Swithin
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Brazil (1985)
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2 minutes ago, BunnyWhit said:
(sorry, didn't mean to jump the line)
There's no line, it's anyone's guess, no matter how the thread is progressing. And you got it right!
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53 minutes ago, laffite said:
The Prince and the Showgirl
Sorry, no. Think first names, and an Adams who was born in the 19th century.
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Another Pie in the Face for Anita Bryant: Her Granddaughter Is Gay
https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/7/27/another-pie-face-anita-bryant-her-granddaughter-gay
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Mr. Macmillan (the Prime Minister) and Miss Adams (the actress)
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"Love Hurts" -- Crazy Love (1987) (I love this crazy Belgian movie.)
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35 minutes ago, Fausterlitz said:
Is this Melvyn Douglas and Helen Gahagan Douglas? I would also be surprised if they haven't been mentioned before.
He first appeared onscreen in Tonight or Never (1931) with Gloria Swanson. The "great lady who did something she wasn't known for doing previously" would be Greta Garbo laughing in Ninotchka (1939) (although she had undoubtedly already laughed, however briefly or ironically, in some previous films).
Helen Gahagan's "seminal film" would be She (1935), in which she played the titular "ice goddess" often credited as the inspiration for the witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs two years later. She is probably better known for her subsequent political career as a congresswoman representing the state of California, and for her loss to Richard Nixon in a brutal 1950 Senate campaign. His relentless attacks on her character (suggesting she was "pink down to her underwear" and a dangerous Communist sympathizer) led her to coin the nickname "Tricky Dick," which has certainly had longer staying power than anything he may have said about her at the time.
Right on all counts, Fausterlitz. Melvyn's Oscar-winning movie roles (Supporting Actor) were in Hud and Being There. He was also nominated for I Never Sang for My Father. Among his other awards are an Emmy and a Golden Globe).
And now, because you are correct, like She, "you must be obeyed," and it's your thread!
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"On the Road to Mandalay" -- Laurence Tibbett in Metropolitan (1935), Luis Alberni at the piano
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Thank you Chaya.
I’m surprised that this couple has not been mentioned on this thread, as far as I can tell:
Husband was an Oscar-winning actor who appeared with many of the great ladies of the silver screen. In his very first movie (which is not particularly famous), he played opposite one of the great ladies of Hollywood. In a more famous film, made eight years later, he played opposite another great lady, in which his co-star did something she rarely did in her earlier films.Wife was a stage actress and opera singer who made a brief foray into cinema, making one seminal film for which she is remembered. She left acting to pursue a career in another field, during the course of which, she gave a very famous man a nickname which is used to this day, although the man has been dead for several years. I heard the nickname referred to recently, on the news!Name the couple and the various films I’ve referenced. Also name the man Wife gave a nickname to, and mention the nickname.And name the great lady of Hollywood who did something she wasn’t known for doing previously, and what that was. -
(The name Kyser derives from Caesar, which in Latin is pronounced "Kyser.")
Julius Caesar (1952)
Spartacus (1960)
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Broken Blossoms
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20 hours ago, 28Silent said:
I got in in my email yesterday that Bob Furmanek of the 3D archive is having another fundraiser at Kick starters for a new restoration of Robot Monster.It will be in duo 3d compatibility on Blu Ray ,Polaroid and anaglyph and the DVD version in anaglyph .25 dollar donation will give you the DVD version when it's ready 35 for the Blu- ray.Now I don't know if it's going to include the 3d short Stardust in your eyes which was originally a part of the theater program.I did ask him.
If you haven't already, you should see his 3D restoration of William Cameron Menzies The Maze (1953), which was shown in a theater in NYC a few years ago, programmed by Martin Scorsese and Jay C_ocks. Mr. Furmanek introduced the screening. Anyone who loves 3D must see the frog jumping out into the audience at the end of the film!
It's sad to see a frog commit suicide, especially if he does it by jumping right at you!
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17 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
This husband and wife both acted in the movies and received Oscar nominations but no wins. The actress's other husbands were also fairly well known. The husband is better known for two TV roles (on unrelated TV series, though both ran in the 60's). He had a very long career and his Oscar nominations came towards the end of his life. Her career was mainly in film.
name the couple
what either was nominated for (re: Oscar)
TV roles husband was known for
film they appeared in together
Could this couple be Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith? She was nominated for So Proudly We Hail; he was nominated for Rocky and The Day of the Locust . They appeared together in The Diary of a Chambermaid, On Our Merry Way. and Second Chorus.
His television roles included roles in Batman and Mr. Novak.
Her other famous husbands were Erich Maria Remarque and Charlie Chaplin.
Burgess was a very kind person and did a big favour for me. When I thanked him for it, he followed up by sending me a CD of his recording of Gold Rush songs.
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"The Little Things We Used to Do" -- Denis Quilley in Privates on Parade (1983)
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30 minutes ago, Janet0312 said:
What does PTSD stand for?
Post-traumatic stress disorder, brought about by 15 years in that awful prison (and the preceding war).
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Karen Black (The Day of the Locust)
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I think Karloff's role as Hjalmar Poelzig is his most evil role in all his horror films. In his other horror films, he generally plays characters who may have started out with good intent, i.e. a scientist who is trying to come up with a treatment that will help humanity, e.g. Janos Rukh in The Invisible Ray, and similar roles where the "mad doctor" becomes corrupted by his inventions; or an unjustly persecuted character who comes back from the dead to wreak vengeance on his enemies. And the Frankenstein monster is certainly not evil; just misunderstood.
But Poelzig is pure evil, and that evil is conveyed to us as part of his character's history, before the time of the film.
In the joint Karloff/Lugosi films, I think my second favorite is The Invisible Ray. The ending, where Karloff is confronted by his mother, beautifully played by Violent Kemble Cooper, is one of the great endings: "My son, you have broken the first rule of science."
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Walter Brennan
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I think Marlene Dietrich in most of her roles in the Von Sternberg movies is strong.
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9 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Fabulous, Swithin!! I've always known about that "grain of salt" line from the film but had never seen a translation of Karloff's entire speech. Are you proficient in Latin or did you get this from another source? Of course the Production Code would not allow any real Satanic rituals to be displayed on screen.
No, I'm certainly not proficient in Latin. I studied Theology at Fordham in the Bronx, where I took classes in Classical Greek. That Latin text/translation is all over the web. The Black Cat is a pre-code movie, but still, I guess they had to be mindful of religious sensibilities, and I suppose they didn't want to conjure up any demons!.
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7 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I never knew that about a Caesarean birth. Thank you for telling me. I must do more research.
You are better off with that Libra Ascendant. Although Scorpio rising does have its perks in terms of power (Hitler, Putin, Martha Stewart, Napoleon) but that configuration usually encounters scandal and infamy)
I'm not sure there's anything to that comment about Caesarean birth; only that someone once mentioned it to me.
That's quite a quartet you mention. I do share Leo with Napoleon and Martha Stewart (I wonder if she can make napoleons?). Also Mussolini and Bill Clinton.
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Btw, here is the text of Hjalmar's Latin incantations (black mass), with translation:
"**** grano salis. Fortis cadere cedere non potest. Humanum est errare. Lupis pilum mutat, non mentem. Magna est veritas et praevalebit. Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta. Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem. Amissum quod nescitur non amittitur. Brutum fulmen. **** grano salis. Fortis cadere cedere non potest. Fructu, non foliis arborem aestima. Insanus omnes furere credit ceteros. Quem paenitet peccasse paene est innocens."
English translation: "With a grain of salt. A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield. To err is human. The wolf may change his skin, but not his nature. Truth is mighty, and will prevail. External actions show internal secrets. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. The loss that is not known is no loss at all. Heavy thunder. With a grain of salt. A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield. By fruit, not by leaves, judge a tree. Every madman thinks everybody mad. Who repents from sinning is almost innocent.”
(The text that our censor has edited is the word "c_um," which means "with," in Latin.)
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SPOILER ALERT!
I found this description of The Black Cat online. I think it's pretty apt.
Necro_philia, Satanism, drugs, a chess game of doom, torture, a black mass with a human sacrifice, and a man being skinned the f*ck alive. 1934’s pre-code The Black Cat is like a giant terror scenario onion that gets peeled back... sending us into a nightmare carnival of shadows with two mortal enemies locked in a game of death... and it’s marvelous.
Boris Karloff plays a satanic architect cult leader who lives in a insane Art Deco death mansion built over a mass grave, keeping dead bodies frozen in glass coffins for “observation”. He also keeps the daughter of his mortal enemy locked in his bedroom because that’s apparently what evil sickos did on 1934.
Bela Lugosi plays a PTSD non villainous (debatable) crazy person who has an insane fear of black cats (judging by how he throws a knife at one, and almost falls through a window after seeing another one) who finally escapes POW prison (after 15 years, jfc) to exact revenge on the person who put him there (Karloff) decades earlier, and reclaim his wife and child.
Both of these men are f*cking mad and so many things about this movie are totally nutso given its year of release, from Karloff stocking his death mansion with black cats because he knows one day his enemy will return, to his treason which caused the death of thousands including the false imprisonment of Lugosi. Once these two titans showdown in the unforgettable razor finale of shadow, it pretty much seals the deal for this easily being one of my favorite Universal Horror pictures, and one of, if not the best Horror film of the 30’s.
Originally titled House of Doom. I can see why.
1934 was a hell of a year. Horrifying then AND now, no matter how old you are.
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54 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Did the "something you heard in the past" tell you that your Ascendant was Virgo or Scorpio? (the signs before and after Libra, respectively) You can trust this site to give the correct information, so I can re-affirm its accuracy on Libra.
Jupiter in Sagittarius is a lucky placement and, situated in the third house, ensures that you'll have good fortune in anything involving your immediate neighborhood.
Yes, I was once told that I had Scorpio rising.
I have Sun, Saturn, and Pluto in Leo; Moon, Venus, and Uranus in Gemini; Mars and Neptune in Libra; Mercury in Cancer; and Lilith in Pisces; and N Node in Taurus.
Although I know the exact time of my birth from my birth certificate, I was a Caesarean birth. Someone once told me that can affect the chart.
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Case of the missing 8yr old in Dragonwyck
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I'm concerned about what happened to Minerva Urecal's character in The Living Ghost (1942). She has a great scene with James Dunn, leaves the room to go to bed, and vanishes from the story.