stellabluegrl
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Oh blast Mongo! I was just gonna post! Ya beat me to it! *lol*!
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Oops....forgot to mention Natalie Talmadge. During the latter part of their marriage is when Keaton made his move. As far as I know she spent money like it was water so maybe she talked him into it 'cause she thought at the time it would end up being a good move financially (I'm just guessing here -- if you know more, Shyla, do tell!).
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Shyla,
I couldn't agree more about what happened with Keaton and MGM. It was a crucial mistake. And as far as Charlie Chaplin discouraging the decision, I heard the same thing (Harold Lloyd also tried to let him know it was a bad idea). Oh, and LTL, as far as I know, Buster Keaton let Joe Schenck (a "high-up" at MGM at the time) talk him into making movies over at MGM.
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Welcome Shyla! I'm a huge fan of Harlow & Keaton! As others have said, this is a great forum.....have fun!
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"Conservative viewpoint"? What are you talking about?? First of all, the particular movie in question is "My Wild Irish Rose" in which there happens to be a traveling minstrel show. Minstrel's were a troupe of performers typically giving a program of black American melodies, jokes, and impersonations and usually wearing blackface (this is from Merriam-Websters Online....I'm not makin' it up). In the movie Chauncey Olcott's (Dennis Morgan) first step to stardom is performing with the minstrels. If that part was deleted, the movie would be rather confusing. So, would it be better just to chuck the movie entirely because of the blackface? Do you think that those of us who watch movies such as "My Wild Irish Rose" want things to go back to the way they were?? You have to understand, movies (and books like "Huck Finn" etc.) are a part of history....like it or not. And I for one am not for revisionist history no matter what the reason.
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Check out www.rarevhs.com. I don't believe they have a copy of the 1925 version of "Stella Dallas", but they do have "Hollywood Revue of 1929". If you check out the site you can just call the 800 number and ask about any other titles you are interested in.
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Well, my vote goes for Bette. She was an outstanding actress in so many remarkable films! I think for me it's also a matter of what I grew up on. My mom introduced me to Bette Davis' movies from the time I could walk so she was a part of my childhood so to speak. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knockin' Joan Crawford here....she was a wonderful actress (although I'll have to admit I agree with the others who said when she did that eyebrow, hair, shoulder pad thing later in life she kinda freaked me out). I just saw the movie "The Unknown" the other day in fact and was impressed once again with her range and how she was able to change her "look" with the times.
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You crack me up slappy! AFLAC is the insurance company with the duck -- Affleck is how ya spell Ben's last name
Anyway, some time ago I was curious as to the "exact" definition of The Golden Age of Hollywood. I did some surfin' and found that Wikipedia came up with a great explanation....
During the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, the 1930s and 1940s, movies issued from the Hollywood studios rather like the cars rolling off Henry Ford's assembly lines. The movies were not the same, but most followed a formula: Western, slapstick comedy, film noir, musical, animated cartoon, biopic (biographical picture), etc. Unlike the craftsmen who made cars, many of the people who made movies were artists. For example, "To Have and Have Not" (1944) is famous not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall but also for being written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway, author of the novel on which the script was based, and William Faulkner, who worked on the screen adaptation.
Moviemaking was still a business, however, and motion picture companies made money by operating under the so-called studio system. The major studios kept thousands of people on salary--actors, producers, directors, writers, stuntmen, craftspersons, and technicians. And they owned hundreds of theaters in cities and towns across the nation--theaters that showed their films and that were always in need of fresh material.
What is remarkable is how much quality entertainment emerged from such a regimented process. One reason this was possible is that, with so many movies being made, not every one had to be a big hit. A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors: "Citizen Kane", directed by Orson Welles and widely regarded as the greatest of all American movies, fits that description. In other cases, strong-willed directors like Howard Hawks and Frank Capra battled the studios in order to achieve their artistic visions. The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as "The Wizard of Oz", "Gone With the Wind", "Stagecoach", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Only Angels Have Wings", "Ninotchka" and "Midnight".
The studio system succumbed to two forces in the late 1940s: (1) a federal antitrust action that separated the production of films from their exhibition; and (2) the advent of television. The number of movies being made dropped sharply, even as the average budget soared, because Hollywood wanted to offer audiences the kind of spectacle they couldn't see on television.
This blockbuster syndrome has continued to affect Hollywood. Added to the skyrocketing salaries paid actors, studio heads, and deal-making agents, it means that movies released today tend to be either huge successes or huge failures, depending on how well their enormous costs match up with the public taste.
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Track/running: "Chariots of Fire"
Boxing: "Rocky" (the first one), "Raging Bull"
Golf: "Caddyshack" -- Okay, TOTAL guilty pleasure here, but I was a caddy around the time this one came out so I really found it funny at the time and still do. Oh, and Cinemetal, that part in "Happy Gilmore" when Adam Sandler and Bob Barker are goin' at it just about kills me ******!
Baseball: "The Pride of the Yankees"
Football: "North Dallas Forty"
Horse Racing: "National Velvet", "Seabiscuit", "The Black Stallion"
Basketball: "Hoosiers"
Hockey: "Slap Shot"
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Hi there Spencer! I've never posted in one of your threads so before I do I wanted to let ya know I always read them and enjoy them very much
Now on to the topic at hand! I'm Irish by marriage *lol* -- my husband is a geniune Irishmen as yourself (I'm a Scot myself with a wee bit of Irish and Italian in the mix) -- so St. Paddy's day is a big deal at our house! Yesterday I went to the Irish import shop near my house and stocked up on Irish sausages, soda bread, bridies, meat pies, Barrys tea and of course a FABULOUS corned beef!! So tomorrow we will start off the evening with a wonderful meal of corned beef and cabbage along with green milk for the kids (I add food coloring -- the boys love it!) and Guinness' for me and my husband. After dinner we always watch "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" ('59) starring Sean Connery. It's a wonderful family movie. The kids just love the leprechauns and the part with the banshee (when the boys were small I actually had to fast-forward that part because it scared 'em!). I believe this is the only movie in which Sean Connery actually sings (and it's a hoot watching him *lol*). After "Darby O' Gill.." my husband and I watch "The Quiet Man". Just wouldn't seem like St. Pat's Day without watchin' that one!
Sl?inte!
~*~Stella~*~
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The Queen Conch?
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Connect Liam Neeson to Fredric March.
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Now that's an odd combination!! *LOL*
1. Harold Lloyd was in "The Milky Way" with Adolphe Menjou.
2. Adolphe Menjou in "The Ambassador's Daughter" with Olivia de Havilland.
3. Olivia de Havilland in "Lady in a Cage" with Scatman Crothers.
4. Scatman Crothers in "Scavenger Hunt" with Meatloaf.
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Well I don't want to give out the ending in this post 'cause there might be people who haven't seen the movie and don't want to know the ending, so here's a link where you can find out for yourself:
http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=2958&SID=17&PID=106550
Note:
Where it says on the page "SPOILER ALERT: highlight with mouse to read)" just left click and drag you mouse to highlight the empty space below (the words will appear) to view the ending.
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Tough question! I think I'd have to go with Lionel (with Ethel comin' in a close second). For me it only took "Grand Hotel" & "You Can't Take It with You" for me just to love the guy. He was so endearing in both of those movies. When I was young I always thought of him as nasty ol' Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life". Years later when I saw him in roles such as I mentioned above I couldn't believe it was the same man! Some more of my favorites of his are "On Borrowed Time", "Key Largo", "Captains Courageous" & "Since You Went Away". Now, on to Ethel! She has always been one of my favorite actresses. That smile of hers, those eyes, the way she carries herself. Some of my favorite movies of hers are: "None But the Lonely Heart", "Portrait of Jennie", "The Spiral Staircase" & "Young at Heart" just to name a few. I do like John also -- he was great in "Dinner at Eight" & "Grand Hotel"; I just prefer Lionel & Ethel.
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Meg Ryan to Margaret Sullavan.
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1. Ward Bond was in GWTW with Clark Gable.
2. Clark Gable was in "The Misfits" with Eli Wallach.
3. Eli Wallach was in "The Victors" with Albert Finney.
4. Albert Finney was in "Miller's Crossing" with Steve Buscemi.
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Well I'll be gobsmacked, Pete--ya did it in three!!
You're the man! I know that was a tough one!! I'm still doin' my original and remake theme (Simone Simon "Curse of the Cat People" - Kinski "Cat People"). -
Dizzy -- Here's a link where you can find a very good definition for film noir. The page also includes a link to a list of classic film noir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_noirs
In answer to your question "Are most of these movies available on DVD?"....yes they are. If not, go for VHS. Check your local video store or local library. Another good resource for classics on DVD is Netflix. They have a huge selection of classic movies on DVD. And of course there's always TCM!
You shouldn't feel a bit silly for not having seen the "basics". There was a first time for everyone. You ask what makes these movies so great. Well, that's very hard for me to put into words actually. I love so many things about the classics--the costumes, the sets, the dialogue etc. This may sound odd, but a good classic movie always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling....kinda like comfort food for the mind. I just don't seem to get that same feeling from current films.
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Nastassja Kinski to Simone Simon
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1. Graham Greene in "Maverick" with James Garner.
2. James Garner in "Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend" with Randolph Scott.
3. Randolph Scott in "The Spoilers" with John Wayne.
4. John Wayne in "Rio Bravo" with Ward Bond.
5. Ward Bond in "Unconquered" with Iron Eyes Cody.
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Ernest Borgnine?
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Welcome dizzylizzydarcy!
Along with the suggestions posted below you might want to check out www.reelclassics.com. It's a really neat site that has mini-bios on tons of the classic stars, descriptions of movies, reviews, downloads, LOADS of links and so much more.
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Slappy -- That "fish" quote was directed at myself, not you. I apologize for any misunderstanding.
* Six Degrees of Separation *
in Games and Trivia
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1. Dwight Frye was in "Son of Frankenstein" with Basil Rathbone.
2. Basil Rathbone was in "Tales of Terror" with Debra Paget.
3. Debra Paget was in "Demetrius and the Gladiators" with Anne Bancroft.
4. Anne Bancroft was in "Keeping the Faith" with Ben Stiller.