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Claude Rains
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Peoria, Bill - Oscar Levant in O. Henry's Full House
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Kirk Douglas was in Ace in the Hole with Jan Sterling
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Fun facts about Harold Lloyd:
* His home, "GreenAcres" has 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
* Lloyd's "Glasses character" was the inspiration for Superman's identity as Clark Kent. Like that character, Lloyd found that he could hide his identity simply by taking off the glasses.
* Was immortalized in "Futurama" (1999) episode S03E08: That's Lobstertainment. In this episode we find out that Dr. Zoidberg has an uncle who was a silent actor, Harold Zoid.
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Cardinale, Claudia
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Almodovar, Pedro - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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Q - Queens Logic
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Michael Caine was in Sleuth with Laurence Olivier
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The Shaggy Dog - typical Disney fare
next: A Dog of Flanders
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Aherne, Brian
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Vigil in the Night
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Of all of John Ford's westerns, I doubt there is any that I would love to watch on the big screen nearly as much as Cheyenne Autumn (1964), the very last Western of his career.
For sheer visual beauty, I don't know if anything could top a Ford western photographed in gorgeous Super Panavision? 70, especially if I ever had a chance to watch a 70mm print of the movie. Alas, that may never happen, and in the meantime I have to settle for the pretty good DVD that is available from Warner Home Video.
This may not be considered one of Ford's best westerns, or at least it may not get shown as often on TCM, but it has many great qualities that make it one of the most enjoyable ones, for me, and also perhaps one of the ones that seems to me most sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans due to the destructive effects of Western civilization on their way of life.
Also, there are pretty good performances here, especially by Richard Widmark and Carroll Baker; Ford also gives 3 important Native American parts to highly esteemed Mexican actors: Dolores del Rio, Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland. There's also a fun little interlude set in Dodge City, with James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy playing Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, respectively.
Edward G. Robinson brings some dignity to his small part as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, while Ben Johnson shows up for a part of a cavalry soldier/scout that for whatever reason wasn't listed in the credits. And Karl Malden brings his considerable skills to the part of a high-ranking military officer who happens to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, nearly costing half the Cheyennes their lives.
I can't really imagine the impact this movie would have had in a theater, when first released, not only due to the format Ford chose to photograph it, but also due to its sympathetic portrayal of the Native American people, which is easy to take for granted in the post- Dances With Wolves era.
All in all, it's a pretty good Western, especially when watched in a large HDTV screen (and hopefully someday, there may even be a blu-ray of it released).
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That's not a title I'm familiar with, though I might just watch it if they show it again.
Back to the FMC schedule, I see that there aren't any westerns this Tuesday, but they will be showing North to Alaska once again on Wednesday at 8am ET
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Young, Robert
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Cary Grant was in Charade with Audrey Hepburn
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Scaramouche
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Tarzan
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*Jodean Lawrence dies at 77*
Thesp led stage and screen career
By LIZ STINSON
Thesp Jodean Lawrence died on March 17 in Santa Rosa, Calif., of natural causes. She was 77.
Lawrence received her theater and film training at the Pasadena Playhouse. During her early career, she acted under the name Jodean Russo but changed it to Lawrence following a divorce and remarriage.
Throughout her stage career she performed at Los Angeles' Theater West and the Cellar, Cast and Nomads Theaters. She worked overseas in Rome in the early 1960s and on Broadway in "But Seriously, Folks," in 1969.
Lawrence's film work includes "Airport," "Harrad Summer," "Funny Lady," and "Revenge of the Virgins." She worked extensively in sudsers "General Hospital," "Days of Our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless" as well as guested on primetime series including on "Rockford Files," "Little House on the Prairie" and "Archie Bunker's Place."
Lawrence is survived by a son.
Services are planned for May 31 in Sebastopol, Calif. For more information email lorijimgram@yahoo.com.
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}
> *Shouldn't this be in the In Memoriam thread?*
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> Yeah, it probably should but not everyone adheres to that logic.
It already is. I posted it there almost 24 hours before this thread was posted. But I can understand that not everyone checks the In Memoriam thread regularly. Some folks would miss certain obits altogether if someone didn't start out a separate thread.
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Marjorie Main
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Van Johnson was in The White Cliffs of Dover with Irene Dunne
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> It's funny - I saw the film on TV about 40 years ago and it didn't strike me at the time. I saw it a few years later on the big screen, but by that time I was a father so that may have colored my thinking.
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> But I didn't take my son to see it, he perhaps would have never gotten on a carousel after that.
As my sister was involved in the preservation of them for 25 years, he's been on a number of them.I think those kinds of factors can definitely affect our perception and/or enjoyment of many movies, especially those by Hitch, since his better movies do such a masterful job of manipulating our emotions (but how we react emotionally to stuff can change over the years).
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> {quote:title=sineaste wrote:}{quote}
> It might be a little morbid to say, but in a way it's too bad Walker went on to make My Son John, which could be said to be his last film. Strangers on a Train is a much better swan song. What a huge difference between the fresh-faced, tongue-tied boys he played in the mid 1940's in movies like The Clock and Since You Went Away and Bruno. It's a shame he passed away at such a young age.
Yes, I agree with you on both counts. The Hitch movie would have been a swan song that just about any self-respecting actor would have envied - and who could blame them.
> That lobster tie!! Maybe it's something Mommy bought and he felt obliged to wear, or perhaps he thought his Bruno tiepin could deflect people's attention from the dancing crustaceans. Wrong! Everything goes together so well until you get to the neck wear. Having a bad tie day. At least it might give Freudians and PETA something to mull over. A rat is a snake is a lobster.
Actually, I think the tiepin did quite an effective job of deflecting _my_ attention away from those dancing crustaceans. I honestly don't remember having noticed the tie before you pointed it out. Well, they say you learn something every day...
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Not a bad tribute, I guess - but I'm still wondering what Manpower was doing in there...
As my sister was involved in the preservation of them for 25 years, he's been on a number of them.
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