Showing posts with label Virginia Bruce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia Bruce. Show all posts

Friday, October 29, 2021

Announcing the winners of this year's Halloween Costume Contest at Shades of Gray!

The annual Shades of Gray Halloween Staff Party is over, and the judges have decided the winners of this year's costume contest! Here they are!

Virgina Bruce Halloween pin-up
Honorable Mention:
Virginia Bruce for "The Latest Batgirl Reboot"

Irish McCalla as Sheena
Honorable Mention:
Irish McCalla for "Alec Baldwin"

Dancer in Halloween photo-shoot
Third Place:
Janie Doe for "Scary Story"

Dancer Oksana Bondareva
Second Place:
Oksana Bondareva for "Wallflower"
 
Dorothy Lee as Robert Woolsey
First Place:
Dorothy Lee for "Robert Woolsey"

Grand Prize:
Fenfang and Huan Hong for "Me & My Shadow"

Monday, March 8, 2010

Check out 'The Invisible Woman'
(if you can see her)

The Invisible Woman (1940)
Starring: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, Charles Lane, Donald McBride, Oskar Homolka and Shemp Howard
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

A runway model (Bruce) volunteers to test an invisibility machine so she can get back at her abusive boss. Things get complicated when gangsters decide they want the machine for their own purposes.

Just because she's invisible, doesn't mean a girl can't show off her greatest assests in this scene from The Invisible Woman.
"The Invisible Woman" was touted as a sequel to Universal's 1933 sci-fi thriller "The Invisible Man"--the first sequel, in fact. However, it has nothing in common with that movie... other than the word "invisible" in the title.

This film is a light comedy with some screwball elements and slight romantic touches. Everything is played for laughs and the film is perhaps even funnier now because of some of the outdated social attitudes on display in the film. (At the time, the solution to dealing with the problem of having to pick up a passed out naked woman was the source of humor, but today it's the fact that both John Barrymore and John Howard's characters were too gentlemanly to touch her bare skin is the funny part.)

"The Invisible Woman" is a charming piece of fluff featuring a fast-paced script and a cast of fine comedic actors. It's the odd (wo)man out in Universal's "The Invisible Man Legacy Collection", but it still adds value to the set. (Click here to read reviews of all the movies included in "The Invisible Man Legacy Collection" at The Universal Horror Archive.)