Tonight or Never (1931) GLORIA SWANSON ♥ MELVYN DOUGLAS

[@rachelreidhead9416]

This movie makes me want a gentleman in the worst way! When he kissed the bruises on her beautiful, white arms... Ahh!! I almost died!!

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@@violamateo Oh, my gosh!! I hadn't put that together!!

[@jaysky2000]

I really appreciate this film being presented in its entirety. Too often 5 or more minutes are missing. Thank you PizzaFlix! May the sauce be with you! 🍕🎥😃

[@cclyon]

I love Melvyn Douglas so much. He was awesome in more ways than one.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

I gotta stop watching these Melvyn Douglas movies! I can’t think, eat or sleep right for days afterwards! 😂❤

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

​@@C.Hawkshawhubba hubba 😍😅 I just came across him for the first time tonight! Passed away 9yrs before my birth ....and I'm in love 😁😅

[@Cherryberrygirl89]

He's got this unbridled sexiness that is especially delicious

[@MaritzaAgosto-e1g]

I even love him in Mr Blandings Builds A Dream House , with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy as their lawyer friend . Enjoyable 😅😂😊

[@cclyon]

@@MaritzaAgosto-e1g I love that movie. :)

[@McTagh1]

What a wonderful movie. Great storyline, dialog, sets, clothing and actors. ALL of them. Mervyn Douglas was wonderful as always. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enjoy it.

[@a.mariedixon-jenkins]

Such a delightful movie, one I had not seen before. Loved all the actors especially Melvin Douglas. Thank you PizzaFlix.

[@1LSWilliam]

I believe without a doubt that this was Swanson's finest performance

[@Hihoweryew]

Talkie

[@AmbientAuteur]

Swanson was something wonderful. Just adorable!

[@draff1662]

This film must have sparkled and jumped off the screen in the original silver nitrate print. Thanks for posting.

[@mingthemerciless7225]

Swanson was pregnant at the time, however Mr. Goldwyn, the boss of the studio, wasn't aware of it. He had bought her entire wardrobe from Chanel of Paris, it cost him a fortune, but later they had to resize all the dresses because Swanson was getting heavier and they were too tight for her. Also this movie was Melvyn Douglas' first film ever in Hollywood, it's a gamble to pair a literally unknown face with one of the highest paid actresses of 1920s, but it paid off, epically for Douglas, it paved a path for his success as the suave leading man of 1930s.

[@cocoaorange1]

I read she deeply regretted aborting her kids.

[@selectiveoutrage6617]

I thought she looked rather thick in the waist.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Douglas never reached the front ranks in the '30's (he starred opposite Garbo in Ninotchka while Powell recovered from cancer), but his later career was superior, his wife was fascinating as well, starring in the fantasy She & later running for senate opposite Tricky Dick Nixon (she named him, if only we'd known). Douglas also fun in Whale's Old Dark House with Karloff.

[@kathleenharris3403]

Yes Douglas was a prolific character actor later in his career. He was deeply talented and not as strongly embedded in memory in the lighter fare.

[@GLeon-ov9yu]

Her figure is stunning in this film!!!!

[@jeanhansel5805]

Gloria Swanson's autobiography is a great read,, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about her life, her time in early Hollywood and her theater work in both Paris and New York, as well as her nine marriages, and her dalliance with the senior Joe Kennedy. Asked by someone why she wrote her autobiography, she replied ''I thought I should write it before someone else did".

[@markr.devereux3385]

I had a cousin who had 4 or 5 marriages by the age of 32. Nobody was sure exactly how many. Bizarre to say the least. She seemed like a normal teen growing up. I will say she was cute and outgoing. And she was a part-time country singer last time I checked.

[@FernRoses]

Nine times?!

[@mjrussell414]

Yes, I read it when I was a teenager back on the 80’s - it was really good.

[@aadamtx]

One of my treasured possessions is the uncorrected proof copy of SWANSON ON SWANSON, signed by her. According to the purchase record, it was her own review copy (impossible to verify, but I'll take the seller's word).

[@exaudi33]

I thoroughly enjoyed it as well. I remember when she described how she got onto a very strict health food diet as a young woman and stayed with it all her life. But she tell the doctor/dietician that no way would she ever quit smoking and she didn't!

[@rhondae8222]

Looks like a good one. I love the actress, Gloria Swanson. Thanks for the movie. 🙂

[@lolatara6598]

Querido hablo español ...pero entiendo me comprendes👌😘😘😘😘😘😘✨✨✨✨♥️

[@rhondae8222]

@@lolatara6598 La verdad es que no. ¿Qué estás tratando de decirme?

[@rhondae8222]

Esta es una buena película con la actriz, Gloria Swanson.

[@AnnaZeman-yu8dg]

I have read her book.

[@rhondae8222]

@@AnnaZeman-yu8dg I had no idea she wrote a book. I will search for it. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

[@maizie9454]

anything with melvyn Douglas is worthwhile. thanks!

[@globalman]

Thank you is really too trivial an expression for what I feel. Sincere gratitude and appreciation. 🤩❤️ I haven’t enjoyed a film so much in a very long time. I have seen hundreds and hundreds of films in my lifetime, beginning with silent films but I never knew this one. I’ve seen several of Gloria Swanson’s films of the silent period and of course the incredible Sunset Boulevard. This was really stupendous. Melvyn Douglas was as always not to be outdone. He was in this film everything that he needed to be. And he never lost that quality even as an elderly actor. I was friends for more than 30 years with Myrna Loy and she often spoke of her great fondness, respect and admiration for Melvyn and also for his wife Helen. He was not only charming and handsome but a very fine human being something that was nice to know. Gloria Swanson was absolutely beautiful, and delightful in this film and of course her fame allowed her the right to choose who designed her clothes and from beginning to end she was magnificently attired by Coco Chanel. The quality of this film was astonishing thanks to its restoration, as well as the quality that was put into the film production, scenery, cast. Hollywood at its finest which makes one realise how far far down it has fallen.

[@debbyparker5431]

Melvyn Douglas is great , I love how his voice gets really high when he gets excited 😂 one of his funniest roles was in "Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House" with Myrna Loy and Cary Grant ❤

[@ad6417]

I can't believe I've gone all my life and was ignorant of Gloria Swanson's talent. Great actress and a beautiful natural singing voice.

[@catherine59226]

I’m going to enjoy this! ❤️👍🏻

[@ymccarty47]

What a wonderful movie. Such light hearted comedy, Just makes you laugh and smile just watching it.

[@TheBuckLook]

What a delight. The entire cast was great fun! Gloria Swanson beams. Her comic timing, carriage and delivery are all visible to me in a later great comedienne, Madeline Kahn.

[@janetjamieson2028]

I just watched this great film and immediately thought of Madeleine Kahn in Young Frankenstein. Both great actresses. Now I must find more Gloria Swanson films. 1:21:51

[@quester09]

fabulous print and sound!

[@christianfrommuslim]

Yes, surprisingly good quality.

[@luxuryqueen42]

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[@JENNS.beingAlone]

YOTO AGREE! THANK YOU PIZZA FLIX!

[@Michael_Scott_Howard]

Mr. Pizza Flix, outstanding work, thank you. Films that have writers!!! And not a CGI orgy.

[@Seashellsbytheseashore21]

Amen

[@eamestv]

A wonderful movie. I had not seen it before. I got to meet and talk with Ms. Swanson on New York's Fifth Avenue in the mid-1970s. Thanks for the upload.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

Thanks!

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[@karenhill3970]

Oh my gosh Melvin Douglas😘😘💕💕🥰😍😘🥳💙💙💙one of the most beautiful love scenes !! ..lovely gowns and settings.........love Gloria Swanson too she's darling ...one of my favorite movies now!!!!.

[@flopsseysw]

Melvin Douglass ❤

[@akrenwinkle]

@@flopsseysw *Melvyn Douglas

[@claztube]

Many years ago now, I found a hard copy of; SWANSON ON SWANSON. This autobiography was illuminating in the storied past of Hollywood and the real people Gloria carried on with throughout her career. Read this bio if you are a vintage movie buff, you'll be rewarded greatly with rich and sobering real life drama.

[@JENNS.beingAlone]

Thx! Will do😁! First time (remembering) her n a movie. WowsiDowser, is she one of the best or WHAT!?😊 Remembering, now, a movie about retiring films star from silent 2 talkies. Like her best n this movie. Well done ALL!

[@karenhill3970]

@@JENNS.beingAlone yes I love her too Gloria Swanson what was the name of that wow movie again Jennifer thanks!?

[@ladywisewolf3942]

Well this movie has everything: drop dead handsome and suave Melvyn Douglas in his first film, gorgeous Gloria Swanson emoting all over the place in a Chanel wardrobe no less ( who knew she could sing?!) breathtaking sets including the reproduction of Venice canals, a little pre-code sex, snappy dialog, fantastic character actors, including J. Carol Nash in a small part as a radio announcer, and would you believe Boris Karloff as a waiter?! ( the same year as he did Frankenstein). All beautifully directed by the great Mervin Leroy. What's not to like?! 👍 A bit of trivia: the following year (1932) Douglas was again to play opposite Karloff (in a very different role) in director James Whale's "The Old Dark House" along with Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey and Gloria Stewart. One of my all time favorite spooky films.

[@garryferrington811]

Spooky? It's hilarious.

[@patriciawallace-n7k]

This is so funny. and Melvyn Douglas did romantic, sophisticated comedy the best of anyone. He was gorgeous.

[@barneygartner]

Lovely Gloria

[@diannesferrazzo2740]

LOVED THAT MOVIE

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

Gloria Swanson was a STAR 🌟 in the true sense of the word... Mevlyn Douglas gave the ladies a run for their money ✨️

[@cocoaorange1]

Was he a player?!

[@WaterShowsProd]

What a fantastic cast, and Gregg Toland's cinematography. And having worked in opera for a time made some of the jokes and characters even more entertaining, because they're true!

[@MaritzaAgosto-e1g]

Gloria Swanson was a beautiful and a magnificent actress as she portrayed her roles pretty well . Melvyn Douglas play his role with great excellence ... quite handsome . All the other actors in the film were extremely brilliant . May they RIP 💐🌸🪷🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷🪻⚘️

[@RetiredSchoolCook]

🍕🍕Thank you 🍕🍕A good movie . A must watch for me with the great Boris Karloff , even if it is a small part . Nice to see J Caroll Naish .❤🍕A good week to you PizzaFlix .🍕🍕👍

[@dianapearson1771]

I, too, was surprised to see a young Boris Karloff as the waiter.Awsome!!!

[@RetiredSchoolCook]

@@dianapearson1771 👍He is the best , a great talent .❤

[@counselorscouch1013]

Yep! This is a great one! I shall mention you, Pizza Flex! Thank you so much!

[@patriciawallace-n7k]

Melvyn Douglas at his best. THE perfect early 1930s sophisticated and romantic leading man..

[@castaway2680]

Pizza Flix always has the best Flix

[@90FF1]

About a year late getting to the picture show but so glad I made it. Swanson was quite the comedian. An iconic Hollywood star. One of Gloria's famous quotes: "I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment a star." Carol Burnett's Nora Desmond. Belated thanks PF

[@IAmGroot-f2w]

Great movie! I ❤ the classics!

[@vickibwarren9722]

Happy Monday night at the movie. Thanks for sharing

[@rjmcallister1888]

Melvyn Douglas would serve first as a great leading man in the 1930's, and in many other roles later in his career. Gloria Swanson was fun, and veteran Alison Skipworth even more fun. It has the high quality of a Samuel Goldwyn film, with a fine cast and crew, with men like Gregg Toland (one of the best cameramen ever), Alfred Newman's music and Mervyn Le Roy's direction. And a not-so-monstrous Boris Karloff, too.

[@rosejones6033]

Boris Karloff , I would know that voice anywhere

[@sdraper2011]

More of these restored movies, please! This was excellent.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

What a terrific movie 👍

[@kathleenharris3403]

Melvin is so cute here and Gloria what a personality, she is a star.

[@lanapoulliot7682]

I love Gloria Swanson

[@guilfordcigarman]

This was a lot of fun!

[@MyLady120]

I Love this movie. Gloria Swanson is my favorite. The best of all time!

[@leeannkrenner5369]

One of the best oldies i have seen yet..thank you❤️❤️

[@choctawcat5676]

Fabulous movie !! Great acting and script!! , they don’t make movies like this anymore!!!

[@stephanieritter9285]

Gloria.. I'm ready for my close up.... The last film I saw her in... Being younger is fun to see

[@shaanz2.087]

It's wonderful delightful movie. I watched it twice. Fabulous performance from every one 💖💖💖💖💖

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

This was wonderful, Pizza!!! Thank you SO much!!!!

[@Hihoweryew]

Those were real jewels and they were hers!

[@slomo1716]

LOVE Gloria Swanson and Melvin Douglas what a wonderful movie!!!

[@waynenorth3791]

Samuel Goldwyn had a sure eye for theatrical properties and stars. This light-hearted comedy deals well with the more serious, underlying themes. I wonder how an audience in 2023 would react to the comic moments.

[@MaraBurkhardt]

I really enjoyed the comedy and thank you for that

[@deborahluongo6794]

What a cute and adorable movie. Loved it!❤

[@marciakipp3633]

"Absolutely magnificent"!!! Thank you forever!.......

[@mariaandrews1124]

Excellent

[@Cherryberrygirl89]

Great and funny movie ❤ thanks 😊

[@karenhill3970]

Melvin Douglas ..oh my Gosh. 🔥🤎💕😘😍😘🥰🤎

[@luannehoyt5958]

Love You Forever Melvyn ♥️

[@VeraLowdermilk-kj8sn]

I feel like I found a real gem! Beautiful movie from beginning to end - scenery, clothes, acting beautiful Gloria and debonair Melvin- superb !

[@jettyoeill]

Thank you for the fantastic add! 🙏🏼❤️🇨🇦

[@JaneFrieman]

A GEM of a MOVIE!

[@rehab5355]

What a Drama Queens' Delight!💃 Love it .....Thank u ' Gosh. He is so Handsome and she soooooo dramatic!

[@PizzaFLIX]

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[@pilarrodriguez8335]

Beautiful time . How nice is to find a gentleman

[@leifpettsson]

Thank you for a lovely movie!

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[@posttyped11]

I've seen some movies 10 times, but never saw this until now. I really enjoyed it.

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[@sunnyadams5842]

Thanks So much - Having a Pre-Code fetish these days and Gloria Swanson's top of the heap!❤😊

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks🍕Flix!❤

[@GeoffsSousChef]

wowwww she was FANTASTIC!!!! what a delightful film

[@sheilaprior617]

Loved it|

[@leelarson107]

He was the type of man that a father would feel good about dating his daughter. My ex-wife couldn't understand that.

[@gabbysch2625]

A fake gigolo? Lol

[@leelarson107]

@@gabbysch2625 My ex-wife was impressed by fakery and bewildered by Reality. You should see what she married after we were split.

[@talithafreitas4610]

Thanks for this

[@AFreckledAngel]

Oh she was so lovely

[@imcnagpc2]

I love that little bit when she tells him to leave and she hugs the pillar like it's him.

[@VeraLowdermilk-kj8sn]

By the way- I knew I recognized a young Boris Karloff as a butler !

[@mannyj4751]

I watched this movie last year and once again tonight. Thank you😊.... If you have access to " Sunset Boulevard " we would love to see it again.

[@garyschultz7768]

Modern movies of today have nothing on the pre codes of Hollywood's Golden Era...

[@sdlavender]

wow! Boris Karloff, the same year he did Frankenstein

[@patsysmothermon7861]

This Movie is more than Half over & they Still aren't together, well maybe now they are !!😊

[@ninalemanska1680]

Film perełka :) Dziękuję, i proszę o jeszcze. Pozdrawiam serdecznie!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hi Ninale 🍕Dzięki za obejrzenie PizzFLIX. Niech sos będzie z tobą🍕

[@dumitriudaniela]

such a delightful movie, sweet music, with an old beautiful story. These were such romantic times, and movies will never be the same again. I was impressed by Gloria's clothes, especially because they were personally designed by Coco Chanel. The jumpsuit with pants from the beginning of the movie was the best ive seen designed for 1930s. I must say though that i really didnt like Gloria's acting. So melodramatic, as if she were still playing in silent movies and there were no sound. I cant understand why she received so much appreciation during her time, but maybe such big dramatic acts were really fashionable then. She was also not very beautiful, her face and even her body shape were not the best ive seen, so why was she so praised? Cant understand. Melvyn though played amazing for his debut acting role.

[@mannyj4751]

I have to agree though I do like her, especially in ' Sunset Boulevard '...but she always over acted. In Sunset Boulevard the over acting was a perfect fit.

[@dumitriudaniela]

@@mannyj4751 a true diva :)

[@JENNS.beingAlone]

Just became personal BEST MOVIE Romcom! Enjoyed from start 2 Fina😄. No 🥱. Well done ALL! GLORIA SWANSON was Amazing, Lovely & acting SUBERB! Never seen her present a character so well portrayed. Well done MELVYN DOUGLAS! HIS character was so entertaining. Even script kept me guessing. Time WELL SPENT!😊😃😍

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[@eckankar7756]

I met Swanson in 1980. She was just nasty...but she did give me an autograph with the handwritten quote "I'm ready for my close up." I still have it.

[@barbarakay6614]

💖 eckankar ~ Details - please! How old was she in 1980 & where did you see her & under what circumstances & did you snap her photo & what was she wearing & why was she so nasty & was she mean to everybody??? Wowwwww - what a cool autograph: "I'm ready for my close-up." 😎 Was that from "Sunset Boulevard"? Wish she would've been nice, though. What's up with her?!? 👍✌🤙 💜 ✝️ 💜 👊 🇺🇸 ⚖ If you wish for peace, prepare for war. 💖

[@thejerseyj5479]

We all have our moments. It's probably just bad timing, considering she was gracious enough to give you an autograph and a note.

[@sofierdblog]

Oh! What a gem! Thanks Pizzaflix

[@sarahmountstudios3188]

A modern remake of this would be fun

[@patriciaheil6811]

wonderful to see Boris Karloff as a butler

[@christianfrommuslim]

Great quality print, and fun - if you don't take the characters too seriously: a self-centered prima donna with a touch of silent screen melodrama, a forceful leading man, and a fiancé who feels entitled to more than vanilla.

[@ericjackson9256]

great print

[@larryfreda5208]

Did Karloff do this before Frankenstein ?

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hi Larry 🍕This film was released one month after Karloff's career-defining role in Frankenstein.

[@larryfreda5208]

@@PizzaFLIX Then he and Melvyn Douglas were in “ The Old Dark House”.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

@@larryfreda5208 Is that a good one? Is it scary?

[@larryfreda5208]

@@C.Hawkshaw it’s creepy, funny and everything you’d expect from a James Whale horror movie.

[@lolatara6598]

❤😘😘😘😘😘😘✨✨✨✨

[@Seashellsbytheseashore21]

Every time I think of Gloria Swanson I think of robin williams 😂

[@mannyj4751]

Great movie... always a Happy Ending. I've got to look at their birthdates. Gloria Swanson had to be 10 years older than Melvin Douglas 🙄 Nope I was wrong. Miss Swanson was only 2 years older than Mr. Douglas 🙂....my bad!

[@cclyon]

Don't feel bad, I did the same thing.

[@mannyj4751]

@@cclyon I guess she had a tough life! 🙂

[@ronkemperful]

A well made movie at a time when Laura & Hardy were just getting their feet wet in sound movies. Well photographed, edited and with great acting by Swanson and Melvin Leroy. Not stagnant or staged, unlike other contemporary films. And in mint condition for a film 92 years old.

[@sandy3482]

Never understood the wild popularity of Miss Swanson

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Swanson was very beautiful, if a bit toothy. (The autocorrect rather amusingly wrote Swansong.)

[@garryferrington811]

Picture's pretty sharp, good sound, an "A" picture...on PizzaFlix?!

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[@loisrossi841]

Ditto the previous comments and thank you