JackFavell

> Portrayals: Who portrayed the big, dumb and doomed Samson Posey in The Dirty Dozen ? A football player, I can't remember the actor's name...Jim Brown maybe? > > > *I didn't get this one, either. I've only seen small bits and pieces of the film. It's Clint Walker.* D'oh! My bad. I was completely off on this one. I'm not nearly as smart or good at trivia as I think I am! I must have been thinking of another movie in that genre.... like Kelly's Heroes or something. Edited by: JackFavell on Jan 18, 2012 8:10 PM

I'm still laughing! I really did enjoy it, thanks very much. It's so appropriate. Oh, I love The Doll. What a great movie! Boy meets girl, boy gets scared of girl, boy wins girl to his chagrin.... love is always timeless, at least in Lubitsch's hands. She looks lovely here, doesn't she, MissG! I love Liz with the really short hair, she is one of the few women who could really look good in that style with the Dior look. I just like her when she is laughing - there is something uncontrolled and fun about her when she giggles. I suspect she had a wonderful sense of the absurd.

Oh my gosh, you couldn't have picked a better set of caps! _You_ are hilarious! Hahahahahahahaha! And it's one of my favorite movies....Perfect! Perfect! oh my goodness, that is the funniest! I can't stop laughing.... you are too much, Frank Grimes! Thanks!

Thank you all so much! From Shirley to Bela to Ben.... what a treat! And I am really looking forward to being waited on by Mr. 'udson and Mrs. Bridges, the dears. You're all invited to my special feast.

h1. Happy Birthday, Maven!

I didn't know that! Blore is such a great personality, I dearly love it when he "pops" up! What a sweetie. I feel the same way about the Bowery Boys, I like everything, probably because they were always on on Saturday in my childhood. I'd love to revisit the Moto series, maybe I should watch them in order, instead of just what "pops up" on TCM. Lorre to me plays oriental better than any other actor, and I remember him as not being a stereotypical Asian. I 'll let you know when I watch Double Wedding. I have to find it in my pile of dvd's first.

Oooh, it would be fun to try and track down the films of the actors and actresses in the running during those early years. It killed me to see that fragment from The Way of All Flesh, Emil Jannings Academy Award winning performance, knowing that the film is completely lost. He was heartbreaking in the one minute clip that exists.

Thanks, Miss G, I was hoping you'd chime in! I still want to watch it, but won't force anyone else to. Maybe they gave it to him because of his performance in Gatsby the year before, which is unfortunately lost.

Ha! I haven't got that one yet, but when I do, I'll definitely let you know it's on the way back. I have no idea how good IOA is. I think this is the film that Walsh was making when he had the accident and lost his eye. I can't remember if he ended up giving credit to the man who finished the movie for him, or if the man who finished it gave Walsh credit, but anyway he did not make the whole movie.

Oooh, thanks for the reminder! Duh! Somehow I knew I was going to forget Double Wedding. I have Yellow Sky and The Big Trail coming in soon. Let me get to DW first so I can make sure I remember. Then after that I have a few Raoul Walsh films to watch.... I don't know if In Old Arizona counts as a western....

Wow! I love the way you continued the story, WBS! I figured Pat and Steve would get together, someone has to tell Pat about her dad after all. I don't see her remaining alone like Luz, but you never know. It's so true that it's big waste, the two men could not stop fighting over the land, and it's kind of fitting that they should both end up dead with neither winning anything. What a waste! Ro- thank you kindly, ma'am... I really owe any love of westerns to you guys and this thread. I am about to go on a western rampage, I am in the mood again, and have a few westerns coming up in my Netflix queue.

Ain't it the truth!

Sweet Madhat made points with me by liking Harold and Maude. I won't be stringing HIM up very soon.... Besides, he likes 1930's films and we just got him back! I just have to try to answer some of these: >Here's an actual card: >Settings: What African city saw Pepe LeMoko hide out in the Casbah? Algiers >Titles: What film saw Nelson Eddy announce: "Your dream prince, reporting for duty!"? My first thought was I Married an Angel, but I'm switching my answer definitely to *Naughty Marietta.* >Off-Screen: What director, asked what frightened him, replied: "I'm terrified of policemen"? Alfred Hitchcock >On-Screen: What was the secret identity of Britt Reid? Don't know this one. >Production: Who was Charles Boyer's leading lady in Algiers ? Hedley LaMarr. d'oh! >Portrayals: Who portrayed the big, dumb and doomed Samson Posey in The Dirty Dozen ? A football player, I can't remember the actor's name...Jim Brown maybe? I love Charlie Chan, Torchy and Boston ****. Mr. Moto was on when I was a kid, and I really love Peter Lorre, but I saw one recently that was not so good. Lorre, though was just great. I just watched *Crime School* this morning and was in raptures over The Bowery Boys. Billy Halop is a bit of a pain, but I love all the rest. Molo- I never thought about Maude as being damaged, but of course you are right! There are all those allusions to specific events in her past, I won't mention any particulars here...and a definite sadness comes over her at times. But she saves Harold despite her own "troubles". She wouldn't be the same person without that mystery in her past. I just love the movie. _And_ Cat Stevens! And I'm glad you are back. We've missed you. Weekends are bad for me, so I'm sorry I didn't reply any sooner. Edited by: JackFavell on Jan 17, 2012 12:10 PM

Diary of a Wombat, lol! I know! Alice is acting older than she is, but I will admit here, where she has no one to act all cool for, she watched Beauty and the Beast from beginning to end the other night. She's still at an age where she can get excited about stuff, like all the Christmas specials, and the movie UP coming on - she was so happy. But she is also getting to the age where she wants to wear makeup to school, and won't wear her coat anymore unless I get scary with her. She snuck out of the house one morning wearing MY mascara, and I about killed her - she went to the bus avoiding me, and finally I figured it out just as the bus came to pick her up. She spent all day at school worrying about what mom would do (ha! she punished herself) and came home ashen faced. She was given a warning, and the mascara was confiscated. She also got a lecture on borrowing makeup, which can cause terrible health problems. So far, with the warning, she has not worn any makeup to school. She HAS learned that it's best not to lie to mom, or ugly things happen.... the worst thing is that mom stops trusting her, causing her to be treated like a liar all the time, questioned and looked at more closely. No one wants a bear of a mom breathing down their back, which is what happens when trust is broken.

I love the Connie still, Jeff! She's one of my favorite actresses when she is at her best. You are right about Owen Moore! Holy cow, he even took Two Gun Bill's hairstyle. Edited by: JackFavell on Jan 16, 2012 5:54 PM

I love Tony's wife! she's hilarious! I like that she constantly berates him while he looks smitten. I really enjoy the Layover, he was completely trashed on this last episode. I don't share his obsession with Southeast Asia. I liked Nigella Lawson when she first showed up on tv, but now she seems more pretentious because she isn't saying anything we haven't heard. Giada makes me jealous but she has a nice relaxed presence. I LOVE Barton MacLane - I think maybe you just sold me on THE GEISHA BOY. I am not a big fan of Conquest, but Boyer gives a thoughtful portrayal of Napoleon, even though I think he did not want the role.

I'll have to go and check out Harry, lol! I watched *Downton Abbey* after Once Upon a Time last night. It's my soap opera. Other than those shows and maybe one other night of TV, I will only watch TCM, and sometimes HGTV.. If things are really slow on TCM, I will watch AMC occasionally, but not for long. I'm spoiled! Andrew watches Anthony Bourdain reruns every night at 6, and sometimes I watch too, if the food or the place catches my eye. Anthony is very good, he rips the right things. I wouldn't ever want to know him, but he's very entertaining, and he is very respectful of simple communities and family run restaurants. I like that, but man, what a cynic. He's right about most everything, but it would be a drag to have to try to be so hip. He did have a recent show that completely cracked me up - he did a take-off on Fellini when he was in Rome that was hilarious! His cameraman really knew his stuff, too, it looked exactly right - perfect black and white imagery. Edited by: JackFavell on Jan 16, 2012 4:02 PM

I think Alice Day is very pretty, but I've never seen her in anything - I have seen the Show of Shows number, but that doesn't really count.

I love Ramon. Marceline is not an actress that I really respond to, but I've only seen her in a few movies. She's always very feminine and delicate seeming.

Is it Ramon? And the actress looks just like Joan Bennett, with dark hair, but she would be way too young and blonde to play here.

I think it's a great idea, Homesoul. She worked on quite a few Clara Bow pics, including IT, RED HAIR, HULA, and THE PLASTIC AGE. She also worked on FLESH AND THE DEVIL. She has an autobiography that might illuminate more movies she worked on. You can buy it here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Shocking-Miss-Pilgrim-Maas-Frederica-Sagor-/380377226982?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item58903fdee6

Yay! I am SO glad this thread is here. I have learned more from this one than probably any other single thread on the boards. I'm a shootin' my guns in the air, celebrating post 7500! I think you are right, that maybe the hard work was done by the time Pat came of age. I think her father raised her as his little princess, and she behaves as such. And yet, I can admire her for a couple of things. She doesn't count on her prettiness to get the things she wants, she's tougher than that. She was open-minded enough to want Jim in the first place, and see his good qualities. She has a lot of vitality, and that is what the country called for.

Your post had me rolling on the floor, Ro! I had a feeling you guys watched this show. We have gotten so addicted to Once Upon a Time Soap Opera Show (haha) that we can't miss an episode! Even Andrew has got into it.... he recognized the leading lady from House, MD and so he enjoys her part in it. I like the humor, especially in the darker characters, like the evil Queen/Mayor of Storyville. It's so well told. Last week's episode was all about Rumpelstiltskin, how he got to be the evil one that he is, in the fairytale part of the story, and he was heartbreaking! I hope you saw it or can watch it in repeats - Alice even said, "Mom, I always hated him, now I feel sorry for him." If Alice was any younger, I'd think of sending her out of the room more often, but she is also stubborn like her mamma, and she's always telling us to shush during the show, and when we tell her it's time to brush her teeth, at the last commercial break, she rushes so she won't miss anything! Bronxie, *Once Upon a Time* is a new show on ABC Sunday nights, about a boy who was given a storybook filled with fairy tales. He looks around him at his town, and each person in the storybook is represented by someone in his town. He tries telling everyone, but no one believes him that the town is populated with fairytale characters come to life. Then, one day, his birth mother shows up, and he finds out he was adopted - by the evil stepmother/wicked witch/Mayor of Storyville. That's where the story starts. Then we have parallel flashbacks of what's going on in the modern town, back to the fairy tales that the characters are based on. it's fun guessing which characters are from what children's story, before it's all given away. It's filled with poison apples, huntsman, candy houses, and medieval castles. The good folks are nice role models without being too saccharin, and the evil characters sometimes make you feel sorry for them. It's quite a good show, rather dark, like Ro said, with a more Grimm's Fairytale quality than a Disney feel - which is funny, because it's produced by ABC, which is owned by Disney.

There you go - back to the way it was. See ya! Edited by: JackFavell on Jan 16, 2012 2:04 PM

Jeff, I saw the Pola Negri photo, and also the Agnes Ayres one, they are both spectacular! If you like I will bump them up. Personally, I enjoy talking with Bronxie just as much as I enjoy the photos. I do hope I haven't offended you with our "flurry" of discussion, however, most of it was about the photo you posted. It's a public board and I don't see anything wrong with discussions here. If you like, I'll start a new thread called Silent Discussions, so Bronxie and I can chat with one another without bothering anyone. She hasn't been on the boards for a while, and I'd rather talk to her than worry about whether I buried your photos. > {quote:title= }{quote} > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Pola Negri-"Silken Gown"* >