Dargo
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9 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
Allow me to fine tune my comment. It was the best of the bunch, tonight.
Ya know, after I entered my post, it did dawn on me that perhaps this was what you meant.
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1 hour ago, Moe Howard said:
Tequila Sunrise was the best of the bunch, and Ben and Eddie seemed to agree.
That wasn't the impression I got from the two hosts, Moe. Nope, I got the impression that both Ben and Eddie kept making allowances for Tequila Sunrise's inadequacies during their wraparounds for this film and in fact KNEW that they were while doing just that, and primarily because they've both always liked the film.
And while I myself enjoyed watching it last night to some degree, especially and as Ben noted Raul Julia's movie stealing performance in it and not to mention gazing upon the gorgeous Miss Pfeiffer's visage, AND because much of the film was shot in my (and I believe yours too, if I'm not mistaken) old stomping grounds of L.A.'s South Bay beach area, I think THIS film was far from being the best film Eddie and Ben presented during their series.
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19 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Who knows? → Maybe the CC was accurate and Alicia did want some 'Mary Jane'! Wacky Weed! Mara Ju Wanna! Seeds 'n' Stems!
Perhaps the 'CC' people know something we don't!
If we see an intro featuring Alicia with the BREWER & SHIPLEY song "One Toke Over the Line" playing in the background, well, shucks . . . there could be some HERB burning in the studio!
Except, and as Katie kind'a pointed out about Alicia and most all Brits and Aussies and their non-rhotic 'R's, Brewer & Shipley's song would be sung as "One Toke OVAH the Line".
(...and which reminds me of all those TV commercials I've watched in which actress Jane Seymour is hawking her cheap little piece of jewelry and calls it her "open 'hot' pendant")
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On 7/30/2021 at 9:17 AM, Sepiatone said:
Actually Darg, what does irritate me about Alicia's accent is the factor that irritates me about British accents in general.
Not talking TROUGH their noses, but rather sounding as if they all need a good shot of AFRIN to clear out what sounds like heavily clogged sinus passages. In fact----
As I recall, my high school dramatics teacher told our class that to achieve a passable British accent, we should stuff our noses with cotton and talk like that and do so until we can manage to sound that way without the cotton!
Sepiatone
Not so sure what your drama teacher said is true here, Sepia.
And because if it WERE true, then please explain, say for instance, the existence of Charlotte Rampling's deep, sexy and resonant voice to me here?
(...I'll see your reply later to this today, as now I'm out the door and to that little shuttle driving gig of mine)
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18 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
But you do realize, as closely related as they are, their's a huge difference between a British accent and an Australian one, right?
And somehow Alicia's Australian accent is more irritating to me than say, PAUL HOGAN'S
And in the '80's through most of the '90's I got pretty much burned out on Australian accents and Irish music. 
Sepiatone
Well, seein' as how we're kind'a on this subject here, I have to say that personally I don't mind Alicia's Aussie accent at all.
Nope, BUT what about her voice I DON'T particularity care for is, YEP, just like our boy Ben, she kind'a talks through HER nose TOO!
(...THERE, I said it...and YES, she DOES...and I STILL can NOT believe that I've always been the ONLY freakin' person around here who has ever NOTICED this about their voices!!!)
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1 hour ago, SansFin said:
I do not often have an opportunity to use this in normal conversation but my fuzzy knows well what I mean when I mutter the first part of it.
I am quite sorry to say that I do not know which movie it is in. I am virtually positive that it was in one of my fuzzy's DVDs when I was watching his entire collection but that is over twelve hundred movies and I can not narrow it down very much more than that.
"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread then there must be something we can do with you."
All sources I can find Sans, say this aphorism (although ending instead with, "then they can sure make something out of you") has been attributed to Muhammad Ali.
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39 minutes ago, hamradio said:
I would like to see a realistic Geico Gecko movie.
And "When Emus Attack" where the Liberty Limu Emu turns on Doug.
LOL
Well, there would go any seguel to a Geico Gecko flick, ham!
(...finding another one with a Cockney accent would HAVE to be tough, wouldn't ya THINK?!)
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14 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I don't have a problem with that phrase. But sometimes it is more than just memory, it has to do with how a performer's work may be overlooked, undervalued or under appreciated.
Recently I've been watching episodes of Barnaby Jones and it surprises me how effective Buddy Ebsen is in his scenes. After reading an interview that Lee Meriwether gave, I can see how kind and gracious he is to his costars and guest stars. I had underrated him previously because I just took him for granted on that show.
Oooh..."overlooked, undervalued or under-appreciated"! Now THERE I think are the BEST descriptors you could have used in your thread's title.
Yes, even better than my "little remembered" one.
(...SEE?!...now if ya would've used any of THOSE, then James probably wouldn't have gotten on his whole "I question your use of the word 'underrated' here, Sir" thing again!)
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28 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I think your issue may be with james who wanted to know what 'underrated' means to people.
The title of this thread is fine as it is.
A good point.
Still though, wouldn't ya say "little remembered" might be a more exact descriptor for the actors and actresses of whom your thread's intent for being appears to be? At least this was the impression I had of it from the first, anyway. I didn't think you were attempting to draw out the names of the big stars here, and thus why I earlier had offered up the names of Connie Gilchrist, Kathreen Freeman and Virginia Gregg for consideration.
(...but hey, it's your thread)
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Hey TB! Here's a suggestion for ya!
Go up there to your thread title and change it to somethin' like say: "Little remembered actors and actresses who could always be counted on to give any movie they were in that little extra spark or who could steal any scene they were in."
(...SUUUURE, that's a real long title for a thread alright, BUT to be honest with ya here, I'm not so sure I want to sit through another discussion around here about what constitutes someone being "underrated"...AND ya know, sometimes the concept of "Brevity" came be way "OVERrated", and perhaps exhibited by what's goin' on RIGHT NOW in your thread here!)
LOL
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4 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
JOHN HOYT must've been made up to look 'older'; he was only 2½ years older than Bette Davis (October 1905 versus April 1908).
I dunno, Mr.G.
John Hoyt was one of those actors who looked 50 from the time he broke into the movies. And actually, he didn't break into the movies until the age of 41 in the 1946 WWII-themed Alan Ladd vehicle, O.S.S.
Here's a still from that film, and he pretty much looks like I've always remembered him looking...
(...btw, I've always wondered if the look of the Fearless Leader character in the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show might have been fashioned after him)
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Regarding suggested future showings in the neo-noir genre, here's a couple I'd love to see presented on TCM in such a series:
You'll never see a more ruthless and amoral femme fatale than Linda Fiorentino's here.
And...
In true classic noir fashion, the plot has more twists and turns than you can shake a Colt 1911 at.
(...haven't seen 'em in years either, but I still remember being highly impressed and entertained by both)
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Bottom line:
There's simply no way to not like William Powell.
(...if you have any taste at all, anyway)
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1 hour ago, Herman Bricks said:
TopBilled to your original point, one that I would nominate is Wayne Morris.
Nice pick here, Herman!
Once one learns the details of his much too short life, it becomes especially amazing how well this highly decorated WWII fighter pilot veteran was able to portray the cowardly soldier in Kubrick's Paths of Glory, doesn't it.
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3 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
The Vern character (Jim Varney) spawned a short-lived TV series...
And Baby Bob was a short-lived CBS sitcom that was based on an ad character for several campaigns of different companies.
Beat me by just a minute or two here, Vern...ahem, I mean Tex.
Although Varney's character wasn't named "Vern". It was "Ernest".
(...and it also spawned a whole series of motion pictures too, remember)
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1 hour ago, RMeingast said:
I asked my personal clairvoyant, Swami Yogadachi, to swami in to this controversy... His reply was cryptic.. Something about the actors portrayed having something to do with one another that a 1941 movie audience would recognize. So, Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert starred in 1939's "Midnight," a film that was added to the National Film Registry in 2013.
Adolphe Menjou and Norma Shearer seated together starred in films together:
http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2014/04/328-hollywood-steps-out-1941.html
Almost all sources on the Internet state that it's Don Ameche with Claudette Colbert:
https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Hollywood_Steps_Outhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/HollywoodStepsOut
http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2014/04/328-hollywood-steps-out-1941.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Steps_Out
https://www.intanibase.com/iad_entries/entry.aspx?shortID=1556
However, this blog questions if it's Ameche:
http://texaveryatwb.blogspot.com/2019/09/hollywood-steps-out-and-les-films.html
It's a tough one, I guess. Pencil mustaches were very common in the 1930s and 1940s. If you look at the profile of Ameche from "Midnight" above, you'll notice the sideburn and how his hair is shaped. Sorta similar to the animated "Ameche" in the cartoon. His hair goes to the right and then cuts back to the left and down. Then the laugh-line (dimple) on the right cheek, barely visible in the "Midnight" photo. It is a tough one, but probably Ameche as he is seated with Colbert.
Film essay for "Midnight" from the National Film Registry website:
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/midnight.pdfMovie poster for "Midnight" with Ameche in profile:
I must say you've presented your case here very nicely, Randy.
However, I'm still of mind that the idea of our mystery man happening to be seated at the same table with Ameche's Midnight (and btw, a movie I've loved since I first watched it years ago and is now one of my favorite rom-coms ever) costar Claudette Colbert has too heavily influenced the idea that it might be Ameche that we're suppose to believe said mystery man as being. In this regard, I must then ask why the cartoonists decided to sit Adolphe Menjou at the same table with Norma Shearer, as these two were never memorably paired in any films that would immediately come to mind, right?
I'll now once again post SansFin's earlier composite image in which she had placed both Ameche's and Brent's profiles on either side of the still frame of this cartoon...
First, notice if you will that Ameche's eyebrows are not arched as are the mystery man's and Brent's.
Secondly, Ameche's nose is much longer, straighter and more pointed than the mystery man's and Brent's.
Thirdly, Ameche has smaller ears and smaller earlobes than do both the latter two. In fact, Ameche hardly has any earlobes at all. (and something I'm sure Bronxie might especially like about him, and seein' as how she apparently has "a thing" about ears)
LOL
And fourthly, Ameche's jawline is much stronger and more defined than that of the latter two. Wouldn't you think the same cartoonist/caricaturist would make special note of this and as they had done in this cartoon with so many other of the actors who had strong jawlines.
(...now, I do think another thing that has made this identification harder to pin down is the idea that you brought up here about those pencil-thin mustaches being all the rage during this era, but sorry and even as I said earlier about you presenting an excellent case for it possibily being Ameche, I'm still stickin' with my "Brent Theory" here)
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47 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
It's been shown a couple of times, though not recently. A movie with a similar invasion theme, combining both humor, intrigue, suspense and action is I See a Dark Stranger (1946), starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard.
And speaking of "Deborah Kerr" and movies about "invasions"...
Even after now probably ten years since I first happened upon the following film shown on TCM and one that I hadn't at all been familiar with prior to watching it...
...I still remember being quite impressed with it and it haunting my thoughts for days afterward.
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16 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
AHEM! I believe this actress has been mentioned previously. Do a little more scrolling!
On 7/25/2021 at 11:16 PM, sewhite2000 said:Did anybody mention Irene Dunne in Cimarron? She starts off utterly dependent on Richard Dix, but when she has to live 30 years without him becomes quite self-reliant and rises through local society with great success.
Aaah, yes, just found your earlier mention of her here, sewhite.
(...I swear I went over this thread twice before I posted that, but still overlooked it somehow...sorry)
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3 minutes ago, SansFin said:
...I am open to any suggestions on ways these movies might share an important attribute.
Now THAT is good question here, Sans! I can't think of any common bonds between your listed movies, anyway.
In fact, looking over MY picks, I can't think of any either.
(...maybe this just means we have "eclective tastes"?)
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13 hours ago, Dargo said:
LOL
No, but looking at Jake's "other than westerns" top ten list here, it appears he sure likes movies where at least one charcter in it dies at the hands of another, anyway.
(...notice that too?)
Btw, this comment of mine here has now prompted me to re-examine my own earlier posted top ten list in order to see if there might be a similar strain running through it in this regard.
And so...
1- The Best Years of Our Lives - Nobody dies in it, although one character DOES go missing after the first reel, but nobody seems to care
2- The Apartment - Nobody dies in it, although one person DOES get punched pretty well in it
3- Singin' in the Rain - Nobody dies in it
4- Casablanca - a few people die in it
5- The Third Man - a few people die in it
6- Out of the Past - a few people die in it
7- Sunset Blvd - one person dies in it
8- Dr. Strangelove - EVERYBODY dies in it except the few people who will make it into those mine shafts and where there will be ten women to every man...YEAH!!!
9- A Night at the Opera - nobody dies in it
10- It's a Wonderful Life - nobody dies in it except one person and from a stroke, but wouldn't it be nice if that cranky old Mr. Potter had too?!
(...and now the only question here is: Do you think I should have prefaced this post with one of those "Spoiler Alerts"???)
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3 hours ago, 37kitties said:
You're a big fan of rom-coms, huh?
LOL
No, but looking at Jake's "other than westerns" top ten list here, it appears he sure likes movies where at least one charcter in it dies at the hands of another, anyway.
(...notice that too?)
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Have I missed it somehow, or have we been remiss in not mentioning this actress in this thread so far?...
(...can't recall a film in which Irene Dunne didn't play a "strong woman" in it, anyway)
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24 minutes ago, TomJH said:
I must say that unless there's a scene I missed in which Bill McKinney yelled "Scream like a pig" to a fainting Tarleton twin, I have never detected any homosexual theme in Gone With the Wind.
THAT'S 'cause all THOSE kind'a scenes that were filmed inside Belle Watling's cathouse were left on the cutting room floor, Tom!
(...didn't know Belle catered to all sorts, did ya!)
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
What film is that from? All Through the Night would be my guess (and he's talking to Conrad Veidt?).
Yep, I think you're right about this, James.
Actually though, this really was just a case of me stumbling across that gif and then thinking of some smart*** comment to add to it while I was posting it here, and because OF COURSE I don't really tell people that they're "screwy" when they try to tell me somethin' I know for a FACT isn't true.
(...NOOOO, what I tell 'em is that I think they're full of CRAP!)
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Yep, she probably would, Sepia!
(...very nice phonetics here, btw)