Robert Morley (British, 1857-1941) The Literary Critics, 1888 oil on panel, 25 x 30 in (63.5 x 76.2 cm) via Christies

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The Literary Critics. Robert Morley (1857-1941)

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Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

ROBERT MORLEY (1908-1992)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1938 for Marie Antoinette

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LOUISE FLETCHER (1934-2022)

WINS:

Lead- 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Alice in Wonderland (1985)

Law and Disorder (1958)

"Right, now listen boys, it's all lined up: we're getting rid of the judge."

"What?"

"Knock off a judge? You must be raving, we'll spend the rest of our lives in clink."

"Here, let me out!"

"We don't have to touch him. Police are gonna arrest him."

"Oh, that's better. Thought we'd turned nasty."

Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power in Marie Antoinette 1938 💎

Robert Morley and Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938)

Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, Henry Stephenson. Screenplay: Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda. Cinematography: William H. Daniels. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Henry Grace. Film editing: Robert Kern. Costume design: Adrian, Gile Steele. Music: Herbert Stothart.

Hollywood historical hokum, W.S. Van Dyke's Marie Antoinette was a vehicle for Norma Shearer that had been planned for her by her husband, Irving G. Thalberg, who died in 1936. MGM stuck with it because as Thalberg's heir, Shearer had control of a large chunk of stock. It also gave her a part that ran the gamut from the fresh and bubbly teenage Austrian archduchess thrilled at the arranged marriage to the future Louis XVI, to the drab, worn figure riding in a tumbril to the guillotine. Considering that it takes place in one of the most interesting periods in history, it could have been a true epic if screenwriters Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Ernest Vajda (with uncredited help from several other hands, including F. Scott Fitzgerald) hadn't been pressured to turn it into a love story between Marie and the Swedish Count Axel Fersen. But the portrayal of their affair was stifled by the Production Code's squeamishness about sex, and the long period in which Marie and Louis fail to consummate their marriage lurks unexplained in the background. MGM threw lots of money at the film: Shearer sashays around in Adrian gowns with panniers out to here, with wigs up to there, and on sets designed and decorated by Cedric Gibbons and Henry Grace that make the real Versailles look puny. The problem is that nothing like a genuine human emotion appears on the screen, and the perceived necessity of glamorizing the aristocrats turns the French Revolution on its head. The cast of thousands includes John Barrymore as Louis XV, Gladys George as Madame du Barry, and Joseph Schildkraut (made up with what looks like Jean Harlow's eyebrows and Joan Crawford's lipstick) as the foppish Duke of Orléans. The best performance in the movie comes from Morley, who took the role after the first choice, Charles Laughton, proved unavailable; Morley earned a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his film debut. With the exception of The Women (George Cukor, 1939), in which she is upstaged by her old rival Joan Crawford, this is Shearer's last film of consequence. When she turned 40 in 1942, she retired from the movies and lived in increasing seclusion until her death, 41 years later. It says something about Shearer's status in Hollywood that Greta Garbo, who retired at about the same time, and who also sought to be left alone, was the more legendary figure and was more ardently pursued by gossips and paparazzi.

Shirl's 90. Geburtstag begehen wir gleich siebenfach mit Vittorio De Sicas reizender Sammlung unmoralischer Geschichtchen, in der sie sieben verschieden Frauen spielt. Hoch soll sie leben! Sieben mal hoch.

Heaven Can Wait - CBS - November 16, 1960

A presentation of DuPont Show of the Month Season 4 Episode 3

Comedy / Drama

Running Time: 90 minutes

Stars:

Anthony Franciosa as Joe Pendleton

Joey Bishop as Max Levine

Wally Cox as Messenger 7013

Frank McHugh as Lefty

Diana Van der Vlis as Julia Farnsworth

Robert Morley as Mr. Jordan

Paul Stevens as Tony Abbott

Paul Reed as Inspector

Patrick Waddington as Butler

Elizabeth Ashley as Bette

Bud Palmer as Announcer

Martin Ashe as First Escort

Jean Sincere as Suzie

Farrell Pelly as Doctor

Henry Wallitsch as Smallings

Sending a Message to Robert Morley

Ladies Who Do | C.M. Pennington-Richards | 1963

The captain applied to the port-admiral, and obtained permission to send parties on shore to impress seamen. The second and third lieutenants, and the oldest midshipmen, were despatched on shore every night, with some of the most trustworthy men, and generally brought on board in the morning about half a dozen men, whom they had picked up in the different alehouses or grog-shops, as the sailors call them. Some of them were retained, but most of them sent on shore as unserviceable; for it is the custom, when a man either enters, or is impressed, to send him down to the surgeon in the cock-pit, where he is stripped and examined all over, to see if he be sound and fit for his Majesty's service; and if not, he is sent on shore again.

— Frederick Marryat, Peter Simple

The Press Gang, by Robert Morley (1857–1941).

Jon Hamm for imogene + willie.

Photo and styling by me. https://www.instagram.com/morleyrobert/

(Original Caption) They "beat the devil" together...Three famous screen personalities exchange comments upon their arrival in London by plane from location in southern Italy for BEAT THE DEVIL (1953), Robert Morley, Humphrey Bogart, and Peter Lorre

Robert Morley, May 26, 1908 – June 3, 1992.

Films Watched in 2022:

83. A Study in Terror (1965) - Dir. James Hill