CineMaven
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We're on the same wave length (see we're sharing already). That scene where she's walking behind Ray on the road is exactly what I was talking about. Exactly. (How the heck'd you do that?!!!) I haven't (honestly) seen many of her movies, but I've got to reap the wild wind and watch her hold back the dawn.
Ollie - I saw Rhett buying a ticket on Amtrak. That's why I'm going to the film festival via train cross country.
P.S. If the government does shut down this Friday will Michele Bachmann still be able to get her hair done? (She's got a beautiful head of hair). I'm stocking up on Raisinets.
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Tarzan??? Oh...
Now that's a Twizzler of a different twist. I'll take Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Let's let the poor guy rest on Sunday. There's only so many ...'movies' a man can watch.
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Good moanin' Jackaaaaaaay. I know about falling asleep in the middle of a movie. What you've got to do (really) is just set your dvr when you're watching something. And if you do fall asleep, you'll have the picture in the morning. (But the way the world works...if you set your dvr, you're guaranteed NOT to fall asleep. I dunno how that works, but that's how that works).
Yeah Virginia Field was like a "Lana" blonde. Gorgeous. There were a number of blondes in the movie all with different temperatures...Iris Adrian...Hillary Brooke. But Virginia was the heat-seeking missile. But you know how the movie ended...just as you wrote. I must say again...there's something about Paulette Goddard though. She makes me think of Ann Sheridan in the fun department. There's a "knowingness" about her. She's got a great voice and smile and walk.
Scarlett & Rhett. Whew! Well...call me a c0cK-eYeD OpTiMiSt...but I think she does win him over. But she'll have to jump through some hoops and have a very very very deep understanding about her self. She will have to show Rhett (in deed) that she has changed. She won't be so "fiddle dee dee." She'll have the gravitas she had when she was laying on that divan just before Bonnie was killed. But I'm sure a little part of him would still want to pamper her. They'll come together. No other woman will do, no matter how many he sleeps with.
Scarlett is in his blood.
Edited by: CineMaven on Apr 6, 2011 8:52 AM - But what do I know? I'm a Yankee (and proud to be one!) Apparently Ollie has seen Rhett in the Castro district with Madeleine Elster's grandmother...the mad Carlotta. Now we know why she went mad...
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Actually I did indeed. I can't wait to hear your thoughts. Treat it like a movie and tell me how I'm doing. As for Glo-lo...your descriptions really do her justice. Those were some swell choices.
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Hi there Molo. Your post is replying to me, but your post is directed to ILRM. Loving the screencaps and your comments about a few of the Grahame's gems.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
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"I'm going to be shipwrecked on your island," Jack Favell.
Hi welcome. It's a big island. I'll be happy for the company. But...uhmmmm...you're going to have to bring your own videos. Oh, and Twizzlers. Sorry...I don't share.
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You're giving me way too much credit, CinemAva! No studying involved, just too many hours wasted drooling over this movie. And you should have said something to me that night! I'm completely oblivious to my surroundings, especially if I'm outside freezing (yes, it was still too cold for me).
Naaaah, not too much credit; calling it like I'm seeing it. I didn't mean "studying" academically...but I mean it in the very way you described...drooling...not wasting. This movie is almost seventy-two years old. There's got to be a reason we're still interested in these characters...and its engendered such interesting conversation below.
Right now I just finished watching a nice little piece of 1940's fluff: "THE CRYSTAL BALL" with tall dark and dashing Ray Milland, quite a master in his own right doing light sophisticated comedy. No this flick wasn't sophisticated but it did have Paulette Goddard. Boy oh boy, Paulette. There's something about her that's special. I just now asked my father what he thought of Paulette Goddard. Remembering her, he told me: "Ahhh yeah, Paulette Goddard. She was a good actress. She was a lot of fun to watch."
Father knows best.
Dress warmly until June, Miss G. ;-)
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Miss Goddess...your words have stunned me and left me speechless.
But not too speechless to pay you a compliment. This is obviously a film you've loved and studied and...might have lived in some ways or another(?) It's all there in your post. Your writing...your writing...your writing...the poetry in your writing is breathtaking and the lessons learned, wow!
So I see, ma'am. This is how its done. Why anyone uses this board or classic films to be negative or flaming or hurtful is beyond my comprehension. I should have invested my emotion last night in the dream of "GWTW" but after reading your heartfelt post, I got a taste of what I missed.
P.S. Those were some bad beige boots. Yeah, we passed that close to each other, near the theatre but you were engrossed in your conversation and I didn't want to intrude.
MM1957 - "My guess though is that she would still want him back. Partly because she loves him still and partly because she has to win. And maybe there is a little she doesn't want to be alone."
Ooooh, that makes sense to me...Scarlett is nothing if not a winner...no matter how she loses. And I liked what Miss G. wrote to speak to that. The movie perhaps is also about what it looks like to NOT learn life's lessons.
Jackaaaaay - P.S. Mava - She does win him back. :x
I'm inclined to believe there is just one glimmer...one slim possibility of that. When Scarlett tells Rhett that Melanie has said "...he loves you so," I caught how Rhett quickly got up and packed. Like he didn't want her to see his love; that he didn't want to admit to himself that darn it all he still cared for that little vixen. You know how folks walk away when they want something.
P.S.S. Vivien Leigh's beauty was staggering, and Victor Fleming's production is one for the ages.
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"Do they have cable on desert isles? Would you ride a bike like Ed Begley Jr to provide your electricity? Just asking." - << ( jbh ) ?>>
On MY island there 'll be electricity.
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MY GOD, HE DESERVED HIS TITLE AS "THE KING!"
I have to be emotionally ready to watch "GONE WITH THE WIND" - it is such an epic with layers upon layers of emotions and motivations. So I only caught one scene of this great motion picture tonight - when Rhett overhears Scarlett profess her love to Ashley. The whole movie's there in that scene...at least the intertwined relationships of these three tragic people are revealed. When Rhett laughs at her and says "And you were going to hate him for the rest of your life" I'm left breathless. Is there any wonder or doubt that Clark Gable is a movie star...THE Movie Star of Hollywood? (And by the end of the film and all his character goes through...Gable really shows he is an Actor as well). And Vivien Leigh...she steps to Ashley and makes her naked declaration. All that love and desire and innocence of what it really means to be in love...and all her beauty, he had to be flattered...and vague, in order to implicitly keep her coming back. I just got a teensy taste of "GWTW" but all of my memories of the movie flood back seeing Gable & Leigh and hearing Max Steiner's melody.
I have a question for you Miss Goddess...and do forgive me if you've answered it already among your 24K posts.
Do you believe Scarlett ever wins Rhett back?
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Ha! I hope the regulars can hear the shouts over our "guests." I'm putting in a call to Barranca very shortly.
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Why Ollie T. - "I'll confess that the Doris films are among my most-watched-ever."
They are? Wow! I?m shocked and chagrined by this revelation.
"LOVER COME BACK and PILLOW TALK especially, but it's SEND ME NO FLOWERS that convinces me of Tony Randall's greatness as their perenial sidekick - his off-the-train drunken 'hello' kiss to Doris - she looks so shocked and I have a feeling that's an ad-lib - she looks so surprised."
I love drunken Tony Randall at the country club...rubbing the bar, and an oak bench ( It's so smooooooth." ) trying to write Rock?s eulogy, and this nearly kills me: when Rock and Tony share a bed and Tony says: "Complaints, complaints! I can complain a little too you know. You ever cut your toenails?"
"MINK has some great scenes, too - Gig Young's being face-slapped, the running insider-tips between Gig and his psychiatrist Alan Hewitt. Cary Grant being so exasperated by Doris' antics, and John Astin, at his slimy-est best."
I so agree with you. When that dog jumps in the car after Gig
I fall out. And Audrey Meadows' sarcastic quips are a dream.
And when John Astin tries to chase down his own hijacked truck down and jumps over those bushes...again, I?m toast! John Fielder being busted in on during his honeymoon is priceless.
"All of these films have great supporting casts, and I think that's a big reason for my easy ability to watch them over and over. GLASS BOTTOM BOAT with Paul Lynde and Dick Martin."
I draw the line at this film though. That boat should've sunk.
"Are these the last gasps of the Screwball Comedies??
You need not resuscitate it. That patient has died. Its spirit is dead.
Hi Jackaaaaay - "I've seen Send Me No Flowers.... heck, I've actually BEEN in Send Me No Flowers, playing the Doris Day role.... I had no idea what I was doing. The audience probably went home, took a shower and brushed their teeth, then popped in a VHS tape of Doris and Rock to see what real actors could do with the roles."
WHAT??!! You did this as a play? Ooooh, I would have loved to see your take on the Doris Day character.
Jackaaaaaaaaaay, I also want to offer my congratulations on 11K's. Smart, poetic, insightful and funny. Keep 'em coming!
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"Move Over Darling" was cute. I didn't care for "The Thrill Of It All" though. A Doris junkie? I can get with that. Who needs a cure. I think she was a very under-rated actress. She could do comedy, drama, sing and dance? I mean, what more would a fan want from their movie stars? Take care, Sis.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DORIS DAY!!!
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Hi there Jackaaaaaaaay. You've never seen "PILLOW TALK."
Well...
May I recommend "PILLOW TALK" to you. It is such a fun movie, really. In fact, I'd recommend their trilogy for you. If you're ever in the doldrums and you put those films on, your spirits will be lifted. Tell me...have you seen "LOVER COME BACK" or "SEND ME NO FLOWERS" in your cinema travels?? Your post made me sound smart. I'd like to think I meant that Doris herself was cotton candy and champagne. And your explanation sums it up nicely I might add.
I went yesterday to see the TCM free screening of "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE." Angela Lansbury was there for the Q & A. She was fantastic. She's so present, elegant. And Robert Osborne looks so dashing! She said "I've never seen a movie before or since, like "The Manchurian Can- didate." She was flattered to be asked to play the part of Mrs. Iselin. She said movies never really knew how to use her and they weren't used to having a real actress on board. She had a certain regret for how her career didn't advance in movies beyond "Manchurian..." She said "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" was the next role she had that had any great success. Broadway gave her the career as an Actress she wanted.
There was a Q & A as well. And the movie is still eerily prescient.
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Well-said about "ALL ABOUT EVE" Jackaaaaaaaaay!
On HBO-S right now "PILLOW TALK" (1959) is on. And by golly, what a comic set-up. An interior decorator at war with a songwriter as they share a telephone party line. The ingredients are pure buttah. Rock Hudson is truly tall, dark and distractingly handsome. He has a sonorous voice, a nice comic touch. He has a twinkle in his eye. Tony Randall is the comic foil. He can deliver a line. Thelma Ritter is the maid...what can I say about Thelma that hasn't been said. She drunkenly rides up the elevator trading quips galore with venerable pro (elevator operator) Allen Jenkins.
And then there's Doris Day. She's a doll...a dream. She's like champagne. She's sexy, silly, indignant, a voice like maple syrup, she wears designer clothes like nobody's business. Her eyes sparkle so. She's got a white gown and a short mink jacket with long white gloves that fits her like a glove. Her hair looks like cotton candy. She looks great in emerald green. She gives warm intense looks and can handle the comedy as though it's a thin layer of skin.
I love them sizing each other up, the thinking out loud, the obvious deception on Rock's part stringing her along, Rock's pretense at being a Mama's boy, the lady night club singer at the piano singing "You Lied" while Tony takes Rock away.... the split screen fireworks. Twisty. They take a horse and buggy ride through Central Park with Rock holding the reins. The cab-man thinks aloud: "Hangs onto the reins like he's holdin' onto subways traps. I don't know what he's up to. I'm sure glad she's not my daughter." When Rock hides out in an obstetrician's office...I'm done! The doctor says to his receptionist/nurse:
DOCTOR: "A man says he's going to have a baby and you let him get away?"
NURSE: "Well he was obviously a psychopath."
DOCTOR: "Miss Resnick, medical science still has many regions to explore."
Oh yeah...I'm done!
In thinking back to my menage-a-trois list, I was remiss if I didn't add Rock Hudson - Doris Day - Tony Randall. They are a perfect team. And I very much enjoyed their trilogy of films together. In this, when Rock Hudson sees Doris Day dancing a sexy mambo and wistfully thinks aloud: "So THAT'S the other end of your party line." We're off to the races. And I'm having a wonderful time watching the battle of the sexes. Is it really 1959?
It might not be everybody's cuppa tea, but when a movie is perfect, it has no age.
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7:30AM On Dangerous Ground (1951)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry's blind sister. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond. Dir: Nicholas Ray.
This film will air Saturday morning. Watch it if you can.
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"CineM,. my comment about "telephony-web sites" is that websites...
And I'm not sure why TCM's hiring web-programmers who are loading up a whole new set of tracking cookies that invade our 'devices' - just another attempt to run up per-minute cell-charges?"<< (( OLLIE T. )) >>
BINGO!! Mystery solved. That's as good a theory as I've EVER heard.
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"That's beautiful...and I quite agree! Celeste Holm is laughing right now....that crazy, relieved laugh when she realizes that the little ploy Eve has worked out doesn't matter. It always makes me smile - this movie really is very funny and the twists and turns are deliciously entertaining."<< (( JACKFAVELL )) >>
Thanxx so much Jaxxxon. I can see that scene in my mind's eye. I love Bette moving Celeste's drink from in front of her.
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"CineMaven: I totally second your comments...That ending is poetic justice with Eve fixing to get paid forward by 'Phoebe'..."
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I can't think of a more perfect and ironic and just film ending in all movies.
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I'm putting "TOMBSTONE" over "GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL" though the scene where Kirk Douglas goes apoplectically ballistic on Jo Van Fleet. I just found "Tombstone" a more rivetingly told tale.
Jerk that pistol.
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"You tell I'm comin'!!! And hell's comin' with me!!!"
Hands down: "TOMBSTONE."
You're a daisy if you do.
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All I know is that "ALL ABOUT EVE" is a perfect motion picture. It wears on me like my favorite sweater...comfy...warm. I love Bette Davis' Rita Hayworth hair; so thick and lush. It acts also. Georgie's rapier wit is so laser sharp, I felt it all the way here at home. Bette's sarcasm is like vinegar in the eye. Any number of lines is quotable, the inflections are pungent. I wish Bette and Georgie had more scenes together. It's like watching Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone fence in "Captain Blood."
Look how poised Marilyn is in the face of George Sanders, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, pros all. She's right in there with them. It is fun to watch her, but we know where all eyes belong: Anne's no slouch, neither is Thelma, but BETTE DAVIS. Well...she does reign supreme doesn't she.
"It's about time the piano realized, it has not written the concerto."
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I went to the movies yesterday and saw "SUCKER PUNCH" a CGI extra-
vaganza of explosions and fires and running and jumping and shooting and fighting. Acting? Minimal...but not enough to get in the way of explosions and fires and running and jumping and shooting and fighting. A least women were doing all the runnin' and jumpin' and shootin' and fightin'.
Why am I bringing this up in a classic movies message board? B'cuz in one scene in this metaphor for the mistreatment of women in the mental health field in the 40 's, the five actresses were in a room debating their next plan of action, and behind them were torn posters for the movies "BLUES IN THE NIGHT" "MY DREAM IS YOURS" and "THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS." That excited me.
Then there was more fire, running, jumping, shooting and fighting.
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Hey there Ollie - Schedule? Y'mean, there's a schedule? I don't think so. TCM tossed it out. A few weeks ago, in fact.
We don' need no steenkin' schedule! Why should TCM try to entice people to pay attention to movies? It's not as if they ever show any hidden gems or lost treasures.
< SPIT (FRIGGIN') TAKE!!!! >
Why Jackaaaaaay! - I'd love that! I adore them all, all the pencil thin mustaches and their wearers! Apparently, there is no programming tomorrow - March 31st doesn't even exist on the sched.
I'm not big on the pencil thin mustaches. I saw a little bit of some movie with John Payne and Dennis Morgan, and John Payne had a pencil thin mustache. I didn't think it flattered him.
As for the non-existent March 31st...here ya go.
6:15 AM Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Howard Hawks.
8:30 AM Love Me Tonight (1932)
A Parisian tailor falls in love with a princess. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian.
10:00 AM The Children's Hour (1961)
A malicious student tries to destroy the teachers at a girls' school. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner. Dir: William Wyler.
12:00 PM God's Little Acre (1958)
A dirt-farmer lets his family fall apart while he hunts for his grandfather's buried gold. Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise. Dir: Anthony Mann.
2:00 PM Of Mice and Men (1939)
A drifter and his slow-witted pal try to make their way in the West. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field. Dir: Lewis Milestone.
4:00 PM Trapeze (1956)
An aging trapeze star and his protigi fall for the same woman. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida. Dir: Carol Reed.
6:00 PM Black Narcissus (1947)
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: TCM SPOTLIGHT: EMPLOYEE PICKS
8:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star's career and love life. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
10:30 PM Last Of Sheila, The (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing. Cast: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn. Dir: Herbert Ross.
12:45 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties. Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle. Dir: Elia Kazan.
3:00 AM The Story Of G.I. Joe (1945)
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins an Army platoon during World War II to learn what battle is really about. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele. Dir: William A. Wellman.
5:00 AM Men in Exile (1937)
Gun smugglers clash with an island dictator. Cast: Dick Purcell, June Travis, Alan Baxter. Dir: John Farrow.
But TCM didn't hire me, so I won't make this my job.
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As much as a job this is...and a business TCM is...I wonder if one of the criteria to be hired to work for Turner Classic Movies is a love of classic movies.
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Even better. Uhmmm, I mean...thanxxx for the warning.