slaytonf
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Am I alone in thinking Albert Finney was just as good?
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While Saturday Night Live has examined the historical perspectives of this weighty question, the cinematic possibilities are worth investigating. At the very least she would have figured largely in war propaganda films. I see her more as a character actor, rather than a lead.
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>AndyM108 posts:
> Garson seems like a very good actress who mostly got cast in genres I can't stand
You know, that is exactly what I was thinking. Oddly enough, you get the best idea of how good an actress she was in her worst movies. Perhaps she was ghettoized because of her exceptional beauty and the sense of self-composure she conveyed.
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And now that I think of it more, I think I was wrong about St. Matthew. I think I saw it on another channel.
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I think The King of Comedy and The Gospel According to St. Matthew have been shown.
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Silk Stockings always appeared to me as second rate (of course, considering the level of musicals at the time, that's not very bad). There are a number of things that interfere with my enjoyment of it, not the least of which is the painfully humiliating role Peter Lorre has. I can't imagine what could have driven him to take it. Did he need the money that badly? There is also the continual, and unavoidable comparison with Ninotchka; unfortunately, and unadvisedly encouraged by the borrowing from the original. While Fred Astaire compares well with Melvyn Douglas, Cyd Charisse, in spite of her dancing, doesn't--well, she isn't Garbo.
She is responsible for the one scene that has real charm, the one where she sheds her socialist garb for Paris fashion while dancing, butterfly from chrysalis-like is delightful. At the beginning of the next scene, when she enters, completely remade, we are hit with what a stunningly beautiful woman she was.
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Sounds like a modern remake of Far From the Madding Crowd.
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There is one quality about Barbara Stanwyck I have found to be unique. That is that whatever movie she was in, no matter how bad it was, and how poorly written her dialogue, she always spoke her lines with absolute conviction. You never doubted her belief in her role and her resolution to communicate that belief to the audience.
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Evil Roy Slade talks to his childhood friends about his new love, Betsy Potter:
Her name's Betsey, and I met her whiles we was robbin' a bank. And I kissed them red ruby lips a her's and, uh, it was goood. It was, uhhh, it was nice. You know what nice is? Well, just supposin' they's a whole herd of dead cattle, jes dropped right on the desert, jes fer yew. Heh, heh. That's nice. That's what it means.
John Astin
Evil Roy Slade
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Mrs. Bennet: . . . .and such a charming man. I--do hope he'll overlook my having disliked him so much.
Mary Boland
Pride and Prejudice
The only real rival to Billy Burke for air-headedness.
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Well, since many of the leading fashion designers of the day worked for the studios, I would say the answer to your question is: both.
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Can't say, myself, but it will be airing December 20, at 8 pm, eastern, so you will be able to hear for yourself.
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Secret Agent was made too early. The movie in question was made in the '50s.
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You can find it on major DVD sties. Movies Unlimited and Amazon have it for under $10.
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In Hildi's cab, running from the police.
Gabey: Do you think we can lose 'em?
Hildy: Sure, I know a place right across the Brooklyn Bridge where no one'll find us.
Gabey: Yeah? What is it?
Hildy: Brooklyn!
Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett
On the Town
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I thought it was Funny Face that was restored. I never heard of Funny Girl being restored.
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John Wayne and Sophia Loren in Legen of the Lost. Bad movie, good chemistry.
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John Wayne and Claudet Colbert in Without Reservations.
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Instead of Hell's Heroes, how about Three Godfathers--no, not the awful Ford/Wayne waste of time--The Boleslawski/Morris vestion? Not that HH is bad.
Foreign Legion movies brings to mind Beau Geste. Any version of that appeal to anybody?
Westward the Women takes place mostly in desert regions.
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It certainly sounds like Lauren Bacall. It is doubtful that any studio going to the trouble of dubbing would choose a voice as marginal as the one in the film.
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Oh, I just thought you were looking for a page on it in the Database. I don't know about various versions, except that I have two versions of Playtime, one in French with subtitles, and one dubbed. The run time for the TCM dvd is listed as 87 minutes:
http://shop.tcm.com/mr-hulots-holiday-dvd/detail-TCM-100188&pa=PRF-TCM-100188
So it's the same as Amazon. I think I'd go with Amazon, as it's a Criterion disk, which I hear are superior.
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I learned recently that Vera Ellen was dubbed. So too, I imagine, was Cyd Charisse. I believe Ann Miller sang her own songs, as did Jane Powell, and certainly Betty Hutton and Betty Grable.
Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood famously were dubbed, though Miss Hepburn manages to come through in a few places, and as I recall hearing once, she performed Henry Mancini's favorite version of Moon River.
I can't recall any men being dubbed. A pity. While studio heads it seemed quailed at the idea of listening to a woman's voice that was less than melodious, they apparently thought nothing of subjecting us to the scrapings the likes of Peter O'Toole, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin.
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It is,indeed. Here is is:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83708/Mr-Hulot-s-Holiday/
TCM has shown, at one time or another, all of M. Tati's major films, except Trafic. One remains hopeful.
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i spend, therefore i am somebody.
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What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?
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Yes, it certainly would have raised the film to a higher level.