feaito
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A Christmas Carol?
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BTW I saw The Innocents and The Hucksters (featuring a sultry black-haired Ava Gardner too!!)...also recommend (of Kerr's) Bonjour Tristesse, The Chalk Garden, The King and I, Prudence and the Pill, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Dream Wife, An Affair To remember, etc.....all of her films are worthwhile
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Sylvia Sidney..the pretty heart-shaped-face Star... another favorite of mine...I like her very much!
Luise Rainer is great, you can tell she's a very sweet, true person!! I wrote a letter to her when I was a teenager (1982?)..and she sent me an autographed-still of her!!..I was thrilled...I also wrote to Dunne (but got nothing in return...sad...)
On the other hand...I wrote dear Lillian Gish..and she sent me a wonderful still...that reads sth. like "With every fond remembrance..." written in golden ink....Bette Davis sent me a signed still too...
I also love Eleanor Parker, Escape me Never, Escape from Fort Bravo, Scaramouche...she's a goddess..Susan Hayward, another fave....great temperament & talent!! Rita Hayworth, THE Diva herself...who can top her in those Astaire musicals (You'll never get rich and You were Never Lovelier) or Gilda??...Jeanette MacDonald, a very fave of mine..especially her early Paramount films (she looked sexy in those ones)...speaking of red-heads, we've got similar tastes!! and Irene Dunne, I'm a die-hard fan of hers...I wrote much appraisal of her work in another thread...
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Yeah Edge..I posted that post of all of Dunne's films which were remade!!..I'm a die-hard fan of hers!!..You're right the dvd/vhs prints of Love Affair and Penny Serenade ar just of awful quality!!!...Restoration needed!!...BTW, The awful truth's dvd copy, wasn't restored as it should have been done, as Columbia-Sony did with It Happened one night and the bunch of classics, they released at the beginning of the "DVD Era". I too pre-ordered the bunch of Cary Grant's classics dvd set, which includes My Fave Wife...'cos my vhs copy is horribly dubbed in spanish!!!
Dunne was en excellent dramatic actress and comedienne.... a unique lady!!!
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BTW folks...the other day I could watch my taped (from TCM) german version of Garbo's Anna Christie...and it's excellent!!! Salka Viertel is great in Marie Dressler's role..and the guys who play her father & her sailor lover, are equally great!!! Recommended!!! Some people say this one's better than the original!..I say this one stands aside the original very well!!..I love Marie Dressler...so I can't be "neutral" here!!!
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Deborah Kerr..what can I say...one of the most beautiful red-headed ladies (aside Maureen O'Hara, whom I also love), talented, classy, a great actress, perfect...a work of art...such great movies: Black Narcissus, Quo Vadis?, The Prisoner of Zenda, The End of the Affair, Separate Tables...I hope she, Maureen, Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Havilland, Luise Rainer, Anita Page, to begin with, have loonng and healthy lives
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Definitely LILLIAN GISH...
I'd like to watch Pickford in Frank Borzage's 1933 "Secrets", opposite Leslie Howard... I feel that's a good one!!...and Borzage was a master!!
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BTW, I've got The awful truth, Theodora, Penny Serenade, Love Affair..on dvd or VHS...and I love them all...I even had the chance of buying very early Irene's stuff (1931) like Bachelor Apartment and Consolation Marriage...and Irene shines in them too...
I'd love to watch Invitation to Happiness and When Tomorrow Comes
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Joy Of Living, Roberta, The Age of Innocence, My Favorite Wife, are all RKO's? and great...as Universal's Back Street, Show Boat and Magnificent Obsession....and what about Life with Father (WB) and I remember mama (RKO)...they should be showed here at TCM...at least the ones they have, more often,...
I'm a big Dunne fan too!!
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Yeah...much has been said about the Eddy-MacDonald feud/love relation, etc...Who knows the truth? Anyway, I agree with all of you that the films MacDonald made at Paramount, especially those directed by Lubitsch (& Cukor, one of them) and the one by Mamoulian (object of this thread), were the best!!! especially her paring with Chevalier...although I've read she was wonderful also, opposite Jack Buchanan in Lubitsch's "Monte Carlo" and very good in 1929 Ludwig Berger's "The Vagabond King", opposite Dennis King. She made also some good early pre-code risqu? comedies, at Paramount and Fox...like "Annabelle's Affairs" (lost film?) with Victor McLaglen, "Let's Go Native", etc.
"Lottery Bride" (1930), I've read isn't good. But all her early Paramounts deserve to be aired...the rights belong to Universal pictures?...
Also, as I wrote in another thread, it would be a delight to watch the simultaneously-shot-Hollywood french versions of One Hour With You and The Merry Widow...and all of the french versions of Chevalier's films at Paramount: Smiling Lieutenant, Playboy of Paris, The Big Pond...etc.
I bought both the Videosn of The Merry Widow and The Cat and the Fiddle (not released on dvd), both MGM pictures, before the pairing of Jeanette and Nelson...and they're great!, especially The Merry Widow, of which I read there's a longer (with more minutes of censored material for its re-relase, which were "rescued" from oblivion) existing copy in the vaults of TCM...has it been aired? The music, the plot, the cast, everything is top-notch.
As for The Cat and the Fiddle...Ramon Novarro is very good as Jeanette's lover...and the film is very well done indeed..I recommend it completely.
As for Jeanette-Nelson pairings.....undoubtedly there's some kitsch appeal about their films, "Schmaltzy" as some say...but that's no denying of their charisma..especially Jeanette's and the supporting casts...although I have to say that Nelson Eddy is not THAT terribly wooden, as it's been said...I enjoyed his pairing with Eleanor Powell in Rosalie, for example....and John Boles and Robert Taylor (the latter, early in his career) were pretty wooden, and anyway starred in (in the whole) excellent films....
The greatest Jeanette-Nelson film is, no doubt, "Maytime"...call it sentimental..... but I love it....in spite that I prefer her Paramount films....I still, love Jeanette in her MGM ones...with Nelson, Allan Jone, Gene Raymond, Clark Gable et al...even with Lassie!!!
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Carole Landis
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Haven't seen Gods and Generals...promise to watch it...I liked one period TV series I watched in 2002..."Feast of All Saints", absolutelly great period movie...about Haiti...and the higher classes black people of the XIX Century, in Haiti and New Orleans, very greatly done and acted...I loved it!!!
Thanks again Lolite for your concern...
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Still lost...Maverick?
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LOst...for another clue, Glory?
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In Mel Brooks's "The Producers"?
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In a Lonely Place is an excellent & unusual (anti-formulae) movie...I felt impressed after watching it, Nicholas Ray was really a first class pro...and what about that couple Bogart-Grahame!!! Fireworks!!
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Then again, try Red Headed Woman
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I think he was "big" enough to double a scene which featured a "big" woman (Garbo was tall and "bigger" (body, feet, etc..) than the "average" woman)....Well Ingrid Bergman, another swede, also was....BTW, both starred opposite french Charles Boyer, who was short indeed
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Joel McCrea
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The Great Tallulah Bankhead...BTW her autobiography "Tallulah" is worth reading... she had a great sense of humor....Dahhhling!!!
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Thank you very much for your kind words Lolite, everyone is so kind, nice & civil on these boards..it's amazing...I'm very happy posting here.
"J" A tale of two cities is one of the greatest stories ever...I hope Warner Video-Turner Entertainment, would release on dvd as well, the wonderful 1935 films: "Anna Karenina" and "David Copperfield", the latter featuring one of my very fave actresses, Edna May Oliver.
Period films are very fave of mine...still got to watch the pre-code Madame DuBarry, which I taped from TCM a long time ago...and as for "newer" period films, I recoomend to you Lolite "Lady Jane" (1985) and Erich Rohmer's "The English Woman and The Duke" (L'Anglaise et Le Duc)...
For another clue: Sommersby?
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Gene Kelly?
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Tricky question, 'cos really, for all of us it was Crawford in Dancing Lady....BUT, I'm sure I remember watching in an old book, a portrait of Fred and sister Adele, featured in a 1915 Silent Movie!!!...So it was Adele!!!, who married into British Aristocracy!!! Correct me If I'm wrong...
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Excellent "J"...you got it...it's the 1935 "A Tale of Two Cities"....I didn't know that the dvd was goin' to be released!!! good news!!...The Bogarde version is as good as this one....BTW I remember a TV version in which the same actor played both roles...
Your turn pal...
Help! I need advice on choosing silents!
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Definitely "SUNRISE"...also Chaplin's "The Gold Rush"...but it's not THAT romantic...mostly funny & sentimental...I'd recommend you "Evangeline" (1929), but it hasn't a happy ending...in spite of it all, it's a great overlooked movie.