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    I Just Watched...

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    3 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:

    Everything about Gene in Laura is exquisite.  I mean, seriously, even the hats.

     

    Gene Tierney in Laura 1944

    I agree with  this.  One thing I love about Laura is just the look of the film.  It is a beautiful looking film.

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    I Just Watched...

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    9 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:

    Yes, she seems to favour those silly drooping hats. Only someone as beautiful as Gene Tierney could get away with them.  I think here's the one you were referring to:

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    But she also wears another droopy hat in another scene, I think Shelby(Vincent Price) even says he "approves" of it !

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    I think I was specifically thinking of the gingham looking hat in the second picture; but yes, only Gene Tierney could get away with either of these hats.

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    I Just Watched...

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    6 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:

    LAURA

    Watched it last night on TCM in real time.  I've seen "Laura" many times, I own the DVD, I wrote an essay about it once.  I don't seem to get tired of this movie.  I have noticed, with subsequent viewings, that there are a lot of funny aspects to it--funny as in, make me laugh.  All the characters lie their heads off, even when it's not necessary.  Vincent Price is hilarious, I love him.  And how come Waldo Lydecker has a bathtub in the middle of his living room?   When Waldo and Laura go to Ann Treadwell's apartment to confront Shelby  (Price), there he is, having coffee and muffins (or something) with Ann, cool as a cucumber.  For some reason I find that scene, and several others in "Laura", really funny.  This is not to say that I don't take the film seriously, I also really like it as a mystery /detective story, and as a very early noir (sort of.)

    It's the performances of every one involved that make it so entertaining, that, plus the lush elegant drawing room settings (not very noirish !)  and all that rain.  This movie is like an old friend to me.

    I love Laura. I also own a copy.  I also think it's really funny, especially Waldo.  I love his bathtub in the living room.  It always fascinates me when people in old movies are doing other activities in their bathtub, even ones involving paper! If I tried typing on a typewriter like Waldo does, my article (or whatever he's writing) would be a soggy mess by the end. Do you just never put your hands in the water? When Waldo is in the bathtub, there's a brief scene where you can see that Clifton Webb has swim trunks on.

    I always laugh at Gene Tierney's droopy hat that looks like she got caught in the rain. 

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    HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM

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    15 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:

    These 3 aren't being shown but I'd add The Razor's Edge and Leave Her To Heaven to the list of Gene Tierney fine  Fox films and Benjamin Blake, Son of Fury. she was so incredibly beautiful and young in Son of Fury. Gorgeous actress and I remember  that RO said  on TCM that Gene Tierney was his favorite actress.

    I love her in Heaven Can Wait, even though she wears a hideous wig in the movie.  

    I love Leave Her to Heaven.  It's probably my favorite of her films that I've seen. 

    Why so many producers?!

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    The "Produced By" is probably the person who created the show and is responsible for financing and more of the management aspect.  The producers probably actually helped create the actual product.  The supervising producers probably just managed the producers. 

    I feel like the multiple levels of producer is the equivalent to multiple layers of VPs at a corporation.

    I believe in classic film at least, the executive producer was usually the one who helped secure the financing for the film and the producer probably did more of the actual work of getting the show/movie made. 

    HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM

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    15 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

    TO BE FAIR, there is a pretty good 20TH CENTURY FOX DOUBLE HEADER TONIGHT with LAURA and THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, the latter being the only JOE MANKIEWICZ film with which I do not find fault (I've never seen FIVE FINGERS all the way through though)

    Lol.

    I'm trying to do all I can so that I'm ready to watch the Gene Tierney double feature.  It starts at 5pm for me. 

    Typing on the message board isn't helping. Lol.

    What do we expect from villains?

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    8 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:

    In the HBO remake she does too, but it wasn't allowed to happen in the studio/Production Code era of Hollywood as you say.

    I really wish though that they would have kept in the 1945 version of Mildred finally washing her hands of Vera, rather than having her mourn  the arrest  of her still ungrateful and unloving wretch of a daughter.

    I guess having Mildred still mourning Veda's arrest was a way to show her undying devotion to her children.

    I would have loved for them to add more of the storyline of Veda stealing Monty from Mildred and living the high life.  Their affair is briefly shown and mentioned at the end of the film, but nothing like it was in the book.

    I love Veda, I wish that girl had gotten away with the whole thing.

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    Big stars we little see and know about because of where they worked.

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    2 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:

    The only other (two) movies I've seen with ANN BLYTH  was MR. PEABODY AND THE MERMAID,   and (with DONALD O'CONNOR) THE BUSTER KEATON STORY.

    Then there's Donald's  "Francis The Talking Mule" series, which too, were Universal products.  

    And I wouldn't mind seeing both instead of another "week apart" broadcast of PATCH OF BLUE.  ;) 

    Sepiatone

    I've seen Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid as well, but it wasn't because of TCM. It was a blind buy used DVD that I got, thinking that I'd like it because of the cast.  I've also seen Donald O'Connor in a couple other movies, but it wasn't because of TCM.

    I would also like to see both in lieu of two more viewings of Patch of Blue or more viewings of The Pink Panther series.

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    Have you seen these 10 classic films..?

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    841 Room Service, yes (It has my girl Lucy in it)
    842 
    843
    844 I'm guessing is King Solomon's Mines, No.
    845 The Music Man? No
    846
    847 Equus, No
    848 Gorillas in the Mist, No
    849 Sense and Sensibility, Yes
    850 The Patriot, no

    EDIT: Crossing out "The Music Man" as Lawrence and I posted at the same time. I'm assuming that I'm wrong.

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    Have you seen these 10 classic films..?

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    1 hour ago, sewhite2000 said:

    First question: I don't know. Maybe? I usually use Google Chrome. If there is such a thing, it's not immediately visible or apparent to me. Granted, I am not very computer smart.

    Second question: I don't know. I haven't seen a login page for this website in 10 years, as I don't have to log in. I imagine that route won't get me my old password back, I would have to create a new one and then make sure I remember that new one for all other devices I ever use or just get an endless loop of constantly creating new passwords.

    I use Chrome too. The saved passwords are in the menu, then settings, then passwords. Then you click on the eye next to the password you wish to view. 
     

    If you go to forums.tcm.com, the login box is in the upper-right corner. You’ll know you aren’t logged in because the boards will look different. E.g. the threads you’ve read won’t be un-bolded. 

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    What Are You Watching Now?

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    1 hour ago, HoldenIsHere said:

     

    I’ve been watching episodes from the second season of THE BRADY BUNCH, a series I discovered in 1990s on Nick At Nite.  

     Last year I started re-watching the series from the beginning, introducing it to my sweetie, who was vaguely familiar with it but had never seen any episodes. We breezed through the first season (so many great episodes) but for various reason stopped about a third of the way into the second. This weekend we started watching again and have seen 3 episodes so far.

    Any given BRADY BUNCH episode is packed with so much activity and watching is so addictive! The cast really commits to the material, making situations that could be sappy seem very real and very Brady. The second season is the first one where the theme song (“It’s the story of a lovely lady . . .) is sung by the Brady Kids and the first to feature Florence Henderson’s real hair. (Her iconic mullet flip won’t be seen until Season 3.)

    The episodes we recently watched:

    “The Tattle-Tale”: Cindy becomes a pariah among the Brady kids when she starts blabbing details from their conversations. She causes trouble for Alice when she tells Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on the phone that Alice is kissing the postman. (Alice was just excited to learn via US Mail that she’d won a jingle-writing contest.) The episode features an “Oh Alice!” reaction from Mrs. Brady.

    “What Goes Up . . .”: Bobby is afraid of heights after he falls while climbing up to a treehouse. In the trampoline scene, Florence Henderson calls “Peter” Chris (the actor’s name) and Barry Williams calls “Jan” Eve. Also, someone other than Ann B. Davis is doing Alice’s higher jumps. Like Fluffy the cat from the first episode of the series, Bobby’s pet parakeet (who is not given a name) will never be seen again after this episode.

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    “Confessions, Confessions”: This is the episode that features the famous line “She [Mom] always says ‘Don’t play ball in the house.’”  Peter breaks Mrs. Brady’s favorite vase, and the other kids (and Alice) confess to doing it so Peter won’t be grounded and miss the camping trip he was looking forward to. Mr. and Mrs. Brady, realizing that Peter is the guilty one, let him choose the punishment for the other kids, hoping to guilt him into telling the truth. In a dream sequence, Peter sees the ball breaking the vase over and over again.

     

    I’m looking forward to the upcoming episodes where we’ll meet Myron the mouse, hear Greg sing “Ponies never ran before” and see Jan sporting a dark curly wig.

    I love “The Brady Bunch.” I used to watch it on Nick-at-Nite and before that when it aired on TBS at 2:05 and 2:35 (or whatever times it was). 

    “The New Jan Brady” was always my team name if I played pub trivia solo. 

    ME-TV shows “The Brady Brunch” every Sunday morning 9-11 (pst). They’re into season 3 right now. I saw the episode with Aunt Jenny, the one where Bobby goes on Greg’s date with him, the one with “Scoop” Brady, and the one with Alice’s drill sergeant cousin Emma. 
     

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    Have you seen these 10 classic films..?

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    831 Not sure of the movie... I think the lady on the left might be Eve Arden.

    832 The Fighting Sullivans, No

    833 Brute Force, Yes

    834 I recognize Carmen Miranda and Jerry Lewis... Not sure of the movie

    835 Friendly Persuasion, No

    836 I think that's Joan Collins... but No

    837 No

    838 Serpico, No

    839 Dirty Dancing. Yes! I love this movie.  I've seen it dozens of times.  The best dancing movie of the 80s.

    840 The People Vs Larry Flynt, No

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