CineMaven
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"Yes - Elisha was great in his roles and was creepy
He was in Rosemarys Baby even."
Re: Elisha Cook Jr.... TripleHHH, look closely, please. I think Elisha WAS Rosemary's baby.
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Eleanor needs no Devil's Advocate charity case defense. She was a definite straight-up player/contender that year.
Of course Swanson's the only one who gave Bette the real run for her money. Baxter's Oscar nomination insistence spoiled things. Your thoughts?
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Awwwwwwwwww! ;-)
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Dumb??? Stupid??? Goofy??? Boy, what reviews.
You've whet my appetite, folks. :-)
(Psst! The Giant Claw DID look pretty goofy flying through the air with those bug eyes...and wires in his back).
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I kid. I KID!!!!! :-)
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Aaah...so you guys DO have taste. Good, good.
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Yo yo yo!!!! Folks, let's get a grip shall we?! Nothing is perfect.
Except for "ALL ABOUT EVE."
This film is a monument to perfection in filmmaking. Written intelligently, perfectly cast, set-designed accurately, and acted sublimely.
I think Gable wuz robbed of an Academy Award for "Gone With the Wind" and I feel the same way about Bette Davis' performance in this motion picture. She should have won for the role of Margo Channing. I think it's the shining star of a brilliant career. I mean if you had to pick one role for ten movie stars that could go in a vault to be opened up 1,000 years from now, I think Bette Davis as Margo Channing should be her submission. (And Garbo's would be "CAMILLE." And Tierney's would be...ooops! I've digressed from my gushing).
Celeste Holm played opposite her exquisitely and unintimidatingly and did a fantastic job herself. And Anne Baxter took a difficult role and walked the "razor's edge" of cunning obsequiousness. And the only one to spot her right off the bat: the inimitable Thelma Ritter. Who else I ask you...WHO ELSE could deliver a line like Ritter. (Oh Eve Arden's great but Thelma, I swear...a Master). George Sanders was venom personified and I relished every moment of him...from the safety of my living room.
Ennis you encapsulated the entire film with your remarks below. (I gotta practice your succinctness). Nicely done, man.
I had an appointment to hang with friends yesterday and if I tell you I had to tear myself away from TCM to head out, you won't believe how difficult that was EVEN THOUGH I was recording the movie. I'm a struggling indie filmmaker and "ALL ABOUT EVE" is Mt. Everest. But back to reality, nothing is perfect.
Except for "ALL ABOUT EVE."
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"...I like to believe that if you were somehow magically able to take all the leading actresses from, say, 1938 and deposit them in 2008, Carole -- due to her intelligence and iconoclasm -- would probably have the least difficulty adjusting to the sensibilities and attitudes of today..."
May I please speak to this one since I brought up Lombard in the first place when answering the question posed, VP? I'll speak to the second half of the question as you did. I would wholeheartedly agree with you re: Lombard's ability to deal with the sensibilities/attitudes of today. She does seem timeless and from what I've read and heard about her in her private life, she was a very down-to-earth gal; not starstruck in being a Movie Star a la the great diva Crawford. I think she would have been happy to make fewer films and make a life, home and family with ("The King") Clark Gable. She seemed to have a good solid head on her shoulder on the business end of things. She'd tell the truth to any studio exec of today in nooooo uncertain terms. You wouldn't be able to bullsh1t her. I'd have loved to see a 21st Century Lombard.
As for arguing, not me folks. I merely needed to state my position clearly and unequivocally to leave NO ROOM for error in what I think and post. Dude, I had to answer the mean-spirited, sarcastic and stupid inference of my post from a mean-spirited, sarcastic and stooopid poster. I won't initiate any arguments on this great forum...but I'll dammmm sure finish 'em.
So back to the question that started this thread...let's bring back Lombard and while we're at it, let's send for Bogie too. Bogart & Lombard seem like two immortal screen icons who wouldn't take themselves so seriously and fit in quite nicely today. I think they could teach today's stars a thing or two...or three.
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You're so right Lafitte. They don't make character actors like that anymore. Or Thelma Ritter ('course I'm looking at "All About Eve"). I do think today's comedienne Wanda Sykes could do a Thelma Ritter role.
Elisha Cook Jr. had a long successful career.
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Especially in those tights, ey Falcon??
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I understood your yawn SCSU. More plagiarism. Bore...bore...bore! Gotcha.
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I love James Woods' piece on the great Bette Davis. He is quite a character actor. Davis was wonderful.
In fact I like all of that series. Just heard Janet Leigh talk of Norma Shearer. I liked the speaking about Stanwyck, James Stewart, Peter & Jane talk about their Dad Henry, Coop's daughter Maria Janis talking about him.
Or will CineSage Jr. twist my words on this score too?
It's a wonderful series.
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CineSage...why couldn't you have been sitting next to poor Ricky Nelson's on his last flight? Though with you pedantically boring him with your movie knowledge, he'd probably have jumped without a parachute to get away from you like many of us here on this Message Board. NOW will you ignore me?
I had to edit this before the censors come after me. But they might even give me a pass 'cuz of whom I responding to. Or is that who??
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Oh yeah CineSage...you ought to have been sitting next to Audie Murphy too. And John Denver and...say was that YOU on the wing of the plane in the William Shatner episode of "The Twilight Zone"??
Well, you get the idea. Dude, ya gotta put me on IGNORE.
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CineSage Jr. you are a sick twisted f**k. Why would you want to send those poor soldiers and Lombard's mom and the others to hell? Why would you want to cause their family pain.I am just answering the original question:
"I was wondering if you could back in time the save the life or tragedies of our favorite celebrities..."
I would feel sorry for you but I don't give a f**k. But I do wish YOU were on that fatal flight of Lombard's though. And Aliyah's flight, and Buddy Holly's flight, and Otis Redding's flight and Patsy Cline's flight and well...I guess you get the idea.
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"I want to see that interview. i didnt see when you posted it the first time, what time and what channel?"
My sister lives in Texas. Killeen to be exact. And the Helen Mirren interview will be live in the New York Times Center on 41st Street. And I'll be there.
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Try this on for size from "The Barefoot Contessa."
When a drunken bimbo tries to insult the barefoot contessa, Harry's wife tells her:
"What she's got, you can't spell.
What she's got you used to have!"
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"My Friend Flicka."
Gee TripleHHH, where do you get ALL your ideas for threads... after thread after thread after thread??
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Well, I wish he would have let them hang 'em high. But at the very least he made them sweat.
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And on the other side of the token, I shudder at the thought of seeing Ginger Rogers in tights. ;-)
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I would have begged, pleaded with Carole Lombard to take the train back to Los Angeles in January 1942.
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No stress for me. Full of witty observations about relationships. THUMBS UP!!! Lighten up.
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Back in the early 30's with that black slicked-back hair of Brylcreme and those luscious dark eyes (like Valentino), he was gorgeous. My favorite film of his is "They Drive By Night." I liked his flat expressionless voice too. Go figure! But I'm a fan.
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Couldn't the dreadful and ghastly "Last House on the Left" be shown on TCM's underground??
All About Eve - Thanks TCM!
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It is Eve's story. But it's all about MARGO.