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Not to worry. Tomorrow that thread will.have another name, and then another, and another...........I'm so sorry about this. I didn't see another thread about the same film.
Just call me a newbie.
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PRETTY IN PINKY:
Molly Ringwald stars as a light skinned African American girl, who flees life up North passing as a white girl, and returns to the rural South of her youth. Ethel Waters plays her great-grandmother, who washes clothes for a living, and has a surprisingly equal relationship with the owner of manor house, Ethel Barrymore. Tor Johnson plays Pinky's boss from Boston, the hospital director, but follows her South to express his undying love for her. In his despondency, he takes to drink, as Pinky vacillates between the earnest young black doctor, played by John Cryer, and the rich white scion,.as portrayed by Andrew McCarthey. Directed by John Hughes, with a soundtrack of then current British synthpop dance hits.
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Sally Field.started out in silly sitcoms like "Gidget", "The Flying Nun", and "The Girl With Something Extra". Sventually she hit her.stride as.a.dramatic film.actress, and realized we like her.
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Absolutely right!
I also like her in her white raincoat and hat when she "returns from the dead." However, even though McPherson tells her to
"take off those wet clothes," of course, there isn't, of course, a drop of rain on them. Who would want a drenched Laura for her
dramatic entrance??
Lydecker
I'll have to pay more attention to that. I always get the feeling she is drenched, otmr at.least her cost.is.
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1. THE LETTOR
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3 RETURN TOR PEYTON PLACE
4.TORMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
5.TORA TORA TORA
6. TORRID ZONE
7. TORMENT
8. TORBRUK
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10RETURN TOR PARADISE
Thanks. I've been lagging.this morning, so yeah, my list was.yesterday's. Thanks for posting the most recent list.
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I also liked seeing the Hollywood landmarks. I'd heard of the Formosa Cafe. That scene where Guy Pearce called Lana Turner a hooker and completely insulted her before Kevin Spacey smugly told him he was wrong was hilarious. I don't blame Pearce though, that woman did not look like Lana Turner at all. I would have believed more that she was a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, but that wouldn't have made the scene as funny.
I didn't think about the timeline of the film vs the timeline of Lake's career, but now that you bring it up, I agree. Maybe they're just finding women who resemble sex symbols (current and prior) in Hollywood. I found the concept of the brothel kind of funny--sleep with women who look like your favorite starlets. I loved the brothel owner's Hollywood house. Kim Basinger didn't really look like Veronica Lake at all--the only similarity was her hairstyle. That didn't really matter though, she was so good in this film and earned that Oscar that she won.
I haven't seen Nadine. I'll have to look out for it on future TCM schedules.
One more anachronism, albeit minor; Lana Turner is linked with Johnny Stompanato; however, in 1954 she was just.getting hitched to Lex Barker, and the tragic Stompanato relstionship came a few.years later.
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Well, the data is obviously corrupted and/or unreliable, so NO-TORIUS and TOR TOR TOR, might have been in the missing spots. Or thdy csn always pop up in upcoming database top tens.
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It's a shame that Call Her Savage isn't as well known as some of the other pre codes. Probably because it's a Fox film and isn't as
widely seen. Several years ago I went to Film Forum in NYC where they had a film festival of Fox pre codes. What a rare treat it was to have seen some of these films, most of which have never made it to TV or any type of distribution.
It IS too bad the CHS is not seen more.often. In the last year, it was on quite a bit on FXM.Retro (FMC), but not.in the last couple of months.
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1. TOR BE OR NOT.TOR BE
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3. TOREVER AMBER
4. IT HAPPENED TORMORROW
5. FROM HERE TOR ETERNITY
6. FROM HERE TOR.ETERNITY
7. A LETTOR TOR THREE WIVES
8. THE MASK OF TORRO
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10. THE TORRENT
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Oh, I see.
But wait! Then wasn't there a sequel to this one later filmed IN TORonto and where they strap Edith to the back of Tor Johnson instead of Rosey???
'Cause if I'm not mistaken again, I seem to recall a scene near the end of this sequel where Tor(with Edith on his back once again of course) climbs the CN Tower to the top and then some airplanes shoot at him, and then he(with Edith on his back once again of course) falls to the street below.
YEAH, and then some guy walks up to what's left of 'em on the street and says somethin' like: "Oh no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was that woman with the bangs strapped to his back killed the beast".
(...well, that's how I remember this thing anyway...though then again, my memory HAS been playin' some tricks on me lately, ya know)
You must be thinking.of MIGHTY TOR YOUNG, at least the plot you describe sounds like this fun film
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Ida.Lupino started.out.in films.in the mid 30s, was at Paramount as.a.blonde.cutie.of no great distinction. At the end of the decade,.she did a highly dramatic turn in THE LIGHT THAT.FAILED. Her new contract with WB at.the beginning of the 40s.offered.her more.of.the same, as the studio saw her as a backstop to Bette Davis. After she left Warners in the late 40s, she stumbled into directing films, and this opened up another avenue, as one of the few women directors.
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Day-Time-Wife is a film I'm hoping MOVIES-TV shows since I read about it in Lover and Lunatics (a book about comedies of the 30s and early 40s).
With that strong cast and what I assume to be a very radiant Linda it must be worth seeing.
It's.an enjoyable comedy, with a very young Linda. If you have FMC, it will be repeated June 25. Also,.the second of four films she did with Power, the historical epic.BRIGHAM YOUNG,.will be on this channel this Monday and Tuesday.
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Well,.Lafitte, I guess until recently I thought you were a woman, specifically Hedy Lamarr, (or is it Joan Bennett?).I guess. And I should know better, with my avatar a.picture of Linda Darnell. Soon after.the boards.were revamped past.year, I got.the impression I should follow suit with a picture,.and actually unsuccessfully tried to upload.a.picture of myself.. Somehow I was able to get this one up, althought I fretted here that I might be misleading with that pic. I've been meaning to update the pic every so often, with more of Darnell, but.haven't as yet.Arturo, are you a girl (excuse me. lady, hee)?. If so, there may be more than me who might be mislead. This is something I understand because despite my longevity on the board (though not consistently ubiquitous) there are still people who don't know that I'm a guy due to my avatar. Not sure why really, like a of guys I tend to have a ooh-la-la mentality for women stars who I like that would make it obvious. And yet (Risky Comment Alert) I've often wondered if lesbians have a similar mentality (excuse me, womentality) for other women that they like. I mean do they carry on like men do, you know oooh-la-la stuff, or are they more mature adults (as I expect they are) and not out of control in that immature way that idiots like me are.
EDIT: Uh oh, I've just read the last post by Rich. "HE will be happy to read this." The point is made though, that folks who have avatars that don't match the gender orientation of their screen names tend to cause misunderstandings in others.
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And yet, with posters here, I pretty much envision them as their avatars. So I have to consciously tell myself.that you do not look like Hedy (or aJoan),nor speedracer like Errol, and that's not even your sexes; darkblue is Kevin Spacey, misswonderly is Mary Astor (witha martini glass), Dargo is Groucho, poor scsu is now forever Tor, in my mind, etc. although I don't know about the duck.
It's weird that my mind does this, knowing better. Maybe because latrly I'm usually here on my phone, and the thumbnail pics are tiny indeed.
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Arturo is a poet,
though she may not know it,
Her feet still show it,
'Cause they're "LongFellows."
Somebody said that to me when I was in gradeschool and I always enjoy an opportunity to pass it on.
Thanks for the verse, although as it's been pointed out, I am male. I chose as my avatar a picture of my favorite.actress.Linda.Darnell.
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Sunday, 6/14:
3 am: MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953)..................4:30 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939).................6 am: WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937)...............7:45 am: KING.OF THE KHYBER RIFLES (1953)..................9:30 am: I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)................10:55 am: HALF ANGEL (1951)................12:15 pm: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)................1:35 pm: MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953)...........
Monday, 6/15:
3 am: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)...........................4:30 am: I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)....................6 am: THE BROKEN LAND (1962)...................7:05 am: BRIGHAM YOUNG (1940)...................9 am: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941).................. 11 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947).....................1:25 pm: IT HAPPENED IN ATHENS (1962)...............
Tuesday, 6/16:
3 am: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973)........................4:40 am: TAMPICO (1944)..........................6 am: BRIGHAM YOUNG (1940)...................8 am: HOW.GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941).....................10 am: IT HAPPENED IN ATHENS (1962).......................11:40 am: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)....................1:20 pm: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973)..............
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I've always thought.that.TCM could do a.scary movie.night,.once.a.week,.all.month, with.maybe a.24.hour marathon on the 31st. In addition to this, the SOTM.does.not have to be someone.known for horror films.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars You're Not Trog!--Warner Brothers has closed the set of TYLS for Bettes' big number "They're Either Too Young or Too Old--in which she bemoans the lack of eligible men to date during WWII. Bette's just finished singing when Trog stomps on the set.& Bette screams--"You're two million years old! Get out of my face!" Her jitterbug partner obligingly throws him through a door and off the set. Bette and her partner jitterbug to finish the number, till Joan Crawford comes on set, waving a bunch of carrots and calling "Here Trog! Here Trog! Bette promptly kicks Joan back to MGM--literally. A dazed Trog follows. Jayne Mansfield sings "Kiss Them for Me" over the credits.
Wow! Two Million Years.Old. Talk about (or sing about) being too old!
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Well let's hope we don't have to wait for the September 2015 schedule as long as we did for August 2015.
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Sorry, yes I guess I missed that. What would be really nice is if TCM would show the films that Lupino did at.Fox in the early 40s: MOONTIDE, LIFE BEGINS.AT.EIGHT-THIRTY, or later, ROADHOUSE (I believe TCM has shown ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES). All are above average dramas with winning performances by Ida,.and only the first and last (coincidentally both noirish) have aired on FMC in the last.couple of years or so.You may have missed that my post was about TCM's showing of Ida Lupino films ("her Warner contract years"). So yes, while TCM shows movies from all studios, if a star was under contract at WB or MGM, most of the films TCM will show for that star will be from those studios (of course depending on how long said star was under contract).
Something similar is true for MOVIES-TV and GET-TV but with different studios (Fox and Columbia). e.g. I have seen Bette Davis on these stations but I don't recall ever seeing a WB Davis film on them.
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STAGECOACH DOOR CANTEEN:
In which a troupe of stage performers take a road trip out west, entertaining war weary troops during the Civil War. They fend off marauding Indians, skirmishes between Yanks and Rebs, and infighting among the group over top billing. Starring Claire Trevor and Tor Johnson. Unfortunately, Johnson, as was his wont, let his diva side come out, and played out in real life battles such as those in the screenplay, trying to ensure his was the largest part (it was), and that the grand finale feature more of the dance moves he learned from Shirley Temple, during the filming of TOR LITTLE GIRL. Life imitates art. A livid director, John Ford, got his revenge by changing the title to the aforementioned, from ,the original.STAGECOACH TOR CANTEEN. Despite all the behind the scenes drama, it remains one of the greatest road films ever.
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One.of the.greatest.voices to grace.the.screen, and one of the two best Count.Dracula.ever. And like that.character, his body of work will live in eternity.
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Otto Preminger had a history of confronting the censorship boards, both before THE MOON IS BLUE and after ANATOMY OF A.MURDER, both mentioned here. These include PORGY AND BESS and THE CARDINAL.
The first run in was.probably what set his resolve later to confront this body. He came in late to the project FOREVER AMBER, replacing director John M. Stahl after over a month of shooting. Upon taking over, he had a new script comissioned. Based on a scandalous best seller, FA told the tale of a wanton woman in 1660s London, moving up the social scale as she went from man to man. So for the film, the number of lovers was cut drastically. Even with a sanitized screenplay, the finished film presented problems; scenes had to be reshot to cover up, or othewise minimize, Linda Darnell's "heaving" breasts. Almost all kissing scenes were.cut to before the clinch, scenes of Darnell on a bed or in a barrel bathing were also eliminated.
With all of this, the Catholic Legion of Decency refused to pass the film, giving it a C for Condemned. Preminger witnessed a scene when Spiro Skouras, President of Fox, humiliated himself, kneeling and begging, and crying, for them to reconsider. With further changes to the film that they demanded, the Legion lifted the Condemned rating.
So the film.opened and closed with a spoken prologue and epilogue, hammering home the suffering over the wages of sin, and the last scene was cut off. Thankfully, the passages have been removed from the vhs release onward, but the film ends abruptly and unsatisfactorily. Preminger vowed he would never repeat that shameful groveling, and never did.
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Ok, so I finally broke down and purchased a film to stream from Amazon, BLACK SPURS (1965) As the only Movie with Linda Darnell for which they offer this service which I don't have, I have despaired that BS will ever be released on dvd. This movie was Darnell's first film in several years, and her last film. She .filmed it a few months before she died, and it was released posthumously May 1965.
This lowbudget western was one of A. C. Lyles economy features he did during the 1960s, featuring many old timers. This one is no exception; besides second billed Linda, there is top billed Rory Cahoun, Terry Moore, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr.,.Bruce Cabot and Richard Arlen. The story has Linda as a saloon hostess, with not much too do; despite being billed lower, Terry Moore had a more substantial part. As for her looks,.she is definitely heavier than her last screen appearance, although it is not clear by how much. With the picture going from my laptop to my tv, it might suffer from the full.widescreen of anything on the laptop. She is more mature looking, but still.very attractive, and she looks good in most of her costumes. except for one, with a train or tail, which seems to emphasize her girth. However, as mentioned, it may be due to screen distortion. Overall, I am glad I made this purchase.
Ok, I just edited the quoted post. I cannot believe I didn't mention the name of the movie I was referring to, other than its initials (no, it's not called BS). So I am referring to BLACK SPURS.Ok, so I finally broke down and purchased a film to stream from Amazon, BLACK SPURS (1965) As the only Movie with Linda Darnell for which they offer this service which I don't have, I have despaired that BS will ever be released on dvd. This movie was Darnell's first film in several years, and her last film. She .filmed it a few months before she died, and it was released posthumously May 1965.
This lowbudget western was one of A. C. Lyles economy features he did during the 1960s, featuring many old timers. This one is no exception; besides second billed Linda, there is top billed Rory Cahoun, Terry Moore, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr.,.Bruce Cabot and Richard Arlen. The story has Linda as a saloon hostess, with not much too do; despite being billed lower, Terry Moore had a more substantial part. As for her looks,.she is definitely heavier than her last screen appearance, although it is not clear by how much. With the picture going from my laptop to my tv, it might suffer from the full.widescreen of anything on the laptop. She is more mature looking, but still.very attractive, and she looks good in most of her costumes. except for one, with a train or tail, which seems to emphasize her girth. However, as mentioned, it may be due to screen distortion. Overall, I am glad I made this purchase.
Since purchasing this film, I have watched it a.few.more times. I was able to get the Smart part of my Smart.TV to work, and the film looks good there, better than through my laptop, with its constant pauses as it tries to find the signal.
First off, the color is very vivid (it is Technicolor). And on a more normal dimensioned screen format, Linda Darnell.doesn't looked compressed anymore, and therefore, not as heavy as on first viewing. I refer to this because this was the purported boon to her career, where her weight gain caused her to not get anymore viable film offers. But she looks good, sure somewhat thicker than before, but not inordinately so. Her face.is puffier, but there are glimpses.of her beauty still. the point is, that her looks couldn't have been the main reason why she hadn't made a feature film in several years.
This film has some parallels with her most renowned western, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE. Here she is also a woman of loose morals, trying to make money plying the saloon. There is also a lawman, who has had a change of heart, and tries to clean up the town of its unsavory elements, thereby making thr town bearable for the decent folks. Just some parallels between the two films; quality-wise, there is no comparison.
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All mentioned so far would be great choices. But of course, I'm hoping that it'll.finally be Linda Darnell.
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CALL HER SAVAGE PAMPAS:
The "It" Girl herself, Clara Bow, hsd one of her best vehicles with this precode. Starring with Tor Johnson and Robert Taylor, both playing gauchos, she plays a woman into S n M games with her two lovers, at an estancia in the back country of Argentina. Using bolas, lariats, and other accroutements of the cowboy lifestyle, as she beats her willing subjects into blissful submission, she keeps a journal where she faithfully posts her daily entries, taking care to note when she reaches important milestones. The publication of excerpts of some of her selected writings purportedly inspired, some eighty years later the book "50 Shades of Grey".