up...at first, I just wanted to show a few 'caps' from each film, but by the time I got to the ones that had ample 'Ginger time', the pics were telling stories...and so I started 'riffing' on these... as for Ginger and Lew, it would have been neat to see them in an RKO film...'In Person', perhaps? That one would have probably hit pretty close to home for him, tho, as at that point she had 'exceeded' his popularity, along with most everyone else's...and the plot of that one would have bore that out. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving, Whitney!<br /><br />Betsy: Well, it's no doubt all 5 were gooberheads, but to varying degrees, of course...I think Ayres may be the one that fares the best as to 'minimal gooberheadedness' (sorry for using all of these vague technical terms :-] ) - they were in love for sure, but I just think his life style, being a 'typical' Hollywood actor partying all the time, just didn't jibe with her homebody-outdoor-sy life. but yeah, Hub #1 was psychotic (he was fixing to throw her out of a upper level window), hub #2 was Lew, hub #3 was the army guy...seemed ok, but he got on the sauce... hub #4 was the French dude, and he was unfaithful... and hub#5 was mondo into the sauce... <br />Have a great T-giving, Betsy! I'm sure you have a bunch of cool things going on for dinner - be sure to document on blog!<br /><br />F&GM: Thanks! Hope you made it through your class... sometimes just staying awake is half the battle :-} ...I'll start up on 'Sitting Pretty' soon... Lady F got me a 'cleaner' copy of it, as the one I had was dang near impossible to watch, it is so 'faded'... well, doubt if y'all have Thanksgiving over there, as, for better or worse, Thanksgiving was pretty much the result of us 'separating' from the Mother Country, right? Hopefully y'all aren't still sore at us..:-] Well, if ya dig turkey, go grab one for Thursday dinner anyway! <br /><br />KG: Yep, this one is not a 'mainstream' one, at least in the sense of being on TCM and the like... and not sure if Universal is doing much in the way of restorations...seems like they are, but for 'newer' ones (i.e., from the 60's and 70's)... yep, the only other one she made with one of her hubs was 'Twist of Fate' aka 'Beautiful Stranger' - with hub #4, Jacques Bergerac (he was French, by the way... duh) ...hub#3 (Jack Briggs) was to be in one of her movies, 'Tom Dick and Harry', but his stuff ended up being cut out - and this was before they even knew each other. <br />Have an awesome Thanksgiving, KG! I love your blog... I don't reply much, but I do keep up with it... you are quite the prolific poster!!!<br /><br />Thanks, y'all!!!<br /><br />KIG!<br /><br />VKMfanHuey<br />---VKMfanHueyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17360524951726605370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-19126704961501928412011-11-18T11:52:39.323-06:002011-11-18T11:52:39.323-06:00wow, I didn't even realize that she & Lew ...wow, I didn't even realize that she & Lew Ayres had done a film together.. I knew they were married but this is so neat! I need to track it down, I love watching real life off-screen couples onscreen! :)kate gabriellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613714423917702757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-42004962872867818542011-11-17T10:22:45.931-06:002011-11-17T10:22:45.931-06:00rather more entertaining than the lecture i'm ...rather more entertaining than the lecture i'm actually in, keep the caps coming!!!FredandGingerMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219608263701805469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-86901245959025226422011-11-15T14:40:00.222-06:002011-11-15T14:40:00.222-06:00Another one I've never seen, will have to chec...Another one I've never seen, will have to check out ebay! It's been awhile since I've read My Story but did she just have incredibly bad luck in picking jerks for husbands, or were her expectations too high? Well, the last one was a bonafide jerk but were the others really that bad?Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961949757283263982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415650234964664192.post-57645293036254147592011-11-15T10:52:53.482-06:002011-11-15T10:52:53.482-06:00Thanks for this great review, Huey, and especially...Thanks for this great review, Huey, and especially for the priceless photo captions -- they had me laughing out loud! I'm sure that Ginger would have enjoyed having you as her cabana boy, if you all had met back then.:>)<br />I always feel so sad when I think of what could have been had Ginger and Lew stayed married, or even if they had made a better movie together after they were further along in their careers -- they almost made a film together in 1949 based on a script called "Birds are Walking", but according to newspaper reports from the time, the project fell through when Ginger decided that she didn't want to compromise her usually big salary for an independent film like that, and the bank couldn't finance such a big salary (Lew wasn't making as much as she was).<br />But at least they each left us a great separate body of work on film!WhitneyVLHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04618278056941209843noreply@blogger.com