filmnoirguy
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I like all of Bogart's performances so it's really hard for me to choose just one. Last August on TCM I watched him once again as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny. One of my personal favorites. He lost the Oscar that year to Brando in On the Waterfront. Ironically, just a few years before, Brando in Streetcar had lost to Bogart in The African Queen.
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4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Huhn; As he played basically the same type of character in two other movies(Magnificent Seven, Ace High) that makes three then.
Definitely Bogey for SIERRA MADRE. or at least PETRIFIED FOREST.
And I thought CARY GRANT's work in ROOM FOR ONE MORE was Oscar worthy.
ROBERT BLAKE for WILLIE BOY IS HERE and IN COLD BLOOD(couldn't find info on if he ever was nominated for these)
JOHN WAYNE for THE COWBOYS too.
DICK VAN DYKE for THE RUNNER STUMBLES
OLIVER PLATT for THE IMPOSTORS
And don't laugh, but
MARILYN MONROE for (take your pick)BUS STOP, or, NIAGARA .
Sepiatone
How about Marilyn for The Misfits? Recently read that Clark Gable regarded his performance in The Misfits as his best.
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20 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
Cary Grant is a bit of a head-scratcher. Only nominated twice for more dramatic turns in Penny Serenade and None But the Lonely Heart, and of course, no wins.There has always been a prejudice against comedic performances, as if they're not acting or as if it isn't as hard to do comedy. I think Kevin Kline's win for A Fish Called Wanda is still a stunner. You can take your pick on overlooked Grant performances. You could start with The Philadelphia Story, in which everybody does a fine job, but if you're only going to nominate one male lead from that movie, you make it Jimmy Stewart? Or if you like your Grant more dramatic, there are also plenty of those. Only Angels Have Wings and Destination Tokyo are just a couple.
I think Cary Grant should have been nominated for his two Hichtcock's: Notorious and especially North by Northwest,
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I never saw a William Wyler movie I didn't like. But my top favorites are (in order of release): Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, The Westerner, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, Friendly Persuasion, The Big Country, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl.
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On 1/11/2020 at 12:03 PM, Terrence1 said:
I am also one who appreciates Mr. MacMurray's versatility. He seemed to be able to do it all. And he was so good in the Westerns. He was always believable and played real human beings.
So true! MacMurray was robbed of an Oscar nod for playing Walter Neff in Double Indemnity.
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The opening of Funny Girl. We see the back of a woman in leopard skin coat and hat walking up to and past a theater marquee, down the side alley and through the stage door. She walks past the man in the booth who is so engrossed in his newspaper he doesn't notice her, down a hall and stops in front of her dressing room door, then enters. She walks up to a full length mirror. For the first time we see her face, partially hidden by the collar of her coat, reflected in the mirror. She says: "Hello, gorgeous."
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On 1/11/2020 at 9:15 PM, hamradio said:
A movie is too long if one has to shave after it's over.
As someone said at this year's Golden Globes, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood was so long that by the end of the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio's date to the premiere was too old for him.
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I have Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide and the Second Edition of his Classic Movie Guide. In other words, he is my " go-to guy" for movie reviews. So I'm glad to see Maltin is getting some recognition from TCM. And what better way than the Robert Osborne Award!
As a side-bar: I am disappointed that his Movie Guide is no longer published in book form. I still look up movie reviews in his last edition which is getting shop worn to say the least. And I must admit I don't always agree with his ratings. Although movies like The Shawshank Redemption, A Place in the Sun, An American in Paris, MGM's version of Show Boat, Ace in the Hole, Gentleman's Agreement, The Yearling, 1959's Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, et al, received good to very good reviews, they are still rated a bit lower than I would rate them. Likewise, some, in my opinion, are rated too high. But that's part of the fun of reading reviews by Maltin and his staff. I can usually depend on his ratings and reviews to guide me to movies worth watching. And 99 times out of 100, I agree or at least appreciate his views. I certainly agreed with his 4 star reviews of some of my all-time favorites: Sunset Blvd., The Best Years of Our Lives, The Grapes of Wrath, Singin' in the Rain, Shane, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, The Caine Mutiny, East of Eden, Giant, The Bridge on the River Kwai, North By Northwest.... plus!
Thank you, TCM and congrats to Leonard Maltin!
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2 hours ago, TopBilled said:
What do you mean by "affected"...?
Artificial, pretentious, trying too hard to impress.
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On 1/10/2020 at 4:53 PM, CinemaInternational said:
It seems that Kim Novak, who rarely does interviews aside from the TCM interview a few years back, is sitting down for an 8 minute interview this Sunday on CBS News's Sunday Morning program, which airs at 9 AM Eastern Time. Post air time, the interview can be accessed from CBS's website.
She's so affected, she was rather painful for me to watch in this interview. Loved her in Vertigo, Picnic, Pal Joey, Man with the Golden Arm, however.
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I have nearly 200 of my favorite movies on DVD or Blu-ray. I have them all listed with viewing dates on My Docs so I can keep track. Enjoy watching them once every 3 to 5 years. The longer I wait, the more I enjoy a movie. And I'm amazed at what I've forgotten!
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3 hours ago, DawnM74 said:
Harry James (her husband of over 20 years) was a gambling addict & introduced the bad habit (as well as smoking & drinking which she didn't do until she hooked up with James)to Betty. That's where all of her money went - to pay off debts incurred at the horse races. He was also an alcoholic & was very jealous of her success....their marriage was a dumpster fire.
According to one of Betty's best friends, she paid off Harry's Las Vegas gambling debts of $100,000 to save his skin. And this was after their divorce and after he had married a much younger woman.
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Good title, yanceycravat. I'm sure Kookie would have liked it!
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4 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Have you seen these classic films:
391. I'm guessing Dodsworth?
392. Deception
393. Strangers on a Train
394. They Came to Cordura
395. Looks familiar but I'm not coming up with anything.
396. Madam X
397. Patton
398. Urban Cowboy
399. The Fabulous Baker Boys
400. No idea
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On 1/4/2020 at 2:25 PM, lydecker said:
It's a new year, a new decade and a new challenge. Challenge #42 starts Sunday, January 12. Come one, come all.
I don't know what this is.
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On 12/8/2019 at 1:26 PM, SansFin said:
These movies have both wonderful opening scenes and closing scenes:
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Opening:
"Yes, this is Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California. It's about 5 o'clock in the morning. That's the homicide squad, complete with detectives and newspaper men." while the narrator is floating face-down in a swimming pool.Closing:
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." while the police wait behind the camera to arrest her for the murder.
Sunset Blvd. has my personal favorite opening and closing scenes. Thanks, SansFin!
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On 11/20/2019 at 5:14 AM, sagebrush said:
I love DECEPTION. I like how Bette is the calmer character and Henreid and (especially) Rains have all the temperament.
Bette once said that Claude Rains was her favorite co-star.
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On 11/29/2019 at 8:01 AM, Bethluvsfilms said:
Awesome pair of flicks!
On 11/29/2019 at 7:16 AM, TopBilled said:Friday November 29, 2019
50s dramas on TCM
A FACE IN THE CROWD with Andy Griffith
MARTY with Ernest Borgnine
Oscar nominee Betsy Blair was originally a dancer and at the time married to Gene Kelly.
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On 12/11/2019 at 8:46 AM, Bethluvsfilms said:
Good films.
(Though as much as I love Art Carney, and no argument from me he was great in HARRY AND TONTO, I am not so sure he deserved to win the Best Actor oscar that year over Al Pacino in THE GODFATHER PART II or Jack Nicholson in CHINATOWN).
Though it's been awhile since I've seen HARRY AND TONTO. Maybe I'll change my mind this viewing.
Or my favorite Dustin Hoffman performance in Lenny.
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On 6/22/2014 at 12:39 PM, TopBilled said:
This thread will look at how much people watch TCM (or if they are watching competing channels more).
In my neck of the woods, Comcast replaced 4 commercial free movie channels with 8 others including Epix which shows newer films than TCM. So far I've once again enjoyed No Way Out, As Good As It Gets, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Lenny, Chinatown, Almost Famous, Rainman (on Screenpix), What Lies Beneath and Get Shorty. Kinda fun for a change of pace.
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On 1/2/2020 at 10:59 AM, slaytonf said:
Alas! Would it be heresy to say he was a better trumpeter than Chet Baker?
At the very least on a par with Chet Baker and Harry James.
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On 8/2/2015 at 3:06 PM, speedracer5 said:
I'm assuming you are referring to Jean Simmons the actress and not Gene Simmons the bassist from Kiss (his hair looks bad no matter what "style" lol)
I agree about the hairstyles though. I was watching a Gene Tierney movie yesterday, it might have been Whirlpool and she had that same awful hairstyle. While her face was still gorgeous, it made her look like she was in her 40s, when she was probably barely 30. I believe she might have had the same terrible hairstyle in Black Widow which I watched most of prior to Whirlpool. There was an actress in that movie who had the ugliest hairstyle. She was the actress playing the young ingenue who ends up the murder victim. She had this tight curly hairstyle, reminded me of a smaller version of Harpo Marx's wig. Ick!
Peggy Ann Garner?
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3 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
BARBARA STREISAND has quite the ****. But oddly, it suits her, and besides....
Her main claim to fame wasn't her looks, was it? And kudos to her for keeping it.
My ex had a huge nose too. It never bothered me, but it bothered her all her childhood so her getting a nosejob was more cathartic for her. Bothered the hell out of her mother though.
Sepiatone
I've read in the past that the main reason Streisand never got her nose bobbed was because she thought it could hurt or even ruin her singing instrument. Not to imply that she sings through her nose, but you know....
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On 8/2/2015 at 3:06 PM, speedracer5 said:
I'm assuming you are referring to Jean Simmons the actress and not Gene Simmons the bassist from Kiss (his hair looks bad no matter what "style" lol)
I agree about the hairstyles though. I was watching a Gene Tierney movie yesterday, it might have been Whirlpool and she had that same awful hairstyle. While her face was still gorgeous, it made her look like she was in her 40s, when she was probably barely 30. I believe she might have had the same terrible hairstyle in Black Widow which I watched most of prior to Whirlpool. There was an actress in that movie who had the ugliest hairstyle. She was the actress playing the young ingenue who ends up the murder victim. She had this tight curly hairstyle, reminded me of a smaller version of Harpo Marx's wig. Ick!
I wasn't born when Big Valley was new. I think the first film I saw Stanwyck in was Double Indemnity. I loved her in that and have been trying to see all her films as they air on TCM. I loved her versatility, in everything from Double Indemnity to Sorry Wrong Number to Stella Dallas to Ball of Fire. I always thought she possessed a unique beauty--even in Double Indemnity where her beauty is more on the cheap tawdry side, but I could see why Fred MacMurray would be interested in her. Recently, Stanwyck's precodes have been a revelation to me. I loved Baby Face. I've also watched a couple others, and even if the film is kind of hokey, Stanwyck's performance is always intriguing.
I agree totally with you about Stanwyck's beauty. In addition to the pictures you list, I'd like to add 1940's Remember the Night, 1945's Christmas in Connecticut, 1946's My Reputation, 1946's The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1947's The Other Love, and my all-time favorite Stanwyck film---1941's The Lady Eve.
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Jeannie Crane movies
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Also note that it is Jeanne (pronounced Jean), not Jeannie.