CineMaven

You're soooo right. Again.

When George Clooney was younger, he reminded me of the cute Rory Calhoun.

"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." Is there any question?? KIM NOVAK or MARILYN MONROE?

D'ya think Alma recognized Hitch's obsession with tall slim ice-cool blondes? They none of them looked like her. Tsk! Tsk!

"British comedies are full of weirdos. In addition to most of the cast on "Keeping Up Appearances" you have most of the cast of "Absolutuely Fabulous," "Are You Being Served" (which I am not the fond of) "The Vicar of Dibley and the king of suffering Basil Fawlty. How wonderful that not everyone in Britain was doing 'Jane Eyre.' " Well some folks were watching "Brideshead Revisited." D'ya remember one summer a show came on: "Doctor in the House"??? And what'd you feel about the "Carry On..." movies??

George Peppard starred in "The Carpetbaggers" with the sexy as hell and husky-voiced as Suzanne Pleshette brunette: ELIZABETH ASHLEY.

Wow! Good call Violets. Oh yeah...not as voluptuous but you're so right. Didja know that Whitney Blake is Meredith Baxter Birney's mom?? (I loved Marjorie Lord, Anne Archer's mom).

Well...that might be the same grey suit, and I'm head over heels about Doris Day. But, Kim wears that damned suit so much better. ;-) (She was only 25 during that film).

Hi there Ms.Goddess: "I was supposed to go to that myself and at the last minute something came up. Wasn't there supposed to be a home movie shown with Gary and Marlene Dietrich? I reckon that's why Maria was there." Sorry you missed it. I saved a seat for a friend, but becuz she didn't get her ticket earlier, she could not be seated. That was a bummer. The home movie that Coop's daughter showed did include Dietrich. And there wasn't a seat to be had. I just barely made it in the nick of time. Next time.

You know...Kim Novak keeps going under the radar with me. Yes, "Vertigo" is one of my all-time favorites, and I've seen her in a number of films, but I often forget about her; so many others take up room in my flimsy cerebral cortex. But thanx to TCM's "SUMMER UNDER THE STARS" I've been watching Kim since "Middle of the Night." She really is quite something else. Breathless, a little manic, and sooo damned voluptuous; always seems to be on the verge of wanting sex or feeling guilty or tortured about wanting sex; ever ready. Her career includes costarring with MacMurray, Holden, James Stewart and Fredric March, Kirk Douglas and Tyrone Power. Those are my boys and I love 'em, but weren't there any younger, sexy men able to give her a tumble? I never quite believed they could handle her ('cept maybe Kirk - though I hear they didn't get along well during the "Strangers When We Meet" shoot). Nice little twists in "Pushover." Fred's over his head in his voyeuristic shenanigans with Novak in more ways than one. Your pictures are lovely and brought home how smoldering she is. Today is just a reminder for me that Kim Novak makes me totally forget about Marilyn Monroe. Gotta go catch my breath now. "Vertigo" will be coming soon. (After all, you know we gotta prep for ChiO's Fall Film Class).

I love Romy Schneider!!!

The beautiful Marsha Hunt appeared in "The Human Comedy" opposite MICKEY ROONEY.

SCSU, meet Chatterbox. An amazing array of look-a-likes you've amassed there. Nicely done!

Okay Cliff.

Kas...whatsamatter you!!! As everyone told you below, it's Kim Novak's day in TCM's SUMMER UNDER THE STARS. C'mon! Just sit back and soak her in! "Pushover" is coming up now and then there's the masterpiece: "VERTIGO." Sssssh!!! She's on now.

Monday nite at the Lighthouse International on 59th Street in Manhattan, (an organization that deals with the blind) they showed "Hollywood Home Movies." Among the scenes showed during the two hour program, one lady brought movies taken back in the 30's by her Uncle Cedric Gibbons and his wife, her aunt Dolores Del Rio. Her parents were in the home movies too. She was tall statuesque and dressed to the nines in white slacks and blue blazer. She got a big round of applause when she was introduced. Her name is Maria Cooper Janis and she was Gary Cooper's daughter. Whoa!!!

Monday nite at the Lighthouse International on 59th Street in Manhattan, (an organization that deals with the blind) they showed "Hollywood Home Movies." Among the scenes showed during the two hour program, one lady brought movies taken back in the 30's by her Uncle Cedric Gibbons and his wife, her aunt Dolores Del Rio. Her parents were in the home movies too. She was tall statuesque and dressed to the nines in white slacks and blue blazer. She got a big round of applause when she was introduced. Her name is Maria Cooper Janis and she was Gary Cooper's daughter. Whoa!!!

Nasaaaaaaaaaah...you got imagination, like Hitchcock.

IOWAHAWKEYE: "thanks for your comments Cinemaven, much appreciated, love the feedback and opinions. I never thought of a homoerotic subtext at all, interesting. I just bought it so i'll go back and watch it when it arrives! Hayworth was sooooooo enchanting in this movie, while Ford just comes off as being stubborn, which is still okay, and it works." Don't know if you're still onboard here but "GILDA" will be on tv, Friday, August 15th @ 9:45pm. Check it out...see if I'm wrong about the tension between the two men. And if I'm wrong...hell, there's still Rita. And ten million bucks is underselling her.

Roy Webb. Geez, I don't know why I don't know his name. Thank you for that info SCSU. I must look out for him. There's some haunting melodies in "Out of the Past." Thanx.

Charley Grape...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Okay. Listen, don't play around with the music of noir okay. There are some great ones by my favorite: Miklos Rosza * "Double Indemnity" * "Spellbound" * "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" * "The Killers" * "Desert Fury" (a great color noir film if I ever saw one. Ooooh that Lizabeth Scott!) * "Criss Cross" I'm not sure he did "OUT OF THE PAST" but that is another noir film with great music. Actually, I always wait for the scene with Mitchum and Huston talking by the river. The music there is so sweet. Great thread, Miss Goddess.

You are SOOOOOO right about a car wreck. You are a car wreck that I can't stop reading. Your third post on your first day and already I'm putting you on IGNORE. Sheesh!

I am scared to death with intimidation of this upcoming class. Well, at least kidz, we have "VERTIGO" to watch, take notes and prep for. I pray I can keep up with you and not totally reveal my inadequacies. Tuesday, 11:15pm August 12th.

Couldn't you have noted this under one of the threads for Doris Day? Tsk! Tsk!

Well shoot...let me jump into the fray with you noiristas. Farr has named a good list, but under the radar?? Maybe for hayseeds in Wisconsin.All of you have named some noir that are truly under the radar or lost in a black hole in space. But look at some of the women that populated Farr's list of noir. Among them: the glorious Gloria Grahame, Joan Blondell, the beautiful Jean Peters (on in "Pickup..." tonite at 8:00pm EST), Peggy Cummins, the sweet girl the hero hopes to come back to: Colleen Gray, sloe-eyed beauty Marie Windsor and of course (as described somewhere I just read) the white-hot Jane Greer. You know, there's something about Jane Greer...oh boy, let me not start THAT again. Besides your doomed, hapless, Fedoraed heroes and sadistic, stocky villains and purple-black, rain-soaked, neon-lit streets...the world of noir is populated with femme fatales that make you longingly wish to die in their arms or by their hands. LONG LIVE NOIR!!! Hey it's kind of nice down here below the line. P.S. I read the title "PUSHOVER" on this thread. Just to remind you, during Kim Novak's stint in SUMMER UNDER THE STARS "Pushover" will air Tuesday, August 12th, at 8:00PM. Hell you oughta watch her the whole day anyway. Message was edited by CineMaven...my apologies to those Mid-Westerners in the know!