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Top 10's for Anything Movies
Permlink Replies: 95 - Pages: 7 [ Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | Next ] - Original Post: Jul 31, 2012 3:31 PM Original Post By: audreyforever Threads: [ Previous | Next ]

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 7:48 AM   in response to: finance in response to: finance
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finance wrote:
Good list. I would upgrade THE AWFUL TRUTH and downgrade THE LADY EVE. I would seriously downgrade MY MAN GODFREY, which I didn't like at all. Would the latter-day WHAT'S UP, DOC? be eligible for this list?
i don't see why not...is that a Woody Allen film? I love his movies. As for The Awful Truth, know that I look at it I agree with you...it should be something like #4 or #5

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 2:46 AM   in response to: audreyforever in response to: audreyforever
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Here's my Top Ten Favorites list of movies that came out in that oh-so-famous year of 1939:

1. Midnight - Claudette Colbert & Don Ameche
2. It's a Wonderful World - Claudette Colbert & James Stewart
3. Bachelor Mother - Ginger Rogers & David Niven
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - James Stewart & Jean Arthur
5. Everything Happens At Night - Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, and Sonja Henie
6. Drums Along the Mohawk - Claudette Colbert & Henry Fonda
7. Only Angels Have Wings - Cary Grant & Jean Arthur
8. Gunga Din - Cary Grant & Sam Jaffe
9. Zaza - Claudette Colbert & Herbert Marshall
10. The Wizard of Oz - Judy Garland, Frank Morgan ... but Scarecrow most of all! ;)

Let's see now ... Come to think of it, there was one other movie I could have put on the list ... but, frankly, I just don't give a--

Fiddle-dee-dee.

:D

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Posted: Aug 16, 2012 1:47 AM   in response to: audreyforever in response to: audreyforever
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audreyforever wrote:

Most Represented Actress: Claudette Colbert
Most Represented Actor: Cary Grant

Did they ever make a movie together?

The answer is, strangely, not really.

The closest those two greats came to doing a movie together was in "Without Reservations" (1946). In that film, Claudette plays an author who's bestselling novel is being adapted into a Hollywood movie. At the beginning of the film, Cary Grant is said to be considered for the role of her heroic leading man. Claudette, however, insists that the part should be played by an unknown for it to be truly effective.

In short order, on the train she meets a soldier (played by John Wayne) who she thinks is the spitting image of her character. After some budding relationship troubles between the two (naturally), and in order to make him jealous, Claudette parties it up on the Hollywood scene and goes dancing with ... Cary Grant, played by Cary Grant! (You were expecting, maybe, Tony Curtis?? ;) )

The two exchange a few lines of dialogue in that scene but that's it. It's just a taste of a chemistry-rich pairing that makes you wish they had done at least one entire film together. Still, one should be thankful to get this one cool moment of cinematic history. B-)

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Posted: Aug 15, 2012 9:36 AM   in response to: audreyforever in response to: audreyforever
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Good list. I would upgrade THE AWFUL TRUTH and downgrade THE LADY EVE. I would seriously downgrade MY MAN GODFREY, which I didn't like at all. Would the latter-day WHAT'S UP, DOC? be eligible for this list?

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 10:13 PM   in response to: audreyforever in response to: audreyforever
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Top 10 Screwball Comedies (I'll never come up with a definitive list haha)

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. The Lady Eve
3. It Happened One Night
4. His Girl Friday
5. My Man Godfrey
6. Ball of Fire
7. The Awful Truth
8. The Palm Beach Story
9. Easy Living
10. Midnight

Most Represented Actress: Claudette Colbert
Most Represented Actor: Cary Grant

Did they ever make a movie together?

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 11, 2012 10:02 PM   in response to: audreyforever in response to: audreyforever
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Have something in common (with somebody/something)

A Fistful Of Dollars
The Untouchables
Red Sonja
Death Rides A Horse
The Mission
For a Few Dollars More
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Once Upon A Time In The West
Bloodline
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly


May not be top ten.

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 5:45 PM   in response to: EugeniaH in response to: EugeniaH
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EugeniaH wrote:
...I would also want to add Martha Ivers to my BS list
I'm not sure I've met Martha, but is she really that bad? :p

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:07 PM   in response to: EugeniaH in response to: EugeniaH
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...I would also want to add Martha Ivers to my BS list, if we had a choice of more than 10... just to show that I'm not discriminating against noirs... ;)

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Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:06 PM   in response to: finance in response to: finance
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I haven't seen that film in a long time. I like Jack Lemmon.

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:03 PM   in response to: EugeniaH in response to: EugeniaH
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THE APARTMENT. My #s 1 and 2 are both from Billy Wilder.

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:01 PM   in response to: finance in response to: finance
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Balls some ic Vinegrette. No radishes or rotten tomatoes.

What do you think of my list? Oh, I forgot one more: Nightmare Alley.

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:00 PM   in response to: finance in response to: finance
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If the list was Top 20, DI would definitely be there. Maybe even #11. Hard for me to pick only 10 favorites! Like, I wanted to include Clash by Night, too...

Yes, I remember DI was your #2, but what's your number 1? Now I get the chance to ask you. :)


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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 3:59 PM   in response to: misswonderly in response to: misswonderly
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Oh, on this thread! I get it, and what kind of dressing would you like?

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 3:57 PM   in response to: finance in response to: finance
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I, MissW, was the first person on this thread to mention Double Indemnity, that's where I fit in.
And I'm surprised and shocked, shocked, that you, a dedicated film noir fan, had nary a peep to say about my carefully composed list.
I take a simple balsamic vinegrette for my dressing.

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Re: Top 10's for Anything Movies
Posted: Aug 9, 2012 3:54 PM   in response to: misswonderly in response to: misswonderly
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Big salad? I'm referring to Eugenia's preferences. Where do you fit in?
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