MissGoddess
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Ha ha! Very well, I now have heard the flip side on 3:10 to Yuma, thanks CigarJoe---I'm going to take everything with a grain (bag) of salt then, especially regarding plot points. Those things don't always bother me if the characterizations are strong enough to interest me. I'm not sure they will, but I'll give it an honest chance.
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>>>And who is the beauty above Dana? She's looks familiar but I'm stumped.<<<
I'm guessing that is *Ann Sothern* .
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Yeah! congrats on solving the picture problem---I did the exact same thing with moving my photobucket pictures which is why some are blank in my "Noir Gallery".
Those pix of La Dietrich, Tyrone Power and Betty Grable were gorgeous and nice and big.
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Yes, Ford saved the closeups so that when they did happen, they had a stronger impact but if you're not used to that it can seem strange. I had to grow into loving that way of filming a movie.
Dinah Shore, you really have such a wide range of tastes, Theresa, that's phenomenal. I think she had a beautiful voice and I understand her television show was one of the most successful of the time. I think even Frank did a duet with her on either her show or his which was really cute. There are lots of singers I still have to widen out to appreciate, a new one lately is Nelson Eddy.
I was trying to think if Walter ever played a villain and then I remembered he played a man who turned bad in a John Wayne movie called *The Dark Command* . I think he played the character that was supposed to be Quantrell, the famous raider during civil war times. I don't recall any other villains that he played, though.
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You guys are too funny! Frank, I can't believe you're too far for a plane, train or automobile to take you to your heart's delight in Queens and I hope you get there.
I'm sorry I missed *Fury* and *M* (which, blow me down, I've never seen)---those two are the real carrots dangling before me. At least I have my John Ford movie tickets secured for the NYFF, so I must not complain.
And thanks for the compliment, but I possess not a shred of divinity---my predilictions and peccadillos are all much too earthy I'm afraid.
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Wow, Theresa, I'm curious what you think John Ford could have done to better *How Green Was My Valley* ---which scenes? Because I think its a nearly perfect movie and that he's the greatest American director by far. I can say, though, that I don't admire Walter Pidgeon's character, Mr. Gruffydd, very much because he gives up the woman he loves so passively. However, I've not yet read Llewellyn's book so I don't know how much of that is how it was originally conceived or how much had to do with Ford and Philip Dunne (screenwriter) wanting to convey the sense of time and progress damaging family and community ties. This makes the movie so sad at the end, and I always weep buckets of tears.
I love the theme song to *The Last Time I Saw Paris* , it's very bittersweet.
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>>>I'm sure it played at the Paramount originally and it's just such a neat feeling to know that somebody sat in the same seat as me and saw all those old movies when they were new<<<
I never thought of that before but you're right! I saw a movie at the Egyptian once in L.A., and I can't even remember which one it was, but that was the only time I was in a theater which has shown first-run movies since the old days.
The Film Forum in New York is one of the best places in terms of the amount of old movies they show, but the theater itself is very dingy and badly in need of restoring. I actually prefer the modern, but soul-less Museum of Modern Art screening rooms which are at least cleaner. There is no old time movie palace in the city that I know of. Not a fabulous looking one, anyway.
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Hi Theresa,
Of course, one of my favorites by him is Mr Gruffydd in *How Green Was My Valley* , one of his most poignant roles. After that, I love him as the worldly, charming father of Elizabeth Taylor and Donna Reed in *The Last Time I Saw Paris.* He provides the only real levity in the film, with lines like: * "Marion married, Helen married---a father abandoned in middle age. What more can a man ask for!" *
And yes, he was a beautiful man who aged gracefully. In fact, everything he did, he did with grace.
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Bill and his third wife, Diana Lewis (aka "Mousie"), with whom he remained happily married until his death.
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Hi B4E,
I'm not sure the reasons for Powell & Lombard's split, both were too private to ever comment publicly on it, but I suspect at the time she was just too young to settle down to the kind of measured, extremely quiet and simple life he wanted.
Below are pix of Powell with Carole and with his only son, William David (circa 1935).
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I watched Here Comes the Groom too and always marvel at her ability to do it all. She was a real class act and had a great sense of humor apparently. Bless her!
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Angie that is so marvelous that you got to see those costumes when you went to the movie!!! What a remarkable opportunity---I'd give anything to have been there.
GWTW is a must to see on the big screen---when those opening credits literally sweep across to the swelling Max Steiner score, you don't get half the impact on a smaller television screen. I get goose bumps just writing about it.
I never realized how tiny actresses were in general until I went to several auctions to see their wardrobe. Even ones that people tend to think of as taller and voluptuous were really much smaller than the screen made them seem, including Marilyn Monroe. Her waist was very small and overall she was smaller than she seems.
I think also the way they appear to us on screen "magnifies" them a bit in our minds, so we forget they are human, ha!
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Hi Angie
With this remake I have the impression they ramped up the action (and of course, the violence) as well as probably threw in an awful lot of psychological introspection, which may get on my nerves. If Russell Crowe wasn't starring I wouldn't be as tempted to go, but I like to see him gettnig positive reviews again for his work.
On the contrary, I've heard mostly downer reviews of the Brad Pitt movie about Jesse James, which I have no interest in seenig anyway.
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I'm as enthusiastic about *The Harder They Fall* as you are, Dewey. Bogart went out swinging with this one.
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>>>Meanwhile, Joe is completely taken by Ann (Marsha Hunt). She has his motor revvin'. Why? Opposites attract. Boy, do they ever. Ann challenges Joe's criminal ways and Joe challenges Ann's sensibilities. Both find this to be very stimulating.<<<
Ain't it the truth, though.
Your take on Ann's reaction to just having shot one was interesting and one I hadn't considered. I was thinking it also showed her how easily you can find yourself doing the very thing you find unthinkable---that kind of deed which she was silently judging O'Keefe for having committed.
Nicely quoted at the end of your post, Frank, you have an amazing memory.
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With *Robert Ryan* , you'd better *Beware My Lovely* because your *On Dangerous Ground*
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*The first film noir, Stranger on the Third Floor*
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Scenes from Fritz Lang's *The Big Heat*
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Nicely done imagery from *Woman in the Window* , from the German website, Uschis Film Collagen:
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I think this is a great picture of the rugged but sensitive actor, *Dana Andrews*
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Bronxie---so far I'm not finding any good pictures of Helen Walker on the inernet, but I'll keep looking.
We need some Gene Tierney and *Laura* here.
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I don't know what happened to the Audrey Totter picture, I'll try to post it again here, below because this wise-acre site is not letting me edit it for some reason.
Bronxie---I will look for Helen Walker pictures right now.
ChiO---Glad you responded to Bogie's "baby".
*Audrey Totter's return engagement* :
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I didn't know that Peter B. does a commentary---onto my list it goes. I want to begin building up my Spence dvd collection but I wasn't sure if this title was available individually or only as part of that "Controversial Classics" set.
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Miss G(ulch): I may board the 3:10 to Yuma this week, if so, I'll post my own impressions here.
Raw Deal
in Film Noir--Gangster
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Frank,
Marsha Hunt is an actress you may want to keep a bead on, she was a *very* interesting woman (excuse me, IS a very interesting woman because she's still with us! A poster in another forum I belong to goes to the same church as Miss Hunt and says she's very much with us and a very gracious lady. She lives in Sherman Oaks, Ca, where she is also the honorary Mayor!). Marsha came from a fairly well-to-do midwest family and always had an interest in politics, which got her into hot water when she was eventually blacklisted in the 50s. However, she doesn't seem bitter and remembers her Hollywood days fondly, as recollected in at least one book she published that I have.
Though most of her career was spent as a contract player in supporting roles, she occasionally got a shot at a lead. Her intelligence and poise are almost always on display, especially when playing assured types like the forensic scientist in the excellent B-mystery with Van Heflin, *The Kid Glove Killer* , the criminal psychiatrist in Robert Taylor's *The High Wall* (you'd like those two) or her talent was flexible enough to play the dimmest of Jane Austen's Bennett sisters in *Pride and Prejudice* with perfect aplomb. In the melodrama *Smash Up: Story of a Woman* , Marsha got to play what is ostensibly a w-i-t-c-h (I don't know how to spell) but delivers an unexpected, frail human twist.
A very underrated, versatile actress, I'll be adding her picture to my Noir Gallery.
Here she is, when she appeared with Eddie Mueller for the Noir City film festival at San Francisco's Castro Theater