Wilson Collison


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Mogambo (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Let Me Jump To My Own Conclusions! A good deal less bawdy than the equivalent Jean Harlow scene with the same leading man in the original (pre-Code) Red Dust, still alluring "Honey Bear" (Ava Gardner) in the shower meets angered safari guide Marswell (Clark Gable) early in John Ford's re-make, Mogambo, 1953.
Gold Rush Maisie (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Plenty Of Tears Ann Sothern (title character) is leaving town, from the diner where Harry (Irving Bacon) is sharing the big news, one customer (Henry Roquemore) leaving as another (Eddie Gribbon) arrives, and young Jubie (Virginia Weidler) appears seeking aid, in Gold Rush Maisie, 1940, the third in the MGM series.
Gold Rush Maisie (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I Wanna Be Just Like You! Now all-in with the family of hard-luck dirt farmer turned gold prospector Bert (John F. Hamilton), Ann Sothern (title character) meets friend Elmo (Louis Mason), who boasts of success, then chats with admiring daughter Jubie (Virginia Weidler), in Gold Rush Maisie, 1940.
Gold Rush Maisie (1940) -- (Movie Clip) What Kind Of A Town Is This? Third movie in the MGM series, this time the title character (Ann Sothern) has had a breakdown near an Arizona desert town, where, with some difficulty, she meets Lee Bowman as grumpy rancher Bill, who’s not much inclined to help, in Gold Rush Maisie, 1940, co-starring Virginia Weidler.
Maisie (1939) -- (Movie Clip) The Chiffon Girl The first scene in the first picture in the series of ten from MGM, Ann Sothern is the title character, getting bad news (from Frank Darien as Pops) about her showbiz gig in Big Horn, Wyoming, from a script first written for Jean Harlow, opening Maisie, 1939, co-starring Robert Young.
Congo Maisie (1940) -- (Movie Clip) That's French For Star Of Africa Doctor turned rubber plantation-owner Shane (John Carroll) is sick of Africa, leaving, when he finds Ann Sothern (title character) hiding in his cabin, boat captain Finch (J.M. Kerrigan) offering a compromise, in the second feature in the MGM series, Congo Maisie, 1940.
Congo Maisie (1940) -- (Movie Clip) She Do Big Magic Complete with a degrading depiction of African natives, acceptable by Hollywood standards of the time, well-intentioned Shane (John Carroll) protects the compound, rescued when Ann Sothern (title character) goes into showgirl mode, in Congo Maisie, 1940.
Mogambo (1953) -- (Movie Clip) The Remark Of A Cynical Man Aristocratic Linda (Grace Kelly), whose husband is laid-up with a jungle illness, gets in trouble on an unauthorized walkabout, rescued by their crusty host Marswell (Clark Gable) from a panther, then stormy events, Honey (Ava Gardner) observing their heated parting, in John Ford's Mogambo, 1953.
Mogambo (1953) -- (Movie Clip) We Have Three Antidotes For Everything Tough African safari-business guy Marswell (Clark Gable) isn’t quite as solicitous as new arrival Linda (Grace Kelly) would like, when her husband (Donald Sinden) succumbs to the effects of a pre-jungle vaccination, in Mogambo, 1953, John Ford’s re-make of Red Dust, 1932.
Mogambo (1953) -- (Movie Clip) 99 Year Loan Pro safari guide Marswell (Clark Gable) has grown fond of stranded “Honey” Kelly (Ava Gardner), even as she’s about to leave, on the same boat that brings Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden (as Linda and Donald Nordley) for their own high-end tour, in John Ford’s Mogambo, 1953.
Mogambo (1953) -- (Movie Clip) We Wore Onion Sacks Big time battle of dinner dresses, Eloise (Ava Gardner) playful, Linda (Grace Kelly) and her recuperating husband Donald (Sinden) cheery, safari guide Marswell (Clark Gable) and sidekick Brownie (Philip Stainton) playing along, in John Ford's Mogambo, 1953.
Red Dust (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Feeling The Heat Vantine (Jean Harlow), the hooker brought to the Indochinese rubber plantation by a drunk employee, is just leaving as the head man Carson (Clark Gable) greets his new surveyor Willis (Gene Raymond) and his most unexpected wife Barbara (Mary Astor), tension rising in Victor Fleming's Red Dust, 1932.

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