JackFavell
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I am going to try both the chicken and pasta salad and the duchess potatoes! YUM!!!!
That song explains why there is so much finger chopping at your house, SF. I could never chop potatoes to that - I might lose a whole hand....
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Oooh I love those! I really like Herbert Rawlinson's looks.
Look what I just found. Our star of the month:
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You're doing better than I am. I've only seen Eyes of Youth, in which she was an uncredited party guest!
Her films may not be much available, it's not like she is well known, so if someone found her films in the last 20 years, they could have easily dumped them without even thinking. Most people would look for a "big name" when perusing old films, and if they didn't find one - pfft.
Of course, in her time, she was a big star....but even I recognize few of her titles.
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OK.
It didn't seem to hurt Claire Windsor's career any - she appeared in 5 movies in 1925, then only 3 in 1926, but she really takes off in 1927, with a whopping 7 pictures!.
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It looks familiar, but I just did a quick search of Ronald Colman and John Gilbert pics to see if there are any other similar ones. I saw some of your other Colman pics while looking around.
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I know they are lobby cards. I think your photos are quite close to those original colors....your pics have the right feel of the original color schemes of those lobby cards and early technicolor stills. That's all I'm saying. It's a compliment.
And I LOVE that lobby card for *Two Lovers*.... yum, Colman looks great there - I agree he looks exactly like Gilbert.
They started in films about the same time, so it could have simply been the style.... I think Gilbert was probably a quicker, more mercurially rising star than Colman - he certainly worked far more through the teens, though it's hard to say who had bigger status as an actor in the twenties - It's probably Gilbert, though Colman had a lot of good solid starring roles too. I wouldn't be surprised if Gilbert and Colman were groomed the same way on purpose - Gilbert became so wildly popular that they might have tried to recreate him in other actors.They did that with the female stars.
When Gloria Swanson was immensely popular, many other stars incorporated her look. The same with Crawford, Garbo and Dietrich. You can see many pictures of different actresses done up a la those four in the book FOUR FABULOUS FACES. It's pretty interesting how the studios subtly made over their actresses according to who was the major trend setter at the time.
Here are Ramon Novarro and Gilbert sharing a joke about their moustaches during a Photoplay shoot in July of 1926:
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I'd love to take the Ford World Tour with my sisters (and bro)! If only I could....sigh
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>Hmmm, now I'm hungry for my old prosciutto-onion bread. Must...find...recipe...
Yes you must! And be sure to print it here when you do find it! Yum.
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That's weird...
The colors are definitely in your palette. I know you are going for a two strip look in your work a lot of the time. I notice that Vilma is quite pale pink and there's a lot of blue here - at least that's what it looks like to me.
I still like the browns in your posts, tans like the male skin tones, the brownish red of cloth and the darker reds of lips, red purple clothing thrown in look very natural and warm to me
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I think it was right after the scene where he was able to snag Monty from Newton.... who was going to dunk him in the bath to make sure it worked. ooh what a tense few minutes! After that they showed a scene of Bill getting his dinner, and sharing it with Monty. Afterwards, we see Bill get the idea of training the dog to pull out the stopper.
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I almost screamed when Monty fell into the tub! I had to cover my mouth. I like how upset Bill was when it happened.
Newton was really great as the cool doctor who had too much access to things like acid and poison..... It's really amazing to me how he can play Bill Sykes one minute, just a mass of animal anger and passions, then play this cold fellow, hardened by his wife's penchant for young men.
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Oh heck you can never have too much butter.
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Yeah. I like him that way. Good and scary.
He is superbly emotional though, even when he is ready to kill someone... or trying to hold it all in afterwards. You can see him bursting with it. He's just an amazing actor. I really love him.
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It makes two medium baguettes or three small ones.
It really is delicious! I usually had it done by 3 or 4 in the afternoon, when Alice came home from school. We'd demolish one of the loaves before dad got home, then the other would be eaten with dinner.
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The acid bath was drained by Monty. In all those hours by himself, Bill taught Monty to lift the plug out of his regular bath's drain by the chain, without falling into the bath himself. When the time came, and he knew he was going to be done in, he let Monty do his plug-pulling work on the real acid bath.
Of course, this movie could not have been made today. We don't have those little rubber plugs on chains anymore.
I agree, the guy who played Bill (Phil Brown) was quite good. I wasn't expecting him to be either. I too love the way the two lovers let it all drop at the end, each knowing the whole thing was over. They knew too much about each other to want to spend any more time together.
I liked the name Storm too! You hit all the highlights of the story.
Naunton Wayne was the police detective - he's best known for his comic relief roles with Basil Radford in *Dead of Night* (the golf story), and *The Lady Vanishes* , plus a string of other films where the two played basically the same roles, - Chalders and Caldicott - who became very dear to the British. It's always fun to see them pop up in a movie. I must admit, I LOVED seeing him on his own, actually playing a different kind of role. He was marvelous.
This is how I like to see Robert Newton - hugely emotional, a drunkard or a big brute of a fellow. He's a fantastic bully.
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Smileys, I love a man who can bake!
I have wondered why my homemade bread doesn't taste (or smell) the same as it did when my mom used to make it.
She was a brilliant bread baker, and the wheat bread was absolutely the best. It would make you crazy with hunger as it was baking, you wanted to eat it so badly! The whole house smelled like heaven. Then she'd take it out of the oven and you had to wait to eat it.
Her rye bread was always a trouble to her. Though we could never tell the difference, she would curse the rye dough for not rising properly. It tasted good and the texture always seemed fine to us.
I had yeast fear myself until a year or so ago when I went online to the King Arthur Flour website and read up on it. I got one from them, SAF Red Instant Yeast that I keep in the freezer, in a plastic bag. I use a spoonful at a time when baking. It's foolproof. It costs 6 dollars for a package that will last forever. I've barely dented it and have made bread about 20 times so far. You don't have to do anything to this yeast, just throw it in with the other ingredients. If you want it to work a little bit faster and better, I mix it with a little of the warm water and some sugar in a cup first, before adding it to the flour and salt. It's so exciting to see it bubble!
I have a great recipe for french bread, which I made every week last winter. It's not hard, but you have to be home all day to make it. I have a rising bucket with a lid, but a large oiled bowl will do. Also, it's good to have a lot of clean dish towels handy to place over the dough as it rises. You can also use them as dividers when you are letting your individual loaves rise.
Ingredients
5 - 5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast (or 5-5 1/2 teaspoons SAF Yeast
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
1 tablespoon cornmeal (I skip this)
1 egg white
1 tablespoon water
if you want a darker crust, skip the tablespoon of water and use a lot of egg white. Fresh eggs from a farm work the best, they have larger, more liquid whites.
Directions
In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, yeast and salt. Stir in 2 cups warm water, and beat until well blended using a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.
On a lightly floured surface, knead in enough flour to make a stiff dough that is smooth and elastic. Knead for about 8 to 10 minutes total. Shape into a ball. Place dough in a greased bowl, and turn once. Cover, and let rise in a warm place until doubled.
Punch dough down, and divide in half. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Cover, and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll each half into large rectangle. Make sure the rectangle is no longer that the length of your baking sheet or french bread pan. Roll up, starting from a long side. Moisten edge with water and seal. Taper ends.
Grease a large baking sheet. Sprinkle with cornmeal. Place loaves, seam side down, on the prepared baking sheet. Lightly beat the egg white with 1 tablespoon of water, and brush on. Cover with a damp cloth. Let rise until nearly doubled, 35 to 40 minutes.
With a very sharp knife, make 3 or 4 diagonal cuts about 1/4 inch deep across top of each loaf. Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) oven for 20 minutes. Brush again with egg white mixture. Bake for an additional 15 to 20 minutes, or until bread tests done. If necessary, cover loosely with foil to prevent over browning. Remove from baking sheet, and cool on a wire rack.
Edited by: JackFavell on Dec 14, 2011 11:18 AM
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That's so pretty! Again, I like these colors a lot.
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Gad! She looks SOOOO familiar! Is it someone who got more popular in talkies?
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I thought that might be Marion Davies signature, but then the picture looks NOTHING like her so I convinced myself it was a mistake. I convinced myself that the first name was Mariette, or Marchette or something.
The rest I had no idea.
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I can make out
Maybe Blanche Sweet - top left
Corinne Griffith
Mae Murray
May Allison
Leatrice Joy
Claire Windsor
Nita Naldi
and I can't make out the others
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I did that too last night, looking through their clips after seeing the one posted. I wanted to see them happy again, after seeing them so musically in synch, but then just walking away silently after the song was over. If I ever do a Beatles doc, it will be backwards chronologically.
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I almost posted that one, Chris!
For me, The Beatles were THE band, not just because of their music, but because of their enthusiasm, their endless talent and promise....I know they could not go on together, but the idea that they would keep on expanding and growing as a band - as musicians, songwriters and people, made me have hope for the world we live in.
Many bands change with the times, but I can think of none who really grabbed the opportunity to truly change their sound, not according to fashion, but to deepen and strengthen their music through learning. This is what The Beatles did, many times over, and frankly, if outside and inside pressures hadn't forced them apart, I think they could have gone on doing that, experimenting with music, because each of them was supremely bright and talented in his own right. Their legacy is not only some great music, but the soul searching they did - they became better, more enlightened as time went on, by opening their minds to other types of music and thought.
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I enjoyed *Obsession* mostly, but wasn't bowled over by it. It did keep me on the edge of my seat, but it was a bit too tidy and dry for my liking.
I am a real fan of Robert Newton and he was very good in this movie, though I felt the plot was a bit lacking toward the end. What I really wanted was to see Newton go off and lose it, but the British are too reserved for that, or they were back then. This was a cat and mouse game right down the line, and they weren't going to mess with that formula. But Newton's forte, at least to my way of thinking, is his emotion, and so I really wanted to see him lose control of himself once in the picture... I did love his reaction to the empty bathtub, but I would have liked to see him more frayed at the end. I suppose they didn't want us feeling too sympathetic for him. It would have defeated that whole "I can beat the law as long as I don't lose my head" part of the movie. It's always a comfort to see a cold and calculating mind get clobbered in the end.
Loved the dog, _loved_ Naunton Wayne and especially loved it when Newton and Wayne squared off against one another - in those scenes the movie really hit its stride. Their styles are so different that they offset one another perfectly.
I was so relieved that she left the dog with what's his name. Bill was it?
Edited by: JackFavell on Dec 13, 2011 11:21 AM
Edited by: JackFavell on Dec 13, 2011 11:26 AM
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That Ford documentary is quite amazing, Rey. The footage is so raw, intense and emotional, with images of our soldiers in silhouette, looking like young boys against the sunset, then grimly "doing a job of work" when all you can see is black smoke and fire around them, manning the guns as if it was nothing. It's intensely moving to me.
Ford's camera is intimate, close up and very, very personal. There is no getting past the fact that this is hand held impromptu footage of war - first the men just waiting around with big goofy grins on their faces, then rhose same men or boys keeping steady right in the middle of the battle. You are right inside it. The camera is thrown around, knocked to the ground, but still keeps rolling. And then the footage of the aftermath, the wreckage of a hospital, and the showing of men who were in the battle. There is very little narration, just the deafening sound of battle, then the eerie quiet. It's eloquent in what is not said. The pictures definitely tell it all. Some of the footage is strangely beautiful.
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Molo! We've missed you so much!
I liked seeing Jack Carson as a bad guy. His image as a big, goofy nice guy really played well turned on it's ear like this. Not only do we have preconceived notions about Jack, but the town had preconceived notions about Hoak. Hoak used that "everyone's buddy" image in order to get away with murder, literally, and Carson used our own feelings about his image to turn in a deeper, more sinister performance. Oh, how smoothly he was able to turn on that "sincere" bit during the trial, saying why he thought of Chandler as a friend! I almost fell for it, and I knew the truth. That scene just showed what a great actor Carson was.
I've seen him as a slimeball before, the type to try and get away with something, or like Gooper, a kind of smarmy guy who thinks he's pulling the wool over someone's eyes, and hasn't any convictions, but I've never seen him as an out and out villain before. It suited his talents. He was always able to dig a little deeper in his serious roles - there is something kind of scary underlying them. The dark side of the good-natured party boy.
And yes, George Tobias had the big x marked on his forehead for me - the mark of death just as visible as the sign of the pentagram.....
As for Gail Russell, she's another who adds depth to each characterization. She's so lovely, frail and so sad underneath, but is able to use it to create such memorable performances. I didn't realize how soon after this movie she was gone.
Edited by: JackFavell on Dec 16, 2011 9:39 AM