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I have been wanting to see SECONDS (1966) for quite some time and I actually came across it on PLUTO TV, which is a streaming channel. Holy ****. The movie was fine, but I had to give up after about 20 minutes because THERE WAS A 3 minute long COMMERCIAL BREAK LITERALLY EVERY FOUR MINUTES, it took about 45 minutes to make it to the 20 minute mark. AND THEY WERE ALL ADS FOR CONSTIPATION GUMMIES AND BUTT WIPES (the less said there, the better) and there was NO WARNING, an actor would be delivering a line and it would become: "Well, you see, Sir, our organization is very select, and we value secrecy above all else DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH 'FEELING REGULAR' SOMETIMES? IF YOU DO, TRY CHEWABLE LAXATIVES IN GRAPE FLAVOR..." Seriously, these people would reduce the higher-ups at AMC TO TEARS with their bald-faced greed and determination to render anything unwatchable via ads.

Did not realize she was nearly 100 years old. Talented lady. Rest in peace.

I think Hopkins is better in her pre-code. She's not quite so hammy. I loved her in her Ernst Lubitsch films: Design for Living and Trouble in Paradise. She was fantastic in The Story of Temple Drake and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I agree about her in Old Acquaintance. She tries so hard to upstage Bette, that she upstages herself in the process and looks insane. Bette was smart to keep her character calm and reserved, because she upstages Miriam in the process. I feel like Bette is all of us when she shakes Miriam. I never really found Miriam hammy in The Heiress though. Her character is more romantic and boisterous than the other characters in the film. I felt that this was supposed to contrast with her brother (or maybe brother-in-law?) who is so reserved and cold. If all the characters were like that, the movie would be very one-note and depressing. Miriam's character is also the one who helps keep some of the mystery alive surrounding Clift's true intentions when it comes to marrying Olivia. Does he truly love her? Is he a golddigger? With Olivia being so downtrodden and mousy because of her father, she wasn't going to be able to challenge any opinion her father had of Clift. Miriam was her ally. Even if Miriam, deep-down had a hunch that Clift might not truly love Olivia, Miriam is a romantic and wants to believe that some happiness awaits her niece Olivia. And if he is after her money, maybe it's not so bad if Olivia has a companion. Miriam might not be the wisest character in the film, but we need someone with a little more whimsy and lightness in an otherwise very downbeat film.

With regards to Hopkins and how she plays a character, a lot depends on the director and how they wish that character to be portrayed in the film and what their role is within said film. Take The Heiress; emotionally every character in the film is very buttoned-up \ reserved. Until the final showdown the father and daughter withheld how they felt towards each other. The maid was reserved because that was her duty. The suitor was reserved because that worked in his favor to fool the Heiress. The suitor's aunt(or sister?) was reserved out of embarrassment or because she too was fooled by his charms. Then there is Aunt Lavinia: the only character in the film that is full of emotion and didn't hold back. Did Wyler allow Hopkins to overplay her? Ok, I can see that, but Wyler was one of the best at directing women so I have to assume he got the performance he desired. Aunt Lavinia was the counter balance to all the reserved inner turmoil the other characters were holding back. She was needed to keep the film from being too one- note and a downer.

And Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Arsenic and Old Lace, I'm No Angel, Holiday, My Favorite Wife, and others.

During the 1963-64 television season -- two years before Bill Cosby starred in NBC's "I Spy" -- Tyson was a regular in the CBS drama series "East Side/West Side." The show starred George C. Scott as Neil Brock, a New York city social worker. Tyson played Jane Foster, a social worker aide. The actress became the first African-American to have a recurring role in a network television drama. She also was the first actress to wear a natural hairstyle on a television series.

I saw 36 Hours (1965), which I thoroughly enjoyed. A good central idea: the Germans capture James Garner, who knows the time and location of the D-Day invasion. They create the illusion that it's 1950 and that he has amnesia to try to get him to reveal what he knows about D-Day. James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, and Rod Taylor are three very likable actors, and the plot has a couple of nice twists along the way. This might be Rod Taylor's best role. Curiously, all of my favorite 1965 films are in black and white, including three WWII films--King Rat, The Hill, 36 Hours. The great era of B&W is almost over. 36 Hours would make an interesting double feature with a B&W film from the next year, Seconds.

Too many! Too fast! What a fine actress. And a fine lady. A champion of human dignity, propriety, and probity. As TomJH says above, she made one of the absolute greatest moments in cinema. It's acting, it's a story, a performance, but coming from her, is so honest, so true, it stabs me to the heart every time I see it:

Can anyone who saw it forget Cicely's run and the emotion she brought to her reunion scene with Paul Winfield in Sounder?

Honored at the TCM Classic Film Festival in 2018 with hand and footprint ceremony at TCL (Grauman's) Theater in Hollywood-

Double Indemnity Next: Night on the town

Another early look (scroll to bottom of page). https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm

TCM Remembers: Cicely Tyson

PERFECT STRANGERS BLUE, WHITE, AND PERFECT BELLS ARE RINGING song -- "It's a Perfect Relationship, I can't see him, he can't see me!"

SOME LIKE IT HOT

Either It's Love Or It Isn't - Lizabeth Scott sings( she was dubbed by Trudy Stevens) in Dead Reckoning a favorite Elmer Bernstein theme song/score he composed for a film

CICELY TYSON, QUEEN OF THE OBIT THREADS!!!!

Norma Rae Next: Jealous Stepmother

Filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicely_Tyson

Saturday, January 30 3:45 p.m. On the Waterfront (1954). One of the greats.

I just sent a private message to the moderator asking what happened to it.

You should. See "The Awful Truth", "His Girl Friday", and "Bringing Up Baby".

THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG (1960)

I Mobster (1959) Director Roger Corman's tale of the rise and fall of a gangster remains an interesting portrait despite its limited production values (even if larger than the usual Corman film) and the predictability of its story. Much of this must be attributed to star Steve Cochran, recently returned from Italy after delivering an exceptionally strong performance as an emotionally tortured man in Antonioni's Il Grido. Once under contract to Goldwyn and Warner Brothers, the husky good looking actor, only fitfully allowed a strong role to show off a considerable acting range, brings charisma to spare in his role as a NYC hustler who gradually becomes a local gangland king pin. There's a sentimentality at the core of this gangster portrayal largely told in flashback. Cochran's Joe Sante (with the actor's dark looks he could pass as an Italian) only kills when he has to, loves his mama (who gradually comes to despise him for his gangster activities) to whom he sends financial support and is initially reluctant to let a nice Italian girl who loves him get involved in the seediness of the rackets. He's also surprisingly virtuous when it comes to the ladies, pushing away gangland tramps in favour of the nice girl. (I wonder how amused Cochran, one of Hollywood's legendary studs, was about that aspect of his characterization). In short, Sante's not a bad guy but he lets himself get trapped going down a very wrong, if lucrative, path which includes drug peddling. Despite the corniness of aspects of the story Cochran is attractive and convincing in his role. But then this underappreciated actor always gave a good show. Character actor Robert Strauss is good as a former gang boss who becomes an underling of Cochran. The rest of the no name cast are adequate in their roles, including Lita Milan as the nice Italian girl with whom Sante finds "true love" and Celia Lovsky as Mama. Yvette Vickers, of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman fame, appears as, what else, a loose woman. Strictly for exploitational purposes legendary stripper Lil St. Cyr appears as herself putting on a stage performance which includes a bubble bath. I find there are times when I can enjoy exploitation very much. Cochran's career was floating at this time. He would soon be a co-star in a Mamie Van Doren "B" and do a lot of television work, including a strong performance as a particularly nasty gangster in The Purple Gang, one of the best episodes of The Untouchables. 2.5 out of 4

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN WAITING FOR ANYA LOVE IN WAITING THE LONG WAIT WAIT UNTIL DARK HEAVEN CAN WAIT HAMILTON song "Wait For It" (one of my fav songs in the whole show!)

One of my favorite Masterpiece Theater shows -- JEEVES AND WOOSTER! Here's the wonderful main theme: next song from a movie based on a book

INGRID next; Cartwright, Hamel and Lake

Tyson won two 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards -- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama and Actress of the Year – Special -- for her performance as a centenarian and former enslaved person in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman." The made-for-television production -- based on the 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines -- received seven other Emmys, including Outstanding Special - Comedy or Drama. Her third Primetime Emmy was for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special in the 1994 CBS production "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All."

Beau Brummel (1924)

1946

The River Wild

I found History of the World Part I lying on the top of the $5 movie bin at Walmart a few months ago. I'm not normally one for buying movies I've never seen, but for $5 and Mel Brooks, I figured I'd take a chance. Totally worth it. This movie was hilarious, especially Cloris: "We are so poor, we do not even have a language! Just this stupid accent!"

a great actress.

Cicely in Roots with Maya Angelou:

Yung, Victor Sen

I liked her semi-comic villainess, Madame, in ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT and the socialite companian to Vincent Price's Shelby character in LAURA. She was also good as Big Mama in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.

Also HISTORY IF THE WORLD PART I “bonjour, scum.”

The Moby Dick version with Gregory Peck as Ahab. Next: Sabatini

That would be ok with me. The more the merrier.

No, I just wanted to review the US/Capitol studio albums that were released during the time they were together. Listening to them again in chronological order was a great experience. I do own the Rarities album though.

Exodus -the movie Exodus based on Leon Uris book- Ernest Gold won the Oscar and Grammy for the soundtrack - the lyrics to the song Exodus were written and sung by Pat Boone after the movie release another song from a movie based on a book

I never noticed until a couple of years ago that she was on the jacket cover of Miles Davis' 1967 LP "Sorcerer." Tyson and Davis were a longtime couple and married from 1981 to 1988.

Not too long ago I watched Father Goose starring Cary Grant and Leslie Caron. When I think of comedy I don't think of Cary Grant first, but maybe I should start. I swear, that man could play any part. I loved this as a kid and still do. Love everything about it! "All of them, Frank."

Anne Seymour was in "Home from The Hill" with Constance Ford.