Added a link to Saphire’s Favourite Film Club as we haven’t watched it all yet.

SAPHIRE’S FAVOURITE FILM CLUB

Movie of the week

In a hotel awaiting an important guest, Laurel and Hardy arrive just as a Germanic prince, referred to as His Highness, and his prime minister disembark from their car. The prince, with a Von Stroheim style, indulges in a prolonged preening process on his military uniform, causing confusion among the hotel staff. Mistakenly, the hotel assumes Hardy is the prince, leading to a crowd gathering as they sign the register. Eventually, Laurel and Hardy reveal their true roles as staff members, hired to work as a footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel) at a swanky Broadway hotel. The film features comedic scenes, including an automatic elevator mishap where the haughty prince repeatedly tries to board, leading to humorous chaos and dishevelment. Jean Harlow makes a brief appearance in the film as well, adding to the comedic elements.

Highly recommend this.

We really enjoyed this last year ~ like going back in time to a cinema in 1929.

Friday

The Shuttered Room

After Susannah Kelton (Carol Lynley) inherits a mill in her small New England hometown, she travels there with her husband, Mike (Gig Young). When they arrive, they are treated coldly by the villagers and are warned against entering the mill by Susannah’s gloomy Aunt Agatha (Flora Robson) and shady cousin, Ethan (Oliver Reed). When Susannah ignores the warnings and begins to investigate the mill, she learns that its attic hides a sinister family secret.

To The Devil A Daughter (1976)

Dennis Yates Wheatley was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world’s best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s.

Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein in the novel), an obsessed scientist who digs up corpses with his assistant in order to assemble a living being from body parts. The resulting creature, often known as Frankenstein’s monster, is portrayed by Boris Karloff. The makeup for the monster was provided by Jack Pierce. Alongside Clive and Karloff, the film’s cast also includes Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan.

Frankenstein (restored) (1931,)

Free version

(To buy or rent)

Jean Harlow wasn’t in a horror film, so this follows on from The 1931 Frankenstein film. You can watch this as a double bill if you didn’t get chance to watch Frankenstein.
Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures’ 1931 film Frankenstein. As with the first film, Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale starring Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein.[3] The sequel features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the bride. Colin Clive reprises his role as Henry Frankenstein, and Ernest Thesiger plays the role of Doctor Septimus Pretorius. Oliver Peters Heggie plays the role of the old blind hermit.

The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

Saturday

Saturday Walk Club

Lesley Sansone

I haven’t got the ball weights so will just use hand weights.

You can also do this without weights.

Perfume Junky/Jean Harlows favourite perfume/l’ heure bleue

Eddie Cantor and the Goldwyn Girls singing “Keep Young and Beautiful” in Roman Scandals (1933).

I chose this for the song. Unfortunately it could be racist? Not sure what the bloke in the toga actually is. Not sure what pc is anymore, so this might be allowed? I love the song and the video ~ if the freaky bloke is racist couldn’t it be edited? He ruins it anyway as he is like a rubbish characiture like you see in adverts in 2024. If you want me to take it down I will. This sort of rubbish characture is ruining shopping at the moment in m.h.o. Hopefully aesthetics and proper pc will come back soon. Studied P.C. as a teacher. We got told golliwogs and blokes like this were racist ~ but you can get foundation this colour but not in fair skin shades. Fair skin is celtic ~ Scottish people were against slavery and the race that brought down the slave trade. Just saying!!!

Haunted Homes – Se1 – Ep4

Thriller/tv fashion/If it’s a Man Hang up/white Satin Dress ~ size small

Comedy

Harlow 1965

In this fictionalized biopic inspired by the brief life of the 1930s screen siren Jean Harlow (Carroll Baker), Harlow arrives in Los Angeles as a teenager, pushed into showbiz by her mother (Angela Lansbury) and stepfather (Raf Vallone). Kindhearted agent Arthur Landau (Red Buttons) becomes Jean’s mentor, while a devious Howard Hughes-like mogul (Leslie Nielsen) grows infatuated with the beautiful young actress. Harlow herself falls for producer Paul Bern (Peter Lawford) before tragedy strikes.

(Another favourite)

Theme song from 1965’s HARLOW by Bobby Vinton.

Harlow

One of two “Harlow” film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes’s “Hell’s Angels.” She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood’s “Platanum Blonde.”

British entertainment legend Anita Harris performs her award winning show at London’s The Talk of the Town.

Sunday

For our main course we are hoping to get Reisling Wine

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This will work with either pork or chicken.

We might have to do chicken, but found a few Pork recipes for you which I thought looked good.

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sweet-balsamic-pork-caraway-slaw

roasted-pork-loin-recipe-with-herbs-bacon

(I have a day off slimming now, once a week but only have cake once a month.)

If we have chicken, roast potatoes and Reisling will be happy, but do like pork and these recipes look lovely.

Then we finish off with digestif, coffee and a lindt chocolate.

I think 70% cocoa is allowed when you are slimming.

These are gorgeous for a one day off a week treat.

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Are You Being Served S01e04 @ His & Hers

A vagabond falls in love with a poor blind girl. After several encounters with an erratic wealthy drunkard and other obstacles, he attempts to gather money for her treatment.

Hell’s Angels is a 1930 American epic war film, directed and produced by Howard Hughes and starring Ben Lyon, James Hall and Jean Harlow. The film, which was written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook, centers on the combat pilots of World War I. The picture was released by United Artists and, despite its initial poor performance at the box office, eventually earned its production costs twice over.Controversy during the Hell’s Angels production contributed to the film’s notoriety, including the accidental deaths of several pilots, an inflated budget, a lawsuit against a competitor (The Dawn Patrol), and repeated postponements of the release date.