The Daily Feather — A Place in the Sun
After seeing A Place in the Sun on its release, Charlie Chaplin called the 1951 film “the greatest movie ever made about America.” One of Hollywood’s great tales of doomed romance, Montgomery Clift plays George Eastman, a poor and distant relative of the wealthy Eastman family. While at a party at his uncle’s mansion, George meets and falls in love with upper-class socialite Angela Vickers, played by Elizabeth Taylor in a breakout role. Viewing his budding relationship with Angela as an opportunity to enter the upper echelons of society and “live the high life,” George’s plans are quickly complicated when an old girlfriend, also of a blue-collar background, tells him that she is pregnant. Try as he might, that “place in the sun” he thinks he’s found with Angela ultimately eludes him. The film was the first to win the Golden Globe for Best Drama Film, and the on-screen chemistry between Clift and Taylor is unparalleled, aided in part by the two being close friends in real life.
Markets have maintained their sunny disposition this month, returning to fresh highs and doing their best not to overreact to tariff developments which come as fast as the President can type on Truth Social. Among the latest to hit the wires over the weekend were a 35% tariff on Canada and 30% on Mexico and the EU, all effective August 1st. On the topic of trade, we begin today’s missive by checking in on the world’s largest trading nation, China, who has plenty of proverbial clouds on its economic radar.