filmnoirguy
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As a fan of The High Chaparral I salute Henry Darrow who died on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
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One of the best. Yaphet Kotto died on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
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The 1970s was such a great decade for movies, I can't limit it to just 10. So here are my sweet 16 (in order of release):
1. Patton
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. The Last Picture Show
4. Klute
5. Cabaret
6. Jeremiah Johnson
7. The Exorcist
8. Lenny
9. Chinatown
10. Shampoo
11. Three Days of the Condor
12. Network
13. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
14. Days of Heaven
15. Interiors
16. Apocalypse Now
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Well worth the price!
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I think Lemmon and Matthau were equally good in both comedies and dramas. Here are my favorites:
For comedy, I liked Jack Lemmon best in Some Like It Hot and for his Lead Actor Oscar nod in The Apartment. For drama, I liked him best for his Lead Actor Oscar nod in The Days of Wine and Roses and in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Walter Matthau won the Supporting Oscar for The Fortune Cookie and he well deserved it, plus he was nominated for Lead Actor in The Sunshine Boys. He got a Best Actor Oscar nod for Kotch which was directed by Lemmon. And I also liked him in the dramatic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
There are many more performances I could select for both, but guess those are the ones I'd put at the top.
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14 hours ago, cmovieviewer said:
I believe grammatically if the 'killer' was a person, you would say 'The killer who stalked New York', but as Eddie pointed out, in this case the killer was a thing (being the disease), so 'The killer that' is correct.
(I wouldn't have thought about it if Eddie hadn't mentioned it.)
Remember when Judy Garland's song from A Star Is Born "The Man That Got Away" was criticized for being grammatically incorrect? When asked why, lyricist Ira Gershwin said that it sounded better than "the man who got away." I agree.
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For the first time, I saw Side Street with Farley Granger on Movies! Shot on location, it was fun to see what parts of NYC looked like in 1949. Excellent black & white cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Supporting cast included Jean Hagen, James Craig, Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens and Cathy O'Donnell as his pregnant wife. Ends with wild chase finale.
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I saw Christopher Plummer in the world premiere of the musical Cyrano at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 1973. Then he took it to Broadway and won a Tony. One of his best movie performances was playing Mike Wallace in The Insider.
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16 hours ago, slaytonf said:
It is one of the great classic movies, made by David Lean, Director of movies like Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Brief Encounter (1946). TCM shows it often.
Another David Lean movie I love is 1984's A Passage to India.
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My grandson just turned 12 so we watched Stand By Me together the other night. As Mika pointed out above, Kirby plays the grocer who tells Gordie that he resembles his dead brother.
The movie ends with Gordie as an adult (Richard Dreyfuss) saying: "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?"
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
You got "Bill Kennedy Presents" out there in Pittsburgh? Or was there another interview in which she said that? At any rate, it probably had a lot to do with what their personal relationship degenerated into.
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I have a friend who was in charge of VIPs at a major airline in NYC back in the day. I asked him if there were any celebs who were especially rude or caused trouble. He said: "Only one. Lucille Ball. I had to deal with her many times. She was either drunk and making demands by throwing the F word around. Or she was sober and making demands by throwing the F word around."
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In BUtterfield 8, Laurence Harvey barks into the phone: "You've GOT to tell me where she is! It's a matter of LIFE AND DEATH!"
Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor: "I'm sick of opening up that door every other day and finding you boozed up, burned out and ugly."
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Among Golden Age movie stars who never received the Kennedy Center Honors are Olivia de Havilland, her sister Joan Fontaine, Mickey Rooney, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Debbie Reynolds, Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Jane Wyman, Montgomery Clift, Loretta Young, Doris Day....and the list goes on!
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Here are some songs, nominated or not, I think should have won:
1937: "They Can't Take That Away from Me" from Shall We Dance
1944: "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis (Or "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" not nominated from same movie)
1954: "The Man That Got Away" from A Star is Born
1960: "The Second Time Around" from High Time
1964: "A Hard Day's Night" from same (not nominated)
1967: "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale
1977: "Nobody Does It Better" from The Spy Who Loved Me
1980: "On the Road Again" from Honeysuckle Rose
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Thank you, Jakeem. Terrific recap of Apted's career. Appreciate it!
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My second favorite movie of 1948 is Hamlet. (My favorite, I Remember Mama, received 4 nods but not for Best Pic.) I've seen all of the screen versions of Hamlet and, unlike Hamlet who just couldn't make up his mind, I can: this version is the best. Oscars went to Best Picture, Actor Laurence Olivier, Art-Set Decoration and Costumes. Olivier lost the Director Oscar to John Huston for Treasure of Sierra Madre, who richly deserved to be recognized. As did Walter Huston for Supporting Actor. It is puzzling why Bogart, who gave one of his greatest performances, was not nominated. 1948 was a terrific year for movies. These three pictures, for me, were at the top of an excellent list.
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I loved Terry Moore best in her Oscar nominated role of Marie Buckholder in 1952's Come Back, Little Sheba.
But I gotta tell you, those images in the headline really don't look like balloons!
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I liked Gene Kelly as D'Artagnan in 1948's The Three Musketeers, the 1944 film noir Christmas Holiday with Deanna Durbin, and 1958's Marjorie Morningstar with Natalie Wood.
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6 hours ago, Lori Ann said:
I'd like to see Gene Kelly as a SOTM or a 24 hour feature for Summer Under the Stars. But show some of his movies that aren't shown as much as others.
Lori
Such as?
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I love this movie on so many different levels that I bought the DVD. One prime reason is that I'm a big Stanwyck fan, especially her comedies. I have read somewhere in the past that the role was originally offered to Bette Davis who turned it down. (Thank you, Bette!) This past year I read a piece by a critic (can't remember name) who said it was her/his favorite Sydney Greenstreet performance. Everyone is spot on in this delightful Christmas comedy. Thanks for the above review from AV Club!
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Her sister Christine died on December 28, 2018, almost 2 years ago to the day. Phyllis died on December 29, 2020.
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3 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Romance on the High Seas, was Day's first film. It is very unusual for a actor to get top billing on their first film, especially at Warner Bros. Jack Warner was against this since it would cause actors to make demands, thinking they were now special. In addition the other actors may have had something in their contracts related to how they were billed. (well in this case maybe only Jack Carson). So that's Hollywood and the studio-system-era for you. Below are the credits. Note that Day does get an "and" before her name (on the poster also), but no "introducing" tag line.
Even though it was her first film, maybe her billing could have been highlighted in larger type as in: And Introducing Doris Day. I understand that Janis Paige auditioned for the Georgia Garrett role but was cast in the supporting part of Elvira Kent. As we all know, Betty Hutton was originally cast until she discovered she was happily going to have a baby.
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On 5/7/2020 at 8:28 PM, noah80 said:
Next week will mark one year of Doris' passing. Here' s an excerpt from The Movie Musical! By JEANINE BASINGER
And even though Doris Day was clearly the star of "Romance on the High Seas," she was billed fourth behind Jack Carson, Janis Paige and Don DeFore. That's Hollywood for you!
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Thank you, Swithin, for the news about Rosalind's death. To complete the thought, she died on December 19, 2020 at age 87 years.
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You got "Bill Kennedy Presents" out there in Pittsburgh? Or was there another interview in which she said that? At any rate, it probably had a lot to do with what their personal relationship degenerated into.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
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I watched it again last year for the first time since seeing the theatrical release in 1969. I had read an article about Gig Young who won the Supporting Oscar for his terrific performance and tracked it down. It was Jane Fonda's first Oscar nomination, and my second favorite of her performances. I was also surprised it didn't get a Best Pic Oscar nod (after all, it was much better than Hello, Dolly!) and was pleased that Sydney Pollack was nominated for Director. One of my Top 10 favorites of the 1960s.