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*_Daisy Kenyon_ (1947)*
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Susan Hayward was in: _Valley of the Dolls_ (1967) directed by Mark Robson.
*NEW DIRECTOR: Mark Robson.!*
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*TCM should get the rights for _The Song of Bernadette_ (1943) & incld this film with the tribute!!!*
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*TCM to salute Jennifer Jones with four-film festival*
By: halboedeker
December, 18 2009
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Jennifer Jones won her Oscar for playing a saintly figure, but she displayed the true wow factor in her sensual roles.
*Turner Classic Movies will salute Jones, who died at age 90 on Thursday, by airing four of her films Jan. 7.*
Jones won her Academy Award for playing a peasant girl in ?The Song of Bernadette,? a stately 1943 religious drama (pictured). She received four other nominations, as supporting actress in ?Since You Went Away? and as lead actress in ?Love Letters,? ?Duel in the Sun? and ?Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.?
Her career is a reminder, in Oscar season, that a performer?s best work isn?t always reflected in Academy Award victories and nominations. If you want Jones at her apex, look to the romantic comedy ?Cluny Brown? or the passionate drama ?Ruby Gentry.?
As good as she was in noble roles, Jones brought gusto to sexy roles. Just watch her pant over Gregory Peck and crawl through the dust in ?Duel in the Sun.? Years later, when Peck won a life achievement award from the American Film Institute, Jones joked that love scenes with him didn?t constitute hard work. No kidding. The movie has been nicknamed ?Lust in the Dust,? and Jones supplies most of the lust.
?Sun,? a huge, over-the-top 1946 Western, is the first of the four films on TCM?s schedule.
*_Here?s the list_:*
?Duel in the Sun? at 8 p.m.
"Beat the Devil? with Humphrey Bogart at 10:30 p.m.
?Madame Bovary? with James Mason and Van Heflin at 12:15 a.m.
*?Indiscretion of an American Wife? with Montgomery Clift at 2:15 a.m.
Jones was married to the actor Robert Walker (?Strangers on a Train?), the film producer David O. Selznick (?Gone With the Wind?) and the industrialist Norton Simon. Selznick over-managed her career. And younger viewers may best remember Jones as the nice lady who enchanted Fred Astaire in ?The Towering Inferno.?
Her career, while uneven, has some treasures worth investigating. ?Carrie,? a 1952 version of ?Sister Carrie,? contains one of Laurence Olivier?s finest performances. She is luminous in ?Portrait of Jennie.? She enchants in ?Cluny Brown.? And she mesmerizes during a tempestuous romance with Charlton Heston in ?Ruby Gentry.? Wow.
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*DVD NEWS:* Warner Archives just released _Hollywood Revue of 1929_ on DVD. Order.
http://www.wbshop.com/Hollywood-Revue-of-1929/1000124439,default,pd.html?cgid=
Everybody sing. Everybody dance. Or, failing that, everybody step in place during the famed Singin? in the Rain finale. A torrent of talent takes the screen in the first all-star Talkie Era showcase of heretofore silent-screen players. Much of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 was filmed in the graveyard shift so that the stars? daytime shooting schedules would not be disrupted. Fans in Los Angeles and New York City were treated to movie marquees that included live showgirls. Once in the theater, they were treated to the on-screen delights of Joan Crawford singing and Charlestoning, Laurel and Hardy clowning, Norma Shearer and John Gilbert spoofing the Bard (in color!), Buster Keaton stonefacing and much more in a historic menagerie of fun.
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*_DVD NEWS_:* Warner Archives just released _Hollywood Revue of 1929_ on DVD. Order.
http://www.wbshop.com/Hollywood-Revue-of-1929/1000124439,default,pd.html?cgid=
Everybody sing. Everybody dance. Or, failing that, everybody step in place during the famed Singin? in the Rain finale. A torrent of talent takes the screen in the first all-star Talkie Era showcase of heretofore silent-screen players. Much of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 was filmed in the graveyard shift so that the stars? daytime shooting schedules would not be disrupted. Fans in Los Angeles and New York City were treated to movie marquees that included live showgirls. Once in the theater, they were treated to the on-screen delights of Joan Crawford singing and Charlestoning, Laurel and Hardy clowning, Norma Shearer and John Gilbert spoofing the Bard (in color!), Buster Keaton stonefacing and much more in a historic menagerie of fun.
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*Thu, Dec 17, 10:00 PM: _Holiday Affair_ (1949)!!!*
*All Times Eastern!*
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*Thu, Dec 17, 10:00 PM: Out of the Past (1947)!!!*
*All Times Eastern! Check Local Schedules! 6:00 AM Arizona Time!*
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*Thu, Dec 17, 10:00 PM: _Holiday Affair_ (1949)!!!*
*All Times Eastern!*
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*Happy Chrismukkah all!*
*Yeah! _Christmas in Connecticut_ (1945) is on!! It is 1 of my all time favorite Christmas films!!*
It makes me laugh every-time I watch it! My mom and I used to watch it every year! Now that my momn is gone, I have now passed this tradition on to my friends. I have all my friends come over and watch it!
)* Barbara Stanwyck is such a hoot!
Elizabeth Lane: ([Dudley has told her she has to go to see Yardley to arrange her Christmas with the sailor) Arrange it, are you crazy? Where am I gonna get a farm? I haven't even got a window box!
ROFL!
*Remember all times are Eastern!! Check Local Schedules! _Christmas in Connecticut_ (1945) comes on at 06:00PM Arizona Time. Can't wait!*
*Thur. Dec. 17 8:00 PM TCM*
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*Fri. Dec. 25 12:15 PM TCM*
_Trivia for_:
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) The Connecticut home is the same set used in _Bringing Up Baby_ (1938).
The character of Elizabeth Lane was loosely based on the then popular Family Circle Magazine columnist Gladys Taber, who lived on Stillmeadow Farm in Connecticut.
Thanks,
Moviedatabase
*Babara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane in _Christmas in Connecticut_.*
*PS:*
*Although originally released on August 11, 1945, the film has become a Christmas classic.*
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*Vardalos, Nia* - A Greek-Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director and producer.
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traitor ... (LOL!) ... _Traitor_ (2008) W./Don Cheadle!
*NEW WORD: Dreidel!*
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*Nilsson, Rob* - An American independent film director, writer, and sometimes actor. He has won the Cam?ra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
His first film, _Northern Lights_ (1978), was co-written and co-directed with John Hanson, tells of the struggles of North Dakota farmers in 1915 organizing to resist the effects of bank foreclosures. The film was well-received, winning the Cam?ra d'Or (best first film) at the Cannes Film Festival.
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_Imitation of Life_ (1959)
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Lana Turner (I loooove Turner ...Not as much as Crawford) ..... was in: _Another Time, Another Place_ (1958) directed by Lewis Allen!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Lewis Allen!*
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*Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90*
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jennifer Jones, the beautiful, raven-haired actress who was nominated for Academy Awards five times, winning in 1943 for her portrayal of a saintly nun in "The Song of Bernadette," died Thursday. She was 90.
Jones, who in later years was a leader of the Norton Simon Museum, died at her home in Malibu of natural causes, museum spokeswoman Leslie Denk told The Associated Press.
Jones was the widow of the museum's founder, wealthy industrialist Norton Simon, and served as chair of the museum's board of directors after his death.
Known for her intense performances, Jones was one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1940s and '50s.
Among her most memorable roles were the vixen who vamps rowdy cowboy Gregory Peck in "Duel in the Sun," and the Eurasian doctor who falls for Korean War correspondent William Holden in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing."
Despite her heavily dramatic screen roles, Jones conveyed an aura of shyness, even aloofness offstage. She rarely gave interviews, explaining to a reporter in 1957: "Most interviewers probe and pry into your personal life, and I just don't like it. I respect everyone's right to privacy, and I feel mine should be respected, too."
Early in her career, Jones had become nearly as famous for her high-profile marriages as for her movie work. She met actor Robert Walker when both studied acting in New York, and they married and came to Hollywood, where her stardom ascended more rapidly than his.
Jones' boss, David O. Selznick, became obsessed with his star and spent much of his time promoting her career. They married four years after she divorced Walker in 1945.
Selznick died in 1965, and in 1973 Jones married Simon. After his death in 1993, she assumed a major role in leading the Pasadena-based museum.
She initiated the museum's celebrated gallery renovation by architect Frank Gehry and spearheaded the development of its public programming and outreach initiatives.
She was born Phylis Isley on March 2, 1919, in Tulsa, Okla., to parents who operated a touring stock company that presented melodramas in tent theaters in the Southwest. She began doing roles in their plays at the age of 6.
After graduating from a Catholic high school, she toured with another stock company, studied drama at Northwestern University for a year, then persuaded her father to support her for a year at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
She married Walker in 1939 and they spent their honeymoon traveling to Hollywood. They could find only bit roles in small pictures, she in a western, "New Frontier," and a serial, "Dick Tracy's G-Men."
The pair retreated to New York before Jones was selected for the prize role in "The Song of Bernadette" about a French peasant girl who claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858.
Her performance and the Oscar for best actress helped make her one of Hollywood's most popular leading ladies.
Director Henry King recalled testing the six finalists for the role of Bernadette: "A man held a stick behind the camera; the girls focused their rapt attention on that stick. The other five did very well. But only Jennifer looked as if she saw the vision."
Among her other films were "Love Letters" (with Joseph Cotten), "We Were Strangers" (with John Garfield), "Madame Bovary" (with Louis Jourdan) and "A Farewell to Arms" (with Rock Hudson).
She received a supporting actress Oscar nomination for "Since You Went Away," and lead actress nominations for "Love Letters," "Duel in the Sun" and "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing."
While in Rome filming "A Farewell to Arms," Hudson told a reporter, "I heard fantastic stories about this girl, that she was neurotic, temperamental, under hypnosis by Selznick. Not a word of truth in any of it. From the first take, she's been cooperative with everyone ? except reporters."
Her last film under Selznick's guidance came in 1962 with F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night," a failure.
Several months after Selznick's death in 1965, she went to England to film "The Idol." As it turned out, she made only two more film appearances, in 1969's "Angel, Angel, Down We Go" and 1974's "The Towering Inferno."
Two years after she filmed "The Idol," a sheriff's deputy found Jones in the surf at Malibu. She was not breathing but still had a heartbeat and he was able to revive her.
She had earlier called her physician to say she was taking pills, and it appeared she had fallen from a cliff into the ocean.
Her daughter plunged to her death from the 22nd floor of a hotel in west Los Angeles in 1976, and tests showed traces of morphine, barbiturates and alcohol in her system. The death was ruled a suicide.
After retiring from acting after "The Towering Inferno," Jones avoided the limelight as much as possible.
She is survived by her son, Robert, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Dec. 17, 2009
*Jennifer Jones in _Love Letters_ (1945)*
*Jennifer Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943).*
Thanks,
MSN Entertainment
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*Congress Sets Aside $30 Million to Combat Movie Piracy*
Dec 14th 2009
Cinematical
by Peter Hall
Your tax dollars are now hard at work fighting movie piracy. In theory, at least. The Hollywood Reporter has picked up on Congress' approval of a new $30 Million earmark to help extend the effectiveness of 2008's Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act. According to MPAA CEO Dan Glickman, "Congress took a major step forward by providing $30 million in funding for new FBI agents, federal prosecutors, and local and state law enforcement grants to protect American jobs and creativity by cracking down on the theft of movies and other intellectual property."
Having written a post no more than eleven days ago outlining how 2009 saw Americans handing over a record-shattering $10 billion to movie theaters across the country and how attendance was up over 3% from the same time a year prior, the arrival of this news sticks in my craw a bit. There is absolutely no questioning that movie piracy costs the corporate interests represented by the MPAA profits, but I do find Glickman's further claims a tad dubious: "Copyright industries in the U.S. lose $25.6 billion a year in revenue to piracy, the U.S. economy loses nearly 375,000 jobs either directly or indirectly related to the copyright industry, and American workers lose more than $16 billion in annual earnings."
Call me a cynic (or an idiot), but I'd like some illumination as to what jobs that 375,000 figure is referring to, especially if it is a per year figure like the one before it. It's not as though DVDs are hand made on human-run assembly lines or that Walmart has cut back the number of cashiers it employs because people aren't rushing out to buy All About Steve on a Tuesday because they downloaded it on Monday night.
I understand how a trickle-down effect could occur if distributors were to manufacture a drastically smaller number of discs year over year, as that would have a damaging effect on everyone from the companies that make DVD cases to the ones who transport them around the globe. But by that token, the same effect could have been (and may just be) set in motion by the consumer demand for legal digital delivery services like On-Demand, Amazon, and iTunes, which remove the need for the extra costs associated with creating a physical product.
I'm not out to justify piracy, but isn't it possible that these yearly loses (which are deduced by a formula the MPAA has never made clear) are due to a changing marketplace and not a legion of bandits?
But hey, what say you? Do you think piracy is as impacting as the MPAA claims? Do you care that this is something your tax money is going toward while we're in the middle of a recession?
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*Which is better ... _Narrow Margin_ (1990) or _The Narrow Margin_ (1952)!??.*
I have a friend who likes the 1990 version over the original. Which do u like and why!?
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*Stella Artois launches French New Wave online film festival*
Utalkmarketing
December 14, 2009
*Reinforcing the idea that you can be stylish and green at the same time, Stella Artois is taking recycling to a chic new level, breathing new life into some of the best-loved classic Continental films from the 1960s by premiering them online in a week-long Recyclage de Luxe Online Film Festival in partnership with cult film website The Auteurs.*
Set in 1960?s Europe, Recyclage de Luxe is an ode to vintage fashion and eco chic with the goal of communicating the brand?s belief that if we all take small steps to look after Mother Nature, the future can be beautiful. It was first brought to life in the brand?s billboard ads but has most recently been borne out in a pioneering online 1960s variety show, Le Recyclage de Luxe show, fronted by the effervescent Alain de Monde, founder of the Recyclage de Luxe movement.
Reinforcing the idea that you can be stylish and green at the same time, Stella Artois is taking recycling to a chic new level, breathing new life into some of the best-loved classic Continental films from the 1960s by premiering them online in a week-long Recyclage de Luxe Online Film Festival in partnership with cult film website The Auteurs.
Set in 1960?s Europe, Recyclage de Luxe is an ode to vintage fashion and eco chic with the goal of communicating the brand?s belief that if we all take small steps to look after Mother Nature, the future can be beautiful. It was first brought to life in the brand?s billboard ads but has most recently been borne out in a pioneering online 1960s variety show, Le Recyclage de Luxe show, fronted by the effervescent Alain de Monde, founder of the Recyclage de Luxe movement.
http://www.realwire.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=14606
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palooka ... _The Prize Fighter_ (1979)
*NEW WORD: Dreidel!*
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_No More Ladies_ MGM, 1935.
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John Gilbert was in: _Twelve Miles Out_ (1927) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!!*
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*I just got a new bio for the holidays ... Great read!*
*In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles*
*_From Publishers Weekly_*
Feder, the daughter of Orson Welles and his first wife, Virginia, tells the story of her search for a relationship with her famous father as well as creating an independent identity through a childhood and adolescence influenced by a list of affectionate guardians and brilliant but dysfunctional grownups. The latter category included her own parents: the author was still a child when they separated and her father married Rita Hayworth; her mother, meanwhile, went on to her own second and third marriages. Feder found affection at times, but it was her years in Illinois with her father's former headmaster and the headmaster's wife that provided her first experience of domestic stability. Her peripatetic life resumed, however, while her father arrived irregularly for extended one-on-one visits that shaped his daughter's budding intellect, but left her hungry for a deeper, more permanent connection. Her story conveys a powerful, intimate sense of Welles's creative struggles and her own part in preserving his artistic legacy.
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*American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion*
*_NYC NEWS_:*
You can see Joan Crawford's _Bride Wore Red_ dress by Adrian in person! It's currently on display at the museum of NYC's Fashion Institute of Technology (7th Ave and W. 27th), one of 75 dresses and 31 designers in their "American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion" exhibit that runs through January 9 2010. The exhibit is free -- don't miss!
http://www.fitnyc.edu/5517.asp
*_Product Description_*
This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the relationship between innovation and aesthetics as expressed by American couturiers and fashion designers from the late 1910s to the present day. The book, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American?s best fashion designers.
Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask, and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng, and Maria Comejo. James?s grand and structurally imposing gowns from the 1950s appear alongside contemporary Infantas by Ralph Rucci; the section on draping juxtaposes 1930s gowns by Elizabeth Hawes and Valentina with more contemporary garments by Jean Yu and Isabel Toledo; clothing cut into pure geometric shapes like circles, triangles, and rectangles is illustrated by World War I?era teagowns by Jessie Franklin Turner, Claire McCardell?s mid-century rompers garments, and modern sportswear by Yeohlee and Shamask.
While the United States may be best known worldwide for its casual mass-marketed garments, Mears demonstrates that artistry, innovation, and flawless construction are the true marks of American fashion.
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Warren Beatty .....afraid of being typecast as a milquetoast leading man, and still smarting over the _What's New, Pussycat?_ debacle, where he was outmaneuvered by Woody Allen and eventually forced to leave the production, Beatty produced Bonnie and Clyde as a means of controlling the projects he was involved with. He hired the untested writers Robert Benton and David Newman, as well as director Arthur Penn.
Director Arthur Penn!