filmnoirguy

The house built for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (yes, an actual house!) still stands in the Malibu, CA. hills. The land is now part of Malibu Creek State Park, and the house is used for the administrative offices for park employees. Recently I read that several such houses were built across the USA. But back in 1948 (if I were alive) I would like to have lived there, with its red, green, yellow, blue, and white rooms. Speaking of Cary Grant, I also like the set for the house in 1947's The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. The bedrooms are so huge, as I recall each with a firep

Bette Davis was forever criticizing her co-star Errol Flynn for his performance in 1939's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Many years later, after Flynn's death, she watched the movie on TV and stated that Errol was a lot better than she had remembered, in fact he was very good. Upon hearing this, the late Flynn's wife, Patrice Wymore, said in an interview on TCM that she wished Errol could have heard her comment as it would have meant so much to him.

When I saw Pulp Fiction in the theater, just as Eric Stolz plunged the needle into Uma Thurman's heart, the guy across the aisle stood up and let out a blood-curdling scream. I think everyone in the theater jumped about 10 feet. I know I did!

I don't know if they necessarily look alike, but when I was getting into classic movies I would confuse Dana Andrews with Cornel Wilde. (Maybe you can supple the photos, Tikisoo?)

Russell Arms was also a singer on the old TV show "Your Hit Parade" (1950-59) along with Dorothy Collins, Gisele MacKenzie and Snooky Lanson.

So good in 1950's The Cage, 1951's Detective Story and 1955's Interrupted Melody, receiving Best Actress Oscar nods for all three. Also great performances in Scaramouche, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Woman in White, The Voice of the Turtle, Home from the Hill and Above and Beyond. Plus her supporting role as the Baroness in The Sound of Music. Great actress who deserves to be better remembered today.

I prefer both. Love Stanwyck in her comedies, my favorite being her performance as Jean Harrington in The Lady Eve. Also laughed at her in Remember the Night, Ball of Fire and Christmas in Connecticut. Somewhere in the past, I read that Bette Davis turned down Connecticut opening the door for another great Stanwyck performance. Also Stanwyck was born for film noir as witnessed in Double Indemnity, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Sorry Wrong Number, The File on Thelma Jordan. Plus romantic dramas like My Reputation. Favorite Bette Davis performance is her Margo Channing in All Abou

AFI's Top 100 Funniest Movies listed The Apartment at #20 and The Seven Year Itch at #51. No Animal Crackers, but the Marx Bros. scored with Duck Soup at #5, Night at the Opera at #12, A Day at the Races at #59 and Horse Feathers at #65. Buster Keaton in The General at #18, Sherlock, Jr. at #62 and The Navigator at #81. Chaplin in Gold Rush at #25, Modern Times at #33, The Great Dictator at #37 and City Lights at #38. Harold Lloyd in The Freshman at #79. Laurel and Hardy in Sons of the Desert at #96.

My favorite movie of 1956 is Giant. Top Actor: Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life Top Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in Giant Top Supporting Actor: Tony Perkins in Friendly Persuasion Top Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind

The AFI named Some Like It Hot as the #1 comedy in their 100 Funniest Movies of All Time, Any thoughts?

I'm quite sure Jane Fonda got naked in Coming Home. I remember the first time they showed it in the middle of the night on TCM, it was the sanitized version for television. Guess who she was married to at the time.

Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News had a very nice tribute to Willie Garson tonight.

After leaving MGM, my favorite Jane Powell movie was 1957's The Girl Most Likely produced at RKO. Also starred Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, Tommy Noonan, Kay Ballard and Una Merkel. Apparently it was the only film being produced at RKO before the original studio closed. Kay Ballard used to joke: "Our picture shut RKO down!"

Peter Palmer died one day after his 90th birthday. RIP

Then you absolutely don't want to see the 1974 musical version, "Mame" with Lucille Ball. Leonard Maltin rates it as a Bomb. More like an Atom Bomb.