Swithin
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26 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
So, what's any of this to do with what's on Svengoolie tonight?
Sepiatone
My last post features images from tonight's film, She-Wolf of London. You would have recognized one of the images in the montage, if you had gone back to the original post about tonight's film. After my initial post, the thread did segued into some posts about June Lockhart, who is the star of tonight's film.
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Etienne Giradot was in The Dragon Murder Case with Eugene Pallette.
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2 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
When Lassie was on I wasn't into girls yet (they had kooties), so my attention was on the dog.
TMI!
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Never got into that space show. Here's her television character that I have most affection for:
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12 minutes ago, UMO1982 said:
Interesting video on the famed murder..... It ruined the careers of Mabel Normand and Mary Miles Minter. Why has no one made a film abut this scandal?
I believe the murder is mentioned in the Broadway musical Mack and Mabel. Taylor is a character in the musical.
"Back at the studio, a happy Mack has realized the potential of sound in his movies, with singing and dancing. Lottie Ames, another actress in Mack's company, has become a star ("Tap Your Troubles Away"), but Mabel has become a full-time drug addict and her reputation is ruined. To add further to the tragedy, her lover, William Desmond Taylor, is murdered, and she is the prime suspect. By the time Mack is willing to try to patch things up between him and Mabel, it is too late - she has died. But all musicals must have a happy ending, so Mack imagines a happier ending to their story ("I Promise You A Happy Ending")."
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, July 3, 2021:
This is a good one, with an excellent cast.
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My favorite Leslie Caron performance: The L-Shaped Room.
Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room, with the great Cicely Courtneidge
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My choice for TCM Underground:
Crazy Love (1987) -- the best Belgian movie I ever saw!
Based on The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif. and other works by Charles Bukowski. This is a bizarre, poignant, and curiously affecting movie. And it's in Flemish!
I saw it in London when it was released. I believe it did get a release in the U.S., but was considered too controversial and wasn't around for long.
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"I am bad but north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
Hamlet (1948)
Hamlet (2000)
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12 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
That could be THE KIDS IN THE HALL, another Canadian sketch comedy show. They had an actor who played Queen Elizabeth quite well.
That's it!
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22 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
It was also a Canadian show. (thought this was worth mentioning.)
I remember one particularly funny episode featuring HM Queen Elizabeth and a beaver. I think is was an SCTV show.
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Juliet Prowse was in Who Killed Teddy Bear with Elaine Stritch.
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Next: Quicksand
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Let's not forget Papa: Philip Dorn in I Remember Mama.
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More with Doris Lloyd:
The Lodger (1944)
The Time Machine (1960)
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Fay Bainter was in The War Against Mrs. Hadley with Sara Allgood.
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"Money Isn't Everything" -- Bert Lahr in Foxy (1964) (I'm cheating. Foxy was a Broadway musical, based on Volpone.)
Next: Your favorite Marlene Dietrich song
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1 hour ago, Herman Bricks said:
Lorne Greene
next: alumnus of Fordham University (graduate or non-graduate)
Alan Alda
Next: Spent time in Switzerland
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Katharine Hepburn
Next: 1920s idol
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5. He played the Major in the 1960 film Make Mine Mink.
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1 hour ago, TikiSoo said:
By far the best charactor was a University Doctor played by James Karen who overacted every line trying to make it sound important. Even in a group reaction shot, his eyes would be bugged out, mouth gaping, anything to catch the audience's eye. His performance just kept getting prissy-er & prissy-er.
James Karen's claim to fame in the NYC area was via his Pathmark Supermarket commercials around 1980.
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More St. Francis of Assisi:
Francis of Assisi (1961)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
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I watched the second half, will watch the rest tomorrow -- maybe. I went to a lot of horror films in the early 1980s. Many of them fortunately featured Mary Woronov or the Day Georges. But they were mostly geared to a youthful audience, taking place in summer camps, or colleges, etc. So Time Walker fits that model to some extent. Lots of kids partying and making out.
Lots of other tropes as well: the need to reconstitute something; a human who has an almost org_asmic connection with a monster or alien; trying to escape in a elevator shaft; a character that is such a b_itch you just want him to get a fungus on his hand; etc.
And that penultimate scene seemed to be a thing in 1982. Here it is from another movie made the same year.
A to Z of Characters
in Games and Trivia
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Pocahontas -- played by Q'orianka Kilcher in The New World (2005)