MissGoddess
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CS, jr. : Right after I posted to you I found this article on a new Fay Wray documentary in my inbox!
http://baltimore.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=21279
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>>>I own Robert Riskin's own typed final draft copy from 1935 (on delicate onionskin paper) of the script to MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN<<<
That is indeed a treasure!
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ChiO---I've really enjoyed reading your posts since you joined us, and if you say *King of Comedy* and *After Hours* are worth a peak, I will consider adding them to my Netflix queue (though Jerry Lewis directed by Martin Scorcese is a tough sell. In fact, Jerry Lewis directed by anyone except a traffic cop is a tough sell for me.). And yes, the bloodiness is exactly what turns me off in Marty's films, that and his incessant, albeit sometimes creative, use of one particular expletive.
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"Men are all alike, only their ties are different!"
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*The Bad and The Beautiful*
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*Johnny Eager*
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*Johnny Eager*
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*Johnny Eager*
Starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner with Glenda Farrell and Pat Dane
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Thanks, FG, for that sparkling picture of Miss Lana Turner, and of all the other lovely images.
Well, here is how they line up:
*Husband #1: Artie Shaw*
*Husband #2: Stephen Crane*
*Husband #3: Bob Topping*
*Husband #4: Lex Barker *
*Husband #5: Fred May*
*Husband #6: Robert Eaton*
*Husband #7: Ronald Dante*
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*Veronica Lake*
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*Ella Raines*
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*I Wake Up Screaming*
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"His philosophy, in addition to scaring the wits out of people, was that he had a responsibility to the millions who saw our pictures. He aimed at more than mere exploitable crook shows, and wanted their impact to result from legitimate psychological conflicts. Lewton's pictures were cheaply made, but not cheap."
Director Robert Wise,
from an interview in Films in Review, January 1963
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*Cat People*
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German + Noir = Fritz Lang? No. *Marlene Dietrich*
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He is mentioned promininently in "Puttin' on the Ritz" -
Have you seen the well-to-do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time
Now, if you're blue
And you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a daycoat
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat
Perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
*Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper*
Come, let's mix where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks or "umberellas"
In their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz
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*For a certain Mr. Grimes to illuminate who is the star of a certain Fritz Lang film*
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>>>Although Bob started going broke at the end of the Lana marriage and Lana was supporting him and all his businesses eventually.
Lana's mother finally told her, "Divorce him, you can't afford to keep a millionaire!!"<<<
It seemed like no matter how promising her prospects with the next marriage looked, it turned into a disaster! Who'd think a *millionaire* would end up a pecuniary burden. A girl has always had to look sharp before she lept, that's one thing I've learned from Lana. Of course, today she would have been armed with a drawer full of Pre-nups.
Love your stories, Larry, they are such a treat.
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>>> I think that of all the movie genres, comedies have gotten the worst in recent years. <<<
Amen to that. They all seem to be of the juvenile male variety or so off-beat they are un-funny.
By the way, that was a very nice montage, Angie.
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>>>Miss G(loria) -- I just love entering this thread. Do you mind if I stay the night here? Gloria & Gene are hard to leave. <<<
Door's always open to you Frank. But I hope you're not too tall---the sofa gets uncomfortable for anyone over 6 feet.
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TCMprogrammer indicated it will be rescheduled in January.
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=114091&tstart=0
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>>>It was also very PC (the new version) there was nobody smoking in the new version, compare that to the smoke filled bar in Bisbee where everyone lights up as soon as they walk in, lol <<<
Holy smokes, no smokes???? I find the efforts to be PC that are tortuously in conjunction with the self-righteous pursuit of "realism" in today's movies to be a source of endless amusement. They don't mind showing people blowing someone's insides but let them offer a guy a light for his cigarette and they call the police.
Any Gary Cooper Fans?
in Your Favorites
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Frequent Gary Cooper leading lady *Fay Wray* will be the subject of a new documentary as well as a special screening of her first starring role, Eric Von Stroheim's The Wedding March (1927), here in New York at the Film Forum in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. Here is an article about the documentary (I wonder if she said anything about Gary?):
http://baltimore.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=21279
And the filmforum link, which in turn has links to other articles at the bottom:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/faywray.html
P.S. Fay Wray was married to screenwriter Robert Riskin, who we just discussed.