Fedya
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> I only watched the intro for The Painted Veil and my only thought was that George Brent sure got around. His leading ladies must have loved him.
I'd think they would have like that he appeared so bland and non-threatening on screen. It would allow them to shine. :-)
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> That's what I'd like to see---- a woman subbing for RO coming off as a real femme fatale-----sort of like the Jane Greer character in OUT OF THE PAST.
That would be Rose McGowan, who I think was compared to Jane Greer when she picked *Out of the Past* as a Guest Programmer (or maybe it was as part of her stint on The Essentials ).
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Elisha Cook could have married the sister of one of Monroe's parents. Then they wouldn't come from the same gene pool.
Elisha Cook also played an elevator operator in *Love Crazy* if memory serves.
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No votes for Eugene Pallette? ;-)
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> Besides, Friday is best because of a possible 13th in a month.
Actually, there's a 13th every month. :-p
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> Sorry, but THE ultimate Oscar heist was the year Judy Garland's performance in "A Star Is Born" lost to Grace Kelly's in "The Country Girl."
Dorothy Dandridge in *Carmen Jones* was better.
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I think it was Robert Montgomery that made *They Were Expendable* work. If memory serves, Ford was treating Wayne pretty badly for not fighting in World War II until Montgomery told him to knock it off. And of course, Montgomery also handled some of the directing duties (due, I think, to Ford falling ill).
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I like how Regis Toomey walks in on Richard Barthelmess in Fay Wray's apartment early in the morning, and doesn't get the significance of it. :-)
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Just a nitpick, Bingfan, but I believe *Night Train to Munich* aired on TCM back in June as part of a night of movies about Nazi espionage, along with some Hollywood films and also the British (at least, I think they're British; the cast and crew is a bunch of British names) movies *Odette* and *The Yellow Canary*. Those were on the schedule in the overnight hours so I didn't get to see them.
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When they're engaging in political rent-seeking, then yes they annoy me.
I like to comment on more political boards that we give Big Government enormous power to muck up our lives, and that the obvious consequence is that people will go to great lengths to ensure that this power is used to muck up somebody else's life. Suggest that perhaps the proper solution is for Big Government not to have such power, and watch people (of most political stripes) go nuts.
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I don't see *The Fountainhead* as that much different from *Heroes for Sale* in that Gary Cooper's character destroys "his" intellectual property since it's being used for purposes he expressly forbade, while in *Heroes for Sale* the Richard Barthelmess character leads a mob that destroys the laundry equipment because Barthlemess' invention was used to cut jobs against his stated wishes. *Heroes for Sale* even ends with some really blunt propaganda.
Now, up until the propaganda in the last five minutes or so, *Heroes for Sale* isn't that bad a movie, while *The Fountainhead* is burdened by a lousy screenplay -- Ayn Rand wasn't a screenwriter. But nobody ever seems to have any problems with the politicalness of *Heroes for Sale*, probably because it doesn't have a message that's fashionable to bash.
As for the novel *The Fountainhead*, Rand actually has a pretty brilliant demolition of modern art that wouldn't have translated well to the screen, and the part about Ellsworth Toohey's putting all his acolytes into key positions in the Wynand empire is very prescient of how people of a certain political stripe have come to dominate academia and much of the media.
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> By the way, I am not looking for sympathy or pity with this next comment.
Good, because you're not going to get any from me. :-p
> For all of you who are complaining about Carole Lombard not being a good actress at least you were able to see her films on Sunday August 28. I was all set to watch "20th Century", "My Man Godfrey", and "To Be or Not To Be" in Massachusetts when Irene decided to visit and nixed those plans causing an electrical outage which lasted until Monday mid-morning August 29.
I lost power Sunday morning at 10:45 AM and didn't get it back until 9:15 AM this morning, or just over 46 hours. And I'm one of the lucky ones. I've got a generator to keep the food in the fridge from going bad, and didn't suffer anything like this:
http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2011/08/29/news/doc4e5b2003d5bc7498646892.txt
That's about 30 miles to the north of me. And click through the pictures.
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> If I can amend that statement and say "stars you would have liked to have seen together MORE," then I'd say our amazing stars of today's offering, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable could have used a scene together in *Wife vs. Secretary*.
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Frankie Fane and Lylah Clare. :-)
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> Granted, there is a whole gteneration now that may be aware of certain spoilers if only owing to the parodies of them on shows such as THE SIMPSONS which had probably revealed more than any other show to which I've been exposed. My younger son knew of the Darth Vader thing and the Soylent Green revelation long before he ever saw the films.
I always get a kick out of the Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa find an "alternate ending" reel to *Casablanca* (Hitler is hiding in Sam's piano, and when he pops up after Victor and Ilsa's plane takes off, Ilsa parachutes down to end the Hitler threat).
> As he grew older, he got used to certain dramatic devices and he realized less than 30 minutes into THE SIXTH SENSE exactly what the outcome was going to be. I knew before the opening credits rolled. No brag, it's just like anyone familiar with MURDER, SHE WROTE after a dozen episodes could find that innocuous line of dialogue early on that would be a key factor in the outcome later.
Jessica Fletcher killed all those people, and used her powers as a mystery writer to get all those other people to confess. :-)
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I thought the whole portion with the Dwight Powell character made no sense. How was Robert Wagner going to know where he was going to meet Ellen? And how was Wagner able to get back to the dorm room before them?
I didn't notice the Sony card at the end, but there was a modern MGM card (one with the URL) at the beginning.
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I don't like *clore*. :-p
Oh wait a second; that's not what you were asking. At least I was just kidding anyhow. And it's OK if you don't like me either. :-)
BTW: Only one of the two posters is showing up. Unless you didn't actually want to tell us which movie poster you didn't like. Based on the second one you posted, I'd guess it's one for a movie with titles designed by Saul Bass, but I wouldn't know which. *The Man With the Golden Arm* ?
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I always figured Tom told Ransom a white lie: Ransom didn't like the idea of killing, to Tom claimed he was off in the wings to make Ransom believe Tom actually did it in order to assuage Ransom's conscience.
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> I mostly appreciate seeing 30s and 40s films because a lot of them have been out of circulation for years and I like seeing ones that I've read about and have never had the chance to see. *These films all pre-date me as i was born in 1951.*
For some reason, this last line reminded me of the scene in *The Thin Man* (oh no, another 1930s movie!) when one of Edward Ellis' kids was telling the police the missing father was a sexagenarian, and the police thinking they can't print that!
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> The "D" is silent, but a sound is added between the "r" and the "a" that isn't represented by a letter? Nothing like having a stage name that's so easy for the public to deal with.
Ann may have suggested the D be silent, but it's not silent for Czechs who have the surname. Wikipedia has an audio file of the pronunciation of Anton?n Dvoř?k's name here:
Heck, Ann could have been a jokester and said that "Dvorak" should be pronounced "Smith".
The "extra sound" is just a case of a foreign letter being used to represent a sound we don't have in English. I was a Russian major in college and so only have a passing acquaintance with the basic structure of other Slavic languages, but the Czech Ř is, as I understand it, roughly a Slavic R (which is a vocal flap rather different from the English R) plus a "zh" sound all rolled into one. This also means it can start words and come after consonants to make wonderful tongue twisters. Note that Wikipedia's article on Czech phonology () helpfully points out that the Czech Ř is pronounced differently from R?, in which the ? is the "zh" sound.
If you think about the English letter J as in names like John and James, it represents two sounds, which takes other languages more than one letter to represent.
Edited by: Fedya on Aug 9, 2011 8:44 PM
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> BTW, we thought Mr Arkadin was terrible. Trippy weird, disjointed, non capturing story. You missed nothing.
But Welles was an auteur ! And it's not his fault the money-men wanted him to stick to a deadline. Don't you know that their taking artistic control from him automatically makes his work genius?
I didn't care for *Mr. Arkadin* either, and it seems to me that too many people heap too much praise on some filmmakers just because they spent so much of the studios' resources re-re-re-re-editing movies that the studios took artistic control.
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I had a downpour that cut the satellite signal during the last TCM Vault ad before *College Coach*, and missed half of that. :-(
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Orson Welles plays a Nazi in *The Stranger*, which is showing as part of his SUTS day on Monday.
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According to Wikipedia (take it with as many grains of salt as you would anything else from Wikipedia):
> Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest: "My name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent. I have had quite a time with the name, having been called practically everything from Balzac to Bickelsrock."
And don't try to pronounce the Czech Ř (Ann's name isn't Czech; she was born McKim), which is nigh on impossible for non-native speakers. :-)
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> All I can think is it must be his delivery people don't take a shine to.
I thought he was speaking too fast.