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Did I watch this film just to see Barbara in this outfit? Of course I did. Didn’t we all?

Okay Joel McCrea’s character kys challenge go. Hate to see Barbara giving up everything for a man. Gotta be my least favourite genre fr fr

How perfectly charming!! Herbert Marshall in this really reminded me of Ronnie Colman which, you know, is always nice <3

Watched this whilst drinking tea from my Cluny Brown mug and nothing has ever felt more right

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

What do you take me for Bulldog Drummond?

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

When he begged her to get on the lifeboat but she refused to let go of him… I shall never recover

I would like to thank this film for giving us one of Joan’s gayest (recorded) moments

Garbo’s character is so meee

Claudette realised she was a lesbian at the end and went to get herself a girlfriend. My favourite gay girl <3

Claudette my comedy queen <3

I saw Barbara sing “take it off the E string play it on the G string” and do the splits and suddenly I have no problems in life

I bet this was one of Joan Crawford’s favourite films xx

Wow okay didn’t expect this to be one of the sweetest yet saddest things I’ve ever seen!!

I told my English teacher that, in an Old Hollywood casting, Gregory Peck should play the Cardinal which he really liked, and by the way that he is portrayed in this adaptation, I can confirm that I am correct

A group of mobsters planning to kill a man because he made Jean Arthur cry is so real

I decided that a Jean comedy was the only thing to stop me from throwing up before my first written exam tomorrow xx

Wow this was really nonstop!! What fun and what great characters. The waterfall number has to be my favourite because all the girls in it are lesbians and the song reminds me Under The Moon by Annette Hanshaw which is always nice

Larry’s adaptation is so good and he was great as a director but I fear I can’t take him seriously. Jeanie as Ophelia changed my brain chemistry I’m so obsessed with her interpretation. I like Larry’s decision for her to become more feminine in her madness with the flowers and everything, thank youu!

Also Larry soo thought Hamlet had the Oedipus complex. He’s actually so much like Hamlet when you think about it lol. Couldn’t think of a better actor to play him

The wisecracks are the best thing about this. Just wanted to share two of my favourites:

(Regarding how empty the audience is)
The ushers are quitting because they’re scared of the dark

(During a boxing match)
You swing like you’re waving goodbye to your grandmother

Help the amount of times I mistook Warner Baxter for Ronnie Colman while watching this..

Ginger and Una are the cutest girlfriends <3

Celebrating 80 years since VE Day with everyone’s favourite wife ✌️

I think it’s important to on this day not just the celebrations that took place but the people who sacrificed and lost their lives to make it possible

Lanky Jimmy Stewart sings and dances. Una Merkel is on a bridge with cars whizzing by and tells her 3 year old daughter “go play!”. This wasn’t great but it was funny in a wtf is this kinda way.
That last number was so impressive though, Eleanor’s stamina is insane!!

I’m an unholy mess of a girl

Sooo when are we killing Tracy’s father?

My mother did not like :(

I got the most beautiful cigarette cards today from 1934 that came in an original case (I am very proud of them if you couldn’t tell) and for some reason they put me in the mood to watch a slightly bad 30s chorus musical (you know the type) so I enjoyed this more than I probably should have <3

The typewriter dance truly is so beautiful

Top 10 saddest moments in film:

no music :(

Happy birthday dearest Audrey!! 
I love the part where she ran back to him at the end <3

When I was younger the galaxy chocolate advert with Audrey in this film was my favourite, I always made a point to watch it when it was on

I wanted to watch something beautiful and charming so I naturally, as any person would, went straight to Ronnie’s filmography

Felt like watching a Merle Oberon film and ahh this was so cutee she was so sweet and Gary Cooper was so awkward. I will forever be thinking about their special chairs

I would like to thank this film for giving us Claudette yelling at Fred MacMurray in French and threatening to throw a rock at him 

Also my dad knows him as “the rooftop lunch guy” (supposed to be from The Gilded Lily) and I think that’s very funny

Me whenever I see a pretentious actor: it’s Larry!!

I fear Livvy’s character may be a bit too real… she’s so me

But you can’t play scrabble, not with adults!

I know how to cheat at it!

This film is so good but I just know I would find it so boring without Jeanie as Hattie she’s so chaotic and impulsive I love her

Oh my gosh what fun and what a great cast!! Carole Lombard and Una Merkel were a wonderful duo. Also they really ate up with the publicity photographs for this film. Like wow look at this. All the glamour that is old Hollywood right there.

Guess I’m back to watching 30s films!! Idk if it’s just me but warm weather = 1920s and 30s

Tag yourself I’m the old man who lives with the ghosts and has a ghost dog and mistakes Joanie and Clark for ghosts and dances with her and almost kills himself

When Cary asks if Ann has a wife? Yes it’s me she’s my husband thank you

Annual birthday watch woop woop. It never fails ✊

So kind of the Prince Charles cinema to play the most joyful film of all time just for me on my birthday <3

Also my dad got me a Cluny Brown mug #estatic

My Favourite Wife but better because Jean Arthur with her bows takes advantage of having two husbands pining after her

The fellow doth protest too much, methinks

Yes Joan stand up to your shit, fascist husband!!

Thought I’d watch something relaxing before my 3 day photography exam starts tomorrow xoxo

One thing about Claudette is that she’s always going to drive a man crazy and one thing about me is that I’ll always have the time of my life watching her do it <3

In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.

Real ones can see Harvey. I’ve been finding out lately that I’m oh so bad at facing reality, anyone else ‼️

I could write a sonnet,
About your Easter bonnet,
And of the girl I’m taking
To the Easter parade

The title song (but Bing Crispy singing it) has been stuck in my head all day, so I thought it was finally time to watch this and it was so lovely <3
Ann Miller you underrated icon!!

Hedy was such an incredible person and I have nothing but love and iration for her. I love getting to tell people about her invention as she is such an inspiration. It’s so sad that she was failed by almost everyone around her, I always think of that newspaper about her with the heading “nobody wants me now”, it breaks my heart, I want you Hedy!! </3

Danny Kaye you absolutely whimsical fellow you 

Couldn’t get over how sweet Jean’s voice was

But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I'll keep you. I'll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you are with me.

Currently rereading Wuthering Heights aka I’m happier than ever.
Better than I thought it was going to be. Quite like the 1939 adaptation in many ways but finally angst and ion and anger!! Yes!!
Thoughts:
Cathy was SO GOOD, I loved her madness scene and I’m quite pleased with Cathy and Heathcliff’s last meeting which is my favourite chapter in the novel. The scene with her ghost was very well done I loved it. As an adaptation though it wasn’t great but I’ll be more lenient as it was made for tv. But.. Nelly was not mean and judgy enough!! Isabella would never stand up to Cathy in that way!! Edgar was not weak enough!! Heathcliff was not dirty enough!! Heathcliff calling for Cathy across the moors as she was marrying Edgar?! Thought I was watching Jane Eyre for a second

I found four pictures of Hedy with guns today, I wish she would’ve used one in this film <3

It’s just Deeds and his fire trucks against the world

Girl boss Claudette in tros bossing Fred MacMurray around. Thank you very much!!

As a photography student I’m claiming photographer Claudette, thank you very much <3

Also her teaching a bunch of grown ass men to play musical chairs is peak comedy. She also boxes Fred MacMurray in the ear so that was great too

Ohh Babs was so good in this!! She was so girl boss, cutie patootie and heartbreaking. That’s my favourite gay girl right there!!

Also Gary Cooper was so sweet in this I couldn’t get over it. I definitely need to watch more Capra his messages are like warm hugs.

My exams may be in 5 weeks but dear Vivien is more important than all of that

Twould reward thou film with 5 stars for dear, ethereal Vivien. Alas, thy darling twas not appearing enough for such a rating

But Mr Belinski, what if there should be three of us?
Then I’ll write a sequel. But why limit ourselves? I’ll write a serial.
Oh Mr Belinski, I don’t think I’ll have much time for plumbing!

No duo has ever had more whimsy than Cluny and Mr Belinski

Never thought I’d see Bob Hope spoon Bing Crosby and Bing Crosby slap Bob Hope’s ass

All the old(ish) films I’ve watched <3

• Roman Holiday
• Valley of the Dolls
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
• Band of Outsiders
• Vertigo
• The Wrecking Crew
• The Swimming Pool
• North by Northwest
• Sabrina

...plus 430 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Aka my most special interest
(Mostly) made about World War II, during World War II

• Mrs. Miniver
• So Proudly We Hail
• Casablanca
• The Great Dictator
• To Be or Not to Be
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Hollywood Victory Caravan
• Foreign Correspondent
• I Was a Male War Bride
• Since You Went Away

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Scream
• Halloween
• The Shining
• Clueless
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Footloose
• Moulin Rouge!
• Girl, Interrupted
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

...plus 147 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Make yourself comfortable and pull up a tombstone

• Wuthering Heights
• Supernatural
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• The Woman in the Window
• Rebecca
• Uncle Silas
• Dragonwyck
• Bell, Book and Candle
• Charade
• Psycho

...plus 134 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Me vibes

• Portrait of Jennie
• Sunset Boulevard
• Rebecca
• Wuthering Heights
• Cluny Brown
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Madame Bovary
• The Spiral Staircase
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• The Clouded Yellow

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top 4 on profile are current favourites
First 10 are in order the rest is a general mess <3

1. Babylon
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Stage Door
4. The Young Girls of Rochefort
5. Gone with the Wind
6. Bringing Up Baby
7. Rebecca
8. Cluny Brown
9. Portrait of Jennie
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I am all the women who came before me

• Cluny Brown
• Bringing Up Baby
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Of Human Bondage
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• The Strawberry Blonde
• You Can't Take It with You
• It's Love I'm After
• My Man Godfrey
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white 

• It's a Wonderful Life
• White Christmas
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Bell, Book and Candle
• That Wonderful Urge
• Anna Karenina
• Swing Time
• The Thin Man

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Aka my life goal

• Stage Door
• Portrait of Jennie
• Top Hat
• Sunset Boulevard
• Gone with the Wind
• Sherlock Jr.
• Mrs. Miniver
• Cluny Brown
• Bringing Up Baby
• All About Eve

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(Mostly) silent films I desperately need found

• Rough House Rosie
• Cleopatra
• The American Venus
• Across the Pacific
• Pay as You Enter
• State Street Sadie
• Her Nature Dance
• Moths
• Turn Back the Hours
• Diane of the Follies

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Haven’t decided on North By Northwest yet

1. The Fighting Generation
2. Rebecca
3. Vertigo
4. Notorious
5. Rear Window
6. Psycho
7. Strangers on a Train
8. Shadow of a Doubt
9. Foreign Correspondent
10. Rope

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Doll
2. So This Is Paris
3. Orphans of the Storm
4. Girl Shy
5. Fanchon, the Cricket
6. Our Dancing Daughters
7. The Poor Little Rich Girl
8. Flesh and the Devil
9. The Freshman
10. Sherlock Jr.

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Obsessed with the first 5

1. Top Hat
2. Swing Time
3. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
4. The Gay Divorcee
5. Carefree
6. Roberta
7. Follow the Fleet
8. The Barkleys of Broadway
9. Flying Down to Rio
10. Shall We Dance

• Girl, Interrupted
• Black Swan
• Gia
• The Virgin Suicides
• Suspiria
• The Children's Hour
• Life Is Beautiful
• Carol
• Speak
• Possession

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Doors
• Almost Famous
• The Dirt
• Woodstock
• Moonage Daydream
• Elvis
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Daisy Jones & the Six
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Runaways

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Dirt
• The Doors
• Woodstock
• Revolution
• Jefferson Airplane: Fly
• The Hippie Revolution
• Meeting the Beatles in India
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World
• Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
• The Beatles and India

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.