JackFavell
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hmmm.
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Yes, one of the larger towns here might have it.
Did YOU get a copy of The Night Has a Thousand Eyes? Or The Constant Nymph?
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Oh man, the chances of me seeing that Charlotte Rampling doc here are just about nil. I'll have to wait for dvd.
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May is very pretty and has eyes almost as big as Marion Davies.
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John Hartford:
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I think she was on Star Trek or maybe it was a greek mythology movie, but I have found color pictures of her wearing her hair in an upswept ponytail/greek goddess look.
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Yes, Ugaarte, *Tom Moore* is the boy sitting on the log, and the officer with the fake moustache, and the curly headed fellow being looked over by the cops. He's one of my silent screen crushes. I should be posting him in the other thread!
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I've never heard that one before, it's lovely.
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gorgeous Valentino, in gorgeous colors, Jeff!
For Rudy:
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Leslie Parrish is a blonde actress I always notice, I like her very much. She's got looks and a sweet gentle way about her.
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 5, 2011 5:13 PM
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Oh dear, I think Madge's new short blonde hairstyle is singularly unattractive for her face. She was so cute and dark, but it is all ruined with that flat on top hair, which doesn't match her coloring. I wish they had shown Olive Borden up close. She had a lovely figure. And wasn't Janet adorable, as always!
Rudy would have made such a great father. You can tell he loves children.
Edited by: JackFavell on Nov 5, 2011 5:02 PM
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OK!
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Aaah! That explains a lot.
Here is Tom Moore posing as a policeman in *Officer 666:*
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I can't get through using the link.
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I love Wildwood Flower! It's funny when I was growing up in Oklahoma, I hated country and western. Now, I love classic country music.
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Oooh, I love the last three posts, Jake! Especially Gene. Was there ever a more comforting voice?
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MAdge Bellamy certainly changed her look! I am used to photos of her in an earlier period of time... like this:
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I always love those slides, they are colored so beautifully. The Colleen Moore one is beautiful, but I find it fascinating that on many of the slides, the stars names are not mentioned, but the director and writers are.
Jeff, Thanks so much for the Tom Moore - and in uniform yet! He's a doll. I haven't seen that particular picture. My favorite Tom Moore photo is from *Just for Tonight* (1918) with Lucy Fox.
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I am especially intrigued by the Once Upon a Time in the West comment...I'll see if I can see the same thing in the film, though I've only seen OUATITW once.
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I just found my copy of RTHC, I'll try to get to it this weekend or maybe Monday. Then I'll reply, hopefully with more inspiration and insight than I have right now.
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I love The Great Escape.
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You will love it again! I am quite sure. Your perceptions are different, but they will change again, grow deeper again, and you'll find that nugget that drew you to it in the first place. I promise.
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Thank you, Maven!
>As for being written and directed by Coward and Lean and them understanding how a woman would feel about it all, the woman's perspective, my question is: was Coward just writing about LOVE, Period. Is Love, LOVE whether a man feels it or a woman feels it. I wonder what Love Feels Like To Men. Is it the same. We know men see things in more physical terms; what attracts him to her, physically. But Love, actually, TO LOVE, is it a really DIFFERENT thing for men than it is for women? Could Coward know what he was writing about becuz he was IN LOVE himself...the very same Laura way. Perhaps he loved an Alec and both sides could not risk the loss their LOVE would bring?
That's the nugget of what I think, Maven, and I'm glad you were able to state it so well. This is what I've always thought. That Coward (and Lean) had to have taken their own blackest, most despairing moments to have written this film as well as their most joyous. Used their own painful experiences down to the minutest detail. Thy put what is almost always inward out. That's true art - taking the deepest most personal thing and putting it on show for the world to see. It must have been so difficult. But through that experience that we think no one could possibly share, we realize how much we are alike, how human we are. It has the ring of absolute truth to it, the way the high minded emotion is written into the mundane of life, unexpected, yet elevating every detail into something cherished and remembered. So yes, LOVE is LOVE, whether it's inside a shopgirl or a rich matron, or a man or a woman. And the need to feel, to remember and to keep it inside is also universal.
Edited by: JackFavell on Oct 31, 2011 7:10 AM
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Thanks very much, MissG. I don't know what makes the movies I love so hard to write about. There is something floating out there in the miasma that I can't name when I really care about a movie. Or maybe it's the movies I like that have an unattainable floating quality....
It takes a lot out of me to muddle around, without really being able to put a finger on the real reasons why a movie makes me emotional. I can say I identify with the character, but why? I know I cried almost as much at *Brief Encounter* the first time I saw it, when I was fifteen.... what did I know then about love or duty?
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