Here are 10 things you should know about C. Aubrey Smith, born 160 years ago today. He exemplified the stiff-upper-lip English gentleman on stage and screen.
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Question of the day
We won’t lie to you (we never do) — we’ve been disappointed that there haven’t been more comments here at Cladrite Radio since our launch some months back.
But it turns out that (as a kindly member of the Cladrite Clan pointed out to us today) our settings didn’t allow comments (boy, are our faces red)!
We’ve rectified that problem now, and you can comment to your heart’s content. And to celebrate our finally solving this previously unrecognized problem, we’re bumping our first Question of the Day entry to the top of the page, so those of you who’d like to share your favorite obscure pre-1955 movie with us can finally do so.
Sorry for the confusion!
What’s your favorite pre-1955 movie that you’re convinced no one else (no one among your friends and family, anyway) has seen?
Ours would be the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch classic Trouble in Paradise. Starring Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis, and Miriam Hopkins, with stellar turns in smaller roles by Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, and C. Aubrey Smith, this wonderful romantic comedy is well nigh perfect — sly, sexy and sophisticated, exuding the famous Lubitsch touch from start to finish.
It’s not a movie for the callow, but for anyone who’s lived a bit, it fairly sparkles.
How about you — what’s the one lesser-known pre-1955 picture you’d urge your friends (and us) to see?