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21 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
John Hamm is certainly a handsome man. As for that other, er, attribute, I haven't heard. ( but I believe you if you've heard that rumour.)
However, it is definitely implied about John Hamm's character Don Draper in "Mad Men".
LOL. i never watched that series and am sorry now I didnt. I also find him attractive.
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4 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Apparently George S .Kaufman belonged to that club too. (I'm surprised that part of your post got past the OTTOCensor.)
Yes, me too! Censor must've taken the day off. I have also heard that John Hamm is in that "club"! Also Forrest Tucker (I STILL would've turned him down!)
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24 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Bronxgirl, thanks for getting back to me re. actors you think are attractive. I do apologize (hey, I'm Canadian !) for not responding to your post above sooner, didn't have a chance to go on this site til today.
Well, if I've never said it before, I'll say it now: I love the way you write. You have a breezy but very literate, hugely entertaining style that often makes me laugh out loud (literally.) I know you sometimes take breaks from this website....maybe that's why I never noticed til now how much fun your posts are.
Anyway....We agree that it's Bug's wit (he was witty ) and as you say, irreverence, that is appealing. But yeah, it just wouldn't work for us (either of us)- if it's not the inter-speciesism, it's the animated vs real. (I'm guessing, if you had a crush on a cartoon character who was at least human, it might be Clutch Cargo?? )
You're right, I was wondering about Alan Ladd. I find him more interesting than he's often given credit for. I actually think he's quite sexy (although, yes, a tad scary) in This Gun for Hire. I love the scene with him and Veronica Lake hiding out in that train shed - the fact that they don't "do" anything only makes it more erotic. On the other hand, I can understand if someone found Mr. Ladd a little on the bland side.
I like William Powell, but only as an actor, I never found him attractive. I don't actually go for men with moustaches. ( George Brent, are you listening?)
But that other William you mention: YES ! We can unequivocally agree about William Holden ! Damn, both good-looking and attractive ( as I said and you noted, they don't always go together.) Funny thing about Bill Holden, I've never seen anyone age more quickly and visibly on the screen over the years. When he was young, he was such a baby face ! I think he's in his prime in a film like Stalag 17. And for me, Rachel and the Stranger is a treat because I get to look at both Robert Mitchum and William Holden. ( two other fave Bill Holden pics for me are Born Yesterday and Picnic.) But you can see poor Bill's looks deteriorating over the years, he was such a heavy drinker. Of course, this applies to other actors we both like, Dana Andrews and Alan Ladd.
Being an alcoholic (and cig smoker) will do that to you........(Holden)
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23 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Bronxgirl, thanks for getting back to me re. actors you think are attractive. I do apologize (hey, I'm Canadian !) for not responding to your post above sooner, didn't have a chance to go on this site til today.
Well, if I've never said it before, I'll say it now: I love the way you write. You have a breezy but very literate, hugely entertaining style that often makes me laugh out loud (literally.) I know you sometimes take breaks from this website....maybe that's why I never noticed til now how much fun your posts are.
Anyway....We agree that it's Bug's wit (he was witty ) and as you say, irreverence, that is appealing. But yeah, it just wouldn't work for us (either of us)- if it's not the inter-speciesism, it's the animated vs real. (I'm guessing, if you had a crush on a cartoon character who was at least human, it might be Clutch Cargo?? )
You're right, I was wondering about Alan Ladd. I find him more interesting than he's often given credit for. I actually think he's quite sexy (although, yes, a tad scary) in This Gun for Hire. I love the scene with him and Veronica Lake hiding out in that train shed - the fact that they don't "do" anything only makes it more erotic. On the other hand, I can understand if someone found Mr. Ladd a little on the bland side.
I like William Powell, but only as an actor, I never found him attractive. I don't actually go for men with moustaches. ( George Brent, are you listening?)
But that other William you mention: YES ! We can unequivocally agree about William Holden ! Damn, both good-looking and attractive ( as I said and you noted, they don't always go together.) Funny thing about Bill Holden, I've never seen anyone age more quickly and visibly on the screen over the years. When he was young, he was such a baby face ! I think he's in his prime in a film like Stalag 17. And for me, Rachel and the Stranger is a treat because I get to look at both Robert Mitchum and William Holden. ( two other fave Bill Holden pics for me are Born Yesterday and Picnic.) But you can see poor Bill's looks deteriorating over the years, he was such a heavy drinker. Of course, this applies to other actors we both like, Dana Andrews and Alan Ladd.
Hhmmpphh! I was stacheless in my early career......
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10 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
The hospital that Joan Crawford's character winds up at is definitely supposed to be in Los Angeles and she was definitely living in the Washington DC area when she was married to Raymond Massey's character.
Reading from her chart the doctor says that she was brought to the hospital wearing clothes with labels from stores in Washington DC.
After she's given the drug, she nods affirmatively when the doctor asks if she lives in Washington and then he asks her " Why are you in Los Angeles?"
I missed the beginning this time so I didn't hear that. The part about seeing names on buildings I can write off to laziness or they didnt care. But if he said that, then Joan must've had enough money to hop a bus.......
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24 minutes ago, Vidor said:
Sounds like a good show for WOR then! Just, you know, almost zero appeal for the rest of the country.
Hardly.
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Just now, Bronxgirl48 said:
Hibi, no problem. I can't rely on my memory, but occasionally it comes to life.
I know the feeling!
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3 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW isn't a remake of FIVE CAME BACK.
Sorry, I have the title wrong! I'll look it up!~
It's BACK FROM ETERNITY! That's what I get for relying on my brain......
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On 6/3/2021 at 9:14 PM, scsu1975 said:
No, miss it. It stinks.
I agree! LOL. I've only watched half of it so far, but I doubt it will get better. The lead actress is so terrible.... Even for AIP it's beyond cheap. (Diary of a High School Bride)
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18 minutes ago, TomJH said:
I have never much cared for this film either, despite the fact that it enjoys the prestige of being a Howard Hawks Cary Grant comedy. Seeing Grant in drag at the end is amusing but it's a long haul until we get to those few screen minutes. I'm a big Ann Sheridan fan (and she had a real flair for comedy, particularly of the tart tongued variety) but she was largely straight lady for Grant here and with her short curled hair and military uniform I thought she had a rather mannish appearance in this 20th Century Fox film, a real contrast to her previous films at Warner Brothers.
In an interview that she gave about a year and a half or so before her death, though, I Was A Male War Bride was one of the few films in her career of which Sheridan spoke positively. She loved working with Grant, saying he was one of the actors, along with Cagney and Flynn, with whom she had noteworthy on screen chemistry, and added that she and Grant had been looking for the right material for a screen reunion (which never happened).
Sadly I Was A Male War Bride was, I believe, the only box office hit that Sheridan enjoyed in her post Warners career (perhaps that's one of the reasons she spoke well of the film) and by 1957 her film work was over, and she would be seeking work on television the rest of her career.
Sheridan appeared in a lovely little bucolic drama in 1956, Come Next Spring, co-starring Steve Cochran. She said she had hopes this film might become a hit (and she badly needed one) but it was, unfortunately, poorly promoted by Republic and disappeared at the box office. It remains to this day a well acted affecting, sweet little tale of redemption (with a warmth brought to many of its scenes by Max Steiner's musical score) that relatively few have seen but is well worth seeking out. TCM showed it once, about a year ago or so.
I hope TCM runs it again. I was only able to watch part of it.
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34 minutes ago, ElCid said:
Richard Boone was also in the remake of The Big Sleep (1978), a neo-noir reset to England.
The less said about that one, the better.
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11 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:
He was a cad to the point that the height of my anxiety in that film was that Joan would stop shooting after just one bullet and not empty the gun into him. Good riddance! He broke up with her - that was his right. She was obviously obsessed with him. He got that. And yet the next day after breaking up with her he marches into her employer's house and arranges for a job. And then keeps popping into and out of her life, always needling her like their relationship was one big joke. He should have given her time and distance to heal, but he didn't care. And then he woos her stepdaughter so he will be .... her son-in-law??? The guy had no regard for anybody but himself.
I couldn't have said it better!!!
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11 hours ago, LsDoorMat said:
Dargo, I've watched this one several times. It's actually one of my favorite Joan Crawford films. And yesterday, for the first time, I actually noticed she was in L.A. It was when she was looking in the bank window at the beginning and the window said something about the bank being in L.A. And no, I don't remember anything being said as to how she got there. If she was in such a catatonic state after she shot David, you'd think it would take some heavy lifting for her to find a plane to L.A., get a ticket, get on the right plane, sit through the multiple hours it takes to get to LA from DC, etc.
One of several plot lapses. I think they used the downtown location, but did not mean it specifically to BE L.A. in the plot.......
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15 hours ago, laffite said:
Okay, though I don't think he romanced the daughter expressly to irritate Louise. He had had quite enough for her to do that. Nor is there any indication that he married expressly for the money. This latter was more opportunism than rank calculation. It did not appear to me that he particularly was interested in marriage, at first anyway, there was no immediate calculation to that purpose ... was there? Didn't that come about incrementally? Maybe I'm being to easy on him. But even at the end he seemed genuine when urging her to return to her father, etc. He is a bit rough around the edges and perhaps insensitive and inconsiderate in some ways, but he is not an ogre. IMO. He did not deserve plugging. He was a sacrifice to the plot, the object of Louise's going over the top.
Maybe he didnt deserve plugging but he was still a cad. And I enjoyed seeing him get it!!!!
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15 hours ago, Vautrin said:
These rumors seem to be a common topic of gossip back in the studio era. As least Ireland had something
going for him. He didn't age very well. Then many people don't.
Yeah, he didn't. I'd forgotten Ireland reteamed with Joan later in I Saw What You Did!
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12 hours ago, UMO1982 said:
Well with many of the silent stars, they had fairly substantial success in talkies.... certainly Gilbert, Haines, Barthelmess, Davies, Gish..... There's nothing saying they couldn't do a mix of silents and talkies.
I don't understand why they continue to ignore Gish and Davies. Both of whom had long careers in sound films. Plus they have easy access to their films! It's not like they aren't well known.
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15 minutes ago, Wayne said:
Hibi wrote:
Wayne, I'm curious. Whose picture is that in your avatar?
Longtime Warner Bros. director/animator Robert McKimson.
OK. Thanks.
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1 hour ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Chester had nice muscular arms too. There were tantalizing glimpses of them through a tattered shirt in -- here I go again with the memory lapse -- that 1939 movie with Lucille Ball of an airplane crash on some tropical island...I think it was a remake of something earlier (now I sound like Constance Collier in ROPE, lol)
Just looked it up -- FIVE CAME BACK.
YES! I didn't see this post! I knew a number was in the title......
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Yes, that's right. Those 3 comedians they would salute.....
I would think of the above mentioned stars, Fonda would probably have the most films TCM would have access to, particularly since her career started in the early 60s. They have shown quite a few of her films, though more from the early part of her career.
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1 hour ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I never cared for Richard Boone's bulbous nose. Fine actor, though.
Sterling Hayden had weird lips. Just short of blubbery actually. They moved in strange ways.
I don't remember ever seeing Wendell Corey's eyebrows. Did he have any? Still, every time I watch HOLIDAY AFFAIR I keep hoping Janet Leigh will return to him and forget Robert Mitchum.
Ditto about Boone's nose. Didn't he have pockmarked skin too? LOL.
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57 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
Some of youse folks are pretty hard graders when it comes to these guy's looks, though I find it
entertaining to read. I never really noticed individual facial features like lips or eyes. Noses are
more obvious to the eyes. I take the face as a whole. That's why I consider Ty Power a very
handsome guy no matter what his eyes look like. I think Robert Montgomery was better looking
than Robert Young. Garfield does have that been knocked around a lot look, but to me he just
looks like he's been in too many of those street fights. How about Elisha Cook Jr. vs. Raymond
Massey. One of the few face offs Cook could win. I agree about William Holden. Very handsome,
especially in his 1950s heyday. John Ireland? Well, I've read that Ireland was a member in good
standing of the big dick club, along with Frank Sinatra and Uncle Miltie. But I'll let that pass.
Yes, I've heard that too about Ireland........
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18 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Joan Crawford and John Ireland were very good......friends.
LOL. During Queen Bee.......
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1 hour ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Which movie?
The original. Odds Against Tomw was the remake. I think the original was -Came Back. Five? There was a number in the title.
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49 minutes ago, UMO1982 said:
Good point. But with their careers mostly behind them, I would think they'd jump on Fonda, Streisand, Jackson, etc..... Fonda goes back to 1960 in films!
I know the silent stars are hard because so many of their films are not available or do not have music tracks. BUT in November 2014 they did a general SILENT STARS ON THE MONTH and chose films from a wide variety of silent icons. They could easily do that again.
You rarely see silents on TCM except for the Sun. night slot. I think they don't think most viewers would watch in prime time unless its Chaplin/Keaton.......
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