JamesJazGuitar

The actress or the hairdo?

I'm a big fan of The Crimson Kimono since my mom is Japanese coming to the USA after she married my American father in the 50s. We lived in the area and would go to all the sites in the film; e.g. the Buddhist temple was my mom's temple. I'm not aware of Malone's comments so I have to check those out.

I think this type of voice would scare any animal away more so than a voice like Orson Welles.

When you worked for the airlines, you were the "voice" that the passengers would hear, correct? I assume so and that everyone liked your voice expect for Kirk Douglas.

Yea, Dargo knew this already and he knew I knew it already. PS: love your avatar from Too Late for Tears. The film where Scott gets the better of Duryea proving the femme fatale is stronger than the male noir figure, yet again.

I agree that most people are biased toward a deep and resonant voice as being more authoritarian (i.e. most trusting, more likely to take seriously etc..), but I assume this is a learned behavior. I.e. it is not "primal" but learned based on experience. I.e. most announcers had such voices so our expectations were set that this was the "right" (or "best"), voice for the job.

The company of over 800 employees hired an outside HR consulting firm and everyone is required to participate. This video was only the first step. It is my understanding the majority of corporations are doing this in either 2021 or 2022. George Floyd is the reason. As for "primal inclination": I find that hard to believe; what you're saying is that people were born to be sexist.

As for "voices might be fair game": I was listening to my jazz radio station and there was a host I hadn't heard before; she said "I'm going to be your new favorite host"; Well I said to myself NO!!! I didn't like her voice. The pitch was too high and I just didn't like the sound. But since I just took a work sponsored session on unconscious bias and inclusion, I realized I was being biased. I like deep male, mellow sounding voices for my radio host since that is what I was used to. It wasn't so much what the host was saying or their knowledge of jazz (since this type of host doesn't get to say much anyhow), but just my initial impression of one's voice. So I decided that I wouldn't turn her off but instead see if I could get use to her voice. My male friends refuse to listen to female NBA announcers but I was able to trick them; I played a game where I knew Doris Burke was the announcer. She has a fairly deep voice so one can't place the gender. She is also very knowledge about the game. So one of them said "I like this announcer, who is he?"! Ah, the earth shifted,,,, slightly.

Just to ensure clarity: I placed the album on a pedal looper which allows one to repeat either the entire song, or just certain parts over-and-over again. I did this so I could use the album as part of practicing. One just uses the foot to hit the pedal to repeat. (much easier then picking up the needle on a record player and wearing out the record).

Where are you getting this "back in the day"? It was my understanding that under the studio-system, the studio would provide the potential nominees as well as the category. I don't have details about My Cousin Rachel, but it could have been contractual on DeHavilland's part. My Cousin Rachel being somewhat of a come-back film (3 years after winning an Oscar for The Heiress), could have had it in her contract that she was the only leading actor in the film. Another reason is that the studio felt Burton had a better chance of being one of the limited number of nominees in the Supporting Category verses the Leading one. I.e. better to have him nominated in that category than no category at all.

Here is what Wiki has: (nothing about smell): By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. For her portrayal as the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nominations but after three seasons, she grew dissatisfied with the role and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, reportedly did not appreciate Hagen's departure, and her character was killed off rather than recast, the first TV character to be killed off in a family sitcom.[citation needed] Marjorie Lord was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played opposite Thomas successfully for the remainder of the series.

Scott Brady and Glen Corbett.

Funny but I just watched Gunsmoke and Scott Brady was the guest star. I was trying to remember films he was in and He Walked by Night was one. A fine film as you note. Brady is likely best known as Joan Crawford's discarded lover in Johnny Guitar; The Dancing Kid.

Yea, those two titles tend to confuse folks; Both films are good with They Drive by Night, a WB re-adaptation of the Davis\Muni Bordertown, giving Ida Lupino a chance to go-nuts and chew up the scenery, my favorite Raft performance and the supporting WB contract players like Bogie, Sheridan, Alan Hale, etc.. They Live by Night is a film with a very melancholy vibe, where one roots for the young couple knowing they are doomed from the start.

Yea, I was going to post the Chet Adkins - Picks on the Beatles album yesterday but got distracted. I had this album that I put on a looper so I could play it over and over again, learning all of the guitar parts. I play many Beatles songs as instrumental songs and I'm sometimes ask; hey, that guitar solo,,,, I don't recall hearing that on a Beatles album; NOPE, it came from this fine Adkins record. I really like what Chet does on I'll Cry Instead and She Loves You.

Looks like someone confused two different Gene Kelly films; Philp Silvers is in Cover Girl with Rita Hayworth (1944).

Eddie Muller's book is Dark City;

I wish Eddie would show the noir Manhandled (1949), with Dorothy Lamour, Dan Duryea, and Hayden. Not a great film but it has its moments especially a death scene with a car. Being a Paramount film, that could be why Eddie hasn't feature it.

What "they" are you referring too? If TCM, I believe you have nothing to worry about; TCM has made it clear that they will not ban, edit or censor culturally sensitive content. This came up with the series TCM just had about so called problematic films. E.g. some people wished for TCM to remove or shorten the Mickey Rooney scenes in Breakfast At Tiffaney. TCM made clear that they wouldn't do that; that does something like that does not increase cultural awareness. As for activist and just everyday people complaining about content and wishing companies like TCM would ban (cancel), certain films, actors, directors etc... People have always done that. They are just a lot louder now thanks to social media (well really no-thanks IMO). This can not be prevented or even reduced. All we can hope for is that companies like TCM don't react to their request (and so far TCM is doing that).

The title is fine; I.e. I don't see much of a difference between underrated, undervalued, etc... All still assume the POV of others. I.e. WHO are those that are undervaluing someone? But hey, I find this thread interesting and fun in that it provides insight in the views of forum members about actors they really appreciate or value, that "others" may not to the same degree. Related to this, my new year resolution was to not assume who "they are" when someone uses the term "they". I did this because I found out that my view of who "they are" were often a lot different than the view of the person say "they" (or "them"). I do understand that my questions about "who are they" can be annoying!

Clapton helped Harrison become a better guitar player and Harrison helped Clapton become a better songwriter. At the end of the day, Clapton got the better end of this partnership!

Very fine performance by Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians, but having only one-arm gives one a leg up when it comes to being nominated.

"Blue Rondo à la Turk" is a jazz standard composition by Dave Brubeck. It appeared on the album Time Out in 1959. It is written in 9\8 time, with one side theme in 4\4, and the choice of rhythm was inspired by the Turkish aksak time signatures. Yea, rather odd for Western listeners.