Sophia D’Aurelio

Sophia D’Aurelio

Recovering Letterboxd detractor. Pre-Code fan. Jean Harlow propagandist.

Favorite films

  • Red-Headed Woman
  • The Wild Party
  • Bombshell
  • Stingaree

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  • Violette Nozière

    ★★★★

  • Way of a Gaucho

  • Pistol Packin' Mama

  • The Rampant Age

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  • Pistol Packin' Mama

    Pistol Packin' Mama

    Wally Vernon's routine made me want to throw a tomato through the screen.

  • 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt

    3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt

    Love how the "three poor roommates trying to get therapy for the cost of one" plotline has not aged a day in 2025 and almost works better for the current times--this is my Design for Living (1933). I know Jean Harlow would have hated playing Saxie Symbol but I can't help but imagine this film, which owes everything to the genre, as a 30s screwball with Jean Harlow, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Wallace Beery. And Kay Francis as Dr. Myrna Von.

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  • Hold Your Man

    Hold Your Man

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Leave Her to Heaven

    Leave Her to Heaven

    ★★★★★

    i’m pissed at the ending but this was a masterpiece and gene tierney in technicolor is divine. vincent price was hot in this movie and that was weird