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Marvelous Movie Mondays!!

EPFC | October 31st, 2016

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!
Guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

For the last week I saved what many consider the crown jewel of Hollywoodized Seattle, Elvis roaming Seattle Center in It Happened at the Worlds Fair. The film was apparently the brain child of then Seattle mayor Albert Roselline to promote the 1962 Seattle’s Worlds Fair, and pitched it to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives. It features a young Kurt Russell in his first film appearance, kicking Elvis in the shins.

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!

EPFC | October 24th, 2016

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

Tugboat Annie Sails Again was a 1940 sequel to the very popular Tugboat Annie made in 1933 staring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. The title character of Annie, the salty skipper of the tugboat Narcissus was rumored to be based on Thea Foss, the founder of Tacoma’s Foss Maritime Co., but Norman Reilly Raine the author of the Tugboat Annie series described the character as “a symbol of all the American women who follow the sea. A cantankerous old lovable seahorse who could out cuss, out fight, and out smart any man on the waterfront”. The story was certainly influenced by the Foss Maritime Co, and the story takes place in the fictional town of Secoma, along with footage of Seattle’s Lake Union. Dressler was too ill for the sequel, but this version featured a young Ronald Reagan as Annie’s ward. Reagan used to tell about the world premiere in Tacoma. The audience was very excited about the sequel based on the popularity of the original, but when they saw how bad it was the cast had to run for their lives.

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!

EPFC | October 17th, 2016

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

Trouble in Mind was released in 1985 and takes place on the mean streets of “Rain City”. By the mid 80s Seattle was showing up on lists as the most livable city in the country, so director Alan Rudolph decided to create a Weimar-SciFi-Noir version of the city complete with the title song sung by Marianne Faithfull, and Divine in her only non-drag role. Divine plays a millionaire villainist art collector who lives in a mansion created out of the Seattle Art Museum. Local artists were asked to fill the set with their paintings and sculptures, so you also have a snapshot of the Seattle’s 80s art scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXT8cHI12Y

Marvelous Movie Mondays

EPFC | October 10th, 2016

Marvelous Movie Mondays!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

McQ is a 1974 film staring John Wayne as an aging Seattle cop who lives on a house boat. According to Wikipedia Dirty Harry was originally to be shot in Seattle and was offered first to Wayne who turned it down. Feeling he made a mistake Wayne made McQ and kept the Seattle location. this was the era of the great car chases and I had to choose from two posted on Youtube. One is a tour of downtown Seattle and I-5 freeway ramps reminiscent of the car chase in Bullitt made a few years earlier. But the other is the final climatic chase ending on the Washington coastline. The action of the scene is framed by the pristine and very chilly ocean beach of the Quinault Indian Reservation.

Marriage, Chinese Style

EPFC | October 3rd, 2016

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Salise Hughes

Our theme this month is Seattle Plays Hollywood, where we will look at a collection of clips from five Seattle inspired movies and TV series that impose a little Hollywood glamour and surrealism on my home town.

This week we will look at an episode of the late 60s TV series Here Come The Brides: Marriage, Chinese Style.

Here Come The Brides was a series that ran from 1968- 1970, and was very loosely based on the true story of Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring marriageable women from the east coast to Seattle in the 1860s. A lot of the show’s popularity was due to teen idol Bobbie Sherman as one of the three brothers, again very loosely based on the Mercers. The show also featured the hit song, The Bluest Skies You’ve Ever Seen Are In Seattle sung by Perry Como. In this episode, Marriage, Chinese Style, Bruce Lee, who was an actual Seattle resident is featured.