MissGoddess
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> Holy Toledo! You forgot AUDREY HEPBURN and FRED
> ASTAIRE in FUNNY FACE!! Great list, by the way!
You're so right! Actually, I could go on and on with even more great couples.
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That's a fascinating story, and Souls at Sea is one of the films I've been wanting to see the most, along with The Hanging Tree. So which part does Gary play?
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It's a film filled with wonderful scenes like that, which really reveal character.
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I thought this was cute.
http://www.times-news.com/adoptapet/local_story_067095345.html?keyword=topstory
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> I have a couple manic depressive relatives (who don't
> take their meds) and if they acted anything like
> Longfellow, life would be much easier (ha!).
Me too!
That courtroom scene in which the doctors "analyze" Deeds' personality is still so resonant today. So many armchair psychologists would do exactly the same to him today---and instantly put him on some medication that turned him into a zombie. Just because he took things to heart----just because he HAD a heart! Capra was a genius at setting that scenario up, and found his perfect leading man to convey the dilemma of such a creature coming into a ruthless world.
Miss G
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I always loved to sit Indian-style on the floor and listen to my Grandmother or one of our neighbors, a delightful older gentleman, tell stories---or listen as my Mother and her friends talked. I got bored often with the limited subjects my girl friends of my own age spoke about.
Everyone thinks I am an "old soul", so I guess it's a matter of personality. Also, none of my American friends seemed to be encouraged by their parents to mix with adult relatives and friends---there was always a segregation between young and old. I've never thought that is a good thing.
Miss G
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I think he was married four times, but I was wrong in saying Benita was his last wife---that was actually Magda Gabor (Zsa Zsa's sister), whom he divorced. But it seems Benita knew best how to live with him.
Miss G
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I don't care for James Dean's movies except Giant. I don't believe in any "generation gap" as far as I personally am concerned, because I've always gotten along so much better with people older than I, so such films like that of any era don't really talk to me.
I felt that way at 15 and now that I'm in my 30s I still do.
Miss G
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[nobr]The Pooh cartoons are still a favorite of mine, they were so gentle and kindly, more of what we need.
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> I have heard the exact same thing about his suicide.
> However, he left a note, and it doesn't indicate
> that. But, something drove him to it. I doubt
> highly that it was because he was just "bored". Of
> course, he took the real reason to the grave.
I don't believe the boredom note either---it's a cover, as boredom usually is for deep unhappiness and fear. Lots of brilliant people have depressive personalities. Poor thing. He reminds me of Errol Flynn in that aspect, too. Both covered pain with a don't-give-a-hang attitude.
Miss G
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> What did you think of those 80s "coming of age" films
> with the Brat Pack, like THE BREAKFAST CLUB, ST.
> ELMO'S FIRE, PRETTY IN PINK and 16 CANDLES?
To be honest, I couldn't relate to the kids too much in those movies. Growing up for me was very different, mainly because I had an international household---half American half German and spent lots of time between both cultures. I can watch The Breakfast Club now and enjoy it, for the acting and it's really a good script (I think Judd Nelson was very talented) but not the others, no.
I relate more to the older films because my Mom raised me super-strict, the very old fashioned way and so a 1950s (or even 1890s!) home was more like mine than a 1980s or 1990s! Crazy, I know! But that might explain my own kookiness.
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Cinemascope: Are the reviews you posted of a biography of Sanders? Can you tell me the title? Because I have just received A Dreadful Man in the mail and will begin reading it soon. I tried to find Memoirs of a Cad online but it must be a treasure for each copy is more expensive than I want to pay right now, and I cannot locate other bios on him. I love George Sanders and want very much to know more about the "man behind the facade".
One thing I am curious about, it has been said that the death of his last wife, Benita (Ronald Colman's widow) was such a blow and that his suicide may really have been a result of his grief. Has anyone else heard about this?
Thanks,
Miss G
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I thought Duke and Katie made such a cute pair in Rooster and I agree, it is a shame they did not work together before. She always had such nice things to say about working with him....loved a comment she made once about his feet: "He had the tiniest feet for such a big man, and no behind, no behind at all!" Lol! OK, Katie.
Lauren Bacall adored him too. In fact, I've observed that he is one of those rare birds that got along with almost all of his leading ladies, and if you really consider it, he is quite generous in his scenes with them, allowing them the lion's share of the focus. And he just seems to get along so well with them that's it's difficult for me to think of one actress he had no chemistry with at all. Even the most incongruous pairings (Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Kate Hepburn) seemed comfortable. Sophia Loren is the only one I might say didn't quite fit with him, but that may just be the language issue, which she was still mastering.
Miss G
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[nobr]I love this one, let's call it "The long and the short of it..."[nobr]
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Thanks, Cinemascope, for reprinting my post. I can see I didn't express myself clearly enough....
....now to search for a nice John Wayne picture to post so no one can mistake my admiration for the Duke...
Miss G
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Hi Sue-Sue!
I must have really expressed myself poorly in my previous post because I am most absolutely a fan of Duke Wayne and his films. He's given me many hours of pleasure and though The Searchers is such a magnificent mouthful to watch too, too often, I think its a masterpiece.
What I wanted to say was I understand if others just don't get him, especially if they haven't actually sat down and given his films a try. I don't expect everyone to like the same things---even if I think it's impossible not to like Gary Cooper--lol!!! (just kidding).
Miss G
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> For my own sanity, I am thinking based on your
> previous posts in this forum that you do like John
> Wayne and find him to be a good actor.
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> It is Depp, Nicholson and Pitt that you don't
> "cotton" to at all and not the Duke.
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> Do I have that correct?
Oh MY YES I really do love Duke Wayne and most of his movies! I posted earlier about how much I did. Watching him always gives me a shot in the arm of confidence, and that's primarily what draws me to his films over and over.
Miss G
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> Sorry to hear... but look at the bright side, you
> still got Coop!
Oh yes and many, many others including, from today's crop, Russell Crowe so I don't despair! And when these actors, besides Jack who's already there, become really old I might start liking their work more. Nothing's set in stone...
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[nobr]The "manic depressive" kills me but otherwise it's a cool song! Poor Longfellow....[nobr]
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I thankfully finally got this recorded and can't wait to watch it (first time) tonight!! I have heard about Joan's great work as Sadie for years and look forward to forming my own conclusions (I do think Joan was a terrific actress but I also was mightily impressed with Rita's interpretation).
Miss G
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HI CC---I love Capra and any opportunity to see his early, rare films is like finding buried treasure. I'll add my "kudos" to TCM for doing so and hope they continue the good work!
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HI Klondike! I'm a huge fan of Big Bad Bob Mitchum
and I really like Hopper in the few things I've seen outside of PM.Track of the Cat is unlike any western---or anything else---I've yet seen. Peeps might first notice the monchromatic color scheme, with Red being the most common accent color. And this movie presents us with a Beulah Bondi like we've never seen or imagined she could be!
I never knew William Hopper was Hedda's son until this thread. You guys around here are teaching me so much.
Bobby M. is like Alice in Wonderland: when he was good, he was very, very good; but when he was bad he was terrible!!
Miss G
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I can't limit it to just one couple, though "Rhett" and "Scarlett" would be my choice if I am forced to .
Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr in Algiers
William Powell and Kay Francis in One-Way Passage and Jewel Robbery
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
Orson Welles and Joan Fontain in Jane Eyre
Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in Rebecca
Bill Holden and Jennifer Jones in Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Omar Sharif & Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago
Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in Son of Fury and The Razor's Edge
Fred and Ginger in all their movies together.
Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Clark Gable and Ava Gardner in Mogambo
Walter PIdgeon and Maureen O'Hara in How Green Was My Valley
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember
Greer Garson and Ronald Colman in Random Harvest
Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager
Bette Davis and Charles Boyer in All This and Heaven, Too
Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor in Waterloo Bridge
Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights
Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in both Gilda and Affair in Trinidad
Some other screen couples I really believed in:
Omar Sharif and Julie Andrews in The Tamarind Seed
Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood in Kings Go Forth
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in That Hamilton Woman
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in Rio Grande and The Quiet Man
Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carrol in The General Died at Dawn
Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes in A Farewell to Arms
Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan in On Dangerous Ground
Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon
Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in Daddy Long-Legs
Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in An American in Paris
Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan in Gigi
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage
Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn
Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in Arch of Triumph
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious
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I also would point out that the Gary in Morocco is one you may not have seen before. You know about Marlene's insolence, but he's just as insolent as she is, if not more! There is very little trace of the sweetness we've come to glimmer in even his darkest, later roles. It just shows what his skills were, that he could play a seriously commitment-phobic, ne'er-do-well along with his more traditionally heroic guys. But he does it with lightness, he's never heavy in the role.
I'm excited for you to see it!
Miss G
How To Steal A Million (1966)
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I have the vhs but will be getting the dvd eventually. One of my favorite 60s romantic comedies. Peter and Audrey are tres charmantes...I think Audrey did more to drum up tourism for Paris than probably any other actress.
I think TCM did air this once because I remember Robert Osbourne talknig about it.
Miss G