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    Tell us an actor/actress only & we tell our fav movie of that person.

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    I don't know what happened. I named about 12 films of Mitchum and then when I saw Mr6666 comment I thought what the hell? That is why I made the comment about what a career. So here I'll name the ones I came up with. I don't get what happened and I didn't edit it. OH well.

     

    That Championship Season

    Cape Fear (they never should have made the remake)

    The Night of the Hunter (which I also previously posted but is gone)

    Ryan's Daughter

    Farewell my Lovely, (excellent)

    The Big Sleep

    The Sundowners

    The Story of G.I.Joe

    River of No Return

     

    There, now I hope it posts. I certainly had more than Mr. Allison.

     

    Now back to our friend's suggestion of Paul Henreid

    Tell us an actor/actress only & we tell our fav movie of that person.

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    Before I do Robert Mitchum.....I would love to add A Lion in Winter; The Stunt Man, and Beckett for O'Toole.

     

     

    Mitchum: Heaven Knows Mr. Allison

    The Night of the Hunter

    Cape Fear (which should never have been remade,, he was excellent)

    The Hunters

    His Kind of Woman

    Angel Face

    Girl Rush

    Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Nevada

    Farwell My Lovely (excellent)

    The Story of G.I. Joe

    We Got Licked

    Ryan's Daughter

     

    And many more I can't think of because it seemed he was in every other movie. Wow. What a career.

    Now how about: Joanne Woodward

    Favorite line from movie.

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    In The Way We Were: Redford tells Streisand how he has to leave and she sense it may be forever, so she states, "But I'm making a pot roast." The desperation of which she can not speak, so she resorts to cooking.

     

    Madeline Kahn in Paper Moon (says this almost 20 times).."Oh, pull over Daddy, Trixie's gotta wanky tank."

    Favorite line from movie.

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    I love what you all are doing in this thread. I can not believe how many CelluloidKid can come up with. And Jack is bringing home some great memories. Thanks everyone. Keep them coming.

    If only I could think more of Lion in Winter where it seems every line is a great one delivered only the way O'Toole and and Hepburn can.

    Tell us what makes you a classic film lover

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    I would like you, as would others I am sure, to share, why you love classic film.

     

     

    To me there are many reasons, but just a couple are the acting, the scripts, the non use of special affects of today's blockbuster in which the world is saved by Ben Affleck.

     

    Stories of people. Usage of black and white.

    My fav part has to be the scripts. Hell look at the thread here on fav movie lines. They are hysterical that you all are reminding us of.

    I love the thread about What Film Would you Choose to Walk Into, and it made me realize sometimes I would have liked to have lived in some of those eras. Perhaps living vicariously through Bette Davis is just a dream. LOL.

    Look forward to your anwers. Peace, Robert

    Name your favorite ensemble cast

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    TURN ON GOSFORD PARK NOW. LOL. You'll love it.

     

    And of course, I can't believe I did not think of some of the others listed here.

     

    I love the cast of Altman's, The Player. Great take on Hollywood.

     

    Saw Odd Couple this afternoon, those card game scenes are truly great acting. Great timing. Thanks for the memories folks.

    Tell us an actor/actress only & we tell our fav movie of that person.

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    ok CelluloidKid, I am going from memory and surprised I can't recall more but here goes:

     

    Above Suspicion

    Mildred Pierce (of course)

    Grand Hotel

    The Women ( my fav. how she did not win supp actrress is beyond me?)

    This Woman Is Dangerous

    Daisy Kenyon

    Torch Song

    Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (I love the backstage stories of this movie, LOL)

    Johnny Guitar

    Woman on the Run

     

    I know there are tons more but this is what comes to mind. I love her.

     

    Now how about: Lawrence Olivier

    Favorite line from movie.

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    Katherine Hepburn in The Lion In Winter...."it's the 11th Century, of course we're all barbarians."

     

    Diane Weist in Bullets over Broadway..."I'm sorry I'm late. My pedicurits had a stroke and plummented to my foot. It required bandaging." The enire casts reacts with empahty and you poor thing.

     

    In Bullets over Broadway....Jennifer Tilly, "He's a, a, masho, mass, I can't say that word."

    Cusak, "Mashocism. Someone who likes pain.:

    Tilley: "Somone who likes pain? What is he ****?"

     

    Of subject for a moment: my fav line from Broadway which I think you may enjoy comes from a mock up of The Glass Menagerie: Amanda to Tom: "Why did you bring that girl here. We have not had a lesbian in this house since your grandmammy died."

     

    Gone with the Wnd. Mrs. O'Hara returns to Tara from being mid-wife to Mrs. Anderson and when she returns and steps off her coach, Mr. Anderson, drunkingly appears and says did my wife have the baby. Without missing a beat, Mrs. O'Hara say, "Your wife sir has given birth to a boy. And mercifully Mr. Anderson, he died."

    2 questions:

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    One. I know a lot of people from what I have read don't seem to want to discuss newer films. Is there a place here that I may not be aware of where you can do that if you believe the film, such as There Will Be Blood, will be a classic someday. It is he best and oh, wow, the conversations to come. A

    re there still some here, as suggested by some PM's I have been sent that would still like me to make an occassional Oscar Trivia quiz?

    I love many many topics here.

    Some great topics here and I hope to see more reponses to them, especially to the person who asked, do people still go to the movies? And Ilove Fav Movie Endings. Thanks for challenging my mind. LOL

     

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    what classic film are you a virgin of?

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    Vallo and Sandy.

     

    First Sandy. I love me some Colin Firth. My heart thumped in Love Actually every second he was on screen as well as in The Importance of Being Earnest. Love him.

     

    Vallo...yes the length is tortorous in those films and be warned Lawrence, though one of my all time faves, took me a fifth attempt to say I am going to sit through this. It paid off. But we are so used to film and every other aspect of our live moving so quickly that we have little patince anymore. So try to give Lawrence a chance. The acting is supberb. The desertt will make you feel as if you were walking at that pace. Hang with it. Peace, Robert Michael

    In your Oscar Opinion who should not have won?

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    Normalheart:

     

    Your'e my kind of person. I loved that you wrote what you wrote because it is great for conversation and insights into films. With that said, I would like to respond.

    This is not a debate mind you. LOL.

    Gays you said are mad as hell and then something about the average person. I would not separate the two. I don't think intentionally you meant too, however, I have never seen a film through my orientation. I knew Crash would win and thought it very good. How could it not win when you have 67 different speaking parts. And a huge crew. You are correct the Acadmey did vote whereas the average person who spends 9 or 10 dollars a ticket can not. What I find interesting is many people outside of the Academy loved Crash. I did. I admit it. But not over Brokeback. I don't understand where this backlash has come from. You can see it here on the boards and I don't get it. The night it won, many were surprised. Only ones complaining like hell were the gays at first, more out of a political stance possibly. But no way coud it win with a Canadian crew who can't vote and only 10 speaking parts.

    I do not think Crash should have won, though it was excellent, because it said nothing new. It happened to simply say what Spike Lee has been saying for years in his various films. Crash did it better.

    I remember being fascinated at how would a woman live the rest of her life is she were in Thandie Newton's shoes. I asked many women about this. What feelings does one carry the rest of their life knowing a man who molested you is the same man that 72 hours later saved your life? Gratitude, hate, anger, a combination. I don't know. Dillon and the cast were excellent and for the first time I thought Ryan Phillipe was on his way. But his wife won the Oscar and now they are split. I digress. Back to Brokeback and Ledger.

    I understood him completely. I know others made comments about it. For some it took a while to grasp his lines. What is interesting is Brando did this his entire screen career and whenever I have looked at various polls in voting of best actor who ever lived....it's always Brando, Bogart, and Burton. The 3 B's.

    On stage one has to have great diction, execution and articulation of your lines. The same is not said for film. Kind of odd, yet understandable. But you want the last person in the back of a stage auditorium to hear you. Well the same for the cinema. However, directors and actors attempt to make characters more authentic than on stage I suggest. Hence, Ledger captured the essence of his character. Interesting to note, he really did not have that many speaking lines which to me made his performance even more remarkable because I found myself looking at a man who's face and body language was communicating to me that he was not even totally aware of what was happening to him.

    He was in love with Jack. Yet he might not admit it not due to shame but to confusion as to what kind of love. Homosexuality on the range in that era was not something to be totally understood. It was a bunch of weird guys in New York or San Fran. But not in Wyoming. Not in their minds.

    I hated that it lost because it said so much about a troubled, confusing love, yet authentic. And told in a way never told before and beautifull directed, filmed, and acted. By all.

    As a gay man, my orientation had nothing to do with this. I remember feeling the same way when Titantic beat L.A. Confidential (though I knew it would) and when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan. And others. Don't even get me started on Gladiator. Which really means, "Are ya ready?"

    As for not understanding a dialect, come to Boston and if you ask for directions and think we are rude because we don't answer you, it's only because we know we will have to repeat ourseves 50 times. LOL. Peace, Robert Michael. Thanks for your thoughts.

    what classic film are you a virgin of?

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    I can't believe that because I was the same way with Harvey. I thought how could anything be that good when every time you turn a corner some high shcool or community theatre was in production of it. Then I saw it last week or so. Recently and loved Stewart but was blown away by Josephine Hull who won supp actress.

     

    And tonight for the first time I finally saw It Happened One Night. Can't beleive I waited like this. But I did. I just could not picture Clark doing comedy. Claudette was marvelous. First to win Picture, actor and actress and was not sure it would live up to it. IT DOES. Great.

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