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Jay C. Flippen, who plays Henry "T-Dub" Mansfield in They Live By Night (1940). Flippen was always someone I never really took much notice of until I saw him in this Nicolas Ray film. He had a really great edge in this film.
Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell star.
Although Robert Altman's THIEVES LIKE US (1974) is truer to the source material, I prefer THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, which actually surprised me because I love movies from the early 1970s.
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I think it's a combination of William Holden looking older than his age (and his heavy drinking was a major reason for it) and Gloria Swanson looking younger than her age (even with lighting and make-up used to "age 'her).
William Holden looks at least 40 in SUNSET BOULEVARD.
Since TCM has been showing clips from SUNSET BOULEVARD during their Essentials promo I see that Wiliam Holden does look 30ish rather than 40ish.
But I still say that Gloria Swanson looks younger than 50.
When I first saw SUNSET BOULEVARD I was struck by the fact that visually the age difference between the two did not seem be that great.
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The 2015 Summer Under The Stars schedule is now available online:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-01
1. Gene Tierney
2. Olivia de Havilland
3. Adolphe Menjou
4.Teresa Wright
5. Fred Astaire
6. Michael Caine
7. Katharine Hepburn
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-08
8. Raymond Massey
9. Robert Walker
10. Joan Crawford
11. Rex Ingram
12. Robert Mitchum
13. Ann-Margaret
14. Groucho Marx
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-15
15. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
16. Patricia Neal
17. Lee J. Cobb
18. Vivien Leigh
19. John Wayne
20. Mae Clarke
21. Alan Arkin
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-22
22. Marlene Dietrich
23. Debbie Reynolds
24. Warren Oates
25. Virginia Bruce
26. Greta Garbo
27. Monty Woolley
28. Ingrid Bergman
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-29
29. George C. Scott
30. Gary Cooper
31. Shelley Winters
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You don't understand. We need to have the schedule NOW, RIGHT THIS MINUTE. How else can we plan our lives??
After all these message boards are our lives, right?
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GOODBYE, MY LADY (1956)
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I think one of the most difficult scenes in DOWAR is when the two of them are going straight, working in the greenhouse, they're doing ok, and then for some reason Lemmon decides to "celebrate" with a drink.
As I mentioned in another thread the scene where Jack Lemmon searches for the bottle he's hidden in one of the pots is very powerful and very sad.
This is a movie that I don't want to see again because it reminds me too much of people I've known who've suffered from addictions.
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Tonight (05/27/15) TCM is airing the 1953 version of SO BIG as part of the Sterling Hayden Star Of The Month tribute.
I've never seen this version, but I really like the 1932 version.
It's interesting that TCM gives the 1932 pre-code version a TV-G rating while the 1953 version made when the code was in full effect is given a TV-PG rating.
I wonder what's in the 1953 version that is PG worthy?
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I just watched Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia. His debates with William F. Buckley are hilarious.
Of course, it has come to light that Buckley and his brother were CIA assets.
Gore Vidal's remarks are always interesting and hilarious.
I love his comment about the BEN-HUR gay backstory in the clip below: "Now the Roman Messala wants to start things up again with Ben-Hur played by Charlton Heston. Heaven knows why."
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There is some dialogue later in the film that it was only made to look that way (raped) and she was shot with truth serum, not drugs (probably to appease the censors).............
When the gang was in her room someone said "hold her legs" (or something like that) so I guess they could have been injecting her with drugs. The audience never sees what they are doing to her.
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Yeah, that's what I say, if ya want real, watch a documentary, sheesh! Way to go, daygloan.
Yes indeed.
"I don't want realism, I want magic!"
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Sure would like to see Donald Sutherland get a day.
I just saw ORDINARY PEOPLE recently.
The whole cast is great but Donald Sutherland really moved me.
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This is sad news.
To me he will always be "Nick" from FUNNY GIRL.
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Roller Boogie is now my second favorite roller skating movie after Xanadu. I loved Linda Blair's car! Except it'd be a little better if it wasn't the ugly mint green. Black would have been better.
My favorite part of the film I think is when Linda Blair announced that she was forgoing her flautist scholarship at Julliard saying that she's going to participate in the roller boogie contest instead-- this announcement leads her mother to having to go down a couple Valium to recover.
I liked the part when the mother ended up in the swimming pool and also when the snobby guy was shown up (first by having him flash his own mother and then by him getting locked the trunk of the car).
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Kind'a undercuttin' your message a bit with this here B&W shot of Mr. Shaw, ain't ya ND?!
(...'cause I'm PRETTY sure that that there shark movie was shot in vivid COLOR!!!)
You can't see the color, Dargo?
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Here's.a sleeper with,.among.others,.Geraldine Page, Gene Tierney and Dean Martin,.TOYS IN THE ATTIC (1963).
Yes, another great Geraldine Page performance.
She continued to work on the stage so she was always at the top of her game.
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Well, sure. Linda Blair is adorable, after all.
And, the opening skating scene underscored by "Hell On Wheels" by Cher pulled me in.
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Actually, rhe correct.plural in French.would have to have the number meet......so "films noirs".
Ah, yes, plural noun and plural adjective.
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Yes he did. Apparently director Dick Powell asked John Wayne to come into his office to discuss starring in one of the screenplays Powell was working on. Powell was called away for a brief second and when he returned to his office, he found Wayne pouring over the screenplay for the ill-fated The Conqueror--Wayne had pulled this screenplay out of Powell's trashcan. Powell had found the screenplay absurd and threw it away. Because of Wayne's enthusiasm over the script and for the fact that he was John Wayne, Dick Powell felt that he couldn't deny him the pleasure of portraying Genghis Kahn in film.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-conqueror/making-of-movie-that-killed-john-wayne/
I want the poster for this film, it's hilarious:
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Oh wow, John Wayne found the screenplay in the trash?
Maybe I will have too check this one out
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Yes, Nancy Allen was one of those girls. But hey, Carrie settled that score.
Yes, she did, didn't she?
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Interesting. Thanks for the info here, GayD.
Btw, I wonder who'll play the "Stage Manager" part in the movie version??? Sure hope it's NOT that IDIOT Ryan O'Neal !!!
(...sorry...couldn't resist)
And I wonder who will say "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"
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Martin Scorsese
I never knew Martin Scorsese acted.
Maybe I haven't seen enough of his movies though.
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So, as regards the topic of this thread.....
Do we know "why", or have we lost our way?
Right, has the "why" or the "whys" been revealed?
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Now speaking of DeMille, if TCM ever shows the movie The Day of the Locust, we'd all see the controversy that was caused at the opening of The Buccaneer (1938), although it wasn't the film that caused the "controversy," it was what Donald Sutherland did to an obnoxious child.
I wish TCM would air THE DAY OF THE LOCUST.
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Here's a clip of Liza Minnelli winning the Oscar for Best Actress for Cabaret.
Is that Desi Arnaz Jr siiting to Liza's left in the audience, the one who kisses her when she's announced as the winner?
I know that her father Vincente Minnelli is siiting to her right.
Gilda (1946)
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I hope you have more energy soon, Swithin, to complete your post about GILDA.