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Aw that sounds like a perfect way to watch a movie. Congratulations! Yesterday was my first day at Capitolfest- honoring Constance & Joan Bennett. First movie watched was 1932's THE TRIAL OF VIVIENNE WARE starring Joan & Donald Cook. This was a fun murder mystery with Joan on trial for murdering a rich guy. Typical story of girl wooed away from normal nice guy by rich older man. She finds him at home with another woman & he's killed. Real story unfolds in flashbacks during the trial. A well told tale with funny interludes of "radio commentary" by Skeets Gallagher & Zazu Pitts since the public couldn't follow the dailies of the trial on TV. Joan was stunningly beautiful as was her nightclub rival played by Lillian Bond. This one holds up very well. Followed by MADAM SPY a 1942 Universal, which garnered applause at the plane/world logo. This one had Constance playing a charactor named Joan (confusing!) and her whirlwind marriage to Don Porter who is a War Correspondent. We see Connie meeting & trading secrets with Nazis, often info gathered from her unsuspecting husband. This movie rests on his adventure of finding her out while she continues her secret meetings. The high point of this movie is Edward S Brophy as the husband's taxi driver, who always has a wise cracking thing to bring a lighthearted chuckle. I disliked this movie a lot because once the husband corners her, we find out she's a DOUBLE agent really working for the US. BOO! The next movie starred fave Alice White in Show Girl 1928. Alice White was GORGEOUS and I loved this movie, the first where she plays Dixie Dugan a charactor later developed as a comic strip. I wasn't fond of the recorded soundtrack for this silent, which included White singing recordings used for the stage numbers. Then a silly Joe Cook short was shown, the audience went wild "YEA!" The morning theme of "poor depression girls seeking fortune through marriage" rounded off with Joan Bennett in SHE WANTED A MILLIONAIRE, a 1932 gem. Apparently, this movie was made based on a true story. Similar circumstances of the lead charactor choosing a rich older man over young cutie played by Spencer Tracey. But in this one she's a beauty contestant & we see her in bathing suits as well as gorgeous dresses. Una Merkel plays her friend & personal secretary-she's a favorite of mine & MrTiki fell under her spell as well seeing her for the first time. There is romance, intrigue, mystery & fun in this movie and the principle actors give solid, entertaining performances as always. Oops gotta go!

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) A Walk in the Clouds (1995) Sideways (2004) And, of course...

A Good Year (2006) Russell Crowe inherits a vineyard Seconds (1966) grape stomping at wine festival Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Château Mouton Rothschild. Bond's knowledge of wine exposes the villain. Wine, Women, and Horses (1937)

a lot of bottles are broken in Foul Play Another Columbo--how to poison the wine..without putting the poison in the bottle (Murder Under Glass) " the bottles's the clue ("if the wine has a cute name, he's under 30") from The Mary Tyler Moore Show

I recently viewed the amazing silent film epic "Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ". I was totally engrossed and stunned that this movie was released in 1925! That's almost 100 years ago before any modern movie making technology existed yet you feel the suspense and excitement of the chariot race. The racing chariots looked like actual chariots in a high speed race. Where was the camera to film the closeups? There is a big crash involving several chariots. The chariots get broken apart and horses and chariot drivers tumble down into a pile. This scene looks like actual footage of a crash. Was it? Particularly effective were the shots underneath the racing chariots. They must have dug a hole for the camera. It looks very dangerous to film like this. The overhead shots showing the whole chariot racing track are amazing. In addition, I appreciated the creative costume design and impressive sets. The scene wear Christ gives Ben Hur water when he is dying of thirst is one of the most powerful scenes. Christ's hand is shown but not his whole figure. Interestingly, this scene is filmed in a similar way with just showing Christ's hand in the more recent version of "Ben Hur" starring Charleston Heston (also an amazing film!). Any thoughts or reactions of this film? Or, any great films you would recommend from the silent era? I'm thankful that TCM showed this film.

This Earth is Mine 1959 A Year in Burgundy 2013 Falcon Crest tv Show

two thousand one hundred sixty-third category A bottle of wine NOTORIOUS (1946) DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (1962) Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm (1973)

I guess I live a simpler lifestyle than some of these celebs. Here's where I spend a lot of time reading, among other things.

Fiddler on the Roof Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Who's next was released 50 years ago today.

Jenny (1970) Directed by George Broomfield Starring Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Marian Hailey, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Charlotte Rae, Philip Bruns, Florence Stanley Released by ABC Pictures/Cinerama Corp. Source: DVD As it stands, this was likely the first movie released in the 1970s. [January 2, 1970, to be exact]. It's an odd little film in a way, with a traditional old-fashioned story at the center. Marlo Thomas plays Jenny, a young unmarried woman who is 6 months pregnant following an absent minded encounter with a childhood friend at a screening of A Place in the Sun. Ashamed, she takes off for New York , and bumps into a young filmmaker, played by Alan Alda, who is trying to dodge the Vietnam draft. They become friends and ultimately decide to enter into a marriage of convenience, to offer her baby a name, and him a potential opportunity not to go to Vietnam. But, as such things usually happen in such films, she falls in love with him, before he falls for her. One of their aims is successful, the other isn't. It's a very simple story, and the film is odd because at 88 minutes, it feels more like an extended short story than a real film. All the characters speak so slowly and there are long pauses to kind of extend the runtime to feature length (several montages, and a weirdly sexualized breastfeeding sequence when the baby arrives for its first meal also cause it to be extended). It feels more like an art film, in both pacing and quietness, albeit with big name TV stars, than a major studio film. I'm a bit mixed. Marlo Thomas is softly charming here, lightyears away from her famous That Girl characterization, but Alda comes across as a bit of a jerk at many times. A line of Vincent Gardenia's regarding Hitler and the Soviets is jaw-droppingly inappropriate, implying that the Germans should have won the whole war! [shiver] Nice song by Harry Niellson on the soundtrack. Worth a look if you are a Marlo Thomas fan, like me, otherwise, its your call.

I thought Washington's in-your-face villainy was very effective, a total scoundrel. He must have enjoyed playing a bad guy, for a change. Is this his only villain role? Oh, wait there was also American Gangster. I've seen most of Denzel's big films but one I particularly enjoy was relatively early in his career, Devil in a Blue Dress, a neo noir told from a 1948 African American perspective. Don Cheadle's psycho gunman stole every scene he was in but Denzel is winning as Easy Rawlins. I wish there could have been a series of Easy Rawlins films with Washington. It's quite a contrast in characterizations by this terrific actor, Easy as opposed to the corrupt scumbag cop in Training Day.

SHHHH! Not so loud! The neighbors might hear!

Klaatu--Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still

Zellweger, Renee

Rawhide, 1951

1. Mary Tyler Moore Show - it was Phylliss' house and Mary and Rhoda lived there. 5. It's either The Jeffersons or Famiy Affair I think, I'll guess Family Affair ( lol I think it's The Jefferson's too) if I saw the entrance I'd know 7. The Addams Family

It's been some time since I've seen the film, but there was a real crash involving 5 chariots, their drivers, and twenty horses. it occurred when a chariot driven by stuntman "Spike" Spackman lost a wheel in the first turn. This started a chain reaction, with four other chariots behind him crashing into the pile. Bill Wilson, who was driving the white horses (Ben-Hur's team) managed to avoid the wreck. Contemporaneous reports indicated that there were no serious injuries (which I find hard to believe). Supposedly, although this sequence was filmed, it was not shown.

Slobs needs marble because they spill & splash a lot. I really do have an outhouse. It was attached to the house & fitted with plumbing in the early 50's for my great grandmother. My Mother remembers having to walk outside, through the back porch to get to the crescent door-in WINTER! I still have a remnant of the original door hanging on the (now interior) door. I just watched a documentary on Linda Ronstadt where she describes arriving in LA in the late 60's & living in a Malibu Beach dream "cottage". The cottages looked few & far between like you see at the end of Kiss Me Deadly. Stop thinking these houses are excessive, celebrities need huge rooms for parties. In our normal size houses 20-30 people is super crowded & people spill into other rooms. I'm sure when Mirren or Oprah have parties 75+ people show up. It's not like they can socialize publicly.

You mean other than Esther Williams? Here's the big water skiing finale from EASY TO LOVE -- only Busby could think of this! next another song/number that is the finale of the movie

Sat., 8-14 SUTS: Gregory Peck........ 3:15 pm (ET) Moby Dick (1956) 1h 56m | Epic | TV-PG Epic adaptation of Herman Melville's classic about a vengeful sea captain out to catch the... Director John Huston Cast Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn "............Huston saw his father Walter Huston as the perfect Ahab ..........Gregory Peck became Huston's new choice through a chance meeting at a Hollywood party. Peck was not sure he was right for the role, in fact, he always thought John Huston would have done a better job. However, Peck's box office draw delighted Warner Brothers ...... Huston's quest for the perfect film of Moby Dick chewed up writers, cast and crew, strangely mirroring Ahab's own search. Perhaps it gave Huston a way of looking into the mad captain's soul. The result of all that pain and torment yielded the most accurate and probably the quintessential movie version of Melville's book. ............" see: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17660/moby-dick#articles-reviews?articleId=31523 -terrific cast, good production............. ===================================================================== 8:00 pm The Big Country (1958) 2h 46m | Western | TV-PG An ex-ship captain arrives in the West to marry a rancher's daughter and finds himself cau... Director William Wyler Cast Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker " In Wyler's words, the film was "about a man's refusal to act according to accepted standards of behavior. Customs of the Old West were sort of debunked."....... https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/17447/the-big-country#articles-reviews?articleId=25835 -good cast, great musical score ...............

Thanks and to the others as well. Baby is home and doing better but still losing weight after being used to feeding tubes and being reluctant to feedings, but he's a sweetie. Can't wait to introduce him to Buster KEaton films like i did with my other young guy. Watched First Man into Space (1959) with him sleeping on my chest yesterday. Enjoyed it but obviously kind of silly- kind of retro sci-fi films i like. (the first film i watched with my oldest son was Lone Wolf and Cub pt. 6 and i remember my mother-in-law giving me funny looks.)

Lee Remick

Klute 1971

Yea! NoShear and cinemaman, thanks for the correct answers -- either of you may take the thread from here! The story collection, For Your Eyes Only (1960), contains five short stories: "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solis", "Risico", and "The Hildebrand Rarity". It is "The Hildebrand Rarity" where we find the character Krest. The Bond/Playboy relationship has been a long one, beginning with publication of Fleming's work, straight on through interviews with a variety of Bonds, not to mention an interview with Fleming in 1965.

Tripplehorn, Jeanne

Stevens, Inger

Shirley Knight

The Parallax View (1974)

Around the World in 80 Days Next: Great ensemble cast movie

PILLOW TALK (1959) Next: lots of cold weather

I say you're in luck, because boy do I have a chick for you. Not only can she swing a helluva shovel, her aim ain't bad either.

Because I have 30, 898 more post than you.

Agreed that she looked stunning in That Hamilton Woman--but keep in mind that her hair and makeup in Streetcar were deliberately chosen to make her appear like a middle-aged woman trying too hard (i.e. unsuccessfully) to disguise her true age. In fact, as a pale echo of the raven-haired beauty we all remembered from earlier films: For comparison, here she is onstage two years later in The Sleeping Prince (1953):

The Crying Game (1992) Back to the Future (1985)

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There are eight bedrooms. Only a savage shares a bathroom with a person with whom they are not intimate. A kitchen properly needs a half-bath attached so that the cook does not need to traipse through the house while covered with flour, blood or etc.. A house needs a half-bath on each floor so that guests do not need to barge through bedrooms. It may be that that house should have more. It has been many years since I have read the figures but it sticks in my mind that houses should be designed so that facilities are never more than twenty steps away.

This one's with you in mind, Dargo... The Dream is located somewhere south of Ventura Boulevard: Partly posted here to avoid the watchful gaze of slaytonf, Dargo.

Who wants to pay that much and have neighbors a few feet away from you? No thanks!

Is she downsizing or what? How the other half live. Sigh. WHY would anyone need 11 bathrooms????

PATTERNS (1956) Next: lots of scenes at a discotheque

Foxx, Redd

That is the correct answer. Great job Peebs, the thread is yours. I liked the photo. Thanks

2534 - Titanic 2535 - To Catch a Thief 2540 - I was going to guess Crimes and Misdemeanors but the 2000 release date knocked that out of contention. I've got a feeling I've seen 2532 but I just can't place it.

There's No Business Like Show Business - Ethel Merman, Donald O'connor, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray ( love this finale) another song/number that's the finale of the movie

Duel of the Titans (1961) Next: hiding from someone

You can pick your friends, And you can pick your nose, But you can't pick your friend's nose.

"I've Gotta Hear That Beat"-- Small Town Girl Next: Another Busby Berkeley production number featuring a solo artist doing their thing

Never seen Silent Night, Deadly Night. Do you recommend it? What about it grabs you? The almost similarly titled 1972 chiller Silent Night, Bloody Night is a favorite of mine. Featuring an impressive cast that includes Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, Walter Abel, and desirably dangerous Mary Woronov, it is further distinguished by a stylishly filmed and intensely creepy flashback (that features Philip Bruns and alumni of Andy Warhol's "Factory" Ondine and drag queen Candy Darling). The low budget and grimy, grainy photography paradoxically enhance the plot's morbid tone and eerie atmosphere. Co-star James Patterson (a Tony award winner) is dubbed in the movie; he died shortly after the production of SNBN ended. Co-produced by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma fame.