JackBurley
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"With the latter being released, that only means that there are only 6 more Judy Garland films to be released- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, Listen Darling, Little Nelly Kelly, Everbody Sing, Broadway Melody of 1938, and A Child is Waiting."
Glad to hear Pigskin Parade is finally being released! I caught it once on VHS 10 years ago. When are The Pirate, Girl Crazy, Life Begins for Andy Hardy, Andy Hardy Meets Debutante being released on DVD? Or have they already been?
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Isn't the "H" for humble?
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"Just how much more depth has A Midsummer Night's Dream or Twelfth Night than Top Hat or My Sister Eileen, really? Or Wuthering Heights than Oklahoma?"
Interesting choices, Ms. Ayres. Apparently some thought that the mere plot was lacking to some of the examples you gave, and needed the additional dimensions that music can bring to a story. With a musical, one can marry the literal with the figurative. A character can say one thing at the same time the musical motif can let us know what the person is really thinking. So My Sister Eileen became Wonderful Town, and Bernard Herrmann wrote an operatic version of Wuthering Heights. This, of course, brings up the counter to NZ's op: bringing music to a non-musical.
In my mind I removed the music from A Star Is Born and the story still worked; but Judy Garland looked and sounded strangely like Janet Gaynor...
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It really gives one a sense of the difficulty that the programmers face on a daily basis, eh? Hey, it's hard! But you have a month. Stick with it and enjoy!
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[aside] My, that Betty Wand sure got around!
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That's a swell idea. I don't know what rating share they'd receive, but I'd certainly watch...
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"These miracles of follicle engineering just can't be real, can they?"
Now Ms. Finnie, I'm shocked at the very question. This is Hollywood; land of gossamer and angel hair. We don't go around asking if iconic images are "real". Next you'll be asking us if Orson Welles really sawed that lady in half, suggesting tornados are nothing more than muslin and that Anita Ellis was the real Gilda. My favorite aspect of these elaborate hairdoos was the suggestion that these working girls -- i.e., the characters of secretaries, shopgirls, etc. -- had the time to just whip their tresses into curly pompoms and chignons. It's as if the characters woke up with their hair in this manner! I saw a movie recently wherein the lead had three different coiffures in what would have been the course of one day. The character would say something like, "let me just go up and change for dinner," and then come down with an entirely new doo! How did they manage to do three hours of hairwork in ten minutes?
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Really? I enjoyed it despite Tom Cruise's presence. I was charmed by the relationship of Cuba Gooding and Regina King. It was the first time I'd seen Renee Zellwegger and I was impressed by her performance and wondered where she came from. I thought the supporting characters were good; at least it was nice to see Bonnie Hunt on the screen. Often I find child actors to be cloying and precious, but I enjoyed Jonathan Lipnicki's performance and learning how much a human head weighs... I remember that I went with a friend, and we took my mother who was offended by the purple dialogue; but it seemed appropriate to the characters.
One of the worst films? Oh I have a very long list of films that are worse than this one...
"Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?"
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Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear is the first one that came to mind for me too. So it looks as though he's the standard in the "menacing" category. And then there's Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest...
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Is it possible that you're thinking of City for Conquest? James Cagney's brother (Arthur Kennedy) is a pianist/composer who hated musicals, but ending up find his success therein? He wasn't foreign though, and though there were some musical numbers, it wouldn't really be classified as a "musical"... Can you give us any more clues? Remember song title? Was it in color?
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"Btw, the hairdos found in 'New York, New York' were indeed humdingers, even though they sometimes bordered on the surreal. I think that Scorsese was re-imagining the Hollywood musical 'through a glass darkly', to put it mildly. Here's a masterpiece of construction on Liza Minnelli in that film...though who is that sax-playing fellow with the scowl like a clenched fist next to her??"
New York New York's hairdoos were certainly no more surreal than the curly concoctions found atop Betty Grable's bean in her 1940's musicals, right?. Her roccoco helmets of lacquer and wave defined the aesthetic of the time for me (along with Ms. Crawford's football shoulder pads). Ms. Minnelli looked so great with the longer hairstyles that Mr. Guilaroff gave her, I was sorry that she returned to her short bob as soon as she got off the set. Oh Liza, please keep the snood! Ah, and that's Robert "You-talkin'-to-me?!" DeNiro channeling Georgie Auld on the saxophone.
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Summer Stock is available commercially on DVD. I'd imagine you can buy it right here on the TCM Shopping link...
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Eight posts and no one's mentioned Sydney Guilaroff? We're slipping! He was the head hairstylist (is that redundant?) at MGM from 1934 and on into the 1970's. You can catch a glimpse of him at work in Scorese's New York New York (and there were some terrific doos in that movie!). He's the fellow who gave Claudette Colbert her bangs, and metamorphosed Lucille Ball from platinum to red. It's been said that not only did he know everything about hair, but he knew everything about Hollywood; for he was the confidant of many of the big stars. He was the first person Joan Crawford would see in the morning as she arrived at the studio. It's even been reported that Marilyn Monroe called him the night of her demise. He knew all the follicles and for decades created trends that American women followed.
For those interested in learning more about this hair legend, I found this interview from http://www.classicimages.com/1997/january/sguilaroff-interview.html' target=new>Classic Movie Images.
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I'd love to see all of Vicki Lester's movies.
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Could it be The Glass Slipper with Leslie Caron (short haired peasant) meeting Michael Wilding's "Prince Charles"?
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While it's great to see your wishes on the Board, here's the place to make requests to TCM:
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I'm a sucker for personal appearances... Keep me updated and I'll see ya there!
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The movie Running with Scissors was disappointing, but I must vouch for Annette Benning's performance, which was stellar. The movie was as harrowing as the book, but didn't have the balance of wit that the book possessed.
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The LA Times article is only available to subscribers, but thanks for the link to the Wilder Theatre information. Wish I'd known sooner about that opening; I'd have tried to get tickets to see Shirley MacLaine talk about The Apartment. Congratulations on the new theatre! Hope all y'all southern Californians will support it with enthusiasm.
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"I thought that Kay Thompson also worked with Roger Edens at MGM on Garland's arrangements. Is that not true?
She sure did, Ms. Pax. They were a very tight group. Gee, I wish I could have been there at that time... The parties they had were legendary. Judy and Kay singing at the top of their lungs with Edens at the piano. Where the devil is my time machine when I need it?
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Thanks for the Hope Emerson spotlight, Mr. Mongo. My biggest surprise was regarding Norman Bel Geddes. I knew he was an industrial designer (and father of Barbara Bel Geddes -- Vertigo's "Midge"), but didn't know he was also a theatrical producer. What an interesting fellow!
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I vote to show 'em -- score or no score. If we can watch A Star Is Born with still pictures in place of lost scenes, we can watch a silent movie without the score. Give me a taste of the film, leave the score for my imagination... In small town theatres, the films were often merely accompanied by a pianist in the corner. Couldn't they record something like this until the full score is created? David Hagerty, are you there?
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"...and Paul Muni telling the mayor's manservant to 'scram' when he offered to help him into his briefs and, of course..."
"Scram" is swell. There's some movie out there wherein the heroine uses its pig latin form and tells another character to "Am-scray". Now that's choice!
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Indeed, it was The Gay Parisienne. It was a great opportunity to see the work of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the dancing of L?onide Massine, Frederic Franklin, Nathalie Krassovska and others from the company. Another great testament to an era gone by and it was interesting to see another example of Massine (outside of The Red Shoes).
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