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"An Affair to Remember"?

Wow Feaito! You got it! If I was on "Who wants to be a Millionaire", you'd be my phone-a-friend for the classics! (PS - You didn't even give me a chance to use "rubbers" or "birthday girl", etc....) Carry on!

Sorry, feaito, but not yet... Hint #2: Infidelity

I have one while were waiting! Hope no one minds... Hint #1: cottages

Man that didn't help me at all. Since Neil Simon was squelched, I'll go with that other famous New Yorker and say "Annie Hall"?

"Vertigo"?

I'll take the first stab: "The Raven" (1935)?

...and include the new rule: "if you're gonna drop the ball, just don't play"

hehe.. Good echo effect, slappy! I was kind of anxious for it to start again too.

(I think) I only caught the preview of Nosferatu - wasn't that the one where the wrinkly old man (or vampire?) with long fingers was gliding kind of jerkily across the stairwell landing? If so, that DID look wicked!

Thanks mirabelle, but I did a little research on Joan Crawford's filmography and punched up a few summaries of titles I hadn't seen...I'm starting to think the film I'm talking about is "Susan and God" (1940) with Fredric March? Anyone seen this ,or specifically, recall a scene of a husband being drunk and they have a fight in this house with a kitchen off to the left? (I don't think I ever watched the movie all the way through).

Thanks for your inputs 121 and cf, but regarding my movie in question it fits the plot of baseball guy's original post (Twins-Who? - the same parental-rights thing, the same single-dad-raising. I would add I think it's a terrific film with powerful scenes; I'm wanting to say the husband was an alcoholic. And it wasn't so much a cottage (poor word choice) but a modest house in Mayberry Americana.

I'm suprised so many of you hold Ava Gardner in such glowing esteem. To me, she DOES fit this thread's parameters, but only as far as "physical" beauty. Have you guys forgotten the humiliating insults she spewed regarding Mickey Rooney following their divorce? I say, if you can't be amicable, at least be discreet... Her self-serving attitude is the EPITOME of dumb! (Moira I know you meant the "dumb" to refer to acting ability, but that fits too!)

You think, Joe? I would say 60, max.

DM, I am an MST3K junkie myself. You can still find it on Saturday mornings, 9-11am (Eastern) on the Sci-Fi Channel.

I only saw the intro to TKAM, but I didn't get it either. They are fashion designers, but what did the movie have to do with fashion? Kate only mentioned Gregory Peck's "white linen suit" once. They seemed to cut each other off alot, you're right.

Mongo, if that's the same movie I'm thinking of, I agree the black guy gave a good performance. But wasn't his character a bit insubordinate and even volatile?? Rather than go through the proper channels for discrimination, he seemed more like a candidate for anger-management...

Classicsfan it wasn't Mildred Pierce. I remember a scene in the house so vividly - it was a small cottage and you walk in and there's the kitchen off to the left, and a short-wall partition, I recall Joan and her husband are arguing. I'm wanting to say Joan came into some money and was going back home to her blue collar husband? Man, did I dream this??

Wasn't there a Joan Crawford movie with a similar premise? It would have been older, but I can see the little cottage house, a picket fence, and the road frontage as she comes back home....I think her mother was a significant character...Geeze it's been so long since I saw it!

Slappy I tried to send you an e-mail, as I hate to take up space on this, but it was returned to sender. Suffice it to say, you are wrong dude! *S* The blonde, Judy, was their downfall!

I liked Sidney Poitier for his choice of vehicles. He was wonderful in "A Touch of Blue", "Raisin in the Sun" and "Band of Angels" - and the screenplays themselves were very enjoyable. He was also the most handsome until Blair Underwood came along.

Personally, I think it's just as effective to have that little "In Memoriam" still photo in between features - the ones with the "TCM Remembers..." and the 19xx-2003. They're only like 10-second spots, but some of those alone are pretty heartwrenching, and they always pick a fabulous photo from the star's prime. I think an all-day tribute is a little much. (Except for maybe Katharine Hepburn or someone of equal calibre.)

I found this by typing in the title on Webcrawler...It may give you some more key words to search? (PS - your recall of the storyline is great. Sorry I couldn't find the movie) GENEVIEVE, GENOVEVA or GENOVEFA, OF BRABANT, heroine of medieval legend. Her story is a typical example of the widespread tale of the chaste wife falsely accused and repudiated, generally on the word of a rejected suitor. Genovefa of Brabant was said to be the wife of the palatine Siegfried of Treves, and was falsely accused by the majordomo Gob. Sentenced to death she was spared by the executioner, and lived for six years with her son in a cave in the Ardennes nourished by a roe. Siegfried, who had meanwhile found out Gob?s treachery, was chasing the roe when he discovere,d her hiding-place, and reinstated her in her former honour. Her story is said to rest on the history of Marie of Brabant, wife of Louis II., duke of Bavaria, and count-palatine of the Rhine, who was tried by her husband and beheaded on the 18th of January 1256, for supposed infidelity, a crime for which Louis afterwards had to do penance. The change in name may have been due to the cult of St Genevieve, patroness of Paris. The tale first obtained wide popularity in L?Innocence reconnue, ou vie de Sainle Genevieve de Brabant (pr. 1638) by the Jesuit Ren? de C?risier (1603?1662), and was a frequent subject for dramatic representation in Germany.

Slappy I'm with you on the '68 NOTLD!! I have it on VHS (am I the only person in America yet to purchase a DVD??) and love it for the suspenseful character-study of strangers thrown together in a crisis. And it's actually somewhat realistic and believable, unlike so many others. IFC has it aired as a "Talking During the Movie" feature with George Romero doing an actual voice-over simulcast talking about his budget, casting, location, and other trivia. You should catch it if you can!

While great in theory, I think it would be virtually impossible to schedule shorts with any accuracy. I know nothing about the field, so consider my incompetence, but I always felt like the shorts were fillers - as something they pulled off a rack spontaneously to fill the void in the time alloted. Have you ever got ready to watch a movie at say 5:00 and you sit down to the final scene of the previous movie? By the time the ending credits roll it's like 5:04 or some such. How could they know to allow for technical difficulties, audio problems, broken film, etc?