feaito
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I'm 36, and I love classics since I was 5 or 6 years old...I remember watching my first classics, around 1972-73?..."Anna Karenina" (1935), "Mary of Scotland", and Vivien Leigh's "Anna Karenina" (1948), on Open TV....The suicide scenes in both Karenina's, impressed me quite a bit!!!! especially in Leigh's version 'cos she was standing facing the train on the railway!!!...on the other hand I haven't been able to erase from my mind, dignified, pretty Kate Hepburn (she looked gorgeous in period XVIth Century Costumes), walking to the scaffold!!...I love classics, 'cos both my parents loved films (and they grew up in the '40s and '50s), they're 62 right now and very healthy, thank god....especially dad, who loved biblical films and DeMille's in particular, he used to write down every film he saw, with its original datam, etc...Mum loved Tyrone Power and Charlton Heston...I also was very attached to my late maternal Granma and her second husband, who loved Shearer's "Smilin' Through", Colbert's "Imitation of Life", Dunne's "Magnificent Obsession" and Stanwyck's "The Bitter Tea of General Yen"...she loved Robert Taylor and Danielle Darrieux...He loved a movie, he said he had seen in the late 1930's, which told the tale of Genevieve of Brabant, which I haven't been able to locate...My paternal grandpa loved Joan Crawford...and my paternal Grandma, who died young, loved Gable...
So classics are in my blood!!
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Another WOW!
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Night of the living dead?
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I really expressed it incorrectly in my previous post...I must have made the difference (like a movie/feel connected with a movie). Sorry.
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BTW Mongo, I liked "Blue Velvet", let's say the dramatic story caught me, in spite of its strong-disgusting scenes...but I do not feel "connected" to it, I only liked it and thought it was good, when I saw it back in 1986-87...but it's not one of my faves...I just was giving examples of movies that have "entertained" and others I have feel connected in some level...."Dead Ringers", is another example of those kind of movies. I don't know why ONe Flew annoyed me so much...it was the same with Full Metal Jacket, excellent movie, which I couldn't stand!...
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Irene Dunne was really "The First Lady of Screen", The "Grand Dame", versatile, unique, classy, never involved in cheap scandals, attractive and sexy in a nice way, funny, etc...she hasn't been praised enough as she should have been....I agree with you that in her early films she looked more "matronly"...but her looks improved with age: "My Fave Wife", "The Awful Truth", "Love Affair", etc...she didn't look her age, she seemed much younger..
Lucky You Cat...The only version I've got to see of "Back Street" is the 1962 Susan Hayward one, which is ok...but the Sullavan or Dunne version never!!!....
If Universal & Criterion have released on dvd such early Universal 1930's movies like 1934's Colbert "Imitation of Life" or 1936's "My Man Godfrey"....why not release Dunne's Universal pictures like "Back Street" (1932), "Magnificent Obsession" (1935) and 1936 "Showboat" (1936) ON DVD???...It would be wonderful if they would release too "Only Yesterday" (1933) with Sullavan and Lombard's "Love Before Breakfast"!!!
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I've seen this movie only once (One Flew..), when it came out on dvd, I rented it...being a super-oscar winning in the most important categories (best actor, actress, film, director, screenplay), just like my fave "It Happened One Night" or "Silence of the Lambs" (good movie too)...I thought it was excellently made, superbly acted, but I didn't "like" it...it didn't "connect" with me... I thought it was a disgusting movie....the same happened to me with "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?"....I thought: "Wow, terribly good performances, by all...by I hate the movie"....Don't know, weird...I prefer Taylor, i.e., in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", although I know it's more of a "formulae" film, from the star-system period, with Metro-color and all that, and that '50s look...maybe not that "real" in comparision with "Who's Afraid ..."....But one stuff is being "objective" about a film, ponderating its production values, how well its acted, etc..and another is the way the film "connects" to your feelings, to you...."Portrait of jennie", "Dodsworth", "cat on a hot tin roof", all in their particular styles have sticked with me...and "connected" strongly with myself....But such movies as "One Flew..." and "Who's afraid..."....I cannot connect with those movies....although I can feel "connected" with newer, "artier" & more "sophisticated" stuff like "Garden of the Finzi Continis", "Death in Venice", "Sex, Lies and Videotapes", "Dead Ringers", "Blue velvet", etc....
Weird??
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Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
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Hmmm..arrived too late...mandog's got it..
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Lon Chaney Jr. in Of Mice and Men?
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You oughta see it Ven...it's Pre-Code DeMille at his best!!...Again, sorry mongo, for using your trivia thread...but I can't help it...and Venerados is a guy who knows a lot and is very smart...so's very interesting to share his points of view...just like you Mongo and Coffeedan...you know so much about classics and cinema in general...and also Path, Classicsf, MovieJoe...etc...such smart and civil people.
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I understand your point...on the other hand, i do not profess any religion at all, but I do believe in the concept of GOD, uncomprehensible for US, and I regard those stories, just as entertainment, 'cos they're not accurate historically, well even the Bible is been said of not being "historically accurate"....My personal fave is Spartacus and second runner up is Sign of the Cross...
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I understand...you mean Jesus of Nazareth, Ten Commandements, Samson and Delilah, The Robe, Quo Vadis?, Demetrius and the Gladiators, Ben-Hur.....I do like that stuff...especially Ben-Hur (both versions), Spartacus, The Sign of the Cross and the tongue-in-cheek 1934 De Mille Cleopatra...the 1963 Cleopatra, wasn't badly acted, at least by Rex Harrison...but it was overlong and sort of boring...tiresome....sorry mongo for using your thread for another purposes.
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I've never seen it...and I've read many times he detested that film....but, really, is it THAT BAD????
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If you mean a Best "Principal" Actor Oscar..because if you include the supporting actor category, I'd go first with George Burns, and then with Don Ameche...
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I have a feeling it was George Arliss
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Saw that one recently in Film & Arts Channel...Ingrid Bergman in the 1958 Indiscreet...referring to Cary Grant's character.
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"J"....you got it on your first guess...congratulations!!
Sultry Blonde Rita plus Orson...what else can we ask?
Your turn
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Ok...thanks...
Clue # 1: A Mirror cracked
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Lady in the Lake?
BTW I Think L.A. Confidential is a "New" Classic Film...I love that film...it's excellent, and it's set in the forties.
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You're glad edge...that's not sth. most people can say...meeting all those legends!!! I remember that my uncle, when he was appointed to the U.N. in New York, many years ago, saw Ingrid Bergman walking on the streets....but she was very elusive, it seems.
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For another clue....Libeled Lady??..Still loooosttt!!!
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Thanks for the info...I'll check Eleanor Parker's address at the "Who's Who"...does that book still exist??? There I got all the addresses, when I was a teenager...
I've got some very beautiful 1940's stills signed and dedicated to a an ambassador from my country, appointed in the US, during or after World War II, by some great actors like Eleanor Parker, Bogart, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Walter Pidgeon, Pete Lawford, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard, Lauren Bacall...... I look at them, every once in a while, I love Hollywood's Golden Era Stills.
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Oooops...no idea...for another clue, Holiday Inn?
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