henna day post / Christopher Strong

[gwynnega]

I am hennaing my hair on a pleasantly cool Los Angeles afternoon. Last night I watched a 1933 Dorothy Arzner film, Christopher Strong on TCM. It stars Katharine Hepburn as an aviatrix who has an affair with the married father (Colin Clive) of her friend (Helen Chandler), who is also having an affair with a married man. There is plenty of pre-Code raciness, Hepburn looks stunning in her flight duds, and Chandler is great as the rebellious daughter. Alas, Hepburn and Clive have little chemistry, and the whole thing doesn't quite cohere. Definitely worth seeing, though.