Ellaisgood
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Kid=the upper class have much stress to deal with! Pools need to be cleaned, kids have to get into the right schools, wardrobes must be haute, attending parties, and vacation planning....just to name a few. You are a cold person my friend. And I am just joking.
Billie Burke masterfully created stressed-out wealthy women.
A Place in the Sun-poor Monty
The Out-of Towners-as stated below, Mr. Lemmon made stress an artform
I Want to Live
Queen Christina
Grand Hotel
The Best Years of Our Lives
Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace and in North by Northwest
The High and the Mighty
Mrs. Miniver
12 Angry Men
Possession
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Long Long Tailer
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Jack. Perhaps you were in a sad mood that day. I just cannot believe that the gift of memoralizing Spencer Tracey was blessed on Burt Reynolds. The part were he talks about following Mr. Tracey in full costume for weeks made me just a little vomity.
Maybe that's why you cried. Not that what was said was untrue but that Mr. Spencer, at the end of his life, had a bright-colored stalker to deal with.
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Georgie...great thread! I also like the comments below that suggest using "drugs" in a positive way. But...I like the movies that do show the illegal kind.
Three on a Match
Reefer Madness makes me laugh so hard that I still tease my mom if that really was the point of view of the time. Those poor Eisenhower era teens! (Mom and my two aunts also thought Liberace was sooooo hansome and husband-material)!
Breakfast At Tiffanys (the weather reports)
The Big Sleep
The Shootist
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"We need a bigger boat"
Roy Scheider to Robert Shaw in "Jaws"
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Any of the characters in Philadelphia Story (Katherine Hepburn's)
Barbara Stanwyck vs. Gary and the professors in Ball of Fire
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Don't laugh....King Kong's
Gladys Cooper in Now Voyager
Louise Beavers' in Imitation of Life
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Cell...classy words.
The fact that her organs are now completing a necessary cycle in others lives and eleviating their pain and suffering, just speaks volumes of the kindness and sympathy for the suffering that Ms. Richardson left us to strive for.
And no...I will not watch or read the suffering of the family she left in this world.
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Ditto Ham.
Just try and tell someone to lay off the daring X-games like moves on a bunny slope and see how fast a body guard "escorts" you away. The whole situation is confusing. i always assummed that if you hit your head hard enough to cause brain swelling, you sure would not be walking around for an hour afterwards.
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It's very noticeable. His suits hang differently and as stated below his face is thinner. As long as the "Dashing One" is losing weight for health...go for it. I hope he stops soon though.
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I'm about to be banned from the message boards but here goes
Casablanca
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I remember Talulah smoking with her eyes have shut. From what file in the back of my brain did that emerge from....do not know.
Tweetie reminds me of all the cute innocent yet devious kids I grew up with that just never seemed to get caught doing something naughty.
I hate tweetie and my husband sings that song "I'm a cute little bird in a gilded cage..."
I like the buzzard? relative of Leghorn? who sings "I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee...."
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Chip, I love the Clint and James Garner one. Mr. Garner does seem to stay away from the spotlight but when you think of his comedies, dramas, TV series (which he faught to continue because of the crew that would face unemployment) he cetainly belongs among the lauded.
My ultimate makes-me-cry everytime is Miss Elizabeth on Montgomery Clift. Reading the threads below...some bios do seem to be "impersonal" and the pairing is off. But when I hear Miss Elizabeth still promising to keep exchanges between her and Monty a secret, and the end when she breaks down....that is a friend. I hope I have someone still willing to keep secrets sacred long after I'm gone and who still weeps that they need me and I wish I was still here.
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Mine have already been recognized but perhaps the repetition shows how much their "supporting" roles are memory candy.
Thelma Ritter
Mary Wickes
Eve Arden=who slays me every time she barks at the timid accountant in Mildred Pierce
George Sanders
Agnes Moorehead
Patsy Kelly
Louise Beavers
Willie Best
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Chip
thanks for making a huge typo on my part seem funny and for letting me easily wipe the egg off. The Best YEARS of Our Lives. Thanks for making it a funny mistake...your a class act!
Cell
I'm with you on Grizzly Man. The only aspect that makes me lean towards he was "off" or one sandwhich shy of a picnic is that he claimed to be protecting the bears. However the areas that he claimed the bears were unprotected and therefore documented proof of the ability of man to co-exhist with them was needed by him, and thus in need of Federal or State assistance was shown to be false. The areas that he filmed the bears....all were in protected parks. If memory serves me right, the documentary showed interviews with officials from these areas stating "these are protected wildlife reserves". I think it showed helicopters either monitoring the bears or him for that matter. Don't get me wrong Cell, Grizzly Mn is certainly affecting and well deserving of its awards, but I think our bear man was obsessed to some degree.
It was horrid what happened to him. So I am left with the question that Grizzly Man raises, which I believe is when does desire to do well turn into destruction?
Whenever I think of his "balance" I remember the comical fox-and-the-hat episode.
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The Sound of Music
nw=doghouse
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Once again, a big thanks. That is exactly the title I was thinking of!
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Georgie...if your milliner would allow me her information...I'd love it. I'm going to the city tomorrow and have a few stores to look at...i may get lucky.
The kid's tea party idea is fabulous. I know you mentioned that you do not have children and I do not believe that one cannot know children unless she has her own.
I just want to throw this out there...kids finger sandwhichs your selection of clothes for dress up.
I think it's a great idea IF parent/parents stay as well (another room for tea for them?)
Watching and directing children can be like herding cats. You must have help (and the health department and child safety people's okay) But if you live in an area where this would be unique..you'll make a killing.
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William Powell is an absolute must for this thread. I am such a fan...shame on me for only thinking of my own sex. Dashing is a adjective I'd use to describe him. like Cary, these men also possessed a constant, imbeded desire to exude class. Whether self-taught or brought up with this behavior (I do not think Cary had an ideal upbringing...which means he improved himself and with it a graceful pace of movement) Cary and William wore the clothes...not the other way around. I love watching them with co-stars...the grace yet masculinity and chivalry with manners is untouched. I just cannot picture them going home from the set and turning into someone sloppy and rude.
I would like to add George Sanders. He portrayed some pretty nasty characters...but he looked great doing it.
Claude Rains
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San Fransisco
nw=seminar
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Cell...in Paragraph 175....is there a man interviewed who talks about the "screaming trees"? This might not be the words he used but I almost fainted from looking at his face while recalling the nighttime shrieks. This is when a man from the camp was taken out into the bordering trees and totured/killed and the rest of the prisoners could hear the poor soul's, painful, frightened and final hours of life.
I have to add that Documentary...I just didn't know the title. The man who recalls this is almost in a daze-like protective bubble so he wont hear what comes out of his mouth and memory. This made a huge impact on me as i never saw someone suffer of recollection and pure fright on camera. His eyes are still waiting for a Nazi to say its his turn.
Also...there is a documentary on the surge of Jewish children into England/Australia. "Kinder???"
The stories of how they made it out, found homes (some families taking in the children for their own sense of patriotism, some families thinking the kid would be reunited with their parents after the war and basically "babysat" them. The grown -up perspectives are heart wrenching...as they waited for their parents to pick them up.
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Georgie...my new BFF....do you really have the gown that Jean Harlow has on in the photo?
Oh...I am on the same page about men and attire. I guess with a houseful of men...I am not a fan of the beans and franks. That might have come out wrong.
I think the idea of having the imagination go to town is much sexier than watching a butcher shop move around.
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Georgie-Please don't think about where your stuff should go after you pass. It scares me. But it seems that your collection is valuable and historically important as I agree with the comment that today styles are unstylish. This generation must have access to observe what women wore before tonque rings and thongs-above-waistline chic. The clothes must be behind glass as these girls will not understand fine materials and the work that went into making them.
What about starting your own museum? The Christmas Story museum was started by one guy. It is simply the house that some of the shots where filmed...he bought it (blue-collar Cleveland area so we are not talking about Mandalay)....and layed out his collection of Lava soap and leg lamps. The museum is a hit. Who knew!
But definately the aforesaid donation sites...or again already stated...ebay.
I am available to receive anything as well.
Question...wear can I find vintage clothes of this type? Some vintage clothes stores sell tube socks...just because they are "retro". Do you go to auctions, ebay? Or is living where you do a mecca for feeding your soul. I have been looking for a cloche hat (correct term?) and the ones that are current...just are not right. I live close to NYC and there must be a freaking 20's cloche somewhere. I seem to be with my husband whenever we go and looking through clothes stores is some kind of horrid torture for him.
I just called my mom to see what she and my aunts did with grandma's Adrian's...they are now at the Kent State museum. Apparently calling me was not an option.
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Notorius
nw=faint
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"The Best Days of Our Lives" haunts me as my husband is in the Army. After a 15 month deployment Iraq's "triangle of death" and another one comming up to Afghanistan, the movie is eerily on point. I had seen the movie before he returned and as fate would have it, it was played within a month of his return. Reconnecting with your family and friends seems like it would be no problem. Without getting too personal...it is heartbreaking and confusing at times. The movie could not have had more of an impact that second time. I watched Myrna Loy's character for answers.
"Being There" reminds me to hug my kids and do the best I can each day. The movie started a habit I have now of never watching the news or reading the papers. Other people's thoughts, advise or behavior I now try to temper. I've also tried to stop interrupting people and to listen, listen, listen.
"Limelight" Life can really stink but with a kick in the can, love and faith in yourself and with determination that includes ignoring dirty looks, rolling eyes, and whispers...you can accomplish a goal. Even if it's effort put forth only day by day or breathing through an anxiety attack. No one can purely accept happiness but you...UPS does not deliver it and there are no announcements made in public letting all those you know and even yourself that YOU ARE NOW HAPPY.
[b]The TCM 15th Anniversary Guest Programmers Thread[/b]
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Cin=MEMORIALIZED?
I already had wallpaper made of the group picture. Now I just have to stalk...I mean...find all of you to sign your names on each roll. That's not to weird is it?