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*Cool thing I found on "YouTube" .. _I Live My Life_ (1935) Lobby Card slideshow!!!*
*_I Live My Life_ (1935)*
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_Blue Velvet_ (1986) ...Great film ...accept for the disastrous casting of Laura Dern!! The one actress I can't stand. She bugs me. I don't care for her work. Some of her films are ok!.
In _Jurassic Park_ (1993) I was hoping a dinosaur would eat her.
I remember my mother taking me to _Blue Velvet_ (1986) on the big screen when it 1st came out. This is the film that introduced me to David Lynch. I;am still trying to figure what _Mulholland Dr_. (2001) was all about.
*_Best film moments for me_:*
1) , Ben lip-syncs a performance of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", sending Frank into maudlin sadness, then rage. Frank takes Jeffrey to a lumber yard and savagely beats him to the overture of "In Dreams". Dennis Hopper is crazy!
2) Dorothy's (Isabella Rossellini) performances at the Slow Club, where she sings the song "Blue Velvet.
Edited by: CelluloidKid on Jan 5, 2010 4:06 PM
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*Hedgerley pub used for classic film bulldozed*
Tuesday 5th January 2010
This is Local London
By Lawrence Dunhill
*A PUB that once featured in the classic British film _Genevieve_ has been bulldozed for five new homes.*
Hedgerley pub The One Pin Inn will soon be replaced by five ?traditional style houses?.
In 1953 comedy two couples enter their vintage cars ? one of them a 1904 Darracq named Genevieve ? in the London to Brighton car race.
Most of the race was shot on roads around Pinewood Studios and the couples stop for a ?hair of the dog? at the old One Pin Lane pub.
Actors John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan are also filmed in Collinswood Road, in Hedgerley, and Common Road, Fulmer, which provided stretches of country road for the race.
The news saddened Don Brockway, a fan of the film who turned the rally into reality in 2002 with a vintage car tour of all the film's locations.
He said: ?What terrible news ? I'm glad that I had the chance to visit The One Pin for a pint or two.?
The building dates from around 1800 and records show it was called The One Pin Inn since at least 1839.
An attempt was made to have the building listed but English Heritage said it had "insufficient surviving fabric" and had been "too altered" to be listed.
The plans were permitted by South Bucks District Council in October and developers Oakford Homes aims to start building work in the first half of this year.
Oakford Homes was unavailable for comment.
*_Awards_*
The film won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (William Rose) and Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
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*_I Live My Life_ - 1935 - MGM - 85 minutes. US release: 10/4/35.*
*_Cast:_* Joan Crawford (as "Kay"), Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Fred Keating, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Hilda Vaughn, Vince Barnett, Lionel Stander, Hale Hamilton.
*_Credits_:* Based on the story "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Producer: Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Camera: George Folsey. Costumes: Adrian. Editor: Tom Held. Score: Dimitri Tiomkin.
*_Total Gross_:* $1,478,000 ($384,000 net profit)
*_Notes_:*
The story upon which the film was based, "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe, first appeared in Scribner's in April 1926.
The film was in production from 6/3/35 to 7/35.
Filmed at Chatsworth, Los Angeles, and the Santa Catalina and Channel Islands of California.
Thanks,
The Best of Everything JC website for info!
?Claustrophobia,? the basis for the Joan Crawford film ?I Live My Life,? was published in the April 1926 edition of Scribner?s Magazine, more evidence of the devotion that once existed to literature in this country, and won an O.Henry Award that year. It is illustrated with sketchy pen and ink drawings of society types.
*Click for Photo of Oct. 1935 premiere of the film!!* *Very cool to see how "BIG" Joan really was back then!*
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*Roman Polanski Hearing Scheduled in Los Angeles*
Jan. 5, 2010
Entertainment Tonight
*A hearing in Roman Polanski's decades old sex case will take place later this week.*
Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini confirmed to ET that a hearing will be held in Los Angeles on Wednesday and will be a status update in the case. According to the Associated Press, this will mark the first time the case, stemming from an incident in the 1970's, will return to court since Polanski's request to have it dismissed last month was denied.
The film director is currently on house arrest at his Swiss chalet after being arrested in Zurich on September 26, 2009 for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. After pleading guilty, he fled the U.S. in 1978.
According to the AP, the appeals court said the case could conclude if Polanski's attorney agreed to reaching a sentence without the defendant being present or if he reverses his resistance to being extradited to the United States.
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*Also did anyone notice .. Sterling Price Holloway, Jr.?? What a talented cast this film had!!*
*Sterling Holloway ... Max!*
Holloway's work in animated films began in 1941, when he was heard in Dumbo, as the voice of "Mr. Stork." Walt Disney had considered Holloway for the voice of Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but Pinto Colvig was chosen instead. Holloway was the voice of the adult "Flower" in Bambi, the narrator of the Antarctic penguin sequence in The Three Caballeros, the narrator in the Peter and the Wolf sequence of Make Mine Music, and the narrator of the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" sequence of "Fun and Fancy Free". He voiced Kaa in The Jungle Book, was the narrator in Goliath II, and voiced the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland and Roquefort in The Aristocats. His Disney Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes are well known.
He was honored as a "Disney legend" in 1991.
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*The Thing Prequel to Start Production in March*
January 3rd, 2010
The Thing prequel is directed by Matthijs Van Hejningen.Production Weekly is reporting via Twitter that Universal Pictures will begin production in March on the prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic thriller The Thing. Production will begin in March in Toronto, and commence in June.
The screenplay, written by Ronald D. Moore, and rewritten by Eric Heisserer, tells the story of a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes researchers at a Norwegian Antarctic facility. Matthijs Van Hejningen is set to direct the sci-fi horror.
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*More Miss. Crawford in January 2010 - All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedule!*
*January 14 - _A Woman's Face_ (1941) - 12 Noon* - Most of the film is told in flashbacks as witnesses in a courtroom give their testimonies.
*January 22 - _The Bride Wore Red_ (1937) - 2:15pm* - This film was the last of seven Crawford and co-star Franchot Tone (her then husband) would make together.
*January 25 - _Rain_ (1932) - 8am* - Crawford was loaned out by MGM to United Artists for this film.
*January 29 - _Johnny Guitar_ (1954) - 10:30am* - In 2008, Johnny Guitar was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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*Did anyone notice Hedda Hopper as Alvin's Mother!??!*
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Interesting angle about class, financial standing, arranged marriage to stop the father trying to losing his lost money ...But I love how Joan stuck buy her guns and married the man she wanted!.
Interesting peak into another era....After 75 years a lot of the plot points still hold up today!
Enjoyable movie!!
I also loved the opening credits with the background scenery of Greece.
*I Live My Life - Original Trailer 1935*
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*W. S. Van Dyke was in an interesting director!*
Van Dyke, W.S. (Woody). . (March 21, 1889 ? February 5, 1943)
2/5/43) A former child vaudevillian and assistant to D.W. Griffith on 1916's Intolerance, Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke went on to direct 4 Joan Crawford films: 1927's silent Winners of the Wildnerness, '34's Forsaking All Others, '35's I Live My Life, and '36's Love on the Run. Considered a "workmanlike" and "uninspired" director by some, as well as an aficionado of Orange Blossoms (gin and OJ), Joan said of him on the set of "Winners": "At the end of the day, he was pretty much sloshed. It made for some interesting final scenes." (EB)
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Thanks again TCM, this is the 1st time I believe I ever seen I _Live My Life_ (1935) play on TCM!!!
Thanks TCM!!
Please play more "RARE" Joan films!!!
Brian Aherne was Joan Crawford's co-star in 1935's _I Live My Life_ (both the film and radio versions) and 1959's _The Best of Everything_. Very Very Cool!! Imagine the stories on the set those two shared!. :LO)
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Anybody else watch Joan Crawford in: _I Live My Life_ (1935) !??
I'm a huge fan of Joan, & a lot of her films I'm discovering slowly! This is 1 of those films!
Since this film is not on DVD, & the VHS is OOP, this was my first time seeing the film!
Glad I recorded it!
Joan as a bored socialite seeks a more fulfilling life and goes on a Greek holiday!Then falls for an archaeologist. Yeah right ...but it's Miss. Crawford and well I bought it!
Joan is just so funny!!
I love it when Joan (Kay) falls down a chute into a pile of dust! LOL! Then she gets back up like no big deal. What class and talent!
Joan had an eye for comedy!
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Great fun to see Frank Morgan Pre-The Wizard of Oz (1939) as Joan's on screen dad!
What MGM mythical fun!
I really loved _I Live My Life_ (1935). Very typical Depression-Era fantasy from MGM, but very fun and frothy. Joan Crawford is a blast to watch!
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lickety-split .... _Lola rennt_ (1998) (German: Lola rennt, literally Lola Runs)
NEW WORD: Jan. 3rd is known as: _Fruitcake Toss Day_ (Fruitcake Toss Day is your opportunity to finally throw away the old fruitcake. After the holidays are over, it's time to bring in the new, and toss out the old. Today is the day that the fruit cake goes....hooray!)
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*_I Live My Life_ (1935)*
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*_Cast_:*
Joan Crawford (as "Kay"), Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Fred Keating, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Hilda Vaughn, Vince Barnett, Lionel Stander, Hale Hamilton.
*Credits*:
Based on the story "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Producer: Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Camera: George Folsey. Costumes: Adrian. Editor: Tom Held. Score: Dimitri Tiomkin.
*_Plot Summary_:*
Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry (Brian Aherne). The couple seems happiest when they're yelling at one another, indicating perhaps that screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz was none too fond of either character. Anyway, Terry decides that a marriage to Kay would be a big mistake, so he talks her into jilting him at the altar, thereby making a public declaration that their romance is through. But Kay "double-crosses" Terry by showing up at the wedding anyway, allowing the couple to live scrappily ever after. It's hard to tell if this is supposed to be a rip-off of It Happened One Night, but it sure plays that way in the first few reels. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
*_Total Gross_:* $1,478,000 ($384,000 net profit)
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*MacDougall, Ranald* - Co-wrote the screenplay for 1947's Possessed; wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Mildred Pierce (1945) and for Queen Bee (1955).
He also directed:, June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954).
He also made his directorial debut with Queen Bee.
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*Thu, Jan 14, 12:00 PM _A Woman's Face_ (1941) - All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedules!*
*A superior remake of the 1937 Ingrid Bergman Swedish film _EN KVINNAS ANSIKTE_, which was based on the French drama "Il Etait Une Fois" by Francis de Croisset. Crawford is terrific in this atypical story and should have been nominated for an Oscar!!*
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Ava Gardner was in: _Earthquake_ (1974) directed by Mark Robson!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Mark Robson!*
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*Don't forget .... _I Live My Life_ (1935) Sun. Jan. 3, 2010 ... 4:00am Arizona Time (6:00am Eastern!) - Check Local Schedules!!*
*_I Live My Life_ is a 1935 film, starring Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, and Frank Morgan, and is based on the story Claustrophobia, by A. Carter Goodloe.*
*Joan Crawford & Brian Aherne!*
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*_Don't Forget_:*
*Turner Classic Movies to Pay Tribute to Oscar?-Winning Actress Jennifer Jones*
*Four-Film Commemoration to air Jan. 7, beginning at 8 p.m.*
*All Times Eastern!* *Check Local Schedules!*
*_Here?s the list_:*
*8 p.m. _Duel in the Sun_ (1946)* ? David O. Selznick attempted to recapture the magic of Gone with the Wind with this sexually charged Western about a half-Native American woman caught between two brothers, played by Gregory Peck and Joseph Cotten. King Vidor directed the lavishly colorful film, which also stars Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Herbert Marshall, Walter Huston and Butterfly McQueen.
*10:30 p.m. _Beat the Devil_ (1954)* ? Jones and Humphrey Bogart star in this send-up of film noir mysteries penned by Truman Capote and directed by John Huston. Although dismissed by many when it was released, the film quickly obtained a cult following.
*12:15 a.m. _Madame Bovary_ (1949)* ? Vincente Minnelli directed this stunning version of Flaubert's tragic love story about a woman who leaves her husband and social standing in order to pursue true love. James Mason, Van Heflin and Louis Jourdan co-star in a film that features a memorable ball sequence considered by many to be one of Minnelli's greatest set pieces.
*2:15 a.m. _Indiscretion of an American Wife_* (1954) ? Jones plays a married woman meeting her lover, played by Montgomery Clift, in a railway station in this melodrama directed by Vittorio De Sica.
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*Zane, Billy*
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Jimmy Durante was in: Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*Bern, Paul* - He was a German-American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM.
The all-star film Grand Hotel won the Best Picture Academy Award for 1931?32. Bern and Irving Thalberg produced the film, although neither was credited (in the early 1930s MGM did not list their films' producers in their credits). However the award was presented to Thalberg only, not Bern.
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Orson Welles made _The Lady from Shanghai_ (1947) towards the end of his marriage to Rita Hayworth. They were constantly fighting at the time and (some say as a comeuppance to Hayworth) he made her cut off most of her long, luxurious red hair and dye it bright platinum blonde.
*Celebri-links .. Rita Hayworth!*
BREAKING NEWS: Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland
in Staff Discussion Forum
Posted
*Polanski Attorney Requests Sentencing In Absentia*
*Director Remains Under House Arrest In Switzerland*
LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent
January 6, 2010
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*LOS ANGELES -- Roman Polanski sent a letter from house arrest in Switzerland asking a Los Angeles judge to sentence him in a sex case without making him return to the U.S., but a ruling was postponed Wednesday.*
The notarized letter signed by Polanski on Dec. 26 in Gstaad was filed by his lawyer. It said Polanski understood he had the right to be present at all legal proceedings, but "I request that judgment be pronounced against me in my absence."
Deputy District Attorney David Walgren objected to Polanski's request and demanded he "show his face" in court before he was sentenced
"The people are adamant that a fugitive not dictate the court's processes," Walgren told Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza.
The "Chinatown" director fled the U.S. in 1978 on the eve of sentencing after pleading guilty to one count of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Espinoza accepted the letter but said he wanted to see legal briefs that state why sentencing Polanski in absentia was appropriate.
"It seems to me there is a fairly big question about what his possible sentence could be," Espinoza said, setting a Jan. 22 hearing on the issue.
Polanski is fighting extradition in Switzerland, a nation that will not extradite someone who is not required to serve at least six months in prison.
Prosecutors said Polanski is subject to a sentence of two years. The defense countered that he already served a sentence handed down by the original judge in the case plus five months spent in a Swiss jail and more recently under house arrest.
Polanski was accused of plying Samantha Geimer with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill then **** her during a modeling shoot at Jack Nicholson's house in 1977.
Polanski was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and ****. He later pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse.
He was sent to prison for a diagnostic study. The judge, who had promised no further jail time, reneged and was planning to sentence him more harshly.
Judge Espinoza said earlier this year there appeared to be substantial judicial misconduct, but Polanski had to return to this country to argue for the case to be tossed out.
Polanski's attorney, Chad Hummel, quoted extensively Wednesday from a ruling last month by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal that held out a number of options, including sentencing without Polanski present.
Hummel noted the court had recognized the urgency of a hearing to get the matter resolved and suggested an immediate investigation into alleged misconduct by a judge and prosecutor in the 1977 case.
Espinoza suggested Hummel was quoting selectively from the opinion.
The judge did not say if he would hold an evidentiary hearing on the allegations of misconduct.
The appellate panel also said it believed the trial court could issue a sentence that does not require any further incarceration of Polanski.
Wednesday's hearing also raised the issue of a mystery witness who must be deposed because the judge said the person "may become unavailable."
Such language is often used about someone who is dying or planning to leave the country. He ordered Hummel and Walgren to arrange for a deposition of the person.
Polanski's lawyer had asked for a private conference in the judge's chambers, but a prosecutor prevailed in seeking to make the proceedings public. Walgren said media presence would prevent misconceptions of what might be said behind closed doors.
He cited a history of "in chambers" conferences in the case that became controversial.