MissGoddess
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Funny! But I really like this movie, I thought the acting was good and it kept me on the edge of my seat. But then, what I don't know about airplanes and survival tactics outside the mean streets of a big city would fill an airplane!
Miss G
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So she's the gal who snagged good-looking Glen Langan! What a lovely pair they made.
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Well, I can't quite warm to the '66 version though I have tried. Maybe if I hadn't seen the original masterpiece I could enjoy it more. It's hard for me not to make comparisons in my head when I'm watching remakes. However I have heard several people say they like the '66 version a lot, so you certainly do have company.
I'll keep giving it chances.
Miss G
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> While FMC rarely shows these films, I'm holding my
> breath until a Paul Douglas box set is issued!
> Okay, how about a Linda Darnell box set? Hey,
> I'm turning blue...
It would be just elegant if they could do both.
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Hi Moira,
Nice analysis of the Douglas/Darnell chemistry and why it worked so well. I happen to be a big fan of movies featuring love stories between (superficially) oddly matched couples, and they are one of my favorties in that group.
I hope the Fox Movie Channel airs those other two movies or that they turn up one day on dvd because I am dying to see them.
Miss G
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore by Gene Fowler
Print the Legend and Pappy: The Life of John Ford by Scott Eyman and Dan Ford, respectively
Bio of Robert Mitchum, Baby, I Don't Care, by Lee Server (hilarious)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn (best Hollywood autobio ever)
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming (2nd best Hollywood autobio)
Gary Cooper Off Camera by Maria Cooper Janis
Yul Brynner: Photographer by Victoria Brynner
The Moon's A Ballon and Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven
This Is Orson Welles: by Peter Bogdanovich (also recommend his "Who the Devil...Made it?" and ....Was In It?" books)
Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man by Patricia Hitchcock
Truffaut: Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut
HItchcock's Notebooks by Daniel Auilier
Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming
Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz by Kenneth L. Geist
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Your story is lovely and sounds so John Wayne. It's the kind of thing I'd have expected him to do.
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Thank you!!
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I'm pea green! I'd love to have both! I like the "animated" ones. They should have one with a "ski nose" for Bob Hope, and one that blows kisses for Marilyn.
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That's so nice, Jim! I would like to have met him, too. :x
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Oh my! That's Philip Carey? See what I mean about how bad I am at putting names to faces. He was sooooooo cute back then and now I remember seeing him in soaps---never would have known it was the same guy. Thank you.
Miss G
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[nobr]LOL![/nobr]
[nobr]You mean like this?[/nobr]
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[/nobr][nobr] Darling Clark! I still love you. *big kiss*[/nobr]
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Ha! I love that little "smiley", Mrs. C!
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Once again, a great post, Moira. You perfectly captured in words what I noticed first off about Whispering Smith---it's look was so different from many other westerns I had seen. The sets may have been used before and the scenery, too, but to me they looked brand new and their images have stayed with me.
I don't think I realized until you pointed out that that was Frank Faylen under those peroxided locks! Good grief, what a turn from the genial taxi driver in Capra's movie. He was downright creepy.
Miss G
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Well said, and very true, Anne.
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I can't imagine Johnny Carson asking such a question either---he was too discreet about direct, personal questions like that.
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[nobr]He certainly seemed like a gentleman, and that is the most attractive quality of all![/nobr]
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Oh, that story about Kirk's letter brought a tear to my eye! I think I will never forget that and look forward to watching Lonely Are the Brave again with it in mind. And by the way, it's my favorite Kirk Douglas movie, too!
Miss G
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Those are some winsome pictures of Gary in "disguise"! He really was a character!
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This is by far and away the most impressive thing I've so far read that Cooper ever said and I believe it myself down to my toe-tips:
"I don't like to see exagerated airs and exploding egos in people who are already established. No player ever rises to prominence solely on talent. They're molded by forces other than themselves. They should remember this -- and at least twice a week drop to their knees and thank Providence for elevating them from cow ranches, dimestore ribbon counters and bookkeeping desk." Gary Cooper
It should be engraved on every actor's forehead. Thanks for sharing it, Dan.
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That's one of my all-time favorite shots of him. *sigh*
You and I both could hijack it but we'll, ahem, restrain ourselves!
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I used to do lots of "extra" work when I was pursuing acting---it was OK in L.A. but I did it a couple of times in NY and then said "No more!" because of the cold! It's one thing to wait around for hours in sunshine, and quite another in freezing weather. I've seen Miss Congeniality a couple of times---cute movie! William Shatner was so cute back in his Trek-days. He also starred in one of my favorite "Twilight Zone" epies, about the airplane troll.
Miss G
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RE: High Tech Noon
FUNNY!!
And the "music video" version of High Noon was good, too---TCM could use it as a promo.
No wonder YouTube is being seriously sued, but some very creative things show up there.
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Will do!
The Blue Dahlia - R2 DVD
in Film Noir--Gangster
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*sigh*. I may just have to "bite the bullet" and order this, since it never turns up on TCM and it's my favorite noir, along with Laura and On Dangerous Ground. I agree with dvdbeaver that is crying out for a commentary by someone knowledgeable, like Eddie M.
I don't understand all these conflicting "Region" releases.
Miss G