JackFavell
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It's not the 60's, but what the heck.... I love this one for Christmas cards.....
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That's a great pic, metsie! It's funny, I just "borrowed" this one for use as my screensaver:
Can you tell me what movie this is from?
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(in a Lina Lamont voice) I liked it!
I can see your point, Scsu. It wasn't the best movie, but I thought that after that initial scene, Gilbert settled down. I sure wish I had seen that pants shot....I was busy throwing my remote on the floor, cursing my dvd-r for not working.....
Try comparing this one to Guilty Hands with Kay Francis and it will look like high art by comparison......
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Brief Encounter
or perhaps
Jules et Jim
Scsu- why do your classroom policies remind me of Cool Hand Luke?
"Any student who fails to attend class spends a night in the box...."
"Any student who is tardy spends a night in the box...."
"Any student caught using a cell phone in class spends a night in the box...."
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Very interesting. I will have to go back and have a look at it again.
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Oh...uhh... I think he's kind of handsome
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I'm not the only one who thinks Danny Kaye is cute?
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He certainly deserved it..... it is a gorgeous film. I especially remember the waving yellow prairie grass, and the (was it grasshoppers or locusts?) scenes.
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Wow! You are lucky to have seen it like that- I haven't even seen it on the big screen... just a tiny television!
The young girl in that movie was so good- I think part of the reason I liked it so much was her voice and natural look.... I also tend to like narrated films, if they are done right.....
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You have to see *The Doll* next- it's awesome! And Lubitsch actually makes an appearance in it.....
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Oh my gosh! I love Days of Heaven! I forgot about that one! What a beautiful, unsung film....
I am always fascinated by actors who don't know how to talk about their craft. First of all, (speaking as an actor myself) pretty much ALL actors do nothing BUT talk about it.....
Vanessa Redgrave, as great an actress as she is, sounds positively LOONEY when talking about her process....she and Gere would make a great double bill on the Elvis show.....
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I'm glad I slept through the Wiz - I really needed the sleep. I had seen it years ago at a Wizard of Oz event, and was unimpressed by it.
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This is what I think of immediately when I hear "Beautiful Dreamer" :
It is definitely a western movie....
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That's very sad....
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I agree about the soundtrack, and also about the two movies being a great double feature.
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If I can ever catch up, *Oyster Princess* is not too far down on my list. I can't wait! If it is half as good as "The Doll" I will love it.
I was not as favorably impressed by the silent historical epics.
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Thanks! At least I got to watch it!
possible *SPOILER*
I thought Gilbert and Wolheim were quite effective, despite the initial weirdness about their looks. I enjoyed this movie very much, and mainly because of their back and forth banter. It suited Gilbert's style well, and although some of the plot was contrived, the movie moved along solidly. Both actors brought life to the most dated of lines, and I especially loved the dark side of Gilbert's character, shown best when he finds out his former girl has married someone else. Wolheim was, of course, most effective at the end - realizing how much he loves his brother, only too late. I enjoyed the time they took when acting opposite each other and Anita Page- adding tons of feeling to the script without using words....
Wolheim was a frustrated leading man, he felt typecast due to his gangster-like mug. He planned to have surgery to correct his broken nose and flatfaced look. Gilbert was a frustrated character actor, he desperately wanted to shed his lover persona, wisely realizing that the "type" would soon be out of fashion. They both wrote poetry, were erudite and educated gentlemen. Wolheim knew several languages, but none of this amazing talent was used by the studio. They were simply at a loss as to what to do with either Gilbert or Wolheim. Sad to say, if Wolheim had lived, he would probably have been stuck in gangster movies for most of his career. If only Gilbert and Wolheim could have changed places with each other, they might have been happy.....
Isn't it odd that within two years, both Wolheim and Gilbert would be dead, and Anita Page and Marie Prevost would be stalled in careers that were unsatisfying? I am discovering that to be a star was to be an asset and at the same time a liability to the studio- even Crawford suffered once she started making huge sums of money. Once you made it to the top, the studio would do almost anything to edge you out of the picture in order to save money.
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!@#$%^&*
My dvr is not recording! Consarn it! Oh, man, I am so mad!
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Goddess, I watched it with you in mind, knowing how highly you speak of it made me want to see it.
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Franklin Pangborn
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I've always thought that Gilbert made a huge mistake in clinging stubbornly to his contract with MGM - he could have gone on to write and direct with a lot of success.....he was so much more than "the great lover".....
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It was a lot prettier movie than I thought it would be.... actually, the indoor sequences were quite ugly, so it made the outdoors that much more beautiful......
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Dick Powell (and his son Norman)
Western Movie Rambles
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Sorry, Kathy! It was:
I don't know if you've seen it, but in this one Danny Kaye plays an absent-minded dreamer whose biggest problems are forgetting to bring home a cake for his mother (he brings home a rake, instead). Suddenly plunged into a world of espionage and real adventure, Kaye rescues his true love (Virginia Mayo) and saves the day. The highlights of the movie are his ridiculously heroic daydream sequences.The song "Beautiful Dreamer" is played as a theme throughout the movie.
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