williamhdaniels &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:williamhdaniels @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:05 +0200 The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-naked-city-1948-1kq1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" Popsicles/div div class="img" The Naked City (1948)/div div class="caption" A New York precinct. Across the street an ice cream vendor. Several kids are standing around the man's cart while one of them – a chunky monkey – leans against the nearest fire hydrant. A scruffy man in fedora walks past holding a Popsicle. DP: William H. Daniels; still photographers: Bert Anderson & Arthur "Weegee" Fellig./div div class="txt" "Another day, another ball of fire rising in the summer sky. The city is quiet now, but it will soon be pounding with activity. This time yesterday, Jean Dexter was just another pretty girl, but now she's the marmalade on 10,000 pieces of toast." ### – narrator\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #Popsicles #IceCream #JulesDassin #BarryFitzgerald #HowardDuff #TedDeCorsia #DorothyHart #WilliamHDaniels #BertAnderson #ArthurWeegeeFellig #Weegee #crime #drama #thriller #NewYork #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)

Feb

10

Popsicles

The Naked City (1948)

A New York precinct. Across the street an ice cream vendor. Several kids are standing around the man's cart while one of them – a chunky monkey – leans against the nearest fire hydrant. A scruffy man in fedora walks past holding a Popsicle. DP: William H. Daniels; still photographers: Bert Anderson & Arthur “Weegee” Fellig.

“Another day, another ball of fire rising in the summer sky. The city is quiet now, but it will soon be pounding with activity. This time yesterday, Jean Dexter was just another pretty girl, but now she's the marmalade on 10,000 pieces of toast.”

– narrator

#FilmDinner #Popsicles #IceCream #JulesDassin #BarryFitzgerald #HowardDuff #TedDeCorsia #DorothyHart #WilliamHDaniels #BertAnderson #ArthurWeegeeFellig #Weegee #crime #drama #thriller #NewYork #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-naked-city-1948-1kq1 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:49:05 +0100 Ninotchka (1939) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ninotchka-1939 <![CDATA[Ninotchka (1939) Ninotchka and Leon (Garbo and Douglas) cracking up. DP: William H. Daniels. Ninotchka (1939) ### July 1: a joke for #InternationalJokeDay Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) Garbo laughs! The great Garbo was known for her beauty, her coolness, her tragedy, for a lot but her laughter. So typecast she became that the tagline for Ninotchka (1939) – Garbo laughs! – is a #joke in itself. Penned by the great Billy Wilder, the Ernst Lubitsch directed comedy unexpectedly temporarily revived #Garbo's career, who by the time 1938 came around had become box office poison. And the joke? Well… ##### A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down at the table and he says, “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later, the waiter comes back and says, “I'm sorry, sir, we have no cream. Can it be without milk?” Ninotchka (1939) #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ErnstLubitsch #BillyWilder #GretaGarbo #MelvynDouglas #WernerRHeymann #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #communism #romance #USA #1930s todo]]> Ninotchka (1939)
Ninotchka and Leon (Garbo and Douglas) cracking up. DP: William H. Daniels.

Ninotchka (1939)

July 1: a joke for #InternationalJokeDay

Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)

Garbo laughs!

The great Garbo was known for her beauty, her coolness, her tragedy, for a lot but her laughter. So typecast she became that the tagline for Ninotchka (1939) – Garbo laughs! – is a #joke in itself.

Penned by the great Billy Wilder, the Ernst Lubitsch directed comedy unexpectedly temporarily revived #Garbo's career, who by the time 1938 came around had become box office poison. And the joke? Well…

A man comes into a restaurant. He sits down at the table and he says, “Waiter, bring me a cup of coffee without cream.” Five minutes later, the waiter comes back and says, “I'm sorry, sir, we have no cream. Can it be without milk?”

Ninotchka (1939)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ErnstLubitsch #BillyWilder #GretaGarbo #MelvynDouglas #WernerRHeymann #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #communism #romance #USA #1930s

#todo

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ninotchka-1939 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:40:18 +0200 Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/harvey-1950 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" freebie: Easter Sunday/div div class="img" Harvey (1950)/div div class="caption" Promotional photo. James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, holding a stuffed anthropomorphic rabbit. Both man and bunny wear black hats and smile at the camera. DP: William H. Daniels./div div class="txt" ##### James Stewart is Elwood P. Dowd. An ordinary man with an extraordinary claim: his best friend is an invisible, six feet three and a half inches-tall #pooka – a mythological Celtic, shapeshifting creature – who in Mr Dowd's case resembles a rabbit called Harvey. Elwood's sister and niece, who also occasionally see the furry goblin, have their relative send to a sanatorium where the doctors and us viewers learn more about this curious case.\ "Harvey and I sit in the bars… have a drink or two… play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, 'We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella'." ### – Elwood P. Dowd\ ##### Harvey, based on Mary Chase's #PulitzerPrize​Play with the same name, is guaranteed to bring a smile on your face, this humbug's scout's honour! Have a nice #Easter, CineMastodons!/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #EasterSunday #HenryKoster #MaryChase #JamesStewart #FrankSkinner #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #fantasy #drama #animals #rabbits #theatre #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)

Apr

9

freebie: Easter Sunday

Harvey (1950)

Promotional photo. James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, holding a stuffed anthropomorphic rabbit. Both man and bunny wear black hats and smile at the camera. DP: William H. Daniels.

James Stewart is Elwood P. Dowd. An ordinary man with an extraordinary claim: his best friend is an invisible, six feet three and a half inches-tall #pooka – a mythological Celtic, shapeshifting creature – who in Mr Dowd's case resembles a rabbit called Harvey. Elwood's sister and niece, who also occasionally see the furry goblin, have their relative send to a sanatorium where the doctors and us viewers learn more about this curious case.

“Harvey and I sit in the bars… have a drink or two… play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, 'We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella'.”

– Elwood P. Dowd

Harvey, based on Mary Chase's #PulitzerPrize​Play with the same name, is guaranteed to bring a smile on your face, this humbug's scout's honour! Have a nice #Easter, CineMastodons!

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #EasterSunday #HenryKoster #MaryChase #JamesStewart #FrankSkinner #WilliamHDaniels #comedy #fantasy #drama #animals #rabbits #theatre #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/harvey-1950 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:35:15 +0200 The Naked City [Homicide (Jules Dassin, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-naked-city-1948 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Naked City [Homicide (Jules Dassin, 1948)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" All The News That's Fit To Print Day/div div class="img" The Naked City (1948)/div div class="caption" On a crowded subway train, a distraught young woman looks at the back of a newspaper. She may just have read the front, held up by someone offscreen. Headlines read YOUNG MODEL FOUND SLAIN IN BATHTUB. The prop newspaper uses too many typefaces at once. DP: William H. Daniels; still photographers: Bert Anderson & Arthur “Weegee” Fellig./div div class="txt" ##### Filmed on location in New York City, with still photography by Arthur "Weegee" Fellig and others. Weegee was a press photographer known for his stark black-and-white crime scene #photography in the city's seedy underbelly.\ "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." ### – narrator\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #AllTheNewsThatsFitToPrintDay #JulesDassin #BarryFitzgerald #HowardDuff #DorothyHart #WilliamHDaniels #BertAnderson #ArthurWeegeeFellig #Weegee #crime #drama #thriller #NewYork #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Naked City [Homicide (Jules Dassin, 1948)

Feb

10

All The News That's Fit To Print Day

The Naked City (1948)

On a crowded subway train, a distraught young woman looks at the back of a newspaper. She may just have read the front, held up by someone offscreen. Headlines read YOUNG MODEL FOUND SLAIN IN BATHTUB. The prop newspaper uses too many typefaces at once. DP: William H. Daniels; still photographers: Bert Anderson & Arthur “Weegee” Fellig.

Filmed on location in New York City, with still photography by Arthur “Weegee” Fellig and others. Weegee was a press photographer known for his stark black-and-white crime scene #photography in the city's seedy underbelly.

“There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.”

– narrator

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #AllTheNewsThatsFitToPrintDay #JulesDassin #BarryFitzgerald #HowardDuff #DorothyHart #WilliamHDaniels #BertAnderson #ArthurWeegeeFellig #Weegee #crime #drama #thriller #NewYork #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-naked-city-1948 Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:22:23 +0100 Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/grand-hotel-1932 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" World Typing Day/div div class="img" Grand Hotel (1932)/div div class="caption" Despite Flaemmchen – Joan Crawford in her breakout role – is introduced as a “little stenographess”, that's clearly a typewriter on her desk. DP: William H. Daniels./div div class="txt" "Grand Hotel… always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." ### – Flaemmchen\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldTypingDay #EdmundGoulding #VickiBaum #GretaGarbo #JohnBarrymore #JoanCrawford #LionelBarrymore #CharlesMaxwell #WilliamHDaniels #BookAdaptation #typewriters #PreCode #USA #1930s/div /section ]]>

Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932)

Jan

8

World Typing Day

Grand Hotel (1932)

Despite Flaemmchen – Joan Crawford in her breakout role – is introduced as a “little stenographess”, that's clearly a typewriter on her desk. DP: William H. Daniels.

“Grand Hotel… always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”

– Flaemmchen

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldTypingDay #EdmundGoulding #VickiBaum #GretaGarbo #JohnBarrymore #JoanCrawford #LionelBarrymore #CharlesMaxwell #WilliamHDaniels #BookAdaptation #typewriters #PreCode #USA #1930s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/grand-hotel-1932 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 13:10:19 +0100