JackBurley
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Consider the stereotype broken.
Carole Lombard, Lucille Ball are two very obvious examples of funny, beautiful women. Then please add Norma Shearer (Idiot's Delight!), Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn and Irene Dunne to the list.
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Indeed, it's the one and same Penny Singleton. Good call, doolittle!
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I noticed lots of classics were listed in the top 20 selling DVDs at my local store today:
#5: Viva Las Vegas
#6: Black Swan (still on the list; I might have to buy this!)
#9: House On Telegraph Hill
#12:Auntie Mame
#13:Dog Day Afternoon
#15:Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
#17:The Music Man
#20:Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor)
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Where's my Time Machine when I need it?
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"I wish they had played 'Gentleman's Agreement' today, or is that going to be on Greg Peck's day?"
Alas, Gregory Peck's day was last Friday and they didn't play it then either. I believe Gentleman's Agreement belongs to Twentieth Century Fox, so you might catch it over at the Fox Movie Channel.
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" wish there was a 'Shack Out On 101' thread on these Boards somewhere. My dad, Keenan Wynn, was in that and Lee Marvin."
My goodness! Start the thread or any other thread! Message Board readers would love to hear more about Keenan Wynn, Van Johnson, May Wynn, Ed Wynn, Robert Francis, Humphrey Bogart, Lee Marvin and anyone else you had contact with. I hope to see more of your posts here on TCM Message Boards!
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"Years ago, in San Francisco, some guy bought a lot of props from the old MGM sale, and he opened a big warehouse store for a few months."
Was that Kerwin Matthews' store? He starred in a number of pictures (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Devil at 4 O'Clock, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver...) and had a Hollywood memorabilia store in San Francisco for some years...
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Mr.Write trumped wordmaster's ace. Your deal, MWLA...
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Glad you found out. Now we can all see what you're referring to:
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"...it's difficult to tell about the kids today - the movies they are in are so insipid - who knows what they could really do with something of depth."
Last night I saw Little Miss Sunshine and Abigail Breslin did a formidable job as Olive. She was very natural; "a real kid" surrounded by several automatons in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant. There was a lot of Rhoda Penmark potential in those automatons...
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Zero Mostel made the role his own; one of the great performances of 1960's Broadway. However, Topol had a better singing voice and did a great job in the movie...
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Patty McCormack is definitely alive and well. They screened The Bad Seed in San Francisco a few years ago with the charming Miss McCormack in attendance. I was lucky enough to be there and it was great to hear her reminisce about this movie. She's still working, mainly in television...
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"I don't know if we have any children now who would be as good as Patty McCormick was - she was really amazing. Maybe Dakota Fanning?"
Patty McCormack was perfect as Rhoda Penmark. Though Dakota Fanning has the acting chops for the role, what made Rhoda Penmark so frightening was the juxtaposition of her evil core with her perfect facade. Reese Witherspoon could have played it ten years ago. Now I think we'd have to hire an unknown...
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Mr. English is right, BKeatonfan: Many silent movies are available on DVD now. But September is a swell month for silents. Certainly TCM can keep you busy:
September
3: The Passions of Joan of Arc
4: Beyond the Rocks
5: Phantom of the Opera
10: Seven Years Bad Luck
15: A myriad of silents will be shown this day featuring Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and more!
17: Sunrise
18: A Swedish documentary on Greta Garbo's silents will be screened.
24: Norma Shearer in Lady of the Night
25: The Freshman
27: Captain Salvation and Seven Keys to Baldpate
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For the uninitiated, that's from Funny Face with Fred Astaire as "Dick" and Audrey Hepburn as "Jo"...
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Marie Antoinette has an October release date. That's one down...
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"Back to the thread purpose. . . I HATE RE-MAKES. Except for 'Sabrina', I've never seen one to compare with the original."
Are you saying the remake of Sabrina was good? That's a movie that I refused to see. Audrey Hepburn was so perfect in this film, I was aghast that anyone would attempt to remake it.
However, there are many remakes that I have liked: A Star is Born (1954), Imitation of Life (1959), Chicago (2002), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)...
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"Cagney was madly in love with Priscilla in 'The Roaring Twenties'!"
And didn't he love Rosemary in The Oklahoma Kid?
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I don't think Leota Lane ever made a picture with the others, did she? So that leaves Rosemary, Lola with your aforementioned Priscilla. (Does anyone know why the release date for Arsenic and Old Lace was delayed two years?) When I think of Priscilla, I think of Hitchcock's Saboteur, as she took the role that was said to be originally intended for Barbara Stanwyck.
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I consider Fiddler on the Roof a musical; and a fine one, at that...
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The "clipboard" is a MicroSoft term for the temporary holding "place" where information is kept when you copy it. So when you copy text, it goes to the "clipboard" and when you paste text, you're pasting information from the "clipboard"...
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"And that movie with Peter Finch and Oliver Reed wrestling nude. "
I think you might mean Ken Russell's Women in Love which features Oliver Reed in a nude wrestling match before a roaring hearth? But it was Alan Bates that he wrestled, not Peter Finch...
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You're a brave woman, Lynn! Suggesting this in the TCM message board where threads pop up monthly with predictions of the demise of this great station. And so many of the predictions snag references to the old AMC and how they started producing their own shows while screening fewer classic films...
I've got your back.
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As I write this Hit the Deck is playing on TCM in celebration of Jane Powell Day as one of the "Stars Under a Summer Night". It's a bit of a treat: wide screen, some unusual casting (how many musicals feature Jane Darwell, Alan King, J. Carroll Naish?), great tunes, expert dancing (Ann Miller, Russ Tamblyn), joyous singing (Kay Armen, Tony Martin, Vic Damone, besides Jane herself).
GRAND THEFT OSCAR!
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Apparently I wasn't clear in my writing either. I'm sorry if I slighted anyone on this board. I certainly don't consider myself an authority, and never imagined that anyone else did either. I'm constantly humbled by the movie knowledge on this board and consider myself a neophyte next to so many here. Nothing that I say can "prove someone else wrong". I can bring evidence in from other sources, but I'm no source on my own... I know some Academy members though and am aware that there is a lot of campaigning around the Oscars; and I'm betting that some old timers do band together in their votes. What I was questioning was the goal to have two people tie (a la Streisand and Hepburn). I don't think there was a campaign to have them tie. I doubt that members called each other to say "I'll vote for Hepburn if you'll vote for Streisand so we can have a tie". To have a campaign of this order work would be a miracle. And the miracle was that there was a tie at all...