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| Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (Columbia, 1934) |
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| June Allyson in You Can't Run Away From It [remake of It Happened One Night], (Columbia, 1956) |
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| Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey (Universal, 1936) |
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| June Allyson in My Man Godfrey (Universal-International, 1957) |
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| Norma Shearer in The Women (MGM, 1939) |
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| June Allyson in The Opposite Sex [remake of The Women], (MGM, 1956) |
Compare and contrast, darlings.
Lovely though June surely was, she was - ahem - somewhat lacking in glamour in comparison the the originals, methinks... Jx
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fabulous Douglas Sirk ("Magnificent Obsession" & "All That
Heaven Allows"). June played the Irene Dunne role & Rossano
Brazzi the Charles Boyer role.
Needless to say, June & Rossano, though charming, lacked
the unique pizzazz of Irene & Charles.
In fact, starting with MGM's remake of "Little Women" (1949),
June was Hollywood's #1 Remake Queen, right through the 50's.
It wasn't always her fault, but none of June's re-do's were up to
their (sublime) originals. She certainly gave it the old college try,
though.
She didn't have the sultry side to pull off "The Opposite Sex." However, I loved the tailfins of the 50s cars whipping through the ranch, and the pre-Dynasty bitch fight in the kitchen with the pots and pans.
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