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LOL Loved the "pun intended" here. But actually speedy, by the time this animated short was made in 1941, Brent had been a major star for a few years. Remember, he starred in many a late-'30s A-picture during those years, and such as Jezabel (1938) and Dark Victory (1939). (...nope, STILL say that that's supposed to be George Brent there)

LOL Well, you'll have to forgive me here, slayton. You DO know that STARTING threads isn't exactly my forte around here, don't ya?! (...STILL say though that that IS Hibi's favorite actor...too bad he's sitting down and so we can't get a good look at this guy's, ahem, "posterior", huh...that would sure confirm my thoughts here, wouldn't it?!!!)

No, no, NOT any of these three you see here. You must click on the YouTube link to see who I'm talkin' about here. It's set to go to the exact moment in this video and in which my question is posed. It's just before Cary Grant's little shtick. (...and btw, while the lady seated to this gent's left is supposed to be Claudette Colbert and which I can kind'a see, I couldn't find any take on who the lady is supposed to be seated to his right...I'm thinkin' maybe Norma Shearer...what say you?...Norma Shearer, right?...and George Brent NOT Don Ameche, RIGHT?!

Yeah, sure Tom. I'd say the enjoyment one sees the chain gang in Sullivan's Travels receives from watching a Mickey Mouse short could easily be matched and even exceeded if then the main feature on that prison's bill had starred Errol Flynn in one of his swashbucklers. No question about it. (...this WAS kind of the point to your story here, wasn't it?)

My philosophy about this has always been that when I read something by someone who doesn't, for example, know the damn difference between the words "your" and "you're", or the words "there", "their" and "they're" and who constantly show me that they DON'T know the damn difference between their proper usage, well, I always wonder what OTHER "things" they don't know and especially when they're attempting to explain what appears to be some half-baked opinion that they hold. OR in other words, their CREDIBILITY or that they have a command of not ONLY the "finer points" of the English language but ALSO a command of the facts, specifics and minutiae of ANY given subject, begins to suffer in my eyes. (...yep, THAT'S my philosophy about this kind'a thing, and it AIN'T..ahem..I mean it isn't ever going to change and because "my philosophy" here tends to be proven TRUER day by day and the older I get)

Not sure if I remember how people partied in 1999. (...and btw, I once watched the '75 flick years ago on TV...was pretty much a stinker as I recall)

Because every 20 to 30 years, people tend to party a little differently. Like say in '29 it was with bootleg/bathtub gin, in '56 it was probably with a Manhattan or a Tom Collins, in '75 it was probably with cocaine and/or some weed, AND in 20??...well...I'm not sure. (...and because Vautrin didn't specify the year here!)

OR maybe Ed, he once met Leo Durocher somewhere along the line! (...that would have probably done it too)

Reed also directed a sort of follow-up to The Third Man that starred his Odd Man Out lead James Mason titled The Man Between. It's another film set in the immediate post-WWII Europe, but this time in Berlin. I think you might like this one too, Stallion. (...I've considered it an oft overlooked gem in Reed's filmography since I first watched it on TCM maybe 15-20 years ago now)

LOL Gotta say here Moe, I loved how you've taken the art of bragging (about some of the very cool cars you've owned AND some of the women you've dated) to such a high but still very entertaining level here, bro! (...so, "Raiderette", eh?!...must have been during the time my favorite team to root against played their home games at the L.A. Coliseum, right?!)

I did ask Marjorie if she might at all be related to Miss Olson and considering her great likeness to her, but she said as far as she knew, no. (...she was based in MSP, as I recall)

Back during my days at working the boarding gates for Northwest Airlines at LAX (the1990s thru the early-2000s), for a while there was one lead flight attendant named Marjorie who had a turnaround flight schedule into and out of my station. The first time I met her, I was immediately struck at how much she looked like Nancy Olson. I mean she could have been her twin. I remember telling her this once, but she had no idea who Nancy Olson was. I told her to one day check out the movie Sunset Blvd and she'd see what I meant. Saw her again about a month later, and she told me that at my suggestion she had rented the movie to watch when she and her husband had had a few friends over for dinner, and she said as they watched it, every one of her guests had commented about how much she did indeed resemble the actress. (...Happy Birthday, Nancy)

Yes, early MGs are nice, but I have have to say I've never been that much into prewar designed sports cars with running boards. Guess they're just a little too old school for me. And yes, I feel the same way about Morgans. Give me an MGA any day of the week over any T-Type MG, if you please. (...well, just as long as you ALSO give me enough money to take care of all the mechanical and electrical issues that are almost sure to pop up after you give it to me, anyway) And, in order to keep this post of mine germane to slayton's thread's premise, here's a 1959 MGA that's featured quite a bit in 1965's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!...

LOL (...yep, I'd say so)

Good point. And so... 1934's Midnight: Drama that contains murder and courtroom scenes 1939's Midnight: Screwball (Romantic) Comedy about an Parisian taxi driver and a broke American showgirl stuck in the city of lights who meet (I love this film) 1982's Midnight: Exploitation Horror film

1934's 1939's (and by far the superior film of these three) 1982's

1939's 1959's

Missed watching this one CJ, but after looking up the synopsis of this movie and seeing that Tony played "the best basketball player at his college", perhaps a BETTER question and instead of incredulously asking if Tony was a "sex symbol", would be to ask how he could possibly be cast as a "star athlete" in ANY movie he was ever in??? You see, I still remember seeing him playing the troubled MLB player JImmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out, and oooh WEEE, if he was as inept at shooting hoops in this Tall Story flick as he was at throwing a baseball in THAT flick, then... (...well, you get the idea here, I'm sure)

So Bronxie. Is one of the traits of a Sagittarius being a person who takes things to New York City which have no good reason for going there??? (...well, you ARE the expert in this kind'a stuff, aren't YA?!!!)

Oh yeah, Kong ESPECIALLY liked Virgo women. See the look in his eyes when he catches sight of one?!... (...poor guy though...with him bein' a Sagittarius, this relationship was doomed from the beginning)

Here's a couple of movies with completely different storylines for ya, slayton ol' boy. In 1941, you had The Devil and Miss Jones starring Jean Arthur. And in 1973, you have The Devil in... (...oops, oh wait...not quite the same title here, huh...sorry, never mind)

I do remember watching this one on TCM in the past, Tom. However, I'm not sure if it was featured on Eddie's little slice of it when I did. (...but now that I think about it, I think it was)

You mean his constant attempt at a Cary Grant impression in that series wasn't ever ENOUGH for ya, James??? (...ever notice that?...well, he DID, ya know)

Taylor is usually or primarily good when he plays a character who's rigid, unbending, emotionless and often calculating, and which played well into what many people consider his oft "wooden" performances. THAT was always his forte and was where and when he was well cast, but hardly ever in a romatic lead unless it was a period piece in which he's sporting a toga, well okay, actually a Roman centurian's garb (read: Quo Vadis) or tights (read: Ivanhoe), and/or as Tom mentioned above, his turn as the cold blooded bad man in the western The Last Hunt. Another film in which he plays this type of rigid character to good effect is Above and Beyond where he played Col. Paul Tibbets who piloted the B-29 Enola Gay. (...and btw, AND I know I bring this up every time Robert Taylor's name comes up around here, but I STILL say he would've been MUCH better cast than Bogart was as the conservative and buttoned down older brother Linus Larrabee in the film Sabrina, and basically because, YES MissW, in 1954, Robert Taylor had much more sex appeal than Bogie did by that time and didn't look like he could've been Audrey Hepburn's grandfather!)

Not a fan of The Standells I take it, eh Lorna?