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10 minutes ago, slaytonf said:
Yeah, Claudette Colbert. Yeah, Norma Shearer. No, not George Brent. Or Don Ameche. Tantillizing, but I can't place da faace.
But you do get a boatload of points for what surely must be the longest title of a thread ever in the world.
I mean, what used to be the longest title of a thread ever in the world.
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?!!!)
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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?!
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7 hours ago, TomJH said:
I can still well recall a summer job I had as a youth working in a factory. The job was a simple one and it was for a full eight hours every day, shovelling dirt and minerals into a kiln. Simple as the job was it was also an exceedingly dirty one. The minerals, with the rotation of that kiln, hung literally like a dark cloud over our heads as we shovelled this mess into it. Everything would be covered with dirt and grime. Blowing one's nose produced a black product such as I would, thankfully, never see again after I quit the job. At the completion of the day's work, of course, there was always the big shower. Even then for some time I could never quite rid of a dark ring under my eyes. It looked like I was wearing mascara.
One day when a workmate (Pete, I think his name was) and I were once shovelling this endless ghastly supply of dirt and minerals the topic of The Adventures of Robin Hood was surprisingly brought up by him. He said that he had always enjoyed the film as a kid but, because of his black and white television, had no idea that it was a colour film. He said that seeing the film for the first time in colour made it a new viewing experience for him. So there we were, shovelling this crap, but at the same time losing ourselves with memories going back to the lush Technicolor greens of Sherwood Forest as we talked of Robin (Errol Flynn) meeting Little John (Alan Hale) for the first time on that fallen log over the creek.
Years later at clean job far removed from shovelling stuff into a kiln I met another guy, Jim. Jim had had a hard life, but he had been a successful amateur boxer, undefeated after 50 contests, actually winning either the lightweight or welterweight (I forget which) Golden Gloves. He had a dream of turning professional but suffered a bad cut over one eye in his 50th bout (given to him when his opponent ran across the ring while they were awaiting the decision,which Jim won, and giving him a vicious head butt). Jimmy lost his next bout when that cut was re-opened and a doctor told him that he would never be able to box again as the skin over that eye was thin as tissue paper. The guy who fouled him with a head butt after the match, by the way, was a Montreal tough guy Gaetan Hart, who later became a professional boxer, eventually losing a gutsy title match to the legendary Aaron Pryor ( I'm sure Jimmy enjoyed very punch Pryor landed on him).
With his boxing dreams over Jimmy then lived for ten years or so on the streets and there he saw all the meanness there was to see there. He became known as a local tough guy, though he told me he never picked on anyone. People came to him for protection from others. Knowing Jimmy, I could well believe this. Tough guy or not he was also a sweetheart with a big heart. But the streets lead to drug addiction for him and, his biggest lifelong battle, alcoholism. When I first met Jim he hadn't touched a drop in ten years and was going to AA meetings on a weekly basis.
Jimmy and I talked about the streets and boxing a lot but one day I brought up a new topic, movies, asking him if he had any favourite actors. "Well, I always kinda liked Errol Flynn" he said, much to my surprise, and then made specific reference to the enjoyment he had received from watching Captain Blood and those tall sailing vessels in a long ago Caribbean Ocean.
There's nothing new in talking about the pleasures of escapism that the movies can bring us, but these are a pair of specific illustrations of that pleasure in unpleasant (my case) or harsh circumstances (Jimmy's).
Errol Flynn's big budget adventure films made at Warner Brothers have always been a source of particular enjoyment for me, with the elegance and dynamic appeal of the best of those often stirring epics, combined, of course, with the winning combination of athleticism, devil may care charm and light heartedness that Flynn could bring to his roles, making them all seem, at least during his prime years before his self destructive lifestyle took its toll, like such a lark.
And it was good to see that my love for Flynn and, in particular, the films of his pinnacle years as a film star was shared by some others that I've known, including a guy shovelling minerals into a kiln and a tough guy seeing the meanness of the streets.
Any other Flynn fans here care to comment?
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?)
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4 hours ago, wbogacz said:
https://www.debate.org/opinions/are-spelling-and-grammar-important#!
This is an UNDATED online survey, so no guarantees it is current opinion, but I believe it's just cumulative, and cumulative over a long time would be definitive.
50% YES, 50% NO, so, people are split on the issue.
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)
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53 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
I figured there will likely be another movie with the title The Wild Party sometime in the next
78 years. Actually the 1975 movie is based on Fatty Arbuckle's wild wild weekend in San Francisco
in the 1920s, though the names were changed to protect the innocent. I think I saw parts of it a
long time ago. But life is just a party and parties aren't meant to last.
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)
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27 minutes ago, Vautrin said:
The Wild Party 1929, 1956, 1975, 20??.
24 minutes ago, slaytonf said:How can we tell that they couldn't be more different?
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!)
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2 hours ago, Citizen Ed said:
Same. I saw the movie and almost ran to the library to find the book. I almost felt like tearing pages out and replacing them with hand written "good parts".
I think Babe Ruth must've puked a hot dog on Malamud when he was trying to get an autograph or something. Somebody in the sport had to have hurt him as a kid to write a book that cynical.
OR maybe Ed, he once met Leo Durocher somewhere along the line!
(...that would have probably done it too)
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10 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
It was a hit record when the film was new (before the Billboard Top 40 era). I had it on 78 (maybe still) and I have a CD of Instrumental Gold... which includes it.
The film was directed by CAROL REED - OLIVER REED's uncle... GREAT FILM! REED also directed ODD MAN OUT (awesome) and OLIVER! - which I love!
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)
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1 hour ago, Moe Howard said:
On the front row (only in the movies) is a 71 De Tomaso Pantera. Like that Raiderette I dated, I love the way it looks but it's a PITA.
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?!)
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1 minute ago, Aritosthenes said:
To Your knowledge were They Related in Any way ?
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)
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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)
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9 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
And speaking of sports cars! What's New Pussycat was on MGM HD early this morning. Rex Harrison is driving a baby blue MG. Later I watched, Monkey Business and there's another MG. I'm thinking Pillow Talk had one, so did The Killing complete with cheesy Jag hood ornament and out of tune motor, and in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood "Roman Polanski" drives one. These things are all over.
IMCDB has the MG Ts appearing over 470 times, not including replicas. That is impressive, especially considering it's probably not the result of any product placement effort. They are gorgeous and can still be purchased for well under $20k. This one is cheap at $29k.
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!...
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Just now, slaytonf said:
Now, that's different!
LOL
(...yep, I'd say so)
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Just now, slaytonf said:
But how do we know they couldn't be more different?
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
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1934's
1939's (and by far the superior film of these three)
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1982's
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1959's
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2 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
What were they thinking? Currently watching Tall Story. He was also in some others. Did the the studios actually do a survey of American woman and come up with this?
Somebody in the know please explain?
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)
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6 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
I gotta find out when old Kong was "constructed" -- perhaps he really is a Sag.
Interestingly, Robert Armstrong actually is one!
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?!!!)
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23 minutes ago, Bronxgirl48 said:
The original KING KONG tonight!
Fay Wray (Virgo)
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)
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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)
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
Has Decoy, a 1946 Monogram noir been shown on Noir Alley or TCM?
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)
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4 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
For me Peter Gunn also had the best musical score of any T.V. show as well as the best guest musicians. The only issue I have is that I wish Craig Stevens had a more compelling screen persona.
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)
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8 hours ago, TomJH said:
A lot of posters here are not fans of Robert Taylor and I can understand why they may find his appeal limited. I find him, at best, adequate in some of his '50s films but far from exciting.
However, he was highly effective as a cold blooded killer with a psychopathic hatred towards Indians (okay, okay, indigenous people) in The Last Hunt, a western made in 1956. We're far from the land of noir here, of course, but Taylor's hard boiled coldness in this tale about buffalo hunters could have worked well as a character in a noir study, as well. This film is shown on TCM quite often and is worth a look for Taylor's performance. The film has a unique climax, quite unlike that of any other western that comes to mind.
Okay, back to the noir talk . . .
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!)
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21 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
dumb question, but what is the name of the River in Boston?
Not a fan of The Standells I take it, eh Lorna?
Every source I've found says this caricature (the gent in profile you see sitting at the table) is of Don Ameche, but I say it's supposed to be George Brent. What say you?
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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)