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Epicurus.com - Where Love Has Gone
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $19.98
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302869378
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6302869374
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Running Time: 114
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Summary: A CLASSY CAST IN A FUN 60'S MOVIE....A SUSAN HAYWARD FESTIVAL..
Comment: WHERE LOVE HAS GONE TRANSPORTS US ALL BACK TO THE HOLLYWOOD OF THE 1960'S. IT FEATURES BRIGHT, COLORFUL, FUN PERFORMANCES FROM SUSAN HAYWARD, BETTE DAVIS, MICHAEL (LATER MIKE) CONNORS AND JOEY HEATHERTON. IT IS JUST SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH THAT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES IT IS SEEN IT ALWAYS ENTERTAINS ANY DAY OR NIGHT. THEY JUST DON'T MAKE FUN ENTERTAINMENT LIKE THIS ANYMORE AND THAT IS QUITE A LOSS. MY HOPE IS THAT PARAMOUNT WILL SOON SEE FIT TO RELEASE WHERE LOVE HAS GONE ON DVD. IT NEEDS TO BE SEEN IN ITS ORIGINAL "TECHNISCOPE" RELEASE AND POSSIBLY STEREO SOUND. PLEASE PARAMOUNT RELEASE WHERE LOVE HAS GONE ON DVD AND LET SUSAN, BETTE AND JOEY ENTERTAIN THE WORLD.........BOY DO WE NEED IT NOW...........A FOREVER SUSAN HAYWARD FAN.........GARY JASINKONIS....EAST NORTHPORT, NEW YORK...........I HAVE SEEN WHERE LOVE HAS GONE COUNTLESS TIMES AND CAN'T WAIT UNTIL NEXT TIME..............
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Summary: 1964 Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors & Joey Heatherton
Comment: Mrs. Geraldine Hayden (Bette Davis) is the epitome of a domineering wealthy matriarch of her family: middle-age adult daughter, sculptress, Valerie Hayden Miller (Susan Hayward); 15yo. granddaughter, Danielle (Danny) Valerie Hayden (Joey Heatherton); son-in-law, war hero, Major Luke Miller (Mike Connors).
After her teenage granddaughter, Danny, is arrested for stabbing to death her daughter Valerie's (Hayward's) most recent lover, Mrs. Hayden's (Davis') unsuccessful, drunkard ex-son-in-law, Luke (Connors), reflects back upon his failed marriage to Danny's successful sculptress mother. Stereotypical of the neo-psychoanalytical 1960's, this Harold Robbins story follows Luke's trend of introspective thoughts through the thread of events that built up to the family's tragedy. Thus, although the story is primarily about three women's relationships, it's written by a man & conveyed through the perspective of a man who believed being successful was being the bread-winner of "his" family. The generation & social contexts of gender bias in this story's slip is showing.
By now, it's no secret that these sorted details were based, by Robbins, as a fiction, upon the real-life story of the murder of Johnny Stompanato. That name might not ring a bell to those younger than me. Nor would the so called "Cheryl Crane murder scandal."
Six years prior to Robbins' 'novel' being played out as a script, Hollywood's own lady with the legendary legs that were insured by Lloyd's of London, Lana Turner, lived out her daughter Cheryl's arrest for stabbing to death Turner's lover (Stompanato). The deadly deed was done in the bedroom of Lana Turner's Beverly Hills mansion.
Even though Mrs. Geraldine Hayden becomes Robbins' victim of yet another 60's psychoanalytic stereotype, mother blame, Bette Davis easily commands the lead even though it was meant for Susan Hayward's character. Davis starred in 2 other major motion pictures in the same year, 1964: "Dead Ringer" & "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte." Both were terrific achievememts. Davis kept making films until the year of her death at the age of 81 (1989). She also never stopped making major public television appearances. Davis said she wouldn't quit working 'as long as she still had high heels & a makeup case'. Lucky for us she kept her word.
Even though the script was lousy & Hayward verbally assaulted Davis on the set, Davis managed to salvage the movie with her professional prowess. In the final filming, Davis' matriarch came out as she lobbied director Edward Dmytryk for her to be. Davis also tried to arrange a meeting with Hayward to reconcile their differences; but, Hayward wouldn't have it.
Since Hayward was only 9 years younger than Davis, she was in the position of trying to be a character younger than she actually was. Hayward only made 3 motion pictures after this one, dying of brain cancer at the age of 57yo., in 1975.
Davis went on to make 14 more motion pictures; 28 made for television movies; made at least 41 other major public and/or television appearances, & has since appeared in at least 47 well-known archived footage presentations.
The character of Mrs. Geraldine Hayden, as performed by Bette Davis in 1964, is an important one to remember because it represents how psychoanalytic stereotypes influenced her contemporary peers in US society & cultural era. The archetype of a wealthy, caucasian, widowed, domineering matriarch was (ab)used by Western societies as a way to scapegoat strong women for everything that went wrong with the next generation. To date, there's no convenient male equivalent such as father-blame, unwed-father or prostitute-solicitor.
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Summary: Fabulous, Fabulous Melodrama
Comment: If you are looking for a rainy day, Hollywood melodrama with more than a touch of camp, you can't go wrong with this movie.
Bette Davis is wonderful as the domineering socialite mother for whom family name is everything but the actual lives of her family (and everyone else) are dispensable. Bette Davis delivers a priceless scene in which her character gives her daughter and son-in-law a painting of herself whose "eyes seem to follow you wherever you go". It is a moment that is both charming and appalling and done with superb style. No other actress in the American pantheon could have pulled it off so effortlessly.
I agree with other reviewers that Joey Heatherton is miscast, as is Susan Hayward, both of whom do not have the breeding to come from an old California family. The trashiness of their characters' lives, however, does give the melodrama a joyous effect.
Also, take note of the movie's super opening with Jack Jones' song and its lush camera shots of San Francisco.
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Summary: one of susan hayward's best
Comment: i agree with the other reviewers. this has always been one of my favorites.
it really needs to be put on dvd
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Summary: "WHEN YOU'RE DYING FROM THIRST, YOU'LL DRINK FROM A MUDHOLE!" snorts Hayward in this laugh-a-minute potboiler
Comment: "Somewhere along the line," Bette Davis says with a sniff of disdain, "the world has lost all its standards and taste." SHE should talk, considering that she's in the movie version of Harold Robbins trashy rehash of the scandal that erupted when Lana Turner's teenage daughter Cheryl stabbed Mom's gangster beau. The story is "disguised" -- the central character is a sculptress, not an actress, and the newspaper headlines read "TEENAGER SLAYS SOCIETY MOM'S LOVER" -- but it's so laughably transparent that one critic, in his review, congratualated the filmmakers for not offering the lead to Turner.
Playing this untamable tramp, Susan Hayward -- fresh off a remake of STOLEN HOURS, Davis's earlier DARK VICTORY -- squares off against Davis, as her disapproving society mother, in a battle of the battleaxes that is a Bad Movie must-see. "you have made it publicly obvious that you have only one concept of love," Davis declaims, finding new syllables in every word, "a vile and sinful one!" Hayward tosses her red mane and gives as good as she gets, snorting like a dragon, "When you're dying form thrist, you'll drink from a mudhole!"
The movie's crazed theory -- that Hayward cannot sculpt great statues unless she's whoring around (spelled out when art critic DeForrest Kelly tells her, "With you, sex and art go hand in hand. Sculptor ... pagan ... alleycat!") -- is all the funnier when you apply this psychology to Lana Turner's generally hapless performances: what might her career have been like without her sex life? (The mind reels.)
In flashbacks, we see Hayward with husband Mike Connors, taunting him, "Take your rights, I want you to! Sometimes it's better that way. You're not the first today -- I'm just getting warmed up!" Connors slaps her, raging, "I've heard about them, I've laughed about them, "I've even joked about them, but I never thought I'd end up married to one. You're not a woman -- you're a disease!"
Their teen daughter Joey Heatherton, is cut from the same mold. "How about it, kid?" a reporter asks as she's led into the courtroom. "Was he your lover, your mother's, or both?" Connors, who neglected his daughter for years, says he didn't know Heatherton smoked. Pouting her lower lip, undulating in her cashmere sweater, and sighing, Heatherton says, "There's a lot you don't know, Daddy. The worst is yet to come."
Brother, she ain't just whistling Dixie: The climactic courtroom showdown's a lulu, what with Hayward growling, "It's been decided that I'm an unfit mother, an ungrateful daughter, and an irresponsible wife," then revealing that her lover died because he stepped "in front of me, and got what I should have gotten," because Heatherton "was trying to kill me!" After that, Hayward uses the murder weapon to off herself. Davis shrugs, "She was destined for tragedy."
Oh Mama!!
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