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A pre-code melodrama that provided equal opportunities for sinning for both sexes, Dorothy Arznerâs
Merrily We Go to Hell shows âmodernâ movie marriage in ways that wouldnât be allowed on the screen less than two years later and features charismatic performances from its two leading players that would be bellwethers of finer things to come from both of them. In its free-flowing drinking and multiple sexual escapades, the film may show its age, but itâs still an enjoyable entertainment with glimpses of some stars to be also in the mix.
Newspaper reporter and fledgling playwright Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) has definite problems with alcohol, drinking himself into a stupor almost nightly to forget the girl that got away, flighty Broadway actress Claire Hempstead (Adrianne Allen). One night at another drunken party he meets Chicago heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) who has not allowed her fatherâs (George Irving) millions t
Published:
April 7, 2021 at 7:01 am
Goldsmith, sculptor, poet, soldier, musician, murderer, necromancer, priest and lover – of men and women. The incredible life and times of Benvenuto Cellini, one of the Italian Renaissance’s most extraordinary but now neglected figures, provides a unique perspective on the period. Yet what his surviving art and writings reveal is less an idyllic “golden age” of harmony and beauty, and more a period defined by political turbulence, religious conflict and vicious artistic rivalries.
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Although Cellini is now largely overlooked as an artist in favour of his immediate predecessors Leonardo da Vinci (whose position he inherited in France) and Michelangelo (whom he revered), he left behind one of the first – and certainly most dramatic and intimate – autobiographies ever written by an artist.