My grandmother often told the story of seeing Four Daughters with her friends as a teen. Garfield walked into that house and that was it. The girls all went crazy for him and Hollywood was never the same.

John Garfield was James Dean before James Dean

@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh

9 ай бұрын

Mickey Rourke, too.

@susanrike7476

7 ай бұрын

Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro years later.

He was absolutely gorgeous xxx

He had that air of "wrong side of the tracks" which added to his allure. He and Priscilla Lane are terrific together in "Four Daughters", his breakthrough, where her character falls hard for the "wrong" type of guy. Every note rings true.

Garfield was a natural!

Thank you for posting this. I will share your link.

"The Originator" 🙌

Beautiful Actor. Beautiful Guy.

Essay very well written. More, please!

Finally, a critique that doesn’t paint the female lead as a hapless victim but instead as a living breathing human being with agency. Well done!

@dennislalka7965

Жыл бұрын

John Garfield was and is a superior actor!

@esmeephillips5888

Жыл бұрын

The inner strength of Hollywood's lady stars- from Garbo to Stanwyck- is reflected in the powerfully independent personae they projected. They fought the moguls for respect. Even Alice Faye and Betty Grable had that core of determination. They liked men but did not hang on them. Women, the drivers of the box office in the first 20 years of talkies, appreciated that kind of practical feminism. Their role models, such as Davis, Crawford or K Hepburn, or more ladylike ones such as Irene Dunne or Greer Garson, always ran their show, with men such as Robert Taylor or Herbert Marshall as their cavaliers. Strangely it was after many American women had experienced autonomy in WW2 that a male backlash began. Lady moviegoers stayed home minding their Boomer brats and adolescent males became the target audience for the shrinking theatrical exhibition trade, as they have been ever since. Production spiraled down through violent, sex-ridden schlock to today's vacuous comic book fantasies. In the first phase of this narrowing of taste, women on screen increasingly became wriggling sexpots such as Jane Russell and Monroe, fashion-plate child-women such as Audrey Hepburn, neurotic divas such as Garland or, later, characterless bed fodder in Swinging Sixties stuff about 'chicks'. The heroines of the Golden Age had to play post-menopausal witches and maniacs, while their successors, serious actresses such as Anne Bancroft and Joanne Woodford, were not 'bankable'. In the 1930s there was only one (lesbian) woman director in Hollywood and no senior female execs. Yet on screen ladies ruled much more of the roost than in 2022's post-MeToo, tickbox quota atmosphere. Today's women's pictures which insert feminine stars into male setups, such as the 'Ghostbusters' remake, convince neither sex. But the most popular movie ever, 'Gone with the Wind', was first and foremost a 'chick flick' of the old school.

Love these two together. Magic!

Thanks so much for making this video. Mickey has been muh dude (and subsequently johnny) since I first saw fkur daughters 25 years ago

They don't make them like this anymore.

I think it was his demeanor...

He was handsome a brilliant actor who they placed with beautiful actresses just try watching the awful 80' s remake the postman always rings twice after seeing the original

@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh

9 ай бұрын

The Original!

Omg how gorgeous is John garfield ❤xxx❤❤