Cinemascope
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Kelly's Heroes -- bloody good movie!
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Yes, I'm surprised My Gal Sal isn't shown more often, I think it's a perfectly good little musical with Rita Hayworth, made before Cover Girl.
And I was actually lucky enough to watch a 3-D print of Miss Sadie Thompson back when I was in college, it was awesome!
As for the Cesar films -- don't worry, I always keep a tab open with the TCM schedule and another with the FMC schedule.
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Funny you should mention, I actually watched it not too long ago on TCM. And you're right, it's not on DVD yet. You may be able to find a letterboxed laserdisc, if you have a laserdisc player.
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thank God for the TiVo to fast forward past the commercials!
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I'm especially fond of It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Vertigo, but he was soooo good in just about everything! He even dance a little in Born to Dance
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Seems like that one is only available on VHS....
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The Day the Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet
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I love the "Broadway Melody" scene as it is, Cyd Charisse is awesome!!!!
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At least in the present it has lost a negative connotation!
Main Entry: dame
Pronunciation: 'dAm
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin domina, feminine of dominus master; akin to Latin domus house -- more at DOME
1 : a woman of rank, station, or authority: as a archaic : the mistress of a household b : the wife or daughter of a lord c : a female member of an order of knighthood -- used as a title prefixed to the given name
2 a : an elderly woman b : WOMAN
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Oh of course I'm happy for her because of it, i just doesn't stop me from wondering what AIP would have been like with her in it
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Right.
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Well, as reported earlier in some websites, it looks like this R2 DVD is indeed a colorized version of the movie, not the B&W classic.
I suppose it might be almost watchable by turning the color all the way down on the telly... hopefully when they release an R1 DVD it'll not be a colorized version.
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I've always loved Cyd Charisse, she always seemed to me one of the classiest ladies ever in the MGM musicals. Kinda wonder what An American in Paris would have been like with her instead of Leslie Caron.
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I'm pretty sure it opened at Loew's theater because MGM was doing the distribution.
If memory serves, GWTW was produced by Selznick International Pictures, but distributed by MGM -- and of course Clark Gable was "on loan" to Selznick.
According to imdb.com,
Selznick bought the book rights for $50,000.00 Louis B. Mayer, Selznick's father-in-law set out to make GWTW an MGM picture, initially offering to buy him out at a profit. Although other studios, notably Warner Brothers' (who had proposed Bette Davis/Errol Flynn and advantageous financing) or Selznick's own distributor, United Artists, were interested in providing a production financing package, none of them had an actor capable of filling Rhett Butler's boots except MGM's Clark Gable. After much vacillating on Selzick's part, a deal was struck with Mayer on January 19, 1938 that gave Selznick Gable and $1.25 million toward production in return for distribution rights and 50% of the profits, which were further shrunk by Loew's Inc.'s 15% interest and requirement to pay Gable's $4,500.00 per week salary and 1/3rd of Gable's $50,000 loan-out bonus. GWTW was, of course, a monster hit--- grossing some $20 million during it's initial release. Selznick eventually earned $4 million on the picture and a few years later sold his rights to John Hay Whitney for a paltry $400,000.00 in order to keep his independent production company afloat. Whitney would turn around and sell these rights back to MGM for a cool $2.4 million.
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Well life on a desert island would definitely be more palatable with a Cyd Charisse musical... have you seen On an Island with You lately? I love her dance number with... is it Ricardo Montalban?
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Awesome link! Thanks for posting it and welcome to the boards squeaker
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Glad it helped!