DownGoesFrazier
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?? DGF, I'm not bad at lateral thinking- and "free association" thinking too, for that matter. But for the life of me I can't figure out the connection you made in your mind between Cave Girl's original post and your comment here.
Just curious...would it ruin the mystery of your freely associating mind to explain it ?
"The Witch Doctor" was by David Seville and the Chipmunks. Seville's real name was Ross Bagdasarian, and he was the piano player in REAR WINDOW.
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Poor Freddie Mertz. He never had anything nice to wear and always had his pants hiked up to under his armpits.
No wonder Ethel wanted to crown him most of the time.
Ed Norton did not have a fab wardrobe but his apartment had nice furniture, a tv and some great wallpaper. I'd so much rather be married to him than to Ralphie-Boy!
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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While Mary did have a lot of clothes, she also re-wore outfits. I believe she also had a lot of separates, so she could mix and match.
Lucy Ricardo had a more modest wardrobe in the beginning. It was only after Ricky was becoming a big star that she started getting nicer, more high end clothes. Which makes sense. More money = more disposable income. Heck, even Ethel's clothes were nicer by the end. They did repeat clothing and each character seemed to only own 1 bathrobe and such (which I imagine is normal for most people).
Somehow, Hugh Hefner comes to mind. Wasn't he usually wearing a bathrobe? He must have had a closet full.
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Down, no offense but you shoulda stopped at #3 methinks!
I actually did.
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Or Mary Tyler Moore on her show. That closet was full to the max!!!! A new outfit in every scene.....I remember a hilarious Mad magazine take off on that show.....Whatever happened to Mad magazine???? i remember one of the nuns claiming Mad magazine was Communistic! (LOL)...
Gag writers didn't get paid all that well. Rob Petrie must have been dealing drugs on the side to keep up with Laura's clothing fixation.....oops. wrong show. TV producers didn't get paid all that well. You know the drill.
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Do I dare ask what #'s 1 and 2 are, Down?
THE APARTMENT and DOUBLE INDEMNITY. #4 is CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC.
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My candidate for Hollywood husband sainthood would be Fred Astaire, who remained faithful to his wife Phyllis until her death in the early 1950s. Apparently, during the making of Daddy Long Legs, he would go to his dressing room between takes and break down.
An unusual runner up might be Basil Rathbone, who remained married to Ouida for around 40 years, and apparently she was not an easy woman to live with and spent most of the money he made during the Hollywood Golden years. Apparently, when he died, they had less than $10,000 in assets.
The low-hanging fruit, Paul Newman, doesn't even get mentioned?
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For all fans of witch doctor movies, here's one not to miss on Tuesday:
28 Tuesday 8:00 AM SAADIA (1953)A young doctor in the Sahara clashes with the local witch doctor.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: Cornel Wilde , Mel Ferrer , Rita Gam .
C-87 mins,
In the realm of free association, REAR WINDOW is my #3 all-time movie.
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Billie Burke was in "THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER" with Monty Woolley.
Woolley was in NIGHT AND DAY with Alexis Smith
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Count me in on that vote, Darkblue!
I can appreciate Loretta's roles on film, but still would not concur with anything she said about her personal life. I would believe Loretta about as far as I could throw her. I think her lifetime of duplicity on numerous issues speaks volumes. And her narcissistic attitude to her daughter and cruelty to preserve her own image of herself also tells one who Loretta really was.
I mean really, we are supposed to believe that Loretta after all her years in Hollywood, and flings with an assortment of big stars, had no understanding of forced romantic liaisons as opposed to ones with which she was agreeable?
Just because she might not have been familiar with the more modern term "date rape" would not mean that she was so backward as to not realize Clark was forcing himself upon her. And if so, if she is so demure I doubt she'd be entertaining him at parties at her home or agreeing to appear in subsequent films with him.
I mean she was a big star and could have opted out of such things.
Ridiculous! Reminds me of the situation presented in the film "To Kill a Mockingbird" with actress Collin Wilcox, in trying to explain away one's own participation in something by using the "R" word.
Personally I think Loretta's greatest acting performance was about this personal situation, rather than in any of her movies.
Maybe I'm a cynic but the things that were said after the fact by her and his daughter-in-law just don't add up.
She wasn't called the Iron Butterfly for nothing.
She was? Is that where the band got its name?
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Laughton is an actor I can't take my eyes away from whenever he's on the screen. Not because he's especially good looking (she says, tongue in cheek), but his screen presence is that strong for me. I don't remember him ever being hammy (although I haven't seen everything he's done, lol).
IMHO, Laughton and Olivier were the two greatest British film actors.
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I certainly agree. And it doesn't have to be really good. Whenever I see a post that says "SPOILER ALERT" I think, gimme a break.
You really do need a spoiler alert for WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION and PSYCHO, more than any other films that I can think of.
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She must not have been too offended, considering the end result was a daughter.
I believe that Gable had to drop $5 into the swear jar in order to get to conceive the daughter with Loretta.
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THE APARTMENT has legs. SOME LIKE IT HOT does not, except for the scene in the train compartment with Lemmon and all the girls. That is where Lemmon first got to show what a comic acting genius he was.
I don't know--maybe I'm just one of those people who likes it cold.
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I once had a college professor for literature that said, if a work of art is really good, then one can revisit it many times and the fact that one knows the end of the story does not affect one's enjoyment.
I now call this, for me, The Osgood Fielding III Effect!
Being that TCM showed "Some Like It Hot" last night, I decided to watch and scrutinize the whole film one more time.
Thought I've seen "Some Like It Hot" many times, I usually watch it when it is on, even if only for a few scenes to see if it still makes me laugh. Though my teacher's remarks were about literature in general, but also movies since he was the local newspaper film critic also, it is easier to appreciate a dramatic work, but harder to make someone laugh when they already know the punchline.
But in Billy Wilder's SLIH, I still laugh. I laugh at all the same lines and just as hard. Though Jack and Tony are magnificent, and Marilyn is great too, I think it is Joe E. Brown who is the key to the film. His takes and comments are so hilarious, that they still make me crack up.
I'm so glad he was just hanging around the country club and retired, when Billy Wilder saw him and asked if he'd like to be in the film. Things he does, like the way he says Ma-Ma', with the accent on the second syllable, seem small but make things even funnier. When he escorts Lemmon into the elevator and says something to the operator like "Once around the block and keep your eyes to yourself" he is just a scream.
I could go on and of course the scene where Jack thinks the only reason he cannot marry Brown, is because he might be too old for him, are wonderful too. The ending of course, is legendary and I shan't go there but my question to you is, do you also find that some movies that you love, are just as rewarding to watch more than a few times?
So my Osgood Fielding Test is to rewatch a film and see if it still can make you laugh, or cry or have great enjoyment, even though you have seen it before.
Agree or disagree, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
THE APARTMENT has legs. SOME LIKE IT HOT does not, except for the scene in the train compartment with Lemmon and all the girls. That is where Lemmon first got to show what a comic acting genius he was.
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Well, there was that weird period in the sixties where Doris changed her name to that unisex symbol and insisted on being referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Doris."
Or am I thinking of someone else?
You are thinking of Una Merkel. After 60 years of being called "Una", anyone would have gotten sick of it.
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It seems like maybe this question has come up before but...
SPOILERS SPOILER SPOILERS IN RE: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
WHY IS IT that in the final scene, when Marlene has her big, BIG scene and reveals all- then is rejected and chucked into the boards by Ty Power, she says**:
"WET THEM CONVICT ME OF PERJURWY, WET THEM CONVICT ME OF CONSPIRWACY!"
(sees letter opener on table, picks it up)
"BETTER YET, WET THEM CONVICT ME OF..."
And for some WEIRD REASON I CANNOT FATHOM, Marlene CLEARLY SAYS THE WORD "MURDER," but the dialogue comes to an abrupt (and noticeable) halt (like 3 seconds of total, dead silence, like an error on the soundtrack) and it really, really seems like they cut the word out, the most important word btw, out of her diatribe.
WHY??!!!!
It's no violation of the production code in her saying the word; if there was some problem with the read (which I doubt) they could fix it with ADR, I don't see how it helps the story by cutting it- in fact it really undercuts what is the film's (arguably) most important scene.
Anyone got any ideas that the answer is?
ps- imdb doesn't seem to say anything about this in the trivia, goofs or alternate versions sections they have for the movie.
i did however find this nugget, which i HAVE to share:
Elsa Lanchester used to delight in broadcasting Marlene Dietrich's secrets. Although Dietrich was never secretive about her famous "tape lifts," Lanchester detailed their use to anyone who would listen (One of the most avid listeners was Charles Laughton, who urged a make-up man to steal one so he could try it). The lifts were stuck to the side of Dietrich's head where she wanted skin to be lifted. Then the long threads hanging from them were woven into hair at the back of her head, forcing the tabs to pull the skin very tight. A wig then covered the network of tabs and threads. Lanchester joked that Dietrich wouldn't dare to pull or twist her face for fear of loosening a lift. In the film, one can see how Dietrich rarely breaks the cold passiveness of her expression and moves her whole body rather than her head.
**PARAPHWASED FROM MEMOWY.
Marlene couldn't pronounce the word "murder". The closest she could come is "motor".
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Why does Doris Day deserve to have her name misspelled?
Doris has such a difficult name that many people misspell it.
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Sepia, to me there is a difference as you seem to be referring, between that which is an outright copy made purely for the cash and something which is an homage, meant to be a compliment to an earlier work.
I think I recall Jean Vigo using such in the pillow fight scene in his film "Zero for Conduct", as a tribute to the Abel Gance snowball fight in "Napoleon".
I see Guest's usage of the stairway [if I'm right that it was influenced by Langdon] as an homage to his films and talent.
Thanks for your post!
Incidentally, I accidentally deleted the PM you sent yesterday. Believe it or not , I don't know how to initiate one.
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He was an anti-Communist - and testified before HUAC - but he was not "rabid". When Edward Dmytryk was released from prison and directed Menjou in THE SNIPER, Menjou was a thorough professional and there was not a hint of acrimony on the set (according to both Dmytryk and Stanley Kramer).
He hated Communists because few of them dressed as well as he did, the best-dressed man in Hollywood.
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Eleanor Parker was in "THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE" with Wayne Morris.
Morris was in KID GALAHAD with Bette Davis
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That's why I said he sometimes played cads on screen, but it was not at all how he was off-screen. Shows what a great actor he was. In the promo Fred's daughter did for TCM in January when he was Star of the Month, she talked about how a female fan gave him a tongue-lashing at a public event after THE APARTMENT came out, for playing such a despicable heel. After that, he would only play characters that were wholesome.
Probably the fact that Sheldrake was SO different than Fred was in real life made it more likely that he wouldn't play these roles any more.
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Probably Fred MacMurray. He was one of the straightest arrows in Hollywood. He sometimes played cads on screen, but he lived a very respectable life off-screen. According to Marlene Dietrich's daughter, Fred was one of only two costars she didn't have an affair with...she tried, but he turned her down because he did not believe in cheating on his wife.
Well, Jeff Sheldrake sure did.
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Don't get me wrong, Down if you are now "clean as a whistle" I am glad to hear that the antibiotics worked!
Thank you, Dr. Feelgood.
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