LonesomePolecat
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No, I am a huge "Seven Brides" fan, and that is one of my favorite numbers from the movie. But there are so many. I did pick the name out of love.
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Cactus Flower Drum Song
next: Go
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To get back to Musicals, then, I was watching the American Masters ep about Jerome Robbins and I remembered a musical number that I adore more than pretty much any other musical number:
The bottle dance in *Fiddler on the Roof* --gets me every time!
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Xanadu
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"You're pregnant?! Oh, honey, I hope it looks just like me!"
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What about Gene Kelly? A great actor, not just a musical performer.
Dick Powell is a good one to discuss. He got better as the years went on. In the early years he was pretty stagey and awful (Gold DIggers, 42nd Street, Midsummer's, etc), but starting, I think, with Christmas in July, he becomes a much better actor. I guess he just needed experience and a good director, eh?
Fred Astaire is kind of the same way. His early acting isn't very good, but later on he does better and better, so by the time he's in On the Beach he's a good actor who doesn't have to sing or dance to be cast in a film. (Though why waste him like that?)
On that, a person with a lovely singing voice, in fact a professional singer, who did a great job acting, IMHO, was Petula Clark, who was the lead opposite Fred Astaire in Finian's Rainbow. I was surprised at how good she was.
And a "singer" who can't act? Esther WIlliams.
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And don't forget the famous dance duet with Shirley Temple and Bojangles (right?) in "The Littlest Rebel". That's somewhere in the 30s. I think it's shown in either "That's Entertainment" or "That's Dancing." (I'm full of certainty today).
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I was also wondering why Westerns were so polarizing. I was actually surprised to learn that there are still enough people who like westerns to have Encore Westerns. I personally love them, but a lot of people my age don't. Strange.
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I too am including a made-up movie. I'm using it as a way to remake a real movie that should have been better, and could have been. But you'll see. Mine will be up soon, as soon as I decided on which schedule to post.....
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I actually got sucked into The Heiress when it was on TV recently, having not seen it in YEARS. Brilliant movie, and appropriate for Oscar month. I don't feel like it's shown to death, but then I guess any movie would seem like it's been shown to death if you don't want to see it more than once every few years.
Though we complain about Oscar month (yes, "we"--I don't like all the 70s, 80s, 90s, and especially 2000s movies, especially the R-rated ones), they wouldn't do it if it didn't get viewers. Maybe Oscar month pays for the other amazing 11 months. And, hey, they are showing several movies that they never show and that I am excited to tape (yes I still use a VCR) and add to my collection, like Amadeus and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990).
To paraphrase Lincoln, "You can please some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time."
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Trail of the Pink Panther
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Tinkerbell - from Disney's *Peter Pan*
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Maggie Smith has the best lines in the series. Parlly that's because she makes them the best lines with her amazing phrasing. "What is a week-end?"
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I ADORE the Marx Brothers!!! But not their films past Day at the Races.
I think they are so funny. Wordplay, slapstick, and musical humor! Hysterical, clever puns, innuendo, and instrument playing too. Oh how I love them.But I know lots of people that don't get the jokes, aka think the jokes are funny, so they hate them.
Therefore it would seem that the Marx Brothers polarize people, doesn't it? Interesting....
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1) Your favorite Fred & Ginger dance number? *I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket* from Follow the Fleet because they're being funny, which is a change, and Fred looks snappy in a sailor costume
2) Your favorite dancing partner for Gene Kelly? *Donald O'Connor* of course, but for females no one but *Cyd Charisse* dances as well as him for it to be fully satisfying
3) Your favorite Marx Brother musical number? *Freedonia's Going to War* from Duck Soup
4) Your favorite moment of singing in a film that is not a musical? Probably *The Man in the Flying Trapeze* from It Happened One Night
But if you don't count "Here Comes the Groom" as a musical (they sing a few times, but I don't know), then it's *In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening* with Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman, because it was all in one take, and it's a great song
5) Your favorite moment of dancing in a film that is not a musical?
The entire Gene Kelly segment, but especially *On Our Little Houseboat Built For Two* from "What a Way to Go" --- it's a parody of musical numbers, but it has two real dancers in it: Gene Kelly and Shirley MacLaine. It makes fun of lots of old musicals. Musically it mocks dubbing, Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald, and quotes other musicals: "Anchors aweigh and hit the deck, Louisa!". Dance-wise it also directly quotes from Singin' in the Rain. How appropo, since Gene is really dancing.
6) Favorite musical number not featuring Astaire or Kelly?
*Cool* from West Side Story
Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Feb 1, 2011 6:36 PM
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I didn't think it was all black and white like you said. I mean we hate O'Brien, and she seems pure evil, but right after she moves the soap, she looks in the mirror and says "This isn't you" and turns to prevent disaster. When it's too late she feels remorse. She isn't suddenly liked by everyone, but she has realized she can take her snideness too far, and that Thomas has been a bad influence.
Also, lady Mary, from the beginning a jerk who doesn't want to go into mourning for her fiance, starts rethinking her smugness and pride once she is humiliated.
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For the love of Pete, do some character actors, please!!!
Mildred Natwick
Ward Bond
Victor McLaghlen
guy kibbee
spring byington
etc etc etc
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Awesome. Thanks.
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I noticed that Miniver lifting too. And I know it was intentional, so I enjoyed it. I adored Downton Abbey, but, arg---cliffhanger!
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Ooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
I'm excited!
I hope everyone will join the fun. You'd be surprised how easy it is once you start to do it. And how fun. But I warn you----addicting. You find yourself watching movies thinking of ways it could fit with other movies, or thinking of filmmakers that never get featured, etc etc etc.
I always ask for the list of previous SOTMs, since I like to have an SOTM that's not been used before. But this time I found it myself. Just to help out, in case you were wondering, here's the list:
STAR OF THE MONTH:
May 1994: Greta Garbo
June 1994: Glenn Ford
July 1994: Greer Garson
Aug.1994: Edward G. Robinson
Sept.1994: Barbara Stanwyck
Oct.1994: Angela Lansbury
Nov.1994 John Garfield
Dec.1994:
Jan.1995: Esther Williams
Feb.1995: Ronald Reagan
Mar.1995:
Apr.1995: Doris Day
May 1995: Myrna Loy
June 1995: Errol Flynn
July 1995: G. Kelly (Gene or Grace?)
Aug.1995: Paul Muni
Sept.1995: Jane Powell
Oct.1995: Clark Gable
Nov.1995: Barrymores
Dec.1995: Bing Crosby
Jan.1996: Deborah Kerr
Feb.1996: Robert Young
Mar.1996
April 1996: Irene Dunne
May 1996: James Stewart
June 1996: Rosalind Russell
July 1996: Fred Astaire
Aug.1996: Ann Sheridan
Sept.1996: Van Johnson
Oct.1996: Kathryn Grayson
Nov.1996: Robert Mitchum
Dec.1996: Gary Cooper
Jan.97: Jean Arthur
Feb.97: Eleanor Parker
Mar.97: 31 Days of Oscar
Apr.97: Ava Gardner
May 97: George Brent
June 97: June Allyson
July 97: John and Walter Huston (also Director of the Month)
Aug.97: Cary Grant
Sept.97: Ida Lupino
Oct.97: Walter Pidgeon
Nov.97: Katharine Hepburn
Dec.97: Best of ?97
Jan.1998: Lana Turner
Feb.1998: Charlton Heston
Mar.1998:31 Days of Oscar
April 1998: Red Skelton
May 1998: Olivia de Havilland
June 1998: James Cagney
July 1998: Lucille Ball
August 1998: Joan Crawford
Sept.1998: John Wayne
Oct.1998: Cyd Charisse
Nov.1998: Claude Rains
Dec.1998: Best of ?98
Jan.1999: Elizabeth Taylor
Feb.1999: William Powell
March 1999: 31 Days of Oscar (probably)
April 1999: Dennis Morgan
May 1999: Bette Davis
June 1999: Mickey Rooney
July1999: Natalie Wood
August 1999: Peter Sellers
Sept.1999: Norma Shearer
Oct. 1999: Gregory Peck
Nov. 1999: Ginger Rogers
Dec. 1999: Burt Lancaster
Jan. 2000: Debbie Reynolds
Feb. 2000: Robert Ryan
March 2000: 31 Days of Oscars (probably)
April 2000: Spencer Tracy
May 2000: Alexis Smith
June 2000:Wallace Beery
July 2000: Judy Garland
August 2000: film debuts
Sept 2000: Jane Wyman
October 2000: Dick Powell
Nov 2000: Frank Sinatra
Dec. 2000: Lauren Bacall
Jan. 2001: Elvis Presley
Feb.2001: Jean Hagen
March 2001: 31 Days of Oscar (probably)
Apr.2001: Knighted Actors
May 2001: Jean Harlow
June 2001: W.C. Fields
July 2001: Ann Sothern
Aug.2001: James Garner
Sept. 2001: Robert Taylor
Oct. 2001: Lana Turner
Nov.2001: Glenn Ford
Dec.2001: The Marx Brothers
Jan. 2002: Marlene Dietrich
Feb. 2002: Kirk Douglas
March 2002: 31 Days of Oscar
April 2002: Barbara Stanwyck
May 2002: Edward G. Robinson
June 2002: Greta Garbo
July 2002: Sidney Poitier
Aug. 2002: Joan Crawford
Sept. 2002: Van Heflin
Oct. 2002: Final films
Nov. 2002: Shelly Winters
Dec. 2002: Montgomery Clift
Jan. 2003: Doris Day
Feb. 2003: John Garfield
Mar. 2003: 31 Days of Oscar
Apr. 2003: Harold Lloyd
May 2003: Olivia de Havilland
June 2003: TV Actors in Films
July 2003: Lee Marvin
Aug. 2003: 1st Summer Under the Stars (see below)
Sept. 2003: James Mason
Oct. 2003: Boris Karloff
Nov. 2003: Shirley MacLaine
Dec. 2003: David Niven
Jan. 2004: Katherine Hepburn
Feb.2004: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2004: Charles Chaplin
Apr. 2004: Judy Garland
May 2004: Greer Garson
June 2004: Cary Grant
July 2004: Stars That Died Before Their Time
Aug.2004: 2nd Summer Under the Stars (see below)
Sept.2004: Myrna Loy
Oct. 2004: Peter Lorre
Nov.2004: Clark Gable
Dec. 2004: James Stewart
Jan.2005: Canadian Actors
Feb. 2005: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2005: Claudette Colbert
Apr. 2005: Errol Flynn
May 2005: Orson Welles
June 2005: Ingrid Bergman
July 2005: Audrey Hepburn
Aug. 2005: 3rd Summer Under the Stars (see below)
Sept.2005: Greta Garbo
Oct.2005: Robert Mitchum
Nov.2005: Joan Fontaine
Dec. 2005: Bing Crosby
Jan. 2006: Robert Montgomery
Feb.2006: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2006: Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald
Apr.2006: Deborah Kerr
May 2006: Bette Davis
June 2006: Anthony Quinn
July 2006: Elizabeth Taylor
Aug.2006: 4th Summer Under the Stars (see below)
Sept.2006: William Holden
Oct.2006: Child Stars
Nov.2006: Lucille Ball
Dec. 2006: Gary Cooper
Jan.2007: Jean Arthur
Feb.2007: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2007: Gene Kelly
Apr.2007: Rita Hayworth
May 2007: John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn
June 2007: Ida Lupino
July 2007: Randolph Scott
Aug.2007: 5th Summer Under the Stars (see below)
Sept.2007: A Star is Born (starmaking/breakthrough performances)
Oct.2007: Henry Fonda
Nov.2007: Guest Programmer Month
Dec.2007: Irene Dunne
Jan.2008: James Cagney
Feb.2008: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2008: Acting Dynasties
Apr.2008: Hedy Lamarr
May 2008: Frank Sinatra
June 2008: Sophia Loren
July 2008: Rosalind Russell
Aug.2008: 6th annual Summer Under the Stars (see below)
Sept.2008: Kay Francis
Oct.2008: Carole Lombard
Nov.2008: Charles Laughton
Dec. 2008: Joseph Cotton
Jan. 2009: Jack Lemmon
Feb. 2009: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2009: Ronald Reagan
April 2009: Funny Ladies and 15th Anniversary
May 2009: Sean Connery
June 2009: Great Directors
July 2009: Stewart Granger
August 2009: Summer Under the Stars
Sept. 2009: Claude Rains
Oct. 2009: Leslie Caron
Nov. 2009: Grace Kelly
Dec. 2009: Humphrey Bogart
Jan. 2010: ?The Method?
Feb. 2010: 31 Days of Oscar
March 2010: Ginger Rogers
April 2010: Robert Taylor
May 2010: Donna Reed
June 2010: Natalie Wood
July 2010: Gregory Peck
August 2010: SUTS
Sept. 2010: Vivien Leigh
Oct. 2010: Fredric March
Nov 2010 Ava Gardner
Dec 2010 Mickey Rooney
Jan 2011 Peter Sellers
Feb 2011 31 Days of Oscar
(if anyone will go through March and April to divine the next ones, feel free to post)
GOOD LUCK!!
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How cool that Fiddler means so much to us all.
I now want to see that Murder She Wrote. I guess no matter what TV show or Movie you're doing, if you have a jury room as part of the story, you have to reference it somehow. I love the episode of Monk where Monk gets on a jury and they have very obvious quotes, like "There's always one" and "And we go into extra innings," with of course Monk being the one who says not guilty.
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hamradio, your Laserblast comments made me laugh. But I think we can agree that the biggest problem with that movie is that it exists.
Here's the movie done by MST3K: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uumSrL7X-U -
I guess 12 Angry Men is preachy, but to me it's just a great mystery. I don't even think about or notice the "message" aspect, only how the characters are revealed, how each one comes to the conclusion, and the usual funness of a whodunit. Every time I notice great character details.
(But I did almost say Seven Brides for movies that I never get sick of.)
Fiddler on the Roof is a show I did in community theater, too, which is part of my personal meaning.
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I'll need another hint then
[B]TCM's official definition of "classic"[/B]
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I think that's an awesome definition. As a young whippersnapper I have a very different view of what "new" is compared to others, and what "old" is. Like I remember someone saying nothing released after 1969 should be shown on TCM, but to me "Amadeus" (1984) is a classic movie. it's great, and it's old enough to have stood some kind of test of time. Then, to me, even newer than that is "Hunt for Red October" (1990 I think). Here again. Great, old enough to have been somewhere, and I don't remember it being released, so to me it's not a "new" movie. But to someone who saw "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Miracle on 34th Street" when they were brand new, 1990 is too recent. Or, hey, I go to church with a woman who just turned 109. This means she remembers Max Sennet comedies. To her, having seen the 1920s Ben Hur, the 1959 Ben Hur might be too new to be called a classic.
I also think foreign films have a whole other standard as far as time goes, and that's probably because, as the "definition" goes, it stands out in a special way. It has to to be seen in America out of all the great films from other countries.
Not that I want all 1990s and 2000s movies on TCM, or even very many very often, but, as it was said, "classic" is subjective.