EugeniaH
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Good question - sometimes I've wondered myself. Hopefully they won't feel offended. I liked how Bakshi became angry and indignant when he saw the elephant with the slogans painted on it. That was one of the few "serious" parts of the movie.
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*Imagine Robert Mitchum in Wendell Corey’s place in The Furies*
LadyE, I like that idea. I can see the filmmakers wanting a more "staid" actor to balance out the firecracker energy of Stanwyck in *The Furies*, but Corey was a little too wooden, imo.
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"Don't go too far with that can opener, Phil. I'll be done with my scene in a minute."
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Love "Linus and Lucy", SansFin! Still, I've gotta give Snoopy equal time here.
"Snoopy vs. The Red Baron":
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(Deleted post, because Sepiatone's response above is correct.)
Edited by: EugeniaH on Dec 16, 2012 12:25 PM
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I haven't seen the movie, but I imagine "The Gracie Allen Murder Case" (1939) with Allen and Warren William, isn't your usual Hitchcock-type thriller.
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After reading all the "Party" posts I had to watch this film again last night.
My favorite lines:
*Hrundi V. Bakshi:* "Do you speak Hindustani?"
*Girl:* "No"
*Hrundi, waving his hand:* "Well, that's okay, you're not missing anything!"
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He asks the same question of another woman who obviously detests him, and she makes a beeline into the bathroom the first chance she gets. :^0
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Thanks for your responses, everyone! This thread sank to the bottom so fast I'd forgotten I'd created it, LOL. :^0
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My top 5 classic TV shows (not in order after number 1):
1. The Twilight Zone
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2. I Love Lucy
3. The Honeymooners
4. Burns and Allen (for Gracie Allen; love her lines and love her delivery)
5. All in the Family (I got stuck on '5', so it's this show for today)
(There are so many other good ones, though... The Fugitive, Dragnet...)
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"Now you take that guy Mickey! So popular, but can he really act? No. I studied under Adler! Yaddayaddayadda..."
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*It is episode 26, 'By Force and Violence.'*
Interesting TB - I never made the connection between this episode and the movie Jeopardy, but yes, you're right, there's a similarity...
One of my favorite eps so far is "Earthquake!", from Season One, with Charles Bronson.
(PS - Sorry, skimpole, I hit reply to your post by mistake... I'm not sure about the Sirk movie you mention.)
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"Hey good lookin', what's cookin'?"
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"We're going to get a date for Ned even if we have to build one!"
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If I'm remembering right, they talked Barbara into doing the anthology show (for which she won an Emmy) because of the success of The Loretta Young Show. I'm also pretty sure BS and LY were friends (I've seen pictures of them together).
Wow, intersting "what-if" about The Untouchables... Thanks for this information. With Ball of Fire, yes, I remember reading this in Lucille Ball's biography (but Addison gave more information that I didn't know).
With The Big Valley, I only started watching the series very recently. I've watched a couple of seasons. Barbara has some episodes where the story revolves around her, but from what I've seen the focus is more on the other characters - which is totally fine, of course, I like the show a lot and think it's better than other TV Westerns of the time, but too bad the anthology series didn't last.
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*it probably garnered her a new younger generation of fans.*
That, and of course "The Big Valley". This is my cue to segue into her other (short-lived) 1960s TV series, "The Barbara Stanwyck Show". I have those DVDs and I have to say some of those episodes are really well done. I think The BS Show gives her more to do, and of course her roles are more varied. My favorite episode there is called "Shock". Some of her movie co-stars show up here, like Dana Andrews and Ralph Bellamy.
Edited by: EugeniaH on Dec 15, 2012 11:58 AM
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TB - Have you seen "Witness to Murder"? What do you think of the Stanwyck-Sanders pairing? The movie wasn't really A-1 but it was pretty good for me, I was entertained, and I like them together.
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That's right - I'd forgotten about The Night Walker. I've never seen this one. There are still a few Stanwyck films I've yet to see
. I haven't seen Walk on the Wild Side, Roustabout, Variety Girl (has anyone ever seen this? I'm curious! I know it's an ensemble picture), These Wilder Years, and I think a couple of Westerns. -
*The first 2/3 or so of USED CARS (1980) was uproarious. I'm sure Eugenia would agree.*
Never saw it, but if finance likes it it must be brilliant.
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*I always felt someone missed the boat not putting her and Robert Mitchum together, either in a film noir or a western (both genres would've worked for them).*
That's so funny - this morning I was trying to think of leading men that Stanwyck never worked with (as finance posted), and Mitchum came to my mind. Stanwyck and Mitchum would have been terrific together - I'd rather see them in a noir than a Western but yes, they could have done both.
*In my opinion her best costar, aside from Robert Taylor, was Van Heflin. It's a rare case of the leads being almost too much alike, but it works because they usually play kindred souls who are trying to beat the odds.*
With Robert Taylor, they were cute together in "His Brother's Wife", but I don't think Taylor was a great actor... "This is My Affair" wasn't very good; Stanwyck didn't really shine and Taylor was lousy. I love her and Heflin together. I know the word "chemistry" is overused but they had great chemistry. Have you seen "The Man With a Cloak"? Barbara and Joseph Cotten were great together in that! I thought Cotten kept up with her, acting-wise. Wish they had done more together, too. As mentioned before, too, I think Stanwyck and Milland let some strong sparks fly in "California".
*I think her worst pairing was with Robert Cummings. They had zero chemistry together. THE BRIDE WORE BOOTS has a cute premise, but it could've been so much better with a different male lead.*
Oh yeah, sheesh. What a lousy comedy. That's on my box set but I only saw it once. Interesting in that Natalie Wood played her daughter, and her future mate Robert Wagner became Stanwyck's real-life lover later.
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Second-fastest test: You walk into a room. Quick, what was it that you came in to get?
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This reminds me of a great visual joke on "The Simpsons". In the background a movie marquee reads, "For Your Thighs Only" :^0
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I haven't seen any of "The Colbys", but I'll take Barbara's word for it.
You wrote: She deeply respected Aaron Spelling.
I read somewhere that Stanwyck is/was the godmother of Tori Spelling.
Drew as co-host
in The Essentials 2012
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I'd love to see finance and Drew as co-hosts of The Essentials. All gloves would be off, I'd imagine...