LonesomePolecat
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Cagney, James
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Queen Guinevere - Vanessa Redgrave in CAMELOT
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OMG!! HE'S SO HAWT!!! TEAM WILLIAM POWELL!!!
But, seriously, I find this excellent news.
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Nothing Sacred
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Walter Slezak was in LIFEBOAT with Hume Cronyn
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now, or ever? if it's ever, well, Gene Kelly of course! I don't care if he's hard to work with, it's WORTH IT!
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How Green Was My Valli
(a remake of C Bogle's How Green Was My Vallee, which is a remake of the 1941 classic)
The story of the Welsh mining family is remade into a 1960s rock musical starring Frankie Valli as the little boy and his Four Seasons as his family. As they all come back from the mines they sing hits like "Can't Take My Mines Off Of You" and "Mine Like a Man". Remember that hit song he sings to his sister in law:
"Sherry baby, Sherry baby
Won't you come to the mine?
Why don't you come on with your jumpsuit on
Ooo, and your miner's hat
Come on, we'll ride the mine car
Girl, you found that coal like that!
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She's so great in *Lured* and it's so under-appreciated too. Probably that one.
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I adore the two red "santa" dresses at the end of White Christmas, but I adore Edith Head anyway
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Busby Berkeley?
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Queen, Steve Mc
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Juno and the Paycock
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from The Pink Panther Strikes Back:
LADY: "But that's a priceless Steinway!"
CLOUSEAU: "Not anymore"
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Audrey Hepburn in "Gigi"?
Note: if I'm right, the thread is open because I'm out of town all week
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Virginia Mayo was in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES with Dana Andrews
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I know what you mean about DVD. I have LOTS of movies on VHS that are not on DVD yet. They are phasing out VCRs so quickly that this scares me too. The nice thing about DVDs is that computers can play them, but we shouldn't be releasing stuff on evil BluRay (I hate the HD revolution--makes regularly filmed things look stupid) until we've released everything else, or anyway found some way to let people access those classics once our VCRs die. (I hope that doesn't happen). Time goes by too fast. Can't we just enjoy our technology? Must we progress for progress' sake?
Anyway, it makes me think of that little moment in Men in Black in which Tommy Lee Jones holds up a 1" disc that will revolutionize the way we listen to music, but his comment sums it all up very well: "Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again."
Now I feel pretty stupid about that first paragraph. I may delete this tomorrow, so laugh at my tirade now. Oh well.
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Sorry if it's been mentioned, but I think one of the greatest endings in all cinema is *CITY LIGHTS* . It's so simply done. She touches his hand, realizes who he is, and now can see he's not rich and made huge sacrifices to get her eye surgery. I forget exactly what the "dialogue" is there, but she indicates that she knows who he is. He says, "You can see." She says, "Yes. I can see." It's SO BEAUTIFUL!!
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TCM, can I legally marry you right now? This is excellent news. I can't wait til October!
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Seriously, a cracking great film. So awesome. One of the world's most gripping beginnings.
Interesting to see such three dimensional Nazis from the man (Wilder) who would later show us such cartoony Nazis in *Stalag 17*. Probably because *Cairo* was made during the war, and since his parents both died in concentration camps, and his country was in peril, the Nazis were nothing to laugh about, but by the 50s we had won already and it had been long enough. Plus Stalag is based on a play, so he didn't create those Nazis. Anyway, that's a long way to say that you won't see many Nazis portrayed like they are in this awesome movie.
RELEASE IT ON DVD ALREADY!!!!!
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You know, I've shown these movies to kids and they loved them--even ones we think are too slow for them. LOVED them. Kids have always had "no attention span" (if only purely because an hour to them is a greater percentage of their lives than it is for an adult or even teenager). For me the only thing I worry about for kids is if the content is too adult, but not if the filmmaking is too panderous. These days kids are just expected not to want to pay attention so the movies and shows they make for them are fast paced and have no thought put into them (other than Pixar and few others). Kids resent being treated like kids, seriously, and I think that reflects in movies. So I don't think we should "talk down" to kids by only picking movies with quick cuts and such. You'd be surprised what their favorite movies are.
Of course it depends on the kid, and how old they are when they start watching classics, but generally I've never had a problem with entertaining kids with movies that have bored adults.
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I just came on here to say Una Merkel. You read my mind
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Quiet Man, The
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Uncle Pumblechook - Forrest Harvey in GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1934)
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Son of Paleface
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