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In addition to the Blu Ray films announced, WB has these films available for pre-order:
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15 minutes ago, AndreaDoria said:
Elizabeth Taylor didn't go into seclusion like Garbo or die young like Marilyn, but she graced the covers of magazines for decades with the public following her every marriage, divorce, and illness from her childhood to her death. She's not my favorite actress but she's the number one movie star in my mind.
To the Gen-X and old Millennial generation, Elizabeth Taylor is probably also very well known for her commercials for her White Diamond perfume.
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5 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I've mentioned my disdain, and sadly, nobody here seemed in agreement, that the word "star" means little anymore in the face of the fact that anyone who posts whatever stupidity on various "social media" outlets( FaceBook, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, etc.) and gets over 100 other idiots to click on the "like" option can be considered a "star". Even an ugly dog on a skateboard. Next thing you know, they'll expect special treatment....... "Why should I have to wait for a table?....I'm a Tik Tok star!"
Sepiatone
Lol. And if you're not a "star" you're an "influencer."
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12 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:
To me, the question would mean a "star" whose image is as recognizable by the general public today as they were during their period of fame. I think very, very few would meet that standard.
I therefore agree that Chaplin might qualify based upon an iconic image, as would Marilyn. And perhaps John Wayne and James Dean.
I would say Audrey Hepburn is similar to Marilyn in that both women are used as symbols of glamour for many generations of women/teenage girls who've probably never seen any of either lady's films.
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741 It's the Bowery Boys/Dead End Kids... I'm going to guess Angels With Dirty Faces. I'm not a fan of Gorcey & Co.'s shtick. I find them very tiresome. If it's Angels With Dirty Faces, I've seen this film. If not, then maybe, maybe not.
742 Hold Back the Dawn with Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland. I have this on the DVR but haven't watched it yet.
743 Not sure. I thought it was Four Jills in a Jeep, but I'm not sure.
744 I recognize Joel McCrea
745 The Tender Trap. Yes I like this movie very much. I may have watched it a few times on Watch TCM while I've been working. It's an easy movie to listen to and still know what's going on.
746 Looks like Lord of the Flies. I haven't seen this and it isn't particularly at the top of my list either.
747 I'll go with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I haven't seen it, but maybe will someday. Westerns aren't my favorite genre.
748 Looks like possibly an older Rita Hayworth. I haven't seen this film.
749 Private Benjamin. No.
750 Apollo 13. Maybe a long time ago when it came out originally. I remember the "Houston, we have a problem" being the go-to tagline for awhile.
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745 is The Tender Trap
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TV Beefcakes:
Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy
Jesse Katsopolis, John Stamos, Full House.
Dylan McKay, Luke Perry, Beverly Hills, 90210.
Dr. Tony Newman, James Darren, The Time Tunnel
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That's what I have so far...
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54 minutes ago, Thenryb said:
I have also been told that the pad of fat underneath the female kneecap begins to sag at about age 30. I "learned" this many years ago from a good female friend who had stayed in excellent physical condition when she intoned "I could do without these saggy knees". I began my experimental studies of this hypothesis shortly thereafter by gazing at female kneecaps and trying to discern whether the object of my observation was over or under 30. I could find no scholarly journal in which to publish my findings.
::begins looking at knees, nervously::
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
LOL
And now one more old sitcom reference to follow, and one which itself references a name recently brought up here...
Anyone remember the MTM episode where Mary sings the punchline of her knock-knock joke as a pun of the old song "I'll Be Down to Get You in a Taxi, Honey" ?
She substitutes the lyrics, "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, Honey".
(...okay sure, not a real knee-slapper here, but ever since I saw that episode years ago, anytime the name of Anna Maria Alberghetti comes up, guess what I think of!)
It was years before I learned that Anna Maria Alberghetti was a real person and not just a joke on MTM.
In the beginning of the episode, Ted is the one with the knock knock joke (Anna Maria Alberghetti, who?) and cannot come up with the punchline. This is the episode where Lou's ex-wife Edie remarries. Lou remains very stoic and supportive of his ex-wife, even though he's devastated. Mary is completely overcome by how well Lou is handling himself and he has to take her to the bar to cheer her up. Ted finally comes up with the "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey" punchline and it cheers Mary up.
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I'm always fascinated by people using corded phones in the bathtub in old movies...
Wasn't there a worry about electrocution?
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I've seen Trumbo before. But in light of Kirk's passing, I borrowed his book I Am Spartacus from the library and am going to try and read it and watch the Trumbo film again.
I thought Trumbo was excellent. Bryan Cranston did a great job.
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4 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Yeah, I like that part of the movie too, speedy!
(...however, I'm always a little disappointed they don't break into a rendition of the song "Amie"!)
The only part of Dodge City that I'm somewhat disappointed with is Ann Sheridan's tiny role. I also didn't like when Errol threatened Olivia with a spanking in Dodge City for laughing at him when he trips and falls. I found that very demeaning for Olivia.
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3 minutes ago, Paulll said:
Nice 👍 Maybe not super muscled, but the super attractiveness makes up for it.
I like that for the most part, the men in this era were fit, but not insanely muscular. I find giant muscles very unappealing--not saying that this is true of all super muscly men, but usually big muscles = not much else. I'd rather be with a flabby intelligent man than a muscly moron.
This conversation is making me want to watch a Burt Lancaster film.
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51 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Totally agree with this! I've always considered Robert Mitchum the true King of Coolness.
As for beefcakes, Errol Flynn definitely tops them all (though I must say Mitchum did have a dang fine physique himself). Though Clark Gable comes a close second (who ever compared him to a woman, I would have to take issue with on this issue). He was hot in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and even more so in the 1935 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
Paul Newman had me drooling in COOL HAND LUKE for sure.
Didn't Mitchum make some comment at some point about having to suck in his gut when he made movies? Or maybe that was just a typical droll Mitchum remark.
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21 minutes ago, TomJH said:
You want plenty of male beef, ladies, so I`ll give it to you.
Alan Hale, bathing and singing in Dodge City
One of my favorite parts of that movie is when Alan Hale inadvertently becomes part of the Pure Prairie League.
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27 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Wait! You're sayin' Gable sometimes looks like Alfred E. (not Paul) Newman to you, speedy???
Funny, but the only actor in recent memory who reminds ME of Alfred is David Schwimmer of Friends fame.
(...well okay...there IS another guy recently who also does, and I watched HIM on the stage of the Democratic presidential debate last night...but enough about Mayor Pete...although I DO like the guy and might even vote for him...but then again, enough about that...sure don't wanna get into THAT subject around here!) LOL
David Schwimmer reminds me of Droopy.
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I love An American in Paris. I just saw it in the theater for probably the 3rd time last month and then I watched it yesterday on Watch TCM while I was working.
As much as I love the 18 minute ballet at the end, I really love Georges Guetary's "Stairway to Paradise" number. That's my favorite part. And of course, Oscar Levant is always hilarious. I also really liked Nina Foch's character. I think this film, and Executive Suite are the only films of hers that I've seen.
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52 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Actually Russell did win the Best Actor Oscar for GLADIATOR.
Love that movie.
731 is hilarious, 732 Cary at his sly best and Ingrid wonderful as always, 733 very much a watchable film (though admittingly you would have to be a big Shakespearian nut to get most of it), 734, I'm not too big on, 735 though not my favorite still better than average thanks to the performances of Curtis and Poitier, 736 I haven't seen, 737 a classic chiller, 738 a big nay to since I am definitely not a Star Trek fan at all, 739 I don't think I've seen either, and of course 740 my top pic of the bunch.
I stand corrected. I thought Crowe had won for A Beautiful Mind.
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8 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Totally agree with this! I've always considered Robert Mitchum the true King of Coolness.
As for beefcakes, Errol Flynn definitely tops them all (though I must say Mitchum did have a dang fine physique himself). Though Clark Gable comes a close second (who ever compared him to a woman, I would have to take issue with on this issue). He was hot in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and even more so in the 1935 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
Paul Newman had me drooling in COOL HAND LUKE for sure.
I'm conflicted with Gable. Sometimes he's attractive, like in It Happened One Night. And sometimes he looks like the guy from Mad Magazine.
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5 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Can you believe GLADIATOR came out twenty years ago? Where does the time go.
I know. It came out when I was a sophomore in high school. I remember clearly when it was in the theaters, let alone twenty years later. If I recall, this film started a series of other films being released about Greek/Roman figures. I think within a few years, Gladiator, Troy, and Alexander all came out. I think Gladiator was touted as Russell Crowe's shot at an Oscar, but he'd have to wait until the year after.
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8 hours ago, ClassicMovieholic said:
I recently finished Cleopatra, a scholarly biography by pulitzer prize winner Stacy Schiff, and followed it up with a light, breezy "sequel" on the topic, Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran. The former was excellent. The latter...entertaining enough, but lacked much depth or complexity and left me a little hungry after Schiff's incredible job of research and immersing one in the world of her subject. As a huge fan of both the 1934 C. B. DeMille film starring Claudette Colbert, and the collossal 1963 super-epic starring Elizabeth Taylor, it was interesting for me to compare the actual history with the Hollywood-ized versions. What is surprising is that, with a few admittedly glaring exceptions (Cleopatra had four children, for example), both films follow the bare bones of the story somewhat closely...as well as one has a right to expect, anyway. As George R. R. Martin once quipped of the nature of adapting a source for the screen, "How many children did Scarlett O'Hara have, anyway?" (three in the book, one in the movie, the point being it ultimately doesn't really matter for the purposes of relaying a gripping narrative).
Now I'm in the middle of a classic-film-related novel, Whisper of the Moon Moth, a heavily fictionalized account of actress Merle Oberon's efforts to conceal her mixed racial identity in order to succeed in British and Hollywood films. I'm perennially fascinated by the subject. The book itself is fast-paced, but overly simplistic in character development and peppered with inaccuracies regarding the timeline (which the author readily admits she manipulated for the sake of the plot), as well as a lot of serendipitous meetings with a who's who of classic cinema notables that feel contrived and strain credulity at times. Not a great work of literature, but a fun read to pass the time.
If you're interested in Merle Oberon's attempts to hide her Asian ethnicity, last week's episode of the You Must Remember This podcast covered this exact same subject! This current season of the podcast covers the lengths that actresses went through to conform to society's idea of beauty. I thought it was crazy that Oberon was using products to literally bleach her skin to make it more white. It is probably lucky that she had her career during the era of black and white film. I imagine that the skin damage caused by her bleaching products and such would be much more apparent in color.
Is there a significance to the title of the novel? I would have never guessed that Whisper of the Moon Moth was about Merle Oberon's attempts to conceal her racial identity.
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731 My Man Godfrey, yes
732 Notorious, yes
733 I'm guessing that this is some version of Hamlet, but I haven't seen it.
734 An American in Paris, yes
735 The Defiant Ones, no
736 CORNEL WILDE IS IN THE PENTHOUSE! CORNEL WILDE... that's all I have for that one
737 Halloween, yes
738 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, no. I just recognized Ricardo Montalban's hair in this photo and knew what it was
739 No. I see that it's Jamie Lee Curtis with her mother, Janet Leigh.
740 Gladiator, yes a long time ago.-
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27 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
I think that maybe Hope Summers, most famous for The Andy Griffith Show. She said in an interview that she found Rosemary's Baby "fascinating, morbid and horrible"
Maybe she had too many of her 12-blue ribbon winning pickles, with the secret ingredient, allspice.
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5 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I thought I was the only one who didn't care for ROSEMARY'S BABY. I know many consider it a classic, but it just didn't do anything for me.
I do love THE BIRDS, and yes that lady who calls Tippi 'evil' was certainly something else.
Horror/alien things are already not my favorite. A film has to be pretty special to overcome those handicaps. Rosemary’s Baby was not one of them.
However, I loved “The Birds” aside from the weird Rod Taylor being brother to Veronica Cartwright thing.
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-the lady in the diner who screams at Tippi.
-the guy who gets his eyes pecked out.
-the birds attacking the children.
-the lovebirds.
-Tippi’s green suit.
-the birds attacking the phone booth.
-the lack of sound in the film, except the birds.
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Who is the biggest Movie Star of All-Time?
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Well James Dean is going to be in a new movie this year (or next?), he still has a chance!