CineMaven
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Thelma Ritter, Eve Arden are masters...bar none as previously mentioned. May I add Joan Davis and Martha Raye to the list.
I would also like to add today's Wanda Sykes to that time honored position of scene stealer.
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Doggone it. Looks like I blew it again. I should've at least taped it to watch later. Sheesh!
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"I look forward to reading your always insightful and entertaining thoughts, CM."
It's-a-coming. ;-)
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"Don Winslow..."
LIONELL ATWILL or GEORGE ZUCCO?
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Speaking of the evil Joan Crawford...
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D'ya WANT your movie to make money?? Dee had a good comic timing and such a sweet disposition. I'm just not sold on Bobby Darin. As for him playing Rock's brother...the looks, man...the looks!!! I couldn't say anything mean in the other thread dedicated to Darin but I can be honest here. He didn't have the looks.
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Would we do anything else?
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D'ya think sometimes a no might mean yes?
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It's only human nature to want things to end up happily...hopefully; I don't know that Pollyanna would be the best way to describe wanting the best outcome.
But after two hours of blood, guts and horror...the expectation of a good turn-out might be expecting too much.
The ending was downbeat...and I loved it.
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Glad to see Double G's thread back on top. I've watched "The Cobweb" "Crossfire" "The Bad & The Beautiful" and now "A Woman's Secret." Wanna give my thoughts on TCM's showing of Gloria Grahame very soon.
The opinions expressed by me do not represent any normal loving cinemabuff.
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Five minutes more. Just five minutes more!!! Holy Moly!!!
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"...And Jean Peters is extremely sexy."
Holy Cow!!! What an understatement!! She's all that...and a bag o' chips.
You gotta see her in "Blueprint for Murder." A different 1950's look, but hotcha just the same.
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Thank you for citing that site. I will go there and get my full of her. But can I ever get enough.
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Hey Kim...didn't mean to take your thread off into a tangent by exclusively bringing up Ella Raines in a western. I know this is a nursing thread and I am a fan of "Cry Havoc" and "So Proudly We Hail." Interesting what context we see women as a group bonding (the beauty salon?) where men have sports, wars and other activities to be men and bond. Women don't seem to have as many outlets as a group.
But I love ELLA. Don't worry I'll go down to the Western Gallery threads and talk about 'TALL IN THE SADDLE."
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I am scared stiff to, once again, put my heart on my sleeve to reveal how I feel...but now you've hit the silver lode in mentioning one of my very favorite actors from the 40's...LIZABETH SCOTT. I don't think I walk alone in my admiration for this star. Now it could be the company she keeps when she's often likened to Bacall. They both have that throaty sexy husky voice. They both worked with Bogart but that would be your pitfall if you think that they were both two of a kind. There was something of a victim...a hurt...a vulnerability that Scott expresses more so than Bacall.
She's worked with Kirk and Burt and Victor and Powell (Dick) and Charlton and Henreid and Cummings and DeFore and let's not leave out Mitchum and Ryan. They were not bad for each other. She acquitted herself nicely with each of her leading men. And they were paid in full if they got the chance to kiss her. Lucky dawg!
I hope I haven't made a mockery trying to incorporate her movie titles to express my thoughts on one of the gems of the 40's: Lizabeth Scott. My OTHER favorite will be on TCM at 12:30pm EST in "TALL IN THE SADDLE." ELLA RAINES
(PS--see if you can pick out the movie references.)
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Checked out the site Senses of Cinema. Very interesting. Loved what I read. Saw some names of two of my faves: Stephane Audran and Genevieve Bujold.
Thanxx for the info.
Dress extra??? I probably wouldn't know the name.
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You'll get a chance to experience Ella Raines Saturday afternoon. I see she's coming on in "TALL IN THE SADDLE." She's so lovely to look at and wonderful to watch.
And she stops John Wayne dead in his tracks, doesn't she.
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I always found Keir Dullea very unsettling; ever since "David & Lisa." Carol Lynley reminded me so much of Joanne Woodward. What a wacky pair they were. (I've NEVER talked to my brother while he was in the bathtub). I've avoided this pix for years. So today I'm making myself watch this. Very interesting. Looks like it really captured mad, mod London of the 60's.
Olivier is very good and Noel Coward...smarmy, oily and great voice. When she had the chance to escape through the front door, why did she stay within the house? It was very unsettling the psychosexual byplay between them. Well, I've watched it and won't ever have to watch it again.
Creeeeeepy!
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Well...well now. Those pix are lovely. I sing her praises. I sing of Dee.
Thank you.
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Hmmmm...Henreid may not be acting. I mean after all...did you see any sexual tension between him and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"?? I rest my flimsy case.
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Sarah...do you really want to be pushing up daisies for Dee & Darin? For all eternity??? I dunno...Think about it.
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Is it at all possible, that McLeod could be Preston Foster in drag? That's the only explanation that seems plausible considering the astounding resemblance. Wow. Now back to Anne Francis...
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"For all of us who love classic films, and especially films noir, he's always been in the pantheon of actors. With his passing, we've lost practically the last remaining star from the great group of actors and actresses who came into films either just before or just after World War II. Rest in peace, Mr. Widmark."
Ohhhhh, I think the nail in the coffin of that classic era will be the incomparable Kirk Douglas.
A sad day indeed.
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Well I had to get your attention somehow, didn't I?
This is my second time seeing "Meet the Stewarts" an innocuous little comedy from 1942. And I am stunned, enthralled and in love with Frances Dee.
Yeah, she played a silly little housewife, but there was something underneath that...something about Dee that has totally captivated me. She was luminescent, enchanting and straightforward.
You know, to be honest with you folks, I can't quite put my feelings into words on the effect she had on me. It made me seek her out in "I WALK WITH A ZOMBIE" and "LOVE IS A RACKET" and "KEEP 'EM ROLLING." I will force myself to take another look at "LITTLE WOMEN" to catch her. I'll have to find "OF HUMAN BONDAGE" becuz she's in it. There's something about her (and Margaret Lindsay) that really touch me. There was a shot of Dee in "SO ENDS OUR NIGHT" that defies any close up Leigh got in "GWTW" or Novak in "VERTIGO" or even the great Garbo in "QUEEN CHRISTINA." I'm sure I haven't scratched the surface of the oeuvre of Dee.
Okay...go on. I deserve it. I dared wear my heart on my sleeve on this wacky and wild west Message Board. Go on. Slap some good sense into me.
Tell me your thoughts on Frances Dee.
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H3...name another movie with a shocking ending.