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Greta Garbo, I believe. But not Norma Shearer.

She could have given Dame Edith Evans a run for her money as Lady Bracknell in Shaw's "The Importance of Being Earnest".

Hey! I'm prolific!:

Hm, now that would be a plus in a movie for me.

Don't forget The Naked and the Dead (1958).

Yes the print was atrocious, and at times was a hard struggle to stay with. No doubt it muted a lot of the power and poetry of the movie. Its a fine illustration of the dangers of religious fanaticism. And the necessity of strong rational opposition to it. I have a slightly different take on some of the characters. While the grandfather is rightly blameworthy in his infatuation with his goddess, and his expectation that he be rewarded by her for his years of devotion, Doyamoyee is more of an naive victim who pays a terrible price in the loss of her sanity. Though her husband Umaprasad sees what's wrong, his weakness permits the tragedy to unfold.

Take that!

Maybe you have Russian selected for your preferred language. But don't ask me where to go to reset it.

I think they should all be French and Indian War movies. Oh, wait, there wasn't a United States then. Dang.

Viting is offensive. It is most repubnant to me even to mention it, let alone practice it.

oh, you mean like all quiet on the western front (1930), and the big parade (1925), and the bridge on the river kwai (1957), and paths of glory (1957).

But you asked to vite, not select.

Well, to go to the original premise of this thread, the reason I talked not about the Nicholas brothers, or Miss Horne, or Mr. Calloway, is that Mr. Mankiewicz did talk about them and I wanted to put a light on the vast wealth of talent he didn't have time to mention, like: And:

I've never vited for anything in my life, and I don't plan to start now.

Iv'e got it! It's the people who post about remembering this movie who are the ghosts. And they died--well, I don't know how they died, but if we go to each one of their profiles, they will each one of them disappear, until after the last one disappears, this thread will disappear because all along it has been itself a ghost thread!

Oh, you cruel person!

The second actress reminds me of Helen Hays.

Of course, they are unforgettable. I did not list them because Ben Mankiewicz hyped them in his intro. I wanted to bring people's attention to others in the movie.

Happy to have helped.

Try Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), with Dana Andrews, and Joan Fontaine: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1532/Beyond-a-Reasonable-Doubt/ Click on the READ THE FULL SYNOPSIS button.

As highly as Mr. Mankiewicz praised the movie for being a mother lode of talent, Stormy Weather (1943) is even more so. It is a motherest of mother lodes. Running one's eyes down the IMDB cast list is liable to make them pop out. Witness: Coleman Hawkins on the saxophone--how can I put this? There are people who change the course of music, like Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. Coleman Hawkins is one of them. Fats Waller, who I do not (or should not) have to introduce. Teddy Buckner, west coast jazz trumpeter who played with the likes of Lionel Hampton. Benny Carter, famous saxophonist, composer (of "Cow Cow Boogie" and other standards), bandleader. Illinois Jacquet one of the hottest honking saxophonists, catch him playing on the Jazz at the Philharmonic series. Jo Jones, than which there is no greater swing/jazz drummer. And not many to equal him. He rose to prominence with Count Basie, among others. And then played with--well who didn't he play with? Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday. Zutty Singleton, innovative and influential drummer of the early days of jazz.

Try The Country Girl (1955), with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4500/The-Country-Girl/ Click on the READ THE FULL SYNOPSIS tab.

The axis powers lost the war. So to imitate them means to be losers just like them.

Are you suggesting, then, we ought to have created death camps and herded People of Japanese, Italian, and German descent into them for gassing and cremation?

Yes, if you want to be a popular success. And Duke Ellington was. Twice. But eventually his popular music was supplanted by other pop music, and rock and roll. As I've said elsewhere, I'm talking about him not from the perspective of him as a composer of music for a big band, but of works on a larger scale. These works did get played, mostly by him during his life. They do get played occasionally by symphonies today (and I think they deserve to get played more often). And he did record them.