Members

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (just aired on TCM) most certainly is a film noir. Jim Morrison and The Doors had a ten foot tall woman, she was a noir too. Lola wasn’t that tall. Ray Davies isn’t that tall, is he? The more tall you are the more noir you are.

Plus, she had at least one dramatic role where she didn't dance one step... she plays the nice young woman, literally the girl next door, who befriends the Richard Basehart character in Tension. I found her to be quite likable and believable in the film. Here she is, innocently flirting with Basehart. It's a nice scene. Plus, she's a great contrast to Audrey Totter's self-centred character (but don't get me wrong, I love Audrey as Basehart's unfeeling wife in Tension.)

Mason, Marsha

This post just made my day.

Wider isn't always better. Message boards are still the only Internet forums where you still find complete sentences and therefore complete & complex conversation. This board in particular has some really talented communicators. FB & Twit (ter, aptly named) are full of fragmented outbursts with no intent of conversing. A Soapbox. A big indication of inability to compose a sentence are little cutesy emoticons instead of words. I don't understand your desire to influence other posters...you mean along the lines of, "Wow that was a great movie-you should see it!"? This message board will never influence TCM programming or it's hosts, money moves corporations.

TCM continues to pick and chose who and what to recognize in what should be an era of inclusiveness. Their decision to sweep puppies under the rug is amoral*. I am unashamedly a cat person but I acknowledge that dogs have a place in the ecosystem and can be reasonably amusing. The selection of canine-centric movies is considerable. Old Yeller and Benji top many people's lists. What are some of the more interesting but little known movies with four-footed b1tches**? * This is a reference to a very funny little movie which I doubt any of you have seen or are likely to watch. I leave the scene in question to your imagination. ** I specified: 'four-footed' to prevent the wags from listing Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Reese Witherspoon movies.

Parker , Eleanor

I'll Be Seeing You

1923

Looks like they pulled this thing from the bin behind Jim Henson's studio...

Lollobrigida, Gina

THE CADDY (1953)

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (1949)

Shuffle Off To Buffalo - Ruby Keeler and Clarence Nordstrom - 42nd Street Al Jolson

"Shanghai Lil"--Footlight Parade Next: Ruby Keeler in another duo number

Flaming Feather

Dorothy Dandridge

Sam's song in CASABLANCA called "Knock on Wood" -- "Who's got trouble?" "We got trouble" next another song whose title starts with a "K" (not counting "the" of course)

Agreed, it was courageous of Mary Astor to play a woman like that. I did think, however, that she looked even older than her actual age at the time, which, according to Eddie M., was 42. Maybe nowadays, with so much attention and effort spent on appearance, so many skin care products etc. that weren't around in the 1940s, a woman of 42 just doesn't look as old as someone of that age in 1948. However, I did kind of wonder if they'd made Mary look older than that with make-up. (They could easily have added a few "wrinkles" that way.) I do enjoy the way Pat keeps talking about getting her "kicks", the way she unscrews and winds up the cord of that lightbulb when she decides to leave; the way she keeps fussing with her nails when we first meet her in that divey bar. She really only has a few minutes screen time, but she makes the most of it.

Heck, with our "I know what I'm talking about and nobody else does! 😃 " internally-insular A-posters, it could've been anybody. 🤷‍♂️ My first thought was "...He's 90??"

Julia (1977)

You may call me an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy who is not 'woke' but nearly the only body image in movies which is of interest to me is a tall man in a small swimsuit. Sean Connery in a mankini in: Zardoz (1974) qualifies also.

We d., 6-2 6:45 pm (ET) Bloodlust (1961) 1h 8m | Horror A group of teen-agers vacationing in the tropics take a boat out to a seemingly deserted island. They soon find, however, that the island is inhabited by a wealthy recluse and his staff. While their host is initially hospitable, he quickly reveals his true purpose: Director Ralph Brooke Cast Wilton Graff, Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Reed........... ================================================== Fri., 6-4 3:15 am The Diary of a High School Bride (1959) 1h 12m | Drama Seventeen-year-old Judy Lewis marries law student Steve Redding in Las Vegas and they retu... see: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/73074/the-diary-of-a-high-school-bride#synopsis Director Burt Topper, Leonard Katzman Cast Anita Sands, Ronald Foster, Chris Robinson, Wen... 6:15 am Street of Sinners (1957) 1h 16m | Drama In a particularly rough neighborhood of a major city, rookie patrolman Johnny Dean is assi... Director William Berke, John Bowman Cast George Montgomery, Geraldine Brooks, Nehemiah Pe... 2:45 am Magic (1978) 1h 47m | Drama Magician's assistant Corky performs disastrously at his first solo appearance. He is given a ventriloquist dummy called Fats to improve his act and within a few years Corky is at the height of fame. However, Fats has developed a mind of his own..... Director Richard Attenborough Cast Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith ".........A magician who finds success by incorporating a foul-mouthed ventriloquist’s dummy named Fats into his act, Corky is almost unfailingly polite, seemingly easygoing, and reserved in his mannerisms. Even when armed with his fast-talking alter ego, Corky manages to charm strangers and old friends alike. But it’s in the little moments between words, when he **** his head or stares just a little too long at someone, that the viewer gets the impression of a person who’s not all there......... see: https://www.avclub.com/with-help-from-a-dummy-anthony-hopkins-created-a-chara-1845692422

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Love Letters

Texas Carnival

16 Candles

JOHNNY B. GOODE? Mine would be a toss-up twixt JOSEY WALES and WILLIAM MUNNY. With BRONCO BILLY close on the heels. Sepiatone

1943 - Crash Dive 1946 - The Razor's Edge 1948 - The Luck of the Irish Next: Shirley Temple & Arthur Treacher

The Egyptian is definitely a movie Fathom Events should be bringing back to theaters. I haven't attended any of their events because there's no showing that isn't a 2-3 hour drive, but I'd find a way to get to see this one on a big screen.

Moon River - Audrey in Breakfast at Tiffany's Eddie Fisher

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN (1941)...JOURNEY FOR MARGARET (1942)...THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS (1945) Next: Don Ameche & Claudette Colbert

FORTY LITTLE MOTHERS (1940)

GOING HIGHBROW (1935)

The Crash 1932 Lilly Turner 1933 Female 1933 next: Laraine Day and Robert Young

FIESTA (1947)

Thanks, Starliteyes! Let's do the obvious and go to the opposite end of the spectrum -- who made the shortest Academy Award speech?

Three Women (1924)

IS MY FACE RED? (1932)

The Old Maid (1939) -- Bette Davis' character, Charlotte, is really Tina's mother, not her aunt, but she hides this fact for years. Next: Jewels

my aborted screenplay adaptation of THE WOODLANDERS moved the time and place to WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA in the early 1950's, in fact I think I made one of the characters a Korean War vet...? It was a long time ago and I decided not to continue with adapting it as THE LYNCHPIN of the story is A SHOCKING TWIST that happens in the last act of the story, and I could totally see said twist happening in 1890, but not entirely in 1952. nonetheless, it is a GORGEOUS STORY and the ending will blow you away. it was HARDY'S FAVORITE among his own works. (doing a modern update of THOMAS HARDY is nothing new by the way, there is a film called THE HI-LO COUNTRY that is a western retelling of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD) THE WELL-BELOVED is about an arrogant, well-to-do artist visiting an isolated English village. There, he meets a beautiful girl named AVICE (one of HArdy's best character names) He romances her, then decides she isn't good enough and leaves ("ghosting" her as the kids say nowadays). she marries a village man, has his child (a daughter named AVICE) and DIES. In the ensuing years, the ARTIST returns and falls in love with THE SECOND AVICE and then YEARS LATER, he falls in love with her daughter, a THIRD AVICE. It's a really rich story and it borders on being supernatural...which to be honest with you, is something i would gladly explore were i to ever decide to write an adaptation of it. (BTW, I am also a fan of GEORGE ELIOT and have had moments where I considered doing an update of ADAM BEDE in a similar manner_)

Perfect casting choice. So with you on this. Plus Eythe as a real-life homosexual would have added an energy that Clifton Webb did not have (as a less masculine real-life homosexual).

I've always been impressed by Janet Leigh's emotional maturity on screen at such a young age; i.e. HOLIDAY AFFAIR, ACT OF VIOLENCE.

I'm surprised they didn't rerun Dogfight for this series. I think it was shown in the past month or two.

What you say is true, but it isn't limited to Hollywood. Society at large judges people based on their appearance constantly. To offset some of the criticism, we tend to compensate with newer clothes, a different hairstyle, re-shaping our bodies through diet and/or exercise, etcetera. This is a good series TCM is doing on the subject, and it also cuts in the other direction too. People who are physically fit and muscular never think they are big enough, and people who are on target with their weight that's commensurate to their height and age think they are too heavy. Personal hygiene can be a factor too that keeps people from respecting or gravitating toward those who don't practice it well.

I've seen Alicia's body images discussion a few times now and I agree with her comments. Men, such as Ernest Borgnine in "Marty" and Dom Deluise (I can't remember the movie in the clip) are accepted in spite of their "unattractiveness." However women have to be reminded over and over that their bodies don't fit the ideal of attractiveness. In "Shag," one of the characters is actually nicknamed "Pudge" because she was chubby. At the beginning of the film, we're told that she lost the weight, but she's still "bigger" than the other girls (though she looks fine) and is still called "Pudge." She's even called Pudge by her friends' parents! That's how deep-seated her nickname is within her social group. She's constantly reminded that she's bigger than the other girls. It's similar to when aging, or even elderly actresses make an appearance and the audiences are reminded how great (or how bad) she looks. If she looks great, immediately there is speculation of plastic surgery. If she looks her age, she's mocked for looking older. If she tries to get plastic surgery and it's noticeable, she's mocked for having gotten plastic surgery. Women cannot win when it comes to their appearance. She's either too fat. Too thin. Too old. Too plastic looking. She's always "too" something. I'm happy that TCM has put together this series and it not only focuses on women, but men as well. Men also face many of the same issues, if they're not tall enough, muscular enough, outwardly manly enough, etc. Kudos to TCM.

There was a major downpour of rain the other day and as I walked my dog I saw that a bridge over a creek was covered with a deep pool of water. I made the mistake of walking along a sidewalk on that bridge just as a car sped through it, throwing two huge waves of the pool high into the air, one of them completely drenching us. Those two waves had me thinking about Moses at the time, except he had had assistance to remain dry.