JackFavell
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I found the music in "The 400 Blows" very moving. I don't know if it was scored, or if it was random music picked out by Truffaut; but the lightness of the music in combination with the weight of the story made me very emotional. It also made you understand Doinel a little better- the music only played when he was outside.
I just found out that the original music was written by Jean Constantin.
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Robert Michael- Please stay. We all want you to.
"Hate crime is when someone attacks another person verbally, via mail or email, or perhaps physically, and the crime is driven by the attacker's prejudice against a particular group of people. While more hate crime is verbal than physical, that does not mean it's not serious, or very upsetting for the person being harassed.
In any situation, it's your right to go to the police, report a crime and have it investigated. If you're scared to go to the police there are hundreds of third-party reporting sites. These places are community centres, other public places like churches or mosques, and sometimes certain private houses where you can discuss your situation with a person trained to fill in a crime form to notify the police. You can even notify the police of a non-urgent crime over the internet."
-from HateCrime-The Site.org
Robert Michael- I would be happy to fill out a crime form for you.
I hope you are reading this, whoever posted those dreadful statements to Robert Michael. You can be arrested for it. Keep your ridiculous opinions to yourself. They only cause you trouble.
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Bio 47- I completely agree. I think you may be right about Ryan O'Neal, too, although I believe he is an underrated actor. People either don't like him because he is too good looking, or maybe for his personal life, which was, admittedly, a shambles. I think his performance in Paper Moon is probably his best. I also love him in "What's Up, Doc?" in which he plays a sort of Cary Grant-ish professor of geology. It's a wonderful screwball comedy also directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
What about Greer Garson for Goodbye Mr. Chips? oh, wait did she win? Where's ButterscotchGreer when you need her?
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I have always loved Paper Moon. I looked it up on the net, and found that virtually every single person who posted a review of the movie liked it. I don't think I've ever seen such agreement among movie fans.
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I am going to count Jennifer Jones in this category. She won for "The Song of Bernadette". Although she had made 2 pictures before, they were made under the name Phyllis Isley. One was a western, and the other was a Dick Tracy serial. She had only small parts in each.
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Lewis Stone was kindly, more than honest Judge Hardy. But he was also disturbing Dr. Otternschlag.
Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.
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Harry Davenport was related by marriage to Lionel Barrymore:
I don't think I really need to say a thing about Lionel....except that he created the boom mike and also composed music.
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I am posting some pictures of the grand old men of movies. I see some of them almost everyday on TCM, and I just felt like making a little tribute to them....
Harry Davenport
Did you know that he was one of the co-founders of Actor's Equity? The organization was then known as the White Rats. He and Eddie Foy Jr. spearheaded a movement for actors of their day to have plumbing in their dressing rooms and a six day work week.
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Miss G- I must have been typing my endless ramblings while you were posting your last message.
"I think Barrymore's ideal situation would have been to be born hundreds of years earlier---during the Renaissance."-
This strikes me as spot on. Read what Douglas Fairbanks Jr. had to say about Barrymore:
"He rarely stops acting under any circumstance. When he does he is delightful. He has no conceit but rather a feeling of gross inferiority. He thinks that he is an atrocious actor and that his success mainly due to certain attractive angles of his face. He thinks his brother Lionel is the greatest of all actors...His manner gives one the impression of a soul that has turned bitter. This is not entirely the case. He is a dreamer whose dreams became too true to be good...He is curious composite of saint and devil. There are few men about whom there has been more vicious gossip. He is reputed to have witnessed and indulged in every known vice. He is discussed as being happiest when in an unbathed condition. He is said to be the most conceited man ever to appear before the public eye. Far be it from me to appoint myself a judge of anyone's character, but association has taught me several revealing facts about this man whom so many condemn without righteousness but with some cause. He is a man who, from his youth was surrounded by people older than himself; it is for that reason that he met and recognized at an early age the ironic side of life...He makes himself disliked for the purpose of keeping people away from him but once he knows their worth his friendship knows no bounds. He is grateful to old friends and is interested in many unprinted charities....He can look half his age one day and twice his age the next...He is a chap whom most men like and most women hate. He can look like a tramp or like a fashion plate, or like a king. He is a Magnifico of the Middle Ages, transposed by a supreme and happy gesture to the screen of to-day."
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Moira- thank you so much for your post! I am happy to see the listings for all three B's, and look forward to seeing "Midnight", since I haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen "Rasputin and the Empress" for years, so that will also be a treat.
I have read about Ethel being the "glue" of the family before, but did not remember that she had supported Lionel during his artistic career. I tried to find any trace of John's art on the net, but there is nothing. A sketch of himself, as Hamlet, dead, on the final page of his script. And a simply amazing drawing of an ogre found again at the NYPL website. That's it. Unfortunately, there is even less of his artwork available than his acting.
I have always felt sorry for Ethel, because she gave up so much of herself to her family. Because she was eldest, and had the most prominent early career, she gave up her dreams. I know several women who have done the same for their families. Still, I am glad she chose acting in the end, because I love to watch her. There is an elegance, a restrained sadness, and a wry wit to her later movie performances. Her characters have had a hard time of it, in some way or another, but it is always kept in the background. It might not even be mentioned, but you know it. I especially love "Portrait of Jennie". I get the idea that there could be a whole other movie about her character. She pulls back, giving a lot of mystery to the part. I feel a great sympathy for Miss Spinney, because she is a real person, with other things going on in her life. She has immense rapport with Cotton and the great Cecil Kellaway. I think her great strength is her ability to create a different bond with each actor. What lies between herself and another actor is almost tangible, a presence of it's own. I think in some ways, she was the most successful of the siblings as far as acting in the movies is concerned.
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I thought the camera work was beautiful though in that scene from Eternal Love.
I wish I had seen as many of his movies as you have, MissG. I agree, he should have had a chance for a "Trouble in Paradise" role. He would have been perfect.
I think I read somewhere, or maybe I just had the thought while reading about Mr. B., that he was a bridge between the old world and the modern world. His looks and mannerisms were very Edwardian, and yet he was the first to do modern, psychological interpretations of Shakespeare. He was the first to do vocal characterizations on stage that were like normal, everyday speech. And yet, in the movies he is sometimes drawn to the stentorian tones of the classic actor of the earlier era. He rushed headlong into the Bohemian and unconventional, but many of his contemporaries said he was the most kind man, a true gentleman. It's a bit of a puzzle to me. Did the avant-garde and the antiquated fight it out somewhere deep within his soul? He was definitely ahead of his time in so many respects. Maybe he got the best of both worlds, but simply couldn't handle it? I guess I'll never know these answers. I can only appreciate the life he lived in spite of the alcoholism.
I hope they show more of his silents on TCM. Miss G.- have they done so in the past? I haven't had the channel very long.
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Didn't she say "Ooomph is the sound a fat man makes when he bends over."?
I think she might have actually been a redhead, too.
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"The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true"
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Do you remember if he had a beard?
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I want to live in that nice cottage that Lassie came home to- The one with Donald Crisp and Elsa Lanchester.
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I went looking for Barrymore in harlequin pants on the net but didn't find anything. Nor did I find anything with a masked woman. I haven't seen enough of his silents to know what it might be. Plus I have a pretty bad memory, anyway. I wish I could help.
I discovered while I was looking around that I was born on the same day as Barrymore. No, not in the same year (though I feel like it tonight!). Weird. He was a Valentine baby - February 14, 1882.
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Yes, it is Diana. Sorry I didn't caption. It was taken in 1921. The picture is so gorgeous and shows a side of Barrymore that I had just NEVER seen before. It is sad when you think of the history of the two. I prefer to block that part out of my mind, and concentrate on that wonderful moment when such love was displayed.
That still from Tempest makes me want to see it so much! He is so expressive, even with his eyes cast down.
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I'm a rat, too. Pretty soon there will be enough of us to attack Ernest Borgnine.
I loved that song "Ben" when I was a kid....
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I like "The Train" and "Birdman of Alcatraz". I also think that Burt gives a really great performance in "Judgement at Nuremberg" as a Nazi judge on trial for war crimes. But I have to say that I love the swashbucklers- they showed me that he could just have fun. He was a real star.
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Here's a particularly lovely photo.
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I had a crush on Jack Wild too. My mother helped me write to him but I never got a reply. But I still have a hand-written letter that Mark Lester (the boy who played Oliver) wrote me, he was so nice. He asked me to write him back but I never did. I still feel a little guilty that he took the time to write and I never responded.
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Though I have no proof, I think Kate was having a little fun with Barrymore. One could also interpret it as a more delicate way to say no, thank you, so as not to bruise his ego. Then again, she didn't seem to mind bruising an ego here and there.
I found these pictures at the New York Public Library website. Rather interesting to see him as a young man.
Barrymore at 15
Barrymore in 1905
Barrymore in 1914
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I realized this morning as my daughter was watching TCM before school, that one of my favorite movies was on. I was in the kitchen, but I knew immediately what movie was on, because of the music. The Adventures of Robin Hood has one of the greatest and most memorable scores ever. Especially the part that starts with
Deee Dum/ dee dum de dum de dum......
I love that movie.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold rocks!
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If that ain't ooomph, I don't know what is...
Off Topic: Favorite Music?
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I still haven't watched my copy of Random harvest yet, but intend to listen carefully to the music!
I have "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" on CD. It's nice to listen to, but after I saw the movie I couldn't enjoy it as much.