CineMaven

Awwwwww man. Drat!!!

Nice. Does Flora Robson look like Helen Mirren to you?

"I would think dating a vampire would be good experience for a girl. It is greatly romantic and he is not interested in anything physical below the neck.? - <<< ( SansFin ) >>> Well THAT?s no fun. P.S. I think Edward is over a hundred, so the Moms haven?t broken any laws or statutes. "Nevermind. I'll just paraphrase Dorothy Parker about the Twilight books (especially the final one) and say, 'These are not books to be tossed aside lightly. They should be thrown with great force. Bonus points if you manage to break the spine.' - <<< ( Traceyk65 ) >>> OMG! < Spit Take! > LOL. "Turhan is barely recognizable w/o the moustache.? - <<< ( Bronxgirl ) >>> I don?t know him with a mustache. And on second thought, he?s not bad-looking. "I'm trying to save pennies myself, as the Provence film fest isn't just a pipe-dream with me -- I WANT it to really materialize. I'm convinced we can pull it off on a relatively shoestring bud- get. Just as soon as I figure out HOW.? Well if YOU?RE serious, I?M serious. As long as I get to pick my own butler. "I'm trying to wean myself off chopped liver and get ready for pate. Not Michael, but the real French stuff.? HA! You beat me to the punch with that one!!! Bronxie, how have our paths never crossed at Bloomie?s or Alexander?s??? << ( Sigh! ) >> ?It would have been a blast...? See you in Provence then.

Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein instead. Didn't Dr. Frankenstein's creation bite the hand that fed (and created) him too?? Don't forget to vote folks!

Don't tell me you and your husband will not let Alice date a vampire? Tsk! Tsk! But I hear you. "Twilight" is not for everyone.

"So I rented 'Twilight' and 'The Wolf Man.' We'll just see who wins the battle - I am guessing that she will groove on The Wolf Man, but never admit it. Twilight is boring, all stupid teen romance in which nothing happens. That's all beyond her right now, so she will be disappoin- ted." I'm rootin' for Alice. Uhh....I mean awwwwww. She's head strong like Scarlett O'Hara; looks like the little lady knows what she wants. I didn't find "Twilight" bad. I thought Kristen Stewart's longing very palpable.

"Does a revived mummy have all his bodily functions? I don't know why I'm asking this.? It?s that *^&$#^!!$? deli sandwich of yours! (But my best guess would be NO. They take out all the entrails of humans in the embalming. I fear Ardeth Bey is but a mere shell of a man, which is more than I can say for Turhan Bey). "Truly an outstanding video. In fact, I think I originally posted it to YOU, ha! Thank you for returning the favor, I love seeing those magnificently edited clips again.? D?OH!!! Well...uhm....others reading this thread can enjoy the video too, then. Maybe that?s how I can spend Halloween. Watching the great Universal classics. I love them so. ?You couldn't spend it better.? HA! I can?t afford better. I just came back from Barcelona and preparing for our trip to Provence. "Ah, Michael Ansara, that's right! I think he played a lot of native Americans too. As I was telling molo a short while ago, I just ate a bowl of Greek yogurt, sunflower seeds and honey (while THE LAVENDER HILL MOB was playing in the background) as a snack. Occasionally I'll throw in some pistachio nuts (which lower cholesterol) So I'm leaning more towards Mediterranean-style dining.? So you ARE preparing for Provence I see. That deli sandwich is looking kinda good to me now. Yes Ansara did play those roles; attractive man. "It's not only King's shoulders that are gack and gag-ifying. Have you ever seen candid videos of him being old-man grumpy in public with his gorgeous blonde wife? He makes some of our Florida oldsters look like spring chickens.? LOL!!! YOU, my dear Bronxie, are a RIOT!!!! And the Beatles say ?Can?t Buy Me Love?! How little they knew. Tell me, do you watch "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"? I think you'd appreciate its humor. Bronxie, how have our paths never crossed at Bloomie?s or Alexander?s??? << ( Sigh! ) >>

"And just know that there are many annoying and weird power outages which occur here in South Florida during all times of the year." Come back to NY, Bronxie. Junior's misses you.

?...handsome David Manners in a white shirt with rolled up sleeves...Muller: ?I cannot speak before a boy! Come out, Sir Joseph, under the stars of Egypt?...what else...? Oh for Pete?s sake, don?t get me started on ?The Mummy.? I?m supposed to be watching Elizabeth Taylor. I can hear the "Sir Joseph..." line. Your recollections are pulling me away. I don?t quite re-member how Karloff said ?Periods? but there was the way he pronounced dynasty: (dinasty with a short ?i? not die-nasty). Uhmmm...maybe he was saying dynastic. ( :x ) Alas... I can?t remember the Woody Allen movie. It wasn?t a period movie. Someone?s gotten married, there?s some dancing and I heard the music and started humming along. Enjoy this Bronxie. The editing is phenomenal with the music: There?s a shot of Claude Rains, he faces the window, looks up at the moon...his arms folded looking up at the moon I guess; so defiantly sexy. Oh yess...face bandaged and all. It looked sexy. Check out Julie Adams in the lab and swimming in tandem with the Creature. Maybe that?s how I can spend Halloween. Watching the great Universal classics. I love them so. ?There are no streets named in my honor. However, a deli is putting together The Bronxgirl Special Sandwich: chopped liver, salami, fresh turkey, chunky peanut butter, on sourdough bread.? Ohhhhhhh, I see the calories mounting...and the arteries hardening. Diet Pepsi with your order, ma?am? Speaking of confusion, I get Michael Pate mixed up with an actor once married to Barbara Eden, but, for all I know, it could very well have been Pate himself. Boy, I'm so sharp.? No wonder you're confused. Geez Louise, put down the sandwich. Put down the sandwich!!! (BTW, that?s Michael Ansara who had the pleasure of dreaming with Jeannie). Aaaah yes, Richard Greene. Dark haired cutie pie. ?I also can't see Houseman getting, er, romantic, but at least the image doesn't send me heaving like picturing Larry King.? Ow! Ow! OW!!!!!!!!!!!! Mental white-out. MENTAL WHITE-OUT! Oh the humanity. OH THE SUSPENDERS!!!!

Nice photos filmlover. A treasure trove...for only $5.00. Waiting for the next bunch. I enjoyed the film.

"The only other film festival I've attended is Telluride almost 20 years ago, and even with a pass that essentially guaranteed me seating, I still couldn't see everything on my list. And speaking of unexpected, I wound up sitting next to Joel McCrea's widow, actress Frances Dee, at the screening of one his films as part of a tribute to him. She came in just before the movie started and sat down way in the back, where I was. She was just lovely afterwards." Hi there. You met FRANCES DEE??????????????? :D Whoa!!! Well THAT'S worth that whole festival right there!!!

At least he didn't say "nucular."

I just re-watched ALGIERS, and can't believe I hadn't truly appreciated it before. Pepe and Gaby are so similiar -- both weary and longing to escape from their "wrong dreams". I hate Inez! Inez is really going to have to live with the fact that she was the instrument in Pepe's death. Hope she's happy. As I wrote in another post, I just had "ALGIERS" on in the background as I was busy with some other work, but I did see a very erotic scene where the camera kept cutting back and forth between Pepe & Gaby when they were talking. I'm sorry I can't really quite remember what they were talking about, but I remember seeing that cross-cutting between them for each line was quite effective. And they both had smoky eyes and the film was kind of muddy (not crystal sharp & clear silver nitrate) and remember thinking "Oooh boy, this is working!" Oh, hello, Jackie! I was with Zita on that table. (btw, did you know she was once married to Professor Kingsfield? Talk about mummies. "Yes, we'll go on our honeymoon, but first I want to discuss contract law" And then, if she didn't live up to his idea of the perfect wife: "Here's a dime. Call your mother and tell her you're coming home") Oh wow!! That killed me. I can?t imagine John Houseman gettin? jiggy with it, but I also didn?t know that Claude Rains played a dual role (and in drag no less) in ?The Wolfman.? I love "The Mummy." I loved... - David Manners saying (I paraphrase): "And boy was it hot! That tomb." - The young archaeologist laughing. And the old man saying "He died laughing." - The other old man talking about breaking or cracking Karloff's dried flesh - Zita Johann's look; very unconventional look; not pretty...but not unattractive (I love her name too). - Zita sitting on the balcony looking out over the stock footage of Cairo, and the music that was playing. Love that music and I've heard it in a Woody Allen movie recently. - Zita saying "Isis, save me from this Mummy!" But my favorite line in the whole movie is: "Call her! He has dragged her back to ancient Egypt. Call her. Her love for you will bridge the centuries." What?d you do for your birthday, Bronxie? Is there a street in Boca named in your honor? Ha! It sounds like humans are just getting in the way of the busy daily routine of Boca's creature population. Well...anthropologically speaking...WHO was there FIRST?? :-)

THAT VOICE...THAT FACE I had to work on a PowerPoint presentation during TCM's Hedy Lamarr screenings. I was not fa-cing the tv but I could hear the movie while I worked. I gotta tell ya...Charles Boyer's voice was driving me crazy. He could have said anything: "Would you like to dance?" "When can I see you again?" "Hey, I need cream in my coffee." All I could hear was this low French-accented growl as his voice came from deep within his chest. Hmmm, deee-vine! (Oh please yes, let's invite him to Provence next summer). Then when Hedy Lamarr spoke at any length I had to get up from my computer and dash over to the television set to look at her. By jove, that face. I don't even know WHAT she was saying many times. I was just staring. (And as her career continued, she looked even better than she did here). So now, it's eight in the morning and must dash around like crazy to get the work I should have done last nite...done by ten. (May I give an honorable mention to Gene Lockhart who did a great job in this film). LANA "I missed the first few minutes of 'Marriage is a Private Affair' but I saw about half an hour before I had to go back to work. This is the only time I've seen her with her long, blonde hair. How stunning. I wish she'd never cut it. She's gorgeous here. And in her bunny-rabbity best. How the men must have gasped when they saw her wearing nothing but an apron over a swimsuit. If this was made during the war, I wonder if it helped speed things up." Ha ha. To answer this thread?s original title question: I do. And, ?I do? or not ?do? is the core question in 1944?s ?MARRIAGE IS A PRIVATE AFFAIR? starring John Hodiak, Frances Gifford, James Craig and the belle of the 1940?s M-G-M ball, luscious Lana Turner. I don?t know this movie, but as it unfolded I knew what would happen. After all, it?s M-G-M. You know the old saw: boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy gets girl. HAPPILY EVER AFTER. But surprisingly ?...PRIVATE AFFAIR? took a different path towards its inexorably inevitable ending. And the traveller here is not ?Boy?, but ?Girl.? And boy, what a girl: LANA. Lana?s gorgeous in this film and in this stage of her career. Will this make sense if I say Lana has two faces in one? She still has a hint of the cherubic face she came to Hollywood with. The baby fat is disappearing and her now blonde hair cascades past her shoulders. I agree with you Miss G., she looks fantastic with the long hair. Lana?s a vivacious confection with lots of personality. This is her story all the way, and I thought she was ably up to the task. In fact, what made this movie fascinating to me, was the question about whether she wanted to marry or not. That?s not usually the question movies asked their heroines in the ?Golden Age of Hollywood.? Yes, does she love him...or doesn?t she, is the question most oft asked; but 'do I want to marry or not?? That does not sound familiar to me for most movies back then. And that piqued my interest as did seeing Frances Gifford's name in the credits, (I'm about to say something heretical here...but more on her later). As Lana?s voice-over starts the movie at her wedding, I smiled thinking of Joan Bennett getting married in ?Secret Beyond the Door." I watched Lana struggle with her self-doubt throughout the entire movie. Her character didn?t know herself, who she was. She wanted to figure herself out first. (I believe her character was nineteen years old...and nineteen in the forties is a far cry from a nine-teen year old girl today). And for THAT she was deemed selfish. Hmmmm...where IS this movie going. I'm going to stick around and see. But for now...I must dash off and get this Power Point presentation, collated and handed out. Oooooh....all b'cuz I went to the Casbah last night. << (( Sigh! )) >> To be continued...

Bronxie...It's your birthday? Well then, many happy returns of the day for you. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

SueSue...you sound like you were the belle of the ball out in Cali. You really got the most out of the TCM experience. Great! Way to go, girl.

Didn't Martha Stewart play the hatcheck girl in "In A Lonely Place"? Ella Raines. Gee.

At your location Jayo, is there an attendant there guarding the exhibit? How close is one allowed to get to costumes? Out of everything you saw in the exhibit, which was your favorite piece? If TCM is involved in anything you know that "...a lot of time, talent, and work went into (it)." That's totally how they roll. I'm looking forward to seeing the exhibit myself. Thanx for your report.

Probably won't post any photos but I did see TCM's previous exhibit. Marvelous!

I didn't know that. He was a fine actor with a lot ahead of him could he break out of the Nazi roles. I have the feeling in time he would have returned to working in European films, had he lived. I believe you. My ex-coworker says one of her favorite actors Freddie Mac is vastly underrated. I'll give MacMurray this: he was believable in comedy, broad comedy and drama. I think I'll give it a shot later on. http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=95143

Miss G., you said this a little more than a month ago: "Oh my goodness! The way Conrad Veidt strokes Vivien's hair is the most thrilling thing I've ever seen! Sorry for that necessary outburst. I shall resume rambling when I've collected my wits," ...when TCM screened Conrad in "Dark Journey." Later on tonite/this morning, "Above Suspicion" will be aired (at 4:00 am). Can I expect the same treatment of him with Joan Crawford, or will he just play an ol' meanie? "Above Suspicion" was Veidt's last film before his untimely passing and I believe released posthumously.

I've seen that promo. Stunning. I think TCM's editors are the best on television. G., Jack...love those mirror shots. If only that was the reflection looking back at me. Nice.

Now look at what I learned when I turned on "Marriage is a Private Affair" to record...FRANCES GIFFORD is in this film. A double plus for me: Lana AND Frances. So Frances and Hodiak (sans mustache) worked together before "The Arnelo Affair." Interesting trivia to add to my cobwebbed mind. Lana's quite a chameleon. Her looks seem to change from pix to pix. Soft and supple and then glammed with angles. Lana. Yeah.

This exhibit will be playing in NYC on Monday and I intend to visit it. If you've gone Jayo, let us know what you thought about TCM's efforts. I know I can't wait to see it, and to see the documentary as well.

Ya know, I've got it backwards, Grimesy. I've seen "Scarlet Street" but I think not "Woman in the Window." I'm going to talk to my fairy godfather about getting both those films into my growing DVD collection, along with "You Only Live Once." I do have "Man Hunt" and will pull it out of the pack. I have to prepare for some upcoming Rambles (which I'm hopeful you'll join), but I'll soon enuf get to all your suggestions. (Why can't I remember Samuel S. Hinds in "Destry..." ?) That's hilarious! You've got a quick wit. One of the fastest draws around. Well of course I do. Only b'cuz I sit at the feet of the Girl from the Bronx. :-)