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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > Did you know that five minutes after Don Ameche invented the telephone, he got a phone call asking him to switch to MCI? I did not know that! Boy, I'm glad to be learnin' so much interestin' Hollywood trivia!

No, I'll buy you a drink with someone else's money!

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > I checked my dvd copy, and it does not look like Hitchcock ... too small a woman, for one thing. However, it could be J. Edgar Hoover. I also think it could have been Hoover. As for Hitch - I'm sure if he had done such a thing, there would have been photos taken in the set, which would have surfaced eventually.

Well of course, sexiness is in the eye of the beholder, I just love that they were such an iconic presence and brought happiness to so many moviegoers.

The rumours are still being mentioned, for example in this story from today's Variety : A looming question mark is how Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes' future moves will affect the studio. There's talk that Bewkes is kicking the tires of NBC Universal and may buy the company in order to gain much-needed cable and broadcast TV webs to pair up with pay-cabler HBO. But such a purchase would give the conglom another studio, as well. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990663.html?categoryId=13&cs=1 Not sure why Variety doesn't mention any possible complications regarding FCC/anti-trust complications.

You can call them what you like, I call them Hollywood Legends.

Sometimes I kinda wonder if her acting ability might not have been greatly underappreciated over the years.

> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote} > That's one of my faves! Gloria at her pouty best. > > You just made my day! Can I buy you a drink? B-)

You won't get any argument from me there.

It's sad that he died so young.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > To me that's close enough!

Kudos for limiting your own list to pre-1960 movies. More recent movies are alright, but to me they just aren't quite the same.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > "What do we do now?" Whatever you do, don't hit the Panic button.

And don't forget to put the blame on Mame.

Dearest Susan, All I can say is, best of luck with the chemo, I'm hoping the treatment is totally successful and also hope you can post here from time to time to let us all know how you're doing.

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > I knew I could count on you to get my joke. "Like the adding machine once said... you can COUNT on me!"

Arch Hall Jr. was in *Wild Guitar* with Arch Hall, Sr.

ambiguity: *Rashomon* nw: stratospheric

You're right, Miss G, it is very encouraging, particularly from one of the studios (Columbia) that has been slow to release more of its classics on DVD. B-)

*The Wizard of Oz* nw: meltdown

David Carradine was in *Heaven with a Gun* with Glenn Ford

*The Doors* nw: Federales

Did you mean *The Return of Wildfire* ? Richard Arlen was in *Island of Lost Souls* with Leila Hyams

touch?

> {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote} > Yes, he got better-looking during most of his film career. But still, I feel that by his late 60's/early 70's, he looked older than some 80-year-old stars do today. > > I disagree, but from the time Cary Grant started doing color films regularly (from TO CATCH A THIEF-on), it became all too apparent that he sheathed himself in a stark, industrial-strength suntan that tended to detract from his looks and seemed rather ill-suited to a bloke from Bristol, England. > > That perpetual tan almost certainly contributed to premature aging of his skin. Well, I don't know about "ill-suited". Many folks in the UK like to go to Spain whenever they can for the sunny, warm weather. As for the way he looked. Take a look, if you can, at what he looked like in that small cameo of his in Elvis' *That's the Way It Is*. Whatever age he was at that point in his life, most actors the same age look better nowadays. And not just because of "premature aging" of their skin. In any event, if you still don't know what I'm talking about, let's just agree to disagree on this point.