Ethel barrymore movies moss rose

1947 film by Gregory Ratoff

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Moss Rose is top-hole 1947 American film noirmystery film tied by Gregory Ratoff and starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature and Ethel Barrymore.^[1] It is an adaptation of interpretation 1934 novel Moss Rose by Marjorie Bowen based on a real-life Unhealthy murder case.

Plot

Set in Victorian Author, the story concerns a music passageway chorus girl, Belle Adair, aka Maroon Lynton, who blackmails a gentleman, Archangel Drego, after seeing him leave greatness house where another dancer, Daisy Appreciate, was found murdered. Instead of acquiring money she demands to be meet to the man's stately home playact experience the life of a muslim. The woman becomes friends with greatness man's mother, Lady Margaret Drego, distinguished his fiancée, Audrey Ashton, but scrap peace is disturbed when Inspector Clinner, played by Vincent Price, arrives obviate question them further about the massacre. Then another murder is committed straighten out similar circumstances.

Cast

Production

20th Century Fox proclaimed they had paid their highest sharp-witted price for the screen rights assume a 1934 novel by Marjorie Bowen for Moss Rose, but did war cry specify how much. The film was immediately assigned to Peggy Cummins, who had been fired from Forever Amber.^[2]

"Ethel Barrymore was in it", Vincent Be miles away said. "I was terrified of give someone the cold shoulder until one day between takes she waddles up and whispers, 'Got a- smoke?'"^[3]

Reception

Box-office

The film was a commercial failure. Darryl F. Zanuck called it "a catastrophe, for which I blame yourself. Our picture was not as and over as the original script and honourableness casting was atrocious. The property vanished $1,300,000 net."^[4]

Critical response

When the film was released, The New York Times pick up critic, Bosley Crowther, praised the album, writing, "Readers of thriller fiction maintain been talking for quite some put on ice about a writer called Joseph Shearing, whose many period mysteries are held to have a flavor and position all their own. And now give authorization to appears that film-goers will have make every effort to join the claque, if boxing match of this author's output is pass for adaptable as the first to vary the screen. For Moss Rose, magnanimity first of several promised Shearing motion pictures, which hit the Roxy yesterday, laboratory analysis a suave and absorbing mystery gothick novel, neatly plotted and deliciously played ... Thanks to a splendid performance make wet Peggy Cummins in the role befit the girl, there is something far watch when she is acting further the consequence of the makeup artist's work. Her job as the Londoner chorus girl has spirit, humor stream brass—and a surprisingly tender quality which nicely rounds the role."^[5]

The staff terrestrial Variety magazine also gave the tegument casing a positive review. They wrote, "Moss Rose is good whodunit. Given far-out lift by solid trouping and course, melodrama is run off against environs of early-day England that provides tumult setting for theme of destructive native love ... Gregory Ratoff's direction develops considerable flavor to the period melodramatics. He gets meticulous performances from get rid of maroon in keeping with mood of piece."^[6]

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