ChristineHoard
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John Wayne
The Shootist (1976)
Yes! Probably my favorite John Wayne performance.
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Will someone please post some more pictures of handsome actors in this thread? Thanks!
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Boris Karloff in Targets. He made a few films after that but they were foreign clunkers so I don't count them.
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I just watched The Blob and when the frozen Blob was shipped to the Arctic a character said everything would be fine as long as the Arctic didn't melt and I thought "oh-oh."
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KidChaplin, you have some good films to look forward to on your list. I've seen most of them and my favorite is All About Eve, which is one of my favorites of all time (very close to the top of my list). It is so well written and everyone in it is terrific; just about perfect. As for Cary Grant, I like The Philadelphia Story the best from your list. He's good in everything. My only quibble is, for me, he is a little too frantic in Arsenic and Old Lace but maybe that's what the story calls for. You only have one western on your list. I really like Shane and have grown to like it more as I've seen it a few times, thanks to repeated viewings on TCM. It's become one of my favorite westerns.
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Having watched Son of Frankenstein last night for the first time in a long time, I just love Basil's performance. His face was very expressive and you could sense his emotions just by looking at him. He did a great job slipping into his "mad doctor" mode. He could've said "no" to Ygor on reviving the monster but he just couldn't resist (and we wouldn't have much of a movie if he had said no). Great fun!
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I'm recording Hitler's Children for viewing at a later date (I missed it on Tim Holt day last month). The 1925 Studio Tour was enjoyable (recorded it last night and watched early tonight) and showed how sprawling big the MGM lot was back then. It was fun to pick out the faces of the stars and directors. They covered all the different departments except hair and makeup so I guess we're to think everyone was just perfect.
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I'm not making excuses for the guy but I think he had substance abuse problems stemming from his accident.
Thanks for your input. You might be on to something.
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JAMES STACY sure was a good looking guy. I remember him from his TV days and seeing him on a show or two after his accident. I did not know about the molestation charges. WIKI said he also got into trouble for window peeping (or something like that) around the same time. I don't mean to seem cavalier or insensitive, but these charges were after his accident and he was able to do these things in a wheelchair with one leg and one arm? What kind of pervert was he to do this stuff in his condition?!? He must have had very dark compulsions.
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anyone catch Altman's The Player last night?
Yes, I watched it. I missed seeing it when it was released so I was looking forward to it (the whole evening's lineup of "inside Hollywood" movies was certainly entertaining). The Player shows how vapid Hollywood is and I don't think much has changed over the years. The cast was very good although I missed some of the cameos. The clip from their movie that was supposed to have no stars and an unhappy ending was very funny. What an ending! Robert Altman was an excellent director.
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This is mind-boggling ambitious and it'll take a while to digest but a couple of things stood out. I would pick King Vidor's THE BIG PARADE over DUEL IN THE SUN, hands down no-brainer for me. One of the best war movies ever. I would pick CROSSFIRE over MURDER MY SWEET for Edward Dmytryk.
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You're right, I shouldn't overlook Collinge in THE LITTLE FOXES. She's also good a short time later in Hitchcock's SHADOW OF A DOUBT.
I think you'll enjoy ADAM HAD FOUR SONS. It's very well acted by the entire cast. Susan Hayward has an early supporting role and she nails her scenes.
I will be posting the column on Stanwyck in the middle of September.
Thanks. I love SHADOW OF A DOUBT and everyone in it including Patricia. It's one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. I look forward to reading your Stanwyck thoughts.
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Top Billed, How could you leave out Patricia Collinge from LITTLE FOXES?!? Total agreement about Herbert Marshall. He's good in everything and has a great voice. I haven't seen all the performances you cited but now I am curious about ADAM HAD FOUR SONS.
By the way, have you posted your Barbara Stanwyck piece yet? I couldn't find it in the Today's Topic forum but maybe I didn't go back far enough. I did see the pix you posted on the most current page but that's all.
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I think you may have answered you own question, Speedracer. The "Lubitsch touch" to me is the more sophisticated settings, situations and humor plus a gentle sly jab at the code after it came into enforcement.
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Top Billed, I'm surprised you've never seen PENNY SERENADE, especially considering all your research and writing. You do need to check it out. You may like it or you may find it overly sentimental but I think you will like the lead performances regardless. I agree that Ida Lupino is in a supporting role. I would be interested in reading your thoughts about Barbara Stanwyck as you said your opinion has changed. She is #1 for me followed by Bette Davis and Irene Dunne. But there are a lot of actors/actresses whose work I have come to appreciate over time.
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I can't believe that word got bleeped out of my take on THE BLACK CAT. I'll leave it to your imaginations...
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Just watched THE BLACK CAT which I recorded during Karloff's night last month. I had seen it before but it had been awhile and I still love the German Expressionism-inspired sets, Karloff and Lugosi together for the first time, Ulmer's direction. Satanism! ****! Being skinned alive! What more could a lover of 30's horror films want? By the way, I have a black cat and she is only slightly evil.
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I absolutely love all the Universal horror (although not too keen when they made comedies out of my favorite monsters with A&C) and I have since I was a kid. My favorites are the James Whale-directed flicks but I still like the sequels like FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN. I am looking forward very much to the October lineup. I love RKO horror, too, but TCM has been showing these pretty often so I am very ready for some of the Universal horror that I haven't seen in a long time.
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Michael Phillips has a nice, natural, conversational delivery. I wasn't familiar with him before but I like what I've seen thus far.
I used to watch Siskel & Ebert every week back in the day when I lived in Chicago. They sent me an "At the Movies" t-shirt when I wrote them a letter. They had said Hitchcock never won an Oscar and I wrote them that "Rebecca" won Best Picture so they were wrong and Miss Know-It-All - me - was right. They wrote back to me that, yes, "Rebecca" won Best Picture but Hitchcock himself never won a Best Director Oscar. Thanks for writing us and thanks for watching and here's a t-shirt for you.
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I would vote for Bette in LITTLE FOXES. She is just terrific in this role, as is everybody (Patricia Collinge's heartbreaking performance is awesome, as I have said elsewhere). I do love Barbara Stanwyck. If she didn't win for STELLA DALLAS or DOUBLE INDEMNITY she wasn't going to win for BALL OF FIRE. But she is great and should have won for something. At least she got an honorary Oscar. It seems like actresses playing "bad girls" don't usually win Best Actress Oscars but those are the roles with a lot of substance to them and would be challenging and fun to play.
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I think Tiffany would be fine if she just stopped reading the teleprompter and adopt a more coversational tone. Learn something interesting about the movie you are introducing and share that with the viewers.
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I'm not holding my breath for the latest incarnation of A Star is Born but I'm not in the desired demo. I watched the Sreisand version not too long ago. I think it was on TCM. I can't believe I stayed with the whole thing as it isn't really very good but I do like the songs. I agree that What Price Hollywood? is the original and I enjoy it very much along with the Gaynor-March version. I like the Judy Garland version, too, but I think What Price and the first A Star is Born are the best.
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I watched East Side West Side for the first time this morning. Great cast with lots of soapy goodness! Barbara Stanwyck is excellent, of course, and I loved her scenes with Van Heflin, who always delivers a fine performance. They had good chemistry together. Ava Gardner is the bad girl and holds her own in a pivotal scene with Barbara. Cyd Charisse is OK. James Mason plays Barbara's husband who cannot stay away from Ava. Nancy Davis (Reagan) is in it, too. Gale Sondergaard plays Barbara's mom. She has two scenes: one where she is sitting and the other where she is in bed but it's not bedtime. I wonder if she had some real-life health issues at the time. The scene where she tells James Mason where to get off is well done. Not a great film but entertaining take on life in New York circa 1950 with s e x and murder.
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I get Jean Harlow's appeal but I also get why some people don't care for her looks. She is very representative of the 1930s with the hair and make up. I agree that if she had lived she might well have gone with a more natural hair color and thicker eyebrows in the 1940s, sort of like Bette Davis, who also had very blonde hair and thin brows early in her career. Harlow certainly did have a great figure! I do think she was very talented, funny and her acting improved big time over the length of her career. My faves in no particular order: Red Dust, Libeled Lady, Bombshell, Red Headed Woman, Dinner at Eight. She was unique at the time and although today her looks may seem artificial to a lot of us, she kept it real in the acting department. (An aside: as for the alleged Paul Bern suicide, I read that Sam Marx at MGM thought Paul's ex common-law wife, who was apparently crazy, killed him and then killed herself two days later. Makes sense to me.) I wish William Powell and Jean had gotten married. They seemed to be good for each other.
On another note, I do like Place in the Sun mainly for the following reasons: Montgomery Clift's performance, George Stevens' terrific direction , the cinematography and that dress Elizabeth Taylor is wearing when Monty meets her.
I've seen From Here to Eternity several times. I find it terribly sad but I love the beach scene with Burt and Deborah. Burt Lancaster had one of the greatest male bodies ever! Plus, he was a very good actor.
No, TCM, you give Eddie Muller something better to do on your network than shill wine
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I've been writing/editing for beverage alcohol publications for over thirty years and have been to many, many industry and consumer wine tastings and events. I love wine but I don't like wine snobs and I have met some doozies but, thankfully, most of the people in the actual winemaking/wine selling business are not like this. I certainly get why some of this pretentious wine talk turns people off. If you like it, drink it. It's supposed to be fun. You don't have to spend big $ for a good wine. I just discovered a very nice French Rose' for $6.99 at my local liquor store. As for the TCM Wine Club, I would probably join if I could afford it (the writing thing has been pretty lean the last couple of years) and I think TCM is just trying to generate some extra revenue. I like Eddie doing the commercials, and as someone else wrote, he's likely getting paid. Maybe if Eddie hosts noir films again, he can suggest (without mentioning brand names), different cocktails, beers or wines that would fit the mood of a particular film.