JackFavell
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I am drawn to the early movies lately, maybe because I am less familiar with them.
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Konway, I couldn't get the last two pics you posted to open.
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Her's another picture, tres charmant:
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I love the Frankie - Bing Warner Bros. cartoons (speaking of great music). I keep picturing the scene where Frankie is singing and the hens go so crazy for him they lay mountains of eggs!
Nice n' Easy is my favorite album, CD or whatever they call them nowadays. (Oooohhh, Frankie!!)
I got my daughter to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter songbook about a month ago. It was a hoot! She heard the song It's Delovely on a commercial, and couldn't understand what the word Delovely meant! She danced around in the living room to it.
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Ford hated "Four Men", but how bad can a picture be with George Sanders AND David Niven?
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Paul Henreid with a whip? hmmmm......sorry I got distracted.
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I watched the version with Ciaran Hinds recently, and thought I remembered one with Alan Bates that I saw years and years ago. I remember it being fantastic, but don't have much hope of finding it over here in the States. Is that the one they are showing? I am so jealous if it is...
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Nice picture, Konway! I have been waiting to post these that I found a while back-
To Be or Not to Be:
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I have a hard time picking favorite Sinatra tunes- do you go with the early, smooth, nearly perfect crooner voice, or the mid 50's blown out, swingin', two o'clock am voice? I just can't decide.
Really should just call this the Portrait of Jennie/Ghost and Mrs. Muir double feature. Mr. Grimes, I am amazed that these two romantic movies made your list! Although they are my dream team movie scores, I really can't picture you kickin' back, with your hanky in hand and sobbing like a baby, like I do!
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Though I love some of his other movies greatly, I really enjoyed "The Merry Widow" most. I recently saw it for the first time, and I couldn't stop smiling all the way through it.....
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Have to agree about Dr. Zhivago. I grew up with Lara's Theme playing on every store's musak.
But I have to say that after years of hating Mr. Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" for the same reason, I find I like it. It's really fun.
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I hate to say that the line from "Steel Magnolias" is actually attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the unconventional daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. She said:
"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me."
She said of her father's love of attention, that he "wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening."
Her father, when informed that Alice was smoking cigarettes on the roof of the White House for all to see, said, "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both."
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I've always thought that without Mr. Cotten (and maybe Everett Sloane), Citizen Kane would be very grim watching indeed. He brings an upbeat, light note to his youthful scenes, and a deep hurt to the later confrontational ones. I think you may agree that he is possibly the only really well rounded, or even likable character in the whole thing.
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The Rock has become the world's most admired director for his groundbreaking cinematic achievements after his breakthrough "serious" movie.......
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I hope not about the Affleck Dynasty, groan.......
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The thing that makes me like Joseph Cotten best is his portrayal of Holly Martins in "The Third Man". It is really hard to play a character that is basically just a nice, but not very smart guy. Cotten is superb in this movie- He is always stumbling in where he is not wanted, and getting the cold shoulder from everyone. He keeps stubbornly doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. I love him.
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Thanks, Arena. Hi from the States. Some of us over here actually do know the difference between Thomas Hardy and Dickens, LOL
Are they actually showing the movie on TCM here in the USA?
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Bio - that is terrific! You are riot!
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I was going to say Mickey Rooney, who gave a great performance just last year in "Night at the Museum". But it's too late! They awarded him one in 1983- 24 years ago.
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Oy. I just accidentally backspaced my reply out of existence.
Ok. "Clueless" is actually good, they left the story as is. The music isn't as good as the 1996 version, though! I especially like the "shocking lack of satin" final scene of the Gwyneth Paltrow version. What a lovely wedding. And to Jeremy Northam. Hubba hubba.
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At the end of Emma (the book), I feel the same way I feel at the end of La Belle et La Bete. I like the high-spirited, rather smug, matchmaking Emma. She is so much fun, I don't want her to change. Just as I don't want the Beast to turn into a handsome prince. I like him too much as a beast!
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I still like the music from Umbrellas, it's just that the outcome of the movie was so anti-romantic that I can't listen to the songs cheerily anymore!
I love Emma in all it's incarnations- (even "Clueless"). It's my favorite Jane Austen novel.
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I can't find where to PM someone. I would like to report a harassment situation, but can't get through to the administrator in any way.
Ernst Lubitsch and his films
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And the Lubitsch film I would most like to see is Monte Carlo with Jack Buchanan.