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I'm always trying to catch a Lambert copy at a decent price...but all I've found is 70 dollars and up!!!...I'll keep trying....
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You've mentioned two great & very entertaining films "The Maltese..." and Carol Reed's "The Third Man"...both, of the best films made ever!
"On Borrowed Time" is of course in my must-see films, I've heard is enchanting, enthralling....Please try watching 1948's "Portrait of Jennie"....Have you seen Phyllis Calvert's "Madonna of the Seven Moons" and 1936's "Tudor Rose"?...Would love to have the opportunity to watch both of them!!!
You also have mentioned such skilled actors...John Mills was great in "Great Expectations" and "Hobson's Choice"...I love british films, like "Passport to Pimlico", "Blithe Spirit", "Major Barbara", "Pygmalion", "Storm in a Teacup"...
Try to catch Ricardo Cortez in "Symphony of Six Million" or Bill Powell in "One-Way Passage" and "My Man Godfrey"...among many others!!!
Again welcome fellow-film buff!!
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Haven't read Lake's biography...would love it...But in "queue" waiting for me are: Kate Remembered, Me (by Kate), Carole Lombard: The Hoosier Tornado, Joan Crawford The Essential Biography, Myrna Loy's Being and Becoming, Hedy's Ecstasy and Me, Beverly Linet's "Ladd", Brooke Hayward's "Haywire" On Sullavan, Grable's Pin-Up, Helen Hayes's "On Reflection" ..ahh and "The Runaway Bride, The Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s", "Pre-Code Hollywood" by Doherty, LaSalle's "Dangerous Men" and Black's "Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics..."...
Of the ones I've read I can recommend: Jean Arthur's "The Actress Nobody Knew", Tallulah Bankhead's "Tallulah", Gary Cooper's "The Last Hero", My Life (Ingrid Bergman), The Invention of Dolores del R?o (If Somewhat tedious, sometimes...) Charles Higham's Bette Davis's biography, Leslie Frewin's Marlene Dietrich...(I haven't read Donald Spotto's book, which I also have), Kirk Douglas's famous autobiography "Son of...", Cary Grant's "Haunted Idol" (waiting also is Warren Harris's book on him), Vivien Leigh's "Vivien", Jeanette MacDonald's "Hollywood Diva", William J. Mann's "Wisecracker" on Willy Haines. Stanwyck's biography by Axel Madsen, Norma Shearer's By Quirk (Love to have Lambert's) and Jane Ellen Wayne's Robert taylor biography...oops and Esther Williams, very entertaining "The Million Dollar Mermaid"....
another book that is worthwhile, although somewhat "difficult" in some way...and not THAT entertaining is Marie Di Battista's "Fast Talking Dames", which is somewhat repetitive....
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I'll check it!
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Thanks "J" again
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No I haven't seen that one....is it good?...I've heard good things about that film...and yes Davis definitely had feuds with Hopkins, Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Glenn Ford, Ruth Cahtterton....and many more...one the few towards she was friendly to was Olivia de Havilland
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Hope you're right and Fox does not do the same as with "Laura's" release on dvd...
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True edge...had forgotten that scene!!!..
No Netflix here Mongo...and Blockbuster hasn't got it in my country...so my only chance is to catch it on TV or buy it!!!,,,that's why I buy so much stuff...
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I also can recommend the book "At The center of the Frame"...written by William Drew...whose "Speaking of Silents", out of print, is too expensive second-hand ( I want it desperately)...and of course recommend completely Citadel Press's books: "The Films of the '30s", "More Films of the 30's", Everson's "Love in the Film",,,,,anyone seen "Zoo in Budapest" or "Madonna of the Seven Moons"???...also enjoyed Vieira's "Sin in Soft Focus" and Dooley's "From Scarface to Scarlett"....great reading...ahh and Parish's "Hollywoood Players from the thirties", "paramount Pretties", both "RKO Gals" and "Fox Girls"...and George Eells's "Ginger, Loretta and Irene who?"...wonderful insight of Miriam Hopkins, Rith Etting, Kay Francis, Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers and Irene Bentley's careers and lives....
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Thanks Paty....The thing is that when one LOVES sth...there's no effort at all...and I love to share views, info, etc...I've been isolated too long with this LOve for Classics...for soo muchh!! Only can talk with my bro about the golden age's comedies, of which he's a fan....
How can I get my hands on that magazine!!!!!!
BTW "People with Talk! with Cary Grant is a must!!! I bought, and yet have to watch, 1937's "Stand In" with Bogart, Leslie Howard, Blondell and 1938's "Blockaed" with Madeleine Carroll and Fonda, 1939's "Destry Rides again" with Dietrich and Stewart Jimmy...so I'll tell you then....the DVD of "Topper" plus "Topper Returns" is another must!!!
So are HBO's out of print releases of 1937's "The Hurricane", "Stella Dallas", "Ball of Fire", "Dodsworth", "The Bishop's Wife", "Wuthering Heights", "Come and Get It".....hope to catch "Fire Over England".....Also Anchor Bay's Hitchcock's films "Rebecca", "Paradine Case"....and oohh "Garden of Allah"...breathtaking photography!!!...Get your hands on Fox's "Harvey" too...
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Wow! thanks for the info...I'd love to watch Susan in "Valley...! also featured were Patty Duke and Sharon Tate....I have only seen a scene from the movie, where Duke throws Susan's wig into the toilet!!!..
I'd Love to watch Susan opposite Bette Davis in "When the Love Has Gone"...I read Bette hated her all through the picture...maybe in her Charles Higham biography?
About Gavin, I agree with you...Gavin had at least screen presence, as I said in stuff like "Imitation of Life"...I remember a 1958/1959 flick, in which maybe he gave a better? performance...it was opposite a european import Lilo (Liselotte) Pulver...it was set during WW II?...a pacifist film...mmmm...ahhh..."A Time To Love and a Time to Die"....saw it loongg ago...Universal pictures...but he was no good actor in a whole...
He afterwards became a diplomat?...he even impersonated Cary Grant's in Sophia Loren's TV biopic...he also was in Psycho and Spartacus, two of my fave!!! I'd forgotten it completely....
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Bette Davis In Old Acquaintance?
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You're right!!!..it was a "heavenly" inspiration, 'cos its effects last until now!!
Frances Farmer....I love that actress...loved Jessica Lange's biopic....And saw her in "Come and Get it"...a great out-of-print HBO dvd....and in "Son of Fury"...she looked ravishingly beautiful in that one opposite Ty Power, Sanders and Tierney
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All quiet on the western fornt?
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I'm gonna write it down on my list of must-sees!!!...it mustn't be available on dvd, am I wrong?
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Mongo,
As always, thanks for your feedback, and for sharing your huge knowledge with us all.
Sadly I've never watched that marvellous film you mention...i has so many great actors in it: Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann, Ted, Do. McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, the eternal James Gleason....Has TCM ever showed it? I know it's a Fox film, but they coul have leased or borrowed it???
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Yeah Dee...welcome...and I Love "Dodsworth" too!!! One of the 5 greatest american films of all time...if not the greatest...thanks to Huston's definitive performance, what a DEAR film is that one!!!
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I'll try to tell you (in short) what happened to me with the DeMille film "Reap the Wild Wind"...It was 1985, I was 17 years old, I was dead afraid of tremors and eartquakes, my country having a lot of them...plus some very active volcanos...well, I was in the third floor of my paternal house, watching a movie in the evening, guess the movie?..."Reap the Wild Wind", in a few days I was goin't to start classes at the University, as a law student,...well the picture had "caught" my complete attention, and I was watching the scene ** SPOILERS** were Susan hides in a big basket in a ship....then the ship starts sinking, moving back and forth, up an down, everything falls apart, got dizzy looking at that scene...then in my unconscious I begin hearing hollering around, my name being called, didn't pay attention, I was "too into the film"...so then things start fallin' all over my head (I had huge shelves with books, tapes, ornaments,...)...something's wrong I think....the TV set turns off...lights go out (althogh it wasn't completely dark yet, IT WAS SORT OF DAWNING)....everything is moving....AN EARTHQUAKE....a HUGE One...my family (dad, mum, brothers and sisters, are all yelling at my name, telling me to goe down the stairs an join them!!!)...things continue falling all over my head, and I start laughing intensely...I think....it's so funny (in a weird way)....I was so hypnotised by the movie and the scene, that I hadn't realised that a big earthquake had began!!!...The biggest since the 1962 or 1971?.....thus I lose completely my fear of earthquakes (until today; I Live an partament on the 11th floor of a building), thankS to DeMille...that night, my whole family slept on the first floor of the house, in improvised "beds" or "sacks"... I said nahh...I'm gonna sleep in my bed, on the third floor!!!.....DeMille and Susan Hayward are responsible, and I thank them, for my losing fear of earthquakes!!!
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You're right "J", and Susan was always hailed as a kind of "succesor" (in the 50's) of Bette Davis's status in the 1940's....Another film which comes to my mind and saw as a boy is "White Witch Doctor" opposite Robert Mitchum, yet, another adventure yarn!!!...Another Fox goodie...and there's one of Susan's movies that has been elusive with me, the 1952 (RKO) "Lusty Men"...wanna wacth it, at least once...opposite Mitchum again....and what about sultry Susan as a "biblical" goddess in "Demetrius and the Gladiators" with Mature and opposite Peck in "David and Bathsheba"...she's a-la-par with Hedy in "Samson..." or Rita in "Salome"...don't you think?
I'd also love to watch "My Foolish Heart" opposite Dana Andrews, and "The Lost Moment", where Agnes Moorehead ages "terribly" and "They Won't Believe Me"....well, and to watch again the excellent 1948 "Tap Roots", I loved her as a southern belle...
Early Susan films I remember fondly are: "Reap the Wild Wind" (Good DeMille, in which the stars were Goddard, Wayne and Milland)....Susan has as grand "final" scene here...tell you more about it later, 'cos this scene played an important part in my own life; "Adam had Four Sons", with Bergman starring; "Beau Geste" in a small Role, but looked beautiful!; "The Forest Rangers" opposite MacMurray and Paulette again (entertaining tale) and as the bitchy bride of Fredric March in Ren? Clair's great "I married a Witch", starring March and Veronica Lake, with a grand performance by Cecil Kellaway....well I had forgotten the strong "The Hairy Ape"!! opposite William Bendix?
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Another child actor I must memtion here...is the sweet, endearing Ted Donaldson, who played "Pinky", the owner of the "dancing caterpillar" in Columbia's lovely tale starring Cary Grant and very pretty Janet Balir, "Once Upon A Time" (1944)...One of the most cherished films from my childhood...When the dvd came out I couldn't help buying it....It's a great, sentimental film...and Ted gives a heart-wrenching performance.
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Hope it'll come true!!!
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BTW....Hayward starred in two remakes of glorious tearjerkers of the 30's Dunne's "Back Street" in 1962 and Bette Davis's "Dark Victory", revamped as the aforementioned "Stolen Hours"...but the originals were better!! although Susan made those films worthwhile...especially opposite the wooden John Gavin...who's a nice guy...but not a good actor...at least at the beginning of his career...he had screen "presence"...reminded me of a younger Cary Grant...
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You're right Edge!!!!! I had forgotten a special dvd edition of "Meet Joe Black" including as Bonus "Death Takes a Holiday"...The same done with "House of Wax" and "The Mystery of the Wax Museum"....You're right about Snows of Kilimanjaro...The PD copies are just awful...washed-away-technicolor....definitely Hayward's peak was the late 40's and 50's...I'm lucky enough to own the hardcover original Citdel Press edition of "The Films of Susan Hayward"...great!! and out-of-print nowadays....
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You're right I was thinking when RKO was created!!
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