JackFavell
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Marie Doro:
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Oh, it works great! It makes a nice loud cracking noise too. As a bonus, you get these nice little shards of candy to suck on....
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Ro- those sound good! I like a Charleston Chew frozen and then smacked on the counter to break it up into bite size pieces....messy but good....
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Herbert Rawlinson, J. Warren Kerrigan, and Francis X. Bushman were all popular actors in the teens...
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2 more for Marie Dressler day- Monday August 4th, 2008:
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I think Clara looks great... she had so much style! I hadn't noticed the socks, but I think she looks very modern - dress styles are very similar to that right now. Arlen is dressed to the nines as far as I am concerned..... that includes the dog....
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Edy's 100% fruit pops are delicious on a hot day. I prefer lime.
I am in no way affiliated with Edy's.... I just like to eat.
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Jeffrey- some poor dumb boob probably disposed of a stack of movies because she wasn't popular anymore. or worse, they sat there disintegrating for years while nobody paid attention....
Don't we have a National Film Preservation Society in the Library of Congress? How do they decide what's important to save? If only we had someone like .......oh, I've lost his name- the french fellow from the 60's who singlehandedly rescued many films? Do you know who I'm talking about? He ran an underground movie theatre in France and brought back many directors and films from obscurity. Oh, it's driving me crazy...
I FINALLY watched *The Racket* last night! You can thank TCM, because something was wrong with the signal, so I finished watching my copy....
First of all, I really enjoyed the film. The print was extremely clean, except for a few scenes at the end. Is it the very first gangster film?
I didn't miss sound at all, due to some very witty titles with great colorful language.... My first impression was that Robert Israel's score was amazing. I now have two composers that I will watch anything they work on (Carl Davis being the other one).
I would rather have seen more of Wolheim and less of Meighan, but they were both extremely good. I only wish Wolheim had made more movies.... I thought Marie Prevost was fantastic- she walked off with the show as far as I'm concerned. What a flair she had.... I really want to see her in something else now. The supporting cast was excellent, right down to the tiniest part....
Milestone did a fantastic job on this movie. It had great breakneck pacing, and some really fun sequences (I especially liked the shots in which we see what Wolheim sees- guns under hats, rival gang members, etc.) He and the cast really created a whole underworld milieu, without too hard an edge- you can see why this type of movie became so popular in a cynical, booze deprived, depression era world. It was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks a lot. Now I have to pick another to watch next. Oh, the agony of too many choices!
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(I'm going to call it a "power nap")
I call it being run ragged all day long.
I think I will add Monte Walsh to my queue at Netflix...
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People still want a piece of Rudy- look at what I found on ebay today-
Gilbert was not nearly as handsome as Rudy, especially in still photos. But he was exciting to watch on the screen. For me, it is emotionally satisfying to see him in action. He brings a depth of feeling that I feel is sorely lacking nowadays.
Jeffrey, that is quite interesting that you have discovered that picture from the two strip Technicolor section of the film- it is beautiful! So is your other colorized still. I love that you care enough to take the time to do this! I hope you won't mind if I post a couple photos of Gilbert I found on the net-
This still photo is nice....
But I prefer Gilbert when he is acting instead of posing. There is something endearing about him in these....
and he is just downright sexy in this one- the movement shown in the picture just gets me. And the look on his face...
I also just found a review of the pre-code sound film "Downstairs" which sounds particularly good. It is from a story that Gilbert himself had written, and according to his daughter, many Hollywood insiders considered Gilbert a better than average writer.... In it, Gilbert portrays a chauffeur who wreaks havoc above and below stairs in a previously idyllic household.
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Aaaaaghh. My TV or cable station garbled up the first half hour of *Monte Walsh* ! First, the picture kept stopping and starting, then eventually all I got was a black screen and a message that said "no signal received".... Grrrrr. I gave up and watched my copy of *The Racket* instead. At least Jeffrey will be pleased that I finally saw it. I am quite disappointed because the beginning minute and a half of *Walsh* looked so promising. You are right about Marvin's hair, LOL! - when I tuned back in at the end he looked much younger (without the beard) and his face was smooth and tight looking. I missed *Bad Company* too, but only because I fell asleep.
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I notice, too, that it was directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the time period's only female directors..... that's exciting.
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I think he was underrated as well. I don't remember a role in which he gave a bad line reading, or made a false move. There are many famous actors who can't say the same. He was so easy and relaxed that it never seems like work. But you know every thought that flickers across that beautiful face:
He's the perfect Robin Hood and always will be.
And I think he may be the only movie star to have a live cameo in a Bugs Bunny cartoon....
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Those earrings are the bee's knees, but I want to know how to get those spit curls.........
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Thanks, Teach, for doing such a great job!
I really don't want school to be over.....how unusual...
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I think no treatment of the war could be complete without Sturges' *The Miracle of Morgan's Creek*....
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Was it either Naunton Wayne or Basil Radford from The Lady Vanishes? You know, the two sports nuts?
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Ro- I always like Ford's open endings.. his characters live on after the movie. It makes it endlessly fascinating to wonder what happened to them. I think that is why he uses doorways so much, not only are they a great way to frame a shot, they are symbolic of so much other stuff- inner and outer lives, beginnings and endings, ourselves and others, nature and civilization.....
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Thelma- thanks for the reminder! I will try to watch after 10 am, I haven't seen Payday, or The Pilgrim. I've seen all the others, but mostly, I am dying to see "a Woman of Paris".
Personally, The Kid is my favorite of Chaplin's feature films....
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It's very strange- mob mentality. Another reason I don't like crowds.
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Now, see, I am a big fan of "A Face in the Crowd". That "dark side of fame" thing is fascinating to me.....plus I think Andy is terrific in it.
He made a quirky movie last year called "Waitress", and he was super in it. In fact, I wished he'd been in it more. He played a crusty old man (surprise!) who came to the diner every day to eat pie.
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I like Andy Griffith too- I have seen him in a couple of movies since his Matlock days, and he is really good. He seems to pick nice quirky movies.
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I don't think I would go that far......
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Directors still knew how to tell a story without making it a marathon.
I was just thinking that same thing when I watched "Stagecoach" last night- a breezy 90 minutes! My daughter didn't even have time to complain that I was hogging the TV!
I'll try to watch Monte Walsh too. I got the TV last night, so I don't know how successful I'll be tonight.
It would be a great idea to play Monte Walsh, The Misfits and Lonely Are the Brave in a
"theme" evening because they all touch on the same theme
Great programming suggestion, Miss G! I can think of a couple- Ride the High Country and The Shootist. I think Electric Horseman fits the bill as well but it may just be dated at this point. I don't remember it much. But I think the ones you mention are the cream of the crop. I am still waiting to see the movie Hearts of the West again- It is about a young farmboy (Jeff Bridges) who becomes a B-movie cowboy during the early talkies... Andy Griffith plays an aging stuntman who teaches him the ropes, so to speak. It's another of those movies that I caught years ago on tv and liked, and as I recall, Griffith was just great as an aging cowboy whose career is slipping by.
Popular stars/ films from 1900-1919
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