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I like watching a movie with Claudette Colbert in it. I have the movie, "It Happened One Night", and it's one of my favorites. The scenes of trying to get a ride and when they are in the motel room are classics. I have one with her and Louise Beavers about a young woman who is Black but looks White. The young woman doesn't like being Black and she leaves her mother and goes away to work. Louise has to bear with her daughter for a long time and is very upset that she hasn't come home. Then Louise dies and during the funeral her daughter is there watching and she goes to the casket and apologizes to her mother and cries. I have the movie "Cleopatra" that she made and "The Palm Beach Story". You may think this is strange, but when I see her I think of a bouquet of flowers. She comes across to me that way. When she plays the role of a mother she does it to where it seems like it comes naturally to her. Recently I watched the movie, "Three Came Home". I saw it once before. It's about what the Germans did during World War 2. The scene that stands out in my mind is where she, Walter Pidgeon and their children are in a small room and German airplanes are heard overhead and then they hear bombs as they hiss when they come down. I don't like what the Germans did and how they did it during the war. This movie tells the story of the war as it really was. It's a movie worth seeing.

I agree totally with what you said. Modern day movies lack alot of what the classic movies had in them. On one hand, which of today's movies do you say that are really good to watch, not many. I don't know most of the actors and actresses that are here today. I don't watch today's movies because of all the profanity and sex and nudeness in them. I am not into any of that. When I watch a movie I want to see something that will stick with me, romance films, dramas, comedies and biographies about famous people. Movies such as "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin Hood, movies about Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Robert Schumann, Elizabeth and Essex, Romeo and Juliet, How Green Was My Valley, most of the old musicals, especially made by MGM, and others, these are the kind of movies that I like and that I watch. I am so glad for Turner Classic Movies because they show these kind of movies all of the time. There are a few modern day movies shown now and then, but not very many. I enjoy watching an all day showing of an actress or actor, to find out what other movies that they starred in. Not too long ago I watched the movie, "It Happened One Night". I have seen this once before but I enjoyed seeing it again. It's very comical when Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable are standing beside a country road waiting for someone to come to pick them up. Clark Gable is funny at how he tries to stop cars. The time when he puts his finger to his nose and calls for a car I think is pretty well done, but I love Claudette's part where she is laying on top of the fence looking at him strangely and then after awhile she comes to him and asks him if she could do it, and when she lifts her dress up a little and points her foot a car puts on it's breaks and stops. I get a kick out of that. I love watching Shirley Temple. On a CD I have a song she sang, "Animal Crackers in My Soup", she does this fantastically. Sometimes when I hear this song I say to myself, "Sing it." The movie "The Little Princess" is a sad movie, especially in the scene where she is with her father before he goes off to war. Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes. They both love each other very much and she doesn't want him to go and he doesn't really want to go either. The affection that they show is something, but when he dad asks her to turn around and face the window he says something to her that she is to say back to him. It's hard for her to say it, but she does by saying, "My daddy has to go away." You can hear the emotion in her voice. It's harder that when she is saying it and she hears the door close, she stops, but then finishes the words. On the cheerful side I love watching her sing the song, "In the Good Ship Lollipop" with the men singing along with her. Take the movie, "The Wizard of Oz". There was a movie remake of this film done that they called, "The Wiz". It is not even near what the original movie was. In "Destry Rides Again", I love the scene where James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich and many other people are in a saloon having a good time. She takes a gun and turns around and points it right at him. People quickly step away. Then when she sees that this isn't working she starts throwing beer bottles at him, and then she gets a chair and throws it at him. But before she does, Jimmy says, "Now, come on lady." The finale in this movie is very well done, and the music just makes the scene much better. What about the movie, "Gone With the Wind"? If it were made today, would it be like the original? I like MGM movies because they had a lesson in them and sayings from the Bible were mixed in with the script. I could go on and on, but I think that you know what I am trying to say. The movies of the 30's, 40's and some from the 50's is the kind of movies that I watch, and I enjoy watching them.

While I was watching "The Champ" the scene where Jackie meets a little girl and have a conversation, if you think about it Jackie comes across as older than he is. Maybe he was like this when he grew older.

This morning I watched some of the movie, "The Champ" and it is a great movie. I think I have seen it before but it has been some time ago. Then, when seeing it, the scene where Champ tells his son that he will be leaving and will be living with his mother, and that he wants Jackie to go, and other hurtful words, I remember Jackie crying pretty hard, (maybe I am getting mixed up with another one of his films.) This time I could tell that Champ really didn't mean what he was telling him, and Jackie's reaction to it is heartfelt, that his own father doesn't want him living with him anymore, and so on. I have seen the movie, "Treasure Island", but some time ago. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper were great when they were together. I wish I could have been able to stay home and watch more of Jackie's movies but I had to go to work. "The Champ" and "Treasure Island" are the only two movies of Jackie's that I have seen. I haven't seen any others with him in it. Do you think that during the 1930's that there was competition between Shirley Temple and Jackie Cooper? I do.

When you watch a movie with Gregory Peck in it, and then you watch one of Walter Pidgeon's movies, do you see any similarities? I have noticed that Gregory and Walter have the same body movements, they both have dark hair, they both are tall, the tone of their voices are about the same, they both take things with a bright and shining attitude, they both wear about the same type of suit coat. Do you see these same things? What else do you see in both of them? Are they brothers?

This movie changed my outlook on Audie Murphy. In the past I didn't like him as an actor, but after seeing this movie it showed a part of him that I never saw before. There were several scenes in the film where he was to be a higher ranked officer or go to West Point and his reply was, "What about the other soldiers?" He wasn't self centered, but thought more of his comrades getting a higher ranking than he did. His mother's death was a difficult time to go through and I feel that what he did in the war he did it for his mother. During battles he took some high risks, such as running ahead to get a fallen comrade while in danger of being killed by the Germans. In another scene he was offered a higher ranked position in another company, but he turned it down because of wanting to still be a part of the company of soldiers that he was with. His mother must have taught him that it was wrong to drink and to smoke because in some scenes when a soldier was smoking he would take the cigarette out of his mouth and throw it away and if a soldier was drinking he took the bottle away and smashed it. He was short of stature and was made fun of but he didn't let it get to him. The more good that he did on the battlefields the more his comrades were in support of him. It's no wonder that he received as many medals as he did.

In the early 1940's there was a movie made about coal, a coal mine and a fire. It is called, "How Green Was My Valley". Roddy McDowell was the youngest boy, Maureen O'Hara was his sister, there were 2 older brothers, Sara Allgood was the mother and Donald Crisp was the father. There is almost a fight because the men that work who live in the next valley and the men from the other valley complain about the wage they get, as it is too low. Donald Crisp is the owner of the mine and one day the men from his valley come to protest and one of them throws a rock through the window of the house. Then one night there is an explosion. The siren goes off at the mine and the community gathers there only to find that when the cage is brought up there is no one in it. A little later Roddy goes into the cave to look for his father and finds him trapped under large wooden beams, unable to be freed. The father dies and goes to Heaven and soon he sees his family there also. This is a beautiful movie and is heartwarming, but sad also. If this movie didn't get any Academy Awards or Oscars, it should have. Each actress and actor did a remarkable job with their roles. The two scenes that touch my heart the most is when the mother and Roddy are in their beds and use wooden poles to communicate from one floor to the other and the boy sees two birds on the windowsill singing. He turns to Angharad and asks, "Spring?" The other is where the Pastor carries the boy up on a hill and commands him to walk. The boy is afraid and the Pastor implores him to walk. The boy begins to walk but he falls into the arms of the Pastor. The Pastor says, "That's a good lad." They walk hand in hand over the top of the hill and start down the other side where the sun is shining brightly.

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