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Showing posts with label William Powell and Myrna Loy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Powell and Myrna Loy. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Prizes for the Guess the Celebrity Drawing Game!

Hello!

Fiona and I are back to bring you some drawings today!
I had to include a gif from Julie and the Phantoms because Fiona and I just finished watching it and we are obsessed with it!

Back in December I hosted a game that I called Guess the Drawing of the Celebrity. It was where my younger sister Fiona and I had drawn pictures of celebrities and you had to guess who they were. I'm so glad that so many of you guessed! If you want to check it out you can find the original game HERE and the answers HERE.

Today is the time for the prize! Rachel, Livia Rose, and Skye all tied for first place with 7 correct guesses. Each of them got to choose an actor or actress for Fiona and me to try to draw!

We were still following the rules of the game, so we were supposed to do it in 6 minutes (which got stretched a little). You'll see our drawings followed by the reference picture that we used. We both used the same reference photo at the same time so you can really see the differences in our styles. We had loads of fun, so we hope that you like these pictures! Please tell us whose you like better for each of them!

This was first time that I had drawn in 2021, so it was a little rough. Looking at my drawings I this is what I do:

Then I tell myself:


When I look at Fiona's this is what I do:
I had so much fun! Both of us did! All right, that's enough of my messing around. Let's look at the drawings!



Skye's request:

Art by MC
Art by Fiona

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Drawing time: 6 minutes
Skye picked Marta from Knives Out (2019), so we drew Anna de Armas. I think that my nose is better than Fiona's, but the rest of hers is really good. She only drew the nose with less than a minute of time left, so it is impressive considering that. Mine looks angry for some reason? I don't know if Anna de Armas ever looks angry, but she does in my drawing.


Livia Rose's request:
Art by MC
Art by Fiona


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Drawing time: 12 minutes (6 for each person)
Livia asked us to draw the iconic duo of Nick and Nora Charles! I was so excited that I told Fiona right away. 
"Who's that?" she asked. 
I should've expected that because she has only seen one of The Thin Man movies and didn't like it, which is the opposite of me! I still have three of the films to see, but I have had so much fun watching the ones that I've seen. So, we found a picture of William Powell and Myrna Loy. Not going to lie, while Fiona's Myrna Loy is good I like mine better. Mine looks nothing like William Powell. I think that it looks like Clarke Gable. In fact, we had just finished drawing when my mom came it. I showed her mine and had her guess. Clarke Gable. Does that mean it's official?


Rachel's request:

Going into this one you need to know some of the discussion that happened prior to Fiona and I drawing it. I was up for the challenge, but Fiona didn't want to do this one. Why? Because she loves this person and didn't want to mess it up. We did this one last so that she could practice.

Fiona, when asked do draw this person said that she would rather:


Fiona: "Wait, I need a new piece of paper."
MC: "Why?"
Fiona: "Because if it's bad I'm going to burn it."

I told her that it wasn't going to be bad. She might've burned it if I hadn't smuggled the drawing away from her so she wasn't able to. Alright, are you ready to see?
Art by MC
Art by Fiona

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I couldn't find the exact reference picture that we used, but this is really close!
Drawing time: 8+ minutes
Rachel picked Tom Holland! This one was longer than 6 minutes because Fiona just kept going. Mine was really bad and after the original 6 minutes I was able to straighten it out in 2 more minutes then stopped. Not Fiona. Even when I took the reference picture away from her she kept doing it so I don't have a really precise timeframe.
I really like how Fiona's turned out! I just laugh whenever I see mine.



That's a wrap from us!


Thank you to Rachel, Livia Rose, and Skye! Your picks were excellent and we hope that we did them justice. Thank you for reading! Tell us what you think of our efforts and let us know if you would want to see anything like this in the future! Have you drawn any of these people? How did it turn out?

MovieCritic

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Movie Review: The Great Ziegfield (1936)

Hello!
This is a great way to start the New Year, isn't it? Me, being completely late for a blogathon! But, I'm going to do it anyway because I am a huge William Powell and Myrna Loy fan!
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies, and The Flapper Dame hosted this blog party for the dynamo couple at the beginning of this year. I had to enter something, even if it is weeks later.

So sorry that this is completely late, I have been having a lot of computer problems (it's only 10 years old! The one I had before was my mom's and it was 30 years old!) Also, it is a beautiful year and I have loved getting outside.

Enough talk, for this blog party, I will be reviewing... (Note: This is not my favorite film that they were in, but it was the one I could review on short notice. [Haha, short])

The Great Ziegfield (1936):
The life of Florenz Ziegfield Jr., from his great shows, to the stock market crash.
Genre: Biography
Length: approx. 176 minutes.
Costumes: 8, there are some good ones, though a few aren't that great.
Script: 8, one or two bad words.
Crew:
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Produced by: Hunt Stromberg
Written by: William Anthony McGuire
Cinematography by: Oliver T. Marsh

Starring:
William Powell as Florenz Ziegfield Jr.
Myrna Loy as Billie Burke

Luise Rainer as Anna Held
Frank Morgan as Billings
Virginia Bruce as Audrey Dane
Reginald Owen as Sampson
Ernest Cossart as Sidney
Mae Questel as Rosie
Joseph Cawthorne as Dr. Ziegfeld
Nat Pendleton as Sandow
Jean Chatburn as Mary Lou
Paul Irving as Erlanger
Charles Judels as Pierre
Marcelle Corday as Marie
Raymond Walburn as Sage
A. A. Trimble as Will Rogers
Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor
Ray Bolger as himself
Fannie Brice as herself
Harriet Hoctor as herself
Music: 8.
Music by: Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by: Harold Adamson
Storyline: 6, there is divorce, drinking, smoking, kissing and death. 
Overall Score: 6.

Thank you to Phyl and Emily for hosting this! And thanks for reading! 

MovieCritic
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, where you stop your story." -Orson Welles