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Jennifer Jones was in LOVE LETTERS with Joseph Cotten

*221* "So when I say to you, 'Let us fly away to the Casbah...', looking at this map I mean exactly here."

I love The Beach Boys, but I actually never heard of this song, so I had to look it up ... It's nice, but I can't listen to it the whole way through or I'll be falling asleep at my desk:

Alexis Smith was in THE TWO MRS CARROLLS with Humphrey Bogart

For lovers of vocal harmonizing like moi: The Jayhawks, *Pray For Me*:

Frederic March was in NOTHING SACRED with Carole Lombard

Nice quote, LadyE, thanks for posting it. I had actually forgotten the significance of January 20th. I did remember January 16th, however, as the anniversary of the tragic death of Carole Lombard, my second favorite actress...

James Gleason

Fred Astaire was in SWING TIME with Ginger Rogers

*219* "Oh, how I often wish I had your curls!"

TROG

Zachary Scott was in BORN TO BE BAD with Joan Fontaine

Robert Walker

Lionel Barrymore was in GRAND HOTEL with Joan Crawford (Looks like it's just us on this thread right now, Gipper! )

Jean Harlow was in DINNER AT EIGHT with John Barrymore

ON THE WATERFRONT

Spencer Tracy

Myrna Loy was in TEST PILOT with Clark Gable

*so I'm out of my league on other threads* Don't sell yourself short. I'm out of my own league reading some of the posts you have written early on in this thread!

LadyE, I say again, I'm just loving your enthusiasm and your posts. I'm burnt out on ideas but it's great to read your intelligent perspective on films in general, and also as someone who has an in-depth knowledge of Stanwyck's films, etc.

Great assessment and enjoyable reading, LadyE! Browsing one of my favorite websites this morning, the Classic Movie Blog Association (clamba.blogspot.com), ironically enough I came across a review for *Sorry, Wrong Number*, where the author expresses the same thoughts as Andy, that the characters in the film weren't likeable, etc. Here's the link: http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/sorry-wrong-number-1948-anatole-litvak/#more-14425

I agree with you... A Stanwyck-Tracy pairing in a movie seems like 'oil and water' to me. But yes, he's one of the greats, I love Spencer Tracy and I especially love him and Hepburn together. With Grant and Stanwyck, they would have been a better match but more sad in terms of missed opportunities, in my opinion, was Grant and Carole Lombard in a screwball comedy. I'm not a big Henry Fonda fan but he was a great fit in *The Lady Eve*. It was a hard role to fill, a 'virginal' man who still had his own personality, a character that wasn't completely overshadowed by Stanwyck's Jean. It's a tricky balance. Stewart may have been a better actor overall but, sorry to say, I'm not a huge Stewart fan, either. He and Stanwyck definitely would have worked, though...

*They shot Stanwyck's bedroom scenes in sequence and in tandem. I think that really helped shade her performance........* I had read somewhere that Stanwyck wanted to film all her scenes together because she could more easily keep up her level of hysteria in her role, instead of taking a break and then winding herself up again, which was too draining.

*I guess I can't see how the Stanwyck character in SWN is anything but creepy, given that she was the consummate control freak from the first reel to the last, always thinking of her own wishes and basically nothing else.* I agree on that, and her controlling nature and need to have all attention focused on her is why she had the psychosomatic illness, which she fully bought as real because she couldn't save herself even when her life was in danger. That part is kind of pathetic - she isn't an intentionally vicious or evil woman; just wrapped up in her neuroses. *And it's hard to see what someone like Lancaster would ever have seen in her beyond her money, given the way she tried to dominate and control him right from the start.* Yeah, and he got fed up with that after a while, lol. *My only reaction to Stanwyck during that entire film was "Someone lock that woman up and throw away the key"* She was kind of "locked up" by her psychological problems, but I agree, not good wife material. *and my reaction to Lancaster's problems with Stanwyck was "What the hell do you expect when you let a woman buy you?"* Yes, I don't think he's completely a "victim" *and the word that IMO best describes both of them is "creepy".* I see your point.

*I hope you stay for my most anticipated post* For sure! I'm posting less lately but I still visit here on a daily basis. I look forward to your analytic assessment.