Terrific film dealing with the horse racing scene in kentucky. Kentucky is a 1938 technicolor film with loretta young, richard greene, and walter brennan. We are taken from the beginning of the civil war, when generations of feuding between families begin. Then theres the whole silliness of the films basic premise feudin, mansiondwelling, horsebreeding aristocrats. What happened in 1938 major news stories include the first use of a seeing eye dog, minimum hourly rate of 25 cents, seabiscuit beats war admiral, oil is discovered in saudi arabia, fannie mae fnma established, germany begins persecution of jews, great new england hurricane, howard hughes sets a new round the world record of 3 days, 19 hours, march of dimes polio foundation created. The kentucky theatre was opened in 1939 and was the third theatre to be operated by louis weithe who supervised its construction.
Rogers died on august 11, 1935 in the infamous plane crash that also killed aviation pioneer wiley post. To link to this object, paste this link in email, im or document to embed this object, paste this html in website. Beautiful horse footage of mares with their foals, except for the beginning of the movie when the horse farm lost all the breeding mares to rotten civil war soldiers and i hope they are all rotting in hell now by the way, this is a nice romantic horse racing movie. It takes its title from the song my old kentucky home. When john dillon steals horses from thad goodwins farm, thad is killed in front of his young grandson, peter.
Kentucky 1938 filmloretta young, richard greene, and walter. Kentucky 1938 david butler, loretta young, richard greene, walter brennan, drama, romance, sport april 3, 2017 during the civil war, two of the oldest families in kentucy,the dillons and the goodwins, begin a long and bitter feud that has lasted into 1938. This silent 16mm home movie uses creative editing, lighting and camera techniques comparable to what professionals were doing in hollywood. There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight. Surely this is not intended to represent the reality of kentucky in 1938. The american moviegoing public and will rogers said a mutual farewell to each other when in november of 1935 in old kentucky was released by the newly formed 20th century fox studio. A wide array of hilarious short skits aim to mercilessly spoof and skewer almost every film genre, from blaxploitation to infomercials. Wallace kelly of lebanon, kentucky, made this exquisitely crafted amateur film at home in 1938. The latter movie also starred gary cooper, and the two actors subsequently worked together in other films. Our day is a smart, entertaining dayinthelife portrait of the kelly household, shown in both idealized and comic ways. Based on the novel, the look of eagles by john taintor foote. Our daywallace kellyhome movies library of congress. Sally goodwin loretta young falls in love with jack dillon richard greene.
The movie features the first screen appearance of gene autry, singing a song with a bluegrass band that includes smiley burnette. I really enjoyed watching this 1938 middle class all adult family going through their daily routines. This full video is over 30 minutes long and is shot around independence in 1938. Its been nicely preserved, with the kentucky sign still running vertically down the from of what can only have been a movie theatre at one time. Kentucky 1938 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Find out where kentucky 1938 is streaming, if kentucky 1938 is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Named to the national film registry in 2007, our day is a dayinthelife portrait of the kelly family of lebanon, kentucky. Download the tv guide app for iphone, ipad and android.
Viewers see how early kentuckians dressed, cooked, played, spoke, and worked. Blacks in the 30s had good reason to be concerned about how they were portrayed in hollywood films. Once you select rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 24 hours to finish it. The centers mission is to collect, preserve, provide access to, and promote understanding of home movies and amateur motion pictures. Although both autry and burnette were unbilled, the scene served as a screen test for the duo for a long series of subsequent singing cowboy films, beginning with the phantom.
Every movie getting early digital releases due to coronavirus. Home movies for the 1938 silent film our day by wallace kelly of lebanon, kentucky. Unfortunately not everybody knows every movie listed, so you probably want to check some extra info on imdb. The focus in each program is on what a typical 10yearold might have experienced during the various periods. Over 70 years later, peter walter brennan has relayed the story to his family, who. In 2005, the center for home movies was established as a nonprofit corporation to administer home movie day and to engage in new home movie projects and to act as a clearinghouse for information about home movies.
Binding 18671938 had a biography resembling walter harlans. Kentucky 1938 david butler, loretta young, richard. Feud between two kentuckian families that begins during the civil war and lasts. After studying with theatre and film pioneer max reinhardt and begin. My old kentucky home is a 1938 american romance film directed by lambert hillyer and starring evelyn venable, grant richards and clara blandick. Kentucky film association members welcome kentucky. Wilmore, ky lexington herald leader kentuckians looking to get an entrylevel, behindthescenes job in a movie or television production now have a chance to receive training through a program administered by asbury university. Through close analysis of fifteen critically acclaimed films, christopher ames reveals. Walkin blues was successful among the small white jazz group.
Find out when and where you can watch kentucky on tv with the full listings schedule at. Large porn tube is a free porn site featuring a lot of kentucky porn videos. What happened in 1938 including pop culture, significant. Slave narratives from the federal writers project 19361938 federal writers project on. Beautiful horse footage of mares with their foals, except for the beginning of the movie when the horse farm lost all the breeding mares to rotten civil war soldiers and i hope they are all rotting in hell now by the way, this is a nice romantic horse.
I have an old copy on vhs and no way to play it any more. Pygmalion is a 1938 british film based on the george bernard shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. Wallace kellys amateur cast was made up of his mother, wife, brother, and pet terrier. It is a romeo and juliet story of lovers jack and sally, set amidst kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the civil war and is kept alive by sallys uncle peter. The blue grass of kentucky was seen in threestrip technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Marion county 1938 by rachel grimes, released 12 october 2011 1. Kentucky 1938 filmloretta young, richard greene, and walter brennan. His mother believes his work will amount to nothing and asks his high school coach to. Released 1938, kentucky stars loretta young, richard greene, walter brennan, douglas dumbrille the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 35 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. He actually won for come and get it 1936, kentucky 1938 and. David butler, richard greene, walter brennan, douglas dumbrille loretta young, darryl f. Feud between two kentuckian families that begins during the civil war and lasts for three generations, ending when two of their.
Kentuckys story presents a recreation of what life in kentucky was like at different times in history, beginning with the american indians who were here when the first white settlers arrived. The films sets were designed by the art director frank dexter. Watch or download kentucky 1938 full movie online free. Full movie online free romeo and juliet story set amidst horseracing in kentucky. Blue moon of kentucky was consistently rated higher in billboards, because it was the presley s pop version of monroe s song. Read the the kentucky fried movie movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on movies. In kentucky during the civil war, john dillon, a local horse breeder originally from massachusetts, leads a company of union soldiers to elmtree farm, which belongs to a competing breeder, thad goodwin, with orders to confiscate the horses of known rebel sympathizers.
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