JackFavell
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I just added it to my Netflix queue. This is right up my alley- I love theatre on film, and I love British stuff. I am crazy about Ian Holm, he is always really interesting. Look how young he is! I just saw him a week or so ago playing Napoleon in "The Emperor's New Clothes" and he was really good. Of course, I have about 300 movies to go through on Netflix, but I will move it up to the top ten- maybe I can actually watch it within the next month!
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You mean you can see trees & flowers bloom, leaves fall off the trees, and snow blanketing the whole place - all in the same day?
I guess not, but it can be pretty changeable here due to the proximity of the water- usually about 10:00 am the weather will change. We just dropped 10 degrees between yesterday and today. Also, here at the shore, we are lucky, weather is more moderate. But all you have to do is go about 10 miles inland and the weather will be completely different! In winter, there could be a Nor'easter blowing inland, and we will only get a slight dusting of snow, or vice versa.
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And there's no better place in the U.S. to enjoy the seasonal changes, imho. B-)
Sometimes all of them in the same day....
Cinemaven- we are at the southeastern edge of Connecticut. Where men are men and women are snooty....
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I love Byron Foulger! I love his voice, and the way he peers around like a bunny.... I mean ...a squirrel. Weak and obsequious, he played hotel clerks, high school principals, and druggists. A quick glance at IMDB shows his characters are invariably named "Littleton" or "Tweedy", that is, when he gets a name, which isn't often. More often he is cast as "station manager" or "glove expert". To me, he seems most at home in slightly scary, noir or monster movies, playing henchman who are doomed to die from the moment they appear on the scene.
IMDB says he is highly recognizable:
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Oh, that is the cutest! I can just hear his little voice a singin'.
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There are definite pluses to living in New England! If you can stand humidity and don't mind laconic people, it's pretty great.
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These guys are the Mystic Highland Pipe Band, which is our local bagpipe group- it seems that there are pipers all over New England, because at every parade, there are at least three bagpipe groups! I love it, but I imagine it would be quite wearing if you hate the sound of bagpipes.
It looks like that photo was taken at Avery Point, nearby. I am not sure, but there aren't that many places with lots of flat land here.... yes! I just found the picture again, and it was at Avery Point, which is beautiful! I wish I could have been there that day....
Here is a picture of the lighthouse there.....
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That place looks gorgeous, but I am sure it didn't look as good as the brunette Veronica! I like your taste in food, except dessert.....I would have gone for the chocolate....
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It's not that they're tall, it's their skinny legs.....
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it's far outside my income bracket
You got that right! Me too.
I probably shouldn't say this, but I have my eye on some of Alice Brady's jewelry right now. Oops! Now I've done it! Someone is going to bid against me. Actually, I probably won't even bid at all, not really having the wherewithal to afford it in the first place. I like to look though, and pretend I can buy some little trinkets.
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He was the average guy, stuck in the mountains with the weird old man and the crazy coot Dobbs
I agree, he was good in this one too. I just can't watch him in other stuff- maybe he just needed a good director?
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Do you feel more grown up today? I still feel like eighteen most of the time....
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It was fun. Their summer attire was more like Victor McLaglen in Wee Willie Winkie, or the heroes in Gunga Din- but with kilts. They had the same hats and jackets as Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, and Vic. Unfortunately, there was no one near as good looking as those three....
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Jeff, that peach and green are perfect for the Bessie Love picture.
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No trick. I just thought it looked yummy!
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Hey guys! I didn't know where else to post this, but I have been looking at an auction site recently. I can't afford any of the stuff, but some of it is really cool. Today, I got an email from them, and they have a whole bunch of Theda Bara (the ugly one
) stuff and some of it is really amazing. I haven't looked for other silent memorabilia, but there may be other stuff too. -
Sometimes a crowd in the movie theatre is fun- like when we went to see *Curse of the Were-Rabbit* with Wallace and Grommit. We were all on the same page, and at the end everybody stood up and cheered.
Unfortunately, this is not the case most of the time! When people are texting during a movie (it's amazing how piercing the light is from a little tiny phone when you are in the dark), or are getting up fro snacks and coming in late, talking and laughing through the whole thing I just get crazy!
The worst for me is when someone sitting behind me has to translate for a very deaf or stupid person. This happened during "Brideshead Revisited" recently. The woman kept saying, "What did she say?" "What was that?" and I wanted so badly to say, "Why did you come to an English movie if you can't understand the language?" It just makes me frustrated, because every time she asked a question, I would lose two or three more bits of dialogue....
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Gladys is VERY realistic ...enough to make you wonder, "How much of it was an act?"
According to Bette Davis, Gladys Cooper was as fine and kindly a woman as you'd ever want to meet. Bette said she felt bad that she became so well known for this part, because she was as far from it as you could possible get....
Lovely descriptions again, Miss G. I especially like the way you went back and figured out an overriding theme in your choices....
I'm glad you picked Hattie McDaniel- I have been watching her with a different eye lately, and realized that her popularity is totally warranted. Her characters are never dull, stupid, or even subservient. In fact, I would venture to say that she plays on two levels all the time. The first level is the one we all see. Mammy, the servant, for instance. The second level is deeper, and more profound- and is a running commentary on the behavior of the folks she works for. Mammy is the conscience of the movie. She is always looking on, disapproving, or being won over- We wouldn't like Rhett in the way we do if he hadn't had that scene in which he flirts with McDaniel. I watched "The Male Animal" recently, and the part of Cleota has always bothered me. But McDaniel played it on a level I had never thought of before, having only read the play. Again, there is another layer, one in which she seems to be saying, "Look at how ridiculous these people are". She plays with a sort of irony most of the time, but when she needs to, she can pull out all the stops and blow everyone away emotionally.
I am trying to write mine down, but it may be awhile... I am having a hard time limiting myself once I get going...
I thought I was the only one who was having trouble with the ladies. I find that I could pick a hundred character actors, but only a few character actresses. Is it an innate prejudice on my part, or that there simply aren't the roles for women that there are for men?
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I have to agree with Mickee- I think Tim Holt is about the dullest actor around, except in Ambersons.
Mickee- I get what you are saying, too, about enjoying Ambersons for what it is, rather than what it might have been.... but..... I sure would like to see what it was.... I could kick Robert Wise every time I see him in a documentary......
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Thanks for the review. It's been in my queue for a while, but I keep bumping it down! I guess it's tiem to bump it back up. I can't wait to see it.
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Thanks, Chris! I really thought Cukor directed them both... I actually am not crazy about the Garland version, though I love Judy. I guess the 1937 version just stuck with me.
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I too am appreciating Wellman more. I didn't realize that he directed A Star is Born, one of my favorite weepers. Somehow I had it in my head that A Star is Born was directed by Cukor instead. He also directed The Happy Years, Nothing Sacred, and Beau Geste. For some reason all of these surprised me. I really only thought of him as a man's picture director- you know, Public Enemy and Wild Boys of the Road type movies. I guess I was wrong...but he certainly brought an unflinching eye to whatever he did.
Yesterday we went to a local food festival and guess what they had? No, not waffles....
Men in kilts.....
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Kathy- Yes, there is a a long set up for Ruby. She goes to town every Thursday, on the pretext of having piano lessons, I think. But she really goes with the boys. The movie never shows what she does, but the boys follow after her, and yet talk disparagingly about her behind her back. I found her rather heartbreaking. She is definitely the most mysterious character for me.
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MissG. - Yes, I did read your insightful descriptions! I especially love the Thomas Santschi one. You also know how I feel about Pompey....
Now, you SAY you don't understand how to dissect a movie, or the details of filmmaking, but here in your descriptions of Felix Bressart and of Ward Bond, you have hit on some extremely important cinematic conventions. Talking about Felix Bressart as the voice of the people of Europe and depression-shy Americans is pretty deep... and true. Or explaining that Bond is the real antithesis of Fonda's character- that's a totally different take from the usual critique of the movie, which pits Wayne against Fonda. But again, IT'S TRUE. And it comes from an unusual ability to dig into a movie and find the through line, whether of a character or the film itself. Bravo....
You also made me want to see The Shepherd of the Hills. I have to admit that I have hardly seen Harry Carey, Sr. except in Mr. Smith goes to Washington. He actually almost made it onto my list for Mr. Smith, in spite of the fact that he is only on camera for maybe 30 seconds to a minute! He just exudes warmth and charity in that movie, and I think he must have been brilliant to make such an impression in so little screen time.
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Very interesting article, FF.
I haven't watched "Balloon" yet, but there is hope! It's coming to Netflix in October. I am more likely to get it there than to travel to Blockbuster, so I am going to try and be the first person to rent it.