MissGoddess

> *pours MissG a martini* > > By the way....I just realized that I got sucked back > into this thread. > > You guys are SNEAKY! Luring me in here with talk > of Gary Cooper AND Errol Flynn. *lol* My Paw taught me if you bait a bear trap use the best bait you can find! And we're all very glad you have been "sucked back in".

Great balls of fire! I go away for one evening and miss out on over 30 posts!! I never thought we'd see 1,000 but we are closing in! >> I just recently exceeded my photobucket limit by 3 > thousand, lol. I have to keep making new accounts but > I was speaking with my friend and she said they they > can delete them if they find it, so I'm now using > imagshack and uploading thumbnails so the overly > large photos will downsize and upload faster on the > proboard. It works wonderfully, but it sure does take > time to go through it all. I have a feeling that is going to be a problem for me too one day! It's so addictive (I need another "vice", like I need a hole in the head! lol!) I saw "Imageshack" for the first time while looking at your DOOMSDAY pix---is it more complicated than photobucket? And one question about photobucket---besides creating separate "albums", is there no other way to organize our pix? Thanks, Coopsgal.

Good grief! I'd actually forgotten Bernard Hermann did the score! Yet another reason I have to have this movie.

>>>if I was picking one Hollywood star to sit around and drink & tell stories with...or go on an exotic trip with, I'd pick Flynn. But if I was picking a husband or father, I'd pick Cooper. <<< Great assessment---and pour me a martini, too!

Lol! It's hard to imagine anyone not seeing his magic, but it takes all kinds and that's ok, too. We'll try to be magnanimous!

That's a great shot---from Lives of Bengal Lancer? Swarthy! I think you were the one who turned me on to photobucket---and I've already uploaded an embarrassing number of GC pix!!! The ones on your site are heaven---I've been drooling over them for the past 1/2 hour. I just love the one from the magazine article about his trip home---where he's standing next to his first teacher, Miss Davis---soooo cute!!! What a genuine sweetheart to remember her and want to see her. Unbelievable. Miss G

, "all right, kid, he's not THAT great looking" > and they won't take the time to look over the photos! > But grrrrr, if only people actually realized how > amazing this feller is, the world would be a betty > place, lol. They actually SAY that? (looks astonished) I guess it really is in the eye of the beholder, but maybe they've got something else stuck in their eye that prevents them from seeing too clearly? Ha ha! > > I'm in Gary's hotel room until he kicks me out In Italy they call it "eating the key".

> You're cracking me up!!! I think he sold > encyclopedia's and although the book didn't say it, I > can imagine he did pretty well. I mean seriously I > can't imagine being a housewife and your in the > kitchen cleaning up the breakfast dishes or something > fun like that and then you hear a knock at the door. > At first you're a little annoyed b/c you're up to > you're elbows in dishwater. You open the door and and > all the irritation you felt goes away as soon as you > see that tall young man with dark hair and piercing > blue eyes probably giving you an unsure half smile as > he asks in that wonderful western drawl 'would you to > buy an encylopedia ma'am?' Now seriously, how could > you say no Lol! I couldn't say no if he was selling some swamp land in Florida! But then you feel like sinking into to the ground when you realize you're dripping dirty dishwater, your hair is up in curlers and you have your mangiest old frock on! Reminds me of that scene in Indiscreet, when Ingrid Bergman first meets Cary Grant and she has a bathrobe on and all that cold-cream on her face---and there he is, Mr. Perfect, in a tuxedo!

Welcome back, Coopsgal! Scrrrrumptious new photos are coming out of your---pardon me, Gary's hotel room! :0 I only recently saw Doomsday for the first time so it's great to look the pix---he was divine in it.

Dorothy Malone & Robert Stack

The entire cast worked exceptionally well off of one another. I don't want to leave off mentioning Robert Middleton, either. It's being filmed in black-and-white gives it an altogether more bleak and sinister tone (feeling), don't you think? Miss G

>>>Then while in LA working as many things including a door to door salesman (I would buy anything he was selling) <<< Coop-the-salesman: Ma'am, do you need a 40-ton tractor? Cause I'm sellin' one! Coopsgirl: Whatever you're sellin'---I'm buyin'! Now come on in and let's make a deal!

Flynn and Niven: Cirrohsis-by-the-Sea. I can only imagine when those two were at a party together, it must have been uproarious. That is a mighty disappointment to hear about Rory Flynn's book---because it's been on my "must read" list, too! What a shame and wasted opportunity, too, to bring back some honor to her family's name. I feel as you about Maria's efforts, which I loudly applaud. She's doing a marvelous job of representing exactly what her father represented, namely discernment and integrity where his name is concerned. There are scarcely any left, who "remember when..." about the great figures of the last century and care enough to keep their work from being forgotten. If only to bring a little light into this otherwise grim world. Miss G

Beleive me, I love the poetic license he takes, too---I have a soft spot for witty raconteurs. I gobbled up David Niven's books ("The Moon's A Ballon" and "Bring on the Empty Horses") and half their entertainment value would be lost, if he had stuck to "just the facts, ma'am". Miss G

The account of those three harrowing nights, as you say, just get to me. And when he tells of being mobbed by people after the trial, describing their behavior to like primitives---only worse, and why? Because he'd been accused and cleared of a rape charge? That such a thing should hang over him for the rest of his life, driving him to become a caricature of himself instead a happy, fulfilled man is the stuff of tragedy. And people are no better today---the Anna Nicole fiasco, all the sickening absorption in the problems of celebrities (and non-celebs, on the "reality" shows). Yikes! I can't wait to get to both "Beam Ends" and "Showdown"---I know I'll treasure them. It's too bad he's not here to read what you and I have written, or seen the complimentary documentary TCM produced---it might have surprised him. And, as odd as it might seem, I think he and Gary would have been splendid together in a film. Again, thanks for turning me on to My Wicked, Wicked Ways!

Love his sneery, sarcastic face and look out when he got mad! He's an original. My favorites: The Garden of Evil (the final scenes are really his) Don't Bother to Knock (he's rough in the beginning and then mellows toward Monroe's disturbed young woman) Panic in the Streets Cheyenne Autumn & Two Rode Together The Alamo Miss G

It took viewing TCM's 2005 documentary, The Adventures of Errol Flynn, to open my eyes to what an extraordinary actor and man he was. Before that, I just thought of him as most do, somewhat dismissively, as a great movie swashbuckler and all around playboy. Of course, he was a playboy and a great swashie but so much more, too. The film clips revealed what I couldn't see before---he was a heck of an actor! And when I learned about the astonishing life he led before ever reaching Hollywood, then I was hooked. He was an astute, witty, cynical, poetic and deeply introspective man who was--here is the kicker---far too sensitive for the public life he led. As contradictory as it sounds, that is what he was, a man of extreme contradictions and all of which he was fully aware by the way. It's one thing to be like that, quite another and quite unusual to know it and to question "why". His autobio may be inflated in parts for effect but the introspective chapters are fascinating and painfully honest. Whew, ok, enough "All About Errol"....

Vallo, thank you!

When is the Errol Volume II due out again? I forget. But I may get some more biographies on him first, and "Beam Ends".

I just have to tell you, Pktrekgirl, I'm absolutely enthralled with the Errol Flynn autobiography! It's taking me so long to finish only because I have so little time but I become like one possessed once I delve into it---and I find myself just heart broken over his struggles and questionings about who he was and where he belonged. I just finished the chapter about his near suicide attempts. It sent cold chills down my spine. It's tragic a man with so much potential felt so worthless. This is without a doubt the best autobiography I've ever read. Miss G

I would include: And So Ends Our Night - Directed by John Cromwell Algiers - also by John Cromwell A Scandal in Paris - directed by Douglas Sirk Mademoiselle Fifi - directed by Robert Wise The Tamarind Seed - directed by Blake Edwards The Proud Rebel - directed by Michael Curtiz The Real Glory - directed by Henry Hathaway Clash by Night - directed by Fritz Lang Don't Bother to Knock - directed by Roy Ward Baker The Secret of Convict Lake - directed by Michael Gordon Summertime - Directed by David Lean The General Died at Dawn - Directed by Lewis Milestone

I'm a Sirk fan and love this film, too. I thought Jack Carson was terrific in this film. That boy could act. Miss G

Hi! I remember liking this movie so much as a teenager (I was really into "brooding, Byronic" types. lol!) and it was a pleasure to revisit it. I did notice the resemblance of Ann Todd to Garbo, which made it particularly hard to believe her as a 14 year old with those features. James Mason looked very attractive but his personality would have sent me packing today. On a young girl, it might have it's effect, though, and that is what they whole story is about. What I thought was amusing was here was this poor little orphan girl who has only one friend growing up and then suddenly, after she's grown, she has FOUR men at her feet! And she picks the crankiest one. The psychological implications of that choice make for a whole new movie! Miss G

I'm so happy they've restored "Snows...". If only for that one, magical scene in which Peck and Ava get started. It's in the cafe, and at one point Ava leans in to ask for a light of her cigarette. It's one of Ava's (or any actress') most spectacular "beauty moments." The lighting and her red dress, white shoulders and black hair combine to knock your socks off. The whole film is beautifully shot but that scene in the cafe is the one I always remember with such vividness. To see it as it was originally intended will be a thrill. :x

So far, Cooper, Garbo and Chaplin are my favorite silent performers. I'd love to see Clara Bow's movies too. Here in New York at The Film Forum a few years ago they had a retrospective of her films. Alas, I did not go and I've regretted it ever since. She was hugely popular in her day, putting "The 'It' Girl" into the vernacular. I also like the few German expressionist silents I've seen, too, like F.W. Murnau's SUNRISE. What a marvelous work of art that is. One plus about silents is that they are universal---because there is no dialogue any country could import them and simply translate the titles. No wonder the cinema became such an instantaneous, world-wide phenomenon. Miss G