tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1369037629844090449.post6342595786269409983..comments2024-02-17T20:53:59.011-08:00Comments on Classic Film Observations & Obsessions: Fifty Years of Film in 50 weeks, #7: 7th Heaven, 1927Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952528487748234667noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1369037629844090449.post-24035278162610126562021-03-23T06:25:40.492-07:002021-03-23T06:25:40.492-07:00Patty, I really appreciate you stopping by and fil...Patty, I really appreciate you stopping by and filling in some of these details, especially about Gaynor and Farrell being the most popular movie couple. (And I wonder if the next couple in line for that honor would have been William Powell and Myrna Loy??) You point out what is so rewarding about being a classic movie enthusiast: an unending supply of nuggets to uncover! Jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952528487748234667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1369037629844090449.post-33519322968918563572021-03-21T16:17:53.194-07:002021-03-21T16:17:53.194-07:00I'm about to post a piece on Charlie Farrell a...I'm about to post a piece on Charlie Farrell and his legendary Palm Springs Racquet Club on my own blog and was very curious to read your take on 7th Heaven. I haven't seen the entire film but will now thanks to your review.<br /><br />Apparently Charlie proposed to Janet Gaynor many times but she refused because of their difference in "temperament" - which you allude to. It seems they remained lifelong friends, though. The pair made 11 more films after 7th Heaven and, according a biography of both of them that's out there, they were by far the most popular movie couple of the time. The author is probably right when she writes that not even most classic movie buffs aren't aware of that these days.<br /><br />One last nugget. A reporter dropped in unannounced on Charlie at home in 1987. His wife had passed away years earlier and he was living pretty much to himself with the help of a housekeeper. The reporter noticed when they sat down to talk that there was a framed photo of Charlie and Janet Gaynor on top of the television.The Lady Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963115499930520653noreply@blogger.com