Swithin
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The Wicker Man (1973)
Next: Peninsula
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"Too Darn Hot" -- Kiss Me Kate (1953)
The lyric was changed for the film. Ann Miller sings "Mr. Adam, for his madam, is not; because it's too darn hot."
The original Broadway lyric is "Mr. Adam, upon his madam, is not..." Here are both versions. In any case, Mr. Adam is the Bible reference.
Let's stick with another Bible reference of some kind
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The Old Fashioned Way (1934) -- They're putting on a production of The Drunkard.
Next: Another film featuring an old Ziegfeld Follies star
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3 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Edward Buzzell and Ona Munson ??
1. Ona's 2 movies you ask about are Gone with the Wind as Belle Watson and Mother Gin Sling in The Shanghai Gesture.
2. At the Circus and Go West are 2 Marx Bros. films Edward Buzzell directed
3. Best Foot Forward with Lucille Ball playing herself is a film he directed
4. Ona's 2nd husband was Eugene Berman. He was the production and costume designer for The Metropolitan Opera
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That's right, Lavender.
Your turn!
Here is Ona and her distinctive hair in The Shanghai Gesture:
And in Gone With the Wind:
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On 10/4/2021 at 9:36 PM, Swithin said:
Husband was an actor turned director in the golden age. His most famous film is probably a zany comedy which was followed up by another less successful comedy with the same leads.
Wife had a supporting role in a very famous movie, following that up a few years later with a starring role in a famously odd movie in which she has peculiar hair.
18 hours ago, Swithin said:Today's hints:
Husband directed one of the best known films of an actress later to become a TV superstar.
Wife took her own life.
Although we are going for Wife's first husband, she also had a second husband, who is fondly remembered for his (non-performing) affiliation with the Metropolitan Opera.
So -- When you name Husband and Wife, name Wife's two movies referred to in the first clue; name Husband's zany comedy, less successful follow-up with the same leads; and the film he directed with the future TV superstar.
If you really want extra credit, name Wife's second husband, and his association with the Met.
Today's hint:
The actress who starred in one of Husband's movies is being featured on TCM later this week, though the musical film Husband directed is not being shown. The actress played herself in the film.
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Margaret Rutherford was in Aunt Clara with Ronald Shiner.
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On 10/4/2021 at 9:36 PM, Swithin said:
Husband was an actor turned director in the golden age. His most famous film is probably a zany comedy which was followed up by another less successful comedy with the same leads.
Wife had a supporting role in a very famous movie, following that up a few years later with a starring role in a famously odd movie in which she has peculiar hair.
Today's hints:
Husband directed one of the best known films of an actress later to become a TV superstar.
Wife took her own life.
Although we are going for Wife's first husband, she also had a second husband, who is fondly remembered for his (non-performing) affiliation with the Metropolitan Opera.
So -- When you name Husband and Wife, name Wife's two movies referred to in the first clue; name Husband's zany comedy, less successful follow-up with the same leads; and the film he directed with the future TV superstar.
If you really want extra credit, name Wife's second husband, and his association with the Met.
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House of the Damned (1963). Directed by Maury Dexter, written by Harry Spalding. (Not related to the 1996 film of the same name.)
I didn't know this film, which was on Fox Movie Channel a few days ago. There's not much to this haunted house in California movie, but it's well photographed and does have a few good frights and a fair amount of tension (and a few loose ends). I wasn't expecting Ayllene Gibbons (remember her as Mrs. Joyboy in The Loved One?) to turn up as a sort of Deus ex machina at the end, but she does, and she explains everything. The very end is kind of sad, when Ayllene and her group march up the staircase, sort of like a reverse Fellini shot from The White Sheik.
Frieda Pushnik, Richard Kiel, Ayllene Gibbons, John Gilmore
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Husband was an actor turned director in the golden age. His most famous film is probably a zany comedy which was followed up by another less successful comedy with the same leads.
Wife had a supporting role in a very famous movie, following that up a few years later with a starring role in a famously odd movie in which she has peculiar hair.
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Ms. Johns originated the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music (1973), winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She introduced this song:
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8 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Thanks Chaya
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She was an Oscar nominated actress and Grammy winning singer. He was an actor and producer. He was in westerns and noirs many times, usually playing not the nicest guys. His most famous role was in a famous western film.
Couple and films for both and a few of her famous songs ???????
How about Peggy Lee and Brad Dexter. She gives me "Fever;" he was in The Magnificent Seven and was a producer on Lady Sings the Blues. She was nominated for Pete Kelly's Blues.
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8 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Correct and it is your turn Lavender. There used to be a curse on those who played Jesus (or so my Mom told me). Actually, it is Jesse Brewer.
The movie with Spencer Tracy is The Last Hurrah (a great film based on Mayor Curly?).
Also, the connection between Hunter and GH is Constance Towers (better Helena Cassidine than Liz Taylor). They were both in the movie Sergeant (sp?) Rutledge (with Woody Strode - never realized he was one of the first Black Football players). It is a great movie if you haven't seen it.
Chaya, I worked with Constance Towers on a project once. I've worked with hundreds of people in the arts but have to count Ms. Towers in the top five for being such a pleasure to work with.
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46 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I also love the old woman in the diner who knows so much about birds and refuses to believe Melanie’s story. That woman is just an “odd duck” (pun intended).
After the first attack, but definitely after the birthday party incident, if I were Melanie, I would have left Bodega Bay and gone back to San Francisco.
That old woman is Ethel Griffies (Left), who, nearly 30 years earlier, thought that the tripe was tough, until Zeffie Tilbury pointed out that she was eating her veil.
Mrs. Whack and Mrs. Moncaster in Werewolf of London (1935)
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2 hours ago, laffite said:
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is correct, and the thread is yours!
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14 hours ago, DougieB said:
Mario Cantone's latest claim to fame is that he frequently shows up on the new Match Game, I guess because it films in New York and he lives there. He seems to be trying to fill the niche carved out by Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares back in the day. His humor is pretty hit or miss, but I've watched it to catch Alec Baldwin's great deconstruction of "the game show host".
10 hours ago, Toto said:Just watched Cantone's remarks with Mankiewicz before and after Hitchcock's "The Birds". Cantone made a couple of jokes but clearly admires this movie. He made fun of the song the kids are singing before they leave the Bodega Bay school.
I'm surprised that I'm not familiar with Cantone. I guess the name sounds vaguely familiar. I actually record most of the movies I watch on TCM and generally scroll past the intros, so the comments and the way the camera moves tend not to affect me.
Cantone probably should not have made fun of the song used in The Birds. Hitchcock's use of music is always well thought out. He had the lyrics changed a bit, as he did in that brilliant scene in Ambrose Chapel in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). In The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette's collection contains a prominently displayed recording of Tristan and Isolde.
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On 10/1/2021 at 11:07 PM, Swithin said:
Conquest, War, Famine, Death
Behold! A visual clue:
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Never too Late (1965)
Next: Song from a movie directed by John Cromwell.
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1990: Mountains of the Moon (And Iain Glen should have won Best Actor for that scene where he sticks that thing in his ear!)
1991: The Black Robe
1992: The Long Day Closes
1993: Schindler's List/The Age of Innocence (Tie)
1994: The Secret of Roan Inish
1995: Angels and Insects
1996: The English Patient
1997: Event Horizon
1998: The Last Days of Disco
1999: Topsy-Turvy
The Long Day Closes
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"Mary's a Grand Old Name" sung by Irene Manning as Fay Templeton in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Next: Song from a movie directed by Henry King.
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45 minutes ago, PhillyCinephile said:
Every October, I look forward to TCM's horror film offerings. In the past, they've selected horror legends Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee as their Stars of the Month, and have also featured Monsters of the Month, spotlighting the many screen appearances of such classic characters as Dracula and Frankenstein.
This year, we're getting guest host Mario Cantone, who will comment on the "(often unintentional) humor and campiness" (a direct quote from the TCM website) of classic horror films.
I love classic horror movies, and love them without irony and without apology, and the last thing I want is someone introducing these films and reducing them to jokes. (I've seen Cantone do this in clips from the one-man show he somehow managed to take to Broadway.)
Now, there's always the chance that he'll bring real insights and good-natured humor to his introductions -- John Waters did that in his excellent commentary track for the MOMMIE DEAREST DVD and Blu-ray, and in his pitch-perfect tribute to Vincent Price for TCM -- but I suspect Cantone will deliver more of his usual shtick.
I think I'll stick with my Blu-ray discs this year...
5 minutes ago, Toto said:I love classic horror movies too and I hope they are treated respectfully. Some of the great classic horror movies are based on great works of literature such as Frankenstein that examines the morality of the experiment and the experimenter. Karlof is amazing as the monster. There was some humor written into some horror movies but to make fun of them would not be okay.
I agree with you both. I'm not familiar with Cantone, but I hope he is respectful. The horror film genre represents modern man's myths and folktales.
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1 hour ago, Toto said:
Yesterday on TCM, I watched "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1931) starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins and found that I liked this version better than the 1941 version starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. The 1931 version is racier and scarier but also contains humorous parts. I love Fredric March as Jekyll/Hyde. He's the Victorian aristocrat romantic as Jekyll then he becomes an animal-like frightening Hyde. He plays the part of Hyde as a monster who is intent on doing evil. March is willing to go very dark and nasty as Hyde making his brutal attacks on the Miriam Hopkins character frightening. I also love the performance of Miriam Hopkins who plays a tortured prostitute really well. March used a stunt man and the stunt man did a great job as Hyde showing physical strength, agility and aggression that reminded me of a great ape.
Which version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde do you like better? Or, can you recommend a better movie version of a movie that you love?
I agree with you that the 1931 version is superior. I do find, however, that Fredric March in his Mr. Hyde mode looks a bit like Jerry Lewis.
I'm also a fan of Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971).
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Conquest, War, Famine, Death
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Films in which actors played characters whose hands developed into claws or talons:
The Creeper (1948) -- Onslow Stevens' hand turns into a cat's paw.
The Vulture (1967) -- Akim Tamiroff develops talons.
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) -- Tamara Ustinov's hand turns into a claw.
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John McGiver was in Who's Minding the Store with John Abbott.
Why, TCM? Why Mario Cantone?
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Maybe it was Akim Tamiroff!