filmnoirguy
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Lina Lamont from Singin' in the Rain: "What do you think I am? Dumb or somethin'?"
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Recently took a virtual tour of Doris Day's house in Carmel that's been on the market for over a year at $7.4 mil. Betty Thomas has her Hollywood Hills pad for sale at about $8 mil. Oprah's Washington state house would make a nice cabin at a lake. 🤑
Anyone watch Million Dollar Listings Los Angeles? Season 13 premieres Sept 2, 2021 at 8 pm EST on Bravo. If you didn't catch Season 12, try to watch at least the first two episodes at Bravo On-Demand or Peacock. And tour the terrific contemporary cliffside mansion that Josh Flagg & Josh Altman have listed for $25 million.
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21 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
Did she ever say what her favorite Hitchcock film was? I imagine she did but don't see it mentioned in obituaries I've read.
Yes. Pat's favorite Hitchcock film was 1946's Notorious. She was especially impressed with the performances of Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. She claimed that her father's favorite was 1943's Shadow of a Doubt. It tickled him that a small town like Santa Rosa, CA could welcome a popular visitor with open arms, not realizing he was the Merry Widow murderer. Scripted by his wife, Alma Reville, Thorton Wilder and Sally Benson from Gordon McDonell's story.
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1 hour ago, Moe Howard said:
Of course, that's not Pat Hitchcock but rather Kasey Rogers who played Guy Haines' (Farley Granger) flirty wife. But the glasses played a key role when Bruno (Robert Walker) sees a similar pair on Barbara Morton (Pat Hitchcock) at a party which prompts him to try to strangle Mrs. Cummingham (Norma Varden). One of Hitchcock's best films noir!
Tragically, Pat's house burned in Southern California's Woolsey fire in 2018.
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2 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I'm sorry, but I just found this and it is TOO FUNNY NOT TO SHARE.
THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO IS TITLED:
"GRAYSON HALL DELIVERS YOUR EVERY QUARANTINE MOOD"
Well, at least she got an Oscar nod for The Night of the Iguana!
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16 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Sad to read this.
Markie Post died yesterday as well.
Two lovely ladies who entertained us.
Besides Night Court, I remember Markie Post in one of my favorite episodes of Cheers. She played Diane's best friend who comes for a visit and hits it off with Sam at Diane's dinner party. When Markie's character and Sam have a spaghetti sucking contest, Diane loses her cool and totally explodes.
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22 hours ago, Hibi said:
WOW. What made them pitch him as supporting? Was the Best Actor category crowded that year? (He lost anyway!)
The billing was: Olivia de Havilland in Daphne du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel"
with Richard Burton (below the tile) which, back in the day, automatically put him in the Supporting Category by the Academy.
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1 hour ago, lydecker said:
I would have loved to have seen some of his early British and early Fox films (My Cousin Rachel, etc.) Most of the post Cleopatra stuff is trash.
Yes, with the exception of 1964's The Night of the Iguana and probably his best ever performance as George in 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( He was robbed of the Oscar for that one!) My Cousin Rachel was his first American movie and he received a Supporting Oscar nod, although it seems he does have as much screen time as Olivia de Havilland.
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She's hiking and looking good in the Swiss National Park. Way to go, Ashley!
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My favorite Don Murray performance was as Johnny Pope in 1957's A Hatful of Rain. In my opinion he deserved the Oscar nod more than Anthony Franciosa as his brother, Polo.
Unfortunately, this movie has only been released by 20th Century Fox on DVD-r and it's a pathetic pan and scan print. If Fox doesn't want to restore it to Blu-ray, maybe they can allow another company to do so. (Well, I can dream, right?)
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I'm a fan and love all of his pictures you listed. Recently re-watched and enjoyed two of his later movies: 1955's Mr. Roberts with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon and 1953's How to Marry a Millionaire with Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall. Besides The Thin Man series, 1936's Libeled Lady with Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy is a favorite.
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"The horror, the horror!" Col Kurtz's last words in Apocalypse Now.
"If you stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you." Wendell Corey to Walter Huston in The Furies.
"Pull up a bed and make yourself at home." William Holden to Nancy Olson in Force of Arms.
"What's the matter? You look unhappier than usual." Zoey in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
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I suppose movies from this century would be too recent but I'll mention a couple anyway:
Frida (2002) Bio-pic of painter Frida Kahlo (Selma Hayek) and her husband considered the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th Century Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina).
Big Eyes (2014) Bio-pic of American painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) who in the 1950s painted children with large doe eyes.
And one from the late 20th Century:
Basquiat (1996) Bio-pic of Jean-Michael's (Jeffrey Wright) rise from graffiti artist to neo-Expressionist painter in the New York art world. David Bowie plays Andy Warhol.
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On 7/24/2021 at 9:14 AM, sewhite2000 said:
It was some months ago I watched I'll See You in My Dreams on TCM, and tonight I watched the Poverty Row production of Swing Hostess from PRC in 1944 on YouTube. In both movies, there was a form of a jukebox, but rather than people inserting their coins and the machine manipulating the chosen record into position to be played, none of the records were stored in the actual jukebox. Instead, the customer got on a telephone to an office building staffed entirely by women in a room with a library-like collection of records. The woman answering the phone would then take your request, seek out the record you wanted, and when she played it you could hear it through a speaker in your jukebox.
Did anybody use this service? And were any of you as rude with the women who played the records, which both movies seem to assume was the natural way to treat them?
I believe you're referring to another Doris Day musical 1949's My Dream Is Yours in which she plays a record hostess who answered phone requests (rather than 1952's I'll See You in My Dreams, where she played composer Gus Kahn's wife). Doris certainly had her share of "Dream" titles in the movies!
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On 7/25/2021 at 11:24 AM, chaya bat woof woof said:
A couple of comments on the above. 3 Women was an excellent film and I just looked up Janice Rule's acting husband (Ben Gazarra).
I prefer the original Man Who Knew Too Much - Doris Day seemed miscast - didn't see any chemistry between her and James Stewart (and she kept singing Que Sera Que Sera).
As for what I watched last night and this a.m...
On Demand (HBO) watched (fell asleep during part of) Broadcast News. Three leads (Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and John Hurt) are all great. If you haven't seen the film (slight spoiler)... you see the three as youngsters. Hurt, as a boy, has looks but is fairly stupid. Brooks, as he graduates high school gets beat up but yells that the bullies will never make more than $19,000 a year (which the bullies think is great). Holly Hunter seems to be raised by a single parent (her Dad). She uses complicated words as she types away. At one point she screams because her father says something (then she uses the esoteric word he uses). As she grows up, she always has these cathartic cries. James Brooks directed and it is an excellent story about broadcast news, newspapers, cutting costs by firing individuals, and love triangles. Hurt becomes a sportscaster who later becomes a news anchor. Brooks and Hunter are great friends but he has a wealth of knowledge in his head that continually amazes her. One of the many reasons I like this movie is because Hunter is not a quintessential beauty (unlike Lois Chiles). Hurt is dependent on Hunter to mentor him, while Brooks gets off some great jokes at Hurt's expense. I woke up in time to see the ending and one of the reasons I admire Brooks is because he doesn't go for the conventional.
This morning I watched CBS this morning. Lots of great stories and a fairly decent interview with Geena Davis (she won her Oscar for being in a movie with one of the stars of Broadcast News and with both stars of Body Heat - William Hurt (both movies) and Kathleen Turner). Saw the movie. But maybe Davis (who looked like she had some work done) should take a job on a TV series instead of whining about no more roles for aging women. She had her own show years ago. And I thought the end of Thelma and Louise was a cop out.
Tonight, the only thing I will try to watch is B&W episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Okay, I believe you did correct yourself. It was not John Hurt but William Hurt who starred in Broadcast News. Of the three leads, I think Albert Brooks was robbed of a Supporting Oscar win. And, of course, Geena Davis won her Supporting Oscar for another favorite of mine, The Accidental Tourist.
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10 hours ago, Toto said:
Despite there being a male dominated studio system during the "Golden Age of Hollywood", studios recognized the importance of making "woman's pictures" and stars such as Rosalind Russell, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn and more played strong female characters that were smart, funny, strong and compassionate. Do you have any favorite female characters from classic movies? I'd love to hear your thoughts. A few of mine are:
Rosalind Russell as the quick talking newspaper woman Hildy who seeks personal success in "His Girl Friday" (1940). My mother returned to school at a time when most women didn't do this. She went to journalism graduate school and became a successful journalist at a big Chicago newspaper. She told me that she liked female journalists in the movies such as Hildy and Lois Lane in Superman. It helped opened her eyes to a career that a woman could pursue.
Barbara Stanwyck as a big city magazine writer who poses as a farmer and mother. This is a quirky, funny movie and I love Barbara Stanwyck's style in it.
Maybe a surprise but Judy Garland as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz". As a little girl, I loved this movie. Unlike European fairy tales where the only solution to the female's problems is marrying a prince, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz solves her own problems and shows quite a lot of courage getting the broomstick from The Wicked Witch of the West. i love the scene where Dorothy slaps the Cowardly Lion and lectures him because he is bullying Toto.
I'm assuming the Barbara Stanwyck movie you're referring to is 1945's Christmas in Connecticut?
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On 7/20/2021 at 5:01 PM, Polly of the Precodes said:
Whale is commonly remembered as a horror director, but he had a knack for drawing-room comedy (see 1933's By Candlelight). The genius of The Old Dark House is the ambiguity as to whether the Femms are just blithely egocentric aristocrats, or monsters.
Whale also directed the 1936 musical Show Boat.
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43 minutes ago, Shank Asu said:
Yves Montand- the French singer?
You got it.
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14 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL (1957)
I am starting to like this movie. I did not sit through it, but watched the beginning and end. TCM shows it often.
This poster is absurd :
The guy looks like Yves Montand who starred with Monroe in 1960's Let's Make Love. Another of her films I don't especially care for.
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1 hour ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
The Scott\Greer film is The Company She Keeps. It is a drama and not really a crime\noir film. I only point this out since I wish those two were in a gritty noir film with at least one playing a femme fatale.
It is an RKO film, released in 1951; (thus TCM should be able to lease it, unlike a Paramount film).
The baby in Jane Greer's arms is none other than Jeff Bridges making his film debut.
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20 hours ago, Shank Asu said:
Yeah, i thought i recognized the sister but maybe not?
That was Diana Lynn who was a child prodigy as a concert pianist by the age of 12. She made her film debut playing the piano in They Shall Have Music and There's Magic In Music. Paramount put her under contract and she supported Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor. After The Miracle of Morgan's Creek she appeared in two Henry Aldrich films and two My Friend Irma films along with one of the last Martin & Lewis movies, You're Never Too Young. During the 1950s she played Spencer Tracy's daughter in The People Against O'Hara, Ronald Reagan's leading lady in Bedtime for Bonzo and co-starred with Burt Lancaster in The Kentuckian. After leaving Hollywood and running a travel agency in NYC for a number of years, Paramount offered her a part in Play It As It Lays, and she moved back to L.A. Before filming began, she suffered a stroke and died in 1971 at age 45.
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On 7/13/2021 at 8:16 PM, Classic aficionado said:
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"The Fan" (1981) A Broadway diva is stalked and menaced by a murderous young man. Starring Lauren Bacall and Michael Biehn.
"The Fan" (1996) A baseball star is menaced and threatened by a dangerous and demented sports fanatic. Starring Wesley Snipes, Robert DeNiro, and Ellen Barkin.
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The Fan (1949) Based on Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners "Lady Windemere's Fan" involving marital indiscretion in Victoria England. Starring Jeanne Crain, George Sanders.
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
I didn't realize that Cesar Romero was one of the best big-screen dancers? I don't think I've ever seen a movie of his where he dances. I will be looking out for that.
I believe that it's Rita as well and agree that if it was meant to be Ginger, that she would have been drawn as blonde.
Cesar Romero dances very well with Betty Grable in 1942's Springtime in the Rockies.
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On 7/14/2021 at 12:25 PM, johnpressman said:
Some years ago, The Academy of Motion Pictures in Beverly Hills ran a series "It's Great To Be Nominated" showing films that were nominated, but did not win the Best Picture Oscar.
Their screening of "Sunset Boulevard" included the original opening scene that took place in the LA City Morgue, not shown since 1950, as well as a different take on the New Year's Eve party scene, featuring a song entitled "The Paramount Don't Want Me Blues". The song "Buttons and Bows" was substituted in the final cut of the film.
Nancy Olsen, was present, accompanied by her husband, Alan Livingston, former Capitol Records executive (who is credited with the revival of Frank Sinatra's career), as well as her brother-in-law, Jay Livingston, the composer who wrote "Buttons and Bows" who appears at the piano in "Sunset".
She was absolutely charming and most forthcoming about the making of the film. Enjoyed this evening immensely.
I have the Blu-ray of Sunset Blvd that includes the original Morgue scene where bodies under sheets are talking to each other. Wilder changed it after a sneak preview because the audience laughed and he didn't mean for it to be funny. And thank God he did! It also has the deleted (or changed) "Paramount" song which, personally, I like even better as "Buttons and Bows" in 1950 was too closely associated with Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). In fact, it won the Best Song Oscar.
Is TCM On Comcast?
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Same here with Comcast. Extra 10 bucks (or $11.74 with tax) per month. At least it is HD.