ArmandDuval
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X-27, Spy
Marlene Dietrich - Dishonored
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Miriam Hopkins
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Recently, it would have to be The Labyrinth. I was on a fantasy kick. Not thinking there were ANY good modern fantasy films, I saw an ad for The Golden Compass. I really liked it. So, then I bought Star Dust. It was fantastic. Then, I remembered seeing ads for The Labyrinth. So, I went out and bought it. Well, my gosh, it was a horror film. The fantasy was grotesque, the reality was so inhumane and brutal, and the story so outrageously bizarre, I can't say enough bad things about this film, which by the way was hailed as brilliant!
From what I read over on the Slumdog Millionaire thread, it is much like The Labyrinth, an excuse to film unbelievably graphic violence (in order to produce shock and revulsion) balanced against love, hope and happiness. I probably will never see it. This new formula for films I find disturbing to say the least!
I am going to quietly retreat back to the golden age where they don't bite the heads off of fairies!
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Katharine Hepburn
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Vantine
Jean Harlow - Red Dust
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Ina Claire
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Errol Flynn
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Rick Blaine
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
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This is one of my all time favorites! I have had it on VHS for years, but I watch it again last night. It is right up there with The Shop Around the Corner for Sullivan films. She certainly wasn't a great beauty, but she certainly could carry a film all by herself. It was a great supporting cast. Reginald Owens could do it all! He was superb in this as a crazy man!
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I know. I went through the same kind of thing with her. But, like you said, she's got IT. And, now I watch her with the same relish I do Crawford, whom I disliked for YEARS but now find irresistible! Funny, those gals who were box office poison didn't seem to fade with time in the eyes of our modern groupies. Garbo, Dietrich, Hepburn, Crawford, Davis are all Hot Properties today!
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I don't understand it either. You don't get that with Colbert, Loy, or Lombard. But, I guess you do get it with Hepburn. Many an argument has broken out over her.
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My top five guys:
Tyrone Power
Errol Flynn
Cary Grant
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Burt Lancaster
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Well, I REALLY like Kate, too. I recently saw a movie of hers with Cameron Diaz about changing houses from L.A. to England. She was really good.
Now, as for Garbo, you may most certainly join the Cult but beware; there are more ney sayers on her than yea sayers! Ha! So many people think she is over-rated, as if that is possible! Maybe by today's standards, but as one fellow poster said to me, you have to put yourself back in her heyday. There was no one who even came close to the frenzy she created.
And, I find it ironic that Bergman, another Swede, was held in such high regard that she is lauded right along side Garbo as "one of the greatest of all time!" And, they are both in the top five of the film institute's list. All of those people, figuring out who was who in the firmament of Hollywood's history, and they put both of them in the top five. Hmmm, makes you think they really are the tops!
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Claudette Colbert
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Omar
Victor Mature - Shanghai Gesture
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I commend you on your list Vertigo22, with the exception of Kate Winslet, who for my taste is WAY too new for a Turner Classic Movie list.
But, you have Garbo and Bergman! Garbo was voted #1 greatest silent movie actress, and Berman #1 greatest sound actress by Time magazine. They are also in the top FIVE of the American Film Institute coming in #4, Bergman, and #5, Garbo, as the greatest actresses of all time. The Swedes have it!
My top five:
Greta Garbo
Jean Harlow
Marlene Dietrich
Hedy Lamarr
Norma Shearer
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Anna May Wong
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Marty
Ernest Borgnine - Marty
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Veronica Lake
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Karin
Greta Garbo - Two-Faced Woman
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Olive Thomas
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Bijou
Marlene Dietrich - Seven Sinners
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Lena Horne
Movie cars?
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Hey Kid, that is none other than Marlene Dietrich driving that Auburn Speedster Supercharger!