The Lady Eve
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I'm not Florence Eldridge, though we were born in the same year!
I was Oscar-nominated for my fourth screen role, the lead in the Phillip Barry play *Holiday* - brought to the screen more than once. Not too many years later, Katharine Hepburn played the same role, Linda Seton, in the better known version of the film - but she didn't get an Oscar nomination for it!
I was established on Broadway when I signed a contract with Pathe - which soon became a part of RKO. As well as Fredric March, I starred with many other great leading men - Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Robert Montgomery and William Powell, with whom I'd appeared on the stage.
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Here's a quick one.
This pair of European actors appeared in nine films together over the years. They weren't exactly a team but sometimes seemed like they should have been. Both were excellent and colorful character actors. In addition, whenever the two appeared together it was very profitable for their studio. The two worked with a range of directors together, from John Huston to Don Siegel.
One of the two was credited with making this remark to Vincent Price at Bela Lugosi's funeral: "Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?"
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more about "me"...
I specialized in what would be called "chick flicks" today. Though I was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in movies with my patrician features and long blonde hair (usually worn up), I was stereotyped as the ?good woman.? Within a few years my popularity began to fade. I married a symphony conductor and left the movies for a time.
I co-starred with Fredric March in my first film, playing his wife. In one of my last films, made nearly 30 years later, I played his wife on the big screen for the last time.
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OK...I put the DVD on just so I could answer your question, dear Polecat...as mentioned, this tune is a theme, played intermittently throughout...
The song is first heard throughout the opening title/credit sequence. The very first bit of music, exotic land/snake charmer-ish, is not the song I mean - my song begins moments later, just as the snake begins placing the apples on the tree (three apples, each with a word of the title: *The Lady Eve* ) and plays till the sequence is finished and the music goes very briefly back to what was playing at the very beginning...and the movie begins...
The melody next plays when Hopsy and Jean are out on deck in the moonlight after her dad has tried to take him for $32k - and they walk to the bow of the ship. The song plays through this entire scene...
It plays again after Hopsy and Jean have broken up and he is moping around on deck - this time a slower more somber version...
and so on...
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*Macao* - with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell - airing tomorrow night (Monday), 11:45 eastern, 8:45 pacific...I'd like to see a solid day of Von Sternberg, I'd record them all...
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Edelman, Herb
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Yost - Keenan Wynn in *Point Blank*
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*The Birds* - Tweety gets even...
*Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?*
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Toto
Frank Morgan in *The Shop Around the Corner* or S.Z. Sakal in *Christmas in Connecticut*
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*Casino* - !
nw: convertible
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Rue McClanahan
Miranda Richardson role opposite Willem Dafoe (1994) Edith Piaf?s signature tune ?La ____ en Rose? Jackie Chan role in *The Forbidden Kingdom*, Lu ____ + Ivory?s filmmaking partner
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Sounds like *The Adventures of Robin Hood* to me...
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I was born in Texas to a career Army officer. We moved around the country and finally settled down in New York.
I attended one of "The Seven Sisters" colleges. After college I worked as a script reader.
I debuted on Broadway at the tender age of 20. It was a few years later that I made my first film, but in no time I was nominated for Best Actress. At the time I was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in movies.
Who am I?
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I'm not coming up with much so far...question...was he returning from WWII - or?
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*Compulsion* - Crazed Kid Killers!
Next: *The Last Picture Show*
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George Sanders was in *Foreign Correspondent* with *Robert Benchley* (and both were wonderful, I might add)
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*The Big Sleep* - another sister act...
*Kiss Me Deadly*
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*When Harry Met Sally*
nw: flapjacks
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LOL
Bette Davis...
George Brent or Herbert Marshall
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Jim2, it is *Double Harness* - a film that aired on TCM April 18 (first time I'd seen it) with William Powell and Ann Harding - directed by John Cromwell (whose adopted son is James Cromwell) who also directed *Since You Went Away* which was nominated for Best Picture, 1944.
By the way, Jim, I don't have such a fabulous memory that I have all the info I do on *Double Harness* tucked safely away in my head. My main reference (aside from having recently seen the film on TCM) for *Double Harness* was the TCM database.
Good work! The thread is yours!
(Metz44, good to hear from you again - good guess w/ *Dodsworth* )
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Robert Mitchum was in *Two for the Seesaw* with *Shirley MacLaine*
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*The Blue Dahlia*
William Bendix or William Demarest
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*Psycho*
nw: ebullience
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Nolan
(but you must admit that even tho a wierd one, Loy wasn't difficult)
Eric,Cole and Don
GENERAL TRIVIA QUESTION THREAD
in Games and Trivia
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Not Lee and Cushing this time. These two were not particularly known for "horror" genre films, though both did play killers.
The two starred in a couple of HUGE Warner Bros. classics of the early 40's. One of the gentlemen was British, a former brewery manager who got the acting bug. The other fellow was born in Austria-Hungary, was a student of Freud in his youth, and went on the stage in his teens. Some of his best known earlier work was with Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock.
Each is extremely distintinctive in his own way...