Immerse yourself in the ‘scary’ Hollywood of the 1930s I love classic horror films shot in the walls of the Dream Factory pavilions during the Great Depression. I love their incredible atmosphere. Black-and-white palette, characteristic music, pretty girls in gorgeous dresses, devoid of feelings at the sight of a dark silhouette or the cry of an owl, and gentlemen ready to come to the aid of beautiful ladies - old films based on scary stories are very naive, but they have a special aesthetic that makes you close your eyes to some obvious shortcomings. I love classic horror movies because they seem to me the embodiment of mystical literature: the characters seem to come off the pages of novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley.
Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy are perhaps the most popular films of classical Hollywood. In the 1930s, however, films were made without Lugosi or Karloff. One example of this is the Blue Room Mystery. There is a picture of a little more than an hour, so you can steal a little time and see another unknown to the modern viewer film of Golden Hollywood.
For me, beauty began with the first second of the film. Introductory credits flash before your eyes under the “Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich. The creators of the film did not limit themselves to one name: we are alternately introduced to each hero of the picture. Then we see a luxurious castle, the central room of which is decorated in honor of the 21st birthday of the main character. The blonde is in the company of four gentlemen. Almost immediately we learn that one of them is her father, and the other, the youngest, dreams of becoming her husband. The identity of the two has not yet been established, but the way they look at the birthday girl, we can assume that they are not indifferent to her.
The company then embarks on an interesting conversation about the curse of the Blue Room, in which the girl's father says 3 people died a few years ago. The youngest gentleman decides to challenge: let each of the contenders for the hand and heart of the blonde spend the whole night in the cursed guest room. The father and daughter try to dissuade the young people, but without success. And then the young man in love goes to the Blue Room, confident that nothing will happen to him. . .
The only thing that makes me a little sad is that due to the limited color palette, I never saw the Blue Room. Gloria Stewart wasn’t always an old Rosa Dewitt Bucater. She was once a very attractive blonde, walking around Hollywood pavilions in dazzling outfits.