Thanks, as always, Oksana for you magnificent command of cine-arcana. I forgot about Night Editor...brrrr cold dame!
The Marie Dressler is actually out in the Warner Archives collection--we'll definitely bag it. The others reside in the big archives in the sky, only, I'm afraid. We've got the Stanwyck on order...can't wait. Why or why isn't there more Kay Francis available? Ever see "One Way Passage" (1932) with Wm Powell?...wonderfully strange. Kay looks like the deco hood ornament from a 1932 Packard Touring car...amazing. gary > Thank you Gary for a pleasant take-my-mind-off work assignment. > > Here are some titles that come to mind: > > The under-rated Janis Carter in Framed (1947) but particularly Night > Editor (1946): you don't get more cold-blooded fatale than this. (out on > DVD) > > Polly Moran and Marie Dressler in Politics (1931) a Lysistrata > story. (Warner Archive) > > Front Page Woman (1935) with Bette Davis as a journalist competing > against men but better still the whole Torchy Blane series now > available from Warner Archive. > > And speaking of series, what about all the Maisie films starring Ann > Sothern from Maisie (1939) to Undercover Maisie (1947). TCM shows > them occasionally but not commercially out as far as I know. > > Kay Francis deserves some space: she appeared in the title role of > Dr. Monica (1934) and Mary Stevens M.D. (1933) this would be TCM territory > What about Barbara Stanwyck who se new DVD box set is either out now > or out any minute now.. > > I wish I had more time. > > Oksana > > O. Dykyj > Head, Visual Media Resources > Faculty of Fine Arts > Concordia University > Montreal, Canada > > > > At 03:53 PM 17/05/2010, you wrote: >>Hi all >> >>As a way of decompressing after the end of the semester, I'm putting >>together a goofy videography of UCB video holdings entitled: >> >>Vamps, Tramps, Hookers, Femmes Fatales and Kick-ass Gurrrls: >> Transgressive >>Women in the Movies >> >>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/transgressivewomen.html >> >>This is admittedly a real grab-bag: includes women crossing sexual >>boundaries, sundry violent babes, revenge narratives, madwomen, riot >>gurrrrls, super-heroines, what have you... >> >>What have I left out (besides catwoman from Batman Returns and Lisa >>Simpson)? I'm mainly looking for films in which the transgressive woman >>plays a central or leading role. >> >>Have fun! >> >>Gary Handman >>Director >>Media Resources Center >>Moffitt Library >>UC Berkeley >> >>510-643-8566 >>ghand...@library.berkeley.edu >>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC >> >>"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." >>--Francois Truffaut >> >> >>VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >>issues relating to the selection, evaluation, >>acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current >>and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It >>is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for >>video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between >>libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
