Comments on: Lost in a dream sometimes http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/07/15/lost-in-a-dream-sometimes/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Tue, 22 May 2012 19:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Carrie Tuckera http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/07/15/lost-in-a-dream-sometimes/#comment-6447 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:49:39 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=1608#comment-6447 Sad story, she even died the year I was born. I guess fame and fortune can’t buy happiness or companionship. Guess I’ll settle for boring and pestered by too many friends.

]]> By: Christine http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/07/15/lost-in-a-dream-sometimes/#comment-6289 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:14:30 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=1608#comment-6289 I remember her as Mina in Dracula. Interesting role and movie.

]]> By: bobbi http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/07/15/lost-in-a-dream-sometimes/#comment-4218 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:48:33 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=1608#comment-4218 I think you captured the fragile quality of this haunting actress well. While we probably wouldn’t know who she was were it not for Dracula, Helen Chandler gave her victim role an underlying sexuality and passivity that made her character somewhat sympathetic and hypnotic. She didn’t seem to have had the inner drive needed to survive Hollywood. As Billie Burke once said about the place: “To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”

If you have a chance sometime, you might enjoy checking out her part in The Last Flight (1931), a well done version of the post WWI “lost generation”, based on a story by John Monk Saunders. I suspect that coming of age in the jazz age left its mark on her personality, and may have contributed to her destruction, as it did to so many others.

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