ChristineHoard
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42 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Yes, she was nominated an incredible 12 times and never given an Emmy. Unbelievable!
The TV movie you're thinking of is 1985's BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN. It's on DVD.
Just like Angela Lansbury when it comes to Emmy nominations and wins. I like that TCM is selling DVDs of some of Elizabeth's TV movies.
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LawrenceA, That avatar has got to go - right after Christmas!
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THE LITTLE FOXES is one of those movies I try to never miss when it comes on. It definitely stands up to repeat viewings. Yes, Herbert Marshall suffered due to Bette in this and THE LETTER. But Herbert had two women who had the hots for him in TROUBLE IN PARADISE and had a lengthy scene as the lover in the original 1929 THE LETTER. He went from being a babe magnet to cuckolded husband to sage (THE RAZOR'S EDGE) over his lengthy career.
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Not much sunshine in those mine shafts. Maybe the new song for the sequel could be "Ain't No Sunshine When We're Gone" (with apologies to Bill Withers) or some variation ("Ain't No Sunshine Where We're Going").
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3 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Aaaah, but Christine! Why couldn't there be a sequel to that Kubrick masterpiece, I ask?
SURELY some mine shafts could be found to film in, wouldn't ya say?!
(...and where "greenhouses could maintain plant life, and animals could be bred and SLAUGHTERED..to provide for several hundred of thousand of our people", as the "good" Doctor said...in his German accent of course!)
What's your title for this imaginative sequel, Dargo? And are any people going to have time to get to those mine shafts with greenhouses and animals before the big one drops? If not, it'll be a short sequel - sort of like "Bambi Meets Godzilla."
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I chose CROSSFIRE because it has several noir elements like the cinematography (camera angles, shadows) and the story takes place at night plus, of course, there's a murder. It's got the three Roberts, two of whom are Great Men of Noir and, as you so aptly point out, there's Gloria Grahame, a Great Woman of Noir.
Anyway, lots of great movies on these lists.
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Here's my Top Ten Essential Noir List in alphabetical order:
ASPHALT JUNGLE, CROSSFIRE, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, GUN CRAZY, THE KILLING, LAURA, THE MALTESE FALCON, OUT OF THE PAST, SCARLET STREET, THE STRANGLE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS.
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2 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Those two would be on my next list of 10, but I decided to take The Killers over Asphalt Jungle as it relates to a heist film (had to get Ava in there somewhere!), and Gun Crazy,,, yea, I did lean towards the iconic noir actors.
But hey, where is your top 10 list so I can poke holes in it!
LOL! I will work on my other 8 titles and submit it and wait for holes to be dutifully poked.
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Bela Lugosi's surgery on Boris Karloff in THE RAVEN and Charles Laughton's weird experiments in ISLAND OF LOST SOULS.
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6 minutes ago, CaveGirl said:
Thanks, dahling! Don't get me wrong, I think reflecting on how any normal and glamorous woman of 1950 would have looked, that Swanson looks quite nice. It's just that women then did not aspire I think to look like teenyboppers or constantly in their 20's, even when they are much older. Consequently I think Swanson's hairdos and make-up reflect her wish to look attractive but in a mature way appropriate to then styles. Body wise she actually seems to be in great shape. She's marvelous in the part for sure! Hope that clears up any misconceptions I might have caused about her appearance in the film.
No problem; no misconceptions.
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The movie you don't want to revisit got Minnelli an Oscar nomination. LOL!
Can't do a sequel for DR. STRANGELOVE for obvious reasons.
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I think ROCKY should have stopped at one. This is probably an unpopular opinion. I saw ROCKY and I liked it but I don't like Stallone and I'm glad he didn't win the Best Supporting Oscar last year.
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13 minutes ago, CaveGirl said:
I think Gloria was around fifty when the film was made and though she did not look decrepit at all, I think women of fifty years now probably look quite a bit more youthful. Holden was quite fetching in the film, and looked good dripping wet. Nobody here turn me in for sexual harrassment or inappropriate sexist language please!
I can't turn you in when I agree with everything you said about Holden.
Gloria was 53 (according to HALLIWELL'S FILMGOER'S COMPANION). I think she looked fine and I felt that way at pre-50 years old and post-50 years old. As Bill Holden tells her, "There's nothing wrong with being 50." A great movie and one of my all-time favorites. 1950 was an excellent year for films with three of my favorites: SUNSET BLVD., ALL ABOUT EVE and ASPHALT JUNGLE. Maybe even better than 1939!
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You can't have a Noir List without including ASPHALT JUNGLE or GUN CRAZY.
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It is a good film. TCM ran it last year or the year before. Thanks for writing about it.
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2 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
Never saw House of the Seven Gables, but I do enjoy Vincent Price and George Sanders in other films very much.
I'll have to watch this one someday.
Me, too. I've never seen it but I want to. Price and Sanders may be somewhat "hammy" at times but they're so much fun to watch I don't mind.
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On 12/20/2017 at 7:10 AM, spence said:
"Aliens" was very strong ($81m.) (***1/2)
As much as I like ALIENS, I still prefer the smaller scale of the original with one monster and we aren't prepared for what's going to happen. But it is a good sequel.
As for Indiana Jones, I liked the first one but Kate Capshaw's obnoxious screaming and the little boy drove me crazy in the second one.
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Let's face it: most sequels/prequels suck and are money grabs for ticket sales and marketing toys. Notable exceptions are THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE GODFATHER.
(I'm sorry these obviously weren't decades apart. They're still great sequels, though)
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Some favorite movie bits of mine: I love the scenes in WHITE HEAT already mentioned and I also love the "need a little air?" scene which also shows how cold blooded Cody is.
I love the scene in PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES where John Candy is driving crazy and Steve Martin wakes up from a nap, notices the car is down to its shell and envisions Candy as the devil. Another good Steve Martin scene is his drunk driving test in THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS. The test involves near-impossible tasks like walking in a handstand in a straight line. "Damn, your drunk tests are hard," Steve says.
One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies: when Addison Dewitt tells Eve Harrington exactly how it's going to be and he's on to her in ALL ABOUT EVE.
There's so many. These are just a few that come to mind.
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1 hour ago, yanceycravat said:
I was just watching ID and they were advertising their ID Discovery Wine Club. I thought it was a joke. I looked it up. No joke.
What wine pairs best with murdering your loved one over Christmas? Oh, boy!
Yancey
A nice full-bodied red like a Cabernet or Chianti.
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17 minutes ago, spence said:
Albert Brooks is among the few that can still make me laugh in our era & was an *Academy Award contender for '87's "Broadcast News" (TRIVIA: His brother is Super Dave 0sborne)
Who also caught his even better 1985 "Lost in America?"
I caught "Lost in America" and it is very funny.
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18 minutes ago, spence said:
Very good (***1/2) but stagey
Yes. It's based on a stage play and it's the kind of play that's hard to open up for the big screen.
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On 12/14/2017 at 7:22 AM, Bogie56 said:
Friday, December 15/16
Not much for me to choose from this day.
2 a.m. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941). With Bette Davis and Monty Woolley.
I watched this again and I have to say I love Ann Sheridan's top - especially the hands in the front. She's very funny in this as is Jimmy Durante. Lots of references to famous people in the 1940's; I wonder how many go over the heads of today's audience.
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On 12/15/2017 at 8:25 AM, Sepiatone said:
I've pointed it out before, but d'ya notice how incredibly close the resemblance to the REAL Earp Russell has?
And many to most of Gable's early films has him sans 'stache. Known then to be a "clean freak" he'd have to grow one for a particular role and would shave it off quickly when the film was wrapped. And sometimes the cookie-dusters were fake. But he eventually took to having one and it shortly became his "signature". There are many old photos to be found of Clark without one.
Sepiatone
Quite true but as you said these were Gable's earliest films where he's clean shaven.
42nd STREET (1932) to cool for "The Code"?
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