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Loretta Young was in Clive of India with Montagu Love.
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Dean Stockwell was in The Happy Years with Leon Ames.
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2 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Tea For Two - watched on TCM yesterday -the theme song was over the credits and during film and finale Doris, Gordon MacRae sing and Gene Nelson, last film I watched was All Mine To Give but can't say what the theme song was
continue with song/theme from last movie you watched
(All Mine to Give has a great score by Max Steiner, but I don't think any of the themes are particularly named. Steiner did give the lovely theme a Scottish flavour, since that's where the family came from.)
"She Moved Through the Fair" -- Michael Collins (1996)
Next: Sung while eating or drinking
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You can find him in The Bowery (1933) on YouTube. It's a great, snappy (20th Century Fox) Raoul Walsh film of gay 1890s New York. Raft does a little bit of dancing early in the film, as he enters a saloon the name of which must not be mentioned. But you will never, ever find this movie on TCM. (The opening shot will tell you why)!
You can see Raft dancing into the club at around the 14:10 point, then dancing briefly with Pert Kelton. I think the film is public domain, so I post the link here.
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How about a turkey?
"Everybody's Doing It" (Doing what? Turkey Trot!) -- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Next: Favorite Alice Faye number
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Too Hot too Handle (1938) is a hilarious comedy that deals effectively and cynically with fake news. Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon work for rival newsreel companies competing for audience. Gable is sent to cover the war in China. He can't find it, so he stages a battle scene, in one of the funniest scenes ever.
Here's a quote about the film from Wikipedia:
"Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model aircraft with his cameraman José Estanza.
Outraged when he finds out, Chris' main competitor, Atlas Newsreel's Bill Dennis decides to do the same, having his aviator friend Alma Harding fly in "serum" for an imaginary cholera outbreak. Chris finds out and swoops in to film her landing. José, however, drives too close to the aircraft, causing it to crash and burst into flames. Chris rescues Alma, but when he starts to go back for the serum, she has to confess that it is a fake."
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, May 29, 2021:
I always confuse this title with The Man with Nine Lives, the movie in which Karloff plays a mad doctor specializing in "frozen therapy," who is thawed out at the beginning of the film. And I always confuse The Man with Nine Lives with The Man They Could Not Hang and Before I Hang. But The Frozen Ghost is not a Karloff film, it's one of the Lon Chaney Jr. "Inner Sanctum" films.
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Benet, Dr. Felix -- played by Bela Lugosi in The Invisible Ray (1936)
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Jane Wyatt was in Great Expectations (1934) with Rafaela Ottiano.
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Anthony Adverse (1936)
Next: Frilly costume (men's)
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"Stardust" -- The Long Day Closes (1992)
Next: Your least favorite Shirley Temple number
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43 minutes ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
Did anyone here see Genius (2016) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703957/)? It's about Max Perkins, who at Scribner's edited Look Homeward, Angel. (I didn't see it because I am allergic to modern docupics made by white males to celebrate the achievements of dead white males. Also, obvious Oscar bait is obvious.) It features Colin Firth as Perkins, Jude Law as Wolfe, Guy Pierce as Fitzgerald, and Dominic West as Hemingway, to which I respond "Just who is handing out green cards willy-nilly?"
Haven't seen it. But it's a British film, shot mostly in England. I don't understand the green card comment; but at any rate, since they were mostly Brits making a film in the UK, I don't think Willy Nilly needed to hand them out.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
EDIT- FOUND A COPY ON THRIFTBOOKS
IT DOESNT SAY HOW MANY PAGES IT IS THO.
I PROMISE TO SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT THOMAS WOLFE NOW AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR INDULGING ME.
Number of pages wouldn't necessarily be a guide as to completeness or differences between editions, since type/font size would affect the pagination, and that could vary from edition to edition.
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39 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Have you seen The Great Garrick; this is a romantic comedy, directed by James Whales and starting Brian Aherne and Olivia DeHavilland. (this is how Aherne meet sister Joan who he would marry a few years later). Really nice Warner Bros. film from 1937. Aherne plays the stuffy, full-of-himself, British actor Garrick as he travels to France and meets the Comédie Française.
I like The Great Garrick very much. Amusing story, excellent performances. As I recall I particularly enjoyed Melville Cooper's performance.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
oddly enough, WOLFE's wikipedia entry and the wikipedia entry for LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL don't go into the racism much, if any. (the wiki entry for the book makes no mention of it at all)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/4/6/in-the-wolfes-den-pbtbhomas-clayton/
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2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL is not just boring but incredibly racist. Like, racism on a whole other level- QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST RACIST THING I HAVE SEEN/READ/HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, and I am from North Carolina, [ergo PRETTY USED TO IT by now. ]
Racism that is- I don't know, I don't want to use the word "eloquent" because Racism doesn't deserve to be described as such, but it's as close to eloquent racism as anyone besides LENI REIFENSTAHL or DW GRIFFITH came up with in the 20th century. The only time the writing in LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL comes alive is when WOLFE waxes like ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING over his jaunts into N-WORDTOWN to basically rape some women for free newspapers [don't ask].
Even HP LOVECRAFT would be like "whoa dude- ease up!"
It's not just the work that is racist, it was evidently the author as well! Like H.L. Mencken, Wolfe was racist and anti-Semitic.
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19 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
re: JANE AUSTEN
All you have to do is tell me that some author or novel is in YE PANTHEON OF THE GREATESTS and I fold my arms, stomp my foot and MAKE UP MY MIND TO HATE THEM/IT THEN AND THERE.
I'm not saying it's right to have adopted this attitude at my stage in life, but I've come by it honest- from the day I drop-kicked a copy of A WRINKLE IN TIME across the room at age 11. Over the decades since- I have thrown many of the GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME and many of THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF ALL TIME clear across various rooms- sometimes into the ash bin- but never at anyone and some titles I have thrown on multiple occasions [ie LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL]
I've tried to get into the works of Thomas Wolfe (like Look Homeward, Angel) but have found his work to be a big bore.
A few years ago, I saw an adaptation in London (transfer from Chichester) of Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons. It wasn't that she died before finishing it; she just abandoned it, earlier in her career. The play was wonderful, funny and wise. Needing 42 actors it will never come to Broadway!
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9 hours ago, SansFin said:
I have no doubt that my personal tastes are very much dictated by social environment and personal bent. I grew up reading: Dostoevsky, Bulgakov and Gogol.
I loved reading Dostoevsky in my youth. The Idiot was my favorite. A few years later, when I was assigned Dostoevsky's novels in college, I thought "What's this?!!!" My problem was that, as a youth, I had read and enjoyed the Constance Garnett translations. My college teachers were using more modern translations which did not appeal to me as much.
I recently read that some writer/professor said that Constance Garnett's translations were "excruciatingly Victorianish." I don't care, they will always be Dostoevsky to me.
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9. She appeared in one of the eponymous roles in the very enjoyable late 1960s sitcom The Mothers-in-Law. (Kaye ballard was her co-star.)
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31 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I picked up a copy of EAST LYNNE in a used bookstore just for funsies, but I can't make it too far.
WOW, THAT IS A GREAT COVER. I WISH THEY HAD USED SOME HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE WITH THE EYEBALLS SO THAT THEY MOVED BACK AND FORTH.
The cover is a painting by the aged Goya, from his "Black Paintings" series of 1819-1823, which was the heyday of Gothic literature. (Another Gothic novel we had to read for the course was Frankenstein, written in 1818.) Goya's images suit the mood of the novels.
"Two Old Men Eating Soup"
"Saturn Devouring His Son"
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Natalie Schafer was in Molly and Me with Queenie Leonard.
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More based on 18th century English novels:
Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Tom Jones (1963)
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5 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
The only two Jane Austen novels I did not love were Northanger Abbey (but here we can cut her some slack, since it was her first effort),
I had to read Northanger Abbey as part of a Gothic literature class. In that context, as a sendup of the real Gothic novels, it's sort of fun. It makes a nice change when you read it after coping with Otranto, Udolpho, Melmoth, Vathek, and The Monk (all of which I loved, particularly Melmoth).
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