Gorgeous and Hussy

How do you feel about Mark Hamill getting second billing in Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens?

The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.

I have always thought of hussy as an immoral woman. Whatever that means. I guess an innkeeper's daughter in those immoral days would fit the bill, although Crawford does not exactly fit that, exactly. TCM is on a bend today with a few pictures with her starring. They just played an earlier one, CHAINED, in which she plays a woman with several "romances" intertwined and cannot make up her mind...another good flick.

This one, as stated above, is chocked so full of stars (choked so full?) you just want to watch it to see them all crowded into one picture.

I imagine that's because, at the time, not all of these people were huge. Except Crawford and Barrymore. Just members of the corral at MGM. Stablemates.

Decent picture, but I would not consider this a period piece. A drama that just takes place in the olden days, with lots of historical characters, but not really about history.

Snowflake Toones even makes an appearance in one of those old derogatory scenes.

I had wanted to see this film, if only because it was so chock-full of stars, but also because the plot sounded interesting to me. Crawford, however, was too much of her period and too much of a movie star, rather than a versatile actress, to seem comfortable in the period trappings, and I'm not just talking about how awkward her 1820's ringlets look on her. Taylor and Stewart, the biggest names now of the male stars, were still neophytes and had smallish roles. The most screen time goes to Melvyn Douglas (so-so) and windy old Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson, chewing the scenery for all he was worth. Basically, historical accuracy is jettisoned to fashion a standard romance/melodrama for Miss Crawford. A little research shows that John Randolph died of tuberculosis in Philadelphia, not the completely different way depicted herein so as to give Crawford and Douglas an ridiculously bad scene to play. Also, the character Taylor played was actually 20 years older than Peggy Eaton, and they were married 12 years and had children - in the film it seems a mere matter of months and no children are in sight. A curio, but not a good film.