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Robby Benson in "Mom Jeans" in ODE TO BILLY JOE, which was set in Mississippi in the 1950s:
Robby Benson did not wear Daisy Dukes in the movie.
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Here's the trailer for ODE TO BILLY JOE:
Seems like nothing no good ever comes up on Choctaw Ridge . . .
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I love this trailer.
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fun HOLLYWOOD trivia fact of the day:
According to Judith M. Kass
in 'The Films of Montgomery Clift',
Jennifer Jones
developed a crush on
Montgomery Clift,
but when she found out that he was not inclined toward women,
"she reportedly became so overwrought that
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stuffed
a mink
jacket
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toilet
of a portable dressing room."
Thanks for sharing this bit of trivia, LHF.
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8/13:
1. BYE BYE TORDIE
2. THE PLEASTOR SEEKERS
3. ONCE A TORF
4. THE TORAIN ROBBERS
5. MADE.IN TORIS
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7. THE TORNCINNATI KID
8. THE CHEAP DETECTOR
9. TORMY
10. TORNAL KNOWLEDGE
I suspect # 6 is TORA LAS VEGAS
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Diabolique (1955). Naturellement.
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Rosebud is a sled.
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I've never seen IT's TOUGH TO BE FAMOUS.
That one intrigued me so I recorded it to watch later.
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GYPSY - Hard to hide Natalie Wood's beauty, so it's more about her finally dressing like a girl:
"I'm a pretty girl, Mama."
I love that moment.
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Dem some Mom Jeans, Robby.
Yes, LHF, they are Mom Jeans indeed.
Not very flattering.
The ones in the photo below are better.
ONE ON ONE is scheduled to air on TCM on September 9.
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There's a good film and a good story to be told somewhere inside the brightly wrapped package of HOME FROM THE HILL, it's such an odd mix of scenes and performances that work and scenes and performances that don't....I think the issues of the film are entirely in execution.
Yes, Eleanor Parker plays the mother, and while I like her and think she was:
A. A total movie STAR
and
B. A good actress, much akin to a tamer Anne Baxter...
....she very rarely seems to be cast in the sorts of roles she should be playing- to me, she is a vixen, a schemer, or a "lady who lunches"- and so often she is cast in victim or ingenue parts. She was far too HIGH GLAM in her part in HOME FROM THE HILL- and so urbane and world-weary in her presence, one gets the feeling her reaction to her husband's daliance would be to deal with it and open an account at I. Magnin: end of story.
How wonder how many takes it took for Eleanor Parker to say the line in HOME FROM THE HILL about the other woman "mewing" without cracking up.
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I am a HUGE fan of Danny Peary's book INSIDE OSCAR, and agree with 98% of his choices, and in the 1976 section for best actress, he thinks Glynis O'Connor deserved a Best Actress nomination for this, and he has pretty high standards, so my curiosity is piqued on BILLY JOE.
Here are Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor on the Tallahatchee Bridge.
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While Lucille Ball is primarily known for her work on television, beginning with her iconic role of Lucy Ricardo on I LOVE LUCY , she made a number of films prior to becoming a television legend, as well as some after she became loved around the world as "Lucy."
I admit that I have only seen a few of her films. In BEST FOOT FORWARD she plays a divaesque version of herself (her character is a movie star named Lucille Ball).
In THE BIG STREET, she plays a selfish nightclub singer who treats the doting Henry Fonda like dirt.
For those who have seen many of Lucille Ball's movies, how do feel that her work in film compares to her work on television?
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Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 film with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, inspired by the 1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry, titled "Ode to Billie Joe" (note difference in spelling).
The film was directed and produced by Max Baer, Jr. (of The Beverly Hillbillies fame) and stars Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. Made for $1.1 million, it grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of $2.65 million in the foreign market, $4.75 million from television, and $2.5 million from video.[citation needed]
this is one I would be interested in seeing. I've heard Glynnis O'Connor is great in it.
I saw ODE TO BILLY JOE on VHS in the 1990s I think.
My mother loved Robby Benson.
And my grandmother liked that he was Jewish.
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....and if I may add, while REBECCA and SUSPICION have their faults, Fontaunes performances in each are impeccable.
I have stated this before but Joan Fontaine has such a spontaneous-sounding delivery in REBECCA that is truly remarkable.
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Home From the Hill intrigued me because of the cast: Mitchum, Eleanor Parker and George Peppard. I've only ever seen Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's and The A-Team, so it'll be interesting to see how he is in other roles. In every Parker film I've seen so far, she's always been charming and interesting.
I caught some of HOME FROM THE HILL today. The Southern accents were pretty bad generally but there were moments here and there with some authentic sound.
The scene where the mother (I think it was Eleanor Parker) tells her son (George Hamilton) about his father's philandering and reveals that the father has an illegitimate son was very strange indeed. Although generally the scene struck me as comical (especially the mother's Hollywood-Southern accent and melodramatic delivery and the son's equally melodramatic reactions) there was something about it that was genuinely moving.
The part about the mother's discovery of the "mewing" other woman shortly after her marriage was very odd.
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Here's a new international TV spot for STAR WARS:THE FORECE AWKENS that is currently airing:
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Tomorrow's Summer Under The Stars honoree is New Trier alum, Ann-Margret.
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Might be fun to guess. I'd think independent product like 'Easy Rider' might be good guesses.
Max Baer Jr wrote and produced the drama Macon County Line (1974), in which he played Deputy Reed Morgan. It was the highest-grossing movie per dollar invested at the time. Made for just $110,000, it earned almost $25 million at the box office. This record lasted until The Blair Witch Project broke it in 1999.
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Here are the weekly schedule links again.
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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... Vittorio De Sica's The Roof (1956) or Il Tetto. It tells the story of two poverty stricken newlyweds and their struggle to find a place to live in urban Italy.
In the film's programme notes it mentions that De Sica used two non-professional actors in the lead roles. One, Giorgio Listuzzi was actually a soccer star.
A few weeks ago I watched Ermano Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) and in an interview in the dvd extras Olmi says that the way to cast and direct non-professionals is not to demand performances that you would expect of a professional. In other words, let the 'actors' be themselves.
Well, that may have been Olmi's method but it certainly was not true of De Sica. The performances in The Roof are right up there with anything by professionals. Gabriella Pollotta and Giorgio Listuzzi display just about every human emotion in this film and do so very well. This is true of all of De Sica's 'neo-realist' performances. His direction of children is probably the best in cinema history. Rinaldo Smirdoni in Shoeshine and Luciano De Ambrosis in The Children Are Watching Us are two prime examples.
De Sica was clearly able to draw upon his own experience as one of Italy's top actors when it came time to direct others. But it is his uncanny ability to see life's truths and to be able to imbue that in his non-actors performances that make him a cut above the rest.
The final scene in THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US: There are no words to describe the power of it.
I wonder what direction De Sica gave to Luciano De Ambrosis.
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"Put ze candle back."
Teri Garr in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
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Why is a gun termed a 'rod'?
And jail termed the 'stir'?
From The Grammarphobia Blog"In stir on the Jersey Shore"September 29th, 2010Q: Why have I never found anybody from outside New Jersey who knows what “in stir” means? We of NJ have a soft spot for those in the slammer or merely busted, like Snooki and Ronnie on “Jersey Shore.”
A: As we’re sure you realize, New Jersey doesn’t have a monopoly on the phrase “in stir.”
In fact, it doesn’t even come from New Jersey. The phrase was first recorded in England. Here’s the story.
The word “stir” has been used as a noun for a prison since the mid-19th century, according to Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang. That much we can be sure about.
The word was sometimes spelled “stur” and originated in the Romany words sturiben (a prison) and staripen (to imprison), Cassell’s says.
A 19th-century source, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, first published in London in 1889, says “stir” comes from staripen, adding that “stardo in gypsy means ‘imprisoned.’ ”
This dictionary, edited by Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland, calls “stir” an abbreviation of a longer slang word for a prison, spelled “sturbin” in the US and “sturiben” in Britain.
The Oxford English Dictionary, however, seems to disagree, saying the origin of the slang term “stir” is unknown. The OED doesn’t say why it rejects the Romany origin.
But the modern verb “stir,” from the Old English verb styrian, has also had negative meanings over the years: to make a disturbance, to cause trouble, to revolt, to provoke, and so on.
Such activities could of course land a person in jail (or “in chokey,” as P. G. Wodehouse liked to say).
But those old meanings are now rare or obscure for the most part, except in the sense of “stir things up,” which isn’t always a bad thing to do.
In the journal Modern Language Notes in 1934, J. Louis Kuethe argued in favor of the Romany etymology.
“Staripen, steripen, and stiraben have all been given as spellings of the Romani word for ’prison,’ ” he writes. “When these variations are taken into account, the Gypsy origin of stir is quite acceptable phonetically.”
Since the slang term originated in the mid-19th century, Kuethe says, “it seems much more plausible that the word should have originated from a contemporary source such as the Romani, rather than from the Old English styr which disappeared centuries ago.”
Wherever it came from, everyone agrees that the word first showed up in print in 1851.
That’s the year of the OED’s first citation, which comes from a collection of articles and interviews by Henry Mayhew entitled London Labour and the London Poor.
The quotation: “I was in Brummagem, and was seven days in the new ‘stir’ (prison).” The term “Brummagem” was a local nickname for the English city of Birmingham.
Soon, however, the phrase “in stir” (without the article) was the usual slang term for “in prison.”
This OED citation is from A Child of the Jago, Arthur Morrison’s 1896 novel about the slums of London: “A man has time to think things out, in stir.”
And as we all know, someone sitting in prison is likely to go “stir crazy,” a term the OED traces back to 1908.
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I think "Alec."
"Ja quelle in" is my favorite.
I think they made about 3 or 4 videos dedicated to the substitute teacher motif. Al are pretty highly recommended.
I'm still trying to figure out "Uh-lah-kay."
Lucille Ball's Film Work
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Here's the trailer for BEST FOOT FORWARD, starring Lucille Ball as Lucille Ball:
The movie also features Nancy Walker, who played Rhoda Morgenstern's mother on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW and RHODA.