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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 372495" data-attributes="member: 5079">Tonight, I watched AUTUMN LEAVES (1956) for the first time.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was looking for a movie to usher in the fall season; come to find out the movie the movie isn&#039;t even (noticeably) set during autumn.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never bothered with this one before because I assumed it was Joan&#039;s take on those mid-50s Kate Hepburn as a spinster finding love at last films. (I hate those.)&nbsp; &nbsp; I guess it kind of is but, as a Crawford film, much more luridly melodramatic.&nbsp; Even still, I didn&#039;t care for it very much.&nbsp; All the pieces are there, but they don&#039;t add up.&nbsp; I think think the film would have fared better if it had been made a few years earlier, during Joan&#039;s gutsier Warners-era.&nbsp; Being a Columbia feature probably didn&#039;t help; that studio tended towards the second rate.&nbsp; Mostly, though, I just don&#039;t care for Crawford when she was in her Loretta Young mode -- all wide eyed and fluttery.&nbsp; Except for calling Vera Miles a slut, none of Joan&#039;s hard-edged attitude from &#039;45 to &#039;52 is in evidence here.[ATTACH=full]47709[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 372495, member: 5079"] Tonight, I watched AUTUMN LEAVES (1956) for the first time. I was looking for a movie to usher in the fall season; come to find out the movie the movie isn't even (noticeably) set during autumn. I've never bothered with this one before because I assumed it was Joan's take on those mid-50s[I] Kate Hepburn as a spinster finding love at last[/I] films. (I hate those.) I guess it kind of is but, as a Crawford film, much more luridly melodramatic. Even still, I didn't care for it very much. All the pieces are there, but they don't add up. I think think the film would have fared better if it had been made a few years earlier, during Joan's gutsier Warners-era. Being a Columbia feature probably didn't help; that studio tended towards the second rate. Mostly, though, I just don't care for Crawford when she was in her Loretta Young mode -- all wide eyed and fluttery. Except for calling Vera Miles a slut, none of Joan's hard-edged attitude from '45 to '52 is in evidence here. [ATTACH type="full"]47709[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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