EugeniaH
-
Posts
4,929 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by EugeniaH
-
-
Bette Davis in The Star, as a washed-up actress. Haven't seen this for years. So far so good.
-
1
-
-
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
This is about the strongest level of "horror" movie my stomach can handle.
-
1
-
-
Flesh and Fantasy (1943) is an anthology film with occult/supernatural themes as the connecting thread.
-
2
-
-
Only Mary could make this horribly tacky dress look somewhat not as bad. Lol.
That dress looks like something Cher would wear, lol.
-
1
-
-
A late addition to the lineup:
The little known Orson Welles production of The Trail, where Anthony Perkins is forced to wander along a seemingly endless path littered with random piles of steer patty & b-movie western presentations, for reasons that nobody will reveal to him...
Yes, I saw the TRAILer to that one.
-
1
-
-
Compared to Mary and Phyliss anyone would be considered overweight. She was thinner though when she had her own show. I loved those shows at the time. I was single and living on my own and a young working woman in NY for most of the time MTM was on and I always watched. They were important shows for women at the time
As an aside, I love Joe! (On Rhoda.) I know the characters' relationship was rocky, to say the least, but I could fall for Joe in a heartbeat. David Groh was a good actor and he really did convey that he loved Rhoda.
-
2
-
-
I wrote earlier that Valerie Harper never really looked overweight when Rhoda was supposed to be struggling with her weight.
The wardrobe department just dressed her in bulkier clothes.
She didn't really look overweight, at the least by today's standards, but when her own show Rhoda came out she was noticeably thinner (I love Rhoda and have some DVDs)
Valerie Harper was a Weight Watchers spokesperson, if I'm recalling right.
-
1
-
-
Probably Steve Cochran or maybe Forrest Tucker?
I'd pay money to watch Steve Cochran play! (Well, not lately...)
-
1
-
-
Just ask Ava Gardner about Mickey Rooney, she said in her autobiography that he was "loaded" and I'm not talking about money
But Mickey Rooney? Ew.
-
2
-
-
Eh.....I TRIED that.
It don't work.
It's STILL 2016!
Anyway, I thought some professor somewhere told him how to do it. I only watched the movie initially because I'm a Michigander, and it has some fine shots of Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel in it.
Sepiatone
That's right, yes, he talked to (his?) professor.
I know, boy, with all the technological progress we've accomplished, no one has yet figured out how to travel back in time! It may hit a crisis point in November...
-
1
-
-
I always enjoyed Charles in Charge, though I thought it was strange that high school kids needed a babysitter.
"...Charles in Charge of my days and my nights. Charles in Charge of my wrongs and my rights... I want! I want! I want Charles in Charge of me..."
I think the 1980s was the last era of truly great television theme songs.
I read this post very early in the morning and then I couldn't get that theme song out of my head! LOL. It's definitely an earworm...
Oh no, there it goes again!
-
1
-
-
Okay about Happy Days. When Ritchie and Ralph Malph left the show, why was Potsie still there? What was the point of his character at that point?
What was the point of his character, ever?
(I watched Happy Days during its original run - we little kids were crazy about The Fonz - but I don't think the series aged very well, at least for me.)
-
1
-
-
I have only seen this film one time on television and those who know me know how shaky I am on the details. But, wasn't this about a writer? Fantasizing about an earlier time and living it in his imagination -or is it real? I could totally buy into that. But the self-hypnosis part (was that right?) ...
So, when I see these moments of past meets present on some realm of time and space, the one that totally leaves me in a puddle of tears and enlightenment is the closing scene of Field of Dreams. For me, the less explained or contrived, the better.
"SOMEWHERE IN TIME" MAJOR SPOILER HERE:
Yes, he was a playwright. He is backstage when he meets an old woman who pleads with him to "return" to her. He doesn't understand. Later he finds a portrait of a woman from the 1800s and falls in love with her. He researches the woman's life and ways he could go back in time to be with her. Eventually he locks himself in a room and keeps repeating to himself that he is back in time... almost like mantras, and then he eventually does meet up with her (to make this "plausible", again, it takes him a very long time, and a lot of effort, to actually break through that time barrier.)
The way that he is very unwillingly pulled back to the present was pretty ingenious, I thought...
The old woman at the beginning of the movie and the woman in the portrait are the same person.
-
I hated when he said "Wa Wa Wa", but when Scott Baio got older I was quite sweet on him. He was my dream guy.Chachi "Wa Wa Wa" Arcola was annoying.
I think he and Erin Moran dated in real life.
-
1
-
-
SPOILER:
Commenting further on Somewhere in Time: How do you make a character go back in time in the most 'plausible' way possible, without his climbing into some sci-fi machine? Reeve merely dresses himself in vintage clothing, redoes his room to create an environment in the past, and even carries old coins in his pocket. He then basically tries to hypnotize himself back in time. It sounds like a Twilight Zone episode, but I think it works.
-
1
-
-
Big surprise!
Livvie rocks!
-
1
-
-
I miss not only the trivia game, but some of the odd drama attached to the daily "best score" rankings.
The #1 champ EVERY DAY for, like, years straight was someone who called themselves- I KID YOU NOT- BARBARA CARRERA FAN.
I'm going to let the weirdness of that sink in.
And then for a while someone named Y U HAVE 2 CHEAT? would run neck and neck with BCF.
Barbara Carrera has a fan? And someone with some killer reflexes and extensive knowledge of classic film esoterica at that. (they asked some HARD questions about some OBSCURE stuff!)
Who is Barbara Carrera??
-
HONESTLY, I feel sorry for even posting that trailer! i cannot think of a more egregious misrepresentation of a film than that.
i would have asked for someone's head over this were I one Kerr or the director's team.
It's a bad trailer, all right, but your hilarious original comments made up for it.
-
2
-
-
I hope it goes on for a while - I've thought about starting this thread for quite a long time, because of my interest in these subjects, and I think I now have enough movie ideas to last for a long time, thanks to all of you!With the broad nature of this topic I reckon this thread could go on for years!
So glad you mentioned "Somewhere in Time". I was trying to think of films that involve reincarnation and this is a biggie. I have this on DVD. Christopher Reeve is outstanding and, if you ever start thinking the film is schmaltzy, the dramatic and shocking ending is sure to move you deeply.
-
2
-
-
Oh, Lorna, Lorna, Lorna. .....Nothing happens? Really?
Well, I've got this flick and "The Innocents" at the top of my classicflix.com rental queue so when I see it/them I'll try to weigh in and I'll let you and Lorna know who wins this argument.
-
3
-
-
I saw Bracken in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, (he was) he visual version of nails against a chalkboard. Even if it is another zany Preston Sturges movie, he was way too over the top for me.I'm actually fine with Eddie Bracken, but as a BIG FAN of SHADE, I must doff my hat to you on this.
Well played, Miss H, well played.
-
I just went back over all of these and was flabbergasted, due to the number of "experts" there are claimed to be in these forums that I found NO MENTION of ----
A GUY NAMED JOE !!
only a "blinders" guided sidetrack into simply "horror" flicks, and personal likes or dislikes. Or pretentious bloviating on opinions of particular film's quality.
Oh, aren't we SO "classic" dedicated---
Sepiatone
I did think of it, Sepia, but I didn't remember enough about the plot to comment on it in depth. I was waiting for you, lol. Has two of my favorites in it, Tracy and Dunne.
-
And how could you forget Eddie Bracken?
Goodness knows I try!
-
4
-
-
I'm about to re-watch All the King's Men.
What Are You Watching Now?
in Your Favorites
Posted
I'm on a "Burns and Allen" marathon of sorts tonight. Innocent, mindless fun. Poor Gracie Allen used to struggle to memorize her scripts because her dialogue was so convoluted, and she was in most of the show. She also suffered from migraine headaches. Later in the series as she became more ill she relied on teleprompters.
Anyway, as I've said elsewhere, Gracie's 'illogical logic' was some of the cleverest dialogue in series tv.