Humoresque (1946)

who chooses a violin over joan crawford this is so unrealistic

Sara Clements

JOAN CRAWFORD IN GLASSES

Melina

It’s kinda funny that the two big Hollywood divas of the time and famous rival Bette Davis and Joan Crawford both made movies in 1946 about being in love with a driven musician. For Davis, it was “Deception” a romance-drama with a touch of Film Noir and and for Crawford it…

Gregor Kreyca

Love and talent are weighed for their credit-worthiness in Jean Negulesco’s romantic melodrama, “Humoresque.”  Joan Crawford and John Garfield, who came of age in the Great Depression, here play lovers whose morals are tested by their characters having done the same. With…

theriverjordan

“i can be unhappy in any key. depressed is my favorite word.” 🎀 𓂅♡.  this film is so boring but joan saying “get my glasses for me like a good boy” made it worth watching — definitely not her best film but her character is just so iconic ♡

alanisㅤ󠀠󠀠󠀠.

Major spoilers in the last paragraph of the review. In his 1956 Life Magazine article "Changing Roles in Modern Marriage," Robert Coughlan laid out gender roles this way: For a man, the sexual role requires aggressiveness and a certain degree of dominance, even of…

sakana1

there’s a special place in hell reserved for people who put Joan Crawford second.

támmy💫

oh to be joan crawford dramatically crying while walking on the beach with violin music swelling behind her

emma

TW: mentions of suicide Some spoilers "I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place." "I don't know how you men get that way but every time you meet an attractive woman you begin to plan on how and where you can club her…

Zoë 🐛