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45 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
I hope she does, the one I own is pretty crappy.
I started to read this book years ago, but never got very far into it. So it's not very good? I'm always reading several books at a time and I never picked it back up (a library book, had to return it after awhile).
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23 minutes ago, cigarjoe said:
Noir enough for me. Gloria, Vittorio Gassman, You got an alien obsessed with finding a sponsor New York City circa 1950s and Jack Teagarden
Jack Teagarden
What year was this made? I've never seen or heard of it. Columbia?
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Just now, ElCid said:
Nope. Never.
Wow.
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4 minutes ago, nakano said:
I presume she is the equivalent of Robert Osborne (he has made a few films) I guess. but he did ok as a host!😉 i think she was good with Eddie,she is not an historian and Mueller is not as well but he is knowledgeable.You do not need Jeanine Basinger to have a conversation for 5 minutes, a very good articulated fan can do it also . Delany was there as a fan that's all.
Yes, that's true. You need to be presentable and know how to talk for 5 mins. on a subject and have some knowledge of what you are talking about.
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1 minute ago, ElCid said:
May have misinterpreted the intent of your "getting younger" statement. The comment re: an army of old men was in reference to all the criticisms of Delaney re: her knowledge base, appearance, age, etc. which no one ever seems to make about all the ugly, old men that TCM has used in the same context.
I said she wrote an article and maybe more, not a book. Maybe now she will. However, I have never read a book on any motion picture or TV person nor do I intend to. Too many far more enjoyable things to read.
You've never read a book about a movie or any biography about a star?
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30 minutes ago, ElCid said:
Did I say she was an "expert"? Does someone have to write a book to be an expert? Do they have to be book writer and expert to appear as a TCM host or co-host/presenter? How many TCM hosts, including Robert Osborne, wrote books about the people they discussed and/or presented movies featuring them?
As someone noted above, she wrote a lengthy article for the Film Noir Foundation magazine about Graham and possibly more.
Suffice it to say, Eddie Muller thought she was knowledgeable enough and articulate enough and interesting enough to be a presenter/co-host on Gloria Graham. I certainly think so.
Obviously not, from the people appearing on TCM lately!
But then it's almost always been this way on TCM. There's usually some sort of tie in or something they want to sell......
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So Delany is a writer now and a Grahame expert? Has she written a bio of Grahame?
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11 minutes ago, nakano said:
Gloria Grahame died on october 5th 1981 so i guess the Noir Alley of the weekend of Glass Wall is for the 40th anniversary,I think Delany hosted a week if not more.She is not a film star now but then TCM could have asked people who knew Grahame well and are alive like her son Timothy still alive at 73,whatever... the budget is gone anyway...
She was NEVER a film star, though she did appear in some movies. (Delany)
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Just curious, what cast members were in the final episode?
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16 hours ago, mr6666 said:
You'd think they could've come up with a longer (and better) tribute than that!
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1 hour ago, nakano said:
She was a host 2 or 3 years ago,nobody complained why she was there.She looks great so what? As for Eddie 'falling,'for her, he surely knows she playS for the other team..She will be back for The Glass Wall in 2 weeks so more eye candy.If the Gloria Grahame thing is so important they could have flown in Peter Turner from the UK (Grahame last boyfriend for several years) but TCM will not do it,they petered out their budget on lousy graphics and bad other things.
She's a LESBIAN? I guess I missed her previous hosting. Nothing else to do, I guess........Thanks for The Glass Wall warning. I'll skip it.
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Thanks for the heads up! I haven't seen the film in years. Scott was great in that.
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My question too. WHY was she there? Eddie must be in love with her.
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I didn't like the music that was added to the film.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
daaaaaaaaaaaaamn though, i just went to amazon.com to look up some books in re: the making of the show (especially BARNABAS AND COMPANY) and DAMN they are ALL SO EXPENSIVE- most start at $30 (second hand!) and go up from there.
I know. Not cheap!
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4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
OH MY!!!!!!
I just realized I have made a goof, it is LEE BEERY who plays JOANNA (very badly). not DONNA McKETCHNIE (they look similar and are both heavily made up)
Poor Donna! Unfairly maligned.
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18 hours ago, ElCid said:
Neither my wife nor I was overly impressed with Ford in this movie. He did a good enough job, but I much prefer him in movies such as Plunder of the Sun and Affair in Trinidad. Affair in Trinidad is sort of a repairing of Ford and Hayworth from Gilda, but with a different story. I like it better than Gilda. Plunder is based on the book by David Dodge which I read before I saw the movie. It was (is?) available from Hard Case Crime. If you like Noir, crime, mystery movies, Hard Case is a good place to find books of the same type, especially the earlier publications.
As for Human Desire, I would give it a 2/5. I am a train buff and I often found the trains and rail operations more entertaining than the movie. It appears the trains they used were actually Southern Pacific with the name changed to Central National which does not sound like a real railroad of the period.
No doubt, it was Grahame's movie and she did a lot with her part. Somehow I just couldn't believe most of the premise of the movie. And Kathleen Case was totally ignored by Ford no matter how hard she threw herself at him. Yet he falls totally for Grahame - until the end of the movie. Crawford was OK, but seemed like they needed to develop his character more. Sends his wife off to see the man he thinks she has been having an affair with so she can get his job back and then beats her up and gets her to help him murder the guy. A bit of a stretch for me, no matter how crazy he might have been.
Grahame has been a lot of movies, but I like her most in Macao and In a Lonely Place, although she does really well whenever they gave her the chance.
His part wasn't very well written. He falls for Grahame without much motivation, then does a complete 180 at the end also without much development.
Yeah, Crawford was another script failure. Grahame does what he wants (though she doesn't want to) then he punishes her for it! The original film was much better.
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On 9/18/2021 at 10:45 PM, Moe Howard said:
Eddie appears smitten, even a fresh paint job on that clip job hairdo.
Does he have the hots for her or what? How does she rate a slot on Noir Alley? I refused to watch her intros/outros. A tv actress whose career was 25 years ago.
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On 9/18/2021 at 5:58 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
I lost 5 lbs just watching it.......
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On 9/16/2021 at 7:07 PM, Roy Cronin said:
Poor Philip Todd. Trapped in a loveless marriage in a small dump in rural Maine. God knows where the nearest disco was, and cruising The Blue Whale was probably off limits.
At least there were antiques.
He'd have to travel to Bangor or Portland for some nightlife. (On wknds Boston?)
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On 9/17/2021 at 3:58 PM, alleybj said:
She won a Tony for best actress for it!
There was some controversy about her winning in that category. It was really a featured player role.
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13 minutes ago, King Rat said:
Yes, it's remarkable, isn't it?
YES.
But then it's almost always been this way on TCM. There's usually some sort of tie in or something they want to sell......
I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS
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I see. Many of the original cast or early cast. I remember watching it, but not much about it except for Vicki (a new actress playing her) and her boyfriend.