CineMaven
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"Slim is surrounded by comically over-violent criminal mates, including his mother, a tough old Ma Barker type (with a more fashionable wardrobe) who looks like a cross between Marie Dressler and Florence Bates."
What, like a right cross?
Babsaaaaaay...Jackaaaaaaaaaay, when were the orchids on tv? And why wasn't there a Jack LaRue alert for us? Somebody's asleep at the wheel and I'm going to find out. Heads will roll ...toads will croak for this!
You both mention those kisses. I've got a question. Was it a real kiss or one of those Hollywood fake movie kisses where lips don't really touch and it's just one face planted on top of another's?
That toad is more frightening than Lon Chaney & Henry Danielle. Oooh, shiver me timbers. (Uhmmm...the toad and Jack).
What a delightfully spirited review, Bronxie for a Monday...or any day!
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Oooh! You do know your movie actors! I had to look him up. I love his wavy hair!
Naaaaah, I'm shallow. I know my handsome movie stars. Hmm...hair, another prerequisite for my definition of a sexy man. Thick, dark. Enough to pull.
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>Ha ha! Good choices! I thought for sure someone was gonna say Ralph Cramden. But he doesn't count, he's just a character, not a real Ralph.
Hey, you're dealing with bonafide movie buffs here! Ralph Cramden, indeed. We know the difference between fantasy and reality.
...Sometimes.
Oooh, let me add Ralph Cooper before I get drummed outta the NAACP. He wasa handsome devil.
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You're right Jackaaaaaaaaay, I cannot think of an unsexy Ralph. Ralph Morgan. Ralph Meeker.
Ralph Fiennes. He pronounces it Rafe, but a Rafe(r Johnson) by any other name would be as sexy.
Passing through Hartford, now. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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I was saddened to hear this news. How many get to have a great second wind in their career that was probably more successful than the first.
It's sad when the good ones go.
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Ooooh, my friend just told me that Leslie Nielsen passed away at eighty-four years of age.
Sorry to hear that. He had a great second act!!! :-(
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"And I think I need to add Woody Strode and Robert Montgomery to my list... maybe I do have the same sexy list as you and Maven?" :-)
If it's not too early...on a Sunday morning...to talk about who is sexy...I'd like to chime in a couple of 'Maven'ish thoughts.
As...soon...as...I...can...get...it...together.
Seeeeee, that's what happens when I think of Woody, shirtless and barking orders in "Sgt. Rutledge."
Uhmmm...I need a cigarette break. I'll be back.
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"I am having vapors and breathing heavily just having you mention the three names together!
le pant, le pant..." - << (( JACK FAVELL )) >>
ha-ha! boy, do i know my ramblers or what.
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I'm glad Bronxgirl. He's a riot. It's good some time for some of us to come off of our "high horse" about The Cinema, and just see the crazy wonderfulness of classic films.
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"I hadn't checked the cast list on this one before I watched it. So it was a nice surprise to see him show up in the film." - << (( Molo )) >>
Why do you like the Charlie Chan films, Molo? What's so addictive about them? (I betcha can't eat just one...)
"I can't get enough of Steve, and you pick the BEST ones! (THE NAKED JUNGLE, too, hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!) Thank you, Lucia." - << (( Bronxgirl )) >>
I'm glad you liked it, Lucy. I'm selecting them b'cuz I think you and some of the posters here will enjoy them. He is campy...over the top...but he loves classic films!!!
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"Thank you, Tall T, but soon I may get paid NOT to write so much about Ford."
Oh no you don't. Please don't take that gig.
"Perish THAT thought and bury it!!!!!!"
DING! Round 8,384.
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Hiya Rohanaka...hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanxxgiving.
"Oh, but there are so many, many, many things I love about "My Darling Clementine"...I can get quite tiresome to discuss it. I think it's a cowboy tone poem. An old west song. It moves like music, it's so lyrical I forget this is actually a treatment of the "OK Corral" legend. I love that Ford throws away literal sticking to facts and gives us a work of art instead. If you can forget about history, and bask in the authenticity of the characters...and the texture of old west life that is completely believable yet touchingly idealized...you can get lost in a master-
piece..." - << (( MissGoddess )) >>
Whoa.
< Ahem! > Now let me get this straight. Am I to understand that in your real life...your personal life...away and apart from this Message Board...you do NOT earn a living as a professional writer?
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Babble?
Ramble?
Nope. Just another quite wonderful and thoughtfull write-up from you, this time on Richardson. (Ooooops! I almost called him: "Ralphie boy!")
I remember really liking him in "Greystoke..." but I confess I am woefully ignorant about his career, other than two...maybe three films.
As for sitting at his knee, he probably would have told you "don't be silly dear girl. Sit down in the chair," poured you a spot of tea with brandy and answered your every question, b'cuz you don't come off as a silly schoolgirl, but a real student of film and psychology. (Too much? Okay...you sitting with Jack LaRue or Ben Johnson is a different story! You're having the vapors and breathing heavily).
All we can do with all of those great actors we love & admire is to look at their performances, read their biographies, watch their interviews and just scratch the surface in attempting to cull from those sources, who the real person is underneath.
Your writing is making me ever so curious about Sir Ralph Richardson. And that is a testimony to him and to you.
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I'm having a great time in Massachusetts and "Meg Ramsey" is about to have its New England premiere. We have lots of...of...
Wait! Uhmmmm...Janis Carter was in "My Forbidden Past" and my friends here don't have TCM...
< ( Gulp! ) >
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It was great reading many of the thoughts on this Ava thread. I'd say she's kind of gotten short shrift over the years, but again thanxxx to TCM for bringing her to the forefront.
Hollywood has provided a lifestyle many of them would never have. But I'm hoping that when they come to Hollywood they bring their life experience...value...morals. Ava didn't seem to have a "big head" or let Hollywood turn her head. How much of the stars do we see in us...and how much of us are in these stars. I do not know.
I love my movie stars. I fantasize...speculate...admire and adore them. And its much of the writing I read here, that helps me put my thoughts into perspective.
Edited by: CineMaven on Nov 26, 2010 7:08 PM
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Ollie, weren't you having your very own private WILLIAM CONRAD film fest? Well guess who's in this:
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Marsha Hunt was in "Pride and Prejudice." Steve Hayes got a chance to meet her. WHO is Steve Hayes? Well...
I'm hoping TCM has her at their next festival. It'd be q feather in her cap.
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Hi Jackaaaaaaaaaaaay. When you have time...check this out:
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Hey Grimesy me boy:
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...and a devastating performance he gives here:
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Today of all days to miss Ava. My friends here in Massachusetts, do not have TCM.
Ack!!!
The Annual FrankGrimes Torture Thread
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Before I give out with my very humblest of opinions on those sexy men, I have to ask my TCM fellas this:
* TCM will honor her on December 7th.
* What worked for Joan Bennett going from blonde to brunette worked for her going from brunette to blonde.
* Why didn't SHE make the cut? The blonde. The blonde!!! At the very least for this film:
An inquiring Maven wants to know!!! Heads will roll...toads will croak! Don't make me get Hope Emerson on your case!!!!