feaito
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Sorry Wrong Number?
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Yes, you hit the jackpot....congrats!!! A fave of mine too! Agnes Moorehead was so nasty as her aunt! Your turn now...Gotta go to sleep now, it's 23:46 here!!! See Ya!!
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No... like that film,...
Hint 2: A mean Aunt
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I must say that of the six films included in the "Sweetheart Pack", the only Deanna films I've seen 'til now, "It started with Eve" has became my fave one (close runner up is "First Love"). This movie is just perfect, she plays so well opposite Charles Laughton and to stand her own opposite such a great actor, she certainly had to had been a Great Talent. And those hilarious scenes with Robert Cummings, fooling around in the Living Room of the House, running through all the furniture, chairs, sliding, etc.!
As for Deanna's retirement, I think I can understand her reasons/motifs as a human being. She lived the life of a first-magnitude star since very young, she had money, fame, the adoration of millions of fans, she achieved greatness...but most of it is not compatible (I believe) with a quiet, peaceful, happy, private life & marriage...and I think she wanted that (for a change). To raise a family far away from this "make-believe" world, and she succeeded completely (it seems). I think it was a good decision, 'cos every public performer/actor has to sacrifice too much for their careers'sake.
And after all, certain things like love, a mate/spouse, children, the capacity of leading a normal life, go shopping or just meet peacefully with friends at a Restaurant or attending a simple birthday party, are stuff that famous people cannot do "anonimously"...so we lost Deanna Durbin the "star"...but she won happiness (I think), something that cannot be bought with all the money/power in the world. Good for Ms. Durbin!
After all, her films are left as her "professional" legacy!
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Yes! And Maurice Chevalier is great in it too!
Hint 1: An orphan
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...And I'd love to see Nina Mae McKinney in "Hallelujah!" as well as Ethel Waters in "Cabin in the Sky"...Dorothy Dandridge, on the other hand, was a Goddess.
And speaking of beauties, in France the gorgeous and sexy Josephine Baker, a first-magnitude performer there, was featured as the star of movies like "Zou Zou" and "Princess Tam Tam" (both 1934), with white casts-she was top billed. I'd love to see her, she looks gorgeous in stills of those movies!
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Lena Horne, (was and still is) so beautiful, aristocratic and sophisticated, that she would have been a type of star like Hedy Lamarr or Gene Tierney, in fact I've read somewhere that she was dubbed the ebony or the sepia Hedy Lamarr, and above all, she had (and has a great voice). I can't get enough of her. Elegance and class, that's Lena.
And yes Mladysoul, Theresa Harris did made a great impression on me when she played Stanwyck's pal in "Baby Face", in fact I mentioned it in a capsule review of that movie I wrote at Amazon.
Mildred Washington, also impressed me in "Torch Singer" with Claudette Colbert, beautiful woman. I also saw her in "Blonde Venus" and "Bed of Roses".
And to speak of lovely, lovely Louise Beavers, not only she was great in "Imitation of Life" but her role in "No Time for Comedy" with Roz Russell and Jimmy Stewart, was just short of sensational. In "Bombshell" she was great too.
And Paul Robeson's powerful voice, talent and screen-presence in both "The Emperor Jones" and "King's Solomon Mines"!!!
One of the funniest roles of the decade (in the '30s) was Hattie McDaniel's (hilarious) in the 1935 "Alice Adams"; the dinner scene was completely stolen by her skill, I could not stop laughing!
Mae West was a performer that cast to very good advantage, black actresses in her films of the early 1930's; in spite of the fact that they were mostly featured as maids (Libby Taylor, Hattie, Gertrude Howard, Louise Beavers), the rapport between her and them was more that of pals than maids, the wisecracks were just great and made for some of the most funny scenes of films such as "Belle of The Nineties", "I'm No Angel" and "She Done Him Wrong"
And Freidi Washington was very beautiful and talented, she was very good in "Imitation of Life".
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"A New Kind of Love" with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman?? Love that film!
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Stumped....maybe "Sylvia Scarlett"??
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I wil be looking forward to reading St.Johns' sights on the Golden Era...I'm sure it's goin' to be very good!
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Thanks for the correction Mongo, I'm sure I'd read somewhere that information; maybe it was a publicity stunt pulled by MGM to attract moviegoers!
Anyway, glad she survived!
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Thanks for the recommendation Path...and you are right, "Trader Horn" is not to be missed too...in fact its leading lady Edwina Booth, died after she returned from Africa (filming on location), due to an illness/fever she caught while there. It also stars Duncan Renaldo, featured in Cindy's Trivia questions last week and Harry Carey. Much of the footage filmed for "Trader Horn", was used for tha later Tarzan pictures.
David Copperfield is another must, with Basil Rathbone at his most evil!!
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From your description, please check at www.us.imdb.com these three movies, although all of them are in color:
- "Jupiter's Darling" with Esther Williams (Never seen it).
- "Athena" with Jane Powell. I watched long ago, it maybe the one you're looking for.
- "Down to Earth" with Rita Hayworth as one of the Muses.
Hope you find it.
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Mandalay?
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Wonderful post Joe!
Ann Sheridan is one of my fave, either in Kings Row, The Opposite Sex, They Drive By Night , The Man Who Came to Dinner or Steel Town, the "Oomph Girl" was great. May she rest in peace now.
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Hi tokjat!
All the films you mention, being 1940's Paramounts seem to be owned by Universal Studios, so if TCM would want to schedule them, they'd have to lease or license them. And most (if not all) of those actors' most famous films, at least from the 1940s were made at Paramount (Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Howard Da Silva, Bendix, etc.)
I think that TCM has aired both "I married a Wicth" and "Sullivan's Travels", starring Vero Lake. Look up for them.
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Welcome!! I'm so glad it has been useful for most of you.
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Yes MovieJoe, as always we do agree! And yes Davies was a wonderful and gifted comedienne, too bad Hearst envisioned her only playing historical figures like "Marie Antoinette" (he also wanted her for that role, over Shearer!!) or "Elizabeth Barrett". I have to say, that as a child I also liked Jennifer Jones in the 1957 version, and John Gielgud's Mr.Barrett had a more restrained quality than Laughton's more "openly evil" Moulton Barrett, incredible that he was almost Norma's same age and played her father convincingly.
Realizing about the two movies' connections (both versions of "Barretts...") both of them were directed by Sidney Franklin, one of Shearer's favorite directors, in fact I've read that the 1957 film was almost a scene by scene remake of the Shearer vehicle. Both stars Shearer and Jones were married to the films' producers, Thalberg and Selznick, respectively, and both were criticized in her careers for not being good actresses, in the opinion of some critics.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read somewhere that Thalberg had one of Katharine Cornell's performances (on Broadway?) of the stage play upon which was based the movie, filmed, in order that Shearer could sort of "base" her performance on hers...if true, Shearer for sure did her homework!
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I'm sure I read here at the TCM site (when they aired "Safety Last") that it was Harvey Parry who did the stunts for the long shots Cindy.
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Was it Duke?
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Harvey Parry?
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...and I have to say sincerely, that IMHO, it's one of her best all-round performances, she's just perfect as Elizabeth Barrett-Browning...and to think William Randolph Hearst wanted Marion Davies as the poetess!
Shearer conveys the ethereal qualities of the famedpoetess at close-perfection; her scenes are most believable and she shines like a queen in this photoplay. Charles Laughton as her tortured father is the other pillar of the film...he's sadistic, mean, jealous, egotistical, great...his persona was so perfectly suited for these type of roles, I liked him very much too as Javert in "Les Miserables" and as Captain Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty", roles that have reminiscences of Mr. Barrett. Fredric March is good too as Robert Browning and Maureen O'Sullivan great as Henrietta, Elizabeth Barrett's younger sister. Kudos too for the marvelous Una O'Connor as Shearer's maid "Wilson", she's on of the most funny & charming character actresses of all time.
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in Saving Private Ryan?
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...and Bette Davis, Jack Nicholson, Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman??
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