[A to Z of Characters]

Upjohn, Peregrin - John Williams in Dear Brigitte

[A to Z of Characters]

Upjohn, Peregrin - John Williams in Dear Brigitte

[Filmdom's Greatest Fatmen.]

I love all the ones mentioned, but didn't see STUBBY KAYE, so I have to mention him

[LISTS]

Don't remember seeing this thread before, I don't know why. I love making lists. I'll make my first one for my top favorite actors (male)

 

1. Alec Guinness

2. Jack Lemmon

The rest are in no order at all:

James Cagney

William Powell

Alan Arkin

Ward Bond

Takashi Shimura

Toshiro Mifune

Thomas Mitchell

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Tony Shalhoub

Alan Rickman

Lionel Barrymore

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Christmas in Connecticut

[Heads up: "Night Train to Munich"]

There is an amazing movie at last set to premiere on June 1st: *Night Train to Munich* . This is a very exciting movie about WWII set during the war. It's British made. Margaret Lockwood, our friend from *The Lady Vanishes* , is once again fighting Nazis on a train, and so are our cricket fans from the same movie, Charters & Caldicott. This time, though, Rex Harrison is our hero and Paul Heinreid is our villain, and it's not directed by Hitch, but by a different master of cinema, Carol Reed. It's full of excitement, tense moments, spies, romance, and lots of humor. I hope everyone will tune in for it or DVR it if you're smart:

 

Wed. June 1st (next week) at 9:45pm ET (6:45pm PT)

 

Here's the imdb page for this amazing movie (which I can't make a hyperlink because the website no longer put up the formatting cheat sheet on the right side that tells me how)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032842/

 

(PS - I scheduled this movie in my TCM Programming Challenge Schedule a few times until they finally premiered it---- it works! So I hope you will all join the upcoming challenge to put a bid in for what you want to see on TCM.)

[*A to Z of Movies*]

(The) Yearling

[A to Z of Characters]

Quincy, Emmett- Jeremy Slate in TRUE GRIT (1969)

[The 19th TCM Programming Challenge Is Coming!]

"Easy", eh? You have my brain spinning trying to guess.

[Strange Casting Decisions with Wonderful Results]

I have to second Bogie in SABRINA. He is amazing in that part, completely believable, for once is allowed not to play "the tough guy" (well, he's tough, but not in the same way), and certainly is not the obvious choice.

[Tuesday May 24 11:15AM EST *Camelot* (1967)]

Guinevere? Innocent? Naive perhaps, but I don't know. But it's true that anyone who is a good enough actor or actress can act their way out of not being a trained singer, since singing is mostly acting. As for Julie, well, here again, having never had a chance to see Julie as Guinevere, who knows, though she was supposed to have been awesome.

[What does she see in him?]

Isn't that funny about Gary Cooper -- yeah, to me, he's a good everyman but not attractive, and yet he was a notorious ladies man. WHY?! Well, tastes change, I guess.

 

William Powell does, I think, have so much personality and wit that it makes up for the fact that he's not an Adonis. But then most women appreciate a man that can make her laugh.

[A to Z of Characters]

Johnson, Mrs - Olivia De Haviland in LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

[Films That Look Like They Were Made by Other Directors]

Yeah, Bad & the Beautiful does look like Wilder.

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

[Cartoon Alley]

I've seen classic looney toons on cartoon network, but not classic MGM cartoons. I've been watching my new Droopy DVD set also missing Cartoon Alley. How awesome it was.

[Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie]

Virginia Mayo was in A SONG IS BORN with the amazing Danny Kaye

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Kismet

[Tuesday May 24 11:15AM EST *Camelot* (1967)]

Camelot has a fantastic score, but if only Vanessa could sing. Just think how good Julie Andrews would have been. But Richard Harris is fantastic, I must say.

 

I would also recommend the stage version done for TV in the '80s, also with Richard Harris.

[Films That Look Like They Were Made by Other Directors]

"Gaslight" looks like Hitch but it's actually Cukor

 

"My Fair Lady" looks like Minnelli but it's also Cukor

 

"The Bad and the beautiful" does NOT look like Vincente Minnelli, though I don't know who exactly it looks like

[You know you are addicted to TCM if...]

You know you're addicted to TCM if ....

 

...you can do the entire "Singin' in the Rain" dance... and "Moses Supposes"... and "Good Morning"

[What does she see in him?]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Bogie was miscast-- he totally rocks the films. I'm wondering about the countless women in the film who throw themselves at him based on his looks. That seems so strange to me.

[What does she see in him?]

Just watching THE BIG SLEEP on TCM, wondering why all those women throw themselves at Humphrey Bogart. I think he's a fabulous screen presence, but not a sex symbol or anything. Why?!

 

There are other actors that are supposed to be good looking or attractive that I also think, "WHY?" such as Peter Lawford and Van Johnson.

 

Any people you watch in a movie that are supposed to be attractive, but aren't?

[Poorly planned double features at the local cinema]

The Innocents

Innocents Abroad

[Little Woman]

Everyone's going to stone me to death for saying this, but, I'm sorry, the 1994 version is my favorite. I think it's written really well, beautiful art direction and costumes and all that, gorgeous location shots of those awesome New England leaves, and that music is so gorgeous. And it's the only one that makes me cry when Beth dies.

 

Edited by: LonesomePolecat on May 20, 2011 2:08 AM