CelluloidKid
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I saw "Grass" (which is a silent documentary film BTW) @ the Denver Film Festival several years back..why??
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For FredCDobbs .."Boom Town" W./ starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan & DIRECTED BY Jack Conway,
will be on 03:00AM PT and 6:00AM ET ON March 30, 2008!!
A story written by James Edward Grant in Cosmopolitan magazine titled "A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" provided the inspiration for the film!
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& More Joan Crawford Films in May 2008!
All Times are (PT) Arizona Times...
May 4
Torch Song. 7:30am. TCM.
May 11
Mildred Pierce. 10:30am. TCM.
May 21
No More Ladies. 3:30pm. TCM.
May 29
Forsaking All Others. 6:00am. TCM.
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YEAH!!! More Joan Crawford films.......
All time are Arizona Time!
April 1
Dance, Fools, Dance. 4:30am. TCM.
April 3
It's A Great Feeling. 7:00am TCM.
April 25
The Gorgeous Hussy. 1:30pm. TCM.
Torch Song. 3:15pm. TCM.
April 28
Dancing Lady. 9:00pm TCM.
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United Artists 90th Anniversary Festival Tickets & Prize Package Giveaway!
In honor of United Artist's 90th Anniversary, TheCinemaSource.com is giving away a boatload of prizes!
1 Grand Prize winner will win:
A pair of passes, good for any screening during the United Artists 90th-Anniversary Film Festival, running five weeks at Film Forum March 28th ? May 1st showing over 50 films including Manhattan, Raging Bull, Midnight Cowboy, Goldfinger, Some Like It Hot, and many more.
A United Artists DVD prize package of 20 classic UA films on DVD including Rocky, Raging Bull, Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, and many more.
...And 5 First Prize winners will win the DVD prize package!
To enter, all you have to do is send us an e-mail at ZakSantucci@TheCinemaSource.com, with "United Artists Contest" in the subject line, answering this question:
What's your favorite United Artists-produced film of all time, and WHY?
Here are the 20 films at stake to get you thinking:
The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
The Battle of Britain (Collector's Edition)
A Bridge Too Far (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
Carrie: 25th Anniversary (Special Edition)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Special Edition, 2 discs)
Die Another Day P/S (Special Edition)
Fiddler on the Roof (Decade's Collection)
Fistful of Dollars (Collector's Edition)
For A Few Dollars More (Collector's Edition)
Get Shorty (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
The Great Escape(Special Edition, 2 discs)
In the Heat of the Night (40th Anniversary Edition)
Invasion of Body Snatchers (Collector's Edition)
Judgment At Nuremberg (Special Edition)
New York, New York (30th Anniversary Edition)
Raging Bull (Collector's Edition, 2 discs)
Rain Man (Special Edition)
Rocky (Collector's Edition)
Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)
West Side Story (Special Edition, 2 discs)
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New Word: Bunny Rabbit
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Right..."The Right Stuff"
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You know you need to lay off TCM when...you have to rearrange your entire day around 1 film.. I.E. When Joan Crawford's "Torch Sing" was on last Sunday!
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Mack Brown with Joan Crawford
Hugs! Happy Saturday!
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You know you need to lay off TCM when...
When you have to apply for sick time at work when it's a day of films you want to see!
For Example, last sumer I took a Vaction day when iit was "Summer Under the Stars" and the day was for Joan Crawford films. I requested the day of by stating on my request for: "I need to to day off since I wnat to spend it with Joan!"!
I'm guilty for most of them on your list!
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Joan Crawford was the ultimate, hard as nails, tough broad, star diva. To come from absolutely nowhere to the top (and to stay there forever) is quite an act. And Joan's face was a master work. She was Hollywood and no one will surpass her.
All time are Arizona Time!
April 1, 2008
Dance, Fools, Dance. 4:30am. TCM.
April 3
It's A Great Feeling. 7:00am TCM.
April 25
The Gorgeous Hussy. 1:30pm. TCM.
Torch Song. 3:15pm. TCM.
April 28
Dancing Lady. 9:00pm TCM.
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LOL!! GO! GO! GO!! Hugs!!
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"I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door". - Joan Crawford
?I love playing bitches. There's a lot of **** in every woman - a lot in every man.? - Joan Crawford
"Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public likes that." (on Bette Davis) - Joan Crawford
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I LOVE JOAN!
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I also have a thread on this!
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Thelma Ritter! Any movie she was in she stole the spotlight!
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I loved Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monaroe in "Don't Bother To Knock"!!
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This is one of the selected films during the " A 90th Anniversary Film Festival"!
Judgment at Nuremberg
RIP Abby Mann!!!
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Friday, 28 March 2008
Abby Mann, the screenwriter who brought incisive characterization and a searing sense of justice to "Judgment at Nuremberg" and other social dramas, died on Tuesday in Beverly Hills. He was 80.
The cause was heart failure, his wife, Myra, said.
Mann joined the first rank of screenwriters with "Judgment at Nuremberg," released in 1961. It emerged from a script with the same title that Mann had written for CBS's "Playhouse 90" two years earlier. The movie version won him an Academy Award for screenwriting; Maximilian Schell also won, as best actor.
The plot concerned the trial of four German judges accused of using their offices to further Nazi policies. The case was complicated because at the time of the trial, West Germany was emerging as an ally of the United States against the Soviet Union. The crux of the drama is the steely determination of the chief judge, played by Spencer Tracy, to push ahead despite political pressures.
In an interview with The New York Post in 1961, Mann said he sought to examine how patriotism like that motivating the German judges can become an "evil thing" that "divides man from humanity."
Writing in Commentary, Jason Epstein said the movie, directed by Stanley Kramer, was "astonishingly intelligent" and raised "some of the darkest questions of this dark age."
Mann followed his "Nuremberg" script with more than four decades of serious dramas, many for movies made for television, a genre he helped pioneer. He won three Emmys for television movies. His scripts, often derived from real cases, delivered withering critiques of the criminal justice system, frequently examining the denial of the rights of the accused.
A case in point was "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" (1973), based in part on a nonfiction book by Selwyn Raab about the brutal killings of two young, white New York women, Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert. The black man who was accused of those killings and made a forced confession was exonerated when the real killer was found. Mann's script focused on the prejudice faced by poor and minority suspects.
The film was the pilot for the popular television show "Kojak." ( Mann had spelled the name "Kojack.") He complained that the resulting series veered from his social and moral vision and became just another formulaic cops-and-robbers potboiler.
A biography prepared for the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago said that Mann's "exhaustive investigative research" impressed even critics who considered him leftist and polemical. "Most importantly, few have questioned the factual basis of his arguments," the museum biography said.
Mann's reputation for integrity extended beyond the moral view in his scripts. When Paramount wanted to cast his screenplay "A Child Is Waiting," about **** children, with actors who had no disability, Mann objected. He emptied his bank account and bought back the script. United Artists put out the movie in 1963.
Time magazine reported in 1963 that important actors like Tracy threatened to quit if a word of a Mann script were changed. The magazine also said that Mann demanded that his name be taken off the credits of his adaptation of Sartre's "Condemned of Altona" (1962) unless the original script was restored. The director, Vittorio De Sica, restored the script.
Abraham Goodman was born on Dec. 1, 1927, in Philadelphia. The son of a jeweler of German and Jewish extraction, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, a predominantly working-class, Catholic area. His upbringing there gave him sympathy for minorities, he said. He went to Temple University for a year, spent another year in the army, then studied at New York University under the GI Bill.
Mann began his professional career in the early 1950s writing for "Cameo Theater" and "Robert Montgomery Presents" on NBC and "Studio One" and "Playhouse 90" on CBS.
He was known for arduous research. He got on a freighter in Veracruz, Mexico, to ride to Houston in preparation for his adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's "Ship of Fools." The film told of the interlocking lives of passengers sailing from Mexico to pre-Hitler Germany. Mann's screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.
Mann made his directorial debut with "King," a six-hour 1978 mini-series, which he also wrote. Suggesting that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the victim of a conspiracy, it prompted an inconclusive congressional investigation.
Mann is survived by his wife, the former Myra Maislin; his daughters, Adrienne Isom of New York and Abigail Mann of New York; his son, Aaron Cohen of Beverly Hills, California; his sister, Esther Goodman Sack of Tequesta, Florida; and a granddaughter.
For all Mann's success in persuading directors and producers not to fiddle with his work, he was less successful with one sponsor. The American Gas Association vetoed two words in his television script for "Nuremberg": gas chamber.
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Psycho: Wearing a large cowboy hat and viewed through Marion Crane's (Janet Leigh) office store-front window, standing on the sidewalk, as she returns to her Phoenix realty company.
North By Northwest : At the end of the opening credits in a bustling NYC, missing a bus that slams its door in his face.
Rear Window: Winding/repairing a clock in the songwriter's/musician's apartment.
Lifeboat: In "before" and "after" pictures displayed in a newspaper ad for Reduco Obesity Slayer.
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"Pretty Woman".....
When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would- I would pretend I was a princess... trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight... on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time... that I had this dream did the knight say to me, "Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo."
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The Film "Valentino" made in 1977 directed by Ken Russell W./Rudolf Nureyev as Rudolph Valentino is alot better film!! What is funny is that Carol Kane is int he film as well!
I didn't think Anthony Dexter who played Rudolph Valentino in the 1951 film had Valentino's energy! Still it was an interesting film!
I remember seeing Anthony Dexter in the film "Captain John Smith and Pocahontas" where he played Capt. John Smith!
The First Film That Comes to Mind...
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