HoldenIsHere
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I always thought he should have made a film comeback after that silly presidential sojourn.
Well, Arnold Schwarzenegger did return to making movies after his stint as governor of California.
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On Wednesday May 27 TCM is airing THE STAR (1952) with Bette Davis as Margaret Elliot, an aging movie star --- a role that really hit close to home for Bette Davis at this time.
The movie also features Natalie Wood as Davis's teenage daughter.
One of my favorite parts is when Bette Davis gets drunk and takes her Oscar for a drive around Beverly Hills and gets thrown in jail.
Oh, and also the part when she plays her screen test for the role of the older sister as a flirtatious ingenue and then cringes when she sees the footage.
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I'm more into Mary Ann than Ginger.
I wonder if anyone is more into Mrs. Howell?
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Witness for the Prosecution--Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester trading barbs and chewing scenery. And...Dietrich got robbed. That is all.
You are so right about Marlene Dietrich in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. She was robbed.
She was also brilliant in TOUCH OF EVIL . . . and in BLONDE VENUS . . . and in DER BLAUE ENGEL.
I guess we can just say that Dietrich was brilliant period.
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CALIGULA was on my list, but now due to some comments in another thread in this forum I'm re-thinking it.
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No means no. It was rape.
I'm sure Margaret Mitchell had her problems, and had to make Scarlett 'like it'.
If she wrote the book today, Rhett would be dead.
I agree that if the book were written today that part would be very different.
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Basil as Sherlock was one of the first studio-era movies I was interested in when I got into studio-era films. But the reason was because I had read all the Doyle short stories as a teen.
I'm not sure if my nephew has read the Sherlock Holmes stories but I know he really likes the movies with Basil Rathbone.
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Dora Bryan, A Taste of Honey (1961) *my pick for supporting actress of this year
A TASTE OF HONEY is a favorite movie of mine and again one that was introduced to me by TCM.
Dora Bryan was really good in the role of the bad mother and Rita Tushingham as Jo blew me away.
I really like Tony Richardson's films.
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That's it!
I love Lisa Kudrow.
I'm more of a Lisa Kudrow fan than a FRIENDS fan.
I was happy that there was a second season of THE COMEBACK nine years after the show was cancelled at the end of its first season.
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The movie Cabaret was adapted from the hit Broadway stage musical which was adapted from John Van Druten's play I Am A Camera which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories
During a screening of CABARET at which Christopher Isherwood was in attendance, Isherwood supposedly said out loud during the scene where Liza Minnelli and Michael York (who played the character based on Isherwood) have intimate relations, "I never slept with a woman in my life!"
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i Netflixed it a few years back out of curiosity. Watching the film is something akin to what i imagine having a 300 lb. person sit on your face for over two hours is like.
Its ugly, its heavy, and when its over, you wonder if you can ever look at the world the same way again.
Now I'm second guessing whether I should watch CALIGULA.
I'll see if it's still on Netflix streaming.
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Just got notice on Facebook that he's having a medical procedure and will miss the film festival next week.. Thought people might like to know.
Thanks for posting this, HelenBaby2.
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I'm not sure what the basis is for your comment. His studio films were one thing, his own independent films quite another.
From what I have read in a myriad of books on Welles, his 'other' films were beset by financial problems which often meant that Orson made deals with the devil in order to keep shooting. And all too often his many backers didn't like each other and refused to work together to complete his projects. Quite often you had negative in this lab owned by this fellow, and more negative in another lab owned by someone else.
People have been trying for more than 30 years to settle the arguments and get this film finished. Greed has been a major stumbling block all along. It has been beset by politics and Orson died in 1985. So clearly the delay in this particular film has nothing to do with rubbing someone the wrong way.
You still see these problems with independent films made today. And Orson aside, this is another reason why so many films are 'lost' because they are tied up in legal wrangles.
The squelching of Orson Welles's creative output was one of the greatest injustices of the studio system.
But even with often very limited resources Welles was able to produce some the greatest cinematic works ever to be made by an American filmmaker.
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We're all rootin' for you Holden!
Thanks, fxreyman.
I'm keeping the faith.
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I was working on this when I saw your post ...
Glenn Ford. What was with his popularity? JamesJazz advised he was once the biggest star of the year, if not several years.
I think it is that post WWII rugged silent minimalism at work.
I'm not a huge Glenn Ford fan (not even a small one), but I thought he was good in DEAR HEART.
Of course, Geraldine Page is the reason to watch the movie.
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Yep, Holden. Right off the top of me pointy little head THIS film comes to mind...
(...directed by Martin Ritt)
Thanks, Dargo.
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Hmm. Another 'Friends' viewer.
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The hard-core sex is the ruination of an otherwise fascinating film.
Only the 70's could have produced something like that, though. How I love the courage of filmmaking from then.
Yes, American movies from the 1970s (especially before the blockbuster mindset took hold): you have to love them . . . or at least I do.
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I've had a tough time trying to find Erich von Stroheim's 1925, The Wedding March.
Has that film ever been on TCM?
There's no TCM article on THE WEDDING MARCH so I suspect the movie has never aired on TCM.
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Will this torment never end?
Do you mean Tor-ment?
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Did anyone catch Michael Powell's Tales of Hoffman? I thought I deserved a gold star after seeing it the first time. 'A' for effort.
I did not watch TALES OF HOFFMANN when it aired on TCM nor have I ever seen the movie but to tie this comment to the Ginger/Mary Ann GILLIGAN"S ISLAND comments also on this thread the Barcarolle "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" from Offenbach's opera served as the melody for the song that Ginger Grant (Tina Louise) sang as Ophelia in the castaways' production of Hamlet: The Musical in the GILLIGAN'S ISLAND episode "The Producer."
And, yes, I've been known to sing this song on occasion to the amusement of many (and possibly the annoyance of a few haters).
Typing the lyrics from memory:
Hamlet dear, your problem is clear:
Avenging thy father's death.
You seek to harm your uncle and mom,
But you're scaring me to death.
While I die and sigh and cry
That love is everything.
You're content to try to catch
The conscious of the king.
Since the date when your dad met his fate,
You-ho-ho just brood
And you don't touch your food.
You hate yor ma, mad at my pa.
You'll kill the king or some silly thing.
So, Hamlet, Hamlet, do be a lamb.
Let rotten enough alone.
From Ophelia no one can steal ya.
You'll always be my own.
Leave the gravediggers' scene
If you know what I mean.
Danish pastry for two
For me, for you.
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And still no one's reading it.
Being interested in Shirley Jones' sex life is like being interested in Harriet Nelson's or June Allyson's. Vanilla women = no one really wants to know.
Yeah, you may be right,
Joan Collins was able to have that "swinging" story about her removed from the book just in case anyone did read it.
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Billy Elliot ?
On a side note I saw recently that BILLY ELLIOT the stage musical is being made into a movie so we have anothe example of movie to stage musical to movie musical.
The Feast of Hayden
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I'm looking forward to two movies airing on TCM on Wednesday May 27 as part of the Sterling Hayden Star of the Month tribute:
THE STAR (1952): I must admit that Bette Davis's role as an aging movie star is the reason I want to see this movie more than for Sterling Hayden.
SO BIG (1953): I love the 1932 version of SO BIG starring Barbara Stanwyck but have never seen the 1953 version with Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden.
I just realized that "Maria" and "Tony" from WEST SIDE STORY are in these two movies airing on May 27: Natalie Wood plays Bette Davis's teenage daughter in THE STAR and Richard Beymer plays the young Roelf Pool in SO BIG.