Falcon in the Dive

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934)

Carolee Carmello as Marguerite St Just

We all lie to look better than we are sometimes, some more than others. 🤷‍♀️

Robespierre was no philosopher! He was a Republican. He blithely regurgitated Montesquieu and Mably, as did Rousseau! He was a hypocrite consort! he preached virtue, but was as vicious as I am! he did away with Catholicism, in exchange for a novel cult of the Supreme Being! What idiocy! Does he not see that is but Catholicism with a single degree of separation?

While I see to it to be amiable to his effort against tyranny, methinks his politics masked his true libertine philosophy at the beck of the gentry. —it comes to mind, they did not favor his.

Popular consensus and every historian on this subject disagrees with you, petit Marquis envieux. Also, you did not the question, are you pretty bleeding and in unconquerable pain or not? (It is not a threat it is a promise).

Cons of being an artist:

Propaganda

Leslie Howard (Gone With the Wind, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pygmalion)—no propaganda submitted

Ronald Colman (Arrowsmith, Random Harvest, Prisoner of Zenda)—1920s heartthrob to 1930s matinée idol to 1940s silver fox Oscar winner to 1950s comedy radio star, this man could do it ALL. I feel he is unfairly neglected today despite his smile making it into P.G. Wodehouse novels and the knee-melting qualities of his voice making it into a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. A women's college made him the winner in their hottest celebrity poll in 1942, and I am right there with them. He was by all accounts an absolutely lovely person, as well, but I recognize that this poll is about the hotness and I think that Ronald Colman deserves more recognition for being ridiculously handsome and doing heartbreaking face-acting and having weaponizable quantities of charm. Also he saved David Niven's life (according to the latter's memoir) by shooting a shark once. Very sexy of him.

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut.]

However I have found a way to spot his musicals in the wild. Ask yourself the following two questions. If the answers to one or more of them is "Yes" then you may have found one of his musicals.

Does this musical have an abundance of power ballads?

Was this musical successful in continental Europe or Asia despite a lack of success in the United States?*