JackFavell
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Bruno is scary because he could be anybody - your old neighbor's son, who drops by to take care of his mom, or the busboy at the restaurant that you've gotten to know and laugh with. It's the very normalness of them that is so scary.
Plus for me, Bruno has the extra added scariness of being unstoppable. No matter what, he never gives up. You can't talk him out of his loony ideas - he holds all the cards, or lighters, as the case may be. Anyone else would see reason, or understand your feelings, but not Bruno. He's relentlessly friendly. They don't see themselves as loony either. You can't put these people in a box or an asylum somewhere - they are free to roam around among us, and even worse, they have the same tendencies we have - what's that phrase?
"I have seen the enemy and he is us."
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There's really not much about her anywhere, that I can find. You might check in bios of Mack Sennett or Carole Lombard.
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*Dreyer* scares me too! There is something deeply disturbing about his images to me, and I can't put my finger on why. The lingering maybe?
But I also have to say, I can't bear the little kids singing in *An Affair to Remember* - oy, talk about scary! I have to hide my eyes and close my ears!
*Donna Reed* used to scare me when I was little. I think the vision of this perfect woman in pearls vacuuming in this insular house really frightened me.
*Perry Mason* too. Not that he was a vision in pearls...
maybe it has something to do with stage-bound sets. *The Thief of Baghdad* freaked me out for years, that giant spider.... ewwww!
I agree about *Suddenly Last Summer* and *In Cold Blood* as well, implied violence is what totally frightens me.
The idea of *Frenzy* for me is more frightening than *Psycho*, though *Psycho* is more frightening in it's editing and shock value. Again, *Frenzy* bothers me because that's the way it really happens.
For me, the most frightening movie I think I've ever seen is *10 Rillington Place.* I don't know if it's considered a horror film or not.
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Michael Shayne has another great cast! I love Walter Abel.
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I remember. A sad day.
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Sheldon is another actor I just love seeing turn up! Isn't it nice that he made something of himself?
I think one of the reasons I love classic films is the way they cast for voices.
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Oh yes! Frank Nelson - you know him! He's that voice, you all know it (just ignore Mel Blanc in this clip from the Jack Benny show):
http://franknelson.net/waiter.mp3
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Oh that is too funny! Ha! "I used to be an art student." That must have been in her "wild" youth.
She has such a wry way with a line, it just cracks me up. She's especially good at the tossed off exit line.
I'd never heard of the Michael Shayne Detective series. I do like Lloyd Nolan, it would be refreshing to see him in a lead role. And with hair.
I've always wanted to see *Lady on a Train!* What a cast! Ms. Patterson and William Frawley both, plus the ever present Allen Jenkins, who also appeared on I Love Lucy at least a couple of times.
I've been watching I Love Lucy in the mornings with my daughter - talk about an education in character actors! Along with Elizabeth Patterson, Lucy must have had every misfit character player on that show that she ever worked with during her film career. It's been wonderful seeing them all turn up.
So far we've seen:
Elizabeth Patterson
Elsa Lanchester
Strother Martin
Allen Jenkins
Charles Lane
Jack Albertson
Charles Winninger
Barbara Pepper
Gale Gordon
Edouardo Cianelli
Bea Benaderet
Ellen Corby
Mary Wickes
Edward Everett Horton
Richard Crenna
Janet Waldo
Olin Howland
Hayden Roarke
Florence Bates
Will Wright
Hans Conried
I know I'm forgetting someone here! Anyway, I Love Lucy is a character actor lovers dream show!
Edited by: JackFavell on Feb 12, 2012 10:57 AM
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Clara looks so beautiful there.... that's why she was a star - so compelling! Your eye just goes to her, because she's vivacious.
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Wowee! I LOVE that one.
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No problem, Scottman! I love collecting movie portraits.
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That's weird, when I collected these, they were all the same size, except the color pic. All were large, like the first one.
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Mary Brian (I think there is one you might have posted before, but I am not sure) :
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That would be awesome. I never thought of a screening - I would love to have some screwball like Godfrey or maybe Monkey Business - the Marx Bros. one, I mean. Maybe followed by Westward the Women.
Maybe they would sit still for a few classic movies then.
Edited by: JackFavell on Feb 10, 2012 9:33 AM
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Perhaps it's morbid of me, but in my more ridiculous dramatic moments
this is the song I want played at my funeral: -
The 1945 ending is funnier, stretching out the bet for a longer, more satisfying punch line, but the 1933 ending is more beautiful, with the rain coming down and the way Margie and her beau meet.
I just love the part where Margie is about to lose the 5 dollar bet for her dad by saying she was miserable at the fair, but at the last moment the phone rings and it's her boy, and she runs out on the porch and throws her hands up into the air saying it was the most marvelous fair of all! So there, Mr. sourpuss! Ah, I'm a sucker for this simple story, told eloquently.
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Appalachian Spring has some good memories for me, and has my favorite hymn incorporated into it. When my theatre group did the play *Of Mice and Men*, I got to pick the opening music, and that is the song I picked - I thought it was so American, and it reminded me of the Harvest of Shame doc about itinerant farm workers. It just felt right for the story of Lennie and George -
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free.....
I like the part where it first starts to pick up pace and sounds like horses trotting along.
My other favorite is Rodeo, with it's jouncy bucking sound.
Maybe I just like the sound of horses.
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Charmaine is super!
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They are so pretty! Almost perfect, it seems to me.
They made at least 3 movies that I know of together in 1928-1929 - *River of Romance*, *Someone to Love*, *Varsity*, and then *Weekend Millionaire* in 1935.
*Varsity* was Mary's first talkie. *River of Romance* was an 1830's period picture. They also made a promotional short together for Loyola University:
http://magazine.lmu.edu/archive/2010/live-wire
I found this first picture of them at two different sites, both marked Mary Brian. To me she looks like another lady we know and I include both photo reproductions because one is higher contrast than the other. it could be Mary but I want to see if you see the resemblance to another silent actress:
These are some other publicity shots I found of Mary and Buddy. I would say that they were being paired up as the next big screen couple, but she made a lot of films with Richard Arlen as you already stated, and also with Richard Dix and anyone else who came along - Neil Hamilton and Fredric March for example. She averaged between 5 and 8 pictures a year from 1926 on - in 1933 she made a whopping 9 films! From 1935 on, the number dwindles.
This one has an original caption:
Hollywood, Calif.: Yesterday morning may have been fogy and dismal to the casual eye, but it dampen the ardor of lovely Mary Brian screen star. Mary arose in the wee small hours in order to be at the railroad station to meet Charles "Buddy" Rogers, returned from a ten weeks personal appearance tour of the Middle West. Rumors of a romantic attachment between the two young film stars were renewed when Miss Brian greeted the handsome "Buddy" with a typical fade-out movie kiss. Dick Powell, screen newcomer, whose name Hollywood also links with Miss Brian's was not present. Rogers resumes his screen career immediately, under the Fox banner, where he has been signed for two years. Photo shows Buddy Rogers being met at the train by Mary Brian.
Edited by: JackFavell on Feb 9, 2012 6:57 PM
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Oh thanks, scottman, you've given me an excuse to play some Rudy Vallee
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That's so funny, Chris, it's the second time this week I've heard Fanfare. My M other in law had gotten a Copland cd for Christmas, and she was playing it on Sunday while we were visiting - she stopped it and put this selection on, it's her favorite.
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I felt the same way. With very little shifting of the plot, she could have been done away with completely.
maybe it has something to do with stage-bound sets. 
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Honestly, that is the sweetest thing, Frank. How wonderful. I'm very touched.