Swithin
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*Beulah Bondi* is the best. I think, in many ways, she personifies what was so grand about the classic films. The most moving moment on ANY award show that I've ever seen was when Ms. Bondi won an Emmy as Best Actress for an episode of The Waltons. The ovation she received -- I think she was 86 at the time -- was amazing!
It would be very difficult for me to pick out my favorite Beulah Bondi performance. But her role in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine would certainly be near the top of the list, as would the wicked Beulah Bondi in The Shepherd of the Hills.
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I have a friend who said she would never get her ears pierced after having seen *The Razor's Edge.* Another friend went into labor because of the intensity of *Don't Look Now*, a film which merely made me scared of midgets in red raincoats.
As a result of seeing Don't Look Now, even the Travelocity gnome creeps me out!
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I believe *Ann Rutherford* was the last living link to *Pride and Prejudice* (1940), a film which I prefer to GWTW. She was wonderful as Lydia Bennet.
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One of my favorite Bette Davis films is *The Sisters* (1938), in which she's married to Errol Flynn, who plays a sportswriter. The movie has an excellent boxing scene (and the San Francisco earthquake as well). And two election night parties: the election of Teddy Roosevelt, and of W.H. Taft.
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I had a long phone chat with Angela Lansbury about twelve years ago. She was so kind, and very helpful.
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King Lear
Woman dying on a couch, peacefully.
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I've worked with many actors. Met James Cagney years ago. When I was young, I worked as his bodyguard for an evening (around 1982). Later on, I worked with Teresa Wright, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Kim Hunter, Cherry Jones, Hal Holbrook, David Hyde Pierce, Estelle Parsons, Celeste Holm, Marisa Tomei, Frank Langella, B.D. Wong, Ben Gazzara, Julie Harris, Marcia Gay Garden, et. al. Met Simon Callow, Lily Tomlin through a mutal friend. Also very briefly met Woody Allen, Tyne Daly, Liza Minnelli.
Most recently (a few months ago), I met the beautiful and talented Kim Cattrall.
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Thank you. I'm beginning to think Edythe and Finance are the same person!
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I love the HANDS theme on September 2! Very clever.
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Another way to shock people into irrationality is to say that Barbara Stanwyck is an overrated actress. That's another button-pusher.
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I thought of that -- but it's only 9. Also I was waiting for mr6666 to say that Edythe's response to the previous post was correct (thread etiquette).
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Correct!
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Girl with eight legs doesn't turn the other cheek.
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Calvinnme, when I saw this thread I quickly entered thinking it would be your monthly listing, which is very helpful. I'm disappointed that it wasn't your thread. I look forward to your September listing when you are ready to post it!
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OK, this seems to have stalled, so I'll give two examples:
Macumba Love
I Walked with a Zombie
Next: Anglican hymn
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*Wait Until Dark* ?
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Definitely *White Zombie !* You're up Lavendar.
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Hint: think really, really strong rum drink.
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That would be great, if Lubitsch's The Eyes of the Mummy Ma were screened, I've never seen it.
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Blanched rum cocktail.
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I agree with you about Mark of the Vampire. I remember how disappointed I was when I first saw it, at the old Theatre 80 St. Marks in NYC. Here's another one with a disappointed ending: Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, aka My Son the Vampire aka Vampire over London. It just sort of fizzles. I think Old Mother Riley deserves more credit for capturing Bela Lugosi.
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I still don't get it, but I'll guess the probable Tony winner, *Once.*
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I know most of the musicals on Broadway, but nothing fits. Mamma Mia sort of comes a little close.
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I like Dudley Digges very much. One of my favorite Digges roles is as the Nilgai in The Light that Failed. He's part of this hilarious exchange with Walter Huston, talking about Ronald Colman.
Digges: "Women and dogs, they can't resist him. He stole one away from me once in Cairo. I haven't forgiven him yet."
Huston: "A woman or a dog?"
Digges: "Oh, it was a long time ago, I don't remember."
Digges did a tremendous amount of theater, including serious plays and classics. He created the role of Harry Hope in The Iceman Cometh.
Classic Character Actors
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Much as I love Jane Darwell and her award-winning performance in The Grapes of Wrath, I wish Beulah Bondi had played Ma Joad. She wanted the role and would have been perfect.