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Hey, can the Coffee Club watch you tube videos? I was looking up Lee Marvin and found a beaut from Seven Men from Now

Hey- you guys are probably smart enough to have figured this out already, but I just found out The Dirty Dozen is on tonight on TCM!

You mean Roscoe Karns actually played something other than a fast talking newspaper man? I'm shocked. I will definitely have to check it out! I love him. I agree Eugene Pallette got some zingers too in MMG: Angelica Bullock: "What happened, what did you say to Carlo?" Alexander Bullock: "I said goodbye." Angelica Bullock: "Did he go?" Alexander Bullock: "Yes. He left very hurriedly through the side window." I love Alice Brady's voice as Angelica: Angelica: "If you're going to be rude to my daughter, you might as well at least take your hat off!" I like Godfrey's first encounter with Angelica- she says something about the little men she sees. We are left to assume it's due to a hangover. The music is softly tinkling, and the camera cuts to a beaded lampshade blowing in the breeze. Godfrey stops the beads from moving as Angelica says something like:"You musn't step on the little men, they are annoying, but I won't see them stepped on." and as she( or maybe Godfrey) shoos them away, the music makes little whooshing away noises.

Cinemaven- Conrack is a great movie. I just love it. Voight is a teacher in the south, and finds that even the black population of the town don't want him changing anything. The kids in the movie are AMAZING. Just great.

Oooooh, beautiful pic, MissG. You know, I look just like Claudette Colbert.

I couldn't get the radio to work! I have to play with it some more to figure it out. My sister just sent this link to me- I apologize for going off-off topic. I thought some might recognize Stephen Fry (voice of the Good Morning, Madam alarm clock) and Hugh Laurie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZuH2BU0FE

Frank- you are a [doll]! Thanks, thanks, thanks! for the screen caps of Molly from My Man Godfrey. I just love her! Ohmygosh, I forgot Mrs. Danvers (a shiver just ran up my spine) Great line from the GREAT Thelma! .....pork chop..... I'm still laughing! Butterscotch, I'm borrowing your hee hee....

From what I have seen to date, John Ford's westerns should appeal to women because there is a strong emotional current to be found within. Frank- truer words were never said! I think Ford also created strong, well thought out women's roles. They are as much a part of the movie as the men. Unusual, especially in Westerns. I am definitely going to have to get Netflix, now. Of course I keep saying it, but I really have so many movies on my list after coming on TCM message boards, I may never catch up! I really want to see Pocket Money. I LOVE Cool Hand Luke - it is such a representative 60's movie.....

I love the Dick Cavett show. He was a great interviewer, never getting in the way of his guests. I will definitely try to find that dvd. I love Marvin's personality.

It is a supremely silly sex western, but, if in the mood, I love it. Certainly not GWTW, but fun. I loved that show The Millionaire. I used to catch reruns at 2 in the morning in college.

I like Lee Marvin in Emperor of the North, and The Dirty Dozen. He's really good in Ship of Fools too, but I remember not wanting to ever see it again back when I watched it. Too ...I don't know, yuccky. There is a really amazing movie called [Hell in the Pacific] in which he plays a U.S. pilot who is trapped on an island with a Japanese soldier (Toshiro Mifune) during WWII. It is an incredible mix of a movie, with only the two actors, that's it. They hate each other, then they realize they have to work together. They start working together, but suspiciously. As I recall, the two speak only their native languages throughout the film. It is really intense, and of course, they create a bond by the end. Coming back to the real world is a shock after such an intense relationship, and who knows if the two will be able to withstand all the hatred the two countries have for each other. He is awfully hard to love in almost any role, being a gritty kind of guy, but I do appreciate him, and wish he made more movies.

Sorry, Burt fans, but I've been waiting a long time to post this pic of Hume Cronyn....

Thanks Izcutter! I think I will try the library first, then I can decide whether I want the whole thing, or just parts.

Another Fine Mess

Cinemaven- I like Cronyn in the early 70's movie Conrack, with Jon Voight. His character is a school superintendent who has had his own (unfortunately racist) way for so long that he can't budge to allow a new teacher to change the status quo. A smilingly malevolent character.

I was trying to decide which movies to get with limited resources. I would have got the Ford box set, but crikey! it was expensive. Love the quotes! There is a very sly sense of humor there, with subtle little pokes (not jabs) of fun at politics and sex.

Wow. I thought I made some points that were rather original here, but after reading that thread.... not so much! I am glad that the other thread mentioned Lee Marvin, because I think he is an underrated actor. I have always liked him (watching Cat Ballou as a kid cemented his standing with me), and his Liberty is so well acted. His backstory is very interesting to me, even though it isn't as pleasant to think about as others. The last time I saw the movie, I saw very clearly Liberty as an abused child, with a really horrendous childhood. The scene in which he has to be stopped from beating Ranse to death really caught my eye. His reaction at the statehood meeting is very interesting too- He is a stunted little kid inside. I love the way Marvin uses his body (almost as good as Wayne) in this part. His death scene has stuck with me for years. It is an image that I can conjure up in my brain at any time. John Ford strikes again! I was going to say last night (and my opinion is reinforced by reading that thread) that I hear over and over the phrase "I don't like westerns, but I love this movie". I think women love this movie because it is a memory, not a western. Because women make choices like Hallie's all the time, and sometimes we do regret or at least think about "what might have been". We also think about what our future might be like if..... Women (at least until the last few decades) have relied on others to change our futures and our lives. We are so relationship oriented that we neglect steering our own ship, so to speak. And then to find someone who fulfills every need is pretty near impossible. We quietly go about our business and all the while we are dreaming about breaking free. The partner may never know this. Even in a happy marriage or relationship, there is something the other doesn't understand about us. And we desperately want someone to understand us. This movie has a Ford heroine who is continually overlooked, even neglected. We really relate to her. Her life is moving along in one direction and will continue on that path unless something or someone deflects it from it's trajectory. Ranse changes the path of Hallie's life, but it is still his life Hallie is leading, not her own. whew. Talk about a blowhard.... that's me!

Erich Von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard.

I'm with MissG- Though I couldn't find any pictures of Jean Dixon from Godfrey, Molly is my favorite maid of all time. She gets all the best lines: Detective: Just a minute, sister! Molly: If I thought that were true, I'd disown my parents. Detective: [chuckles] So you got a passion for jewelry, huh? Molly: Yes... I got a passion for socking cops. Detective: Where are they? Molly: Most of them are in cemeteries.

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Konway- I just ordered the Lubitsch Musicals box set. I am so excited! I have only seen one of the movies so far, so I am really looking forward to sitting down with these movies. I normally don't buy box sets, because I usually have no money, but I got a gift certificate for my birthday. I am anxiously awaiting the mail- just like Klara! Me, waiting patiently for my box set to arrive... Me, opening my beloved box set (see my smile?)- Me, watching Lubitsch's great musical pictures-

Love the screen caps, Frank! Especially because you included my favorite character- Dutton Peabody. O'Brien is great in this movie. I can never reconcile the guy who played Gregoire in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and this crusty newspaper man. Isn't it interesting that Ford made Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1962? The supremacy of the Western was waning, as was Ford's heydey as a director. I find the timing very relevant....

Metsfan- Greatest video ever! Love the song too.

It dates me cause I typed "album" instead of CD! I span all generations.....

Oh, golly, I love the Police! I especially like Stewart Copeland, the drummer. They are one of the bands that I can listen to a whole album (oops, that dates me, eh?) and not be sick of it at the end. Hey hey! I seem to have a list posted here on the screen of how to to do italics , _underlining_, and all --srots-- sorts of *wonderful* things.....