MissGoddess
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I can't disagree with that!
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Hi otterhere,
While I do wish Olivier had stayed with Viv, I think his reasons for leaving were more complicated, not really for Joan Plowright. Vivien's emotional and mental state had really deteriorated to an appalling degree and to his credit, he admitted to feeling like an absolute cad for leaving her. Yes, it was selfish, but it may be she needed the kind of help that sadly wasn't available at that time. Not many men are the kind of stuff that can take care of a woman in that condition 24 hours a day. Certainly not major stage and screen stars.
Miss G
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Shonna, sounds like you and Ava would be battling for your men!
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Lol!
I only learned in the last few years of Ricardo's significant career in film before his memorable television roles.
P.S. Let us not forget, he put "Corinthian Leather" (roll your "R's" when you say it!) in the vernacular!
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I love Apartment for Peggy, too! Her chatty character cracks me up and I love her boundless optimism.
It's a shame her career didn't go on just as her beauty was really only growing and growing but as you say, tastes were changing and she also had quite a family to raise I understand.
Miss G
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I'd love to see Many Rivers to Cross and hopefully it will turn up on TCM, if it's not on dvd.
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Well that shows how much I know about fighting because I thought he looked very convincing! But I really just watch these films for the drama outside of the ring.
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[nobr]Interesting question! I might choose Gary Cooper's portrayal of Doctor Wassell. This was a real person who saved many of his wounded soldiers during WWII when they were all but left to die on an island in the Pacific. "Dr. Wassell", being a healer, is determined to do anything to protect and save life, and that makes him truly heroic in my eyes. Gary Cooper played so many heroes but this is probably the one I admire the most.[/nobr]
[nobr]Coop's "Dr Wassell" tries to ease Philip Ahn's pain[/nobr]
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[nobr]Heroine----the first that comes to my mind may seem an odd choice, but I really admire the character of "Beth Morgan" in How Green Was my Valley, as portrayed by Sara Allgood. I never saw a fiercer love for family in any matriarch and I can only hope I would have half the goods to defend my kin as she did.[/nobr]
[nobr]Sara Allgood's "Beth Morgan" with her littlest son "Hew", the narrator of How Green was my Valley, played by Roddy MacDowell[/nobr]
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As you can see I'm a fan of the sterner/naughtier side of Coop.
Garden of Evil is beautifully photographed western shot in color on location in Mexico and costars Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, and Hugh Marlowe. Coop is stranded with a bunch of ne'er-do-wells (that includes Coop himself) in a seedy little Mexican port when Susan Hayward shows up and asks them to help her rescue her husband (Hugh Marlowe), who's been trapped in their gold mine. She offers them gold if they'll help her and being greedy they agree, each hoping to get her and the whole mine. On the long journey to the mine they all make a play for her except Coop, who by now is showing himself to be far finer in character than the rest of them. I won't give away anymore than that but there is lots of action and the ending does have a bit of twist, so if you get a chance to see it I highly recommend it. Henry Hathaway directed.Miss G
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It's been a while since I've seen The Return of Frank James, so I don't recall many details, just that it was as good as the original, excepting the fact that I miss Tyrone Power's presence. Wish I'd taped it. I will next time it airs on FMC.
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Lol! Good analogy!
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I just did---that is odd.
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I loved The Set-Up, too, and I am huge Robert Ryan fan anyway. Also, I love Sinatra movies and The Manchurian Candidate is a classic.
I was also impressed with the boxing movie TCM aired yesterday---Right Cross. Did anyone see it? I wish now I had recorded it!
Miss G
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[nobr]I do like Jeanne Crain, especially the movies she did with Joe Mankiewicz: A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk. To me, she got prettier as she aged, never so lovely as in the Glen Ford western, The Fastest Gun Alive, and Sinatra's The Joker is Wild.[/nobr]
[nobr]The movie with Jeff Chandler is The Tattered Dress. I've always wanted to see it![/nobr]
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Gene Tierney, alas, died some time ago. Would love to have seen any interview with her.
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Wow, picking just one favorite CG movie is tough for me. I actually have three: Garden of Evil, Man of the West and Saratoga Trunk. They are odd choices, I know, but I find him just fascinating in all three, and if I could I'd slip in The General Died at Dawn, too. :x
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Thank you!
I think the only one on your list, butterscotch, that I haven't seen is Many Rivers to Cross---can you tell me who stars in it? -
Hi Bartlett---another fan of Cinderella Man. I thought that movie was the best thing I'd seen in theaters in a looooong time. I'm not a fan of the sport but for some reason I like boxing movies.
Miss G
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Question 1: I go by "mood", too. The Tamarind Seed, Charade, The Detective, Hard Contract, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, To Catch a Thief, Marnie, Soldier of Fortune, Fate is the Hunter, Angel and the Bad Man and Garden of Evil are among those I tend to watch the most often over the past couple of years. Before that, Audrey Hepburns movies in general got heavy rotation, as well as Marilyn Monroe's films. I still watch them now but not daily like I used to.
Question 2: I cry easily over films but I do prefer to watch tearjerkers by myself, and only if I'm really in the mood. I used to wallow in them, now I try to watch them only occasionally because there's enough to jerk my tears in the news these days. Those that I've watched most often are GWTW, Out of Africa, Waterloo Bridge (Viv's version) and Doctor Zhivago.
Miss G
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[nobr]It's funny how many truly beautiful people can only see their flaws. I have read much of Viv's self-consciousness about her neck and hands and yet she's as graceful as a swan and Hedy was called the "most beautiful woman in the world" and still wasn't convinced. If they didn't have these insecurities we'd be criticizing them for being vain, non?
[/nobr][nobr]The two "misfits", side by side:[/nobr]
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[nobr]Hi there, girl! Sorry it's taken me this long to get to this thread. As you may know, Gary and Miss Vivien Leigh are my two favorite stars of all, so I'm happy to see you want to like Viv (we know you already like Coop!).
Here are a couple of movie suggestions that show a very different Viv to Waterloo, GWTW and Streetcar, and which have not been mentioned:[/nobr][nobr]A Yank at Oxford[/nobr]
[nobr]Maureen O'Sullivan has the nominal leading lady role but Viv steals the whole show as the flirtatious and naughty bookseller's wife, "Elsa Craddock." The part shows her flair for comedy and lightness of touch. Her role may be small, but it's showy.[/nobr]
[nobr]Storm in a Teacup[/nobr]
[nobr]Co-stars Viv with Rex Harrison for the first time in a romantic comedy which one reviewer has described as Ealing meets Capra. Perhaps a shade less stellar than The Sidewalks of London, it's nevertheless charming and a perfect companion to that film.[/nobr]
[nobr]The problem is Viv's British films are hard to find. They were on dvd here a long time ago but only rarely show up on Ebay, etc., however they are on Region 2 and I believe you've said you have an all-region player. I'm planning on getting the R2 dvds myself eventually because I want all of her movies in my collection. She and Gary are the only two I'm really "completist" about.[/nobr]
[nobr]I do want to mention that the movie in which she costarred with Conrad Veidt is actually titled Dark Journey. You should be able to find a PD copy, but the picture isn't always great. She is still cutting her teeth as far as movie acting goes, and so is noticably stiffer than her later parts.[/nobr]
[nobr]Give That Hamilton Woman a try, too, though you may have the same reaction as to GWTW. The character is slightly similar, but she is beyond bewitching and gets to play young-to-old and does so very effectively. Not to mention it's based on the true story of Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson's liason, and a romantic one it is.[/nobr]
[nobr]Happy viewing and let us know what your "final" decision is on Viv![/nobr]
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Viv, Maureen & Robert Taylor in A Yank at Oxford[/nobr]
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I received this press release announcing some details about the 12th Annual Silent Film Festival in San Francisco this July. It will open with Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince of Heidelberg (1927), starring Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro. Any silent film fans living in or near the city by the bay are in for a treat!
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-09-2007/0004561742&EDATE=
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Welcome, Butterscotchgreer! Yes I do think Along Came Jones is a charming film. Did you know it's the one film Gary produced himself?
Miss G
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Probably Gilda, followed by The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
Other favorites:
The Man from Colorado
And So Ends Our Night (amazing movie---very young GF)
Affair in Trinidad
The Sheepman
Of Human Desire
I'm looking forward to seeing The Money Trap---never have before.
Miss G
I think the only one on your list, butterscotch, that I haven't seen is Many Rivers to Cross---can you tell me who stars in it?
who's your favorite character hero/heroin?
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I really do like your choices, too. Jose Ferrer's "Cyrano" just ripped my heart out. Great, great performance. And I think Kate and Duke made an odd couple that truly clicked. She had gumption to spare, that one did, and always the last word!
Miss G