CineSage_jr
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That's Priscilla, the only one to become a star in her own right.
But I disagree with you; to my eye, she ranks merely #3 out of four.
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Most of the drawn movie star caricatures were done by Al Hirschfeld. I'm not sure if he was the artist, but they do carry some of his books at Amazon.com
No. Firstly, Al Hirschfeld always objected to his drawings being characterized as "caricatures" (and, contrary to popular belief, none of the caricatures decorating the walls of the venerable Broadway haunt, Sardi's Restaurant, are by Hirschfeld).
Secondly, the book described by MovieManFan is by a different artist. Hirschfeld had no connection to it. If I should locate my copy, I'll post the artist's name.
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The word is spelled Leprechaun.
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DeMille was really unhappy with Mature after he'd been cast as Samson. The director though he was too fat, too unco?rdinated, and afraid of anything and everything.
Of course, the quality of the script left a lot to be desired, too, C.B. and whose fault was that?
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I saw him in a TV interview back in the '60s, maybe on the Carson show. He said that during one sequences where the natives were supposed to throw spears at him (but miss him, of course) one of the local natives thought the idea was to throw spears at him and actually hit him. He said one of the spears came really close to him.
That's right, blame it on the dumb savage. Wilde was the director, for chrissakes. He had a stunt co?rdinator to, well, co?rdinate these things and make sure that everyone, including the said "dumb savages," were on the same page. If he had been skewered by some Transvaal toothpick, it would've been as much his own bloody fault as if someone else been injured or killed on his set, but he'd never go on television and admit that, would he?
Wilde's little story is surely just that, something cooked up by some publicist to intrigue the movie-going public and persade them to slap down some hard-earned money for a ticket.
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I just watched The Flame and The Arrow on DVD. You need to buy the Lancaster Signature Collection. It does not have The Crimson Pirate though. Box sets are the best way to buy dvd's.
Not true; THE FLAME AND THE ARROW, like all Warner films that're part of box sets, is available indivdually:
http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=21276579
THE CRIMSON PIRATE is now out of print, but is available at reasonable prices on Amazon.com and Half.com.
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I have a copy of this around somewhere, too. I got it from the old Movie/Entertainment Book Club, whose reason for existence vanished with the rise of the Internet.
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As I understand it, the legal rights to the film have been tied up by the estate of Nat Perrin, who wrote the original play (and screenplay) for decades (it used to play on TV all the time when I was a kid). That's why it's dissappeared, with no prospects of its coming to DVD, or even broadcast TV.
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Fred to CineSage:
Haven't we been seeing both films (The African Queen and The Quiet Man) on TCM for a couple of years?
Broadcast rights and home video rights (which often have to be negotiated medium by medium, so that what served for cassette usually doesn't apply to DVD) are like the proverbial apples and oranges. The broadcast rights to the wo films aren't encumbered; the DVD rights are.
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The news leaked last week that Jaden Smith had joined the cast of Warner Brothers' upcoming remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the news.
This is the second time someone's posted this. The film is being produced by 20th Century-Fox, which made the original version, not Warner Bros.
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FOUR DAUGHTERS (1938) was followed up by, in chronological order, FOUR WIVES[/i] (1939) and FOUR MOTHERS (1941).
Though at first glance Warner's 1939 DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS looks as though it's part of the series, it doesn't concern the Lemp family.
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The Matterhorn? It's Anaheim that isn't real.
The Paramount Pictures logo, known affectionately as Majestic Mountain, is one of the most familiar images in Hollywood. It is the oldest studio logo in continuous use. It predates the second-oldest, MGM's roaring lion, by close to a decade.
Actually, it's more like four years. The roaring "Leo the Lion" logo was inherited in 1924 by the newly-formed MGM, from Samuel Goldwyn Productions, one of the components of the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Goldwyn and his partner, Arthur Selwyn, had been using the logo since 1916, making the trademark only about four years younger than Paramount's.
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"Napolean?" Is he the inventor of Sizzlean breakfast strips, by any chance?
Or do you mean Napoleon Bonaparte?
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What a load of politically-tainted crap you're dishing, Erebus (a conclusion arrived at only after finally parsing those florid, purple, tortured, pretentious sentences of yours).
Only a confirmed Clinton-hater could find some justification (in his own mind, of course, and nowhere else) to drag Bill Clinton into a discussion of Christian Brando's death, and accuse him of being a bad father (whatever gripes anyone has about him, no one ever has, or can, say that he was anything less than a good father).
It makes me wonder just what forms of child abuse you're into.
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Rumors that he was crushed to death by a runaway rolling pin are unfounded.
He was bit of a Poppin'-jay, but I'll miss the little dough-eyed scamp.
Remind me to send flours to the funeral.
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No, it's just an idealized, stylized mountain.
The mountain at the end of Paramount's old Western Street wasn't real, either (it was about forty feet high, and made of wood, chicken wire and plaster).
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And all this time I thought you were named for Rock Hudson and Punky Brewster.
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And "Bunny Serenade"...
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The Russian text below is quite inaccurate. It should read
В 1957 году Джейн и Микки покупают особняк за 75,500 долларов на бульваре Сансет в Голливуде.
(V 1957 godu Dzheyn e Mikki pokupayut osobnyak 75,500 dollarov na bulivarei Sancet v gollivude).
Some of the Cyrillic letters came through improperly in the posting below. Also, a couple of the Russian phonetic spellings of English-language words and place names were less exact than they might have been. "Сансет" is, more accurately, "Сoнсет," and "Голливуде" should read "Χоллиoyд."
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And "Bunny Face" and "My Bunny Valentine," too.
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What's the last movie to make you cry?
Why the 1958 Andy Griffith comedy, ONIONHEAD, of course.
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Why is this movie so popular and loved?
I never understood the appeal.
It's not funny.
A little trivia: Some Like It Hot is actually a remake of a German film called Fanfaren der Liebe (1951).
It's very funny, but that's not the problem. Firstly, Billy Wilder worshipped Ernst Lubitsch and his films, holding them up as a model of comedic perfection and what he, himself, wanted to do (true story: after serving as pallbearers at Lubitsch's 1947 funeral, Wilder and William Wyler were walking back to their cars. Wilder lamented, "Well, no more Lubitsch," to which Wyler replied, "Even worse, no more Lubitsch films").
Wilder, by his own admission, never quite managed to master Lubitsch's subtle and indirect technique of depicting comic sexual foibles, probably because Wilder (along with his collaborators Charles Brackett, I.A.L. Diamond, etc.) were always just a little too anxious to go for the jugular.
As a result, Wilder graviated toward dramas that were always wickedly funny, with the wit a scalpel meant to dig out and heighten the failings of his films' always deeply-flawed characters.
Then came SOME LIKE IT HOT, up to then a relatively rare excursion by the writer-director into comedy-film terrain. The film was an enormous hit, the biggest of his career up to that point. Wilder was now under pressure to top himself; what's worse, he was now being perceived as a "comedy director" (however one cares to define that rather vague term). So, Wilder embarked on a long series of comedy films, which reached its peak with IRMA LA DOUCE, the biggest financial success of his career.
After IRMA, all of Wilder's films lost money but, most unfortunately, he all but forsook the sort of bleak, razor-edged dramas what were his true m?tier: DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE LOST WEEKEND, SUNSET BOULEVARD and ACE IN THE HOLE. Only toward the end, with THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (even in cut form, his masterpiece) and FEDORA (a dreadful misfire) did he return to what he did best, dramas full of the blackest of black humor.
It can be argued, then, that SOME LIKE IT HOT all but destroyed the latter half of Wilder's career. What might he have come up with had he not been perceived incorrectly as a "comedy director" (wit and comedy being two rather different things, with vastly different functions).?
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The address is
175 West Hudson Avenue, Englewood, NJ 07631.
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You forgetting the obvious:
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
and
BUNNY O'HARE.
Did anyone see ?Samson and Delilah??
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Mature is much, much better in KISS OF DEATH and THE ROBE.