TV Guide: Paulette Goddard

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:45:00 -0500

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Video: Anna Lucasta (1949)

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:06:30 -0500

Starring Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, Oskar Homolka, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford, Will Geer, Gale Page, Mary Wickes Directed by Irving Rapper Print: black/white Runtime: 80 min. Genre: drama Philip Yordan's stage hit Anna Lucasta posed two problems to Hollywood in 1949. For one thing, the story concerned a prostitute who is exploited by her greedy family. For another, the characters were black, thereby cutting the box-office potential in half in those racially divisive times. In adapting Anna Lucasta to the screen, Yordan and co-scripter Arthur Laurents "laundered" the property for popular consumption. Anna's sexual hijinks are only hinted at, and in fact an impressionable viewer might even get the idea that she's still a virgin when the film comes to an end. And the racial angle was tackled by transforming the characters into Polish-Americans, which enabled Paulette Goddard to assume the leading role. Otherwise, the film differs but little from the play: Thrown out of her ho

Video: Anna Lucasta (1949)

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:06:30 -0500

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

This is Charlie Chaplin's last 'silent' film. Charlie turns against modern society (especially the use of sound in films). Charlie is trying to keep up with a production line and tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital.

Video: Kid from Spain, The -- (Movie Clip) What a Perfect Combination!

TCM — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:55:55 -0500

Eddie (Eddie Cantor) in horrible black-face to escape villains, in Kalmar and Ruby's "What a Perfect Combination," staged by Busby Berkeley (said to feature Goldwyn Girls Betty Grable, Jane Wyman and Paulette Goddard) in The Kid from Spain, 1932.

Video: Kid from Spain, The -- (Movie Clip) Look What You've Done!

TCM — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:55:55 -0500

First event in Leo McCarey's The Kid From Spain, 1932, is the Busby Berkeley staging of Kalmar and Ruby's "Look What You've Done," said to feature Goldwyn Girls Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable and Jane Wyman.

Video: On Our Merry Way -- (Movie Clip) Oliver and Martha

TCM — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:49:11 -0500

Co-producer Burgesss Meredith (as Oliver) with Paulette Goddard (as Martha) in a charming domestic scene from the beginning of United Artists' all-star vehicle On Our Merry Way, 1948.

Video: So Proudly We Hail! - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:08:48 -0500

Nurses caught behind enemy lines during World War II fight to survive in So Proudly We Hail! (1943) starring Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard.

Video: Modern Times -- (Movie Clip) Roller Skates

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:04:29 -0500

The little tramp (Charlie Chaplin) and the "gamin" (Paulette Goddard) are on a lark in a department store when they find the roller skates in Modern Times, 1936.

Video: Modern Times -- (Movie Clip) Paradise

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:04:28 -0500

The little tramp (Charlie Chaplin), a factory worker, is sprung from jail and met by "a gamin" (Paulette Goddard) who has found them a new home in Modern Times, 1936.

Video: Dramatic School - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:28:10 -0500

Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard and Lana Turner all go back to Dramatic School (1938).

Video: The Ghost Breakers - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:06:14 -0500

Bob Hope has to turn ghostbust...er, ghostbreaker to clear Paulette Goddard's castle in the horror-comedy The Ghost Breakers (1940).

Video: Pot O' Gold

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:36:39 -0500

Starring the ever-bewildered but lovable James Stewart, the beautiful and tempestuous Paulette Goddard, and bandleader Horace Heidt and His Thirty Musical Knights, "Pot O' Gold" revolves around the band's struggle for its "big break." The members all live in Mrs. McCorkle's boarding house and spend their time practicing on the roof. When Jimmy Haskell (Stewart) arrives in town and meets Molly (Goddard) and the band, he soon has the band on his music-hating uncle's radio show, "The Haskell Happy Hour"--and from there it's straight to the top! The film includes such splashy swing numbers as "When Johnny Toots His Horn," "Pete the Piper," "Do You Believe in Fairy Tales?" and "A Knife, a Fork, and a Spoon." Don't miss this song and dance extravaganza!

Video: Pot O' Gold

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:23:15 -0500