Blues In The Night & A Fool There Was

Betty Field, Priscilla Lane and Theda Bara are 3 more AFI Old-Timey Actresses who get crossed off the list with this episode of Blues In The Night and A Fool There Was. In Blues, the women directed by Anatole Litvak are polar opposites. Field is a goody-two-shoes…and part of a band led by the troubled Richard Whorf. Lane is the bad girl he falls hard for, while the cast plays the blues and/or does crime (and things get deadly) in a bar in Jersey. Then Bara gets to vamp it up in Frank Powell's 1915 silent flick as a succubus who latches onto dumb men (like Edward Jose) and sucks them dry of everything they have. Money, will to live, all of it. So plop this one about Blues In The Night and A Fool There Was into your device as I throw episode #773 your way.

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