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On 1/15/2018 at 6:13 AM, Bethluvsfilms said:
I agree on Clift, but I think that aunt of hers (Miriam Hopkins) could also use a turn with the pitchfork for nagging Catherine to take him back after the way he treated her.
Also SPOILERS:
It should have been obvious he was a golddigger, and would always be a golddigger when he disappeared without a word (and how very VERY convenient it was when he decides to walk back into her life after her father has passed on, when he knows he no longer has any obstacles to her and her fortune).
But does that matter to dear old auntie? Oh no, she pushes Catherine to give him another chance. I kept thinking 'If you like him so much, beloved aunt, why don't YOU marry him?'.
Catherine does become harder in the end, but she was definitely much wiser to Clift's character than Hopkins' character was.
Interesting point of view that I had not really thought about. I felt that her aunt had a romanticized view of marriage and, perhaps because she was a somewhat younger widow,or because she and Morris had become social buddies, or perhaps because of the place in time in which the story took place and considering how timid her niece was, she felt that Morris was Catherine's only chance at happiness, whether he truly loved her or otherwise.
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She was very good as Lon Chaney's first wife in Man Of A Thousand Faces. RIP.
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17 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I think the OP mentioned PAINT YOUR WAGON, which I absolutely LOVE (I think I am just about the only one on here who does, hehe).
I love it, too, so there are at least two of us!
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7 minutes ago, EricJ said:
The Academy does. After 2014's Boyhood vs. Birdman got the disastrously lowest TV ratings in Oscar history, they tried to move it back to five noms in 2015....EXCEPT for the little clause in the rule that said that the multi-nomination voting allowed voters one choice for an animated Best Picture, which is how Pixar's "Up" and "Toy Story 3" made the cut for the first two years after the new Picture voting rule was introduced. And there was a certain Pixar movie in 2015 that had been considered the de facto Best Picture front runner for six months, since the week it opened.
In my book, Up and Toy Story 3 are as good as any other films nominated in those years.
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I actually like the larger number of nominated films. I don't have a specific reason as to why, but I just like it.
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The first time I saw Ingram was as the giant genie in The Thief Of Baghdad. I loved his resounding voice. He was also wonderful in The Talk Of The Town in a lesser and subdued role.
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On 1/4/2018 at 3:00 PM, jhwhitfield said:
Abel Gance's Napoleon, The Iron Horse, The Black Pirate, The Hands of Orlac, Hearts of the World, The Iron Mask, Frankenstein (1910).
The Hands Of Orloc was played once, but I believe it was actually in the prime time spot. Maybe SUTS with the spotlight on Conrad Veidt, if I'm remembering correctly.
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13 hours ago, TopBilled said:
I've sometimes experienced the reverse scenario. Like I will remember an actor or actress I enjoyed watching as a teen. So I will go back and find something they starred in from that earlier time period. And as I'm re-watching it the performances seem quite one-dimensional and barely hold up. It's funny...apparently I am not as naive as I had been way back when. I still see it as entertainment, just no longer quality entertainment.
I'm guilty of this as well. It will really bother me that I feel so differently about films or performances which many years ago I considered wonderful. I also do this with music, but I think most people do also, to varying extents.
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6 hours ago, hamradio said:
I thought the movie was OK, unique plot and love seeing Fred Gwynne. (aka Herman Munster)
"What's a..Yoot?" (How's that for a segue to a great one liner?)
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Charles Boyer is Gaslight. Ingrid should have used that knife while she had it in her hand!
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55 minutes ago, Princess of Tap said:
A lot of people say that Rita Hayworth was his best partner-- her dad was a professional dancer and he trained her well. He also had trained Fred Astaire in Latin dancing.
I really enjoy their films together. Rita just looked right for Fred. I believe she once said that the only films she was proud of were the the two she made with Fred. Fred, too, had many compliments for Rita in his autobiography.
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55 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Ahem, excuse me here you two, BUT I gotta say it's driving ME "mad" that NEITHER of you have put enough "M"s in your acronyms for that '63 star-studded comedy flick!!!
There should be FOUR of 'em!
Darn it! I almost put four M's in there, but was sure that was wrong!
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1 hour ago, CaveGirl said:
Of all his female dancing companions, I would pick Barrie Chase as the best. She was also so great in IAMMW with Dick Shawn.
She was great, wasn't she? They made a great team despite of their age differences, probably because they both gave their dancing a character and personality. My favorite of their duets is the routine they performed to the song "Night Train." Very funny ending!
I loved her in IAMMMW, too. She was also good in Cape Fear.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to marry Robert Donat. I was crushed when my mom told me he had been dead for nearly 20 years ( I was somewhat naive and didn't know the films I was watching were old.)
Now, I would say Edward G. Robinson. He was kind, mild mannered, private, artistic, smart and went to great lengths for his country ( which many other actors did, as well.) By all accounts, he also seemed like a family man.
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I had never seen the Lana Turner version of Madame X until December when she was SOTM. I don't care for soap opera films, but the music was wonderful. The opening theme especially was lovely.
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12 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
There's one that has shown Bing Crosby, Johnny Cash, Dick Van Dyke, and Cher TV specials, among others. I'm not sure if it was GetTV, Decades or one of the others...it wasn't MeTV, though.
I don't get any of those channels- I guess that would explain why I don't know of any that show those specials!
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2 hours ago, midnight08 said:
I have to disagree. TCM is "Turner Classic Movies". It's a movie channel with no commercial interruptions during the films. Why begin mixing in TV specials and a horde of other TV memorabilia? There are other stations for this such as Get-TV, Antennae-TV, Me-TV, etc.
I don't know of any channels that aire classic TV specials ( I'm not saying they don't exist, just that I don't know of any.) I mentioned those three people specifically because they are film legends. I think it would be fun to see their TV specials, especially if it was part of the SOTM salute. It was interesting to see the James Dean TV programs a few months back.
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It's nice to see GWTW and Snow White can still make the top 10 list after all of these years.
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I would love to see classic TV specials on TCM, such as Fred Astaire's four variety specials with Barrie Chase, or Mitzi Gaynor's specials, or Bing Crosby's specials, etc.
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Boyer was an actor I never really warmed up to and thought was a little one- dimentional. Then, when I saw his later films ( Fanny, Barefoot In The Park, The Madwoman Of Chaillot,etc.) I began to view him differently and when re-watching his films I previously didn't care for, started to like him. My favorite is a radio recording I have of him and Madeline Carrol performing The Ghost And Mrs. Muir.
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On 1/3/2018 at 4:31 AM, Bogie56 said:
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17 hours ago, Dargo said:
(...and for some reason I still remember being especially tickled by the movie when he started rambling about Brooklyn's Prospect Park to people who have no idea why he's doing so, and in fact as I recall, neither did he for a while in the story...and in fact, it might have also been my first exposure to that oft leading lady of his Virginia Mayo, and when I first got an eyeful of HER...ooh lah lah!!!)
...and Vera-Ellen's dance numbers were amazing, too.
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She struck me as a gutsy lady, although that could have just been the characters she portrayed. Lovely gal. RIP
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I will be watching it, at 5:30am....
George Clooney should host the next Oscars
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George Clooney seems like a really nice dude, but kind of strikes me as humorless. Might make for a long night.
I think what made Carson and Hope such great hosts was their ability to go off script and roll with whatever was actually happening. Gervais has that same quick wit, but I think would be too much for Oscar!
I liked Steve Martin, both solo and with Alec Baldwin. Will Ferrell I think would be good, too.