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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
LMREO!!!!
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Everyone drank sherry at Liz's place. WTH?
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1 hour ago, laffite said:
He was flawed from the start. Guilt complex. He DID look at the money but his mind saw $150,000 instead of $150 due to delusions of grandeur. He took a few drinks and a had a lambent drinking problem that transformed into alcoholic psychosis. The psychologist wasn't real. She was in his mind, the agent of his guilt. His young wife was a realistic reality check for him, but also an angel. She restored him to sanity by bringing him down, then rescued him at the end. He will not go back on the con because the whole affair has become a nightmare. Nightmare Alley.
The shrink was in his mind? Are you serious?
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23 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
Bump. I saw a Judi Dench joke on another thread that was just hilarious.
Presenting RETURN OF THE JUDI!
LOL! I missed this thread title (and thread)!
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I'm curious if the remake will be a period piece or updated. You don's see carnivals around much anymore. Or nightclub mind reading acts.........
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15 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:
Her professional acting name was Shirley Grayson (born Shirley Grossman.)
Story is Sam always called her "Grayson" so she just changed to Grayson Hall. I sort of like it.
They were married at the time of her death.
I see. Thanks.
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16 hours ago, DougieB said:
A SUTS day of Dorothy Dandridge would have satisfied me too. Then they might have gone the extra mile to secure Porgy and Bess to help fill the 24 hours. What I objected to was your graceless and, even more unlike you, humorless dismissal of her popularity. I stand behind the idea that your personal obsession has turned you into a bit of a mean girl on the particular subject of Star of the Month. As soon as I saw it was Lucille Ball, my first thought was that Hibi's not going to like this. And then right on cue....
Please, TCM gods, give the woman what she wants and honor Joan Bennett.
I was being sarcastic. (I thought that was obvious) I'm sure she has more than a hundred fans. But her lack of film output doesn't qualify her for SOTM, over say, Lillian Gish???? I'm sure TCM was using this as a "teaching" moment, but I resented it greatly. A SUTS day would have been more appropriate or a night of her best films (which I think they've done already). It's not just JOAN BENNETT, it's all the other worthy stars who are STILL waiting for SOTM status that TCM ignores. And, YES, it does p- me off when they honor someone like Lucy (whom I don't dislike) 3 Times for this. But she's just on example. TCM will do what it wants to do, but that doesn't mean I HAVE TO LIKE IT!
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10 hours ago, Katie_G said:
The more I think about Nightmare Alley 2021 remake, it seems like a bad idea. Supposedly it's due out Dec.2, but there's no buzz at all. I picture a PC watered down version.
They're releasing this for Christmas??? LOL!
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14 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Cleo Moore made somewhat of a splash in the film On Dangerous Grounds (Ray directed Lupino\Ryan film), and Columbia signed her to a contract since blonde bombshells were at item in the early 50s.
What is surprising is that Columbia signed Haas to direct films allowing him to produce, write, direct and act in them.
OVERACT. LOL.
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34 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
i came across two interviews on youtube yesterday, i'm not going to post either one though.
one was with ROGER DAVIS and he is EVERY BIT the JACKASS you would think and then some. he brags about "giving our lady director Hell" and throwing the script at her, and deliberately blocking his costars prompters and stepping on their lines- and he is proud and gleeful about all of this. i had forgotten how much you can really come to dislike certain actors on soaps when you see them day in and day out, now that i see what a terrible person he is in real life, he has scored a perfect trifecta for zero sex appeal, complete lack of acting skill, and being an awful actual person for me.
the other was with (head writer) SAM HALL and I was surprised at how DREADFULLY DULL he was to listen to, but moreso by how he went out of his way to badmouth GRAYSON [paraphrase]; "I learned, for example, you can never end a scene with a reaction shot from GRAYSON, because she doesn;t understand, she gives you LILLIAN GISH" and he clearly means this in a bad way, and I was p!ssed on behalf of both GRAYSON and LILLIAN...But the real clinker is when he says (and I paraphrase here) "DAN CURTIS could've saved the show early on. I came to him and I said, you gotta kill JULIA- we need to find someone else to protect the vampire...she can't be the only person who knows."
i'll give you all a minute to let that sink in.
thank GOD DAN CURTIS did not listen to this suggestion and I kinda sorta hope he slipped GRAYSON the name of a good divorce lawyer.
WOW. He really dug the knife deep! Did they get divorced when the show ended? LOL. I think he was describing her in silent acting terms. (Grayson) Who names a girl GRAYSON? Was that her real name?
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Also LARA PARKER May have learned a thing or two researching witchcraft for the role, because she has aged extremely well.
EXTREMELY.
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
There are quite a few who are with us still though, (unfortunately one of them is Roger Davis)
I always thought he was cute. I liked his voice/accent too.
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10 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
One of my favorite things about the pre-Barnabas episodes (I actually like them quite a bit) are the scenes at The Blue Whale --- especially Carolyn's dancing.
WOW. They had more than 5 people in that scene!!! I guess extras don't count?
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3 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
He was bricked up in 1795. He had descendants, his great-great grandson Gregory in 1897. Lamar Trask of 1840 was 1795's son (apparently he was still in his mommy's tummy waiting to be born when his daddy met his gruesome fate behind the wall).
I see! And they all looked like twins!
Tragic!
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4 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
MOVIES-TV has been showing many of the Hugo Haas produced\directed\staring in films that feature Cleo Moore.
Strange Fascination is the 1st one they did.
Was she his muse or something? LOL.
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22 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I always loved it when Trask (any of them, 1795, 1897, 1840) went into their long winded speeches about The Devil and his wicked ways!
Wasn't Trask bricked up in 1797? How did he come back in the other eras? (I've forgotten)
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9 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:
Of course, I also owned the LP.
My favorite was "Number 1 at The Blue Whale" which was the B side of the "Quentin's Theme" 45.
The Blue Whale Song! They never seemed to have anything else on the jukebox!!!
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6 minutes ago, scsu1975 said:
In case no one posted this yet:
Jerry Lacy was a good actor. He had a lot of long speeches on that show.
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5 minutes ago, scsu1975 said:
In case no one posted this yet:
HILARIOUS!!!
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On 8/22/2021 at 11:20 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
in retrospect, 1897 went on too long, had too many plot cul-de-sacs and too many unresolved issues. but damned if it wasn't compelling- and it was interesting the way ANGELIQUE developed layers as she was forced into helping people, which was admittedly not her strong suit.
I've said before that there was no (intentional) humor to be found in the plotlines of DARK SHADOWS, but damned if the (somewhat underwritten and not-fully explained) POSSESSION OF CHARITY TRASK by PANSY was a HOOT and I wish she'd been used more. I also 100% understand all the affection for NANCY BARRETT voiced in this thread. If this storyline was done again, she needed to have a much fuller, longer presence throughout it.
Don't forget, Quentin's Theme became a Top 40 hit! And resulted in a whole LP of Dark Shadows music. (I bought it! LOL) They wanted Quentin front and center as long as possible
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59 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
CigarJoe pointed out several posts back that the studio was in a refurbished, stripped down lumberyard.
And they almost burned it down at least once
LOL! Nothing but the best for Dan Curtis!
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1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
it's apartment buildings now. same as the site of the studio in BROOKLYN where they filmed ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ANOTHER WORLD.
Progress! Cant believe the studio was just 2 stories (from the video posted) I expected it to be much bigger than that. Wonder why it wasnt filmed in Brooklyn with the other ABC soaps?
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I always wondered why there were so few cast member in an episode. DS had so few cast members compared to normal soaps. Then there'd only be a handful in each episode!
That studio location looks a bit seedy too. LOL. What's there now, does anyone know? Does ABC still own it/use it?
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40 minutes ago, cmovieviewer said:
Sorry to say that the premiere of Strange Fascination (1952) may be the first casualty of the schedule, as Cat People (1942) is currently listed during the Noir Alley times for the weekend of Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 instead.
That didn't take long!
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Tragic! 
I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS
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Barnabas wasn't an easy guy to live with!