CineMaven

Enjoyed him in "BROTHER RAT" (1939) and always liked his voice and looks. I thought he always had an easy breezy way with his lines but I never saw him given a good meaty role (other than as you mentioned..."PATHS OF GLORY.") I did not know that he had such a distinguished career in the military. Good to know.

Aaaah, so there IS a silver lining. Joel McCrea was indeed a nice tall drink o' water. http://www.archive.org/details/meet_the_boyfriend Here's a Pert Kelton flick for you.

Oooh. I'm sorry. :-(

Thanks TCM. :-(

Good morning J.F. Did you have a nice restful night? Good. Sooooooooo...tell me, who was it. Did you dream about Jack or Frank?? C'mon sister...give. You can PM the details about Frankie. I can take it.

Testing? Our temperatures? Whew! Sean Connery.

Afternoon Jackaaaaay: I must be over the rainbow... with Jean Harlow? I certainly hope that this new format WORKS as good as it looks. I'm with you there, though the powers-that-be could have spent their time checking out cyber-identities to this Message Board. And pressing the "post message" button is now glitchy for me. But hey...anywhere with Jean Harlow, you know there'll be some laughs. Brian Donlevy is a superb choice! Villains die almost as well, if not better than sidekicks. I'll see your Captain Markoff and raise you one Mrs. Danvers. Awwwright. I'll take that bet. Here's to your Mrs. Danvers with either the poignant death of Lawrence Talbot in "THE WOLFMAN" or Christopher Lee's yucky death in Hammer's "DRACULA." Who am I kidding. I'll bet my whole pot on bad guy's John Cassevetes' agonizing atomizing smithereened demise at the end of "THE FURY." I can still hear the audience's screams and cheers! Man, he was really a bad guy!

"That's another intersting sub-category: favorite villain death scenes..." - < ( Miss Goddess ) > Hi there...well, along those lines, the bad guys in the James Bond films die interestingly. Albeit those aren't quite the classics we're talking about...but it's a start. It's only nine in the morning. My Maven's brain doesn't start until noon. Okay...okay. What about this: Brian Donlevy in "Beau Geste." (Hi Jackaaaaaaaay!)

Hiya Rey, I haven?t done a list in a while. May I please join the fray with some of my favorite death scenes? They?ve been poignant, harrowing tragic and spectacular. These are some of my cinematic deaths. Some I can't wait to see..and others I dread. Oh yeah, there will be spoilers but of course you?ve all seen these films before: 1. Agnes Moorhead in "DARK PASSAGE." Ooooh, she was so deliciously venomous, wasn't she? I hated to see her go. 2. Anthony Dawson in "DIAL M FOR MURDER.? Turnabout is fair play. Ow! Didn't his mom tell him not to run with scissors! 3. Barbara Leigh-Hunt in "FRENZY." Tawdry, lurid, shameful, unworthy of the Master. I hate Hitchcock for not letting me turn away. 4. Barbara Stanwyck in "THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS.? Up close and personal. And by her own hands, too. "...No, Smith." 5. Bette Davis in "DARK VICTORY.? So brave, so poignant. Bette was sweet. I was sorry she didn't have a chance at a full life. 6. Bette Davis in "THE LETTER.? To err is human; to forgive, divine. Pssst! Someone forgot to tell Gale Sondergaard. I loved Bette for saying my most favorite line in movies: "With all my heart, I still love the man I killed." Gosh, she doesn't back down for anybody, does she. 7. Burt Lancaster in "THE KILLERS.? "I did something wrong...once.? I'd say. 'Twas beauty killed the beast. Fellas, when you see Ava, well...you've been warned. 8. Cagney in "WHITE HEAT.? I?ve seen nothing more spectacular than this maniacal and fitting ending. I couldn't be as crazy...or as brave as he to shoot that tank. A blaze of glory! 9. Cagney in "PUBLIC ENEMY.? OMG! He literally falls face first without blinking. How many takes did Mervyn need for that? 10. Dana Andrews in "THE OX-BOW INCIDENT." He was soo scruffy and curly-haired and so passionate. His lynching haunts me. Not an easy movie. 11. Dorothy Dandridge in "CARMEN JONES.? Green-eyed jealousy trumps the red hot Dandridge. Dorothy was fantastic. 12. Errol Flynn in "THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON.? Valiant! Heroic. But his goodbye to de Havilland as Libby already had me in tears. And the music in that scene broke my heart. It was probably harder to say goodbye to her than it was to face his death. 13. Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty in "BONNIE AND CLYDE.? I...am...still...stunned. 14. Garbo in "CAMILLE.? Garbo is magnificent. I believed her every step of the way. "...Make my love hate me." Whew! 15. Gene Tierney in "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN.? Gene?s maliciousness was astounding. Her brother-in-law...her baby and...well...if you want something done right... I loved her posses- siveness reaching from beyond the grave. Her beauty is breathtaking in this technicolor classic. How could anyone so beautiful be so malevolent. 16. Gregory Peck in "MOBY DICK.? Obsession...not always a good thing. Now THAT should have been the one that got a way, Cap'n. 17. Herbert Marshall in "THE LITTLE FOXES.? "...I'll be waiting for you to die!" Well, I think that about says it all, don't you? Herbert didn?t learn his lesson with Bette after ?The Letter?? Oooooh, an ugly way to go. Step by step...inch by heart-wrenching inch. 18. Janet Leigh in "PSYCHO." This changed e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Hitchcock makes me feel what I don't want to feel. Get outta my psyche, Hitch! 19. Jason Miller in "THE EXORCIST.? From beginning to end, I was on the edge of my seat with this motion picture. I saw it in the theatres recently. Still horrifyingly effective. 20. Jennifer Jones in "DUEL IN THE SUN.? Well, you know what they say about a woman scorned. They say: "Come and get me Pearl!!? Oh Jennifer's comin' to getcha alright! You just wait right there. 21. Jennifer Jones in "THE TOWERING INFERNO." I gasped!! Why her and not a starlet like Susan Blakely. Ugh! Jennnnnny!!!! 22. Joan Crawford in "HUMORESQUE.? What else could the woman do? She was too near-sighted to see the ocean. 23. Juanita Moore in ?IMITATION OF LIFE.? Whew!I I cannot even think about her. It hurts. 24. Kim Novak in "VERTIGO.? Kim Novak is spectacularly lost and sensual in this, which makes her demise all the more... Scottie?s cure will kill him this second time around. 25. Kirk Douglas in "THE DETECTIVE STORY.? Whew!! The Past is the past but he just couldn?t let it go... 26. Kong in "KING KONG.? ? ?Twas beauty killed the beast.? Boy, you can say that again. Oooh, I just did. (Gene Pitney said "It Hurts to Be In Love"). 27. Lew Ayres in "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.? Eighty-one years later...and we haven?t learned yet. What will it take. A damn shame. 28. Lizabeth Scott in ?TOO LATE FOR TEARS.? Now here?s the gal with the husky voice who is head over heels for money. Whoops! Thar she goes. 29. Marilyn Monroe in "NIAGARA? Whew! What a waste. Wouldn?t divorce had been easier, Joseph? 30. Mercedes McCambridge in "JOHNNY GUITAR.? What a showdown! 31. Olivia de Havilland in "GONE WITH THE WIND." I saw this at 16 as a class trip. I was stifling sobs throughout her death scene. 32. Robert Keith in "WRITTEN ON THE WIND.? Poor poor man. I was sorry to see him go. See: It's really fun. And when you have a moment...check this out as well: 33. Rock Hudson in "SECONDS.? Sometimes a second chance can be fatal. (See "Vertigo"). Rock did a phenomenally unrecognized job in this movie. He was not just another pretty face; I do love his pretty face, though. And his big voice. 34. ?Sebastian Venable? (character's name) in ?SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER.? Hannibal Lecter would have appreciated this. Pass the chianti. 35. Shelley Winters in "A DOUBLE LIFE.? Art imitated life in this film. Shelley was good. 36. Shelley Winters in "A PLACE IN THE SUN.? Shelley "stood? in the way of true love. "Siddown up front. You?re rockin? the boat!!" Uh-oh, she can't swim? 37. Shirley MacLaine in "THE CHILDREN?S HOUR.? Times have changed. 38. Sinatra in "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.? ...but not his marriage to Ava. He was wonderfully dramatic (with a tinge of humor). A portent of things to come for The Voice. 39. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in "THELMA & LOUISE.? I know women who go to the ladies room together...but this was a fantastic way to go. I mean, if ya gotta go. Grand job, ladies! Husbands...don't drive your wife off a cliff. 40. Yeller in "OLD YELLER? A heartbreaker after all these years. Still. 41. Susan Hayward in ?I WANT TO LIVE!? The most harrowing thing I've ever s(c)ene. Susan gives a masterful performance. 42. Veronica Lake in ?SO PROUDLY WE HAIL.? This peekaboo blonde faced death squarely with both eyes opened and both hands on a grenade. 43. Zachary Scott in "MILDRED PIERCE.? Ha! Bullets were too good for Monty...and he deserved all six of 'em...the cad. * Honorable Mention to the Extra who fell to his death in ?THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE?, Susan Flannery in ?THE TOWERING INFERNO?, the actor harpooned by Sean Connery in the James Bond classic: "DR. NO", the carnage Anthony Hopkins inflicted on two character actors who played his jailers near the end of "SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" and all the actresses in Richard Burton?s film ?BLUE BEARD.? And Joey Heatherton escapes? Please pardon the quick trivia: Just watched ?CAPRICORN ONE? and it?s wild to see James Brolin with Elliot Gould.

Thank you Miss G.

AN A < SIGH > D: Watched "CHEYENNE" this morning. Saw Cheyenne wash up and put on his shirt before he went out to do law man business. I've been bummed out....but THAT was an eye opening, pick-me-up-per. Guess I'm now ready to face this day.

Suex2...your mailbox is full. I can't get in.

Right after "Four Daughters" ended, the TCM tribute to the late Jane Russell aired. I finally caught it. WheW!!! My gosh, she was a gorgeous, tough looking gal. ...And yes, she could hold her own proudly walking next to the 50's Ultimate Blonde in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." But then we see her vulnerability wash over her face in one of the shots used. Jane Russell. She has her place firmly in screen history. :-(

Molo...you ol' sodbuster. How are ya? I have seen that Private Screenings with Mitchum and Russell. Mitch was so curmudgeonly and I think Jackaaaaaaaay is right about Janie just lau- ghing it off. I have that interview on one of my tapes. I need to pull that out. The Oscars would do well to bring out some of the ol' glamour that these two generated. I'm sorry to hear of Jane Russell's passing.

I agree about the teaming of Jane Russell and Mitchum. They look like they're the only ones who could handle each other. The same intensity; evenly matched. Thanxx for the Don Ameche pix. He was a cutie pie especially without the mustache.

< AHEM! > Whoa!!! I see why you were late with the congrats, Molo. My my! What WERE you two doing? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...changing a tire. Okay.

WHAT!! Janie gone??? Oh my..... :-( :-( :-(

Seeing Timothy Carey unshaven, in a dirty bathrobe, looming over Susan laying in bed in her alcoholic stupor...was more frightening than "Silence of the Lambs" was last night. Imdb writes of Susan: "The youngest of three children, Edythe Marrenner was born in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. Her father and mother, who were of Irish and Swedish descent respectively, endowed her with the milky complexion and ruby mane that would become her trademark. She grew up in poverty in the shadow of her older sister Florence who was her mother's favorite. Edythe would nurse a life-long grudge over what she perceived as her mother's neglect.... "Legends of the Fall" is on now. Why can't I pull myself away from Brad Pitt, riding hellbent across the Montana landscape without a hat. I've got some errands to run but I can't pull myself away. Ohhhh, where is Ronald Colman when you need him.

Does it count that I've always liked Don Ameche's voice? (I was remiss in leaving him off my list of favorite voices). :-(

I have "I'LL CRY TOMORROW" on in the background. And I gotta say...I think Susan Hayward is really quite stunningly beautiful. Yes, I've heard she's cold...brittle...maybe a bit actress-y; also, not well-liked. But when she first steps out on stage as the adult Lillian Roth in all her pizzazzzzz and I happened to look up at the tv and saw her, I really was stunned. Yeah, this is your typical Hollywood biographical fare. But that's okay...that doesn't bother me. I liked seeing her paired with Jo Van Fleet...I was hoping to see them go toe-to-toe, but Jo plays it like a nice Jewish mother when Roth's grown up. (Oh man!! I wanted fireworks. I don't want Van Fleet nice, I want her hard and mean). Richard Conte's a cold S.O.B. in this. (Ha...when is he not? He's kind of a sexy John Garfield, to me. And yet I'm still thinking of Jack LaRue). But his S.O.B.-ness does seem to go well with Hayward's fiery persona. She breaks my heart when Conte's so mean to her. Oooh boy, and really slunk to a new low to be in bed with grungy Timothy Carey. Could Susan Hayward be a candidate for one of the great unsung actresses? For me, she's pulling out all the stops in "I'LL CRY TOMORROW" and it doesn't look over-the-top, either.

I saw "PSYCHO" recently at the Film Forum (here in NYC). For the very very first time since all my viewings of this Hitchcock movie...I found it to be a very intimate and quiet film. I've never had that experience before with "PSYCHO."

"...We've always loved her as a strong willed woman, especially with Wayne, but this is a new level of hardness for her." What? What's this I --see-- ? Read? Our strong-willed Celtic titian technicolor beauty as a hard woman and...not shrewish? (Sorry fans, but I do still love her). I've got to see this for myself.

I BETCHA CAN'T SEE JUST ONE! < SIGH!! > Thanx Miss G., for posting the links to the Robert Mitchum interview. After I ate him up in those four parts, I went over to his interview with Dick Cavett. Mitchum. So masculine, oozing it actually. But I could see the shyness too. Love his smart-A$$ devil-may-care, off-the-cuff answers, and his intelligence. Yes, that shone through for me as well as his Peck's Bad Boy. He looked so contemporary in that Cavett interview with his longish hair and dark shades. And I love just listening to his voice. I bet he could regale his personal circle of friends with stories and opinions of the industry, doing little dialects, swigging down some Scotch. Loved, [/u]LOVED[/u] seeing Jane Russell and Jean Simmons and Jane Greer. I think these three gals didn't let a control freaked fetishist like Howard Hughes get the best of their humanity and their personal lives. (Jane Greer telling Howard "I'm happy," was great!) I loved her eyes and her whole look and persona in "OUT OF THE PAST." There's a thread for the Ramblers: Name an Actor/Actress Who Will Be Remembered Forever...From Just ONE Film.[/i] That would be Greer's turn as Cathy Moffett. As to those gals like Marilyn and Deborah...and Shirley and others, what a club to be in...to be held in the arms of the big burly gruff sensitive smart and sexy Robert Mitchum. They really don't make 'em like they used to, do they. < SIGH!!! >

"knock up" in this case sounds to me like a manner of speaking. As in "I'm going to knock on their door". It's a British way of speaking. Maybe "babydiapers" is British. This message was in response to a message that was deleted, so it may seem out of context." - <<< L'il Abner >>> I see, L'il A...British, Canadian...whatever bridge its under...those diapers are full of it and smells to high heaven. I love TCM and their mixture of genres and eras.