Critica Retro Posted by Lê on August 16, 2017

Uma Alma Livre / A Free Soul (1931) É San Francisco, a cidade do pecado! Um homem (Lionel Barrymore) está lendo um jornal quando a sombra de uma mulher se projeta na parede do banheiro. A mulher está nua e pede para ele trazer a lingerie até ela. Ele faz...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on October 3, 2015

The first hour of A Free Soul is this extremely engaging, if occasionally melodramatic, story about Norma Shearer and Lionel Barrymore. They’re rebellious blue bloods–Barrymore’s Shearer’s father and he’s raised her to be an independent woman. He’s a defense atto   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on December 26, 2014

Adela Rogers St. Johns's novel "A Free Soul" was filmed twice -- once in 1931, under its original title, and again in 1953 as "The Girl Who Had Everything." In both cases the female leads were played by MGM royalty -- Norma Shearer and Elizabeth Taylor, respectively. The character they...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on December 26, 2014

Adela Rogers St. Johns's novel "A Free Soul" was filmed twice -- once in 1931, under its original title, and again in 1953 as "The Girl Who Had Everything." In both cases the female leads were played by MGM royalty -- Norma Shearer and Elizabeth Taylor, respectively. The character they...   read more

Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on November 18, 2012

Jan Ashe (Norma Shearer) and her father Stephen(Lionel Barrymore) have a very close relationship.  Even though a lot of their family judges Stephen for his alcoholism, Jan stands by him every step of the way. When she and Stephen are invited to a family dinner, Jan’s grandmother asks her to...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on October 15, 2012

The headline refers to previous Shearer pictures "The Divorcee" and "Strangers May Kiss" The climax of the 1931 film "A Free Soul" is a fourteen-minute continuous take -- a courtroom scene where Lionel Barrymore, as alcoholic attorney Stephen Ashe, back from a months-long bender, uses his last bre   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on October 15, 2012

The headline refers to previous Shearer pictures "The Divorcee" and "Strangers May Kiss" The climax of the 1931 film "A Free Soul" is a fourteen-minute continuous take -- a courtroom scene where Lionel Barrymore, as alcoholic attorney Stephen Ashe, back from a months-long bender, uses his last bre   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on August 1, 2012

I’m reviewing all five films (and one documentary) in the Forbidden Hollywood volume two box set:   Review of Night Nurse Review of Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin, and Censorship in pre-Code Hollywood Review of The Divorcee We get to the last Norma Shearer film in the Forbidden Hollywood volume tw   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on July 10, 2011

“I’ve lost the right ever again to think of what love can be or what it means. Marry you? For the rest of my life, can’t wash the filthy mark of you out of my soul. That’s what I think of you. And now you can go.” Norma Shearer in A Free...   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on November 30, -0001

Uma Alma Livre / A Free Soul (1931) É San Francisco, a cidade do pecado! Um homem (Lionel Barrymore) está lendo um jornal quando a sombra de uma mulher se projeta na parede do banheiro. A mulher está nua e pede para ele trazer a lingerie até ela. Ele faz...   read more