HoldenIsHere
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This is odd. There had already been a GILLIGAN'S ISLAND pilot without Tina before she was ever hired. How did they manage to convince her she'd be the star of a project when she was replacing someone who certainly wasn't the star?
The character of Ginger Grant ("The Movie Star") wasn't in the original GILLIGAN'S ISLAND pilot. There was no "movie star," only a secretary. As the new pilot was being developed, Tina Louise's agent misled her that the focus of the show would shift to "The Movie Star." Jayne Mansfield turned down the role of "The Movie Star" before it was pitched to Tina Louise.
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Yeah, well YOU just wait 'til they show THE FLY again and see what happens, lady!!!
Someone needs to post about the 20th Centuty Vole production of tHE FLY.
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It may have already been mentioned, but I want to single out one of my favorite silent movies (one of my favorite movies period): WINGS directed by the great William Wellman.
This movie was made less than 10 years after the end of the war so the events in the movie have a "current" feel rather than an historical one.
The 2012 restoration that has aired on TCM --- with the original orchestral score by J.S. Zamecnik, complete with sound effects like the ones that accompanied the original release of the movie --- is fantastic.
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Liza's Sally is also American. Liza had auditioned for the role in the stage musical. One of the reasons she supposedly was rejected was because the character was English. In interviews Liza has commented that she was not even asked if she could do any kind of an English accent.
The character that Michael York plays in the movie CABARET has an interesting history.
The character is based on Christopher Isherwood, the English author of Berlin Stories.
In I AM CAMERA the character is English and is called Christopher Isherwood.
In the musical play CABARET he is called Cliff Bradshaw and is American.
In the movie CABARET he is English again and is called Brian Roberts.
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"Upon hearing Fox executives were pleased with Laurents' work on The Snake Pit, Hitchcock hired him for his next project, the film Rope, starring James Stewart. Hitchcock wanted Laurents to Americanize the British play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton for the screen. With his then-lover Farley Granger set to star, Laurents was happy to accept the assignment. His dilemma was how to make the audience aware of the fact the three main characters were homosexual without blatantly saying so. The Hays Office kept close tabs on his work, and the final script was so discreet that Laurents was unsure whether co-star James Stewart ever realized that his character was gay."
Yeah, I saw a documentary where Farley Granger was commenting about ROPE and he said he wasn't sure if James Stewart knew if his character was supposed to be gay at least subtextually.
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For whatever reason, I always get Jean Simmons and Jean Peters confused--and not because both are named Jean.
I must admit that I don't know who Jean Peters is.
On a side note I was once describing a Jean Simmons movie to one of my co-workers who had a puzzled expression on his face as he heard the details.
He apparently he thought I was talking about Gene Smmons.
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Johnny Depp looks so young in this photo.
Yes, the photo appears to be from around the time of his 21 JUMP STREET days.
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Well, take one part starving artist with a seeming very questionable proclivity for under-aged girls, add one part thirty year-old actress attempting but unsuccessfully to portray the part of an under-aged girl...especially at first anyway, add a dash of the "spirit world" in to this concoction...OOPS, and don't forget to add the kindly old lady who's around to give moral support to all involved...shake well for thirty seconds and...VOILA! You've got "Portrait of Jennie"!!!
(...though I do have to say that I've always felt that two Josephs keep this thing watchable...actor Cotten and cinematographer August)
Awww, Dargo, I love PORTRAIT OF JENNIE so it's hard for me to read the part about the "starving artist with a seeming very questionable proclivity for under-aged girls": but, yeah, I guess it's true.
But Jennie does magically age rapidly to be closer to Eben's age as the movie progesses so the creepy element does go away.
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Yes, Jack Lemmon plays the role of the alcoholic in THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES very well as does Lee Remick.
The scene where he's searching for the bottle he'd hidden in one of the pots is one that really struck me.
But seeing this movie once was enough for me.
Knowing people in real life who've suffered from substance abuse issues, the movie hit too close to home.
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Stangelove is number two on my all-time top ten movie list. Kane is number one.
Before VCR's I had taped an audio cassette of the Strangelove's dialogue off of the television which I used to listed to all the time and howl with laughter. Brilliantly written stuff.
My uncle told me that in the days before VCRs he and his sister (my mother) would often make audio casette tape recordings of TV shows.
One interesting one that he played for me was a recording of an episode of the old BATMAN TV series for my mother who for some reason wasn't able to see it. The recording includes his descriptions of the visual elements.
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I think the artisans.and artists.during.the studio era.must've quickly.adapted.to Technicolor as it became more widespread. Much testing was done, to see what photographed well, including materials and.colors for costumes,.and makeup for the actors. In this case,.especially with actresses, individual tests were done, to determined what worked for the particular performer, whether in color ot black and white. Women stars would have favorite makeup artists, who knew what worked well, and how to get them.looking their best.
Yes, many movie actors (then and now) have their personal make-up artists and hair stylists.
Often in the credits you'll see the make-up artist or hair stylist for a specific actor (male or female) in addition to the general make-up or hair credit.
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Does anyone on these boards have a 1st edition copy of Shirley Jones's autobiography that includes the Joan Collins story that was removed from future printings and the ebook after Collins's cease and desist letter?
It will likely be a collector's item.
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When I saw GEORGY GIRL (another movie introduced to me by TCM), I noticed that James Mason spoke with an English North Country accent rather than than the accent he usually uses.
I wonder if perhaps his accent in GEORGY GIRL was James Mason's "real" accent since there was no reference in the movie to the character being from northern England..
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Dargo, on 16 May 2015 - 12:52 AM, said:
Admit it, the men of the 70's were the sexiest. We had Barry White.
At first I read this as "Betty White."
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I would put in the sub-category of Westerns known as Northwesterns.
Or maybe North by Northwesterns?
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Maybe next week we'll know.
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Masterpiece. It is a word used and misused too much. But for this movie of such surpassing craftsmanship, humanity, and pathos, it is entirely appropriate. If filmmaking is considered as an equal of other artistic endeavors of the human race, then this must be considered on the same footing as works by Titian, Conrad, or Moore.
It is rare to find a movie that you can unreservedly praise, because there is nothing in it you can find lacking. The Red Shoes, far from lacking, is superabundant. Everly element of the film, from the cinematography, to the score, the choreography, the costumes, the art direction, the writing, of course the direction, and the acting, is supremely crafted, and executed, and integrated into the whole.
Argh! The Maltin review gave this movie 4 stars so I figured it was likely not good.
I see the movie is scheduled to play again in July.
I'll try to catch it then..
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Holden, have you seen My Own Private Idaho ? It's very roughly based on Henry IV pt ll.
There's a scene that seems like it's lifted straight out of the Shakespeare play. It's heartbreaking.
Yes, misswonderly, I have seen Gus Van Sant's MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and I love that movie.
The movie includes a brilliant performance by the late River Phoenix. His emotional honesty in the movie is astounding.
The Bob Pigeon character in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO is clearly modeled on Falstaff and Scott (played by Keanu Reeves) is the Prince Hal character.
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That was sad when Charmaine's tennis court was torn up.
I loved the ugly ruffle dresses the Stepford Wives wore. As if real women would wear those dresses in the 1970s. Women weren't even wearing those types of dresses in the 1950s!
I also liked when Katharine Ross stabs friend Paula Prentiss. "...I thought we were friends!..."
This is such a campy movie, I loved it. I found it for $3.99 at a movie store I go to occasionally. I thought it was a total score. Lol.
According to the host's commentary during the showing of THE STEPFORD WIVES during the spotlight on costume design, the original idea was for the Stepford Wives to be wearing bikiins (or some other skimpy costume) in the final scene in the supermarket.
I think the costume designer's ultimate choice of the ugly ruffle dresses made a better point although there may be some who would have liked the bikinis.
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I love that song! I'm not usually a Top 40 pop music fan, but that song is pretty catchy. I've never found JT to be all that attractive and his voice is pretty nasally, but many of his songs have good beats.
Yeah, speedracer, I also don't usually get into Top 40 hits, but I do love "Sexyback."
I especially love the collaboration between Justin Timberlake and Timbaland on the song .
Mix engineer Jimmy Douglas explained the title of the song, and how it affected the concept:
"Justin [Timberlake] goes in the chorus 'Go head be gone with it', I called the song 'Be Gone With It', just to label it. So they're developing this song and they're going nuts and loving it, and as they play it, and I'm like: 'I don't think this hook is strong enough.' But then, at the very last minute, Justin very, very cleverly decided to call it 'Sexyback', and that changed the whole dimension of the song. The first thing you hear when you listen to the song is 'I'm bringing sexy back', and after that you don't care or don't notice that there is no hook. And then there's the unique thing of Timbaland acting as a narrator, saying things like 'take it to the bridge', or 'yeah'. Every time Justin leaves a space, he fills it in. It's two guys interacting." -
Lex Barker was.best known as a Tarzan (the first after Weismuller hung up his loincloth?), as one of Lana Turner's many husbands, and in that mode, a wife beater and apparently, child molester.
Oh, wow, I didn't know any of that.
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Thanks.for.sharing that great exchange. It might have skewed the movie, however, and focused our suspicion on Waldo. But I guess we were about to find him out in a couple of minutes.
You're welcome, Arturo.
LAURA is such a fascinating subject to me, both the movie itself and the "making of' aspects of it.
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I recently went back to one.of the biographies I have on Marilyn, the most recent one I bought and read (used for $1 some six months ago), by Donald Spoto. I reread.what it says about MMs tv project for "Rain".
It seems it almost happened in 1961, with contracts signed.with NBC. Fredric March and his wife were to play the Rev. Davidson and his wife. Marilyn of course would be Sadie. Maugham gave his approval. It turns out the sticking point was Lee.Strasberg, who had concocted thos idea with Marilyn. It seems he was adamant that he direct,.and the network wanted a proven tv or film director. Unfortunately, Marilyn sided with him,.and Strasberg cancelled the project.on their behalf.
Had it been done, it might still have faced the censorship so common on tv at.the.time.
Thanks for this information, Arturo.
If with the censorship it still woud have been interesting to see.
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I've never seen COMPULSION in its entirety, but I've seen parts of it when it's aired on TCM before.
I like Dean Stockwell and the scenes I did see of the movie were very compelling.
Is you making a pun?
You caught me . . .
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I recorded HERE'S TO YOUR LIFE to watch later.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.