DownGoesFrazier
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I was surprised it was Maggie in the 70's rather than an earlier actress in the 40s or even 50s.
Open thread.
The OJ Simpson trial was considered the trial of the century. What previous trial was considered the trial of the centrury prior to the OJ trial?
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That's the one, DGF.
Your thread.
My daughter had her debut in the Empire Room at the top of the Empire Sate Building.
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There's a lot of good movie doctors, and I've a hard time playing favorites here. But also for fun, I'll just list-----
WILLIAM POWELL'S "Doc" in MR. ROBERTS
GROUCHO'S DR. HACKENBUSH
But although RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN'S DR. KILDARE was mentioned( with RAYMOND MASSEY as Gillespie) No mention of TV's VINCE EDWARDS as BEN CASEY? and the always marvelous SAM JAFFE as DR. ZORBA? (shows Anthony Quinn ain't the ONLY one who can play a Greek!)
It was my main introduction to JAFFE, whom I wound up having a lifelong fondness for.
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Powell in MR. ROBERTS is probably my least favorite movie doctor.
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Personal small bird
My Little Chickadee?
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Some men practice a bedside manner that is without diagnosis, with no degree also.
Thanks, Down I've never seen that William flick but will look for it.
Reminds me of "The Great Impostor" film with Tony Curtis.
Also, the doctor played by Kent Smith in NORA PRENTISS, who falls into the morass after meeting Sheridan.
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Being that I never like seeing a doctor, my favorite one in films is Doctor Wayne Phillips from "Magnificent Obsession".
Anyone who has seen the film will understand why I choose him.
Spoilers Ahead!
Now actually, instead of croaking as the movie implied, he lived on to be seen in a tv series called "Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal" wherein he evaded having to go back to Jane Wyman and his boring life with defibrillators in the home, and started a new career doing good with no recognition, just by instituting the name change and not telling the AMA.
Plus, he was kind of good looking which we never knew from the previous film.
Who's your favorite medic in movies?
Warren William in BEDSIDE, who practiced medicine without a medical degree. I knew a guy like that in real lfe.
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My favorite nurse on film, is of course Nurse Betty Ames in the "Alfred Hitchcock Hour" episode, called "An Unlocked Window".
In this episode, a serial killer is loose and Dana Wynter is stuck in a house out in the sticks. What she does not know [spoilerS AHEAD!] is that her cohort nurse temporarily engaged also for the duty, is actually a man dressed up as a female.
Played by actor T.C.Jones, the reveal is quite spooky and makes one know that closing all windows and doors is not always effective in Hollywood to protect one from a killer!
http://dkholm.typepad.com/cinemonkey/2009/05/recuillement-hitchcock-hours-an-unlocked-window.html
"Of course"?
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I know, I know. His "R"s were always pronounced much too hard to be a true Brit, especially.
And yeah, my years earlier misconception about him in this regard WAS probably because MGM cast him as the British gentleman in more than a few movies.
(...and because of course of his overall image and demeanor of being "refined")
I assume you didn't think that Larry Fine was British.
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Lawrence evidently beat ya to Nurse Ratched by a split second in posting about her, DGF.
(...and so because I used his picture to reply to, that's why I referenced his response)
I don't take losing by a nose with graciousness.
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Yep Lawrence, gotta admit when CUCKOO'S NEST first the screens and I saw it, I thought Louise there was kind'a hot in a "whip and chains" sort'a way!
(...and I think Mr. McMurphy deep down inside kind'a thought that too)
Whatta ya mean"Yep, Lawrence"? Yep, DGF.
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(...and with apologies to Messrs Yakko and Wakko Warner for appropriating their tagline as my thread title, I now begin...)
While watching the movie HARVEY again last night for the umpteen time, I began to notice I couldn't take my eyes off of the lovely Peggy Dow, who in her much too short three year career in Hollywood played nurse Ruth Kelly.
Seems the now 88 year old lady's first love wasn't acting, and so she would quit the biz in 1951 to marry a Texas oil man and raise a family of 5 children.
Sure wish she would have chosen to work a few more years in Tinseltown, as I think she not only possessed a very attractive appearance, but also thought her acting in this film was first rate. Not only in her line readings but especially in the manner in which her face just beamed at Jimmy Stewart's whimsical Elwood P. Dowd as he enchanted her with his warm and welcoming likability.
Okay, and now, this thread was NOT started just to extol Miss Dow's virtues, but in hopes others here might offer up some of their own favorite nurses in cinematic history. And so, does anybody else have one in mind?
Nurse Ratched from OFOTCN would be the low-hanging fruit.
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Heh...Next month I'll be OLDER than Spencer Tracy was when he died, but still look YOUNGER than he did when HE was ten years younger!
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It took you four years to think of a good response to my post?
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And for years I thought Walter Pidgeon was British too, clore.
(...not that he was fat, of course)
Pidgeon regularly played British characters without a trace of a British accent. British? Hardly.
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Marie Dressler was in Emma with Myrna Loy.
Loy was in TEST PILOT with Clark Gable
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the term " **** up " is, sadly, off the table.
It's not off my table, which is a bit more all-encompassing than the autocensor's table.
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Kid, a lot of things have been ending up in the "cornfield" lately.
Do you think Anthony Fremont has been hired to check posts here?
The thread cornfield is getting kind of crowded.
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Incidentally, "goof" sounds better than the previous thread titles using "boo boo", which brings to mind a 4-year old.
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Down, I believe that in French they call that, "embonpoint".
Doesn't it sound so much better than chubby? My high school French teacher would use that term to describe a man's little tummy area, and she used Sebastian Cabot as an example of what it usually typified.
In the way olden days, Lillian Russell was the epitome of elegant also, and she had quite the waist span, but that would be back in the Diamond Jim Brady period when embonpoint was considered a sign of wealth.
Before 1940, someone built like yours truly would be thought to be homeless.
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Charlotte Granville was in Now and Forever with Shirley Temple.
Shirley was in THAT HAGEN GIRL with Ronald Reagan
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You are right, CaveGirl. He always looked dignified and elegant, didn't he?
Before 1940, if you wanted to look dignified, the way to go was a waist size of at least 45 inches.j
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Thanks, Lavender.
This 1950's movie Western features two actors who both played the same character, one on television and the other in the movie version of the teleplay.
Name the movie Western and name the two actors in the film and the role both portrayed.
Hint?
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The cast listings here in the TCMDb and at IMDb show Hedda Hopper as Madge Livingston, who the TCMDb synopsis describes as Mrs. Bouccicault's granddaughter.
I can't say either way as I am not familiar enough with either actress.
Is this just a big typo in both databases?
..but you must be familiar with the well-hatted Ms. Hopper as a columnist.
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Alright. Seein' as how I just suggested John Goodman here DGF, here ya go...
(...happy NOW?!)
When I lived in L.A., I used to see Goodman at, believe it or not, my gym. I only saw him socializing, not working out.
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Profuse apologies to all for my horrid spelling of the word "malevolence".
I swear I know how to spell it but things just got out of hand while I was typing the header and I did not realize it till just now in rereading the post.
I should be banned just for that, if for nothing else here.
My spelling looks more like an ad for a movie with Linda Lovelace.
If you are fishing for a compliment, I'm not taking the bait.
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Retro Trivia
in Games and Trivia
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That's the one. It was mentioned in the OJ miniseries. Yours.