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10 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
March is very believable playing-drunk in TBYOOL so that is a great example. Not over the top, not too emotional, but realistic.
Thanks. And so which now brings me to question if you can recall Garfield in another film in which he might've played drunk? Nothing else pops into my head at the moment, anyway.
Might he have a drunk scene in The Postman Always Rings Twice ? I don't recall right off here.
(...bottom line though once again being that I can recall March playing drunk in many a film during his career, and yet other than William Powell who almost always did it in comedies, no other lead actor comes to my mind)
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36 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
I find March a little too obvious as a drunk. My favorite being-drunk performance is by John Garfield in The Breaking Point (the scene where he is with a gal at a bar and his wife comes to get him). Another example of Garfield underplaying which is what I'm looking for in any non-comedic being-drunk performance.
(in Design for Living which I saw parts of also last night, March's perform was comedic by design (pun intended).
Good point about Garfield here, James. Yes, he's very good in that scene in The Breaking Point, alright. However and as you yourself pointed out, the difference here being one played as straight drama and the other played as comedy.
So, how about March in the banquet scene in TBYOOL ? He's not playing it for laughs there, and yet I've always thought he very beliveably plays drunk here while telling off his boss...
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4 hours ago, Thompson said:
“ . . . and an almost buffoon like performance by Hayward whose characterization of a drunk man looked like a parody of a drunk man.” — MKahn22. That really bugs me too, but I haven’t seen the movie yet so will withhold judgment. It’s ironic (nobody knows what that word means) that the finest portrayer of an alcoholic is Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend. Yet he didn’t drink.
Oh, I dunno Thompson. Sure, Milland was terrific in The Lost Weekend, but for my money, the actor who could play an inebriated character and/or a dunken alcoholic (such as in the original 1937 A Star is Born for instance) just as well and who did it extemely well and very believably in many a film over his long and distiguished career, would be Fredric March.
I was reminded of this again last night as I watched Design for Living on TCM.
(...but granted, your point about Milland not being a drinker at all and yet still giving the performance that he did in his film and the irony of this is well noted)
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Now EPM! And here this thread was about how much better viewing something in Color is compared to B&W, now wasn't it?! And so, I'd say the LEAST you could have done was find a clip of the lovely, multi-talented and much too often underappreciated Virginia O'Brien performing in living color here , wouldn't ya think?!!
And so in that case, allow me:
(...I know...she's absolutely mesmerizing, isn't she...I've been a big fan of hers for years too)
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4 minutes ago, NoShear said:
Hey, Dargo: You left out your trademark wink at the end!
Yeah, I did, didn't I.
(...maybe Ruth Roman's legs had an effect on me here TOO?!)
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21 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I remember one recent year TCM had a rather oddball lineup of films for Mother's Day that were all about mothers, though not necessarily saintly onces like Mama Knows Best. Someone with a better memory than me will have to fill in the details.
Edit: Oops, I Remember Mama. I will leave my mistake in above so people can have a good chuckle at it.
Yep, as I recall sewhite, TCM showed White Heat during this past Mother's Day...
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44 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Insults to the actress' physical apperance aside, isn't the movie in question Macbeth? I'm struggling to see what a description of Desdemona has to do with anything.
41 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:Right you are! I got my Shakespeare tragedies mixed up!
You'll have to forgive EPM here, sewhite.
(...he took one look at Ruth Roman's legs in that poster up there and lost his train of thought for a moment)
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1 hour ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
I'm a sucker (but not a cute, little one) for small cars*. I'd love to own a Nash Metropolitan:
My current ride -- unfortunately no longer sold in the U.S.A. ("Thank you," Chrysler.):
* I like my cars small and my women big . . . which has posed a rather difficult dilemma, but we won't go into that right now.
Yep, I know exactly what you mean about what now seems inevitable again...another FIAT retreat from North America.
Ya see, back in April of this year, I purchased a slightly used 2020 Fiat 124 Spider Abarth like this one here...
I LOVE this car and which never fails to put a smile on my face while I'm behind the wheel.
(...btw, this now makes the fourth FIAT that I've ever owned, starting with my very first car ever owned a 1969 124 Sport Coupe, and then a 1974 X1/9 and then years later a used 1977 124 Spider...being a SoCal guy, I never had to worry about the issue that everyone who owned a Fiat in colder climate states always complained about them and that they rusted away beneath them within five years...never had much of any problems with the ones I owned and so always felt the old joke about them being a "Fix It Again Tony" car was somewhat undeserved)
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14 minutes ago, Eucalpytus P. Millstone said:
Here ya go then, EPM. Gotta warn ya though. They ain't cheap anymore.
BMW Isetta For Sale | Hemmings Motor News
(...and sure, while they definitely are cute little suckers, I can think of many other old classics I'd buy instead for what they're askin' for 'em today)
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1 minute ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
There is already a good East Side film with a very nasty Ava:
Yeah, TCM showed this one fairly recently.
And yeah, Ava sure was good in it too, wasn't she.
(...along with the rest of the stellar cast)
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29 minutes ago, hamradio said:
Instead of remaking everything how about a new take...."The East Side Story"?
Or how about "The South Side Story" and move it to Chicago.
And then make the story about bad bad Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole damn town.
(...hey, now I'd watch that...I'd loved to see his custom Continental and his Eldorado too)
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1 hour ago, Cigarjoe cellph said:
His over-the-top dramatic style was close to fellow Irishmen Jimmy Cagney,
1 hour ago, Cigarjoe cellph said:He was Jewish, born Joe Yule if I remember right Tiki.
Scottish, actually:
Mickey Rooney - Ethnicity of Celebs | What Nationality Ancestry Race (ethnicelebs.com)
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WAIT! I just thought of a little better one to show on St. Valentine's Day.
How about, ahem...The War Lover ???
You know, that early Steve McQueen WWII flick?!
(...well, it's got the word "lover" right there in the title, now doesn't IT?!...how apropos, RIGHT?!)
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35 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
I found showing Bridge on the River Kwai on christmas to be nearly incomprehensible. it makes no sense. what the hell is next?
Oh, I dunno, Nip.
Maybe The Bridges at Toko-Ri on St. Valentine's Day?
(...hey, come to think of it, Holden's in THAT one TOO, ya know)
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2 hours ago, slaytonf said:
But what movies has the C-2 Stingray been in?
2 hours ago, NoShear said:The Corvette was supplemental to the BREEZY home which is actually located in Tarzana, California.
And sure slayton, while I should probably find that recent thread around here that was about "favorite homes in movies" and post the following additional info in that one and that I've just found on this fantastic house that was in the film Breezy, because we're on this subject thanks to NoShear here, I'm going to post it here instead, and which includes pics of this house taken during the filming of this 1973 movie and as it looks today. Sorry for the off-topic segue here, slayton ol' boy:
‘Breezy’ House: Filming Location Is Kimball House in Tarzana – DIRT
(...man, I DO love this house, and which as the above linked real estate website says sold in January of this year 2021 for $3.35M...although there IS one thing I'm not all that crazy about, and that is that even as cool looking as that carport is, I'd much prefer to have a closable and lockable garage for my two and four wheeled toys and tools, thank you very much)
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7 hours ago, NoShear said:
That's a nice house!
Dargo, I'm confident that both Harry Gesner's architecture and Bill Mitchell's styling will meet with your approval here:
You're so right here, NS.
Mid-Century Modern is my favorite architectual style, and the C-2 Stringray parked off to the right there, is still one of my top favorite cars ever made, too.
(...gotta love the Jet Age, dude!)
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14 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
colorizing is imperfect but can it be denied that there is visual enhancement? I say no.
Sometimes yes and sometimes no, but not in all or even most cases, would be my answer.
(...ya know, you're starting to sound like the kid I once heard say the reason he couldn't ever watch B&W movies is because "they hurt his eyes"...okay okay, maybe you're not THAT bad, but I'll never get your ongoing fascination and apparent obsession with the colorization process)
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35 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
here is more fabulously enhanced colorized video...the effect is indisputable to those of us with good vision.
Well "Those With Good Vision", then did you happen to notice all the many cars changing color from a light blue to a brownish magenta and then back again as they passed by the camera in these "fabulously enhanced colorized" videos?
Well I did, Nip. And remember here, these films were done YEARS before they came out with pixilated paint which causes this effect on modern cars.
(...and if YOU didn't see this, then might I suggest a visit to your optometrist and at your earliest possible convenience)
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Hey EPM! Your takeover of this thread has reminded me of the following old joke here:
Ya know what's ever worse than having your wife catch you with lipstick on your collar?
It's having her discover leg makeup on your ears.
(...guess we'll now see how long this post of mine's lasts, huh!)
LOL
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7 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
There was indeed a full week of Christmas movies, but that's not enough for the haters. People get mad about the war movie marathon every year, too. I must say, I clicked on this thread out of total shock, reading the title and thinking to myself, "Holy sh*t, someone on the TCM Message Boards is going to THANK TCM for doing something?" I should have known better. These are the TCM Message Boards, after all.
LOL
I thought the same at first too, and actually found it a bit odd that it was started by our friend Sepia.
(...and who doesn't usually gripe much about TCM's fare)
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8 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
A friend of mine had sent me some similarly colorized videos of Weimar era Germany, people riding gondolas, street scenes, etc., with sound added. Technology has improved, and I agree this sort of thing has much more of a feel of authenticity than the colorized movies Ted Turner championed 35 years ago. There was that Peter Jackson documentary about World War I that pretty much blew away everyone who saw it. I missed it but saw some of the trailers.
True sewhite, but once again this particular offering from Nip here looks to me to have been colorized during that earlier period when as you said Ted Turner was championing this then new process. And to my eyes at least, is even inferior to the colorized movies I remember watching that Turner was pushing back in the day.
(...that's pretty much all I'm attempting to say here)
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16 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
certainly I can see the colorizing is not perfect but the overall effect is it gives a new realism and true to life look that it would not have in B&W. the sense of depth is also enhanced.
Well, like I said here Nip, in THIS case I found it more distracting than I did enhancing.
And in a way, reminded me of the same effect that movies filmed in the old two-strip Technicolor process has always given me.
(...and which is certainly anything BUT "realism" but more a "painted on" look)
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On 12/25/2021 at 11:37 AM, rjbartrop said:
Understandable, as the Nash badge does look pretty similar, especially from a distance.
Yep, RJ. All ya gotta do is put a few ducks on that Nash emblem and you've pretty much got a Caddy emblem almost, huh!
I'm sure you remember those six ducks on the old Caddy emblems, don't ya?
I remember as a kid wondering what the significance was of those ducks on the badges that were on my dad's 1962 Cadillac Sedan DeVille, anyway.
(...gee, I wonder if our resident retired GM lineworker Sepia knows?)
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After thinking I had remembered Marlon Brando once mentioning he thought highly of Mickey Rooney's acting talents and so after goggling "Marlon Brando on Mickey Rooney", I found the following a very interesting read. Maybe some you here might too.
It also mentions and quotes others in the film industry who thought the same.
When It Comes to Mickey Rooney, I’m With Marlon Brando: Rooney Was Underrated. Here’s Why | TVWeek
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southern california 1940s in color
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Yeah, actually I was reminded of your marriage to Alyn after going to her Wiki bio page again today and right before I posted that clip of her IN COLOR
for you here.
(...I remembered reading that after the first time I visited her Wiki page years ago)