Dargo
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6 hours ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
Here is a photo I know that Dargo will enjoy.
Yeah, thanks James!
Ya know, I was just thinkin' how much younger my sweet Stefanie was there than when she posed with another handsome older gentleman a few years back.
(...but who of course modesty forbids me to identify by name)
LOL
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50 minutes ago, brianNH said:
Oh, dear, no! This can't be. He was supposed to be with us forever.
This is kind of out of the blue alright, and considering that he and Micky Dolenz just ended their farewell tour at the Greek Theater in L.A. less than a month ago.
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6 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
She was only 50 or 51 at the time she filmed Sunset Blvd. Past the ingénue stage, definitely, but not on death's doorstep either.
She did indeed outlive Mr. Holden, by about 18 months. He passed away in 1981, she in 1983.
And speakin' o' which.
Gloria Swanson visiting the set of Stalag 17 approximately thirty years prior to each of their passings...
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Question here:
Would Otto Preminger telling his assembled Allied POWs in the film Stalag 17 that they might still get their White Christmas and "just like the ones they used to know", and then going on to complain a bit about the composer of that song stealing his name from Germany's capital city, qualify IT as a "Christmas movie" for anyone but ME???
Hey, it ALSO features a pretty funny Christmas party in it TOO, remember!...
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8 hours ago, NoShear said:
Hey, Dargo: Who's the cute Jewish gal?!
I'd bet my life you use to enjoy Groucho Marx's sense of humor on late-night television in Los Angeles:
Yep, I sure did NS, and during Groucho's resurgence in popularity in the 1970s, and when one of the independent channels in L.A. (KTTV-Ch.11 ?) started re-running You Bet Your Life late at night.
(...although I did have vague memories of watching it as a kid with my parents when it was first-run back in the '50s)
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16 hours ago, mr6666 said:
A 2018 documentary celebrating the legacy of the holiday specials created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, creators of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, and The Little Drummer Boy. Includes interviews with filmmakers and historians.
Hey Mr. Sixes! Did you happen to catch that PBS Antiques Roadshow episode where a guy brought the actual Rudolf and Showman puppets used in this TV special and had their value appraised? It was for pretty big bucks. Something in the low 5-figure range as I recall.
I think it was originally on about 6 or 7 years ago and then recently there was an update shown to this story. The expert who had appaised them at the time would go on to purchase them.
(...and he claimed their value has only gone up since)
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1 minute ago, SansFin said:
I have it in the back of my mind that I will one day prove that you can be: "gullible" but that is as negative as it goes
I know, and I've been waitin' for that "gotcha" moment for years now.
And I'm sure I'll get a big laugh about it when it comes, and I KNOW it's comin', alright!
(...but in the meantime, whenever I hear Carly Simon's "Anticipation" on the radio, I'll be thinkin' of you)
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17 minutes ago, SansFin said:
I can think of many words which I have used to describe you over the years but I must admit that: "average" never once crossed my mind.
LOL
So Sans, would those "words" end up appearing like THIS -> ****** IF you now attempted to post 'em here???
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3 hours ago, yanceycravat said:
If I'm wrong about this please let me know. Amazing. What part of the vault has this been hiding in???
Yes yancey, unfortunately you ARE wrong about this.
What TCM will ACTUALLY be showing is 1949's The Big Punch Bowl.
And which tells the story of what happens at young debutante Ellen MacMurphy's (Deanna Durbin) cotillion after that no-good brat Johnny Mayberry (Dickie Moore) empties an entire fifth of whiskey into the...well, you know.
(...and yes, I DO have way too much time on my hands lately...ya see, I've recently given up that little shuttle job down to Phoenix and back that I had)
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2 hours ago, JamesJazGuitar said:
Bergman was miscast based on looks, but perfectly cast as it relates to the type of actress for such a role.
All the acting in the film was first rate.
As to your first point here James, thanks for agreeing with me and my basic point in this thread.
However, and disregarding the thought that Ingrid Bergman WAS a great actress, I'll now take mild exception to your second thought here, as I would think and due to what Coop says to her a couple of times in the picture, "You're shameless", that the Maria character should have been played more as a firebrand and a bit more willful than how Bergman did and which came off to me as more languid than anything else. And in fact so languid that she started to remind me of how she played Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, and that other than the love scenes she shares with Coop, she seemed to recede in importance to the overall narrative of the film in all other respects. And thus, perhaps NOT as "perfectly cast" as one might assume.
Now, I must admit I've never read Hemingway's book and so don't know how he wrote her character to be, but somehow I've gotten this feeling, and think IF her character had been played more this way, it would've made for a more interesting character.
(...and to your final point...yes, all the acting was first rate...and yes, including Bergman's)
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3 hours ago, King Rat said:
Hey, Dargo, next you're gonna be saying you can't buy Humphrey Bogart as a Mexican bandido in Virginia City. Sheesh!
LOL
Nope KR, and even sportin' that mustache and as great an actor as Bogie was.
But of course, THEN there was always Eli Wallach who COULD pull this off and DID pull it off a couple of times.
And if you've ever watched Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker! (aka: A Fistful of Dynamite) I always thought Rod Steiger pulled it off fairly well.
(...and along with Brando in Viva Zapata!)
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3 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Sorry Darg, I know you mean well, but I'd think the average man on the street, upon looking at that photo, would find it hard to drag his eyes away from hers and those great lashes to even give her eyebrows any consideration.
Sepiatone
So then Sepia, you're implying here that I'm NOT your "average man"???
(...well THANKS...this might be the loveliest compliment I've received in YEARS, ol' buddy!)
LOL
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22 hours ago, TomJH said:
Thanks for mentioning this, sewhite. The truth is I forgot Andrews was even in this big block buster (of middling quality, in my opinion), a comment, I suppose, on how small his role was in the film. This, unfortunately, was par for the course for the actor in his later years, perhaps the lead in a small production (a few times sci f) or, more often, support in bigger ones.
After his impressive seven year period of leading man roles, starting with Laura in 1944 (if you want to include his fine, if major supporting, performance in Ox Bow Incident, make it eight impressive years), he then went through a continuing succession of mediocre roles and films starting after Sidewalk Ends. Alcoholism would have played a role, no doubt, in his failure, at times, to get better parts.
And in 1965, Dana Andrews got second billing after Jeffrey Hunter in what I've always thought was a bit underappreciated (and I understand even a few others have considered the last B&W film noir ever made) titled Brainstorm. (not to be confused with Natalie Wood's final movie)
This one has shades of Double Indemnity and the later-made Body Heat, and with a fine portrayal by Andrews as the husband who becomes the target for elimination. There's also some interesting little plot twists that come about in it.
Watched this one years ago one night on TV, and remember it impressing me more than I had at first thought it would.
(...did I mention it also co-stars Anne Francis who's at the very height of her attractiveness?)
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13 minutes ago, Aritosthenes said:
It Goes, (and i Say This in Amicable Kind): with the Rose, and the Toes, and the Moses.. - I Suposes. Erroneously
Saaay, maybe you've stumbled across somethin' here, Ari?!
YEAH, perhaps all Ingrid really needed for this part in order to sound a little less Swedish and a little more Spanish would've been a short little elocution lesson like the one Donald and Gene here got in the movie and the scene you've just obliquely referenced here?!...
LOL
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1 minute ago, Aritosthenes said:
Well, She's a D*** Fine Actress. I'm Not Outright Disagreeing. But I'm (also) Not Agreeing.
I think it can be mighty interpretive (not to mention subjective at times); while in large part depending upon the script, Performer/Artist, and (sometimes even) the Director.
Yep Ari, no question about it. Ingrid was a damn fine actress, alright.
(...still say she was miscast in this one, though)
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And btw...yes yes, I know there are fair-haired Spaniards in this world, but STILL...
And btw again, Greek actress Katina Paxinou was great as Pilar, and definitely deserved the Supporting Actress Oscar win that she got.
(...and btw AGAIN, great ending to this film...it ALMOST made up for much of the slooooow goings-on that preceeded it)
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...it is only ME or was Ingrid Bergman TOTALLY miscast as Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls that I'm watchin' tonight on TCM ???
Sure, she gives it her all (and as we know, even garnered an Oscar nom for it) but of ALL the actors in this movie who aren't Spanish, SHE'S the ONLY one who I really can't buy AT ALL of being of that nationality.
(...nope...nada...sorry...lo siento)
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7 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
Also, it often becomes a well-known fact when a show's set wasn't a pleasant place to be around. See also Moonlighting, Designing Women, Laverne and Shirley, Desperate Housewives..... I don't see though why we have to get a movie about this to see the unpleasantness up close and personal.
Oh, I dunno, CI.
Have to say for the most part I enjoyed watching Sarandon and Lange goin' toe-to-toe as Davis and Crawford a few years ago, anyway.
(...didn't YOU?!)
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2 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
Wow, does that mean that hardly anyone who uses the web knows who Fred Astaire is? That is very sad. I must admit, I have never heard of "Ask.fm", so have no context in which to ponder what it is and who generally uses it.
I've just done a little investigative research on this whole "Ask.fm" thing here MissW, and have I think discovered the very reason why no one there answered LuckyDan's question about who the great Fred Astaire was and thus perhaps because nobody there knew who he was.
(...uh-huh, it's because I discovered the "fm" in "Ask.fm" stands for "freakin' morons", and so naturally.....)
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The real Groucho visits the set of The Way We Were in 1972 and during the filming of the Marx Brothers-themed costume party scene...
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Hey, and speaking of Natalie and her eyebrows, and who I don't believe has yet been represented in this thread...
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13 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
The wavishing Kay Fwancis!
"Yes, yes..vewy vewy funny! Ha ha!"
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46 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
This all seems kind of silly. Who had "sexy" eyebrows and all.....
I don't once recall any guys I know excitedly getting our attention to point at a passing babe and exclaiming, "Hey! Get a load of the eyebrows on THAT one! "
And neither one of my wives ever swooned over any singer or actor because of his eyebrows.
Sure, I'll admit a unibrow would be a distraction, but otherwise, I'd never really notice.
Sepiatone
I have, Sepia. Yep, I have actually commented to others about a woman's eyebrows that I've found sexy, and especially if I've percieved them to be nicely arched.
And the women I've commented upon in this regard are almost always brunettes, and because generally brunettes have darker and thus more pronounced eyebrows than do lighter-haired women.
(...it's one of the main reasons I've always been more attracted to the darker-haired ladies out there, and why I've always found actresses such as Ava Gardner, Hedy Lamarr and Natalie Wood to be the most attractive)
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4 hours ago, SansFin said:
Two pages and no one has mentioned the caterpillars on this guy's forehead?
Sans, I'm afraid you've been taken in by a fake Groucho here.
Double take? Celebrity impersonators (timesunion.com)
(...yes, you soytenly have)
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Noir Alley
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Yep, Eddie made his big mistake here by comparing Cruel Gun Story to the Coppola classic.
And whereas what he SHOULD have compared it to was Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, but evidently I'm the only one who recognizes this.
(...btw...I'm with Thompson here...I was very pleasantly surpised by how much I enjoyed this Japanese film)