Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky in The Magic Flame, 1927.
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?
In theory this tumblr will be full of nibblets relating to classic cinema (both British and American), but lets see how long that lasts.
About Me. Anything else - just ask
can he be cuter?
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Ronald Colman - The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Ronald Colman and Myrna Loy in The Devil to Pay! (1930)
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Director Jack Conway and Ronald Colman discussing the script for A Tale of Two Cities
I REALLY want to watch a Ronald Colman film but which to choose?
The Light that Failed or A Tale of Two Cities?
Hmm.
Christmas dinner at the Colmans’ was a permanent fixture. On went the dinner jacket, down went the turkey, plum pudding and champagne and out poured the speeches. After dinner the women withdrew and over port and brandy the older men reminisced while the younger ones Brian Aherne, George Sanders, Douglas Fairbanks jr., and myself remained respectfully silent because mostly they talked about the great war. Colman had been gassed in it, [Basil] Rathbone had won the military cross, Nigel Bruce had absorbed eleven machine gun bullets in his bottom and Herbert Marshall had lost a leg.
David Niven, Bring on the Empty Horses
Greer Garson and Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942).
This scene - when he’s just sitting there waiting with the parcel. Just waiting. I can’t. Tears. Tears again
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5 minutes in, I’m genuinely not sure I can watch any more, my heart just broke for Ronald Colman
My god, I can’t….excuse me while I just burst in to tears over here. WHY would you let him hope Doctor? Couldn’t you just let them see him without him knowing?
I may be biased, but I think Ronald was an AMAZING actor. His face is so expressive—you just feel everything he is feeling so intensely. (At least I do). I haven’t seen many of his comedies, but he was terrific in The Talk of the Town.
The only Colman comedy that I don’t really care for is My Life with Caroline, and that is because it’s simply not a very good film. His silent comedies were generally excellent (with Kiki being my favorite), and while his sound comedies weren’t always up to that standard, they were usually quite good. The Talk of the Town was the first film I ever saw Colman in, and I was immediately smitten. Champagne for Caesar is a lot of fun, The Late George Apley is dry and wonderful, The Devil to Pay! is charming, and Lucky Partners has a fantastically silly plot, but it is terribly likable.
Colman’s comedies don’t usually get much attention, it seems.
YES! I have Talk of the Town on order and it should be here this week *dance of ecstatic blissful joy* And I am making a note of the others you mentioned. What about dramas if he’s so much better in them? Recommendations please!
Smithy: Some people came to see me at the hospital, but I…I wasn’t their son.
Paula: I bet they were disappointed. Were they?
Smithy: Yes, I think so. I was too. I’d’ve liked to belong to them.
Ok, so my lack of graphics skills cannot do this film justice, but I just wanted something I’d made, some sort of small tribute to say, here - this is all I can do, it’s not much, but thank you.
I didn’t want to swamp everyones dashes with my many many inarticulate comments about ‘Random Harvest’, so here they all are - together (Taken with instagram)
@morninggloryandmidnightsun, @smokeandmirrors3021, @floradoragirl, @lilygarland
lilygarland replied to your post:This film had better end happily - I absolutely honestly will not be able to cope if it doesn’t
I am so happy that you are now on Team Ronnie!
lilygarland replied to your post:5 minutes in, I’m genuinely not sure I can watch any more, my heart just broke for Ronald Colman
I think Ronnie is mistakenly thought of as more of a movie star than an actor…maybe that’s where the not-a-good actor perception comes from. ALL LIES. And I hate that the doctor tells him and sets him up for disappointment like that. RUDE.
I’ve been reading Sheridan Morley’s book about Brits in Hollywood and he talked a lot about Colman and similar actors who he says would never have made it as theatrical stars in Britain so were better off in Hollywood where they could build careers on the cachet of being British and well spoken. But honestly? Colman is clearly excellent!
And I realise the doctor setting him up is the impetus for the story, but I was in tears, and then when Smithy admitted to being disappointed. Just, oh
lilygarland replied to your post:Does Greer ever play ordinary women? She always seems to play women of exceptional kindness and understanding
I love when she first meets him in the smoke shop…”you are from the asylum. aren’t you?” Just the way her magnificent voice sounds!
She does have an absolutely amazing voice, it’s so soothing.
smokeandmirrors3021 replied to your post:Does Greer ever play ordinary women? She always seems to play women of exceptional kindness and understanding
For Greer, that is ordinary ♥ By all accounts, she was a woman of exceptional kindness and understanding xD I CAN’T EXPRESS MY LOVE FOR HER ENOUGH!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaah, Greer was really like that? SHE IS WONDERFUL, I LOVE HER. Why did it take me so long to discover how AMAZING she is!?
RECOMMEND MOAR GREER FILMS PLEASE! Although I would like to see her do something silly - it was so fun when she was singing and dancing because that is NOT what I associate with Greer Garson
smokeandmirrors3021 replied to your post:5 minutes in, I’m genuinely not sure I can watch any more, my heart just broke for Ronald Colman
Ronald Colman is gorgeous and I want to marry him ♥♥ Oh yeah, I think he’s a great actor too :D
floradoragirl replied to your post:5 minutes in, I’m genuinely not sure I can watch any more, my heart just broke for Ronald Colman
Oh I adore Ronald Colman. I don’t think he was terribly well suited to comedies, but he was wonderful in the dramas.
I haven’t seen him in any comedies yet, but I am now going to make it my life’s mission to see EVERYTHING he’s done
morninggloryandmidnightsun replied to your post:5 minutes in, I’m genuinely not sure I can watch any more, my heart just broke for Ronald Colman
WAIT TILL YOU GET TO THE PART WITH GREER …breaks my poor girl’s heart. Tears, tears, tears everywhere. And Ronald Colman’s face in sad moments..I couldn’t take it. He’s so great.
I’ve spend the entire first half of the film going ‘oh my god she’s going to die, she’s going to die’ BUT NO, he’s forgotten her.
