GarboManiac

Wow! Isn't that lucky! Well, of course Camille is the greatest, so if you start there, you may be disappointed, but that's ok. She won the NY Flim Critics' Award for Best Actress two years in a row for both those films. They are her masterpieces.

Sounds great! Go ahead and write it up! Who could you recognize with your eyes closed? No, that's no good. Ok. Whose voice gives them away? Oh, I don't know. Needs work. Anyway, by all means you should check out Garbo. I would start with her early stuff like Anna Christie, Romance, Inspiration and Grand Hotel (although you really need to see that one after you are accustomed to her because it is an out-of-the-ordinary performance), then you will get a feeling of who she is. Then, move up to Queen Christina, Camille, and Anna Karenina. Then you can watch anything cause you should be hooked. But, some people aren't. You either get her or you don't. Kinda like Scotch. Not everyone likes it, but it's class! What have you seen already?

Hey, TOOMANYNOTES, I didn't get that. I don't know how many did. I was hoping someone would comment and give me a hint! Would you please splain it me.

Yes! You know I mentioned before on another thread that Von Sternberg was supposed to direct her in I Take This Woman, but it got all messed up. Too bad! They would have made a great team. He may have gone from Marlene to her. Whenever I am watching Marlene in a Sternberg film, I tend to envision Hedy. She would have been right in her element. In fact, if you have ever noticed the difference in the direction and photography of the beginning of I Take This Woman. She looks like she is in a Von Sternberg film in those first shots. Then, the entire mood changes as did the director.

No problem, Larry. Take your time. This is all for fun. I wish I could transfer pics on here, too. daddysprimadonna sent TOOMANYNOTES that great pic of Hedy on Hedy's thread. Man, that would make things a lot easier! Now, on to James Gleason! Wow, he is just great! One of my all time favs, along with Edna May. I was fortunate enough years ago to get two of the Gleason/Oliver films: Murder on a Honeymoon and Murder on the Blackboard. They are two of my cherished finds. I had no idea there were more. I would love to see them.

Well, I guess it won because it was Hedy. Even then the judges knew beauty when they saw it, even if it wasn't the best technically. I wish I could have seen the original. I am sure it was more fantastic than the ad, although I love that ad. And, yes, Louise was something, but I have never seen her in action. I only have books with various pictures of her. OH, no! That is not quite true. There is that documentary, The Love Goddesses. I have that, and I have seen her briefly.

Lew Ayres?

Well, you guys, there is one movie in the forties I thought she looked fabulous. It was Her Highness and the Bellboy. I really think she stole the show from Hedy. Not that it mattered. No one really steals the show from her, but I thought she looked beautiful and she had a better part. June was always very respectful when speaking about Hedy. In the documentary When the Lion Roars, June said Hedy was a star of the first magnitude! Yeah, I love June for that!

Well, thanks for trying, Cris. It doesn't look like it will be very helpful. I did read the horror trailers, but one guy said it was "more research than it is worth." Whatever that means. So, I just moved on. Maybe someday TCM will read this and puts some in the program! Thanks.

Larry, I don't know so many of them, although I would probably recognize their faces! Here is the list. Put a movie and maybe a character next to them if it is not too much trouble. Lee Van Cleef Charles La Torre Mikhail Rasumny Dan Tobin Clarence Kolb Walter Kingsford Carl Esmond Natalie Moorehead Kathryn Givney Peggy Ryan (I think I know her. She was a teen character actress, right?)

Errol Flynn?

Ok, guys. I am going to print this out and consider my options. I just never really thought about DISH. Except that my old neighbor had it, and it was enormous! So, it is good to know it is smaller now, and that you can have more than one channel going, like for taping in one room and watching something different in another. Again, Thanks Guys and Gals!

Ok, so you ARE saying that Dish is the better deal? Another problem I've heard is that you have the same channel on all your TVs, as opposed to cable which allows different channels on TVs throughout your house. True or false?

OK! I'm sorry, June! I realize everyone cut their hair back in the fifties. It was the fashion. I didn't like it. I hated Lizbeth Scott's short hair, too. Some stars just looked better with long hair. Funny, Joan is one of the few who looked really good in short hair. Oh, and Norma, too.

Ah, David! You are always so straightforward and modest. I admire that quality in you. But, you are destroying my illusions!! Ha!

Rock Hudson? And, I am not being facetious.

Another laugh-riot movie starring Miss Hayworth, well almost, is Affectionately Yours. It really stars Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Ralph Bellamy, Rita Haywoth, and George Tobias. Rita has a hefty part in it, and she is delightfully funny. That should be one everyone sees if they love Rita.

Speaking of her hairdo, and I hate to bring this up because it is NOT a classic movie (even though it is made up of nothing but classic scenes), does anyone remember Steve Martin in the platium wig in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?

Good job, David! Funny, I have an original ad, which I sliced out of a magazine from 1998, from that campaign. I framed it next to the Hurrell photo of Hedy from which it was copied. I know Hedy probably wouldn't like it, but I was so impressed that she was being remembered. Anyway, I tell that exact story everytime someone comments on the coupling of those two pictures on my wall. http://www.germanhollywood.com/lamarr.html As I said in an earlier thread, I was devoted to Garbo and Harlow in my early years. But, about 5 years after I had discovered those two, I saw Hedy Lamarr in Algiers in a small alley theatre in SF. Just like everyone in the theatres of the day, when it was first shown, I was mesmerized! I had never seen anything like her, and to this day, she is in constant competition with my devotion to Garbo.

That's ok, it bothers me sometimes, too! Pass the valium!

Well, allie, I don't know anything about channels or deals. Are you trying to say that Dish is better? Or what? I don't want to put that monstrosity on my roof. Plus everyone is saying that the rain affects it! Please continue . . . .

Yeah! Big Mouth! Ha! I hope he can't read any thread other than his own! Ok, I'm bored now. I am out of here. I am going back to Hedy Lamarr, Miscast Actors and Seen Any Good Movies Lately? Bye!

A laugh riot, David! I wish I had your imagination!

I have just one question-when most of us first discovered Turner Classic Movies and cheered, were we happy that we would FINALLY get to see such movies as "The Maltese Falcon" or "Male And Female", and such actors as Norma Shearer and Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin and Clark Gable, and all the "little" lesser-known films from the Golden Age Of Hollywood, or was our first thought, "Yippee, now I can watch anime and Caddyshack and Sonny & Cher"? Oh, what a riot! I was on the floor! Good for you daddysprimadonna! That is exactly how we all felt! Now, we must "fight for the right to P-A-R-T-Y! Oops! Sorry, I got carried away. Man! TBickle sure opened a can o' woims!

Ah, yes. As You Desire Me is one of my favorites, too. One of the reaons is the beginning. I love her platinum hair and her drunkenness! I also love her whole acting job from harlot to heroine. I think she looked exactly like the painting!!!! No matter what color her eyes! And, I used to have that record with Walter Pidgeon narrating. I lost it in a move. But, I know exactly what you're saying.