CineMaven
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...because ultimately it was 'all about Eve.'
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I've never seen "The Red Pony" Molo, but Mitchum with Marilyn, Hepburn, Loretta, Kerr w/Simmons (twice)...I think he was one of the lucky actors.
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I know when Marilyn came out of her motel room in her red dress... she blew everyone off the screen (in that movie and other movies) but I noticed Jean Peters...and she was a humdinger.
Didja ever see her in "BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER"?
CineMaven.
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I had a big crush on big ol' (Daniel Boone) Fess Parker.
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Truer words were NEVER spoken Violets...
You think he'd have made a play for Bill.
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OMG!!! Yep, I'm drooling now. Wish I could be out on the coast for that event. Glad to see folks have not forgotten the great Tyrone Power.
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Nah, Clint never rescued me. He was probably in his trailer havin' a beer. I found my way out and vowed never to go on a class trip again. But of course, I did go. I had no choice. They were class trips. I was in a College Bound program and saw "The Great White Hope" with James Earl Jones and a Carol Lawrence/Gordon McRae musical (also on Broadway) and Stratford Connecticut to see Shakespeare.
In 1968 I was ....Yep...I'm a dyed-in-the-wool baby boomer, but if you saw me you'd see I look much younger than my age.
You ought to make it a point to go to the Cloisters. ;-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rlJgUozYFc
It's not Irish...but if you can check that out, you'll like it. Say, am I doing this right?
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I think Mitchum had all he could handle dealing with (double D) Russell. Dealing with Double GG would have put him over the edge. Even Mitchum is not Superman. One movie at a time. One actress at a time.
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HA!! Mom. Ya gotta love her.
I had an interesting & scary experience re "Coogan's Bluff." When I was a sophomore in high school we took a class trip to the Cloisters (here in upper West Side of NY). When the trip ended we all had to take the subway home. I went a different way from the group and got lost in the park up there in Inwood. As I got lost deep in the park and the trees and was scared, I saw a movie truck or van. And the name of the production they were shooting..."Coogan's Bluff".
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Whoa whoa whoa...back up. I missed something. You were interviewed in connection to Tyrone Power?
WoW!!! I'm totally impressed.
Handsome as he was, he didn't get a chance to stretch his talents; a pretty face. A story that happened all too often, I'm afraid.
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That line Yul threw Anne is PRICELESS. Thanxxx! Boastful Ramses.
I like this line from 1931's 'THE MUMMY":
"If I could get my hands on you, I'd break your dried flesh to pieces!!"
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Joan Leslie and Cathy O'Donnell were sweet girl-next-door types, weren't they? Lovely, just lovely. I wonder how Joan felt working with the great Lupino.
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Martin & Lewis...Hope & Crosby...Abbott & Costello.
Gosh, they don't make teams anymore...do they? Well, my three favorite Abbott & Costello films are: "HOLD THAT GHOST" "KEEP 'EM FLYING" and "RIDE 'EM COWBOY." Taking nothing away from the raucous humor of A & C, but here's the real reasons why:
1. Anne Gwynne
2. Martha Raye
3. Evelyn Ankers
Two scream queens and a Betty Hutton-type. Love those gals.
PS Loved Hillary Brooke too on their tv show.
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Was any one else uncomfortable the way Richard Widmark greeted his daughter and carried her up the stairs in "The Cobweb"??
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Uh....WHAT??
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I hope you're not sick tomorrow. "LIBELED LADY" is on TCM at 8:00AM Sunday morning. Funny. And there's Harlow.
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Over the top music and horses. Golleeeeee.
Great YouTube link. Gloria's hot. And Robert Mitchum could even melt Garbo. (I wasn't so totally convinced of Gable in "Susan Lenox...").
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"Does anyone have a link to FrankGrimes wonderful dissertation on this film? I need to read again to and to remind him to watch Obsession as soon as possible."
I loved "Obsession" very much. Genevieve Bujold and Cliff Robertson and John ("Third Rock from the Sun") Lithgow gave very convincing performances. Genevieve breaks my heart anyway.
As for FrankGrimes' wonderful treatise on "Vertigo" you only need go back to page 11 or 12 thereabouts on this very thread. It was a wonderful read and sowed the seeds to my recent PMs to you and he.
Enjoy! Say...is "Obsession" coming to TCM soon?
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"You might think such and of course, I find your point of view most interesting, but as I see it, regardless of how overcome with emotion by the situation before him, Scotty is first and up most a detective from the old school " a hard headed scholar" and it was not in his character for him to "forget" or "blurred out" Madeline's name regardless of how distressed he was over her sudden plunge and give himself away just like that."
Yeah DePalma...Scotty was a detective from the old school. But from his first sight of Madeleine leaving the dining room at Ernie's his crackerjack detective badge went right out the window. And I could totally agree with you of Scottie finding the pendant on his own. But Hitch putting that pendant in Madeleine's hands was really a nice kinky twist.
No argument with you DePalma. Loved reading your essay and love even more "VERTIGO."
Freddie I agree with you. And I LOVE being manipulated by Hitchcock.
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"As we can see, (Madeleine) has no choices in the affair...she can't even select a flower from the street vendor...you see her pointing to one and he picks another...her need to be loved is her downfall."
The two things that you find makes the movie almost perfect:
1. Scotty calls Madeleine by name and
2. Madeleine pulling out the "blasted pendant"
are not mistakes. Hitch knew what he was doing ALL the way.
1. I think Scotty was so overcome by the situation of saving her from drowning he just blurted it out. He forgot he was a detective "tailing" her...he wasn't expecting her to go into the drink...he forgot himself; adrenalin...emotion. He called her back from, what he thought, was the brink.
2. Yeah, it might've been better if Scotty had found the pendant while Madeleine was in the bathroom. But I think she too was overcome by emotion. She probably just got the Big O from Scotty (since he hadn't "touched" her beforehand and mussed up her makeup) and was overcome by emotion of finally being loved fully that she just forgot. She absent-mindedly completed the Madeleine makeover willingly. Hence the pendant.
D'ya really wanna haggle about open blinds and shadows?? Opened blinds notwithstanding I think "Vertigo" IS perfect.
MORE importantly DePalma, let's not forget...Scotty's NEED TO CONTROL is HIS downfall. The downfall is a two-way street; when Madeleine/Judy goes off that tower, Scotty goes too!
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Bronxgirl:"Can you imagine if Robert Taylor played that part? He'd have to choose between Lana Turner and Grace Kelly. What red-blooded man could make that final decision?"
Fred:"Well, knowing men as I do (I've been one all my life), and knowing the rascals that they are, I would ask the question, why choose between Turner and Kelly at all?
Me: "Why Fred, you wily ol' coyote!!! ;-)
(Could GG have been using Vaseline all over her face and being an Oscar winner, noone wanted to correct her?)
"The Cobweb" - Much ado about nothing; but I still enjoyed the splash sturm and drapes of it.
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Well put, Bronxgirl. Well put. That's why I like reading your work.
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I printed up and read the Raines thread. Aaaaah, she's one of my favorites!
Director Minghella (of "English Patient" fame) dies at 54 :(
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Such sad news. I also enjoyed "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "The English Patient."
Gee. :-(