Members

A favourite film of many members of this board who will be happy with this news, though the old Fox DVD release of a few years ago is a perfectly fine one. (I don't know if it's still available, though). Love the Criterion cover, a perfect one for this film. Man, the performances in this film: Tyrone Power (his finest hour), Joan Blondell, Helen Walker and Ian Keith, in particular.

Ended up rewatching Chaplin again last night. I had seen it almost 7 years ago, and loved it back then. It holds up beautifully. Robert Downey Jr so thoroughly disappeared into the role of Charlie Chaplin that I began to forget it was him. Lots of entertaining cameos, a lush production, moving finale, great production values....

Ferrer, Mel

There is a fabulous documentary out there on Saul Bass.

Have you seen The Great Garrick; this is a romantic comedy, directed by James Whales and starting Brian Aherne and Olivia DeHavilland. (this is how Aherne meet sister Joan who he would marry a few years later). Really nice Warner Bros. film from 1937. Aherne plays the stuffy, full-of-himself, British actor Garrick as he travels to France and meets the Comédie Française.

Running on Empty

Not being into Chinese food that much I couldn't do it, though I think I could polish off a dozen chocolate glazed donuts in the same time frame. That Mickey Spillane, he sure knows how to make hamburger.

Tonight MARTY will be put in the grinder..... Get it? Get it? lol I just break myself up! (I gotta laugh or I'll cry....)

And yet SISTER ACT and BASIC INSTINCT were HUGE SMASHES no one predicted. (WAYNES WORLD too, to a degree) I know this happened throughout Hollywood history, but one interesting thing about films of the 90s is how every year a handful of “sure things” ate it hard while a another handful of films no one expected *anything* of absolutely *blew up.*

CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT -- "Nobody needs a mink coat but a mink!" ALL ABOUT EVE -- "Imagine wearing furs where it doesn't even get cold" THAT TOUCH OF MINK GUYS AND DOLLS - "Take Back Your Mink"

Here's a thread on Hairspray you might like.

I would suggest a Mossberg 12 gauge pump for your situation. It's a bit more impressive and you get the benefit of the 'horseshoe' rule. Dargo will know this but I thought that was an aluminum body. https://agoodgoodbye.com/tools-of-the-trade/how-to-recreate-a-famous-jaguar-hearse/

Oxford Blues

Harewood, Dorian

I watched Chiller Theatre every week!

I like The Great Garrick very much. Amusing story, excellent performances. As I recall I particularly enjoyed Melville Cooper's performance.

3. Starred in Wait Until Dark on Broadway.

Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Stagecoach 1939 Midnight Cowboy 1969

Did no one else here watch THE KISS BEFORE THE MIRROR (1933, on TCM On Demand through 5/31)? A man (Paul Lukas) follows the wife (Gloria Stuart) he suspects is having an affair, and guns her down in another man's bedroom. His lawyer (Frank Morgan), intending to prepare a defense of insanity, rather than premeditated murder, meditates a little too deeply on the vanities and behaviors of women with lovers. Specifically, his own wife's (Nancy Carroll) conduct and habits. Directed by James Whale and cinematography by Karl Freund. It's not horror as the genre is normally understood. Unless like me you're frightened at the idea that a man who claims to be in love but thinks himself betrayed is entitled to kill the supposedly straying woman.

Van Cleef, Lee

MON., 5-24 8:00 pm (ET) Chaplin (1992) 2h 24m | Drama | TV-MA Biographical film on Charlie Chaplin: from his impoverished youth in London through the fo... Director Richard Attenborough,Michael D... Cast "The film received mixed reviews, lauded for its high production values, but many critics dismissed it as an overly glossy biopic.[7] Although the film was criticized for taking dramatic license with some aspects of Chaplin's life, Downey's performance as Chaplin won universal acclaim........ "Lithe and lively and looking remarkably like the younger Chaplin, Downey does more than master the man’s celebrated duck walk and easy grace. In one of those acts of will and creativity that actors come up with when you least expect it, Downey becomes Chaplin, re-creating his character and his chilly soul so precisely that even the comedian’s daughter Geraldine, a featured player here, was both impressed and unnerved."........ see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin_(film)#Critical_reception

The Tony Randall double feature, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter and The Brass Bottle. I've seen WSSRH several times before and I always thought it was more fun. Mansfield is great to look at and I'm a big fan of all things 60's. This time Jayne Mansfield's high pitched squeal schtick was grating. Is that supposed to be sexy or something? The Brass Bottle I enjoyed. It's always a big surprise when you find something that had somehow slipped by and this is one of them. The film is the precursor to I Dream of Jeanie but this story is quite different. Burl Ives is the 'Green Gin' Genie that is released from the bottle. Later he summons a 'Blue Gin' Genie played by Kamala Devi who is offered to Randall, but he not interested because he's in love with Barbara Eden, who is NOT a genie.

I'll have to come up with another venn diagram and see where this takes me. Classic movies, classic movies that are great, classic movies that aren't great, non-classic movies that are great, non-classic movies that aren't great, classic movies that are great that aren't "woke" (and therefore must be wrapped up in viewer warnings), non-classic movies that aren't great yet have a "woke" moment (and are therefore now a hidden gem), etc. Unintentionally ridiculous.

1929

This is not exactly a gay topic but any fans of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis should google to find the recent photos that have surfaced in which the comedy duo is shown taking a shower together. Dino goes full frontal but Jerry keeps a hand over his private. The pictures were part of a 2018 Sotheby’s auction of items belonging to Frank Branda, Jerry Lewis’s driver and assistant. The auction description listed “4 candid photographs of Lewis and Martin in a steam room and shower, Lewis posing modestly, Martin less so.” Of course TCM will never let me post them here. My question is why were the photos taken? You can read the story and see the photos at Brian Ferrari's Blog

TIME @TIME The best movies of 2021 so far The Best Movies of 2021 So Far From Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, 'The Human Voice,' to the ludicrously joyful 'Spongebob Movie' time.com 6:01 PM · May 25, 2021·Sprinklr

Stone's performance continues to grow in stature, with most concluding it was a great turn. Even at the time, the film critics group in Chicago picked her and two other women playing dangerous characters in 1992 as being their joint best actress pick for the year and she was up for the golden Globe. The 90s feel like the end of the line in several ways. There is no way to deny that there have been some good films since then, some decent TV shows, but something just went out of the industry after the 90s ended. Most of the new set of stars that came up after the 90s never fully won me over. I have great affection for the early half of the 90s, and agree that the actresses of the period were the last ones to have the real bearings of movie stars.

I actually thought SHARON STONE was fabulous in INSTINCT. A couple weeks back I thought about starting a thread dedicated to The fact that the 1990s were truly, and tragically, the “last decade for leading ladies”. We just don’t have female movie stars/actresses anymore like we did in the 90s, they were the last of the line.

Or look at 1990 as well. Smashes included Home Alone (which WB passed on because they didn't think it would turn a profit), Ghost (which was not expected to go much of anywhere), Pretty Woman (with a mostly untried female lead and a leading man who hadn't had a hit in 8 years), and Dances with Wolves (an entry in a genre left all for dead that was being referred to as Kevin's Gate). So what did the money men invest in that year? The bonfire of the Vanities and Havana (actually a good film).

O'Shea, Sugarpuss, played by Barbara Stanwyck in "Ball of Fire"

Wednesday, May 26 6 a.m. All Monsters Attack (1969). aka Godzilla’s Revenge.

The Velvet Touch (1948)

Kisses for My President (1964)

I was seventeen when the movie came out, and thought that J.C. and W.B. were so beautiful and glamorous. It was always playing at the drive-in by my house and my friend and I never got tired of watching it. We both thought Jack Warden was very funny. We also loved the party scene. I have some issues with it now, but I always love when it is shown even though I own the movie and have seen it hundreds of times. When we watched The Player that same friend said it reminded him of Shampoo. I know what he means, but I think The Player is a better movie.

I likeJames Whale a lot, it is a great pre-code & good acting from Morgan,and all of the cast It would never be made in any era after 1934 i guess.

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934)

GO INTO YOUR DANCE (1935)

Only the strongly devout survive, so yes there were a lot of survivors, even after three mornings each week of chapel. They still send me their quarterly publication and they're doing quite well. I think their educational philosophy is the more new buildings constructed the better the academic heft of the school. Okayyy. They also changed the name of the school from a college to a university. Can't hurt. And culturally they're in the mid 1990s heading gradually for the turn of the century. I did pick up the game of euchre, which is a card game mostly played in the Midwest, so my year spent there wasn't a total waste of time.

Sullivan's Travels (1941) Midnight Run (1988) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) It Happened One Night (1934)

Shank, these books are all about Sinatra as a singer and do not cover his personal life, screen career, etc. That's what appealed to me.

I do recall seeing the flick on TCM not too long ago. Sepiatone

Remind me not to visit you without calling first.

He had a bag full of them. I own the house next door. I own the whole block. I own the whole city.

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934)

Dee H O T Y. I'm clueless as to the offense this word offers, so apologies if anyone is offended...

Monday, May 17/18 3:45 a.m. A Man For All Seasons (1966). I’m reading a biography of Canadian film pioneer Budge Crawley and it is said Robert Shaw based his performance of Henry VIII on him. Shaw had just been in Canada to make the wonderful The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) for Budge.