Hollywood's Maddest Doctors by Gregory William Mank

Author:Gregory William Mank [Mank, Gregory William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: 2018-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Hayward later recounted the experience of working with Clive on his last film, The Woman I Love. All Cliveʼs scenes had to be shot in the morning, as he was drunk by noon. He had to be held up for the over-the-shoulder shots. “My dear sir,” he told the young actor, “get out of this business. Itʼll kill you, itʼll kill you.”

On April 9, 1937, Colin joined Miriam Hopkins and Louis Hayward in a radio version of The Woman I Love on Louella ParsonsʼHollywood Hotel show. The film opened at New Yorkʼs Radio City Music Hall April 15, 1937. For all of Colinʼs woes on the set, Variety and The Film Daily both rated him “excellent,” The Hollywood Reporter called him “especially fine” and even the Womenʼs University Club joined in, hailing Colinʼs performance as “perfection.”

Yet his reviews were of little help to The Woman I Love — which reportedly lost $266,000 at the box office.

Just as Muni played a “Jonah” flyer in The Woman I Love, so has the film become a “Jonah” in film history. It almost seems to have disappeared; the American Film Institute couldnʼt locate a print to view when compiling its catalog of 1930s films. Ace video collector Dave Martin of San Francisco kindly located for me a British print (entitled The Woman Between). Itʼs a fascinating film, if only for its beautiful aerial photography (much of it lifted from the original French film), Muniʼs stoop-shouldered, incredibly non-romantic leading man and the usual piggy-eyed overacting by Hopkins.

Colin is excellent as Captain Thelis — brave, gallant, popular with his men; like Stanhope of Journeyʼs End but without the drinking problem. Fatally wounded in an air battle, he crashes his plane and bravely walks away from the wreckage before collapsing. Itʼs here that The Woman I Love presents its most dramatic vignette: As the men fly off to avenge their leaderʼs death, we see the corpse of Colinʼs Captain, laid out in his uniform.

Ironically, it was the last scene moviegoers ever saw Colin Clive play.

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