would you like a fancy outfit with that arranged marriage?
July 20, 2011 2:21 PM Subscribe
what is this movie?
saw it yeeeears ago on tv...sunday afternoon movie of the type that doesn't tell you what you are watching ('and now back to our sunday afternoon movie!')...started watching about 10 mins in, no end credits.
so, clues:
black and white
historical drama...french baroque(?), maybe later...def had hand fans
fiction
UH-mazing costumes
prob made in the 40s or 50s (def not wartime...too many yards of fabric)
story:
pretty farm girl falls in love with handsome stable boy. handsome stable boy only sees profit in her good looks and pleasant demeanor, marries her off to the local lord down the lane. he's old and promptly dies, so he keeps marrying her off higher and higher up the social order, eventually she becomes a duchess, but still longs for her stable boy...the costumes keep getting more and more fabulous...there's a scene where they meet in a park where she is wearing a strolling outfit in a crazy peppermint stripe with a truly gigantic mad hatter-type top hat with like, half an ostrich worth of feathers stuck through it, possibly a parasol.
what movie is this?
saw it yeeeears ago on tv...sunday afternoon movie of the type that doesn't tell you what you are watching ('and now back to our sunday afternoon movie!')...started watching about 10 mins in, no end credits.
so, clues:
black and white
historical drama...french baroque(?), maybe later...def had hand fans
fiction
UH-mazing costumes
prob made in the 40s or 50s (def not wartime...too many yards of fabric)
story:
pretty farm girl falls in love with handsome stable boy. handsome stable boy only sees profit in her good looks and pleasant demeanor, marries her off to the local lord down the lane. he's old and promptly dies, so he keeps marrying her off higher and higher up the social order, eventually she becomes a duchess, but still longs for her stable boy...the costumes keep getting more and more fabulous...there's a scene where they meet in a park where she is wearing a strolling outfit in a crazy peppermint stripe with a truly gigantic mad hatter-type top hat with like, half an ostrich worth of feathers stuck through it, possibly a parasol.
what movie is this?
Costumes:
http://vintagefilmpropsandcostumes.blogspot.com/2009/12/forever-linda-darnell.html
(sorry- my computer's not letting me do links today.)
posted by small_ruminant at 2:27 PM on July 20, 2011
http://vintagefilmpropsandcostumes.blogspot.com/2009/12/forever-linda-darnell.html
(sorry- my computer's not letting me do links today.)
posted by small_ruminant at 2:27 PM on July 20, 2011
Sorry- the plot is right, and the year (1947) but apparently it was shot in Technicolor.
posted by small_ruminant at 2:32 PM on July 20, 2011
posted by small_ruminant at 2:32 PM on July 20, 2011
Response by poster: yeah...i def remember it being black and white, but i could be wrong...(but i don't think so...i def remember the outfit in the park as being obviously brightly colored, even though you couldn't see the colors...a big part of why i want to see it again) i also remember the lead being more of a pawn and less of a social climber...that DOES look like a good movie though!
posted by sexyrobot at 2:41 PM on July 20, 2011
posted by sexyrobot at 2:41 PM on July 20, 2011
Storyline sounds like something Guy de Maupassant could have written... but it doesn't seem that any American films have been made based on any of his works. Was it in English? And if so, could it have been dubbed?
posted by likeso at 3:24 PM on July 20, 2011
posted by likeso at 3:24 PM on July 20, 2011
The Story of a Farm Girl (scroll down)
"ITV (Granada) / 1963 black and white
Story: Guy de Mauppasant / Writer: Doris Lessing / Director: Silvio Narizzano / Producer: Philip Mackie
Drama. A young farm girl falls in love but after being passed over turns to a middle aged farmer for comfort. Part of a series of plays based on stories by Guy de Mauppasant."
posted by Iris Gambol at 6:05 PM on July 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
"ITV (Granada) / 1963 black and white
Story: Guy de Mauppasant / Writer: Doris Lessing / Director: Silvio Narizzano / Producer: Philip Mackie
Drama. A young farm girl falls in love but after being passed over turns to a middle aged farmer for comfort. Part of a series of plays based on stories by Guy de Mauppasant."
posted by Iris Gambol at 6:05 PM on July 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
The story for "The Story of a Farm Girl" seems a little bit different, if the French account on Wikipedia is correct, from what you describe. It says that the girl meets the farm boy and becomes pregnant after an affair with him, and when he leaves her, she marries the farm owner for whom she works, giving the baby she has to friends for safekeeping and hiding her previous pregnancy from her new husband. When she does not conceive a child with her new husband, he becomes angry and violent towards her, until she admits that she has a son, which comes to him as a relief so he adopts the son as his own.
posted by urbanlenny at 8:32 AM on July 21, 2011
posted by urbanlenny at 8:32 AM on July 21, 2011
The plot as you remember it is a bit off, but, was it Kitty with Paulette Goddard?
posted by Hanuman1960 at 9:43 AM on July 21, 2011
posted by Hanuman1960 at 9:43 AM on July 21, 2011
Response by poster: hmm...yeah...none of those seem right...they all seem to be stories of willing social climbing...the female lead IIRC had a lot more in common with Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's 'Notorious'...being more swept along with the ride...plus there was that HAT...srsly, it was like a top hat the size of an oil drum...am i imagining this sunday afternoon movie i saw in chicago in '93 or '94? good lord...will watch both kitty and forever amber...i might be wrong...
posted by sexyrobot at 12:16 PM on July 21, 2011
posted by sexyrobot at 12:16 PM on July 21, 2011
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posted by small_ruminant at 2:24 PM on July 20, 2011