Hibi
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I Love Trouble was a bad print, so I doubt it would have been better than dealer quality. Haven't watched Eaton Falls yet.
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Thanks! I'll have to get a library copy.
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Did he ever write his memoirs?
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I can't believe its been almost 10 years since Constance's SOTM and Joan is still waiting!
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3 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
How about the Bennett sisters?
Well, Connie already had her turn 5 or 6 years ago, so she can wait! Don't think Barbara did many films, would be interesting to see her in one.
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On 5/9/2021 at 2:08 PM, kingrat said:
Did anyone else watch I Love Trouble? A less than outstanding print, a plot as confusing as The Big Sleep, unremarkable direction by S. Sylvan Simon, yet quite entertaining. This is one of the best Franchot Tone performances I've seen. He makes a great cynical, world-weary, wisecracking detective, and Glenda Farrell matches him as the perfect wisecracking Gal Friday. Janet Blair, Janis Carter, and Adele Jergens show that the movie is no slouch in the good-looking dames department. I couldn't quite get how Adele Jergens fit into the plot, but I suspect that some of the guys who watched weren't complaining about that. I wish that Janis Carter had had more screen time.
John Ireland is way down in the credits, but he makes an excellent hood working for club owner Steven Geray. Raymond Burr has an even smaller role as a henchman, but as soon as he speaks, you immediately know who it is. Eduardo Ciannelli is well-cast as a mobster, and the uncredited Sid Tomack has a great part as the ex-vaudeville non-star Buster Buffin. Imagine a Milton Berle wannabe rattling off the stalest jokes you've ever heard, and that's the guy. The uncredited Mary Adams Hayes has a funny bit as a waitress called Fannie. See what I mean about it being entertaining?
Yes, I posted somewhere that I liked it! Terrible print. Had never seen or heard of this film before. Hope it turns up on Noir Alley. (I recorded it as it was on some Godawful time in the morning and watched it later in the wknd).
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Wow. It seemed like he'd live forever. What a life! And he still looked good near the end too.
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Didnt realize that was her in that Seinfeld episode. I remember her music videos (and awful name!)
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18 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
I though Richard Burton actually won.
HE SHOULD HAVE!!!!!
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1 hour ago, Roy Cronin said:
Now that they'll be receiving boxes of unwanted little globes maybe they can repurpose them as bookends or doorstops or paperweights. Maybe a new cottage industry.
Sell on ebay!
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14 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
NBC has announced they will NOT be broadcasting The 2022 Golden Globes.
ostensibly it’s over “Diversity Issues” In the HFPA, but one can’t wonder if it’s related the the recent ratings crash of every awards show this year.
I really wonder if this is the beginning of the end....
I wouldn't shed a tear over the Globes. Have had too much influence in the Oscar races for too long.
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14 hours ago, kingrat said:
We both liked The Whistle at Eaton Falls. I'd give it a 7/10. It's so unusual for Hollywood in the early 50s to do a serious movie about labor issues. Not the movie one would expect from Robert Siodmak. Location shooting in New Hampshire. It's nice to see Lloyd Bridges in a lead role, playing a union rep who suddenly becomes the factory boss. Anne Francis looks really young as the girlfriend of Carleton Carpenter. Ernest Borgnine has a bigger role than his billing, and this is the only movie where you get to see him square dance! Dorothy Gish does a fine job as the wife of the factory owner, and it's too bad she didn't have more screen roles at this time.
Can't wait to see Ernie square dance!
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15 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Decent story and acting, nice locations. Nothing I would rush to see again. Dorothy Gish was second-billed, but only had a few scenes. I feel she was wasted.
Too bad. I had a feeling about that (Gish).
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9 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Can you provide any example? I say this because I don't like the movie any differently. That is, I like just as much as before, which is a lot. And my impression of the characters is the same. So maybe I'm missing something.
The concert scene. While its not central to the plot, it's the only scene where Susan Hayward and Young's wife ever meet (forget her name) The scene in the restaurant with Greer is longer and possibly there were 2 (I'd have to compare) The intro is different. There were other brief cuts here and there that made Hayward more sympathetic in the restored version. I wonder if TCM will never run the edited version now? I would like to have both to compare rather than rely on memory.
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14 hours ago, DougieB said:
He tried for years to get a Christmas movie called Fruitcake made. He had the script ready but had trouble with financing, of course. Too bad, because in both P*ecker and A Dirty Shame he was still on his game, in my opinion. Both are great examples of how he was able to mix name actors with exotic misfits he found God knows where. **** had Mary Kay Place, Lili Taylor, Edmund Furlong, Martha Plimpton and Bess Armstrong, but ****'s skateboarding, shoplifting friend and his grandmother with a "talking" statue of Mary just about stole the movie. Tracey Ullman fit seamlessly into Waters World in A Dirty Shame, along with Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville and Chris Isaak, but a supporting actress playing the local know-it-all Big Ethel owned every scene she was in. But A Dirty Shame flopped, which John says is why his career has gone south. (You're only as good as your last....blah blah blah.) I miss him too.
I saw Dirty Shame and enjoyed it, but missed P-cker. I hadn't heard about Fruitcake. Too bad.
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On 5/8/2021 at 5:26 AM, Bogie56 said:
Sunday, May 9
The TCM Film Festival continues.
8:45 a.m. Her Man (1930). World television premiere of the restoration. With Helen Twelvetrees.
9:30 p.m. The Goodbye Girl (1977). Plus a conversation with Richard Dreyfuss.
Helen Twelvetrees. Billed as Rin Tin Tin's favorite actress at the time! LOL It actually was her REAL NAME (her husband at the time anyway) Amazed the studios didnt change it. She had a brief career (mostly early 30s) and met a sad end. Would like to see more of her films.
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On 5/9/2021 at 10:26 AM, Stallion said:
He looks like a cross between Cary Grant and Rock Hudson.
How was Eaton Falls? Did anyone watch it??
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8 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
At least next week's FIEND WITHOUT A FACE '58 is a rare Svengoolie offering I've never seen. It's a British movie with a stop motion creature. Looking forward to it!
I don't think I've seen it either.
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13 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Tuesday, May 11
4:30 p.m. The Golden Arrow (1964). Arabian adventure with Tab Hunter no less.
Looks like a Tab salute on Tues. Is it his birthday? Too bad they didnt include That Kind of Woman with Sophia Loren! She co-starred with both Tab and his boyfriend (Tony Perkins) in separate films (Desire Under the Elms) Sophia's magic didnt work on them! I will record Tab Hunter Confidential. I assume it's an interview with him about his memoirs?
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3 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
I haven't read it, but did Rita make her views of Natalie known in her autobiography published a few years back?
Or are these latest comments completely revelatory?
Yes, she did (sorry, didn't read yours before posting mine).
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Someone should tell Chakiris to stop dying his hair. He's pushing 90 and not one grey hair on his scalp or beard??? Really believable.
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On 5/8/2021 at 9:36 PM, Moe Howard said:
I love the movie and was so happy to see the three of them there. Hearing Anita, Nardo and Riff share anecdotes was heartwarming.
Then Mankiewicz teed up a softball for Rita and I lost a lot of respect for her which is hard for me. She has always been my favorite in that movie. She dominates every scene she’s in. The Rita that was so excited and humbled by winning that Oscar is not the same person in that panel. She has clearly developed an axe to grind based on race which is disappointing. Her contempt for Natalie Wood is so transparent it comes across as catty and jealous. Complaining she’s not racially qualified to act in a movie roll? Please. It also belittles George Chakiris roll in the movie who is also not Puerto Rican.
I’ve read complaints about the Sharks make-up. It’s ridiculous. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME COLOR! There are scenes when the Sharks and the Jets are so close in color hue they look like they’re all on the same team. If you want to complain about anything, complain about continuity of make-up. It’ s still dopey but at least it’s valid.
I’m going to be generous and hope that Rita knows better, she’s just trying to gin up some phony controversy for Spielberg.
Not so. Rita's comments were similar if not verbatim of what she wrote in her memoirs some years back (which I've read). She has her points.
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16 hours ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
So This Is Paris (Lubitsch, 1926)
Thank you TCM for finally showing this! The plot (spouses sneaking around behind each others' backs) may owe a lot to Die Fledermaus (which Lubitsch previously adapted in 1917 as The Merry Jail). But the telling and the setting are glorious. The sequence at the Artists' Ball was a special highlight (I'm going to be very disappointed when my favorite bar reopens and everyone prefers to stand around looking at their phones rather than dancing madly). Ben Model's score was a delight--if I can't see this film at AFI Silver with an appreciative audience, this was the next best thing. It's already on HBO MAX, and will be on Watch TCM after the West Coast feed finishes--don't miss it.
Looking forward to watching this (recorded it).
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Although the plot was complicated, I didnt find it as confusing as the Big Sleep (which I still can't figure out after many viewings and I don't want to watch it anymore!). I was not totally surprised by the reveal at the end, but it kept me guessing.