Dargo2

My favorite Don Ameche film is Lubitsch's "Heaven Can Wait". I love the whole fantasy premise, and everyone on screen seems to be on top of their game....especially Ameche.

Ooooh...not good! LOL! Yep, I also remember a few of my lady teachers over the years lookin' a bit like that too. One of 'em, I swear, HAD to be Peter Lorre's twin sister. (...though I suppose the good thing about this was that it made concentrating upon the subjects they were teaching much easier, 'cause you definitely never daydreamed about what they looked like naked while sittin' at your desk!)

ginnyfan wrote: "Since I am seeing first hand how hard it is to piece together a life when the person didn't talk, I hate to see that information be lost forever." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or, put another way...before they say "Rosebud" for the final time, eh ginnyfan?!

Yeah, maybe so, finance. And, if this IS true, then I think you're best advised to NEVER misspell the name "Campagnolo" or the word "derailleurs" around here. (...'cause you'll SURELY hear about it from HIM if ya ever DO!)

misswonderly wrote: "(By the way, what does Pontiac the car brand have to do with The Tempest? Clearly I'm missing something here.)" ------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's ya go, MissW. This should explain my joke here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Tempest I couldn't resist goin' in that direction with my earlier response, especially considerin' I'm quite the Gearhead. I've always had an affinity for cars and motorcycles. (...it's the "stuff" that people like me who were born and bred in SoCal seem to "dream" about a lot , ya know)

Hmmm...the "Tempest", ya say, eh MissW. Funny, but I didn't know this here Bard of Avon dude was a Pontiac man! (...yeah, yeah, I know, MUCH too easy, huh) Btw, thanks for postin' Will's words there. The guy sure had a way with the language, didn't he?!

clore wrote: "As my sixth grade teacher used to say "Emphasis loses emphasis when it's emphasized too emphatically." --------------------------------------------------------------------- YEAH?! Well, what the heck did SHE know, HUH?! (...uh huh...and I'll betcha she wasn't NEARLY as hot as Miss Salazar was EITHER!!!) LOL

Wait now, Dmallon! Let's take the most famous line in that film: "It's the STUFF dreams are made of." Well FIRST, the grammar is ALL wrong there. And SECONDLY, well, my 4th grade teacher, Miss Salazar(boy was SHE hot...the sultry brunette Latin type, if ya catch my drift...but I digress), always advised us kids that the word "stuff" should ONLY be used as a last resort, as it's VERY nondescript! And so, whaddaya say to that, HUH???!!! (...juuuuuuust kiddin' o' course...I agree with ya and think "The Maltese Falcon" has a very good script)

Okay. NOW that I've got that VERY easy joke out of the way(I JUST can't help it, ya know), here's my REAL answer... Disregarding her turn as a child actress, she hit it big just as movie musicals were goin' the way of the Dodo bird. (...well, that's MY guess, anyway) OH, and one more thing here, slaytonf...seein' as how you brought it up. I also really like "I Know Where I'm Going". What a wonderful film, huh! Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 28, 2012 11:18 PM

"Why wasn't Petula Clark a bigger movie star", ya ask?! Well slaytonf, the answer is quite simple. She spent MUCH too much time.....wait for it.....Downtown. Specifically, around the Barnaby Street shopping area! (...geeez, and here I thought EVERYBODY knew THIS!!!)

Bilgewasser wrote: "Good pitching beats good writing every time." -------------------------------------------------------- LOL!!! Ya know Bilge ol' buddy, if I didn't know any better, I'd SWEAR that that RIGHT THERE was a review by either James Agee OR Red Barber(or maybe BOTH) of that so-so Ronald Reagan baseball flick about Grover Cleveland Alexander!!! (...but then again, maybe I'm actually ONTO somethin' here, EH?!)

+1 on Mimi and Mockingbird's sentiments here, Joe. Clicking on your thread is always my first move everytime I visit here too. (...it has become like "an institution" by now around here, ya know!)

Sorry Krieg ol' boy. I wasn't referring to your post there, I was referring to my own earlier post where I had somewhat sidetracked this thread when I advised clore that I was changing the wording of an even earlier posting of mine about "NEVER GIVE A INCH", aka "SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION", so as not to spoil the movie for anyone who hadn't watched it as of yet. (...that's all that was)

Back on topic now... While there are scores, if not hundreds of British films which once released in the U.S. used different titles, the one of these which I always think of first is Powell & Pressburger's "A Matter of Life and Death", which was released in the States as "Stairway to Heaven".

clore wrote: "...for those who haven't seen it (a warning might do)". --------------------------------------------------------------------- You're right there clore, and so I've changed my wording down there now.

+1, and also hoping fxreyman and family are doing okay.

Well, you're closer anyway, clore. The alternate title was, NEVER GIVE A INCH (sic). And, I'll never forget the scene where Richard Jaeckel(who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor), has his leg caught under a fallen tree as the river rises and Paul Newman is trying to save him. Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 27, 2012 10:09 PM

hlywdkjk wrote: "To write a contemporary romantic (Screwball?) comedy in which the plot of the classic An Affair To Remember, and its emotional ending, plays a central role is great fun. ("It's just like that movie!") But including the counterpoint scene of two men pretending to be emotionally devastated over the demise of Jefferson in the The Dirty Dozen was truly inspired. The gender gap in regards to "classic movies" has never been illustrated better." --------------------------------------------------------- Great point and well stated there, Kyle. Yep, Ms. Ephron definitely had a way of expressing modern sensibilities in the most clever and entertaining manner by often referencing cultural touchstones of the past. RIP Nora.

Yeah MissW, I've always loved Joni's "The Circle Game" too. And yeah, I suppose it IS a great metaphor for life. However, since I've retired from the airlines a few years ago, I gotta say personally I'm... ...just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go. (...with apologies to Mr. Lennon for appropriating his words, of course)

Whoa! Ya know folks, I gotta say after readin' THIS exchange... ---------------------------------------------- TCMfan23 wrote:dream on guys. TCM is going to re-run the same old crud like every other year. The same Val Lewton's , the same Hammer's , the same 60s and 70s stuff , the usual silent stuff : Nosferatu , Phantom of the Opera (1929 re-release version) , Hunchback of Notre Dame , Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , Vampyr (TCM imports) ... Why don't they show the ORIGINAL 1925 Phantom of the Opera for once ?! ----AND THEN---- kriegerg69 wrote: I agree....which is why I don't watch TCM on Halloween any longer each year, because it's the same old, same old (and I have them all on DVD anyways). They don't show the original 1925 edition of PHANTOM simply because the best-quality prints were done from the 1929 edition...that's what got restored and preserved. It WOULD be nice if someone saw fit to restore the original 1925 edition though...it's also much longer than the shorter 1929 edition. ------------------------------------------- ...I gotta say I'm a little creeped out MYSELF right about now, and it isn't even CLOSE to bein' Halloween yet!!! Uh huh. I mean WHAT'S the chances of THESE two EVER agreein' with each other about ANYTHING, HUH???!!! Yep! Somethin' weird sure is goin' on with THAT, if ya ask ME!!! **** (...just kiddin', guys...glad to see a meetin' of the minds here)

Ya know finance, I don't think there's really any difference between those shoes Pat wore back in the day and what old men wear nowadays. (...well, except that maybe old men still wear those shoes, AND of course a white belt, WAY PAST the time in their lives when they'd be writing..ahem.."Love Letters in the Sand" while under the spell of "April Love"!)

Yeah knit1purl2, maybe they're figuring there might not be a big market for Pat's movies. BUT, on a BRIGHTER note, word is there's a BIG SALE goin' on right now at all Tom McAn shoe stores on WHITE BUCKS!!! (...naaaah, just kiddin' of course...I don't think Tom McAn shoe stores even exist anymore, do they?!)

Yep Ham, I tried to watch that Chaney film last night too, but only lasted about half an hour or so. (...but hey, was it only ME, or did a 14 y/o Loretta Young there kinda remind YOU of Taylor Swift TOO???...yeah, REALLY!!!)

Hi Tom! Re my "hit him hard" line...I wasn't talking about any one particular film of his, but in fact just about every film he was ever in. I mean by this that in just about every film of his there would invariably come a time in which his character would get betrayed by another character in the film, and when that happened, Flynn was VERY good at relaying to the audience just how hard it would "hit him" with just a certain look on his face. I thought "that look" was always perfectly played...never over or under done. (...that's what I meant)

Peter O'Toole in 2006's "Venus".