Posted on 10/11/2010 7:54:08 PM PDT by FromLori
Hollywood, CA—I just finished watching another great Henry Hathaway, film noir classic, The Dark Corner (1946) starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb. Mark Steven’s plays a recently paroled private eye trying to rebuild his life and business. Ball plays the private dick’s new secretary. After the PI is targeted and endangered in a somewhat convoluted scheme, Ball’s clever character comes to his rescue at every opportunity. This film is available for instant play if you’ve got a Netflix account.
As a long time real life PI, I can’t imagine the luck of having a secretary like that in a million years. Together they overcome amazing odds and in case you’ve never seen the film I won’t spoil it be revealing the ending.
In The Dark Corner, Ball was a stunning 35 year-old looker that appeared much younger. Her grace, charm and acting were terrific. This is amazing in spite of the fact that Ball left, The John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City after only a few weeks. He acting coaches told Ball she had no talent!
As a child I grew up with a family TV show, I Love Lucy. It had its comic moments but it was more a comic soap opera of sorts in the lives of two couples, the Ricardo’s and the Mertz’s. Lucy was always up to mischief that usually backfired to the chagrin of her real life husband Desi.
Ball died in 1989 at age 77, when a recently repaired aorta ruptured. Aging and death is most unfair but the truth is we’re all in this together and none of us will get out alive.
What I really did not know was Ball’s age. She was already in her 40’s when she began her, I Love Lucy series. Her first husband Desi Arnez was seven years her junior.
This famous TV pioneer couple made entertainment history beginning with the three camera shoot of their series. With three cameras, scenes could be shot and edited together saving countless hours of setups and retakes.
Together they formed Desilou Productions and that led to many thousands of hours of programming that still seen and enjoyed today all over the world. Their 20 year marriage was volatile and finally ended after their second divorce filing in 1960. It’s always been said by their biographers that their love for each other never really waned, they just had difficulties mostly attributed to Desi that could not be overcome.
Not that long ago I had to do some business with Kelsey Grammar’s production company, Gramnet which was at the time located in the Lucille Ball Bungalow at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. I suspect the name Lucille Ball will be repeated hundreds of years after her death. She was indeed an artist.
When doing a little research for this story I learned that Ball actually joined the Communist Party and registered to vote that way in her earlier days. Ball’s politics were as red as her hair. The Communists always recruited members heavily in Hollywood because they knew that movie stars influence the masses. That still is the case today for sure.
The funny thing about Hollywood’s Communists, they all made huge fortunes through Capitalism. I will never be able to figure out that paradox.
Reagan was friends with everyone in Hollywood it seems. Lots of friends on the left, yet they really liked the man personally.
Lloyd Bridges was a “World Federalist” not a Communist. There is a difference. Keifer Sutherland’s mother and father, Donald Sutherland, are/were communists.
“I will never be able to figure out that paradox.”
It makes sense, really.
The answer is that communism (progressivism) is a lie, through and through. Every claim of communism is in fact the opposite of the truth.
The policies of progressivism accomplish the opposite of what they claim.
Karl Marx was apparently a satanist, so I wouldn’t expect anything else.
What? Are Republicans supposed to be fat? Adolph Menjou and Ginger Rogers were Republicans too.
Not likely. He was a decorated pilot that served in WW2 and Vietnam, rose to the rank of Brigadier General. Staunch Republican who supported Reagan. About the most leftist thing he did was call for support of LBJ's 1968 Gun Control Act. But then so did Charlton Heston. Heston of course later made up for this indiscretion by becoming President of the NRA and giving his famous 'from my cold dead hands' speech.
Wasn’t Marx an athetist?
Jimmy Stewart was a lifelong Republican as were many/most of the golden era Hollywood stars.
In several biographies, its mentioned that she registered as a Communist to please her grandfather (one said it was her grandmother, but her grandfather was the adventurous type) that she lived with after her father died. She apparently wasn’t involved in political activities and forgot about it until McCarthy started ferreting out the Hollywood Reds. She apparently convinced the McCarthy committee that her registration was just that.
Jimmy Stewart was an Air Force General as well. I am pretty sure I have some official photos of him by military photographers stashed somewhere. Pretty sure he retired in the early 60’s. That SAC movie was not far from the truth.
The Ox-Bow Incident is about an angry mob of vigilantes who capture and hang three men who end up being innocent.
Fonda's role in that movie is as the defender of due process.
His role in Twelve Angry Men is as the lone hold-out on a jury deciding whether or not to find a young man guilty of murder. He again is the voice of calm in an ocean of vengeance and retribution.
Both of these movies are excellent and Fonda plays the most American of roles in both - the man who stands for upholding the law and considering all of the facts presented and the rights of a murderer to get a fair trial.
In both of those movies, Honda defends the pursuit of truth and is vindicated.
There are still innocent men convicted in real life by the emotion of those seeking retribution.
If I’m not mistaken, Duke Wayne was friends with Henry Fonda.
Sorry, for misspelling Fonda as Honda.
Well, those are your interpretations, and you’re certainly entitled to them. I’m sure Henry, Jane, and Peter would share your interpretation. I simply don’t.
How does 12 Angry Men impugn decent Americans? Keep in mind that it was originally a TV drama that Fonda had nothing to do with. He simply produced and acted in the film version.
Your question potentially introduces a somewhat lengthy discussion, at the end of which I would conclude that “atheism” is in fact a tool of satanism.
But here’s more specific, though maybe not conclusive, evidence of Marx’s satanism in his writings:
“The hellish vapors rise and fill the brain,
Till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed.
See this sword? The prince of darkness sold it to me. -
For me beats the time and gives the signs.
Ever more boldly I play the dance of death.”
“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the face of the world,
And see the collapse of this pygmy giant whose fall will not stifle my ardor.
Then will I wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world
And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator”
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/marx.htm
I would advise against reading much at all on this topic, because it should be shunned and rebuked. I post this only for the sake of seeking truth.
Glory to God, and may he have mercy on us all in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
That’s sounds more like inflated rhetoric more than anything else.
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