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Yeah Zombi excellent feedback!!

I was looking up october's a november's schedules, and it seems to me they'll be playing exerpts of many lost films?...because, among others, "Beau Sabreur" (1928) and "The Great Gatsby" (1926) are also listed, and both are supposed to be lost...

I'd like to know too, 'cos as far as I know it's still lost and only some exerpts survive....TCM programmer?

Welcome & thanks for the compliments Keith.

Keith, Now that I'm at home, I can quote from my book "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the world's greatest movie stars - and their films from 1900 to the Present Day", by Ken Wlaschin, edited in 1979-1980, the following short biography on her: From the Chapter "The Silent Movie Stars": FALCONETTI "The greatest single performance in the history of cinema was achieved by French Actress Ren?e (Marie) Falconetti in the greatest work of the Silent Era, The Passion Of Joan of Arc, directed by Carl Dreyer. The Film is almost wholly close-ups, and most of the close-ups are of Falconetti's tortured face. This is not acting in the normal sense of the word, but rather opening up the soul and allowing a director to make a concentrated exploration of the inner self. It is almost painful to watch (Dreyer is said to have made her kneel on stone floors until she reached the right degree of suffering) and it drained so much out of Falconetti that she never made another film. Such a performance is unlikely ever to be repeated, but it was enough to make her a major star. It was not glamorous; she wore no make-up and Rudolph Mat?'s harsh penetrating camera allows no evasions. Her head was shaved for the part and she was allowed only one change of clothes, a light-coloured sackcloth dress in which to be burned at the stake. She was probably lucky to survive that fire as Dreyer continued to demand real suffering." "Born in Sermano, Corsica, in 1893, Falconetti became a stage actress in 1918 and one of her theatre directors was film pioneer Alberto Cavalcanti. Dreyer selected her as Joan after seeing her perform in a light comedy and she then worked on the film for 18 months; afterwards she turned stage producer, as well as appearing with the Com?die Francaise. She spent World War II in Switzerland and afterwards left for South America to act in the classics, and died in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1946."

Most Film critics agree in that Ren?e (Mar?a) Falconetti's performance in "The Passion of Joan Arc", is the greatest achieved by an actor/actress on film. It seems, it was her only screen performance ever.

Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn, both simply SUPREME. I love their screen-personaes and they've got a wide-acting range (they're good at comedies, dramas, period films, thrillers, etc.)

For Carole Lombard's fans I recommend a very fine-written biography by Mr. Wes D. Gehring "The Hoosier Tornado", I think it's still available on-line (Amazon.com)..also if you can get your hands on Frederick W. Ott's out-of-print "The Films of Carole Lombard"...There are excellent stills and photographs, as well as all kinds of feedback about her films & life. For Vivien Leigh's fans: Alezander Walker's "Vivien". For Jean Arthur's fans, the excellent "The Actress Nobody Knew" by John Oller. Myrna Loy fans, her great autobiography "Being and Becoming", and also Lawrence J. Quirk's "The Films of Myrna Loy"...lots of photographs and info... Welcome Kendra!

It also may be "Rage In Heaven" 1941, co-starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders...never seen it

I'm almost sure is 1940 "Busman's Honeymoon" (aka "Haunted Honeymoon")

David Copperfield?

Especially "Anna Karenina", "Camille", "Queen Christina" and "Ninotchka"...some of them were to be released this year?, but don't know what happened....I'll sign it for sure Audrey!!

Now...recalling...Marge also played a part in one of my all-time-very fave pictures, Peter Sellers' "The Party" (dir. by Blake Edwards), she played the Senator's wife???...What a great comedy!!!

Weren't both of them also in 1952's "Lovely To Look At"?...they danced to Jerome Kern's "I Won't Dance"...if I remember it well...it also featured Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton and Ann Miller...Ann Miller had a fantastic number..."I'll be hard to handle" BTW "Lovely To Look At" is a remake of "Roberta", starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.

The Musica Man: Robert Preston....mmmm....Victor Victoria?

Thanks Movie Joe...we appreciate the feedback & your help & concern....you're a PAL.

I agree completely...Penthouse is must-see

Bravo Moira!

Myrna Loy was one of the greatest Hollywood stars of all time, debuting in 1924-1925...she made more than 100? films....amnong them, landmark stuff like "The Thin Man", "Libeled Lady", "The Best Years of Our Lives ", "From the Terrace", "When Ladies Meet", "The Animal Kingdom", "Cheaper By The Dozen", "Penthouse", "Mr. Blandings Build his Dreamhouse", "Arrowsmith", "Love Crazy", "Broadway Bill".....She's a myth!

Thanks Kimbo.

Totally stumped....Robert Rossen's The Brave Bulls?

I love Ava Gardner too....but "The Bullfighter & the Lady" is a 1951 Republic Pictures release, produced by John Wayne, in which John Ford also was "involved", directed by the master of 50's western, Bud Boetticher, and it stars Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Katy Jurado and Virginia Grey...an excellent drama! Ava Gardner starred in the 1957 "The Sun Also Rises" (Fox Movie), based on the Hemingway Novel, set in the 1920's in Pamplona, Spain, with bullfighting in full display...co-starring Tyrone Power, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert....Gardner also starred in another based-upon Hemingway flick, the highly entertaining 1952 "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" opposite Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Hildegarde Neff (Kneff)... The movie here could also be "The Sun Also Rises"??

The Bullfighter and the Lady?

Fiesta?

William Powell starred in "One Way Passage"...a masterpiece by Tay Garnett.