feaito
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No idea, never seen any W.C. Fields movie yet...believe it or not....wild guess: "If I had a million"???..
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I love this movie, but couldn't log in 'cos I had too much work today!!...My fave episode is the first one starring Moira Shearer & James Mason....somewhat reminiscent of "The Red Shoes"???....and Leslie Caron's episode was also very magic...Ethel Barrymore was great too...Well...I'll go for another one:
Clue # 1: Lots of Letters
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Thanks for the info!! Wow, I love that movie!!!!
George Stevens was such a gifted director...he directed so many different types of films, which are all faves of mine....the great "Alice Adams" (1935), which has one of Kate Hepburn's most luminous performances (IMHO), the great adventure yarn "Gunga Din" (1939)...the greatest? teaming of Hpeburn & Tracy "Woman of the Year" (1942)...the Epic "Giant" (1956) with Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson & Jimmy Dean....the haunting "A Place in the Sun" (1951)...in which Taylor & Clift look as the greatest love-team ever!.....the dramatic "Penny Serenade" (1941) which has one of Cary Grant's greatest performances.... "Talk of the Town" (1942)... "Swing Time" (1936)...one of Astaire-Rogers best vehicles....
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Sidney Poitier in The defiant Ones?
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Hangmen also die?
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On second thoughts, I remember reading sth. of the sort regarding "My Man Godfrey"??....But Mrs. Miniver too had nominations in the four categories...and even more actors were nominated (5?)
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Mrs. Miniver?
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Yeah Zombi excellent feedback!!
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In the Gershwin biopic "Rhapsody in Blue", in which he played himself....BTW Monty Woolley also "played" himself in the Cole Porter biopic "Night and Day"....
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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...
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I'd like to know too, 'cos as far as I know it's still lost and only some exerpts survive....TCM programmer?
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I agree with you Cindy...gimme more 1930's...the most glorious time in Hollywood!!!
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Well it seems we all agree here!!! When Harlow asks Gable to "scrub my back", whe she's taking a shower in a barrel? it's a great moment...
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Welcome & thanks for the compliments Keith.
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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."
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I agree completely Path...But for me it was the other way round, I saw Mogambo first....You're right Mary Astor looks incredibly sexy and beautiful in the movie, as for Harlow, she's great, I love her..although I think Ava was "Physically speaking", more beautiful (I like dark-haired women, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney, etc...better)
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IMHO "Mogambo" is fine, but the Pre-Code "Red Dust" is better.
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BTW, which version do you like better Path & Cindy?
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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.
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I share the same feelings about Mongo & the Florida people, they've just had enough this year. I really hope Ivan will change its path or lose its strength.
I live far south, in South America, so we're still in Winter over here.
Glad to hear about your apartment, I think I'll have to do sth. smiliar with mine here too, in Summer, 'cos it needs painting, desperately!!!
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sorry "Austrian"
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I say it must be my beloved Luise Rainer...'cos Hedy Lamarr was Auatrian, but she doesn't fit...
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I've always loved "Moonglow"...such a sexy tune!...and Kim Novak & Wm. Holden ignited fire onscreen...
Trivia -- Week of September 13, 2004
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Yeah thanks Coffeedan!
And bravo Mary Lou, almost sure you got it!