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I'd seen it before. It was ok. I didn't get how a vampire could walk around in the daylight.
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On 6/16/2021 at 6:07 AM, Bogie56 said:
Thursday, June 17
Ralph Bellamy birthday tribute
6 a.m. Picture Snatcher (1933). I was reading in James Cagney’s autobiography of how he and Ralph Bellamy became lifelong friends.
SNOOZE. He was in some good movies but NOT because he was in them!
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1 hour ago, Stallion said:
I am not quite sure but I asked my wife and we both think a soft "g" is used. That's not to say there isn't variations with Hispanics, since we know all people don't pronounce it the same. All I can say is I have primarily heard a soft "g" used but I think people around here mainly say L.A.
Interesting. Thanks.
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16 hours ago, Stallion said:
I have been born and raised and spent my whole life near L.A. I generally hear and use L.A., but if we were to say the whole word it would be Los An-gel-es.
Do Spanish speaking people pronounce it with a Hard G???
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15 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Yes! You want a whole separate thread or Yes! discuss it here?
A whole separate thread!
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Nothing that I havent seen before umpteen times. I might tune in to Paleface depending on the time and what else is on. Outlaw is terrible. There probably will be a book tie in.
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5 hours ago, Dargo said:
Well, I suppose people can pronounce it anyway they want Hibi, but you'll never hear it being pronounced in that "old fashioned" manner much anymore at all.
(...I've heard, but don't know if it's really true, that the way Jack Webb pronounced it during his opening narration of his original Dragnet series, "This is the city...'Los AN-gel-us', California", went a long way toward "codifying" its pronunciation throughout the country)
It makes sense to me to pronounce Angeles like Angel with the soft G. Hearing it pronounce with a hard G in ANGLEles just sounds weird. Was wondering if it was the time period or what.
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2 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
Indeed they did, and Mr. Coward was not pleased...
Thought so.......
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4 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Blithe Spirit (1945) TCM 8/10
A man and his wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
A first time viewing for me, I loved it. Noel Coward brings his acerbic wit to this version of his play. It was well directed by David Lean, prior to his becoming known for his epics. Rex Harrison is at his witty best and Constance Cummings is fine as his exasperated current wife. Kay Hammond is deliciously catty as the ghost. Margaret Rutherford steals every scene she is in as the eccentric medium who contacts the spirit. The humor is surprisingly adult for the 1940s. The final gag is hilarious, and ends in kind of a ghostly ménage a trois!
Did they change the ending for the film? I don't remember the play ending that way (saw it many years ago at a community theater). I was disappointed in the film version (finally saw earlier this year). It wasnt as funny as the play version I saw.
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43 minutes ago, Millenniumman said:
Aired on tcm .
They air it quite a lot, considering its Paramount. Not sure how long its been since the last time. Seems to be on every couple years. (Sunset Blvd.)
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43 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Okay. I just now finished watching my recording of Walk a Crooked Mile, and first let me say that it reasonably held my interest for the entirety of it.
Secondly, I thought all the acting in it, and yes even Dennis O'Keefe's, was pretty good.
But thirdly AND perhaps most importantly...GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST!!! Did I hear Perry White, okay, actually actor John Hamilton who played the editor of The Daily Planet newspaper in the '50s TV program 'The Adventures of Superman' and who played the head of the FBI field office in San Francisco in this movie, pronounce the name of Los Angeles as "Los ANGLE-les" in this flick???!!! HELL, He's playin' the head of the FBI field office in San Francisco for cryin' out loud, NOT some damn HICK!!!
(...have I mentioned this sort'a thing has always grated on my ears???...oh, I HAVE?...never mind then)
LOL
I've noticed Los Angeles pronounced this way sometimes in old films. Can it be pronounced both ways? (Tomato; Tomahto?)
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16 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
Well its a Noir. Where else better to discuss it. Would you rather we started a whole separate thread?
YES!
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She looks incredible!
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2 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I never knew that! Will have to check it out. Thanks!
Yeah, I can't remember who he wanted but Universal overruled him...
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44 minutes ago, noah80 said:
looking forward to reading Olson's memoir "A Front Row Seat" (especially the part about JFK)
Is that a recent picture???
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All shown to death on TCM.......
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18 hours ago, noah80 said:
‘Sunset Blvd.’ Turns 70: Nancy Olson on Wilder, Holden and Why She Walked Away From Stardom
The 91-year-old, who was Oscar-nominated for her portrayal of a script reader who falls in love with a kept man, looks back on the film that she says "haunts my entire life."
Thanks for this article! Really enjoyed reading it.
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On 6/9/2021 at 4:00 AM, Bogie56 said:
Thursday, June 10/11
4:15 a.m. The Shadow on the Window (1957). Juvenile delinquent pix.
This one stunk also.
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16 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Tonight we've got SABOTEUR -- I'm fairly certain Hitch wanted Bob Cummings and Priscilla Lane as the romantic leads because of their all-American looks/personas which was needed in the story. (and interestingly -- but inexplicably in my view -- cast him twelve years later as Grace Kelly's mystery writer lover in DIAL M FOR MURDER) Otto Kruger is a wonderful villain. Effectively sinister, especially interacting with both Cummings and the grandchild -- "No, no, Susie!" That cottage scene with Lane's blind uncle always reminds me of THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, lol.
YES!
16 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:There's one particularly brilliant scene depicting the banality of evil -- those traitors in their car (including old Clem Bevans) singing "Tonight We Love" in droning, emotion-less voices. They sound like the pod people in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
And, in that same car, wrapping up a character's pathology in less than five minutes, who can forget Alan Baxter's chillingly monotone speech as he describes the way his mother liked to keep his golden locks long and flowing as a child.
No, actually he didn't want them (can't remember who he wanted for the parts). They were forced on him by Universal.
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19 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Apparently Nancy is 92, going on 93.
WOW
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1 hour ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I just saw this for the first time and was a bit disappointed. I am a big fan both Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole and William Wyler is one of my favorite directors. I found it slow moving and not as funny as I was hoping. Hepburn and O'Toole do have some good chemistry and would have liked to see them together again in something better. It was interesting seeing Eli Wallach at around the same time he made The Good The Bad And The Ugly. The best scene for me was the ingenious way O'Toole was able to get a hold of a key to get out of a locked broom closet.
Yes, the film is rather slow going before the plot kicks in and relies too much on the charisma of its stars. I noticed this more this time around. I kept thinking this type of movie wouldnt have been made a few years later once the 60's movie revolution kicked in. It was one of the last of its kind. I still enjoy it though. It was really the last of Audrey's clothes horse films. (Dressed to the nines in every scene) I don't count the execrable Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline made in the late 70s) In her last 2 films in 67. Audrey dressed down. No Givenchy.
It's never explained what sort of job Audrey has in the film (she mentions she has one, but you never see her working). She must've been making big bucks to afford those outfits!
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38 minutes ago, noah80 said:
Last year marked the 60th anniversary of Pollyanna. Only two actors are left from the film. (That's Nancy Olson)
Wow. Nancy must be pretty old!
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Well, what IS the Spanish pronunciation?