feaito
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was it Frank Sinatra?
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Whe you said pianist, Jos? Iturbi "clicked" in my mind...Holiday in Mexico?
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Thanks Lolite for your effort.
I wouldn't think there's any problem in quoting excerpts from the book, just for private use only and telling the source of the quotes, just as when someone writes a book.
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I've also watched the clip with poem, but didn't think of it until now, when you bring it up; could it be this Sylvia Plath poem I found on the net?:
Wuthering Heights
The horizons ring me like faggots,
Tilted and disparate, and always unstable.
Touched by a match, they might warm me,
And their fine lines singe
The air to orange
Before the distances they pin evaporate,
Weighting the pale sky with a soldier color.
But they only dissolve and dissolve
Like a series of promises, as I step forward.
There is no life higher than the grasstops
Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind
Pours by like destiny, bending
Everything in one direction.
I can feel it trying
To funnel my heat away.
If I pay the roots of the heather
Too close attention, they will invite me
To whiten my bones among them.
The sheep know where they are,
Browsing in their dirty wool-clouds,
Gray as the weather.
The black slots of their pupils take me in.
It is like being mailed into space,
A thin, silly message.
They stand about in grandmotherly disguise,
All wig curls and yellow teeth
And hard, marbly baas.
I come to wheel ruts, and water
Limpid as the solitudes
That flee through my fingers.
Hollow doorsteps go from grass to grass;
Lintel and sill have unhinged themselves.
Of people and the air only
Remembers a few odd syllables.
It rehearses them moaningly:
Black stone, black stone.
The sky leans on me, me, the one upright
Among all horizontals.
The grass is beating its head distractedly.
It is too delicate
For a life in such company;
Darkness terrifies it.
Now, in valleys narrow
And black as purses, the house lights
Gleam like small change.
Sylvia Plath
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Looking forward to seeing "Hallelujah!" MovieJoe...it has always been in my "want" list...
Talking 'bout, "Cabin in the Sky", did you know that the wonderful standard "Taking a Chance on Love", which was featured in this 1943 film directed by Minnelli, and sung by Ethel Waters, was also featured in that same year's musical comedy "I dood It" (a remake of Buster Keaton's "Spite Marriage"), which was also directed by Vincent(e) Minnelli, and played on piano by Hazel Scott. BTW, Lena Horne was also featured in the latter, singing "Jericho". The stars of this film were the great Eleanor Powell & Red Skelton.
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I appreciate your effort Mongo, Thank you very much!
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Dan O'Herlihy in "Fail-Safe"
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Roscoe Arbuckle? Buster Keaton?
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I now what you mean, I also get emotional when I've watched along the years, famous stars from the Golden Era. I remember in the '80s, I got a kick out of watching the special Celebration for the 100 years of Hollywood, I remember a segment in which actresses from many Eras were featured, dressed in white gowns, among them Ruby Keeler, Lillian Gish, Ginger Rogers, Luise Rainer, Alice Faye, Marlee Matlin (who was hot then, after her A.A winning role), Drew Barrymore....Great moment!
I will check your website!
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I'd love to see "The Great Deception"!
I feel that the scene from the clip you mention, belongs to the film "Of Human Bondage".
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Hi Mongo, I have been searching for this information forever. I'd appreciate if you could help me. Thanks:
I am sure there is an american or english movie, filmed in the 1930's, most probably released between 1935-1938, which tells the story of Genevieve of Brabant (not to be confused with Saint Genevieve).
Genevieve of Brabant, was a noblewoman or queen, who was unjustly expelled from her castle by her husband, because of a "supposed" infidelity. Afterwards, she had to live in a cave or in the woods, were she gives birth to a baby.
Probably the film was released by another title (in english) than "Genevieve of Brabant", although in South America's spanish speaking countries it was released as "Genoveva de Brabante".
I'm not sure, but it seems it was released by Monogram or another minor/poverty row Studio. I remember seeing one of the movie posters/ads on the pages of an old 1930's magazine, and it featured a long-haired blonde actress riding on a horse, sideways (Lady Godiva-like).
I know too, that in 1947 a movie of the same title (Genoveffa di Brabante) was released in Italy. Afterwards in the 1960's (not sure) the same story was put on film in Spain. I'm sure the movie I'm looking for is neither of these two, 'cos it's definitely a movie from the 1930's.
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Again, great news edg! Both long-awaited movies!
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Park Row?
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Hello and welcome filmfashion,
I completely understand the situation you described, when I talk about being a film buff fond of old movies, people think of "The Godfather" as an old movie, for them the 1930's and 1940's, are almost like speaking of Prehistoric Times!
I too like very much Frances Dee, I think she was a very classy, elegant, beautiful and talented actress, that sadly didn't achieve the star status that she deserved. She was married to another favourite of mine, Mr. Joel McCrea.
I also saw "If I were King" a couple of years ago (I borrowed it from a Public Library) and I liked very much; she was good opposite Ronald Colman. I think the plot of this film was first filmed in 1927 as "The Beloved Rogue" with John Barrymore (a silent). And it has been filmed as a musical too, in 1929 as "The Vagabond King" with Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald, remade in 1956 with Kathryn Grayson and Oreste.
I haven't seen many films in which she was featured and I liked her especially in "Little Women" (1933) and "Of Human Bondage" (1934), both released on DVD.
These are the films of hers I would like to see: "Souls At Sea" (1937), "Becky Sharp" (1935), "Blood Money" (1933), "The Silver Cord" (1933), "An American Tragedy" (1931), in which she plays the role later impersonated by Liz Taylor on the remake "A Place in the Sun" (1951) and "Playboy of Paris" (1930), opposite Maurice Chevalier, which I will be receiving (hopefully) any moment now, since a fellow film buff, copied it for me.
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Great Contribution to the Boards Mongo!! Looking forward to more interesting posts here!
P.S. I wonder, how much was (is) the net amount (really) received by the stars of those grandiose salaries, after paying federal and state's taxes?
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Good Job Lolite! I too love Marie Dressler!
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The Cincinatti Kid?
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This is a magnificent film, which I taped on TCM a while ago, hope it's featured again, thanks TCM for being the Vault for this priceless jewels. Here's a review I wrote today for imdb:
It still doesn't cease to amaze me how some Silent Movies, dramas or comedies, catch my attention so much, getting me so immersed in the plot, thus making me forget I'm watching a silent, an antique, a piece of history, enjoying the movie as I'd do with any "talking" movie.
In this case, the images are so real (it was filmed on location) and so hauntingly beautiful, that make many later Hollywood films from the 1940's or 1950's, which depict "South Seas Life" look unreal, fake, notwithstanding their possible entertainment value.
There's so much truth in this morality photo-play about a white man, identified as a "derelict" of the South Seas, previously a doctor, who finds "Paradise on Earth" (peace, love & happiness), on a certain island of the Polynesia. Monte Blue is great as this "white man".
Most of the featured players of the film, one realizes, are real natives from the islands, and this adds so much truth to the storyline. Beautiful actress Raquel Torres, does not seem (IMHO) out of place at all as Monte Blue's native love interest. And Robert Anderson is a very nasty villain.
There are some awesome underwater sequences, featuring octopuses, sharks, pearl-diving and others featuring palm-climbing, dancing, etc. Notice the different tinting (reddish, blue, sepia ...) of the sequences of the film; only at the beginning and on the end, plain black and white is used.
Great Sound score for this late "silent film", the first used for a MGM film and the first time Leo-the-Lion roared! The original South-Sea Islands Film. Excellent.
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Yes Shaina, you are on a roll!!! Congrats!! Your turn.
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No... very unique movie the one you mention...
Clue # 4: A suitor
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Another great movie Liz, but no...
Clue # 3: Period Drama based upon a Stage Play
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Good Movie, but no...
Clue # 2: A large family
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Wow! That's an all time favourite!
Clue # 1: A Stern father
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In Hers To Hold.
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Not yet filmfashions, and I'm overanxious too! Along with "Playboy of Paris" come copies of "One Hour With You", "The Love Parade", "Monte Carlo", "The Big Pond" and five more films from the late '20s and 30's, which I cannot recall now.
I'll let you know.