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The Passing of the Third Floor Back picspam

As I mentioned previously, it’s available for download or to watch online at the Moving Image Archive.

In it, Connie plays an angel—or a wish granted in human form. He also looks awfully spiffy in a snappy lil’ bow tie and turned-up collar.

Few actors can be this luminous without CGI. The light that shines here comes from within—no special effects needed.

In this next we see the matinee idol at the top of his game. He knows that one look from him will implode ovaries at 500 metres.

So sweet and protective! A flash of those dramatic, emotive eyes from the silent days.

The famous shot from this film. He’s like a priceless statue, perfectly wrought.

Oddly enough, I saw something rather Gwynplainey in this shot. Can you see it too? (He does have such a nice skull…)

Behold, you have been the recipient of one mighty fierce stinkeye.

When Connie gets teary and intense, I tend to get the same way.

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Conrad Veidt in The Passing of the Third Floor back, 1935. Clicking on the photo will take you to the wonderful article, “I am a wanderer,” an overview of both the film and Connie’s career that I’ve read before, but Victoria brought to my attention again today. It has some marvelously dead-on descriptions of him too, such as this: The actor had a dancer’s grace, deep-set blue eyes and an unsettling gaze, as well as a singularly gaunt, yet imposing physical and psychological presence. Despite the dark cast of his many roles, he was a star who could inspire empathy in viewers captivated by his nuanced portraits of tormented, damned and occasionally sardonically heroic individuals.

Conrad Veidt in The Passing of the Third Floor back, 1935.

Clicking on the photo will take you to the wonderful article, “I am a wanderer,” an overview of both the film and Connie’s career that I’ve read before, but Victoria brought to my attention again today.

It has some marvelously dead-on descriptions of him too, such as this:

The actor had a dancer’s grace, deep-set blue eyes and an unsettling gaze, as well as a singularly gaunt, yet imposing physical and psychological presence. Despite the dark cast of his many roles, he was a star who could inspire empathy in viewers captivated by his nuanced portraits of tormented, damned and occasionally sardonically heroic individuals.

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