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16 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
Didn't care for Joanie's wardrobe in this movie. Kinda **** in my opinion. Very surprising. I mean, after marrying Dean you'd think she'd have availed herself of some fashionable dresses but I suppose the psychosis got in the way....
By Adrian yet!
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They used to have these at the end of the year. Is it now going to be a summer thing? Didnt realize it was on.
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On 6/5/2021 at 9:07 PM, speedracer5 said:
It wasn't on anywhere. I watched it on HBO Max.
Oh, ok. I couldn't find the original post.
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On 6/4/2021 at 3:24 PM, Shank Asu said:
I missed it! One of my biggest complaints with TCM is they only show the times on ET zone schedule. Went to watch the film to realize it had been over for an hour.
Hopefully they'll run it again soon. It's hilarious.
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16 hours ago, Vidor said:
I'm not gonna watch the nun doc but I did watch "Where the Boys Are" a while back and it was a fascinating portrait of attitudes and sexual mores at the very moment they were changing. On the one hand, there's the very idea that college kids would go on spring break looking for sex, something that Hollywood would never have dreamed of showing just a few years before. On the other hand, Paula Prentiss gives a whole speech about how she's going to college specifically to find a husband so that she can pop out babies, and the one girl in the foursome who does have sex is punished with rape.
When was this Delores Hart docu on???? I'm sorry I missed it.
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On 6/4/2021 at 3:55 PM, LornaHansonForbes said:
I missed it, but I will look for it on demand. I have seen it once before and it is memorable to say the least.
MAMIE gives a bad performance for the ages in this one; and RUSS TAMBLYN is THE DREAMIEST!
It's a laugh riot! I'm sorry I missed the first part this time. Uncle Fester pushing heroin........
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Did anyone watch High School Confidential last night with MAMIE and Jackie Coogan (as the pusher!) LOL.
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Russell already wrote her memoirs. Wonder how much could be new?
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16 hours ago, mr6666 said:
I recorded the whole day of B teen JD's!
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On 6/1/2021 at 5:52 AM, MikaelaArsenault said:
Arlene Golonka, an actress who was known for playing Millie Hutchins on two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and Millie Swanson on 49 episodes of Mayberry R.F.D, died on May 31st at the age of 85:
https://extratv.com/2021/05/31/mayberry-r-f-d-actress-arlene-golonka-dies-at-85/
MILLIE!!!
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1 hour ago, Vautrin said:
Maybe that's why Billie Joe Armstrong spells out his name. I don't remember Eyes of a NY Woman at all.
I guess the first song I remember was Hooked on a Feeling. Then of course there was Raindrops. We didn't
like soft rock at the time, but looking back those are pretty good pop songs. If the singer isn't also a songwriter
then he has to hope to find the right tune.
Yeah, I think Hooked On A Feeling was his next hit after NY Woman. I guess he was part of a group before that. I dont remember I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, the hit before NY Woman. He had quite a few hits once he got airplay.
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It stood for Billy Joe. But I remember jokes about the initials......I first became aware of him when Eyes of a NY Woman came out and he sang it on American Bandstand. From what I've read he'd been around for awhile, but I hadnt heard of him before that.
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Agree. Not how I'd want to remember her (or anyone).
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If she was chosen would probably be a disappointing day as many of her films were done at Paramount and Fox and I doubt TCM would want to spend the extra money to air them. We'd probably get a lot of films they show a lot of: I'll Cry Tomorrow: I Want to LIve! etc. Not that there's anything wrong with them.
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13 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
I remember being shocked by that.
Yeah, me too.
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Yes, I read it when it came out and it was very good and well researched. Over 600 pages, I think. I don't recall any ban. It was a bestseller and I remember seeing him on talk shows promoting it. I wish, though, he hadn't included a picture of MM from the morgue.
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5 hours ago, UMO1982 said:
Tula Finklea made only one appearance on Broadway .... at the age of 70. She played the Garbo role in the musical GRAND HOTEL. The NY Times said of her ... "Swathed in velvet and fur, she is a handsome woman. Although "Grand Hotel" doesn't ask much dancing of her, the legendary legs are up to the challenge. As an actress, let's just say she has an elegant presence. And as a singer, well, let's not say anything at all."
What a name! About as good as ETHEL GUMM!
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5 hours ago, UMO1982 said:
Tula Finklea made only one appearance on Broadway .... at the age of 70. She played the Garbo role in the musical GRAND HOTEL. The NY Times said of her ... "Swathed in velvet and fur, she is a handsome woman. Although "Grand Hotel" doesn't ask much dancing of her, the legendary legs are up to the challenge. As an actress, let's just say she has an elegant presence. And as a singer, well, let's not say anything at all."
LOL. She must've been cast as a replacement. She wasnt part of the original cast. Funny, I don't remember that.
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19 hours ago, Fausterlitz said:
I'm afraid my perception of Charisse's acting ability has probably been forever skewed by Pauline Kael's remark that she "reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically"--which like so many critical bon mots is memorable partly because it's a bit unfair. It's probably closer to the truth to say that her acting style favored smoothness and "professionalism" over spontaneity, but then again that's true of a lot of glamorous 50s actresses (e.g. Ruth Roman). She often gives the impression of someone who spent perhaps a bit too much time with studio acting coaches, so that the rough edges of things have been sanded off to the point of sounding a bit over-rehearsed, rather than springing from any deep well of feeling (i.e. she's definitely not a Method actress). I can't quite imagine her tapping into the sort of raw despair that, say, Doris Day, manages to channel in The Man Who Knew Too Much upon learning her son has been kidnapped.
I suspect you're also right, Dargo, that her "glamorous" persona was established rather early on, and either she felt that's what audiences expected of her, or the casting agents did, or both. There was also a certain element of deliberate hauteur, of remoteness and unattainability in some of her more famous roles (Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon, and Sick Stockings) that didn't lend itself well to easy audience identification, which would have been hard enough to achieve in any case with anyone so physically perfect. It would nevertheless have been interesting to see her attempt (or at least be offered) something rawer or more dramatically complex.
Yes, The Lillian Burns technique. Many MGM actresses were tutored by her (I think that was her name) A lot of their acting styles were similar. She was the acting coach at MGM for many years for neophytes. (not sure if she tutored the men).
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On 6/1/2021 at 8:56 PM, txfilmfan said:
Heckart won a Golden Globe for it and was nominated for an Oscar.
She was great. Funny and heartbreaking at the same time.
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2 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
He sang another movie song, the title tune from Long Ago Tomorrow (1970). The movie is mostly forgotten, a British film with Malcolm McDowell, about two paraplegics falling in love. The song is very good though.
Yes. I've never seen the film. Have always wanted to. It received scant release at the time and I'm not sure it was ever shown on tv (maybe HBO or some pay channel) It did get good reviews. Bryan Forbes film starring his wife, Nannette Newman and Malcolm McDowell
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There's plenty of information pointing to a cover up in Summers book.
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11 hours ago, Dargo said:
Nah, I just chalked that up to the idea of her maybe being a kleptomanic.
OR maybe to the idea that without the gun, Thaxter was removing any possibility that Leigh could or would shoot Ryan the next time they might encounter each other.
(...yeah, actually it's the second one here, CJ)
Or she was prepared to use it on Ryan if he tried to shoot Heflin......or as leverage.
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11 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
And speaking of Thaxter did you notice when she grabs Leigh's small automatic at the house she doesn't put it in the draw she opens but in her purse, wonder if that was going to be another plot point that never was developed or got discarded.
Yeah, I think she was prepared for the worst! LOL.
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Noir Alley
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I've always found Van unnatractive. Enough so that I avoid his films, unless there's something else in it to make up for it. It's his lips. What did Joan see in this guy? Plus he's a CAD with a CAPITAL C to boot!