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{font:Times New Roman}From today’s Tampa Bay Times Obituaries:{font}
{font:Times New Roman}*Marion Cunningham*, 99, the California home cook chosen to revive The Fanny Farmer Cookbook in 1972 and who went on to become a food writer and cooking instructor revered by America’s greatest culinary talents, died of Alzheimer’s disease on Wednesday in Walnut Creek, Calif. A champion of the simple home-cooked meal, she wrote or collaborated on eight books.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}It sounds like our "Ms. C" from *Happy Days* had a real-life namesake and counterpart. I think they would have enjoyed each other. Another “believe it or not” tale that Ripley isn’t around for. {font}
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Richard Rust has been popping up all over my TV and computer lately on all kinds of 50s films and TV shows. I've been waiting for a suitable thread to sing his praises but am sad he's not around to appreciate them. I first saw him on *Sam Benedict* and later *Another World* but had no idea he had such a long resume before that. He was handsome and talented and made anything he was in better. We lost him way too soon.How is Paul Guilfoyle related to our current *CSI* star? I keep seeing his name in movie credits and now have a face to look for. Thank you.
Polly Bergen's tip about short women wearing skin-toned shoes to make their legs, and them, look taller is one I've used for many years. Like au natural lingerie they can be worn with everything and that saves money.
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}'The Hired Hand' (1971)
It's been on the Encore Westerns Channel several times.
:^0 Stephen444: I am the biggest Association fan who ever lived. They are the forgotten
geniuses of 1960's music. Thanks to you I logged onto youtube and can spend the rest of the
evening getting to know them all over again. Thanks beyond words.
Cody1949: You can find THE MACOMBER AFFAIR on youtube or Hulu. If not let us know and
I'll find the thread someone else told us how to find it on. Always glad to help.
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{font:Times New Roman}Both Pat and his wife, Shirley, wrote autobiographies in which they tell how their marriage nearly ended because they left their principles behind and “went Hollywood” after he began his movie career. In his words “I broke all ten commandments ten times over.” (Please, no comments about that making him a serial killer). Perhaps deciding to try and put things back together-and doing it-had a hand in his film work not progressing at that time; it might have been by choice. They seemed to be well liked in Hollywood as some reporters later admitted they knew what was going on but didn’t want to say in print in hopes they would “solve the difficulty” as one put it. Both the marriage and his career are still going on so he seems to have come out ahead. {font}
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An article appeared in my local paper today on Paramount’s 100th anniversary. It listed what the writer considers the studio's 25 all-time best movies. Our little slice of Western life came in at #14, ahead of *Shane.* Not bad for a “flop”. When it comes to movies “The customer is not always right”; sometimes we have to catch up to quality.{font}
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I remember when this movie came out. It stayed around for a while because Gary Clarke and Connie Stevens were a couple for some years and even called off a couple of planned weddings. Doubt that anybody involved really wants to remember this thing. The review, as usual, was hilarious.
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{font:Times New Roman}I liked the movie’s story but it was obvious than it was not made as an “A” picture. It was b&w, and the writers and actors were, as you say, all from TV. It was not a big success so the studio had an excuse for keeping these folks on the TV rather than movie sets. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}I did like Efrem Zambalist, Jr. as Judge Hoffman; along with Dom Ameche he was the most believable of the actors. He always had an air of dignity in this kind of role that made you forget he was acting. You knew the Judge had to be nominated by the end; the fun was waiting to see how and watching Callahan have done to him what he’d been doing to everyone else. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}The supporting actors were good and as we all know White, Baer and O’Connor would go on to bigger things as the decade progressed. And of course there was Angie Dickinson who did her best with what she had to work with. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}FredC, I immediately recognized Robert Colbert, who was doing a lot of work for WB then, as the murderer but didn’t see anybody else who resembled him in the film. I thought his playing the man as a fearful neurotic rather than a swaggering bluffer was different and made the story more realistic.
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I'd wanted to see this movie for a long time; now that I have it’s on to the next one on my wish list. {font}
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I liked this one too. Michael Pate and Leo Gordon are both in it and-shock-are good guys still arounf at the end. That alone makes it special. Thank you for the tip about picture quality. I've found several 50's films like that but realize it's that way or not at all. I guess some wern't considered worth saving.
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I found *CSPWDT* on youtube and will watch it later this week. Thanks to all of you for your help.
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FredCDobbs wrote: I don't understand why 33 year old Steve Cochran would be interested in 45 year old Joan Crawford in The Damned Don't Cry
How about Morris Ankrum as her father? I checked imdb afterwards and found he was born in 1897 while she came along in 1905-eight years! He did look a lot older than she did so the casting worked but there it was again.
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Today we found out what happened to Scarlett O'Hara. Eighty years later she came back as *Harriet Craig* in the person of Joan Crawford.
I couldn't help but see the resemblance between the two characters-how they came back from poverty and manipulated the people around them. Harriet was the nastier of the two; still in that final scene where we finally find out what makes her tick she evokes your sympathy. And like Scarlett her man gives up and walks out the door. In fact the equivalents of Melanie and Mammy do as well. You get the feeling that the widow next door ends up better than Belle and gets her man. A good movie all around.
helenbay wrote: Rand Brooks played Hopalong Cassdy's younger sidekick in a few of the later films after Russell Hayden left the series. He was also in at least one Gene Autry movie. Laura Hope Crews was in Camille with Garbo.
He was Corporal Boone on *Rin Tin Tin* during the 50s where I first saw him-another case of TV letting longtime supporting actors finally get their due. He had a fine singing voice and got to use it on the show.
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{font:Times New Roman}From all the examples you’ve cited, isn’t it about how convincing the actors are as parent and child rather than their actual years?{font}
{font:Times New Roman}In some films the characters age a generation or more. A young actor starting out the story might, by the time they’ve reached its end, be younger in real life than the person who is playing their offspring or even grandchildren. Yes, I’m thinking of Paul Newman and Diane Brewster-he being three years older than she was- in *The Young Philadelphians.* I was disappointed that the film was not in color until I realized that b&w was how they made her playing a middle-aged mother work by just putting her in a dark wig at first then gray streaks in her natural hair. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}Some actors seem mature even in youth and pull this off well with the help of expert makeup. Today it’s hard to imagine Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise ever looking old enough to make us think they’re 75 years old even when they are. It took Mickey Rooney a long time to do it. In most cases young into old seem to work better than old into young. For some, there’s no focus soft enough. {font}
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[~kriegerg69] wrote: As far as simply disrespecting a corpse, not necessarily physically mutilating one, CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS has the body of "Orville" being removed from its grave, used in an impromptu ceremony to raise the dead, and thereafter being shamed and disrespected...until it actually comes to life and gets revenge.
As I stated before I worked on publicity stunts in Gainesville when the movie premiered in 1972. I've never seen it on TV, even on the schlock horror shows, or in catalogues. Is it available on any of the internet venues? I'd like to see it again; I know Alan Ormsby went on to bigger and better things in Hollywood.
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Regarding: *The Braveheart* quote
Jake, This partly Scotswoman thanks you. By this time next year, they might be free again if Scottish independance goes through. "They can't take away our freedom"-at least not forever.
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Sepiatone wrote: I have mixed emotions about colorizing. Of course, the curiosity of seeing how many movies might have looked if color film were available at the time they were made, or at least, financially viable is one thing, but to colorize movies intentionally shot in black and white is another.
I have the same mixed emotions. I love Westerns in color as well as costume movies and if given the chance will look at a colorized movie before the b&w version. I've heard there's a colorized one of *Colorado Territory* and would love to see one of *The Sea Hawk* if it exists.
Likewise, I've read that *The Postman Always Rings Twice* was deliberately made in b&w as was Lana Turner's being in white in all but the railroad scene where she returns from a funeral. When I saw it in color Lana/Cora's white shorts, top and turban were coral and it did not have the same impact. I admit I like color in films and if Legend id giving us a choice of which we want to see on each disc, that seems to be the best way to go.
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*Stormy Weather* tomorrow night. I’ve wanted to see this one for years after seeing clips of Lena Horne performing in it. Also many of the Vincent Sherman movies like *Nora Prentiss, Harriet Craig* and *A Fever in the Blood* that afternoon. The weather here has been rainy all this week so it’s a great time to stay in.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}I'm not familiar with this film. When did it come out? (Didnt make it here, apparently) Maybe there's still hope???
It was released in late May and I saw it about a month ago. It was about religious suppression in Mexico in the 1920's and the people's determination to resist. O'Toole played a Bishop who was executed for aiding the resisters but inspires a young parishioner to do likewise. It was a small supporting role but when he was on screen that serene smile and those expressive eyes were all you saw and you believed he was that man. The real Bishop was canonized a Saint; one hopes Mr. O'Toole's work meets with a similar if more secular reward by the Academy voters in February.
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That story about DeForest Kelley and Alan Ladd was amazing. Everything worked out as it should. While I'm not sure about Kelley being as good a Raven as Ladd I definately can't see Ladd as Bones McCoy. It shows how strange but great life is.
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Is this the only time there's been remembrances for two stars running at the same time? I saw Ernest Borgnine's last night and Andy Griffith's just now. I don't remember seeing this before.
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{font:Times New Roman}I’m getting concerned. Jake’s photos of the Jarrell Plantation showed a story about Southern life that isn’t often told but needed to be. I remember a family like them being a part of the original *Roots* series. This explains why those who weren’t rich still fought for the Confederacy.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}This does not detract from what most of the slaves had to endure because of that shameful practice but tells the whole story of what life was like during those times for all who were there. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}Bilgewasser’s photo of the slave quarters was equally enlightening but putting it out after Jake’s and the want ad for slaves after his ones of Natchez tells me he/she has a chip on his/her shoulder. I’m not racist and don’t believe Jake is either; we’re both proud of our Southern births. I think we both recognize its wrongs. Do we have to fight the Civil War over again? {font}
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This is sad news for us fans although I respect his decision and wish him well. As usual, he is doing it with class. {font}{font:Times New Roman}I’ve already said he deserves an Oscar nomination-and win-for his role in *For Greater Glory* which came out earlier this year. What a sendoff that would be. I know you’re not supposed to really campaign for one of these things but this is a worthy cause.
At least it wasn't his obituary; we've had enough of those lately.{font}
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From the comments that came with Mongo's birthday photo in the CANDIDS 2 thread she was that same person off screen that she usually was on-loving and loyal. I've always liked her too and that was good to know.
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{font:Times New Roman}The internet’s gotten you messed up again I see. We know it’s not your fault. At least we know who the birthday people are from your info tidbits. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}You’re not alone. Our area lost THIS yesterday due to contract squabbles with Hearst. I watched it a lot for the movies so it’s really the pits. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}I read last year that Sean Flynn’s remains had possibly been located not far from where he had last been heard from. He didn’t look very much like his father but had his own good looks. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman}Has anybody else seen 1957’s *Gun For a Coward* with Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, and Janice Rule? It’s another good Western with a man who said he didn’t feel comfortable doing them. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}It’s about three brothers who run a small ranch. MacMurray is the oldest and a stern man who is trying to turn a profit so he can marry his longtime girlfriend. Hunter is the middle one, a quiet man who wants to settle things without violence and is in love with his almost sister-in-law. People think he’s a coward. Dean Stockwell is the youngest, an engaged but womanizing fast gun with a temper to match.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}Their mother wants to take the middle son away from the West she hates and go back to the big city. Bless loves his mother but doesn’t want to go. When he tells her she gives up on life and dies.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}The brothers start a cattle drive with their foreman and a neighboring rancher down on his luck. Will finds he’s lost his fiancée to Bless who is also on the outs with Hade because he chose to peacefully pay the local Indians a toll in beef to cross their land rather than shoot it out. When Bless and Hade go to buy molasses in a nearby town Hade’s fast mouth and gun cause a tragedy that leads to the violence Bless hates and Audrey to defy her father when she chooses him over Will.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}Well-acted and written, it’s different in that it’s character driven and there’s not a lot of violence. A number of old hands are in the cast and it’s in color. Some might find it slow moving but that what’s what gives the characters time to develop. Three stars! {font}
Richard Rust has been popping up all over my TV and computer lately on all kinds of 50s films and TV shows. I've been waiting for a suitable thread to sing his praises but am sad he's not around to appreciate them. I first saw him on *Sam Benedict* and later *Another World* but had no idea he had such a long resume before that. He was handsome and talented and made anything he was in better. We lost him way too soon.
An article appeared in my local paper today on Paramount’s 100th anniversary. It listed what the writer considers the studio's 25 all-time best movies.
I liked this one too. Michael Pate and Leo Gordon are both in it and-shock-are good guys still arounf at the end. That alone makes it special.
Peter O'Toole Retiring
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I stand by my previous post.