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I never thought of Marlon that way! It's true, though.

What a doll!

I loved the technicolor- Greer's hair was so gorgeously colored. I liked seeing Rhys Williams- he is a favorite of mine. I pretty much like any movie he is in. Ian Wolfe was not playing a butler, so that was really something different! The whole thing was very sweet, and shows what a couple of pros like Pidgeon and Garson could do with fairly standard material. I have unfortunately been falling asleep during every movie I wanted to see lately. My daughter coughed and coughed all night long so all I got were bits and pieces of movies. Stars in my Crown started out great, but then about the time that Alan Hale was helping Juano Hernandez rebuild his farm, Kay Francis and William Powell came around the corner, being chased by Warren Hymer. They were spending a romantic night, before going back to San Francisco to fight with Robert Taylor in the Civil War! I really have got to see a movie all the way through one of these days.

I enjoyed Scandal at Scourie. It was a bit simplistic, but it all worked. This was the first time I've seen it.

Jeff- I thought A Kiss for Cinderella was a lost film... does the i-offer site say anything about the completeness of the copy they are selling? I would love to know more about this. Is there only one copy for sale, or several?

Angie, may I call you Angie? I really liked what you had to say about Clara. I agree 100% with you about how women really identified and felt (and still feel) close to her. I think this is why she and Gaynor were the most popular stars of their time- you could just feel what they were feeling. There is something so warm about her, and kind.

I was also thinking they were from the Great Race ... I like that Natalie was a floor sitter-- She seems to prefer sitting on the floor than anywhere else in these pics..... Sarah- please continue posting from your collection - they are beautiful. I especially like the closeup finger/chin shot....

I completely agree- I think Brad Pitt longs to be a character actor.... he is much more interesting to me as a chooser of movies than he is as an actor. His choices are quite diverse.

TRANSGRESSION (In Lina Lamont's voice) I liked it... Sort of like Under the Tuscan Sun, 1931 style.....

Thanks! He does look like Pee Wee! You could post those two on the lookalikes thread... It's a shame that there isn't much of a market for an Owsley biopic... Pee Wee would have the part- unless they got Alan Cumming instead.

Thanks guys, for putting up with my momentary irritation with my dad!

Thanks, guys! I will have to have an Owsley filmfest!

Oh, yeah, it IS Latin.

According to my dad, who made me look it up after telling me the name of the song.... The name of the song is *Gaudeamus Igitur*. It is a students' drinking song. Many Western nations use it for graduation ceremonies, probably because they don't understand the lighthearted references to sex and death in the song. Brahms stole the melody and used it in one of his famous works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Brevitate_Vitae http://www.newfoundations.com/Gaudeamus.html Thanks a lot, Dad, for forcing me to guess answers to things I don't have a clue about, never letting me get an answer right, and for making life generally difficult. I guess I know a lot of useless information because of him, but man, I would love it if he would just answer the question sometimes.....

I just listened to it - and I STILL don't know what it's called! It's because of my public school education- no Latin taught anymore.....

At that point I knew it was every bit as good as I thought it was. You just made me laugh hard!

OK. Here is the link for it, the scene starts at about 4 minutes, they start to sing at about 7:25, and the song I am thinking of is at about 9 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_awedcjhXM&feature=related

No, that's not the one. It goes Dumde dum deeee dumde dummmmmm, Dumde dum deeee dumDE dummmmmm.

I thought it was so interesting and sort of bittersweet that Coburn worked on the stage with his wife, I think they ran a little theatre for years and years; and that when she died in 1937 he made his first movie - at age 60!

I love Oscar Homolka! I like how he changes the mood of that singing scene when he starts humming the graduation type song....oh, what is that song called? I can't remember. Anyway, he is my favorite- but really they are a team and should almost be considered one character.....

I agree. I have also had many really horrible copies of His Girl Friday. One in which the sound suddenly exploded out of the TV halfway through the movie. Who's your favorite professor? I mean after Gary?

I'd love the outfit - and the phone! They match...

Oh, that's the one! There's my "Piggy". I love that whole exchange between Marilyn and George Winslow... and the look on her face when Coburn walks up is priceless...You got it!

God, what I wouldn't give to be a size 0 or whatever she is! I want that last outfit! Those colors are so popular right now. She was just too cute!

Above and beyond anything else he did, I love *His Girl Friday*. I noticed earlier this year that on the "Movies you watch over and over" thread, this movie showed up on almost every person's list. It is also on almost everyone's favorite movies list. That is really something. *Ball of Fire* is next for me. It is an absolute favorite. I think that Hawks is shown at his best when directing a group of actors, rather than one on one scenes. This is what I most appreciate in my two favorites listed above, A Song is Born, and also in Only Angels Have Wings. His artistry is most apparent when three, four, five or more people are all talking to one another, or not talking, as the case may be. Take time to watch the scene in Ball of Fire in which the old professors sit at the table singing "Genevieve" - This may be my favorite movie scene of all time- each actor gets some time, and Hawks allows real action and emotion to "spontaneously" happen. He had a real grasp of human psychology, I don't think many biographers or critics notice this quality in his movies. He is able to suggest real intimacy when his characters finally do get a minute alone. The juxtaposition of free for all and intimate moments is quite satisfying. This leads me to the other reason I like Hawks- I like the sound of his films. I like the rat-a-tat-tat of staccato voices, I also like the whispered speech of a character that doesn't know he's being listened to. When you put a movie together made up of scenes like that, it's like listening to the best jazz ever. I did watch the Howard Hawks entry in The Men Who Made the Movies, but I was distracted by my daughter a few tiimes. He was pretty laconic, and didn't say a lot about himself.