feaito
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Once again agree: "Holiday" is fantastic! ...."The More the Merrier", great!!! "Easy Living", haven't seen it....but I've been on the verge of buying the second hand out of print copy of the VHS, many times....and "The Human Comedy", never seen it, but I've heard it's good!
What about "Summer Holiday"? Never seen it, but heard that it's primer Rouben Mamoulian stuff with Rooney at his best....and "Midnight", "Bringing Up Baby", "My Man Godfrey", "True Confession", "Hands across the Table"......
"Talk of the Town" is another little gem from the '40s, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"...great fun...there are so many....but "Remember the Night" is SO special...like "The Lady Eve" or "Sullivan's Travels"....Have you seen "Without Reservations"? another good pic...
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I don't know what's goin' on with these boards, this week, but I've been "bumped out" permanently!! On both computers, my office's and my home PC!
Well "J", I promise to check at night, now I must rush to get to work on time! See You!
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I agree edge..and I've bought many Criterion editions; "Trouble..", "Lady Eve", "The Most Dangerous Game", "Sullivan's Travels", "My Man Godfrey"....but I also read on some thread here, or maybe at Amazon.com...that the their Edition of Von Sternberg's "Scarlet Empress" was inferior and more "blurry", than the print Universal released on Videotape, previously....Maybe Universal is "withholding" the "better" prints for "future dvd releases"...who knows?..and I read about the "Trouble..." DVD edition, both here and at Amazon (customers).....On the other hand Lady Eve, Godfrey, The Most Dangerous Game and Sullivan, are good....well Criterion's pretty expensive anyway....Kino's relases have always been uniformly excellent.
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Agree absolutelly..."Remember the Night" is a must-see. I bought the VHS, and I'm going to watch again!!! Good idea you gave me, bbgalaxy!
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bbgalaxy... I love musicals..."Silk Stockings", "The Band Wagon", "Funny Face", etc...but, as well, I've never been interested in the R&H you mentioned: "South Pacific", "Carousel" and, the previously mentioned "Oklahoma"...I think the only R & H I like currently, is "The King & I".
I think that I prefer movie musicals, rather than Broadway-musicals transferred to the screen.....Notwithstanding "Kiss Me Kate"....which I love, well any Cole Porter stuff I love....maybe except Can-Can, which was Ok, but not my cup of tea....Well "Gigi" would be another exception.
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A sort of "downbeat" but great (foreign) film I can recommend is the brazilian "Central Station"....An unprententious movies that IMHO is what films should be all about...you notice the director, Walter Salles, put his "heart" on it...Fernanda Montenegro's performance (A.A. Nominated) is heart-wrenching...so is the little kid's...
I've also noticed that my dislike of the movie has to do with the "time of the day" when one actually watches the film....for example...when many years ago I rented the Vietnamese done "The Scent of the Green Papaya"...I knew that if I had watched it late at night, it would had been "disastrous"....most oriental films (not karate or Manga) tend to be very introspective and full with "silences" and much complex "subtexts", thus very poetic in a way....I watched it intentionally early in the morning, and I just loved it.
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On the other hand...oddly enough...the Criterion print of "Trouble in Paradise", seems of inferior quality(IMHO) than the one that TCM has aired....
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I used to love "the Sound of Music", "My Fair Lady", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Wizard of Oz"....but don't know why I cannot watch them anymore...and dislike them now ??? and I really was very fond of them!
On the other hand, although always thought Brando a great, great actor...never liked "On the Waterfront", "The Wild One", "The MEn", "A Streetcar Named Desire". "Las Tango In Paris"...although terrific landmark films....cannot LIKE them....It's weird but I did Like Brando in "lesser" stuff like "Desiree" or "Julius Caesar"....and in the great musical "Guys and Dolls",....the other movie I hated instantly, don't know why...maybe the characters were way too nasty.... was "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf"...although Taylor and Burton gave astounding performances...well deserved Oscar Liz....don't explain myself the intense dislike... OTOH "Liked" Liz a lot in "Cat on a hot tin roof".....well one cannot explains one's tastes or contradictions....I used to loathe Tom Hanks...and then I watched him in "Road to Perdition"...and he gave such a tremendous performance,,,,that I bow before him now...also loved his "Catch me if you can".....sometimes we get sort of prejudiced? against certain actors or styles....dont know....
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I think they're gems of the 1940's...little known...and I'd love to watch them:
"The Constant Nymph" with Joan Fontaine and Charles Boyer
"Letter from an Unknown Woman" with Fontaine and Louis Jourdan
"Madonna of the 7 Moons" with Phyllis Calvert
"Frenchman's Creek" with Fontaine
"The Confidential Agent" with Bacall and Boyer
"Cluny Brown" with Boyer and Jennifer Jones
"Tender Comrade" with Ginger Rogers....Also "Tales of Manhattan" and "Flesh and Fantasy"
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I own the Bachelor Apt VHS, and I laughed very much with Mae Murray's impersonation of the mischevious and flirtatious wife, who's buggin' Lowell Sherman...also in it Claudia Dell, a virginal Irene Dunne, Lester Vail?...I get mixed with the 1931 "Consolation Marriage" with Dunne, Pat O'brien adn Myrna Loy,...not as funny or risqu? as "Bachelor" but worthwhile too...
I feel the same about "Jazz Mania", "Altars of Desire", "The Masked Bride", "Valencia"....I'd love to watch them...Also "The Exquisite Sinner" with Ren?e Ador?e...those pictures sound so intriguing....
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Thanks for the great insight and info Spencer...and may I add that I like very much your "handle"...being Spencer Tracy one of my fave actors...and being 1964, the year when my beloved wife was born...on February 29th!
Well I do agree with your picks: "Test Pilot", "Random Harvest", "Greed"....must haves!!!
About what your say...I've been noticing, with much pleasure, that TCM is indeed borrowing more and more stuff from Universal (1930's Universals and, especially, Paramounts!!!): "Bride of Frankenstein", "Frankenstein", "Invisible Man", "Midnight", "Love Me Tonight", "Design for Living", "The Smiling Lieutenant", etc....and hope they'll obtain and air more of them!!
As for "A Man's Castle"...I'd love to watch that one starring Tracy & Loretta Young, as far as i know its a Columbia release, so maybe TCM can get it????....And talking 'bout 1933 and Tracy....His Fox "The Power and the Glory" with Colleen Moore would be lovely to watch too...I'd love to watch many early 30's Fox and United Artists "Berkeley Square"....they already will show "Cavalcade"???....and "Secrets"...lovely Borzage picture...and the many times mentioned by myself, Loretta Young-Gene Raymond Romantic pic "Zoo in Budapest"....I've heard they're shown seldomly on Fox Channel...but TCM, being the most important classics network, could manage to obtain those ones??? It'd be DE-lovely
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Enchanted Island?
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He was an actor...a young lad then in 1954...the blond young guy of the movie...
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Robert Francis in Caine Mutiny?
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Yes "J" you nailed it!!!!...I also watched it once too...here at TCM, by "request" introduced by R. Osborne...what a funnt & lavish movie....sad it was so "butchered" by the censors!!!
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Sorry, "his" new Lover...
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Nope J...That one belongs to the XVIIth Century...When the great grand father of this King was reigning in France....
Extra Clue # 9: He gives her new Lover a Palace or a Chateau
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Nope..
You were in the right "path" with Marie Antoinette....
Clue # 9: XVIIIth Century France
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Nope...
Clue # 8: A Happy-go-lucky King
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Gary Cooper in Sergeant York
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Bogart in The Maltese Falcon
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VERY CLEVER REPLY M.L....SMART LADY
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The talented Robert Cumming's in Hitchcock's genial thriller "Saboteur"...This great actor also starred in the film which contained Mr. Reagan's greatest performance "Kings Row"....great movie....I'd like to have the chance of watching Cummings opposite Jean Arthur in what they say is a "grrreaattt" film: "The Devil and Mrs. Jones"...what about a Robert Cummings Tribute??
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Clue # 7: Close indeed "J", but No...One player of the movie you mention also acted in this film
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"J"...well, I looked at it, and since he's not facing the camera (he's sort of looking down), I cannot tell for sure...he's got a similar nose than George Raft...I don't recall watching pics of Mr. DeSylva...so I don't know if it's him, but I do know that Frances Farmer had two Paramount Pictures released in 1941, "World Premiere" and "Among the Living", so one of them might have been filmed at the same time than "The Lady Eve"...so maybe that's a photo of that Studio's Comissary...both those pictures were produced by Sol C. Siegel...so it might be him...or maybe one of the films directors, Ted Tetzlaff or Stuart Heisler...'cos he doesn't seem to be any actor I know (in spite of having a similar nose than that of Georgie Raft).