feaito
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Thanks M.L....it seems we're losing good stuff from Fox Movie Channel?? Did I tell you that besides Latin TCM, a Lati-Cinecanal classics will be premiering in late 2004...they say its becoming sort of a trend..here
Thanks Edge for sharing the story...I remember that the last time I watched Loretta live, was for the 100 Years of Hollywood Birthday celebration, in the 1980s (second half of that decade), I still have that one taped ...or my dad has it??..It's dad! Well, there she read the names of the deceased stars until that time, who had made "Hollywood history" (Bogart, Grant, Lombard, Grace Kelly...)... I remembered when she pronounced the name Tyrone Power, she sighed deeply, as if with pain...guess she was good pals with him, 'cos they made many movies together in the 1930s at 20th Century Fox...and she pronounced his name the irish way?...not "Tairon" but sort of "Ter?n"....I'm gonna borrow that one from dad...I remember many stars appeared...C?sar Romero, Lillian Gish, Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Miltone Berle, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, the then famous Marlee Matlin, Drew Barrymore, Janet Leigh, etc...
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Edge...haven't seen either of them....
...and "J" don't be so hard "on you"...those were just unintentional mistakes...no chaos at all, pal -
No Sandy...sadly no Fox Movie Channel...I only get a Fox Channel which airs tv series and documentaries..and some "newer" films...
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meant "he is superb here"...sorry...again
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"North by Northwest" is a masterpiece and I wanted to comment, that although I wanted to watch "Lost in Translation", mainly because of its director/"directress"- I didn't expect much of Bill Murray (he stayed forever in my mind as the "ghostbuster")- I was totally wrong about Murray, he is superb her, as Johanssen is too, and the film is really very good. BTW, Bill Murray's scene with the weird-japanese TV host is hilarious!...Sofia Coppola is indeed talented, because I also liked very, very much her sad & poetic film, "The Virgin Suicides".
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please read "french cinema". Sorry.
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Edge..hadn't read your post..only J's...thanks for the feedback...I also like Margaret Lockwood, Jean Kent, Patricia Roc, Phyllis Calvert (have you seen "Madonna of the 7 Moons"?)...et al.
As for french cnemas, I prefer mainly films from the '30s and '40s....Gabin's (with Mireille Ballin) "Pepe-Le-Moko", "La Bete Humaine" (With Simone Simon), ..."Remorques", "La Jour Se leve", "Hotel Du Nord", "Les Enfants Du Paradis", "La Belle et la Bete", "Les Parents Terribles", Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" with Dita Parlo, "La Grande Illusion", "La Bandera", etc...although I've enjoyed some 50s and onwards stuff like "Le Bossu", "Mon Oncle", "Viva Maria", "Madame De...", "Belle de Jour", "A Plein Soleil", etc.
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thanks j...Moreau is also an excellent actress...and what about Simone Signoret?...wonderful..
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"The Bishop's Wife" is a wonderfully made, sentimental, magic, endearing film, with Cary Grant at his very best...with an excellent cast: Loretta Young, David Niven... special mention deserve all of the supporting players: Monty Woolley, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester, Sara Haden, Jame Gleason, who are superb!!
IMHO, it's a movie filled with lots of good-memories...By the way, if you liked Miss Young's and Cary Grant's chemistry onscreen, be sure to check them in a very "different" pairing, in which Ms. Young shines brightly...the 1934 Pre-Code "Born To Be Bad".
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I don't want to be too extensive this time...Only want to tell you this short (61 minutes of running time) Pre-Code, is a goody-goody, with Cary Grant, and especially Loretta Young, who is great in it...she looks ravishing, great gowns, slim-fitted, beautiful face-eyes, fresh beauty, great spunk....
I cannot understand why (I've read it) was she "stereotyped" and "dismissed", mainly in the 1930's as being a so-so or bad actress, and being only a "clotheshorse"...untrue...she's radiantly good (Well BAD) (chuckles) here...
It's difficult to think of this LORETTA...when one thinks of the 1940's Loretta in "The Farmer's Daughter"....or her other teaming with Cary Grant, the excellent & cute & sentimental "The Bishop's Wife"...a completely different stuff...
I wanna watch more early '30s Loretta, not only her virginal-good characters (like "Zoo in Budapest" (I'd "kill" to see this one) or "The Crusades" (here she's mostly "decorative" IMHO)....but stuff like "Midnight Mary" (I've read it's TOP) "Employee's Entrance", "Taxi". "The Hatchet Man".....
The quality of the DVD is pretty good.
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Edge!!!! How I (in a good "natured" way) ENVY you...you've mentioned those great french actresses I LOVE...Dani?lle Darrieux, Mich?le Morgan, Simone Simon...awesome beauties as well...although their masterpieces wer filmed in France....they all worked in Hollywood sometime....Don't you tell me you've also got autographs of Micheline Presle or Prelle!!??....I also love Cath?rine Deneuve, Annabella, Arletty, Isa Miranda, Madeleine Renaud, Josette Day, Madeleine Sologne....oh, and Deborahe Kerr...THE embodiment of Class & elegance.
Lucky Guy.
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Jane was the matriarch of Falcon...Angela Channing?...She was the STAR there..
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Roy Roger's Trigger?
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No idea... Lassie?
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Thanks J...
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too late!!! I was typing the answer and Mongo gave it...bad luck!
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Now that you mention Hitchcock....Blackmail comes to my mind as the first british talkie...I watched...and it was partially silent too?...Anny Ondra's voice had to be dubbed since she was german...
I'm sure the Lodger is not...'cos it was the secon silent film I saw & enjoyed in my life (on Bravo network),,,,the first was "La Boheme"
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I'm not sure at all but I have a feeling that it is Madeleine Carroll's (a fave of mine) "Atlantic" (1929) directed by E.A. Dupont, who was responsible for that masterpiece "Variet?" (1925?), with Lya de Putti and Emil Jannings...
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Jimmy Cagney in The Roaring '20s
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Mary Astor is one of my fave and acted in one of my top five movies "Dodsworth" in a lovely role...she was beautiful & an excellent actrees...I'd love to watch Don Juan!...Estelle Taylor was ver beautiful as well, and Myrna Loy looked ravishing in most of her exotic femme fatalle roles in the 1920s...and in the early 30s...especially in Love me Tonight, Consolation Marriage, Arrowsmith, Animal Kingdom...she was born on August 2nd...just as myself (but almost 60 years earlier!)
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Thanks for your kind words Keith...Luckily enough I could obtain "Sunrise's" DVD, because of the Fox Classics promotion, and it's really wonderful, 'cos it features all that memorabilia and info about Murnau's lost film "Four Devils" & much more....wonderful edition...a shame it's still not available for individual sale.
Well, hadn't I mentioned that Corinne Griffith, I read it somewhere, was hailed as being the "Hedy Lamarr" of her day...one of the most ravishing beauties of the silent cinema...she's really very pretty in a very "natural way" (IMHO)...I only can think of the very young Mary Astor (in the 1920s, well in the '30s she was still very neautiful) and Dolores Costello as beauties a-la-par of that era....Barbara LaMarr didn't strike me as so-beautiful...Betty Bronson was very pretty too...
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Edge....I've been reading & checking at amazon the bonuses of the "pricey or pricy" Criterion Edition of "The Red Shoes", and it seems that Moira Shearer is featured in the Audio Commentary only? or is she actually interviewed in person about the film? Thanks for the feedback.
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Excellent remark GWT! death of love...very thoughtful.
Following with the topic...what about Uncle Harry's death in "Shadow of a Doubt" or Orson Welle's in "The Stranger"....
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The marvellous Miriam Hopkins in "Trouble in Paradise", who masquerading as Kay Francis's secretary, said that to her "beau" Herbert Marshall, when she left him alone with rich & attractive Kay.
...and "J" don't be so hard "on you"...those were just unintentional mistakes...no chaos at all, pal
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