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EliotTempleton
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
Trash
Scotty Bowers is human wreckage, a disgusting hoarder who considers a used toilet left on the street for garbage pick-up a "find". Who's to say that anything he claims is true? I, for one, don't buy it. This so-called documentary profiling his life is as trashy as the subject himself. Even if his tales were 100% true, what purpose do they serve, other than to smear the memories of America's royalty? They had sex lives. So what? Depicting Walter Pidgeon picking up men in a gas station for paid-for sex is not only highly unlikely, but is apt to destroy his legacy in the eyes of many admirers of classic films. Whether Katharine Hepburn was or wasn't a lesbian remains a subject of debate in some circles; however, she addressed the subject herself in her own filmed memoir. The possibility of this well-bred woman utilizing the "services" of the classless Bowers carries zero credibility. Bowers has no veracity, and a film that documents his sleazy life is worthless.
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
In answer to SimonJack's review on 6-3-2013
I just wanted to say that the above reviewer is a bit misinformed regarding the history of films about physicians, particularly in the '30s. There was no shortage of movies with doctors as the central character in the early sound era, and some of them are "Men in White," "Internes Can't Take Money," "The Citadel," "Strange Interlude," "Symphony of Six Million," "Arrowsmith," "Yellow Jack," "Doctor X" "The Story of Louis Pasteur," just to name a few off the top of my head, without doing any research. Paramount's "Internes Can't Take Money," starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, was the first movie to feature the character of Dr. James Kildare, created by author Max Brand. I'm sure that the studio's executives rued the fact that they didn't have the foresight to feature the sympathetic young doctor in a series, which is what M-G-M did, starring Lew Ayres as the compassionate and crusading Dr. Jimmy Kildare. That series, by the way, started in the '30s with "Young Dr. Kildare" in 1938, followed by "Calling Dr. Kildare" and "The Secret of Dr. Kildare" in 1939. So, you see, there were quite a few doctors gracing movie screens throughout the 1930s.