feaito
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You are gonna laugh...I'm always with film on my mind...Dodsworth?
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I answered the Trivia question in a rush and didn't read you first post Coffee,sorry... have an excellent time in Florida and happy birthday to your mam? (that's how we call our mothers here in my country).
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You are so right Mary Lou...since "It's a Wonderful World" is also scheduled for Claudette Colbert's Tribute, as Star of the Month in March, I'm gonna copy-paste a review a I wrote on another site of this wonderful & grand screwball comedy:
Extremely funny madcap comedy starring two of the greatest stars of the classic period of American film: tongue-in-cheek Claudette Colbert and good fella Jimmy Stewart.
Stewart plays a detective on the run, who's being chased by the police, because of his involvement as an accessory in a murder case, in which the principal accused is his client. Colbert is a poetess who `accidentally' gets involved in Stewart's escapade from the cops, reluctantly at first, eventually becoming a runaway herself and falling in love with Stewart, and causing him a lot of trouble in the process. Her character is joy to behold and is hilariously played with top expertise by this gifted comedienne, in one of the last original screwballs from the '30s.
This movie is a wonderful example of classic Hollywood comedy at its best, with top performances all around, by seasoned pros (Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, et al). It's non-stop fun from start to finish, and by the way, Stewart plays a much rougher guy than his usual more likeable persona in this period -he even gets the chance of knocking around Colbert. It's a pity that it's not available on VHS or DVD. You may have the luck of watching it on TCM.
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Ramon Novarro?
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The Sleep Tite Pajama?
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Thanks again Mary Lou.
...No material possessions could ever save LB from having to live as himself. I'm certainly grateful I don't have to live as such a person
Antar...Hence you have discovered and unveiled the reason of the "why me?"...congrats!
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Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront
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Thanks Mary Lou...you're as sweet as always. If only, there were less "fleas" in one's ear...
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Thanks Pete I've been thinking of it for a while as I've been doing too about the set that includes "Out Of the Past" and "Detour"...but then, the "Classic Comedies" set came out with "Bringing Up Baby" et al, and I bought it on Pre-Order:).
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Getting back to Claudette Colbert, as MovieJoe and Path have stated, Tovarich is must-see-film, I wrote this somewhere else, hope it's useful:
Tovarich means Comrade
Delightful sophisticated `continental' comedy (kind of a `reverse' Ninotchka), so entertaining indeed, that when it ends you have the feeling that it moved along too swiftly, keeping you wanting at least 30 minutes more of film!
French born actors, Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert work together wonderfully well, under Anatole Litvak's very good direction, in this engaging comedy, based upon a french play adapted by Robert E. Sherwood himself, about two penniless members of the highest rank Russian nobility (escaped from the 1917 Russian Revolution) currently living in Paris, who masquerade as commoners in order to be hired as servants of an aristocratic household, full of sort-of-zany and bizarre characters.
Isabel Jeans and Melville Cooper are perfectly cast as the aristocratic couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dupont, who hire them, absolutely unaware of their new butler's and maid's pedigrees. Basil Rathbone, as always, gives an excellent performance as Comissar Gorotchenko, a very `special' guest at a lavish dinner party arranged by the Duponts, one of the funniest (and at the same time, most dramatic) sequences of the movie.
Boyer and Colbert are so utterly charming that one does not wonder why the Duponts and both, their daughter and son, are completely conquered and taken by the `undercover' Royal Russians, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Boyer) and Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov (Colbert), known by them as Michel & Tina.
This was the third and last pairing of its leading stars, who had previously worked together successfully at Paramount Pictures, in `The Man From Yesterday' (1932) and `Private Worlds' (1935).
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Thanks Pete..I think I'll buy it alone, 'cos I'm not interested in "Yankee Doodle Dandy", I saw it once, and that's ok...although I love James Cagney, but I prefer him in his 1930's films. As for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", it is another great film.
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I didn't know that..in which box set is Robin Hood included??
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Donald Crisp in Lassie come Home?
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Wonderful news edg., Only I wished it would have included "The Adventures of Robin Hood" too.
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Yes, Venerados was in first with that answer.Congrats
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Oklahoma!-Gloria Grahame
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You will have a kick out of it Keith! The original film ("The Sign of Th Cross"), minus the cuts it underwent for its re-release after the Production Code was enforced and without that WWII Prologue too! Ankaria's (Joyzelle) complete sexy-pagan dance to naive christian girl Elissa Landi...Don't miss it again pal!
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The Oomph Girl-Ann Sheridan-in "Juke Girl"
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Lord and Lady Ferncliffe?
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James Coburn in The Magnificent Seven?
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C.Aubrey Smith as a priest to Domini Elfinden (Marlene Dietrich) in "The Garden of Allah".
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Another guess that comes to mind due to his later casting in the classic "All About Eve": George Sanders?
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Paramount on Parade
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Liza Minnelli in "Cabaret"?
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