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I don't know which scene was planned; what I remember reading that.Preminger, who had put himself on the line to get Webb, was taken aback when Webb told him something like, "I don't know your Miss Tierney", and refused to do a standard test.
It sounds like Webb was indeed a bit of a prima donna.
It's lucky for movie fans that this attitude didn't cost him the role of Waldo Lydecker in LAURA.
Preminger's instinct was right even if Webb didn't fit the description of Waldo in Vera Caspary's book.
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Forces beyond my control made me post this:
Yes, GREASE 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine.
What am saying?! I have feel no guilt. None.
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Today (05/19/15) TCM is airing a tribute to Robert Benton in the prime time and overnight hours.
The tribute starts with Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE for which David Newman and Robert Benton wrote the screenplay.
This movie is followed by Benton's KRAMER VS. KRAMER, featuring the performance that earned Meryl Streep her first Academy Award.
THE LATE SHOW and STILL OF THE NIGHT are airing in the early morning hours.
Originally the last movie scheduled to air as part of the tribute was PLACES IN THE HEART, starring TCM's current Essentials co-host Sally Field.
This movie has been replaced by NADINE featuring, in the title role, Kim Basinger, the ex-wife of former Essentials co-host Alec Baldwin.
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I've been watching the colorized I Love Lucy episodes out of curiosity, but I still prefer the black and white versions that are on my DVDs. Also, not to nitpick, but last night's airing of "LA at Last!" had dialogue from the Brown Derby scene missing and there was a brief scene missing from the part when Ricky tells Lucy that William Holden is in their living room.
Yes, in addition to colorizing the episodes, they are being cut to allow for more commercials.
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Well, as Jack Webb said, "In America, there's always a tomorrow",
Clarice the reindeer also said, uh, sang, something like that.
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the new I Love Lucy Superstar Special on CBS last nite. two classic episodes newly colorized.L.A. at Last where Lucy introduces herself to William Holden at The Brown Derby followed by the episode with George Reeves as Superman, both beautifully colorized.Looks like I be not the only one still believing in colorizing.
Yeah, the colorized I LOVE LUCY Christmas show has aired on CBS as well.
I have mixed feelings about it.
On one hand, it's introducing I LOVE LUCY to people who might not watch anything in black-and-white.
Ulltimately my preference is for the original black-and-white since that's way the show was filmed.
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Interesting is right NOW my TCM schedule has been changed to 10:45 PM PST start time
Since I opened the schedule earlier to verify time and now re-verified based upon your feedback - I currently have two TCM schedules opened with the two DIFFERENT start times - I'd take a picture and post but don't know how or if photos can be posted here.
I've been DUPED!
BTW: Appreciate the timely feedback
You're welcome, JeanneCrain.
I'm sorry you missed the first half hour of the movie.
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I watched The Dark Corner last night. It was really good. I mainly got it for Lucille Ball; but I enjoyed seeing Clifton Webb and William Bendix as well. I've been seeing more and more of Fox's film noirs in recent months and I'm really enjoying them. I think Fox's niche in the 1940s was definitely film noir.
I never knew Lucille Ball made a movie with Clifton Webb.
I definitely want to see THE DARK CORNER now.
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With all the great roles that Claude Rains has brought to life on the silver screen, is it possible to name the definitive Claude Rains role?
I would say it is Louis Renault in Casablanca, but it could easily be something else. I think Louis captures so much of Rains' persona that he brings to his roles that it might just be the perfect role for him.
What do you think?
I think his role in CASABLANCA is the one he's most known for but my favorite is Prince John in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.
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Love her almost as much as I love Hepburn and Dietrich...As a middle-aged woman, I appreciate that she is unapologetically sexy and sexual at 60+. She hasn't let herself get pegged in roles like those in The Queen or Woman in Gold. I am a shameless fan of action movies (well, clever(ish) ones anyway) and adored (is that too strong a word? Nah) her in Red and Red 2. I need to get a hold of some of her earlier stuff--I think the only thing I've seen that was done before the 90's is Excalibur.
traceyk, you might enjoy the DVD collection HELEN MIRREN AT THE BBC which features some of her early work on British television.
You might also like THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980) with Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins.
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My Orson Welles bucket list includes the highly anticipated release later this year of The Other Side of the Wind starring John Huston and a host of actors who are now deceased.
It had almost been considered a lost film as its rights were so convolutedly tied up it seemed that no one would ever get access to it to finish it. Apparently those hurdles have been cleared and one of its stars, director Peter Bogdanovich is supervising its completion.
I got to see one of my bucket list movies very recently when TCM aired Oson Welles's CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT.
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Well BLAH, BLAH!
Maybe those who claim to see a homosexual subtext in SOAT are really exposing their latent tendencies?
And many have tried the same thing in discussing the "true" relationship between Judah and Massala in BEN HUR. They use the line; "In every way" when the two refer to their being friends.
If their freindship is true to the novel, then it IS all hooey.
Actually in the 1959 version of BEN-HUR directed by William Wyler with screenplay by Gore Vidal, the homosexual subtext was very deliberately added by Vidal and Wyler. Stephen Boyd was directed to play this subtext although Charlton Heston was kept "out of the loop."
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Just to add here, William Wellman was an active combat flyer in the First World War seeing considerable action shooting down several enemy planes and being shot down himself. His combat days only ended when he was severely injured from one of his crash landings. He later helped in training other pilots. So he could draw on a lot of personal experiences when directing WINGS.
Richard Arlen (who plays David Armstrong in WNGS) was a pilot in Canada's Royal Flying Corps during World War I although he never saw combat as Wililam Wellman did.
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In the original screenplay it was not "Lucille Ball" either, but "Lana Turner". Lana was all set to play it when she became pregnant and had to bow out. As much as I love Lucy, I can see a bunch of cadets going gaga over Lana moreso than over.Lucy. It would have.made the premise more believable. Plus, after decades of Lucy's nasally, offkey singing on her show(s), that dubbed Voice is a Little offputting, breaking the believability a bit.
I like Luciile Ball in BEST FOOT FORWARD, but, yes, during the time the movie was made a "Date With Lana Turner" contest would make morse sense than a "Date With Lucille Ball" contest.
It was surprisng to me to see Rhoda Morgenstern's "mother" (Nancy Waker) playing a teenager in BEST FOOT FORWARD.
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Yes it was. Both Fox mogul Darryl Zanuck and the original director Rouben Mammoulian wanted Laird Cregar, who had just scored a hit in THE LODGER (earlier, Monty Wooly was considered). However Preminger, then just the producer, fought against Cregar. He stated that audiences would immediately surmise that he was the killer, killing the angle of suspense. He eventually won Zanuck over on Clifton Webb, then a stage actor, after testing him doing a scene from Blithe Spirit, which he was then doing in LA (Webb, ever the primma donna, had refused to film a scene from LAURA with Gene Tierney, as Zanuck had instructed).
Arturo, do you recall the scene that Clifton Webb refused to film?
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(Golf clap)
well played good sir, well played.
Yes, the one time the Maltin review was accurate.
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What revival? This sounds interesting.
Could you please give a little detail as to which version you're talking about?
The poster probably is referring to the 1998 Broadway revival of CABARET directed by Sam Menes, which was a transfer of Mendes's 1993 London West End revival for the Donmar Warehouse.
Alan C u m m m i n g , in an a truly electrifying performance, played the Emcee in both the London and Broadway productions.
In the London production Sally Bowles was played by Jane Horrocks (probably best known for her role as Bubble on ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.). On Broadway Sally Bowles was played by Natasha Richardson. In the Mendes productions Sally Bowles was again a mediocre performer with delusions about her talents unlike the powerhouse performer that Liza Minnelli played in the movie.
In addition to restoring songs that had been cut from the original stage production for the movie, he also added songs that were in the movie but not in the original 1960s production ("Maybe This Time, "Mein Herr").
(the auto censor forced me to add the spaces in the actor's surname)
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On the TCM SCHEDULE?
At this very moment my TCM schedule (yesterdays) shows a 11:15 PM PST
I feel I've been duped
Interesting.
At this moment the online schedule I see shows 1:45 AM EST.
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My favorite James Mason role is in THE RECKLESS MOMENT.
His character starts out blackmailing Joan Bennett's character but he actually comes to genuinely care for her.
Both Mason and Bennett are wonderful in portraying the bond that develops between the two characters.
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I also enjoyed Susan Strasberg's Bittersweet and Movies, Marilyn, and Me (I think was the title). She's an actress a lot of people (not here, of course!) don't seem to know or remember.
Susan Strasberg originated the role of Anne Frank on Broadway in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK when she was 18 years old.
I would have preferred to have had Susan Strasberg in the movie than Mille Perkins.
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According to the TCM schedule "Here's Your Life" was to begin quarter past the hour but it actually began quarter to the hour - hence the first half hour was missed - anyone else miss the beginning of this movie as well?
I show the start for the movie as 1:45 AM Eastern Time.
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Has anyone seen The Celluloid Closet? A 1995 documentary by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. I ask, because I haven't seen it and it seems to be bang on about this subject.
Farley Granger is just one of a host of celebrities who appear in it. It is narrated by Lily Tomlin.
I think the interview with Farley Granger that I mentioned earlier (where he commented that he wasn't sure if James Stewart got the gay subtext in ROPE, especially in regard to Stewart's own character) might have been from THE CELLULOID CLOSET.
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Bob Fosse's concept of the musical was for the songs to be sung only in the context of a performance, with no characters bursting into song during a scene. As a result all of the songs from the stage musical that were "sung dialogue" were eliminated. The songs in the movie, except for one, were all performed in the Kit Kat Club where Sally Bowles works.
Some of the songs that were cut from the stage musical ended up as instrumental music in the movie CABARET.
When I watched last night I heard the music for "It Couldn't Please Me More" and "Don't Tell Mama" playing on Sally Bowles's victrola.
In the play "It Couldn't Please Me More" was a duet by Fraulein Schneider (Sally's landlady) and Herr Schultz.
"Don't Tell Mama" was one of Sally's songs at Kit Kat Club that was replaced by "Mein Herr."
The "Mein Herr" number (with the chairs) in the movie provided a showcase for Bob Fosse's choreography and Liza Minnelli's dancing.
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The Late Show (1977)
Tuesday at midnight. Art Carney and Lily Tomlin.
Love those 70's offerings. Keep 'em coming, TCM.
Yes, I love American movies from the 1970s.
There's a promo that TCM has aired about Hollywood's Second Golden Age that focuses on movies from the 1970s.
I hope an actor who made a lot of movies in the 1970's is one of the Summer Under The Stars honorees this year.
Last year Faye Dunaway had a day. It was my favorite Summer Under The Stars day.
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