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Kay Francis (was the highest paid actress and most popular Warner Bros. star in the early 1930s. My grandmother's favorite actress.)
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12 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
That was the year of the Redgraves. Both Lynn and Vanessa were nominated for Best Actress.
You have to remember that the cameras they were using were not exactly the most mobile things. The first portable/handheld color TV camera in the US would not be used until later that year (though these early cameras required the wearing of a backpack). Because of the mostly fixed camera positions, they were probably fairly limited on which parts of the auditorium they could clearly get shots of. The Redgraves all sitting together made for easy pickings.
That's true. I actually met Vanessa, when I was working with her daughter, Natasha.
I guess my real beef with that segment is that they identified so many people, but neglected to identify Beulah Bondi, although the identified the two people on either side of her (and many other people).
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19 hours ago, TomJH said:
This is the reason I used to watch the Academy Awards - for those glimpses of stars of the Golden Era who were still with us. This clip of the opening ceremony for the 1967 Oscars is a prime illustration of many of the legends of the past all dolled up for the Big Event of the year in the film capital. Sadly, not many of these names are still with us today so consider this a nostalgic look, for some of us, at least, of what once was.
When they were identifying the actors in the seats, they went from Joan Blondell to Andy Devine, not identifying Beulah Bondi, who was seated between them. Also perhaps too much emphasis on the Redgraves.
The 75th Oscars featured this memorable cast:
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19 hours ago, TomJH said:
This is the reason I used to watch the Academy Awards - for those glimpses of stars of the Golden Era who were still with us. This clip of the opening ceremony for the 1967 Oscars is a prime illustration of many of the legends of the past all dolled up for the Big Event of the year in the film capital. Sadly, not many of these names are still with us today so consider this a nostalgic look, for some of us, at least, of what once was.
When they were identifying the actors in the seats, they went from Joan Blondell to Andy Devine, not identifying Beulah Bondi, who was seated between them. Also perhaps too much emphasis on the Redgraves.
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14 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Daytime October 5 Basil Rathbone
The Bishop Murder Case (Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams) (MGM, 1929)
The Flirting Widow (Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone) (Warner Bros., 1930)
The Lady of Scandal (Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone) (MGM, 1930)
Sin Takes a Holiday (Basil Rathbone, Constance Bennett) (Pathe, 1930)
Kind Lady (Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone) (MGM, 1935)
The Dawn Patrol (Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone) (Warner Bros., 1938)
Fingers at the Window (Lew Ayres, Larraine Day) (MGM, 1942)
The Woman in Green (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) (Universal, 1945)
Dressed to Kill (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) (Universal, 1946)Dressed to Kill (1946) features one of my favorite "small" performances: Edmund Breon as Julian "Stinky" Emery.
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2 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
now this little minx does not have any panties on
Best sentence -- or part of sentence -- on the Board today!
(Merriam Webster defines "minx" as 1) "a pert girl;" or 2) "a wanton woman." Which you do mean, Nipkow?)
And here's the Urban Dictionary definition:
"An alluring, cunning, or boldly flirtatious girl or young woman. Has unusual seductive powers such that she could commit acts that would otherwise be considered inappropriate, while still maintaining an air of class or poise."
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Gina Lollobrigida was in Come September with Bobby Darin.
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My Name is Julia Ross (1945)
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6 hours ago, Tikisoo said:
THANKS for your list-I just requested this one from my library!
A couple of the movies in your list I found unwatchable after giving a 30 minute try.
Just realized I have the DVD of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, never watched it. I worked with Ismail Merchant many years ago, in conjunction with an Indian film company, and they gave me a couple of their DVDs. I will watch it. They also gave me Zubeida, which I haven't watched either.
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deleted (difficulty quoting two posts from different pages). I wanted to quote both Lawrence and Tikisoo, but I couldn't manage it, and my post seemed a muddle, so I just deleted it.
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John Garfield was in The Sea Wolf with Alexander Knox.
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"I'm Past My Prime" -- Leslie Parrish (dubbed) and Stubby Kaye in Li'l Abner (1959)
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9 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Gotta say this sounds as if but just a small portion of those creepy similar "insects infecting humans" scenes in that inferior and over-CGI-ed 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Swithin.
The thing about Speke is that the ear story is true. He was going so mad with pain that he tried to remove the beetle with a knife. It's a harrowing scene.
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I've used this before, but it's always appropriate around here:
Next: Song from a film directed by Ronald Neame
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
That was "earwig", not "earworm" there, Mr.G.
(...but yeah, one of the better Night Galley episodes as I recall)
If you are interested in things in ears, there is a scene in Mountains of the Moon, which is on my list, of John Hanning Speke having a problem with something in his ear. It may be one of the most terrifying scenes related to ears in any movie.
Here's a quote from the New York Times review:
"Speke is attacked by beetles that crawl into his ear and nearly drive him mad."
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My top ten (alphabetical) for the 1990s. I'm sticking to ten, which leaves no room for Gummo or Happiness, but they rate as well.
The Age of InnocenceConte d’été (Rohmer)The English PatientThe Last Days of Disco
The Long Day Closes
Metropolitan
Mountains of the MoonProofSchindler's List
The Sheltering Sky
Hugo Weaving as a blind photographer in Proof (1991)
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I'm pleased to see that The Long Day Closes comes in at #9. One of my favorite films.
Regarding #1 on the list, I will finally see Eyes Wide Shut, recorded it from TCM recently.
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13 hours ago, Peebs said:
(I just read about the sister, Unity Valkyrie (!) Mitford. Another strange story, friends with Hitler. She survived shooting herself in the head in 1939 for 9 years until her death in1948.)
Noel Coward wrote an amusing poem about Unity, whose father, the 2nd Baron Redesdale, was a notorious racist and anti-Semite. Here's Coward's poem:
"Note on Our New National Heroine"
Unity, Unity -- daughter of sorrow,
Creature of tragedy, child of distress,
Read her sad tale in the Mirror tomorrow,
Learn of her life in the Daily Express,
Think how she publicly postured and pandered,
Screeching her views on the Nazi regime,
Weep with her now in the News and the Standard,
Everything's over, the end of the dream.
Sigh for this amateur social Egeria,
Think how she suffered and suffered in vain,
Caught in the toils of neurotic hysteria,
Ne'er to take tea with her Fuhrer again.
No more photography -- no more publicity,
No more defiance and devil may care,
Back to old England and bleak domesticity,
Nothing but decency, truth and despair.
No concentration camps -- nothing exciting here,
Nothing sadistic. No national slaves.
Only the freedom for which we are fighting here,
Only Brittania still ruling the waves.
Unity -- Unity -- Daughter of sorrow,
Sad, disillusioned and pampered and rich
How can she hope for a happy tomorrow?
What is there left for this tiresome b_itch?
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3 hours ago, Peebs said:
Peaky Blinders. I just finished season 6 which is the last season of the series to be followed by a movie at some point. I watched season 5 way back in 2019 when it originally aired.
The first three episodes of season 6 were very slow and seemed off from the previous seasons. I imagine the writers had to rework the planned storylines after the death of Helen McCrory (Aunt Polly). The first few episodes have too much of other female characters trying to fill the void left by Aunt Polly's death. I completely agree with Swithin about Anya Taylor-Joy. She stinks. Her scenes as Michael's American wife are verging on embarrassing. Her character slinks around as if we or other characters are supposed to find her sexy but ugh, she's just miscast.
Cillian Murphy is wonderful as Thomas Shelby and is the reason I started watching PB. I also enjoyed Tom Hardy's quirky reappearance as Alfie Solomon. I can't say that I knew much about the real Oswald Mosely and his second wife Diana Mitford and if they were pure works of fiction, you might think that the writers went over the top. But the charming couple really did get married in 1936 Berlin with Hitler in attendance. Their inclusion foreshadows WWII and I believe that is where the series will end. Again, I agree with Swithin about Tommy's brother Arthur who spent most of this season a sloppy mess because of his opium addiction. If he were one of Tommy's prized horses, he'd just put him out of his misery. The season finally felt like it kicked into gear somewhere in episode 4 with Tommy finally settling some scores. The last episode has a bit of a twist as to Tommy's fate. Overall, the last half of the season was entertaining. I hope it won't be too long for the movie to wrap up Thomas Shelby's story. I enjoyed the series but yes, it's not for everyone.
Although Peaky Blinders features several historic characters, like Churchill, Mosley, and Diana Mitford Mosley, their interactions with Tommy Shelby are obviously fiction. But a lot of the details of Mosley are accurate: his positions in government, possibly some of his speeches, even his actual parliamentary constituency (Smethwick), which does border on the constituency they've given Tommy. The Peaky Blinders gang existed in an earlier period; Alfie Solomons is based on a Jewish gangster named Alfie Solomon; and Jesse Edens, the Communist woman, really existed, although obviously liberties were taken with all of these.
The evil Diana Mosley was born Diana Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters, two of whom -- Diana and Unity -- became fascists/Nazi sympathizers. I saw a play in London several years ago called The Last of the Duchess, about the final days of the Duchess of Windsor. Diana Mosley is played by Angela Thorne, shown in this photo at right, with Anna Chancellor, who plays a reporter.
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Raquel Welch replaced Lauren Bacall in the musical Women of the Year and sang this amusing song with Marilyn Cooper, who won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. The musical was based on the Tracy/Hepburn film. Raquel Welch played Tess Harding. In this song, she's lamenting the simple things that she cannot do.
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18 hours ago, Sukhov said:
Completely unrelated but just the other day I was thinking to myself how Nils Asther looked like someone who underwent Facial Feminization surgery or had been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for a few months at least.
Nils Asther was a particularly compelling and sympathetic "villain" in The Man in Half Moon Street (1945), a film I would love to see again.
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26 minutes ago, Hibi said:
I don't think I've ever seen this one! Is this a premiere?? At least there will be some eye candy with William Reynolds.
It was on Svengoolie in 2017 and 2020. (One of the reasons I type out the title as well as share a poster, is that typing it out makes it searchable on the TCM site.)
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, August 20, 2022:
The Land Unknown (1957)
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"I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you" -- Rufus Jones for President (1933)
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That was "earwig", not "earworm" there, Mr.G.
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