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Lady with Red Hair

  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1 Std. 18 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,3/10
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Claude Rains and Miriam Hopkins in Lady with Red Hair (1940)
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a few years as a success and with enough money to fight to get her son back. In order to realize her plans, she heads to New York with ambitions of being a great actress. Despite having no stage training, producer David Belasco becomes attracted to her and becomes intent on making her a star, as well as winning her heart.
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a few... Alles lesenA messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a few years as a success and with enough money to fight to get her son back. In order to realiz... Alles lesenA messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a few years as a success and with enough money to fight to get her son back. In order to realize her plans, she heads to New York with ambitions of being a great actress. Despite having... Alles lesen

  • Regie
    • Curtis Bernhardt
  • Drehbuch
    • Charles Kenyon
    • Milton Krims
    • Brewster Morse
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Miriam Hopkins
    • Claude Rains
    • Richard Ainley
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,3/10
    429
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Curtis Bernhardt
    • Drehbuch
      • Charles Kenyon
      • Milton Krims
      • Brewster Morse
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Miriam Hopkins
      • Claude Rains
      • Richard Ainley
    • 13Benutzerrezensionen
    • 4Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Miriam Hopkins
    Miriam Hopkins
    • Caroline Carter aka Mrs. Leslie Carter
    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • David Belasco
    Richard Ainley
    Richard Ainley
    • Lou Payne
    Laura Hope Crews
    Laura Hope Crews
    • Mrs. Dudley
    Helen Westley
    Helen Westley
    • Mrs. Frazier
    John Litel
    John Litel
    • Charles Bryant
    Mona Barrie
    Mona Barrie
    • Mrs. Brooks
    Victor Jory
    Victor Jory
    • Mr. Clifton
    Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway
    • Mr. Chapman
    Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Leiber
    • Mr. Foster
    Johnny Russell
    Johnny Russell
    • Dudley Carter
    • (as Johnnie Russell)
    Selmer Jackson
    Selmer Jackson
    • Henry DeMille
    May Boley
    May Boley
    • Mrs. Peabody
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Virginia Brissac
    Virginia Brissac
    • Miss Humbert
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Man in Belasco's Outer Office
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Morgan Brown
    Morgan Brown
    • Observer on Courthouse Steps
    • (Nicht genannt)
    James Carlisle
    • Audience Member
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Maurice Cass
    Maurice Cass
    • Scenic Artist
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Curtis Bernhardt
    • Drehbuch
      • Charles Kenyon
      • Milton Krims
      • Brewster Morse
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    7mollytinkers

    Let's dissect it to bits

    By all means, put your microscope up to this 1940 release and comment away. When I read reviews, it's as though people think the genre of realism should apply to all decades (and now centuries) and that any and all details that are omitted or distorted are qualifiers for finding fault. So much for entertainment for entertainment's sake.

    I'm a real fan of Hopkins. I'm not a huge fan of 1920s or 1930s film, so my fascination with her is limited to the 1940s and beyond. Let's face it, she could deliver her lines as fast as a racing horse. And she excelled in doing so.

    This is pure Hollywood fare. It flows as such. Tons of plot loopholes. Cliche dialogue. Over the top execution. Relax and enjoy. Stop over-analyzing.
    6AlsExGal

    Overwrought highly fictionalized biopic

    The film charts the unlikely theatrical success of turn-of-the-century stage star Mrs. Leslie Carter (Miriam Hopkins). Already in her 30's when she endured a scandalous divorce in Chicago, she decides to become a theater actress, although having no experience. A rich family friend agrees to back her in a play on Broadway to be written by an incredulous and uncooperative David Belasco (Claude Rains), then one of the stage's leading producers. With Belasco's tutelage, Carter ends up becoming a much admired actress, but not without her ups and downs.

    The real Mrs. Leslie Carter had one of her final roles before her death in 1935's Becky Sharp, which may have played a part in Hopkins wishing to do this biopic. From what I can gather, much of the material in the movie is fictitious, designed to make Carter look like more of victimized saint, when naturally the truth is much murkier. One wouldn't also gather why Carter was considered a sensation, as all of the play reenactments in the film are hammy and phony. Hopkins never manages to be likable, and I say this as someone who has liked Hopkins in a number of other things. Rains also gets shout, scowl, yell, thrash around, and then shout some more. Speaking of bad wigs from The Howards of Virginia, Claude sports one here. The most worthwhile scene in the whole movie was a catty dinner scene at a boarding house for theatrical people.
    7blanche-2

    Playing fast and loose with Mrs. Carter's memoirs

    Miriam Hopkins is "The Lady with Red Hair" in this 1940 biopic of Mrs. Leslie Carter which also stars Claude Rains as David Belasco, Richard Ainley as Lou Payne, and a fine cast of supporting players, including Laura Hope Crews and Victor Jory.

    Miriam Hopkins and Claude Rains give wonderful performances. Hopkins was a beautiful actress who really makes us feel for Mrs. Carter. Rains is great as the flamboyant, egotistical producer/writer/actor/impresario David Belasco, one of the great names in theater.

    Though Mrs. Carter's second husband, Lou Payne, served as adviser on this film, it's a poor representation of the real events of Mrs. Carter's life. True, there was a much publicized and bitter divorce, and she was undoubtedly viewed as a scandalous character for that and for becoming an actress. However, she had custody of her son Dudley, so there was no custody battle. Once she broke with Belasco, she did not go back to him and, in fact, started working in vaudeville and actually made some films toward the end of her life. She did indeed marry Lou, and he became her leading man in many productions.

    The driving force for Mrs. Carter in the beginning of this film is regaining custody of her son, but she finally realizes that in her time away from him, he is thoroughly bonded with his father. In the film also (and I'm not sure if it was true in real life) she traveled with her mother and lived in a theatrical boarding house, which gives the film some added interesting atmosphere.

    Not a bad movie, probably not a depiction of the greatness of either Carter or Belasco. One of Mrs. Carter's most famous moments was in The Heart of Maryland, where she wore a wig with six-foot tresses. Off-stage, fans blew her hair as she hung 35 feet above the stage clutching the center of a bell to keep it from ringing. Quite a visual.
    5bkoganbing

    So What Was The Scandal?

    The Lady With Red Hair is about the relationship of Broadway impresario David Belasco and his star creation Mrs. Leslie Carter.

    Mrs. Carter was a society socialite whose rather messy divorce and custody battle made her want to seek employment in the theater when she couldn't get a job doing anything else. After a few tries she hook up with David Belasco who molds her into a glamorous stage star from the turn of the last century.

    What I found amazing in this whole film was that we never do find out just what in this divorce made her such a notorious woman. The film opens as the divorce proceeding is about to conclude, we never see what it was all about.

    We do find out that the terms of the divorce gave her limited visitation rights to her son. That's given as the real reason for her determination to succeed as opposed to possibly trading in on her notoriety. A reason today's audience would definitely understand. In fact why was she billed as "Mrs. Leslie Carter" if it wasn't for the notoriety.

    Miriam Hopkins as Carter and Claude Rains as Belasco give a good account of themselves. So do those two old gals Laura Hope Crews as Hopkins's mother and Helen Westley as the owner of the theatrical boardinghouse where they reside. Those two date back to when Mrs. Leslie Carter was a big name on Broadway.

    Richard Ainley of the Ainley British theatrical family gives a wooden performance in a part that's underwritten as Carter's second husband. Wasn't Errol Flynn available?

    Back in the 1890s divorce in and of itself was scandal. So why weren't we given the salacious details?
    7piapia

    Again, Claude Rains saves a motion picture

    I had seen Lady with Red Hair back when it appeared, and didn't remember it as something to cherish. The truth is that, notwithstanding its base in a true story, its screen play is silly and unbelievable. The real merit of the picture is the cast. A constellation of some of the best supporting players of the 30's and 40's make a background for the delicate, intelligent work of the always underrated Miriam Hopkins, and the wonderful, spectacular performance of Claude Rains, who, as usual, is the best thing in the picture. What an actor! He never won an Oscar, but he is in the good company of Chaplin, Garbo and Hitchcock. Perhaps Lady with Red Hair contains his best work in films. See it and enjoy him.

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      Louis Payne, the husband of Mrs. Leslie Carter in real life, coached Richard Ainley, who was playing him in the movie.
    • Patzer
      None of the Broadway plays mentioned in the movie were performed by Mrs. Leslie Carter. Her Broadway debut was in a play called "The Ugly Duckling" in 1890, not "The Way of Beauty." Her second play was "Zaza," not "The Lady From France." It is not known why the names of her plays were changed.
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      David Belasco: The scene is finished... either applaud or get out of the way.

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 30. November 1940 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • La dama de cabello rojo
    • Drehorte
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Warner Bros.
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