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I love the 1931 WATERLOO BRIDGE and much prefer it to the later "more Hollywood" version from 1940. The 1931 version directed by James Whale is 90 years old (!) but still seems fresh and, well, real while the the later version is just a Hollywood movie. I re-watched the James Whale version again today based on your post and once again I was amazed by the scene where Mae Clarke and Kent Douglass have their first conversation in her apartment (after they met while helping the Cockney woman gather the potatoes she dropped during the zeppelin raid). And the look on Mae Clark's face in the mirror as she prepares to go back to work on the streets after Kent Douglass has left! Like you, I was moved by the scene where the tearful Kent Douglass screamed at Mae Clark's landlady.

Leslie Howard is easy -- (in any film) just prop an arm up on the nearest mantlepiece, then press a palm to the side of your face while philosophizing about life.

Movies about amnesia: ANASTASIA MIRAGE SPELLBOUND CROSSROADS I LOVE YOU AGAIN MEMENTO MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN Movies told entirely in flashback as a memory: PENNY SERENADE THE MARRYING KIND RASHOMON LES GIRLS CITIZEN KANE AMADEUS DOUBLE INDEMNITY "Memory" or "Remember" in title: REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR (1942) REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1939) REMEMBER THE DAY (1941) A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1942) A MAN TO REMEMBER (1938) REMEMBER THE TITANS (2000) REMEMBER? (1939) DO YOU REMEMBER? (1914) REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? (1935) SO WELL REMEMBERED (1947) I'LL REMEMBER APRIL (1945) MEMORIES (1914) STREET OF MEMORIES (1940) MEMORIES OF A COP (1956) THE LONG MEMORY (1953)

Random Harvest (1945) Memento (2000) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Away from Her (2006)

Intermezzo (1939)

the whole film is someone's memories: My Favorite Year--Benjy Stone's memories To Kill a Mockingbird--Scout Finch's memories Annie Hall--Alvy Singer's memories Tea For Two--S.Z.Sakall's, as uncle Max, memories Heaven Can Wait--Don Ameche's memories (1943) De-Lovely--Cole Porter (Kevin Kline)'s memories Invasion of the Body Snatchers--Kevin McCarthy's memory Cinema Paradiso--Toto's memories Kind Hearts and Coronets--Louis's (Dennis Price) memories Summer of '42--Hermie's (Gary Grimes) memories A Christmas Story--Ralphie's memories (narrated by author Jean Shepherd) Radio Days--Joe's memories, narrated by Woody Allen and Mr. Memory, who knew The 39 Steps

Thanks For The Memory 1938 Remember 1939 Stardust Memories 1980

Had me going there, thought he turned 91.

Yes, KIDS is a very powerful --- and very disturbing film --- that chronicles the experiences of a group of New York City teenagers during a single day. And sexual promiscuity figures prominently in their story. You may already know this, misswonderly, but Harmony Korine wrote the screenplay for KIDS, but the movie was directed by Larry Clark. Although some viewers believed (believe) the movie was largely improvised, Harmony Kormine has said the movie was entirely scripted except for the scene at the end when Casper wakes up on the couch and says "Jesus Christ, what happened?" ******* SPOLIERS BELOW********** ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* . . . after unknowingly the night before exposing himself to HIV by having sex with (or more accurately r a p i n g) a girl passed out on the couch, who had tested HIV positive earlier that day.

What I remember most about GUMMO is the "My Little Rooster" song that played during the opening credits and The Bunny Boy (there's a clip of him playing the accordion while on the toilet but I won't post that one). "And l love my little guinea, and my guinea loves me. I'm gonna cherish my guinea ‘neath the green bay tree. My little guin' goes potarak. Little duck goes quack quack. Little pig goes mmm mmm. Llittle hen goes cluck cluck. Little rooster goes c-o-c-k-a-doodle-doo Doodle-doo doodle-doo." I first saw GUMMO about 10 years ago and enjoyed it. Someone on these message boards started a thread about GUMMO a few years ago and I think I might have been the only contributor to it besides the thread's creator,

Gung Ho Walk Don't Run

The Inner Sanctum movie titles sound like they could be the names of specialty drinks in a retro looking cocktail bar with a mystery theme- "Bartender, my wife would like a Strange Confession and may I please have a Frozen Ghost."

Black Orpheus (1959) "He made the sun rise!" The Sun Comes Up (1949)

Kevin Costner

Palooka (1934)

I remember him most for playing Murray on one of my favorite TV shows, but I also unironically enjoyed The Love Boat which was sweet fun.

I do recall one of the animated TV specials in the 80s where Charlie Brown had to read War and Peace for a book report, but he kept falling asleep almost as soon as he opened the book.....which was almost as large as he was.

Knight, Shirley

Bring on the Girls (1945) So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Variety Girl (1947) Next: Ward Bond and Jean Arthur

Rebecca 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo 1940 The Moon and Sixpence 1942 next: Veronica Lake and Sonny Tufts

Speaking of Mary Astor "distance herself even more from the type of woman she usually played", I noticed in one scene in her apartment, visible wrinkles on her face. Obviously, a woman never wanted to be photographed that way, especially at her age and especially as she is thought to be a very pretty woman. It was certainly a brave move on Astor's part to allow the definite washed up and has gone through the ringer appearance. This was a move that gave credibility to the character, but a move that showed that Astor was dedicated to her craft in a way that not every actress of her status would have allowed.

Wow-I'd certainly hate living in that world. Have we become such a judgmental society that even our jobs rest upon our purposed political beliefs? Somehow I think you're making an assumption on that point, it seems rather extreme. I suppose it's not much better than being judged by our appearance-although being neat, clean & professional is as far as that judgement should go. But I recall posters here saying they didn't like host Alicia Malone because of her hair & wallpaper back ground. 🙄

Will always remember him in one of his early roles as Crosley, who manned the machine gun in Sand Pebbles, along with Steve McQueen. Quite a different - and heavier - role than what he played in future comedies like The Love Boat.

I used to watch The Love Boat in its first run in the 70s and maybe a bit in the early 80s. That was a memorable show. Not great writing, but it never pretended to be. It was all about meeting people and exploring, and we met plenty of stars. Back a ways, at an undisclosed point in time for the sake of these public message boards, I had cancer myself. I was scheduled for a life-saving operation. I stayed there the night before. I had my laptop and Netflix (in its infancy - using someone else's account) in the hospital. This was the first time I had ever tried it. What did I want to see? Out of the choices, it quickly became clear - I wanted to watch some old episodes of Love Boat to reminisce. That was very nice to have at the time. Anyhow these days I am doing well and will be watching some episodes on Pluto TV to remember. RIP, Captain (as I knew Gavin MacLeod)

1954 - 3 Ring Circus 1955 - Artists and Models 1961 - Ladies' Man Next: Myrna Loy & Spencer Tracy

Gloria's Romance (1916)

Bryant, Dr. Frank-- Michael Caine in Educating Rita

The Flim Flam Man(1967)

Easy Living (1937)

Arbogast--Martin Balsam in Psycho

Funny but at the same time ME-TV was showing The Frozen Ghost with Kosleck, TCM was showing Nazi Agent which also featured Kosleck.

It's even better than that. Sally was a couple of years younger than Charlie. The age difference was much greater when she was introduced in the strip, but by the 1970s, she had closed the gap a bit. Guess she was a victim of the same disease that prematurely ages soap opera children. As far as their film tastes go, they talk about and watch Citizen Kane often, another movie high on an eight year old's list of things to watch! The Peanuts musical (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) has the gang doing a book report on Peter Rabbit, which is much more age-appropriate.

Especially since most of the Peanuts gang is supposedly in the second or third grade in the latter strips (they started out as preschoolers). They've always been a precocious bunch...

Susan and God 1940

Right, Harmony Korine. I haven't thought about him in ages. I did see Gummo, when it first came out, But I can't recall it all that well -- although for some reason, I do remember that bathtub scene. A film by Harmony Korine that I remember better, even though I only saw it once, and a long time ago at that (well, when it came out, which was a long time ago : 1995) was Kids. I remember thinking it was an unpleasant movie, primarily because the main character was so dislikable. It was about the promiscuity of young people back when HIV - Aids was very much a thing to be feared (still is, I guess, although medications have rendered it not quite so fearful), and this horrid young man did not care about HIV or what the consequences of his sexual predatory activity might cause. But still, it was an unusual and powerful film. I especially recall Chloe Sevigney in it, it was the first time I saw her. A moving and sensitive performance. I'm not surprised Werner Herzog would be interested in Harmony Korine's work, Herzog is definitely nothing if not off-beat (or, not mainstream - however you want to call it.)

I am also a huge fan of both books, and a big fan of Hardy in general.

I have the Wooodlanders on my Kindle and still haven't read it. I read nearly all of Hardy's work for my Master's in English Lit. He and George Eliot were my specialty. I believe that Hardy was not only critiquing the English class system, but the double standard of sexual mores. His novel Jude the Obscure also deals with the hypocrisy of Victorian sexual morals.

The Yakuza 1974

Bright Leaf (1950)

The Pajama Game (1957) ("This is our once-a-year day") next: communicating without words

I am sorry to have to say that your memory is faulty. It is Sally who must do the book report. Charlie Brown is merely attempting to help her. https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1988/09/04

I don't agree about the Robert Ryan character. As I said, yes, at first he does seem monstrous, obsessed , fully prepared to kill a decent man (except he knows Frank isn't as decent as everyone else thinks he is.) But I also think, as the film progresses, Joe turns out to be not so evil. I do think the (albeit brief ) scenes he has with Ann (sympathetically played by Phyllis Thaxter) do make Joe more sympathetic, we can understand why he's obsessed with taking revenge on Frank, and we can also understand that at one point, he did try to live a "normal " life, and forget about Frank. (This is more implied than spelt out, but it's there....) Something you may not have noticed, because it's easy to miss, is that , in that final scene at the railway tracks, Ryan lowers his gun. It's very brief, but I was watching for it this time -- whether because Ann's words had an impact on him, or whether he just decided he'd had enough of hatred and revenge, or maybe even because he didn't want to ruin the rest of his life -- whatever the reason, we clearly see Joe stare at Frank, keep on walking towards him, and then, puts his gun away. He was not going to shoot Frank, regardless of whether "Johnny" the hit man appeared on the scene or not.

ps- not that this is on topic or that anyone asked, but THOMAS HARDY is one of my FAVORITE FAVORITE AUTHORS, and if anyone is looking for some good summer reading, I HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND two lesser known works of his that are EXQUISITE: THE WOODLANDERS and THE WELL-BELOVED. FROM time to time I have toyed with the notion of adapting both into scripts (even wrote a good chunk of one before I scrapped the idea)

"What've you found?" "All we've found, sir, is that these red lights appear to be moving back and forth. Aside from that, this device seems to have no function whatsoever." - Airplane II: the Sequel (1982)

Steve McQueen was in Never So Few with Frank Sinatra.

Where did you get that idea? It seems to me the hosts were chosen because they speak well & photograph well, they are inviting. All of them are in the entertainment field and simply look at TCM hosting as just another gig/promo/job. It makes sense they may have some input (refusing to say THIS/THAT) only to protect their careers outside of TCM, but seems a big leap to state they were hired because of their politics. Agree here 100%. I'm hoping this latest wave of filmmakers who studied & loved the classics bring interest & acceptability of those old B&W movies to younger generations. Gosh, Bogdanovich was trying back in the mid 70's to gain acceptance of B&W. I'm not a big fan of over-analyzing, but I did kind of like seeing the grouping of these movies in this BODY IMAGES ON FILM series.

Chandler, Jeff