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*Do you think if she was the leading lady other than Audrey Hepburn would the movie have been as successful?*
this is a tough question.....i just love My Fair Lady and Audrey Hepburn was exctatic and wondeful as the leading lady, but i think it would have been interesting to see julie play the part. now im not saying i would change the originaly musical movie at all, but i love it to death, but i love julie as much as audrey, and julie could SING, i mean really sing!! they could have at least made two versions of it, one with julie and one with audrey just to compare it. heehee! although Marni did a pretty nice job with that singing. i dunno, its a hard decision! i keep wandering back and forth between them.
off the subject, i thought marni did pretty well in The Sound of Music with julie as a supporting character too. heehee!
my mother always has this philosphy figured out about Musicals, b/c we both sing. she wants to know why actors and actresses are cast as the lead in a movie musical when they cant sing and have to have their voices dubbed by someone else doing all the work. i never knew whether to agree with her their or not, b/c if you analyze it, some od the most famous musicals have been made with actors or actresses in the lead role who arent doing the real singing....The King and I, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and so many more. i mean, i have total respect for people who do their own singing, but if you saw someone else in West Side Story other than natalie Wood, it would be weird wouldnt it? we are so used to her phenomenal erformance in that movie that we couldnt see anyone else doing it. so i always thought it was interesting about my mother's comment on that subject.
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i love leslie caron and my first movie that i saw of hers was Father Goose and then it was American in Paris and Daddy Long Legs and Fanny, but then it jumps to this movie. i hadnt seen it in a long time and had forgoten most of it so i recorded it. but when i watched it, it just didnt seem like a typical leslie caron movie for me. i mean, she was gorgeous as always and her acting was AMAZING, and she deserved the Oscar nod......but when that scene came up with her in bed with her new writer boyfriend, i was like, "WOAH!!.....okay". that may just be my opinion, but it bothered me. i mean it sort of makes her out to be a sleaze, and she was far from it! but i kept on watching the movie anyway, b/c i do love leslie's movies. all in all i liked the movie with the exception of a few questionable parts that just didnt fit leslie, herself. maybe im just a naive teenager. any comments?
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april april!! looky looky what i found!! my Greer with the Duke! i know you arent here right now, but when you come back we can finish our tea party!
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hey johanna!! i love that scene, thanks for sharing that! poor girl didnt know how to handle a gun....i just love it when she tells all the guys in the saloon to stick 'em up, but then accidentally shoots a chandelier and apologizes. heehee! so funny!
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hey FG!!
while i enjoyed the marathon of judy movies on TCM i do agree with you. they could have put a bit more spirit into it. but look at the bright side, at least she GOT a marathon this year. i remember getting sad last year, b/c they didnt even have one for her. so i was a happy camper when they actually showed them.
oh i hate saying bad things about dirk bogarde, b/c he had such beautiful eyes and wasnt a bad actore, but i do hate the things he said about judy. when i read about that, i was smiling at first b/c he had said that when they first started shooting I Could Go On Singing, he looked to her as a role model, but i didnt appreciated it when he called her "IT" by the end of shooting.
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hey caroline!!
im glad you got to watch all those special judy movies! she was a special person ideed, and always will be. i dont think that story is true about her cutting up her own face, i think pete was just saying that. and even if it was true i choose to be a skepticist about it. especially when it comes to judy. she was a very fragile person and people needed to understand that about her. but thanks for sharing that with us!
yes i loved her in The Pirate with Gene! i dont see how that movie was ever a let down for anybody like i have heard.l it is such a cute movie with great coreography and great acting, especially judy's singing and comic parts!
you know, gene once said that she wasnt a dancer, but she could always pick ANYTHING up in a heart beat without practice, but i think she was. i mean watch them dance together in Summer Stock or with mickey roomey in Girl Crazy orEaster Parade with good ol' freddy. of course she was a dancer, just not as much of a dancer as annie miller, og gene himself, or leslie caron or freddy or eleanor powell. but when she DID dance, she lit up the room with a glow with which ever partner she had....like the Champions were! heehee!
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hey picture perfect!!!
its going great!!
how's it going for you?
i didnt get to record Picadilly, i didnt catch the first half hour of it, b/c my little brother was watching some other Disney show. heehee!
what i dont get, is why josephine is more famous. i was in a Half Price book store the other day and i saw a few bios of josephine baker in a window display and the was NUDE on the cover. it was disgusting. at least anna may was prettier and had more class! goodness me!
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i think you might just be right about that. her figure is very much into the "art deco" as you say. she reminds me of josephine baker, except anna is a lot prettier! i really dont like josephine though.
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i have that CD set too!!!
i love all the songs on it!!
every time i hear frankie sing "Moon River", my eyes get teary. oh! heehee!
*Ok Theresa now you've gone and done it, now I gotta go put on the CD! LOL Now I feel like listening to some frankie! heeheehee*
i have officially found my gift!! i have the gift of persuasion! heehee! probably not, but hey its fun!
i love those pictures, do you really like Achors Aweigh? i love that one! and On the Town too. i just love the pairing of him and betty garrett in that and in Take Me Out to the BallGame. they are soooooooo cute!
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i had the pleasure of watching many of her well known silents earlier this month and just loved them!!
i have to say that i was so looking forward to seeing The Toll of the Sea, but was disappointed in how it ended. i was astonished to see it in color when it was made in 1922. i thought it was amazingly filmed and i loved many of cute scenes with her and her child and the cute love scenes before the sailor left her. but as i watched it, i could feel that something bad was going to happen, and i hated how it ended. it still could have been a great movie and maybe even a little better if they had just eneded it on a hapier note. i mean it didnt have to be on the hapily ever after side, but it was just so sad!
anyway, she looked beautiful in it though as she p[robably always did.
i also got to see Picadilly, the Daughter of the Dragon, Shanghai Express, A Study in Secret. i thought the coloring of Picadilly was done beautifully with the sepia touch. she was also beautiful in this, but i didnt like how that one ended either. i liked Daughter of the Dragon, Shanghai Express, and A study in Secret much better for the stories though.
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helenbaby, i can see where you are coming from. i watched that documentary on Anna. i didnt quite feel as if i knew her as well as i wanted to by the end, but i agree with Mickeeteeze. i found out many things i didnt know about her before i saw it, so i thoroughly enjoyed it to the extent that i actually learned many things out of it. i found the clips of her films intrias well as the beautiful pics they provided.
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which of his songs do you like best?
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here is another really pretty pic of dana!
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i forgot to post the picture. heehee!
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*Dana Wynter (along with Barbara Rush) is one of my favorite actresses.*
hey cinie!!
i also love dana wynter!! she is one of my top favorites as well!
hey bronxie!!
*"I watched 'The Unlocked Window' recently and it scared me silly, too..."*
this is a scary episode, but it is one of my favorites. it really captures alfred's scary side. heehee! it shows his ability to completely fool the audience into thinking the wrong thing. its confusing, but its cool! it also has dana in it, and she looks so gorgeous in it!!
i have been watching many of these Alfred Hitchcock episodes on the Chiller channel and am loving them. some of them i dont mind as well as others, but most of them are really cool to watch. and i just love seeing alfred stare me down at the beginnig of every one of them. ghonestly! he scares me sometimes! and i dont mean that in an offensive way alfred. heehee!
dana with danny kaye in one of my all time favorites On the Double. just look at that dress!!
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hey Chris and Jackie!!
*Guilty as Hell sounds awesome! I will go and second your request at TCM requests.*
oh my goodness! thats a good movie, ill have to go help yall request that one, i need to see that again!
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is everyone watching judy on TCM today? happy birthday to her, happy birthday to her!! heehee!
i already have these recorded, but i love watching them with the rest of the world!
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hey mon!!!
i love those pics you posted of frankie!~ thanks!
you will always find frankie admirers wherever you go! heehee!
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*Hi Theresa, Here we are in June, and I still miss our Frankie. I looked forward to every Wednesday and Sunday night. Tuesday night I watched "Some Came Running". I am rereading "My Father`s Daughter" by Tina Sinatra. The book was published in 2000. The last twenty years of Frank`s life were not happy. I can understand why his last wife was not invited to the postal ceremony. It is not nice to be greedy. Thanks for taping the Frank Gene Kelly special. My vcr will only play tapes. It can no longer record or make another tape. Maybe we can exchange emails.*
hey maureen!! sorry, from the bottom of my heart. my computer is being a little on the loopy side. heehee!
can you PM me your email? we can correspond about the trading then.
i really wanna read that book in the near future, so when i finally get a copy, ill let you know what i think of it k. it sounds highly interesting!
and your very very welcome, it was no trouble at all to record it for you.
Alfred Hitchcock's TV Programs
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hey bronxie!!!
yes she was so pretty in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. i just love her acting in that one especially!l
i saw you guys were talking about Edward andrews, i remember him in 16 candles with the glasses! he seemed so mean in that one though. heehee!