slaytonf
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>clore:
>We also see the back of his head in MISSION TO MOSCOW.
There is a pattern here. Do you suppose filmmakers found that to be more photogenic than his face?
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I like those pics you're posting, FredC. You are right about her silent carreer. In fact, it is much more extensive than her sound film career. Marie's silents include The Racket, and The Godless Girl.
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So, Swithin, we have Bill Murray's upcoming FDR movie (which I will count) and the back of his head in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Is that it? Thats surprising, considering he's one of the handfull of most influential Presidents.
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Wow, that took a while. Yer right, it's a man. Unless yer familiar with the movie, yull probly not get it. There was something magic about it, with a couple of grand guys. (Hint, hint)
Got a message from Kid_Dabb about the pic I posted. The above was a reply to his post that I thought I posted, but evidently didn't. If no one guesses the movie from the hints I gave, I'll tell who it is tomorrow.
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Sepiatone, was FDR President in Sunrise at Campobello?
Someone mentioned earlier James Whitmore's Give 'Em Hell, Harry! But wasn't he the ex-President recalling his life? I think your MacArthur reference is the valid one.
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Thanks for your impressive list, Wayne. I was interested in movies where the man (as it still is) was President, so John Kennedy in PT 109 won't work. But the Missiles of October, even though it is a TV movie, could.
Were John Q. Addams and Van Buren President in the time that Amistad takes place?
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Well, you never know. After all, McKinley was portrayed just a couple days ago in This is My Affair.
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I must have too little to do. Perhaps I should employ myself with more valuable occupations, like sorting my spare change by denomination, date, and mint. Anyway. . . .
I'm thinking of their portrayal while they were President, so movies like Young Mr. Lincoln don't count. Modern Presidents, of course can't have classic films for them, but I'm not so particular. Please note one film with each President, that is, if you don't have anything better to do:
Theodore Roosevelt--The Wind and the Lion
Frankiln Roosevelt--Yankee Doodle Dandy (hm, not the best of examples)
Abraham Lincoln--Of human Hearts (sorry, it's the only one I could think of)
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I forgot she was in Sporting Blood. I like that movie. Though the story is nothing special, the dialogue is good, and the cast, even Clark Gable, do a good job, especially Ernest Torrence. The shots in the opening sequence are beautiful, perhaps due to Harold Rosson's (The Wizard of Oz, On the Town) cinematography. There is a wonderful and powerful moment when Torrence's character, instead of crushing a little boy's spirit for contributing to the death of his favorite mare, has him help in caring for her foal.
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And the champion:
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>TikiSoo posts:
>that awful Hollywood Babylon book account of Marie which has since been debunked
That book seems to be riddled with inaccuracies, from what I've encountered. I don't care to perpetuate myths and libels, yet I am interested in her real story. Would you be able to give us an outline of it without the fake, so we can start promoting the true one?
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A woefully neglected actress, she started out as a silent film beauty and morphed into an early talkie sidekick. She had an excellent comic sense, as can be seen in tonight's movie, Ladies of Leisure. Her best turn was in a Mae Clark movie, The Good Bad Girl. She plays a brilliant scene at a breakfast table loaded with food, which she indulges in, while strictly preventing her sugar daddy from having anything, to keep him on his diet.
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> after Dargo2:
> I can't think of too many leading men back in the day who might've looked good in drag.
Except they all looked better than Jane Fonda.
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>darkblue sez:
>Loved Elizabeth Montgomery!
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There is a film of hers I'd like to see again, called Missing Pieces. I think it's a TV movie. She plays a novice PI ivestigating the murder of her reporter husband.
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That's surprising. Jane Fonda looks like her dad. In any case, so what yer sayin is Henry Fonda in drag doesn't look hot?
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Ah, the quarterly Jane Fonda thread.
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Too true. Not the good version, so BigMacintosh has the opportunity to see the better one.
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He doesn't have a French wife, but the description sounds like Cimmaron with Richard Dix and Irene Dunne:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/14798/Cimarron/
It will be on again on February 11, next year.
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You make a lot of good points. TCM, it seems, has been subtly, intentionally, or by default through economic necessity, redefining classic. My thinking on this subject can be stated in a few remarks. Classic can be viewed two ways. One is generally the films produced in Hollywood during the studio era (the 20's to the early 60s) by the studios and the independent producers that buzzed around them. These would include all the few old great and good films, as well as the many more ho-hum and outright bad ones. Classic can also mean great, significant, influential, or otherwise noteworthy, independent of age. The Maltese Falcon, would still be considered classic. Star Wars, though not made in the studio era, is a monumentally important film (regardless of your opinion of it), and is also classic. Films that don't have a quality about them that distinguishes them are not classic, regardless of age.
No matter what anyone's view of classic is, it's still important and justified for TCM to show films after the studio era, even up to today. There are many things in recent films that have relevance for viewing and appreciating older films, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and others from the studio era involved with them. Also the development of, or divergence from, earlier of styles of filmmaking in terms of theme, acting, visuals and other elements, can be exampled.
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If I remember correctly, TCM inaugurated New Year's Eve celebrations with a moviethon of all the Rogers/Astaire movies. Since then, the tradition, if that's what it can be called, has deteriorated considerably, as this year's NY'sE programming attests. This is too bad. In the past, the programming has been a popular go-along with our parties. So I suggest we suggest possible programming for future year end celebrations. I'll start with a few:
Preston Sturges films.
Heist films. There are lots of fun ones, including Topkapi, The Hot Rock, and Duffy. Some might also suggest The Italian Job (the original), but I don't care for it so much.
Bond films. I know we've seen em before, and it likely won't happen again, but it would be nice to see em in a row. Not all of em, but at least the Connery ones. Or, alternately:
Bond Spoofs, or espionage films. These can include *Our* Man Flint, Casino Royale (the original), Modesty Blaise, and, if some want it, a Matt Helm film.
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We see The Old Dark House every once in a while. If it's any indication of the others, we're missing a lot.
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How about Captured!, with Leslie Howard and David Niven?:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/642/Captured-/
It is not an infiltration of a German base, but about prisoners in a POW camp in WWI. However, the prisoners stage an escape at the end and fly off in German planes at a nearby aerodrome.
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One thing I'm definitely not looking at in that shot is the wall.
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A voice of reason. I think TCM is better today than it has been.
Have all the Presidents been portrayed in film?
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