wouldbestar
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}To quote Merle Haggard, *You're on the Fighting Side of Me.* This lady is one on my heroines as she could and did play every kind of character and, unlike another current New York actress, never let the accent get in the way.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Two of her performances stand out for me: a mid-50's *Matinee Theater* play where she plays an inmate who volunteers for a drug experiment so she can wear lipstick and be called "Miss Williams" rather than just her last name. It told more about prison life than the movies TCM showed last week and she was heartbreaking. The other was a sitcom where she played the ditzy ex-wife to Larry Hagman's uptight ex-husband. They couldn't make it together and he was married to another woman but like him we saw her vulnerability and sweetness as well as the nuttiness that drove him crazy. My Mom loved her as Cal's stripper girlfriend, Lusty Weather, on *Bourbon Street Bea*t. I'm glad she's still alive. {font}
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{font:}{color:black}Thank you for showing us that unlike the character she played on that *Twilight Zone* episode, Number 12 Looks Just Like Me, Collin Wilcox was a very attractive woman. I always liked that she went by Wilcox-Horn during her marriage; I'm supposing it didn't last.{font}
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{font:}{color:black}The William Talman looks like it was from *Underworld USA.* There were times when he made us like Hamilton Burger on *Perry Mason* which shows why he was such a good actor. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}That is how it was reported in the paper where I was living at the time. Believe me; I'm glad to know it is not true about his children. I really appreciate being corrected when I'm misinformed especially in a situation like this one. Thank you, fredbaetz, I can always count on you for "just the facts, ma'am".{font}
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What a beautiful picture of new Americans, the Sakalls. Like Rocky, they believed that America was still the land of opportunity.
I also loved Connie Gilchrist since I saw her on the Long John Silver series with Robert Newton. One reason I prefer the 1940's Little Women is that you get to see both Ellen Corby and her; that's a real 2-fer.
Edited by: wouldbestar on Feb 3, 2012 9:01 PM
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Am going to try the frozen roast this week-end but not with horseraddish as I don't like it. I have some pot roast seasoning I've rubbed in and wii use Heinz 57 sause rather than mustard. The easy cake mix cookies is one I'll try next. Thank you all for the tips.
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Today is Peggy Ann Garner's birthday and CANDIDS 2 posted a picture of her with Albert Salmi on their wedding day. The marriage failed but it gets worse. Salmi remarried and when his career went south moved to Washington State and went into real estate. When this marriage seemed headed for divorce, he killed his wife, children and himself. I find it hard to watch him in anything now.
It was also Suzan Ball's birthday and there was a photo of her with husband Richard Long after she lost her leg. She died of cancer shortly thereafter at only 25.
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Years ago each movie/short/cartoon during Oscar month was preceded with a display saying why the movie was either nominated or had won an Oscar...including for costuming, direction, etc. I never understood why this was dropped.{font}{font:}{color:black}{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Thank you very much for this post. I miss the award/nomination info as well for my own information as well as others. It showed that even lesser quality films had something or someone's performance to offer fans. What an inspiration to newcomers to the business this is. Always do your best no matter what you're stuck in; it will get you noticed. {font}
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{font:}{color:black}You picked two great *TZ* episodes. MeTV has The Big Tall Wish scheduled for Monday night; I understand this was Serling's favorite one. {font}
{font:}{color:black}Make certain that you watch the last *Newhart* episode if you've never seen or heard about it. I won't spoil it for you but you'll never forget it.{font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}SansFin wrote:{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black} Ouzo is also very good for that. It is the only drink I have ever had that made my teeth soft. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I have enjoyed much of the work of everybody on the list today and am pleased most of them are around to get the praise.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I'm glad I waited until late to view this as Bruce Gordon's-a/k/a Frank Nitti-pic would have scared me out of my wits this morning. I don't know what he was like for real but he was so menacing on *The Untouchables* that we kids would cringe when he came on. That's one guy Billy Mumy's Anthony could have sent to the cornfield and it would have really been “a very good thing”.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Thanks for remembering Nancy Gates and Andrea King. They were always believable in whatever role they played. I've never seen Clark Gable and Stuart Whitman look better.{font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}If you like Pamela Tiffin, join me in begging TCM for *Viva Max* with Peter Ustinov. He's a mid-level Mexican Army officer who tries to make a splash by leading an attempt to retake the Alamo. She's one of the tour guides who comes to care about him. {font}*{font:}Warning to John Wayne fans{font}*{font:}: {font}{font:}{color:black}The movie-you know which one-gets a lot of ribbing. I remember this being funny but with its serious moments and a lot of warmth or serious with a lot of comic moments and warmth. {font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}My mom saw one she was in about racing that she liked. I can't remember the title but I think Doug McClure was in it too. I think she married a man involved with the New Yorker magazine the first time and let her career go; I don't know about afterwards. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I hope I can get an answer before I send this back to e-bay. I ordered what was supposed the entire *Wiseguy *series etc.{font}{font:}{color:black} {font}{font:}{color:black}{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I put this out a week ago and got no bites on my line. Should I have inquired on another thread? Or did I answer my own question? It was a serious one and from what I've read this wasn't the only example. {font}
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James Franciscus and Suzanne Pleshette shared the same birthday? They made two films together and were a great team with their contrasting coloring and talent. Great way to end the month.
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casablancalover: I am in heaven thanks to you! Besides that beautiful music I got to see scenes not only fron our version but about six of the others as well. Most of them were the non-wedding and meeting with Bertha so I had the chance for some real comparisons. All had their good points but I'll stick with our movie.
One odd thing was the various differences in costumes. Just what did an 1840 bride look like? I've always loved Joan's lacy full one but would have considered some of the others. The headdresses with the sun-visor hats and veil were a hoot. I remember the A&E version of Pride & Prejudice had Elizabeth married in one and that was about twenty or thirty years previous. I'll go back for more later. Thank you, sir.
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{font:Times New Roman} {font:}{color:black}I feel awful! I really wanted to see this movie but fell asleep halfway through it and woke up just before the showdown scene between Tessa and Florence. It might not have been the movie but the La Septima nightclubs keeping me awake on week-end nights. {font}
{font:}{color:black}I agree that the beginning was not interesting but did think Joan looked convincing as a gangly teen-ager; it kept me from looking at her face and seeing 24 rather than 16. With all that collapsing her dying was rather a given even if you missed a part. I’m not a Boyer fan but can accept that two other women might want him. In that last scene did Florence give Lewis his freedom not knowing that Tessa had just died in the next room? If so what an ironic ending. {font}
{font:}{color:black}I’ll try to watch this all the way through but from what I saw the two star rating is correct.{font}
{font:}{color:black}I saw *Born to be Bad *and have seen* Ivy* and *Letter from an Unknown Woman*. All are good. You know how much I love *Ivanhoe.* You might like *The Bigamist* with Edmond O’Brien and Ida Lupino as well. It was produced by Ida and her ex-husband who was then married to Joan-I wonder, did he feel like one during production? Oh and Boyer starred with Olivia in *Hold Back the Dawn* which got her an Oscar nomination and I actually liked him in. He’s a cad there too but redeemable. He seemed to bring good luck to both sisters.{font}
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Edited by: wouldbestar on Jan 31, 2012 6:02 PM
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{font:}This movie is almost a Western version of the 1935 *Mutiny on the Bounty*. There is really no mutiny here but you have the likable junior officer and the unlikable leader, and that conflict makes the movie.{font}
{font:}{color:black}Does anybody else remember the line from *A Horse with No Name* that said “The desert is an ocean with its life underground”? {font}
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{font:}From the comments on these boards over the years, I believe that REBECCA is just about everyone's favorite Fontaine performance{font}{font:}{color:black}.{font}
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{font:}{color:black}Not mine; it's *Jane Eyre* which is on tonight. I think Orson Welles and she make a great romantic team; at least I believe them as lovers. Add to that Elizabeth Taylor showing even then she had the goods, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Agnes Moorehead and the gothic setting and you have a real gem. It's also nice for us who remember that far back to see Hillary Brooke without her Amana refrigerator. Curling up for a great night. {font}
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{font:Calibri}Meg, you’ve got that right! We shall not see his like again. {font}
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{font:Calibri}I remember back in 2005 when TCM and SAG really went all out to honor Charles Lane on his 100^th^ birthday. He deserved it. It was nice that when he left us two years later he knew how appreciated he was. {font}
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{font:Calibri}Newman and Hopper-what a day of eye candy for us ladies. But I’m betting that Anne Jeffreys photo did the same for you guys.{font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}I hope I can get an answer before I send this back to e-bay. I ordered what was supposed the entire *Wiseguy* series including the Steven Bauer shows some of which were never shown. They are all there but the second half of season two which dealt with the record industry and had Glenn Frey, Tim Curry and Paul Winfield among others. There is no reason given why and this was one of the three best arcs after the Steelgrave and Profit ones. I was really looking forward to seeing it. Does anybody know why it's MIA from the set? I'm thinking it has to do with music rights as they couldn't use Knights in White Satin that was in the network broadcast in the Steelgrave DVD. There was a two-hour movie version made o few years after the show ended as well but I've only been able to find it on Spanish TV which I don't understand.{font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}My take on your question about motive: I think it was a good turn by a man not as tough as he let on. He didn't want Debra to hurt for no reason as he was hurting for what he though was one. He thought that Lora Mae didn't love him and would use this as divorce fodder but admitted to the defection anyway. To his shock, Lora Mae takes his return as proof he loves her-she thought he didn't-and he sees she does him. A three year old marriage really begins and Debra goes home to hers. In her own way the unseen Addie brings three couples closer and saves their marriages.{font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}TomJH: Okay, I'll give *Crossed Swords* a try the next time I can. For me in most of his movie and TV appearances during the 50's he seemed to speak in a monotone with little expression in his voice or face. It was a real difference from the exuberance of his early performances and it was disheartening. I do agree that *Don Juan* swordfight looks great on screen but I've heard how difficult it was for him to do. I'm game for giving it and *Ballantrae* another try.{font}
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I caught the error when he said it but since Errol looked closer to 51 than 42 and sounded so bored and jaded through the whole thing I figured RO wasn’t that far off. I just couldn't buy him in this role as I could have had he made it 10 years earlier when he seemed to give a damn. I actually feel the same about *Don Juan.*
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{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Wonderful photo of Leon Ames, the grouchy but loving father we all wish we'd had if we didn't.{font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}When I saw the Colin Clive photo, I first though it was Ed Nelson. I'm not familiar with his work so some research is in order. {font}
{font:Times New Roman} {font}{font:}{color:black}Any reason to see *A Face in the Crowd *is a good one; Patricia Neal and Andy Griffith are perfect in their roles. Lonesome Rhodes always makes me think of Arthur Godfrey.{font}
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My error. There was a male actor with the last name of Horn when she began being billed as Collin Wilcox-Horn and I assumed she had married him. That is who I meant. Do you mean Bill Paxton? If not, who?