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Green, Eva

*Quiet American The (1958)*

*Not a Classic ...but still!* *_The Promotion_ (2008)* *Hoping to buy a house, grocery store assistant manager Doug (Seann William Scott) applies for the manager's position at his chain's new location. Doug feels confident about getting hired until recent Canadian arrival Richard (John C. Reilly) applies for the same job. In order to secure the coveted promotion, the competing employees go head-to-head in minor battles, often resorting to cruel behavior in this indie comedy by Steve Conrad*

Katharine Hepburn (Oh Um! Can't stand her, But there is only 2 films that I like she was in!) 1 is _Bringing Up Baby_ W./Cary Grant! *NEW STAR: Cary Grant!*

In addition to starring in, Ben was also the acting coach on the movie _Idlewild_ (2006) for such performers as Andr? Benjamin (aka Andre 3000), Terrence Howard and Paula Patton. *Terrence Howard*

Swimming Pool .... _The Swimmer_ W./Burt Lancaster! *NEW WORD: Espresso!*

Bette Davis was in the film _All This, and Heaven Too_ W./Charles Boyer! *NEW STAR: Charles Boyer!*

*_Ocean's Eleven_ (1960)*

Eastwood , Clint (Not a fan!)

*Sorry ANSWER IS: NEW STAR: Joan Crawford*

clunker ....... _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ *New Word: Madison Avenue*

Louis Jourdan was in the film _The Best of Everything_ (1959) W./(My Girl!) Joan Crawford! *NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*

Sid Melton was in the film The Tunnel of Love W./Doris Day! *NEW STAR: Doris Day!*

*This is also in "_Hot Topics_"!* *Thread: "Smokey and the Bandit" star Jerry Reed dies at 71. * http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=134221&tstart=0 *YOU WILL BE MISSED!* *Jerry Reed on Scooby Doo*

ROFL! I guess I'm glad I turned it off after 10 Min!

When I ask my partner a question & he looks at me & says "Uh!?"....I always say: "What we got here is... failure to communicate." From _Cool Hand Luke_.

George Macready was in _Gilda_ W./Rita Hayworth! *NEW STAR: Rita Hayworth!*

*I found this article thought I would pass it along! Enjoy!* *Ava and Gary Couldn't Be Here Tonight to Accept ...* Posted on: Friday, 29 August 2008 By MAL VINCENT *_AVA GARDNER and Gary Cooper won top acting honors as the Naro Expanded Cinema's highly successful festival of classic movies came to a close with the audience voting in a party mood. The festival, programmed and hosted by your Virginian-Pilot film and theater critic, me, is in its fifth year; this is the third year in which awards were presented._* Designed to support classic movies and to provide an alternative to the current commercial bookings, the series of seven screenings drew more than 3,000 ticketbuyers with some sellouts that forced the theater to turn away as many as 75 people. The Naro seats 530 patrons and is one of the few movie "palaces" left on the East Coast. Co-owner Tom Vourlas presented the award for the festival's most popular film, "Mogambo," a 1953 romantic comedy-drama filmed in Africa and co-starring Gardner with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly. "It was very close," Vourlas said. "Both 'Mogambo' and the opener, 'The Philadelphia Story,' were total sellouts, but we had more turn-aways for 'Mogambo,' so that breaks the tie." Gardner, a native of Smithfield, N.C., who went to high school in Newport News, won the best-actress vote by a wide margin. She played Honey Bear Kelly, a party girl marooned in Africa who competes with Kelly for the attentions of Gable. The role also netted her an Academy Award nomination. It was her first nomination in the local festival. The win set off a celebration at the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, N.C., the day afterward, where museum Director Angela Lawson said, "When you think about it, this may be the last award Ava wins. She won a film festival award in Spain for 'Night of the Iguana,' but this one is particularly nice because it was voted on by the audience." The museum director had attended the screening of "Mogambo" in Norfolk. The other nominees in the best-actress race were Jean Seberg in "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), who received a surprising amount of support; Katharine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), who received surprisingly little support; Melina Mercouri in "Topkapi" (1964); and Jean Arthur in "Shane" (1953). *Cooper won the best-actor award for playing Sheriff Will Kane, a man who stood against the odds in the classic Western "High Noon." The other nominees were James Stewart and Cary Grant, both in "The Philadelphia Story"; David Niven in "Bonjour Tristesse"; and Alan Ladd in "Shane." In political-convention style the audience demanded that Gable ("Mogambo") and Timothy Bottoms ("The Last Picture Show") also be included in the vote.* The closest race of the night was in the supporting-actor category, won by Ben Johnson for his performance in "The Last Picture Show" (1971). The win was a narrow one over Peter Ustinov in "Topkapi." Other nominees were Jack Palance and Brandon De Wilde, both for "Shane," and Jeff Bridges for "Picture Show." A popular winner as supporting actress was Cloris Leachman for "The Last Picture Show." She won over her co-stars, Ellen Burstyn and Cybill Shepherd, as well as Katy Jurado for "High Noon" (1952) and Kelly for "Mogambo." While introducing the film, I noted that five members of "The Last Picture Show" cast had worked in Norfolk and Virginia Beach in film or theater roles. I also noted that most of the nominees could not be there Monday night for a very good reason. They are dead. Bonnie Primm of Norfolk accepted for Gardner, giving thanks to Frank Sinatra. Local actor Gary Ball accepted for Cooper and got laughs when he also thanked Frank Sinatra. Ed Brickell, former superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools, accepted for Johnson and quipped that "the hardest thing about the role was rolling those cigarettes." Johnson played a homespun Texan. Having programmed the films, I was gratified to see the long lines down Colley Avenue each Monday night for the past seven weeks. One patron said she drove 50 miles to see "Picture Show" because "it won't ever be shown in a theater again." Another said he cut short his London vacation to return to Norfolk for the screenings of the two Westerns. Vourlas said that the festival proved there is an audience for classic films and that, consequently, the theater plans to periodically show classic films, such as upcoming bookings of "Some Like it Hot" and "West Side Story." Mal Vincent, (757) 446-2347 mal.vincent@pilotonline.com Originally published by BY MAL VINCENT. © 2008 Virginian - Pilot. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

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*Peek in mystique of Marilyn Monroe* BY TRACY CONNOR DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, September 2nd 2008. *A secret trove of Marilyn Monroe's personal effects has been unearthed, yielding a fascinating glimpse into her relationships, finances and troubled final years.* A dance with Robert Kennedy, a tiff with Tony Curtis, her penchant for pills, possible proof of an abortion - it's all chronicled in reams of paper she stashed in two file cabinets. After Monroe's death in 1962, the cache wound up with the family of her business manager, largely untouched until a photographer, Mark Anderson, began archiving it in 2005 and gave Vanity Fair a look. Some of it's mundane - fan mail, telegrams from well-wishers and entertainment contracts. "Dear Mr. von Fuehlsdorff: Thank you for your champagne," she wrote to the German Consulate. "It arrived, I drank it, and I was gayer." Many artifacts are intensely personal, like sweet letters she wrote to husband Arthur Miller's children at camp, adopting the voice of the family dog. "Guess what," she wrote to Bobby Miller in one reference to the Kennedy family. "I had dinner with the Attorney General of the United States, Robert Kennedy, and I asked him what his department was going to do about Civil Rights....I sat next to him, and he isn't a bad dancer either." The Marilyn that leaps from the pages is charming, clever and flirtatious. Responding to a gibe from Tony Curtis after they made "Some Like It Hot," Monroe wrote to a friend: "There is only one way he could comment on my sexuality and I'm afraid he's never had the opportunity." Other keepsakes hint at her turbulent personal life. Two ledger entries from 1953 note $1,151.04 in payments to Marilyn's legal guardian for something "medical." They coincide with Monroe being hospitalized for a gynecological procedure; Vanity Fair suggests she may have had an abortion. In 1961, when she was in a psychiatric hospital, a man who may have been gossip Walter Winchell wrote: "Turkey foot. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Lets go hiking and driving through the Redwoods incognito." In between notes from the likes of Hedda Hopper and George Cukor, there were piles of receipts - one for a $75 ostrich boa and dozens from pharmacies that supplied her with pills. The papers show her managers were alarmed by her extravagant spending, and when she died, her bank account was overdrawn by $4,000. When she and Miller were married, she financially supported the writer, the documents suggest. By contrast, Joe DiMaggio showered her with money. A note Monroe never sent speaks to the bond between the bombshell and baseball hero. "If I can only succeed in making you happy - I will have succeeded in the biggest and most difficult thing there is - that is to make one person completely happy," she wrote to Joltin' Joe. "Your happiness means my happiness."

*Per Wikipedia:* *_From Justin to Kelly_ is considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It also received a negative review from almost every film critic, earning 9% on website Rotten Tomatoes and winning the Golden Raspberry Award in 2005 for Worst 'Musical' of Our First 25 Years.*

*I watched 10 minutes of _From Justin to Kelly_ (2003) when it came on Tv, one night. So Shoot me! I never ever would pay money to see this in a theater. LOL..I never even watched "American Idol"!* *The only reason ...& "THE ONLY REASON" I ever watched "Newsies" (1992) was for Christian Bale, & he couldn't save the film. I haven't laughed so hard at a movie in a long time!* *I'm sorry but I didn't like "_Guys and Dolls_" (1955). Marlon Brando singing freaks me out! It's unnatural and very wrong! Gene Kelly was sought for the role of Sky Masterson, but MGM refused to loan that actor to the Samuel Goldwyn production, & for once I think the studio screwed up, & should have let Gene have Brando's role!* *As for in _Moulin Rouge!_ (2001) I loved it!* *Other "_Worst Musical's_":* *_The Phantom of the Opera_ (2004) - My mother and I had a split opinion on this. She was a fan, a really huge fan of _The Phantom of the Opera_ from the silent film, all to the musical on stage.* *My mom & I even saw it in London W./Micahel Crawford, but as for a movie based on the Broadway Musical...Horrid. It was "Batman" Meets Liberace! My mother saw it as a love story, I saw it as a really silly story.* *_Rent_ (2005) --Never translated well off the stage and onto screen. Another film I hated. 1 film I added to my "Worst Films of 2005" list!* *_Oklahoma!_ - Rodgers and Hammerstein just bug me!*

James Arness was in the film _Them!_ W./James Whitmore! *NEW STAR: James Whitmore!*

Lee Van Cleef was in the film _Escape from New York_ W./Kurt Russell! *NEW STAR: Kurt Russell!*

Omar Sharif (My Mom Loved Omar Sharif!!) was in the film _Lawrence of Arabia_ W./Peter O'Toole! *NEW STAR: Peter O'Toole!*