Swithin
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More films with connections to Harold Rome musicals.
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
Fanny (1961)
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When I think of horror movies that have characters without faces, I think more along these lines, though Mona was no fiend:
"Would you go, if you looked like THIS?!!!!!"
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10 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
get a load of kim parker (who had been a model) in that poster. one of the brain creatures must've leaped into the shower with her.
I'll check this movie out, not sure if I've seen it. I do remember a shower scene in C.H.U.D.!
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, May 15, 2021:
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J. Carroll Naish was in Anthony Adverse with Joseph Crehan.
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9 hours ago, Fausterlitz said:
I think you mean Robert Sterling and Ann Sothern. She appeared in a series of ten enormously popular films as "Maisie," and also was the first to sing the Oscar-winning song "The Last Time I saw Paris" in a film; many still consider hers the definitive version. (The song was not written specifically for the film--it had been published the previous year and sung by others including Kate Smith--which led to a rule change the following year requiring this.) Sothern was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her last film, The Whales of August (1987).
Their daughter was actress Tisha Sterling, who notably (and logically!) played "young Tisha" in The Whales of August (Sothern's character in the film was named Letitia and nicknamed Tisha).
Sterling's second wife was Anne Jeffreys, who appeared with him in the popular Topper television series from 1953 to 1955.
Right on all counts, Fausterlitz, and the thread is yours! Use it wisely -- please don't pass, even if you can't set another one immediately!
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This couple had success in early television but first had rich careers in film. She appeared in a popular series of films and also introduced an Oscar-winning song (one of my personal favorite Oscar winners). She was nominated for an Oscar for her final film.
The television series he was in was based on a popular series of movies. His second wife was his co-star in the television series.
Name the couple, her film series, the song referred to, and her final film. Name his second wife, and their television series.
Name their actress daughter.
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Angela Lansbury was in Gaslight with Dame May Whitty.
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On 5/8/2021 at 2:13 PM, Det Jim McLeod said:
Macabre (1958) TCM On Demand 5/10
After the mysterious deaths of his wife and sister in law, a doctor is told his little daughter has been buried alive.
The first of director William Castle's "gimmick" films and this is one of the weakest. Castle's gimmick was to have insurance policies if anyone died of fright while watching it. Despite the bizarre plot, it is a bit dull. Things start to pick up near the end. The only familiar faces in the cast to me were Jim Backus as the police chief who has a grudge against the doctor, Ellen Corby is a suspicious housekeeper. Castle's pictures would get better after this once he got some bigger stars like Vincent Price and Joan Crawford.
I haven't seen Macabre in quite a while, but I remember it being kind of lame. I guess my favorites of his horror period are Mr. Sardonicus and The Tingler, but I'd like to see some of Castle's 1940s/early 50s films. Quite a diverse lot. One of his earlier films which I've never seen -- Slaves of Babylon -- features Maurice Schwartz, who founded the Yiddish theater in NYC! He plays the prophet Daniel. It also features Julie Newmar in the role of dancer-assassin.
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Ratboy (1986)
Next: Many homes
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1 minute ago, LsDoorMat said:
They said she had a criminal record and was basically an undesirable. It was never said that she was born in the US, but it was implied. In the Cuban bar she called home just about everybody seemed to be an American.
Did you like the movie? I recorded it, but can't decide whether to watch it or not. Good cast, and Tay Garnett's films on shipboard (first scene) are generally promising.
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8 hours ago, mabelnormand1930 said:
Does anyone recall Dr. Shock or Chiller Theater?
In NYC, we had Shock Theater (with Zacherley), and, a few years later, Chiller Theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_Theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller_Theatre_(1961_TV_series)
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I met Carol Lawrence a few years ago. She was lovely, and fun, and amazing at 84!
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My cable company's online description of From Hell It Came:
"Wooden acting marks this lumbering tale about a monster tree stump whose bite is worse than its bark."
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The Chosen is a wonderful movie, evocative of Jewish New York after World War II. I think of it as sort of a Jewish Brideshead Revisited, with an Orthodox (i.e. more liberal) boy and a Hasidic boy. I wish I remembered the scene in question; I do remember Rod Steiger dancing, but not the specifics mentioned. One of Steiger's great performances, and Maximilian Schell was great as well, as the fathers of the boys. (Steiger was Oscar-nominated for a previous performance as a Jewish character in The Pawnbroker.)
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49 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Oakie Doakie, here goes.
Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez ??
The film Maria plays dual roles is Cobra Woman., Her nickname was The Queen of Technicolor and her famous line was "Geev me that cobra jool, eeet ees rightfully mine". An International Airport in the Dominican Republic is named after her.
Husband, Jean - Pierre Aumont - the Broadway play he was in with 2 time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh was Tovarich. He dated Grace Kelly. Another of his famous roles was his co-starring role in the movie Lili ??????????
Well that about covers it, Lavender!
Tovarich the musical was not a huge success -- it ran for just under a year -- but it has a nice score.
The thread is yours!
Maria Montez and Jean-Pierre Aumont
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19 hours ago, Swithin said:
In the interests of moving this along...
This couple were not born in America.
After a rich theater and film career in his home country, he, a Jew, fled the Nazis, coming to America where he continued his career. He went back to Europe to fight and received two important medals for his valour. He later dated an actress who became connected with royalty.
The wife made one of those movies where she plays two sisters. One of the sisters asks the other for something, with one of the most famous lines ever (related to a snake)! She also received awards in her home country. In fact, there's an airport named for her. As an actress, she had a title related to royalty.
Who are this couple? What is the film where the wife plays a dual role? What is the famous line?
What is the Broadway musical in which the husband acted with a two-Oscar-winning actress? Who is the famous actress that he dated?
And what was the rather colorful title by which the wife was known?
The woman the husband dated actually married royalty.
The wife's dual role consisted of one good sister, one evil.
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25 minutes ago, TomJH said:
To my mind the class act of them all was Bride of Frankenstein. However, I also have a great affection for the first of the Mummy sequels, The Mummy's Hand. Those closeup shots of Tom Tyler as Kharis, with black holes in his face instead of eyes, still freak me out. Actually, it was apparently some sort of technical screw up as in other shots in the film you do see eyes. Mistake or not, it works.
I also get a kick out of watching near bald priest George Zucco get shot and fall down a long flight of stone stairs, his stunt double rolling down those stairs with a full head of dark hair.
Yes, this is one of the Universal horrors I play more often than most.
I love those Mummy sequels, although I still think one of the greatest tragedies is the death-by-Mummy of Tante Berthe, played by Ann Codee in The Mummy's Curse. And after she opened the film so well with that rousing song!
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1 hour ago, Herman Bricks said:
As a kid I thought the best one was BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, but now I like it a bit less. Dr. Praetorious' miniature people scene seems out of place.
The concept of the homunculi was current in the 19th century (and earlier) and probably inspired Mary Shelley, so their place in the movie makes sense. There's also an in-joke. Charles Laughton had played Henry VIII and was kept apart from Elsa Lanchester a few years earlier, hence the poor king homunculus trying to approach the queen.
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I've seen dozens of films numerous times, but the one film I've seen most in movie theaters is Harold and Maude. I first saw it the year it was released, at the Loew's Paradise in the Bronx. I was hooked. I went back again and again and am convinced that I was the original cult member. When it formally achieved cult status a few years later, it was revived, and I went back to see it some more, in the Bronx and Manhattan. I even took friends to see it, dragging them to such far away places as Brooklyn Heights.
I have the book, and whilst working on a project with Garson Kanin, I got his wife, Ruth Gordon, to sign it for me.
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Slightly off topic, but clergy are almost always depicted negatively in Shakspeare's plays. One of very few exceptions to that rule is the Bishop of Carlisle in Richard II.
"O, if you raise this house against this house,
It will the woefullest division prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,
Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!" -
In the interests of moving this along...
This couple were not born in America.
After a rich theater and film career in his home country, he, a Jew, fled the Nazis, coming to America where he continued his career. He went back to Europe to fight and received two important medals for his valour. He later dated an actress who became connected with royalty.
The wife made one of those movies where she plays two sisters. One of the sisters asks the other for something, with one of the most famous lines ever (related to a snake)! She also received awards in her home country. In fact, there's an airport named for her. As an actress, she had a title related to royalty.
Who are this couple? What is the film where the wife plays a dual role? What is the famous line?
What is the Broadway musical in which the husband acted with a two-Oscar-winning actress? Who is the famous actress that he dated?
And what was the rather colorful title by which the wife was known?
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, May 8, 2021:
An old friend returns, from that great year, 1957.
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The Snake Woman (1961)
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Ingagi (1930)
Well, I have seen it at last. Although it is presented as a documentary about the explorer Sir Hubert Winstead, it's really all a fake, and was the subject of a court case in its day. Much of the footage has been purloined from other films shot in Africa, and some of the footage was actually shot in Los Angeles (you can tell). However, taken as a fiction film, it has some interesting moments. The restored print looks good, the tinted shots are attractive, and some of the animals are cute. (Some are not so cute.) The authentic African footage is well presented, even if it has been lifted from other films. There is a very cute lemur; and an especially vicious crocodile "that has developed a taste for dark meat." After a while, it wears thin and becomes boring: we've seen much of that footage, better presented, in other movies.
The famously shocking bits don't appear until more than one hour into this 82-minute film. They have to do with women and gorillas. Evidently, there is a tribe that sacrifices women to the gorillas (Ingagi); but other women don't get sacrificed to them...
"One had a child hugged to her breast, a strange-looking child, seemingly more ape than human."
It is said that this film inspired King Kong, which rose, a few years later, from the ashes of the failure of Ingagi. The first all-black horror film, Son of Ingagi (1940), which you can find on YouTube, has nothing to do with this film.
Ingagi was thought to be a lost film, but there are a couple of prints at the Library of Congress, from which the restored version was made. The DVD has a few extras, including one about the restoration.