A scene from SHE (1935)
I admit I have yet to see this movie. It's been eluding me since forever. Yes, it's available on DVD but I alway forget about it. As a movie poster collector, I know of it, and I know almost everything about it, and its connection to KING KONG (1933) and yet I have to see it. There's a colonized version of it which doesn't look good. But I have to say that there's nothing quite like such big scenes done in Art Deco design. It's truly unique.
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SHE (1935 is available for free viewing on YouTube.
Female lead Helen Gahagen (later Douglas) became a Congresswoman who was successfully red-baited by Nixon in the 1946 mid-term elections.
Producer Merian C. Cooper was also involved in such movies as THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII and KING KONG.
I was weong about Helen Gahagan Douglass's political career. She won re-election in 1946 and in several subsequent elections.
Actually the colorized DVD of this is the best in this process I have ever seen. The movie was going to be in Technicolor until RKO cut the budget, as was The Last Days of Pompeii made the same year. The two movies were reissued together to great success in 1949.
The version on Youtube is the colorized version which I don't care for. Some think this one is great but for me the scenes I watched come across as flat and drab. I want to see it in black and white.
Legend DVD has both colorized and black and white versions of SHE.
There is a story that when Helen Gahagen first ran for public office, she tried to buy up all copies of SHE so that she could destroy them.
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