fredbaetz
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Voice Over: "I owe everything to George Bailey.Help him, Dear Father"
"It's a Wonderful Life" 1946
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It makes sense. But I think the main reason he was firing was to stop the Japenese soldiers from reaching the plunger. Everything happened so fast once Col.Nicholson {Alec Guinness} started trying to disconnect the plunger and him yelling at Col Saito for a knife, that all Warden probably though of was stopping the soldiers from reaching and disconnecting it. It would have been brutal for the men to be captured , but Warden was a soldier and all he could think of was the mission. That and only that was his reason for firing in the mens direction. If he was able to prevent them from being taken, all well and good, but his main and only reason at that point in time was the success of the mission........
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Jean Harlow was the original choice for the role of Ann Darrow in "King Kong", but MGM signed her up before film went into production. So Fay Wray got the part and a blonde wig.
She was buried in the negligee she wore in a scene from "Saratoga", the film she was shooting with Clark Gable at time of her death.
A single white Gardenia was placed in her hands and a note reading "Good Night' My Dearest Darling" was believed to be from the man she was going to marry actor William Powell. It's also believed he paid the $25,000 for her final resting place.
"She didn't want to be famous. She wanted to be happy"
Clark Gable........
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You peeked, you little devil........
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That's Patty McCormack from "The Bad Seed".She had a role in the old "Mama" series with Peggy Wood as Mama, based on the George Stevens film "I Remember Mama" .. Patty also starred in a short lived series called "Pecks Bad Girl" in 1959.
In 2008 she appeared in the film "Frost/Nixon" as Pat Nixon......
Edited by: fredbaetz on Jun 6, 2010 3:23 AM
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Welcome to the wonderful world on classic movies. You'll love it and learn a lot about stars, directors, studios, anything connected to movies. It's nice to have another youngster aboard. It gets lonesome sometimes being the only young lad here. Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge...Know what I mean, Know What I mean....
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Where has Holly G these days.? Haven't seem any postings in a while....
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One of my all time favorites of Mitchum is still "The Story of G.I.Joe" That hound dog look of his served him well in this classic from William Wellman.. It was a moving film, perhaps one of Mitchum's most moving and the pathos he displayed can almost make you feel the tired, hungry sadness and lone isolation of the character.His only Academy Award nomination...
Wellman said in later years that he could not watch this film, because of the many actual G.I.'s he use were sent overseas and died in combat......
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Glenda Farrell was pretty good with a wisecrack as was the great Mae West, but my favorite has to be the wonderful Marie Windsor....
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"Stoney Burke" was one of my favorite shows in the early 60's. I found it more realistic and a better series the the Andrew Prine and Earl Holliman series "The Wide Country" . Stoney and his side kicks Warren Oates and Bruce Dern were a great team and sadly canceled way to early.."Let's dance".
Stoney's line when he was ready for the chute to open....
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Rod Taylor is alive and hopefully well. He was in "Inglourious Bastards" last year for Quentin Tarantino. He portrayed Winston Churchill.......
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"My work may be garbage, but it's good garbage" Mickey Spillane...
By 1980 Spillane had 7 of the top 15 best selling fiction titles in the U.S.
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" I'm part Indian and I can smell you when I'm down wind of you.You baked today. I can smell fresh bread on you. Some time today, you cooked with salt pork. Smell that on you to.You smell all over like soap. You took a bath. And, on top of that, you smell all over like a woman. I could find you in the dark, Mrs Lowe and I'm only part Indian"
Hondo Lane to Mrs Lowe
John Wayne to Geraldine Page
Hondo 1953
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Sadly Guy Stockwell, Dean's younger brother died of complications from diabetes in 2002 at age 68...
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It was a cute show and Eve Arden was always great. I still remember her from the wonderful "Our Miss Brooks". Her timing and delivery was superb. Her high school student who was always picking her up to drive her to school was Walter Denton, played by a very young Richard Crenna. No one but no one could deliver a wise cracking line like Arden { maybe Marie Windsor comes closest }, but Eve was a class act all the way.....
Edited by: fredbaetz on Jun 2, 2010 12:33 PM
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The narrator of the film is Gil Stratton Jr. who was "Cookie" and went on to become a weather man in L.A. when I was living there in the 70's. You KIND of knew Holden was an OK guy early in the film when he fries the egg with "Animal" drooling over it and says "You ruined my appetite" and turns and gives the egg to "Joey" the shell shocked POW. Even Holden was worried that the audiences might think Sefton was just a louse and had no problem trading with the Nazis. He ask Wilder to add a line to show he hated the Nazis also. Wilder refused.
BTW. If anyone watches the animated series "The Penguins of Madagascar " there are two characters that are mentioned through out the series, Manfredi and Johnson, and they seem to have died quite a few different ways. 1st Penguin:" Was it easy for Manfredi and Johnson when that secret tunnel turned out to be the business end of a Beluga whale. They couldn't speak for a month".....2nd Penguin: " And even then it was jabberish"
Edited by: fredbaetz on Jun 1, 2010 2:20 PM
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Iz, when I was working on the AFI James Cagney tribute, Paul Keyes , the producer of the show along with George Stevens Jr. said he wanted Doris Day to make a small speech and sing a song to Jimmy. Well a few days later he came back and said she told him she would make a short speech, but she didn't want to preform a song. I had just screened "Love Me or Leave Me" and I told Keyes that maybe she could make a small speech about working with Cagney then say something like "I think I expressed my feelings on how I feel about Jimmy in a film we made together, then cut to her singing "You Made Me Love You" from the film , which they did and it worked.
Her series ended in 1973 and the Cagney tribute was in 74. I don't know if she has ever performed since her TV show ended other then the pet show she did from Carmel, Ca. where she lives If anyone knows Ca. you know that Carmel is just a few hours away from Hollywood in a car or limo , so flying would not be a factor.But I think she just wants to remain let alone and have the public remember her as she was. I truly hope she might change her mind..........
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I remember my Mother telling me how her and my Father visited the Arizona when it was in the Brooklyn Navy yard in 1941 during fleet week and you were allowed to go aboard the ships. While on the Arizona my Father struck up a conservation with one of the sailors who turned out to be one of the cooks aboard the ship. He gave them a special tour.As they were leaving and thanking him for a special day my Mom ask where they were headed and he said Pearl Harbor. She often said she wondered what ever happened to him......
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It worked very well. It seemed Lean and some of the British actors butted heads quite often on the characters they were portraying , some felt the British were coming off as snobs and Guinness and James Donald felt the book was anti British and Guinness especially was fighting with Lean. Story goes finally Learn yelled after finishing with Guinness " Now all you English actors can f*** off and go home. Thank God tomorrow I start working with the American actor {William Holden}..
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I mentioned "King Rat" in the "Kwai" thread. I watched it yesterday afternoon , for the first time in about 25 years. It is a very under rated POW film. The cast is excellent with Segal, Fox and Courtney standing out.It didn't do well when it came out and this may be because of Segal's character. He played the same type as William Holden did in "Stalag 17" and James Garner in "The Great Escape". a scrounger,, but the difference was Segal was a not very nice guy, he was out for himself until he met Fox,even then he needed Fox for translating to broker his deals,but he did form a friendship with him, Holden was a scrounger but he had a decent side, yes it took a little longer to find, and Garner was a scrounger but for the camp never really for himself. Georgie was for Georgie and that was most likely the real way it was and they were dealing with Japanese not German soldiers and guards as "Stalag" and "Escape",it was a well known fact the Japanese were a lot more brutal with their POW's.But aside from that it is a well made and probably a more honest film in dealing with the issues.....
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It is a masterpiece of film making.I remember reading years ago that Pierre Boulle was going to write a sequel where it turned out Shears {William Holden} character wasn't killed but only wounded and the sequel was about getting back.As far as I know he never did. The original novel had Shears as a British commando not an American seaman and SPOILER ALERT,,,,,Nicholson {Guinness character} doesn't fall on the plunger...
Just watched "King Rat", and always though that was a under rated POW film with excellent performance by Segal and the others especially Tom Courtney. While watching it, it seemed James Donald must have liked being a POW. He co-starred in "Kwai" and "King Rat" and "The Great Escape", guess he had trouble staying out of POW camps but turned very good performances.....
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No,No,No, I didn't say the girls cared he was shooting at the japanese, he was sorry he was firing in the direction of his own men because the japanese were running toward them. The girls hated the japanese, but because they were trying to get to the British or American and stop them from blowing the bridge he had to fire in their direction....
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Ergo, the very last line of the film...."Madness, Madness"
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She has my vote and it's long overdue. Most people remember her from the great comedies she made in the 50's and 60's,or the TV series she did to get out of hock her husband put her in before he died, but what a lot forget she was one of the really great big band singers of the 40's and she was terrific. Great voice and style and I still say she was robbed of Oscar for her performance in "Love Me or Leave Me" with the wonderful James Cagney.She more then earned it........
Checkmate (1960-1962): TV series
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I remember the series, but I remember the opening sequence more. The different color paints all running together or oils.......