Dargo
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My guess?
The guy on the bottom left is supposed to me Fredric March.
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There have to be more incidents. I don't think the FCC would make a statement if it was one isolated 'accident.' There probably were more provocative scenes being broadcast, that were not accidental at all.
Hmmmm...ya know TB, now that I recall, I DO think I once heard that Dagmar once purposely showed more than she maybe should have on the boob tube back around '51 or so...and THAT kinescope I'd LOVE to see!!!
(...btw, hmmmm, "the boob tube"...saaaay, come to THINK of it, do ya think Dagmar might have been responsible for TV bein' nicknamed that in the FIRST place???)
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I don't recall. The whole event was so traumatic, I've blocked it from my memory.
Sooooo, turned you off to the whole "Rubenesque" thing for the rest of your life, eh Rich?!
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Yes, Kate Smith had a wardrobe malfunction, ironically while singing "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain."
LOL
Yes, but never having seen the old kinescope of this myself, am I correct in assuming this happened after Kate had bent over and turned her back to the TV camera???
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MeTV has a competitor in the NY market GetTV which also shows similar fare, albeit also with commercials
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
The only commercials I would ever want to see on a movie channel would be a collection of classic commercials from the 40's through the 70's, as MeTV has on its website. I certainly don't want to see any current commercials interrupting the middle of a movie---not even the multiplexes have sunk that low, though I'm sure they'll get around to it.
I have to say however Andy, that while I too of course prefer TCM's commercial-free presentations of film, I have noticed that at least the intervals between the insertions of commercials on MeTV presented classic movies is somewhat mercifully long.
(...but other than that, Mrs. Lincoln would probably tell you that "Our American Cousin" was just okay)
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Also: How come Georgy has no familial feeling at all for either of her parents, nor they for her? Her obsequious father only cares about pleasing his "master". And her mother is incredibly un-motherly, barely seems to realize George is her daughter.
Ironic, when you see how obsessive Georgy herself is about all things maternal. Maybe to compensate for her own mother, or something?
Yep, that's how I always saw it, anyway.
I think this whole social dynamic is played out every day in the world, and when in many cases naive teenage girls purposely get pregnant primarily for the reason that they never felt love from their(often inept) parents, and thus begin to believe having a baby will give them "someone to love" and hopefully perhaps "someone to love them back".
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...This is why people are turning the channel and watching Svengoolie.
C'mon now, TB. "Svengoolie"?! REALLY???!!!
(...dude, HIS jokes are even worse than MINE!!!)
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So here is a question I think would be more relevant...
How many actual people are searching for a movie title?
Maybe there is no way of tracking this number, but I would sure like to know what the actual number of searches are.
SURE there is, Rey!
Here's the toll-free phone number for the NSA:
(800) 555-1810
(...just tell 'em Dargo sent ya...well, no, on second thought, don't)
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Wait !...I thought it was "The BAD and the Beautiful". Are you telling me it's really "The BOLD and the Beautiful"?
(although as to beauty, I suppose I'd rather be Lana Turner than poor old Gloria Grahame. We all know what happened to GG - she came to a BAD end...)
Hmmmm...ya know, you're RIGHT! She always DID come to a bad end, didn't she.
Oh...wait...
Hmmmm...ya know, you're RIGHT! She always DID come to a bad end, didn't she.
(...THAT'S better!)
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What's with all the bold, everybody? Can I get in on it too?
NO!
(...you just sit there and be "The Beautiful" part of this little soap opera around here, MissW!!!)
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Okay TB. Sorry, but I GOTTA ask here:
What's with all this "ratings" stuff lately?
What?! Now that Casey Kasem has bit the dust, you're now angling for his old spot or somethin'???
(...well, if you DO get the gig, don't use that "Keep your feet on the ground, etc" thing as your sigh-off TOO, 'cause I hear that tall blonde trophy wife bimbo he married can be one tough AND litigious cookie, ya know!)
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I made a similar point in my first reply to this thread; It is more distracting to hear a 'bad' (poorly done), accent than to listen to someone that should have an accent but doesn't have one.
Dude! We ALL have "accents".
(...yep, even us Californians, past AND present)
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The film seemed to be taking itself seriously as high art, at the expense of anything else. I preferred BLOW OUT to BLOW UP. ( and not because it was set in Philly).
Yep, gotta agree with ya here.
(...well, except for maybe your comment about rip-off artist Brian De Palma's flick, anyway)
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One of the most boring films I've ever seen
Now whaddaya talkin' about here, finance?! What?! You're not into watching a guy and two young semi-dressed young ladies rolling around on a large sheet of crumpled up wrapping paper for what seemed like five minutes or somethin'???!!!
(...why, I can't BELIEVE this!!!)
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Dame May Whitty compared to Rock Hudson? Let's now compare Greta Garbo with Joe Pesci.
Ya know finance, I think I CAN actually hear Garbo saying: "Vat?! Am I clown? Do I amuse you? Go avay, I vant to be alone."
(...YEAH!...wouldn't that additional line have been just PERFECT for her to say to Barrymore in "Grand Hotel"???)
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You must be right about the lack of air time of this film, Mr.R., as It seems it HAS been quite a while since I've had the opportunity to have watched that one. I too remember it being a very well done thriller, and with excellent acting done by all involved, and yes, especially by a very creepy Ross Martin.
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I've always thought "Them!" was just about the best of these '50s 'atomic age creates giant monster(s) that threatens the world' movies, Eugenia.
(...but then again, ANY movie with James Whitmore is tops in my book)
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Glad to see a good response to the did he/didn't he? act round robin from this thread. The reason he was known only as a great adventure actor was precisely because he was so good an actor in those roles, which are, essentially larger-than-life caricatures. It takes quite a bit of acting prowess to fill them out, make them walk, or swagger, and still be believable. Many others tried it, as I mentioned, but none ever quite matched him, save for Fairbanks, Sr., and maybe Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro.
Exactly, slatyon.
As has been said before about all the great film actors, "They acted with their eyes", and even though Flynn's daring-do physicality on screen was seldom matched by any other star assigned to portray these sorts of larger-than-life characters, the way he could use those eyes of his to convey the feeling of deep hurt or resentment and a host a other emotions so naturally when the scene called for it, IS the very reason the man was a much better actor than he was ever given credit for being. and of course almost solely because of the film genre he was so good in was considered "Popcorn Entertainment for the masses".
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Dargo,
I think you should use that photo your wife took of you and Stefanie as your avatar here on the boards.
Well, I DO have to admit I thought about doin' that for a while after these boards started allowing it...but THEN I realized that if I DID do that, it might "clash" with my "usual persona" around here and that Groucho's picture up there would probably be MUCH more "fitting" an avatar to use!
(...and besides, I know the REAL reason you'd like me to do that...it's 'cause you just wanna look at Stefanie's beautiful face every time you read one of my attempts at humor around here, now AIN'T it?!)
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Thank you! I think the best Errol scene in The Sisters is when he wakes up, looking a bit disheveled (or as disheveled as Errol can possibly look) and Bette is giving him instructions before she leaves for work. He looks extra dreamy there. ::sigh::
Yeah, that "little lost puppy" look ALWAYS works with you dames, and fortunately EVEN for those of us men who don't look ANYTHING like Errol Flynn!
(...well, except with Dame May Whitty, of course...but then again, I wouldn't ever be tryin' to woo HER anyway!!!)
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Isn't it likely that you saw him in a few movies actings as British character and therefore you assumed he was actual British?
Yeah, maybe...but I'm STILL thinkin' it MIGHT be MORE 'cause he'd throw that "shan't" word out occasionally!
AND, as we know, NO good ol' 'Merican boy EVER says "shan't"...though I DO think there's a pocket of Canadians just outside of Toronto who still say that word, 'cause they could never totally cut those ol' British apron strings, ya know!
(...yep, just LIKE that ol' British superfluous letter 'u' they still use up there TOO!!!)
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I suppose there was only so much time and only so many questions she could answer. I think she's a fabulous actress.
Well, I dunno about being a "fabulous" actress, but she sure always did somethin' for ME, anyway...and evidently for you too, EH?!
What I DID notice and what sort of impressed me a bit after watching her in "Die!..."(hadn't watched in years) was that she had developed a "natural" quality to her work at such a young age(22) and I never noticed any "acting" going on in that movie by her.
Though then again, perhaps THAT could possibly all be explained because in comparison to Tallulah chewing the scenery in that flick(a la Bette Davis in "Baby Jane") almost ANYBODY would have probably "looked natural" in it! LOL
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Happy Birthday, Speedy!
(...and many more years of watchin' Errol swashing his buckle!)
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I knew May Whitty before she was a dame and Rock Hudson
when he was still a pebble.
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Yeah, and I ALSO hear some guy who played Gershwin a lot on the piano and was known to be very sardonically whitty...err...I mean WITTY, knew one of Rock's more notable female co-stars before SHE was a virgin!
Actor ID question
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Yep Doc. I just watched this cartoon on YouTube, and you're right. It appears March is only represented as Mr. Hyde and along with Lugosi and Karloff.
Gotta say though that that caricature still doesn't look all that much like Morris to me.
(...though the one identified as "Helen Hayes" sure looks a lot like Sylvia Sidney to me too)