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Moviejoe, I feel that maybe you're right about Janet Gaynor's "screen persona" ('cos I haven't seen most of her movies), but here in "The Young in Heart", she adds a special energy to her role...a different style of playing, than for example in "A Star is Born"...she doesn't seem so waif-like...she seems much more sophisticated and even I'd say attractive. You are right about Burke & Young. BTW I was so happy to know that "Dinner at Eight" (featuring Billie Burke) will be released on DVD next year, as "Libeled Lady", "Stage Door" and "Bringing Up Baby", among others...excellent choices for new releases!!

Hi Sandy...Not that one... Clue # 4: A girl with the voice of an angel

No bbgalaxy...hi, it's been so long, how're you? Clue # 3: A lavish high society ball

Nope... Clue # 2: A High School Graduation Ceremony Fuster, I'm pasting the rules posted on October 10th 2003, by the creator of this thread, Miss Littletramplover, hope you have fun playing this game: Okay all, this is hopefully going to be a lot of fun for everyone, and with how smart all of you people are, it will probably be quite easy too! It?s Classic Film Twenty-One Questions and the rules are very simple: The object is to get the users to guess which film you have in mind by posting one hint at a time. Hints can be *anything*: years, names, places, colors, quotes-- anything you can think of that has to do with the film. The hints should be well thought out and avoid being TOO easy or TOO obscure. For example, if you choose Gone With the Wind, you would not want to give the hint ?Rhett Butler?. =o) The one rule I do ask is that only one guess may be posted per hint: so if someone posts a hint, and another user makes an incorrect guess, please do not post another guess. Just wait until the next hint is posted and then make your guess. The person who wins by making the correct guess, then gets to conduct the next round. I will start off this particular round, of course everyone can join in, and I?m sure you?ll all guess these films before the 21st hint!!

Well, here I go: Clue # 1: An orphaned girl.

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Thanks for the feedback...I'd love to see the classic silent "Peter Pan", starring the beautiful Betty Bronson.

I bought the DVD of this film and watched it last weekend, and I can tell to you that it's an engaging and sweet comedy produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Richard Wallace. It stars Janet Gaynor in her last role (until the 1957 Pat Boone movie "Bernadine"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard (in her first sound film, after Chaplin's "Modern Times" (1936)), Richard Carlson (movie d?but), Roland Young, Billie Burke and Minnie Dupree. Gaynor, Fairbanks Jr., Young and Burke, are delightful as the Carleton family, a wacky & dishonest family, who try to take advantage from a rich, lonely old lady, played very sweetly by Minnie Dupree. Goddard and Carlson play love interests to Fairbanks Jr. and Gaynor, respectively. Besides "A Star is Born", "Bernadine" and "Sunrise", I hadn't seen any other Janet Gaynor film, and IMHO, she's adorable here; she's a very fine actress and has great chemistry opposite Fairbanks Jr, as her dashing brother, who in turn, makes a very attractive couple with Goddard. Richard Carlson plays an odd character, he impersonates a scottish guy (listen to his heavy accent) who wants to "reform" and marry Gaynor. Roland Young is very funny as Colonel Carleton-he had a flair for comedy-; I loved him as "Cosmo Topper", and he gets to play again opposite Billie Burke (hilarious) as his zany wife. Sadly, this movie does not belong to the TCM library, but it might have been aired by TCM (on loan-out terms). Anyway, I hope that it'll be scheduled in the near future.

I did like "Algiers", IMHO it had more "plot", than for example "The Garden of Allah", which is visually very handsome, but with an inferior plot-line. Hedy is alluring as the lady who bewitches Boyer's Pepe Le-Moko ("Come Wiz me to the Casbah"). The Public Domain copies are pretty awful, sadly. Check the french version, the 1936 "P?pe-Le-Moko" with Jean Gabin and Mireille Ballin, good film!

The credits of "Funny Face" are great, also many Hitchcock movies like "Psycho", "North by Northwest", "Vertigo" wonderful credits & music. I also agree with whom mentioned "The Lady Eve". "My Man Godfrey" is noteworthy in that area too.

Excellent choices...there are so many good westerns...two "DeMille's" I enjoyed very much, come to my mind: "The Plainsman" and "Union Pacific", as well as Nicholas'Ray excellent psychological western "Johnny Guitar".

Silent Movie Fans and Movie Buffs in general, TCM has scheduled this wonderful film on January 16th 2005, at 12:00 AM. Do not miss it!!

Although I'm a Hedy Fan, I can state rather "objectively" that this films is highly amusing and that Tracy & Lamarr are a good match. Verree Teasdale's character is enjoyable.

Thanks for the info.

Welcome Path!...thank you, for the great job you always do at the thread "Great Movie Alert" & for the great site you created on the web (Classicfilmguide). BRAVO! Also thanks TCM, because it was here I could watch for the first time "Smiling Lieutenant" & "Trouble in Paradise"...and although I could not catch it, TCM also aired the very rarely seen "Design for Living", I hope I can see it someday. I'd love to see "Lady Windermere's Fan" too, I thought It was a lost film, Did TCM aired the whole film or just an excerpt?

Therealfuster, I just love Ernst Lubitsch, in fact some of his films, like "Trouble in Paradise", "The Shop Around the Corner", "The Smiling Lieutenant", "The Merry Widow", "Ninotchka", "Heaven Can Wait", are among my very favorite films. That's why I had so high expectations for "That Uncertain Feeling"...I tried hard, but I couldn't "connect" with the movie, it just didn't "click" with me...on the other hand, you are right, Burgess Meredith did a very good acting job portraying the annoying artist, saying "phooey!!" all the time. It has nothing to do it being and old classic movie, because I love old movies...it happened something similar to me with "Citizen Kane", I'd read so much about it, the best film of all time, that the first time I saw it I felt somewhat disappointed too...although I could recognize the genius behind it and the great camera work. When I watched it a second time, I liked better, although I have to admit I'm fonder of "The Magnificent Ambersons". Oddly enough, a Lubistch film like "Angel", which hasn't very good reviews, I found it very entertaining and well done. The same happened to me with John Ford's "Mary of Scotland", I just loved it. I think that when it comes to tastes and to the "connections" one feels for certain films, there is nothing logic about it.

Joe I agree with you, "That Uncertain Feeling" was a big disappointment to me...you know, Lubistch, Melvyn Douglas, ...I expected more, and I found the film boring, maybe I had too high expectations. On the other hand, "These Three" is one of my fave films, and all, Oberon, Hopkins, McCrea, Granville, etc, were great in it. In fact I liked it more than the remake: "The Children's Hour". And yes, this one and "Wuthering Heights" easily rank among Merle's best films. As for Dolores del R?o, she was an exceptional beauty indeed and after she returned to Mexico in 1943, she "acquired" a greater acting talent under the deft direction of Emilio Fern?ndez in films like "Flor Silvestre", "Mar?a Candelaria", "Bugambilia", etc. As for her Hollywood films, I loved her in the 1929 "Evangeline", a great silent picture. She was highly amusing in "Madame DuBarry", although IMHO, Reginald Denny as Louis XV more or less steals the show; and "Bird of Paradise" is an entertaining escapist pre-code film, with very sexy scenes opposite Joel McCrea, BTW the Roan Group DVD edition is good. It would be great to have a day dedicated to her.

Welcome guys, You won't regret it, Colbert and Stewart work very well together.

I think that MGM had spent too much money already in "Marie Antoinette": the sets, costumes, all the antiques and furniture they bought, etc., to film it in colour, but I read somewhere that originally it was intended to be a Technicolor Movie, Not 100% sure. Also, the original choice for director was Sidney Franklin, but instead MGM put W.S. "One Take" Van Dyke to get the picture on time and on budget. I think that in this film Norma was better in its second half.

Another excellent movie starring Colbert, which by the way belongs to the TCM Library and is scheduled in December, is "It's a Wonderful World!" (not to be confused with Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life"), a great madcap, screwball comedy, produced by MGM and directed by W.S. Van Dyke, with Colbert in the role of a runaway-poetess opposite a "not-so-nice" Jimmy Stewart....A really hilarious movie. Don't miss this great film, 'cos it's neither available on VHS nor on DVD.

Yes, Norma looks fabulous in "Riptide", as well as in the stills of that picture. They say she always knew what her best angles were, the best light to be filmed/photographed, etc. I think that maybe there and in "Strangers May Kiss" & "The Divorcee", she looked greater than in any other picture...well in "A Free Soul" too. BTW I bought "Riptide" some 4 years ago, and boy! it is one of the most expensive VHS I have ever bought...it cost me 26.99 plus shipping and handling...I don't know why it's so expensive. Did you see "Marie Antoinette", she looked gorgeous in those ravishing XVIIIth Century gowns Adrian designed for the film. I haven't seen any of Norma's Silents, I taped "He Who Get Slapped", so I'll watch it someday. I'd like to see her in "The Devil's Circus", "Tower of Lies", "The Student Prince" and in "After Midnight".

Let's not lose our hopes guys, I remember last year's 31 days of Oscar (March 2003) I watched such rarities as 1929's "Weary River" with Richard Barthelmess and Betty Compson and "Dynamite" with Conrad Nagel, Charles Bickford, Kay Johnson and Joel McCrea, both of which were Oscar nominated in some category.

Wow Moviejoe, Every time I read a post of yours, it's like you were taking words out of my mouth!...Norma has certain magic, indeed! At least, for us. And, yes, since I was a teenager I had been looking deperately for any book on Norma, and of course Lambert's biography "Norma Shearer: A Life" was on the top of my list. Some 5 years ago, or so, I found it second hand and bought it...and I liked it very much. In fact I've been trying to buy too Lawrence J. Quirk's "Norma: The Story of Norma Shearer" too (although 2nd hand copies are way too expensive), which has excellent reviews, some people say it's better than Lambert's; so you have read both and think Lambert's book is better? Well, that makes me happy, 'cos then, I won't feel so desperate about having it. I also had the luck of finding the largely out-of-print Citadel Press "The Films of Norma Shearer". One of the reasons I bought Mick LaSalle's "Complicated Women", was because her portrait was on the cover, and she was widely discussed there. have you seen Riptide? Try to catch it on TCM, you won't regret it.

Yeah the gowns & hairdos in that one were really very elaborated....(Travis Banton?)...Most of DeMille's extravaganzas of the 1920's and early 1930's displayed luxurious wardrobes.

I agree with all of you, "Freaks" is an odd picture to carry the "MGM" Logo, but it's a landmark movie and thank God it was produced...hadn't been for Thalberg. I owned the VHS edition, but let me tell you that the DVD Edition (which I bought recently) is a MUST for movie buffs of the 1930's. In the same "vein" (fantastic-horror), although not as "shocking", I recommend to all of you the DVD Criterion edition of "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932) (aka "The Hounds of Zaroff") starring Fay Wray, Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks (great villain).