CineMaven

A better new year for you and Flixsie, Miss G.

You're quite welcome. You and your family. All the best! You're in charge of you.

TO MY FAVORITE LOVERS...OF NOIR I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST THIS VERY NEW NEW YEAR!!!

JACKAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! AND ALL MY FELLOW RAMBLERS...I WISH YOU THE BEST THIS NEW YEAR. HEALTH & HAPPINESS TO YOU ALL.

ALL THE VERY BEST OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO ALL OF MY FAV'RITE RAMBLERS!! A NEW BEGINNING!!!

A VERY HEALTHY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FAVORITE RAMBLERS!

But what about Tammi Marihugh in "The Last Voyage." Wait...stop the presses. What the heck was THAT? What? "Animal Crackers." What insane anarchy was that? It was madness...madcap madness. The lines were fast and furious. It was non-stop talking. The gags were in abundance. Margaret Dumont was priceless. The Bros. Marx were amazing. 1930? I have never watched it all the way through. My New Year's Resolution...to be a better Maven. To all my favorite usual suspects: HAVE A VERY HAPPY HEALTHY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!" Warmly :x Theresa

"I have to say, Lew Ayres reminded me of a young Jack Lemmon, and Doris Nolan, playing Julia Seton, looked a lot like James Cagney's sister Jeanne. - << (( Ray Allen )) >> I agree...you're so right about Doris Nolan. "Heck how did Cary fall in love with such a girl in the first place?? - << (( Kinokima )) >> That beats the heck out of me especially since she looks like Jeanne Cagney. I'm not sure why the producers in 1938, hired her out of all the other actresses out there at the time. ( ??? ) "My favorite characters from this movie are the Potters. (I always love the comic relief moments.)? - << (( Traceyk65 )) >> They were great...and subdued. Glad to see E.E.Horton not flittering around. ?I wish TCM would show the 1930 version with Ann Harding. I saw it many years ago at New York's old Theater 80 revival house and enjoyed it.? - << (( VP19 )) >> I really want to see that one as well.

I'm tired of the same old stuff too...but the Moderators refuse to do anything about it. << Sigh! >> Turner Classic Movies...I love your channel. I don't watch every film, every night...but I love that you're at my finger tips when I'm in the mood for Gable or Garbo or Bennett or Mantan or Gilbert; the other greats and the obscure...the noirs or the comedies...the silents or the dramas. Keep do-ing what you're doing. As for the rest, well...squirrels to the nuts. I :x you, TCM. I wish I could quit you!

Let no man write my --epithet--. Errr...uhmmm....epitaph.

You know Jackaaaaaay, the Film Forum's seats aren't 100% comfortable, but I did see "METROPOLIS" there and was so engaged in the story that the length hadn't bothered me. Ciao, Lively Gal -- ...But, what Miss G wrote, is a big reason why I always passed. It seems like a heavy drama and a loooooooooooong film. It's almost as half as long as Gone with the Wind. Hi Grimesy, that makes a lotta sense. Definitely if I were to check it out when I got back to the City, I'd have to have my mindset ready for watching this story unfold. Epic storytelling cannot be approached with just my usual pack of Raisinets. Grazie, you two.

Hi there Miss Goddess. Thanks for the input. Welcomed.

Looking at the pix you posted here: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8471824 of Samuel Bronston, (scroll down to 12/7 - 7:08PM) made me think of a response my friend Bob wrote me about the upcoming screening of "THE LEOPARD" that will play at NYC's Film Forum in a coupla days. Bob writes: << "I was too wiped out to drive to Brooklyn on Tuesday, so Maggie, David and I will have our Christmas on Sunday at Film Forum. Neither has seen The Leopard, and I am dying to see the new restoration. I can see the movie at home any time, but it's not the same. I will never forget Cardinale's entrance, where Visconti cuts from her coming into the room and cuts to a shot of Delon and the young woman he has been courting. That poor girl's face says it all: she doesn't have a chance! And when she and Lancaster waltz together, literally climaxing the magnificent ball scene! Just four days now! Take good care of yourself, darling. Bob." >> Have you or you or you...or you (don't hide) knows what my friend Bob is talking about?? How devastating is Cardinale in this. And how's this film?

Haha! "Daddy." You bet! I wish... ;-)

"Oh, he's such a comforting, comfortable presence in many movies. I confess I was never sure what his name was, but now you've clarified it for me and I won't forget him again. He reminds me a little of Lewis Stone, but with a little more pep." - ( MISS GODDESS ) :x OH MYYYYY! MY SAMMYKINS... :x Samuel S. Hinds is supporting today here on "DR. KILDARE" Day. His cute pointy ears, that soo-thing voice, kind persona. Yes yes some of you are in love with boy-next-door Lew Ayres (1930's Paul Rudd) and later on tonite some of you will be visiting Mr.Rogers' neighborhood thanx to TCM. But for me right now...< (sigh!) > I feel warm and fuzzy listening and watching Samuel S. Hinds. ...How the medical profession has changed. Say, maybe it never was like this.

You're right there. (She reminds me a bit of Margaret Lindsay).

:-) Bonjour Monsieur...I love trivia. I love knowing or realizing that Bogie worked in a movie with each of the Lane Sisters (including Gale Page). I like knowing that Barbara Stanwyck worked with both Father and Daughter Fonda. Or Janis Paige was in Doris Day's first movie and then later they worked together in "Please Don't Eat the Daisies." I like nice tickling little dots like that. Enjoy Will Rogers.

- Hey, you know something? You?d make a wonderful C.M. (Chuckles) Everything in this country now is run by initials. What is a C.M.? CineMaven. Wow!!! Mentioned in the same breath as Will Rogers? Humbling. Laffite writes: ?MissG, thank you for this. I don't believe I've ever seen a WR film. The DVR will be busy. I see Down to Earth has Dorothy Jordan. an added treat. I liked her in In Gay Madrid and Devil-May-Care, with Ramon Novorro. Miss Goddess writes: Useless trivia: Dorothy Jordan (Mrs. Merian C. Cooper, producer of The Searchers) was also in Hell Divers (written by Spig Wead) as Clark Gable's leading lady, a movie which is shown in the screening room scene between Ward Bond (as "John Dodge") and John Wayne (as "Spig Wead") in Ford's Wings of Eagles...in which Dorothy also has a role. She is also in Ford's The Sun Shines Bright.? No useless trivia there. I love classic films and love connecting the dots of how various stars? careers intersect. I find it very interesting. I never found a Rambler I didn't like. Enjoy the Will Rogers' fest good people and hunker down in all this inclement weather my Northeastern ramblers. Be safe.

Oh, you're right! Those movies are so easy to mix up, ha! Which was the one with the tobacco farm? And Karl Malden? I've always liked Diane McBain...so classy. I think she was a regular on SURFSIDE 6.? Aaah yes, Diane McBain. She had the sleek 60?s cool sexiness of a Dina Merrill or Vera Miles. Tuesday vs. Joey: Wow, ha! Okay...Tuesday is an Actor's Studio-type idea of a sex kitten. Joey Heatherton is a cigar-chomping fat producer's vision of same. OMG! I?m undone. THAT killed me. (And probably killed ?The Merry Mailman? too). That Meditteranean gingerbread sailor scares me more than Constance Ford. Well...uhmm...maybe not so much. The soap pix you posted makes me think Helen Walker might've looked like that had she lived. And I hear you about her persona being warmer than Connie's. (Connie look "spent" a couple of times after her tirades on her family. At one point her hair on the staircase -- a little undone, made her look sexy). This toddler needs some Twizzlers, now. Edited by: CineMaven on Dec 23, 2010 12:22 AM - Advocating for Constance Ford's sexiness.

Twizzlers? Hmmmm...dude, I don't share my Twizzlers (or Raisinets). But I did give the little tyke some Swedish fish. My sister stopped me from giving my other nephew (the 22-month old) some of those fish. Grandmas. They're no fun! The little guy has a full set of baby teeth.

"...There was fire under that ice." Well isn't that often the typical Hollywood dynamic.

Yes...puhleeze.

ROFLMAO! Too late Jackaaaaaaaaaay. I already went there. And you gave me a good laugh. But in a word "YES!" Yes he makes my temperature rise. And again...GAWD FORGIVE ME, when I mention him in "...ESTHER COSTELLO." I know...I'm a bad baaaad Maven. :-( ;-) P.S. Rubber bands. Who knew? I fed my nephew Cheetos for breakfast.

Queen of Boca writes: "But I do recall Ford in THE CARETAKERS. She and Joan made a nightmarish team." Hmmmmm...that pairing tickles my fancy. I love the way Connie enunciates her ev'ry word "...his harlot of a mother" in "A SUMMER PLACE." "I've seen bits and pieces of CLAUDELLE INGLISH -- Colbert is Troy Donahue's mother. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that." Don't wrap it around that too tight. You're thinking of "PARRISH" Babsy. I do think Sandra gives her best performance in A SUMMER PLACE." I'm really in shock to --hear you say that--, uhmmm...to read you write that. She did drop the baby doll voice once she and Troy stayed together. Question...if I may. What do you see as the difference in persona between Connie Stevens and Sandra Dee. Also, do you think Helen Walker could have played the Constance Ford role as Mommie Dearest? (I'm still trying to figure out how Richard Egan ended up with this blonde ice queen). "In ROME ADVENTURE, if I was Suzanne Pleshette, I would have just lunged at Rossano Brazzi, and that would have been IT." Oh yeah...I second that emotion. Rossano Brazzi is gorgeous. She'd have learned more from him that the callow youth that was Troy. "Did you ever seen MY BLOOD RUNS COLD? With Troy and Joey Heatherton? Eeeeek!!!" Never all the way through. Another question for you...if I may. What's the difference between Joey and Tuesday Weld. << ******>> Hi Jackaaaaaaaaaaaay!! How'd the gingerbread turn out?

I'll get back to normal (channeling TCM) once I'm back at my sister's house. Ro....you were in charge of over 20 little sugar-ladened girls?? WoW! Sugar and spice and everything... Jackaaaay....saaaaay, how many proof will that Gingerbread be??? I could use a sq -- hic -- square.