JackBurley
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I love that Miss Holm was the voice of Addie, married Addy and played Ado... She is a AAA gal!
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Nope... Should I give additional clues? (I'm used to playing in the "21 Questions" thread!)
In this movie, Hitchcock also featured a shipwreck, which foreshadowed Lifeboat...
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That's a jump rope song, but Ella Fitzgerald recorded it. And I believe it was featured in Mother Wore Tights which is a Betty Grable movie...
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Now what was the question I was going to pose? Oh yeah, Hitch had a lot of themes that he used repeatedly over the course of his career. Some were narrative, some visual; and some aural. Now I'm thinking of that great, jarring sound editing when we see a woman scream but we actually hear the scream of a train whistle. Remember? It was featured in The Thirty-Nine Steps. But in what earlier movie did he use this same effect?
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Okay, no one else leapt in and I thought of another question (in case I'm correct), so here goes:
"If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
And treat those two imposters just the same..."
is from Kipling's poem "If" [which ends]:
"...Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!"
The quote is seen at the tennis grounds after Guy's match in Strangers on a Train (and hence my allusion to not having a question "to lob back" to the rest of you.). Remember, the movie is all about the "twos" -- pairs. "two imposters" was very evident within the frame, and harkens to Bruno and Guy.
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It looks like the present set-up might be more diplomatic: the movies that we're drooling to see are shown at a time that is 1) too late for the east coast and 2) too early for the west coast. So it's even. I'm lucky in that I have mid-week days off of work, and am considering becoming nocturnal Monday night through Wednesday nights.
jet lagged (or TCM lagged)
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And why is that? After many years of pining for TCM, I've finally gotten it. And in this past month I've learned, if they're showing a movie that I've been dying to see -- it's bound to be shown between midnight and 8am. I thought it was just me, but now you've alluded to the same situation.
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I've been sitting on this one because I don't have a good Hitchcock question to lob back to the rest of you (and that could be considered a hint to Mr. Write's question). I'll spill, but only if someone else can offer the next question...
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Indeed, she was twenty years older. Unusual, but not unheard of. Doesn't Joan Collins' and her present paramour share a similar age span?
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All those processing chemicals could not be good for Mr. Tone's feet!
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The movie is actually called Bolero, and he starred in it with the beautiful Carole Lombard. It's pretty sexy (pre-code)! The famous fan dancer Sally Rand is also in it; along with a very young Ray Milland and Ann Sheridan (in a bit part).
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Thanks for the reminder regarding the Stanford Theatre. I need to make the effort to get on that CalTrain and see some classics!
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Regarding the talented Sandy Dennis, I believe she eventually admitted that she and Gerry Mulligan were never officially married. And didn't she live with actor Eric Roberts for many years?
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"Sean & the late Chris Penn Brothers- Parents of Director Leo Penn and Actress Irene Ryan"
Actually, Sean and his late brother Chris, were sons to Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan. Eileen was in Magnolia and has done a lot of television; Irene is rememebered as "Granny" on The Beverly Hillbillies. Eileen is also the mother-in-law of Robin Wright Penn and Aimee Mann.
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Summer Magic?
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I wonder if it could be Mrs. Mike?
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Hilary and Jackie?
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I thought Tara was in Clayton County; in Georgia!
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Kitty Carlisle Hart recently performed at a nightclub in San Francisco and I was lucky enough to be able to attend. She really is a marvel at 95; singing and telling stories from her amazing life. I hope someone is writing down all of her memories. I felt very fortunate to get a first-hand view of those times...
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/images/hart_k_pic2.jpg
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This is what shearerchic had to say in the "Gold Diggers of 1937" thread over in "General Discussions":
"Ruby Keeler was the first tap dancing star of motion pictures. She was a Buck dancer. Both the shoes and the style were different from regular tap dance. Instead of metal taps, the soles were wooden, and hard. Buck dancers stayed in relatively the same place on stage, and their concern was the rhythm coming from their feet, rather than how they looked on stage. They stayed on the balls of their feet most of time, which meant that their torsos moved very little, and the movements were isolated to below the waist. Because of this style of movement, the early Buck dancers often appeared less graceful in comparison with later tap dancers. ..."
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Thanks SKP! I was in Tower DVD today, and didn't see them there (had to suffice with the new Dream Factory set and the two-disk Dog Day Afternoon).
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Could you be referring to John Gavin who, after being featured in Psycho, became ambassador to Mexico?
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"I know what I'm doing that night..."
I hope it's not weeping because you missed the morning broadcast of It's Love I'm After!
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Yes, It's Love I'm After is playing May 11 at 8am...
Hitchcock Trivia
in Games and Trivia
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Oh brother, you're right! I should have kept my keyboard shut. Number Seventeen is precisely what I had in mind. When a dead body is found, the scream is masked by the train whistle. The shipwreck was in Rich and Strange. I didn't mean to throw you off, and apparently I didn't! Good job, path. And now, I believe the next Hitchock Trivia question is up to you...