slaytonf
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Thanx, I'll try it in the future.
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Why a duck?
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Oops! Credit goes to you!
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Allow me to officially, and belatedly, say yerright!.
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No, sorry. Smaller stature.
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Well, that's certianly a lot over a picture. What I don't understand is why it shows up on my screen. Perhaps it's because it's my computer, my actions. I'll explore another way. I'll place the photo in Preview, place it on tinypic, then paste it to this page. This will have the advantage, I think of disguising the source. Here goes:
Can anyone see it?
I don't know if I provied any more clues, I won't make it too easy. Let's just say that though she was a big star, her stature wasn't great.
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OK, how about another older pic of a younger star? Who is this admirable lady?:
Her heyday was in the silent era. In her class, she was at the top, however, her fortune was squandered by others. She suffered an eclipse that lasted many decades, until she regained success in another field, and recognition for her movie work.
Hmm. That's an original narrative. . .
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Can't think of ten right away. The Yearlling, for one.
I'll second Cold Turkey.
Edited by: slaytonf on Sep 25, 2012 10:50 PM
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Don't forget Panic in the Streets.
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Happy to help.
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Sounds like Vivacious Lady, with, yes indeed, James Stewart, and Ginger Rogers:
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I hate insincerity more than anything. Well, not more than anything, but a whole lot. What makes me bring this up is the showing of Gilda on The Essentials, the movie with the biggest cop-out ending of all. This was followed with, among others, Where It's At. Not a great movie, but it had a certain appeal, a certian honest unsentimentality to it, and it tried to have bit of a different way of putting the film together, even though it didn't always work. And I've always liked Brenda Vaccaro and had a rough appreciation for David Jansen. I liked the way the son took his cue from his father and turned the tables on him with his own petard. But you get the same old ending. You have to reaffirm the conventional mores. So everything the film was building up to was tossed out in the final scene and the guy ends up hugging his father! Ugh! I wouldn't even have minded if the same thing had happened, even if he had intentionally thrown away his winning card, because he realized he wasn't giving up anything he really wanted. But the way they made it look like he was doing so his dear ol' pappy wouldn't feel bad! And all the hard-nosed, hard-edged, hard-headed messages of the father turn in to a lot of sentimental mushy soft soap. How lame.
This happens time and again in movies. Even in the celebrated pre code-enforcement movies of the early thirties. The emancipated views of human relations and sexuality, the powerful women, the exploration of different values, are almost universally retreated from at the end, and the conventional values are rushed to, usually with arbitrary and ridiculous abruptness. There are a few movies from then which are true to their premises, for which I am grateful, Red Headed Woman, The Greeks Had a Word for Them, Trouble in Paradise, and Employee's Entrance among them.
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There are a lot of movies on your list I would like to see on TCM. Many are definitely classics, like the Ozu, Ray, Resnais, Bresson, Antonioni, and Bunuel films. But a number are still too new, as Swithin has said. But they could be shown as part of a larger programming theme. I think L'Eclisse and Once Upon a Time in America have been shown on TCM.
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Also, don't completely trust what's there. The list may not show all the films an actor is in. Keep an eye on the schedule.
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Bring Your Smile Along
You Can't Win 'Em All
Siren of Bagdad
Contempt (in a contemptible format)
and--omigod
Lawrence of Arabia-is there nowhere to escape this movie?
I haven't watched it, so I don't know if they 4:3'd it.
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Gladys Jennings?
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It will be on Thursday, November 27 at Two A. M., Eastern:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/326478/Sunrise-A-Song-of-Two-Humans/
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I think we need to look for someone from Illinois.
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O.K.:
A popular child star in the silents. Her screen name supplied that of a child's hat company. As a woman, her willowy beauty and grace led her to be cast in society girl roles, both as lead and supporting actress. Her best known picture (this is what really gives it away) is one where she and others attend a dinner party at a certain hour that is both a disaster and success.
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Before I do, how about a chance with another picture?
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OK, let's try this:
It's still her eyes.
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Mongo only pawn in game of life.
Alex Karras
Blazing Saddles
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It's her eyes that will give her away:
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Does Ben Turpin's Moustache Change With His Status as a Movie Star?
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It seems smaller in his earlier pictures. Sometimes it's straight across his upper lip, sometimes it's arced. Sometimes its low on his lip, sometimes it hugs his nose. Sometimes it's flat and tame. Sometimes it looks like a furry animal devouring his upper lip. In Broke in China, it was funny to see him as a baby without it. It would have been funnier to see him with it. Sometimes it's too much. I end up looking at the moustache all the time, and not paying attention to the movie. Except when I'm looking at his crossed eyes.