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I agree that this is a great movie and that the acting by Huston and Crawford was terrific. Have you seen the Rita Hayworth version? (I only ask this since you say you can't imagine anyone else in their roles).
That is a good remake but not as good as the 1929 one.
I have seen the Rita Hayworth version and don't think it hold's a candle to the Crawford/Huston version. Rita H. is not a favorite actress of mine. Gorgeous actress but not in Crawford's acting/screen persona league IMO. I haven't seen the 1929 version and would very much like to.
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A truly excellent film. Not just "good" but great. Huston and Crawford are terrific. I can't imagine anybody else in their roles. Probably my favorite Crawford film.
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Intriguing and haunting movie : The Spirit of the Beehive (1973). I'm quite glad I watched this fine Spanish film today on TCM that I had never heard of before let alone seen. Tremendous acting jobs by the two young girls playing sisters. As good of child acting performances as I have witnessed in a movie. Quite haunting look at their 1940 childhood in rural post Civil War Spain after a traveling cinema shows 1931's Frankenstein to the mesmerized audience who seldom see any kind of movie. A movie about childhood and the power of imagination all unknown to the emotionally distant parents (from the little girls and each other). A movie I would like to see again to capture all the nuances I am sure I missed with the first viewing.
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Oscar nominated costume designer Irene.
Doris Day wrote in her 1975 autobiography that she got to know Irene quite well. One night after Irene had a few drinks, Irene told Day that the "love of her life" was Gary Cooper. On several other occasions Irene spoke about the intensity of her love for Cooper, and Day got the feeling that Irene had never mentioned this to anyone before her. Day wrote that today she honestly could not tell if they actually had or were having an affair, or if it was a one-sided love. Irene took her own life about a year and a half after Cooper's death from cancer.
On November 15th, 1962, she took a room at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles, under an assumed name. She cut her wrists. This did not prove immediately fatal so she jumped to her death from the fourteenth floor window. Her suicide note read: "I'm sorry. This is the best way. Get someone very good to design and be happy. I love you all. Irene."
She was 61 years old.
That is a very sad end to her story. Very sad.
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One of my favorite Lubitsch movies. Up there with Trouble in Paradise. Witty, clever, amusing. The scene between Colbert and Hopkins is--well--classic. Full of early Thirties naughtiness. That shot of Miriam Hopkins at the end of the movie, sitting at the piano, jazzing away, with choreographed cigarette smoking is one of the great moments in film. Miss Hopkins nails it.
..................plus her sexy come hither look over her shoulder at Maurice C. when in her undies at the end. Ooo la la!!
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Getting away from lettuce and mustard greens for a moment, I will put forth five of the most unforgettable and individually personal literary memoirs of WW1 I have read and have in my home library. The first is a vivid compilation of the sad and poignant poetry of WW1 by a large number of it's participants/victims/survivors. The other four are the brutal personal memoirs of several individual soldiers: Germany (Ernst Junger), Britain (Robert Graves), and France (Louis Barthas). In addition to the five books I will list I have that most horrific novel of WW1 which was made into the great 1930 film "All Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque was a German WW1 veteran whose great novel should be read even if you have seen the film. Both are unforgettable. Remarque wrote many novels.
#1) "A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War" of which the selections were made by Fiona Waters and the photographs by the London Daily Mail.
#2) "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger a four year German veteran of the War to End All Wars who was also a great German author/thinker and survivor of WW2 service in the German Army. Junger, a very controversial man/author, lived to be 103 years old. Ernst Junger was a man meant to be a warrior.
#3) "Copse 125: A Chronicle From the Trench Warfare of 1918" also by Ernst Junger.
#4 "Good-bye To All That" by Robert Graves a British author and poet who was a survivor of WW1 and lived to be 90.
#5 "Poilu: The WW1 Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker 1914-1918" by Louis Barthas (French soldier) and translated into English by Edward Strauss recently in 2014. Barthas was a barrelmaker by by trade in southern France and after his four horrific years of Western Front service he returned to the same. The word poilu means "hairy one" and is a slang word for a French infantryman dating all the way back to the Napoleonic Wars and massive citizen armies.
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The Hodiak and Moreau days are my favorites so far. I had not seen "A Bell For Adano" before and enjoyed it a lot. I thought the ending was very good with Hodiak leaving at dawn to the sound of the new bell with nobody in town knowing he is going. Sure like William Bendix a lot in whatever movie he is in too. Moreau is just a great actress with a great range. I always really liked her small vibrant role in "The Train" opposite Burt Lancaster as the world-weary hotel owner. That role is my earliest recollection of her in a movie I saw on the big screen decades ago. Great actress that had a fine day on TCM.
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Nobody has asked this:
why did Hitler choose to wear a Charlot moustache?
Good question. Here is an internet article I just read.
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You be the judge. Abe Lincoln certainly looked much better with facial hair.
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If there was ever a historical reassessment of Alexander's spectacularness, would he be relabeled "Alexander the Mediocre"?
I don't think so. Alexander's only fault/problem/bad luck/sad fate was that he died so young. The real question is what would the ancient world and thereby the modern world to an extent have looked like politically/culturally/ethnically if he had lived and ruled and conquered for 30-40 years beyond what he did and had sons to carry on his empire.
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You sure you're not thinking of Alexandra the Great, a famous 1970s stripper?
PICTURES or she never existed. Nice juicy pictures. Tasteful of course.
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So which "Macedonia" be it Greek Macedonia or FYROM claims Alexander the Great or do they both do so? Gotta have been the greatest "Macedonian" of all time.
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Jody Gilbert RIP. Good article on her. Interesting actress.
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For WW1 from the naval aspect read these fine definitive histories:
1) Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (1991)
2) Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War (2004)
Both are long fascinating histories by Robert Massie with #1 covering British/German naval politics/ship building in the decades up until the start of WW1 with #2 being #1's sequel covering WW1 British/German naval activities/warfare/politics worldwide. There could be dozens of movies made from these two engaging historical accounts both of the amazing personalities on both sides and the deadly sea warfare which killed and maimed many many thousands of sailors and civilians.
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Yes, my point exactly. [...]
[...] your usual intelligent responses on many threads. If my moral code bothers you [...]
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I spend a fair amount of time in the UK and find that in certain circles, there are people who are open in expressing their dislike for the Irish and even for Catholics in general. I think that's sad. So they, like you, will state your prejudices, as you say, until you all die, and then, when your ends come, there will be fewer people with those prejudices, because, thank goodness, young people are not like you.
I have nothing against any race, ethnicity or religion but LGBT and gay marriage is none of those things but rather a moral or immoral proclivity/activity based on one's views and moral values. If people can state they want an LGBT theme time or permanent forum site in celebration of their "pride month" then I can state I oppose these. My "prejudices" as you put it are what many many call moral values. Your views are "prejudices" too.
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You could just, you know, not go there...
That is what the thread originator should have done::: NOT GO THERE.
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I'm not sure I should believe that. You sure seem to be attracted to posting in "gay-themed" topics here.
I have my views and beliefs and will 100% speak. I'm an old fashioned rural codger and will be until I die. The LGBT viewpoints and desire for same sex marriage are contrary to my beliefs and I will state that on whatever thread I want to.
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A whole lot of very funny drag roles on this thread. All tongue in cheek and very funny. I'll vote for a funny "drag" thread. Let's not forget the immortal roles of Curtis and Lemmon in SOME LIKE IT HOT. Let's not forget the immortal E. T. in drag. He did not look happy.
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I'm sure the mods would be ok with it, not all of the posters.
You got that right. A lot of us would not be amused.
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COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER is an excellent film and I look forward to seeing it again. Thanks for the head's up. Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones: two of my favorites.
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Hello wouldbestar,
I would not say that he produced Gunsmoke, that was done by Charles Marquis Warren/Norman Macdonnel, then Norman Macdonnel, then Philip Leacock, and then John Mantley. However, it boggles my mind why they did not induct him into the T.V. Hall of Fame. He must have peed on someones lawn.
Thanks for your imput on the matter.
Lane Temple
To learn that Mr. Arness is not in the TV Hall of Fame is like learning that Earth is flat or the sun will come up in the West. Mind boggling!! What a sad travesty.
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July is Lesbian Adopted Midget Eskimo Pride month, I hope TCM is planning a LAME festival
Gets my vote. Certainly LAME. How about TCM just shows no intensive GAY PRIDE array of flics and just shows their usual random array of films of all flavors no matter what the subject or stars. Too controversial and I know which side I am on. Let me just get it out in the open: No to same sex marriage and no to a LGBT theme month, day, or week. I love the great films of Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift and John Ireland but have absolutely no desire to see an overt demonstrative Gay Pride array on TCM.
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Margaret O'Brien
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Subtext in THE STRANGER (1946)
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I've seen THE STRANGER twice (good movie) and saw 0% homosexual overtones. It's a movie about an evil hidden Nazi in the midst of an average nice small all-American town made a year after the most virulent horrifying war in history which was full of sadistic racist fascist murder. Nothing more, nothing less. Hidden Nazis have been searched for and found every year all across the globe and are still being found occasionally today nearly 70 years after VE Day. Zero homosexual overtones. Less than zero except in a few desperate minds.