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If you are out there lurking, I just wanted you to know that I loved both The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend and The Princess and the Pirate. of course i'm out here lurking silly goose! i'm always here reading. I'm glad you liked them! I knew you would! BBFBB is my favorite Betty Grable movie and i always loved her fiestiness as a sharpshooter getting the best of Cesar Romero. When I was around 8 years old, there was a boy who loved trying to outdo me and always hung around me and I got so fiesty with him, apparently, and told him to go, "suck an egg." heehee! momma said I got it from the movie! They were both very funny. I love Betty the sharpshooter and it was fun finally getting to see another of her films. As for TPATP, I liked Hope with Mayo! Loved the Technicolor of both films but this one particularly. Walter Brennan was great too. They were both a real treat to finally see! I love Hope with Virginia Mayo and only wish they had gotten together. Mr. Crosby just had to show up at the end to steal her away and leave poor bob alone. heehee! don't those two just make you laugh hysterically?! Edited by: butterscotchgreer on Oct 13, 2010 1:57 AM

Have you seen the film version in 1977 of A Little Night Music? it's done brilliantly! Elizabeth Taylor plays the actress Desiree Armfeldt. There are so many twists in this plot. i got so confused the first time I saw this on the screen. I have seen it once on stage and rather enjoyed it, but it isn't Sondheim's best piece of work for me. Sunday in the Park with George and Gypsy, although he only did the lyrics to Gypsy. The music was by Jule Styne who was genius for the very catchy, playful songs in that show. The lyrics were just as up to par, though as the music, so I think they were an exellent team and wish they did more together as song writers.

You know, interestingly enough, I have heard so much about this movie, but have never seen it all the way through. I have been lucky in finding clips of it, but don't even know what it is fully about. Could you enlighten us, possibly, Swithin? Pretty please with sugar on top?!

sorry swithin. i didn't know that. i'll try to limit my picture usage.

well noone likes to talk in detail about musicals anymore. everyone just wishes to talk about film noir, westerns annd dramas for weeks and weeks.......and weeks, which i have absolutely no problem with and love doing it. Honestly! i just thought musicals would give the forum a different little change. musicals are so underestimated. it breaks my heart. I did watch Hello, Dolly! last night! What a masterpiece that is! It has Babs, an incredible songwriter, cute choreography with Tommy Tune andMichael Crawford, and a sequence with very in-shape waiters dancing around a restaurant! What's not to loooove. Heehee! I think this was the first Babs movie I ever saw and it put such an impression me as a child, as far as musical performances go. I think I had the whole movie memorized after the second time I saw it. The lines in it between Babs and Walter Mattheau are genius and funny. you can tell they hated each other off set just through their conversing on screen, yet it really worked for me, because it added a sort of ODD chemistry that meshed.

WAIT, I know, I know!!!! It's "Fifi"! In "Every Day's A Holiday", blonde Mae West had to wear a brunette wig and pass herself off as a French entertainer named "Fifi". In "Copacabana", brunette Carmen Miranda had to wear a blonde wig and pass herself off as a French entertainer named "Fifi" Holy moly! i totally forgot about that! It made me laugh! I loved carman miranda's version of mae west's character, "Fifi"! nicely done MGMMayer!

This is one of my favorite stills from WH. Bs(zIKwB2k~$(KGrHqQOKjwEuv-7t73PBL3i1f5MEg~~_3.JPG! well apparently my computer skills are kicking in again, because I can't get it to show. heehee! Edited by: butterscotchgreer on Sep 10, 2010 8:05 PM

But I am! I'm always innocent! I'm a gentleman![/b] Ppfftt! If you were a true gentleman you wouldn?t make fun of elegant greer and steal my strawberry shortcake. Why do you think Cathy is one-sided? she isn't a femme fatale, silly! She is, too! She tells a guy to go and do everything for her while she just sits back and reaps the benefits! What is that?! She's nothing but selfish. That?s not the meaning of a femme fatale?to me. she is more like a tough girl. But she technically isn?t selfish. She doesn?t really realize how she comes off and she is just in love with a man and that?s all she knew and wanted.

WoW! What a luscious photo of Betty Grable. Nice, Baby T. thanks cinie-t! i love that one! i have sooo many more. heehee!

oh yeah! Cathy is definitely a femme fatale. She's very one-sided. I don't view Heathcliff as being one-sided. Why do you think Cathy is one-sided? she isn't a femme fatale, silly!

MissG - "Mr. Grimes," frankie - "Who?! Where are we?" I just LOVE it outrageously when you try and act all innocent on us! Heehee!

My favorite Betty movie is Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend! She is so fiesty in it and has the best lines! -+Grable,[/i]Betty_08.jpg]

Some really beautiful pics of Betty, I love!

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Hey Larry! I did see Springtime in the Rockies when it was on. I had just gotten home when it started so I got lucky. I think this is a very cute Betty Grable movie. it isn't my faovrite of hers, but I do like it. Did you by any chance see it?

Ugh! Ollieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! You had to bring up BORDER INCIDENT which freaked me out when I watched it yesterday! I can't watch this movie ever again...I dont' think I ever saw such violence...after what happened to George Murphy I wanted the whole movie to go up in flames, lol! Nothing after that could make up for such a horrid, horrid scene. I know movies today are MUCH worse but I dont know, I can't see things like that. It disturbed me to no end...and THEN the quicksand...maybe Anthony Mann had "issues", as they say, to depict so much sadism, ha!! YUCK. Hey Ollie and dahlink! That is sooo weird that you two bring up Border Incident, because grandmamma showed me this movie and I thought it was terrible that Georgie Murphy (my twinkle toes) had to go through all that in that scene! It?s like watching Gary go through that horrid scene in They Came to Codura! Who does that?! I mean really! I can imagine. I bet they made him a mental case or a navel gazing, social misfit, ha! Olivier certainly carried himself nobly when he came back, and spoke better, but I like that he did not entirely discard his roughness which was as much a part of him as it was of the crags and bluffs he lived among. Heathcliffe is to be more elemental and earthy than civilized or human. Heehee! They certainly made Heathcliffe a different kind of man than in the book or the original to me anyway. I think you said it perfectly when Olivier carried himself very nobly with a more sophisticated way of speaking. And he still looks rugged with his image and the way he acts. Feinnes gave him a more scary look with too much macho-ness. Heathcliffe was still supposed to have a vulnerability in the story that Olivier portrayed perfectly when it came to his scenes with Cathy and even when he was just thinking about her. It?s like they took that characteristic away in the remake in 1992. Heathcliffe can?t be Heathcliffe without it!

I love Xanadu. It's one of those films that someone today would describe as a "guilty pleasure", but I hate that phrase. I never feel the need to apologize for what brings me pleasure, which is what that phrase is doing. Olivia Newton John is drop-dead gorgeous in it; it is chock-full of great tunes; has an offbeat plot; and Gene Kelly is charming in it! Heehee! I know what you mean! I grew up with this one and it is a favorite of my parents as well. My daddy said he went to see this movie on the big screen when it came out 18 times, because he was so fascinated with Olivia back then. That?s another one I love to sing to! I was at some store the other day trying on clothes with my one of my best friends the other day and they played, ?Magic? by Olivia. I started singing it without realizing it and my friend said, ?how do you know this, I didn?t even know it was a song.? Tsk tsk tsk. The classics are the good ones! Especially by Olivia! I love the dynamic presence of Xanadu as a musical in the 80s. it still has a 70s feel since it was so early in the 80s that it was made and the story is so imaginative. The whole 9 muses painted by Michaelangelo is so creative, I just love the opening musical sequence with them all popping out of the wall. It always gives me goosebumps. I think Sutton Foster is talented, as is her brother; but I also think she shows the effort she puts into her performances. You see her working, and that bothers me. So you think she tries to hard? I can see that in some of her stuff, but I just love her voice. I saw her in Thoroughly Modern Millie when she originally did it and it made such an impression on me. Although I was a little prejudice; my momma laughed at me for saying no one can beat Julie Andrews in the movie version because it was one of my very favorites as a child. Yes, I keep up with current shows and films. I appreciate and celebrate the past, I don't live in it! Well I figured that, silly goose. I just meant, do you LIKE the modern shows on Broadway and film? Have you seen any shows on stage recently?

These films that use previously existing music, to weave a paper-thin plot, are sometimes fun, but generally not very satisfying to me. I also don't rank them among the great musicals. In the case of this one, I find it, mostly unwatchable. Another Gene Kelly ego-filled film. It all comes down to whether or not you find Kelly's screen presence, charming. I don't. He's certainly loaded with talent, but his presence is so off-putting to me, that it undermines everything else. Caron can't act (although she became a fine actress later on), and it's all quite dull, imo. Certainly not in the same class as the screen adaptations of great Broadway musicals or great original screen musicals. Hey John! You know, even I could see that about Gene in some of his movies. He seems very into himself, but that may be part of his characters that people cast him in, sort of as a typecast. Did you ever see him in Xanadu? He doesn?t nearly give off such an image in that. His character is still dynamic and has that zing, yet isn?t nearly as ?ego-filled? in it. Xanadu is one of my favorites! ?.oh I?ve been meaning to ask you: do you like Sutton Foster? Or do you keep up with modern broadway as well? I don?t remember if you ever went this far with the stage or not.

Fiddler on the Roof: My no 1 and probably my no 1 movie. I love the music, the characters, and the story. In fact I have loved this movie for as long as I can remember. My ancestors would have lived in Russia/Ukraine around that time. Granted I am not saying this story is my family's story but I like to imagine that it is. Fiddler on the Roof has such a moving story. It?s a unique musical with history, family tradition, love, and dreams. I love the points of the story. They teach a little bit of everything to you within singing. You don?t expect it when you first see it. What scenes of the movie do you like best? An American in Paris Love Me Tonight Meet Me in St. Louis My Fair Lady Singing in the Rain The Gold Diggers of 1933 The King and I The Smiling Lieutenant The Sound of Music Lovely list! This is the first time someone has brought up The Smiling Lieutenant. Very interesting choice! I love Maurice Chevalier in this, but its an unusual piece for Claudette Colbert to participate in. She actually does pretty well and changes up her looks, because it was still in her early career. And a lot of Fred & Ginger movies but I can't decide which one is my favorite Who can decide?

I've never seen the other version, well not all of it...but I think I know the one you mean. How would you say it compares? Is it more "realistic" in tone, maybe? Are ya'll talking about the version with Ralph Feinnes in 1992? I have seen that one a few times, but for me, it doesn?t compare to Olivier and Oberon. It was a little more toward the reality check side, but I didn?t get as emotional in this remake, because it didn?t seem as sincere as the original. I mean, us girls have to cry to Wuthering Heights, it?s just a moral imperative. Heehee! Larry Olivier plays a more sophisticated Heathcliffe and this remake made his character out to be a more violent person.

"Oh Smitty, We must wish the Baby T the Happiest of Birthdays." Happy Birthday, Butterscotch! Hope all your birthday wishes come true! Oh thank you buddy! They did come true! I was very blessed and I got more birthday wishes this year than I ever have, so I was over-whelmed quite happily. Heehee! Okay now on to old movies again.....Heehee! OH SMITHY, I RUN TO YOU!

Thanks Chris and Larry! That?s right, Babs will celebrate with us. Heehee?John please don?t hate me. I have had a great day filled with joy from everyone around me! I loved every minute of it!! The lemon meringue pie, the feet in town lake, everything! Heehee!

Thank you, Wendy! You and Greer brightened up my birthday today! Frankie, I can?t believe you sided with Elizabeth and Darcy. I?m proud of you! Heehee! Thanks Dutch white boy!