HoldenIsHere
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Mary Astor.
She received a supporting actress Oscar for The Great Lie (1941). I really thought this was a case of billing for she really had a lead role in that film.
In any event. Here are some other Mary Astor performances that I rather enjoyed. I'm sure there are many more.
Dodsworth (1936)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Act of Violence (1948)
Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
For me the performance from DODSWORTH that is the most powerful is Ruth Chatterton's.
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While Shirley Booth had presence, I wouldn't call it primal, at least not in the way I would Magnani, who is like the earth mother perzonfied. A magnificent actress.
Shirley Booth didn't have the primal presence that Anna Magnani had, but both actors had a quality of realness (for lack of a better word) that moved their performances to a level beyond "acting."
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I'm surprised there aren't more comments about Nightmare Alley. For one thing, it's a comparatively rare noir, one doen't see it aired all that often, and for that alone, it deserves some attention.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY is rarely shown and I'm glad I DVRed it this time around.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.
I hope the tacked-on ending doesn't ruin it too much.
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Jane Krakowski made a much better Betty Rubble than Rosie O'Donnell.
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I'd like to see some of the TV movies that Elizabeth Montgomery made after BEWITCHED.
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Here's the trailer for the adaptation of A KISS BEFORE DYING from the 1990s featuring Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max Von Sydow and Diane Ladd.
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Here's the emotional scene with Marilyn Monroe from THE MISITS that I mentioned earlier.
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it just keep getting weirder, per wikipedia:
The Al Martino rendition of "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" was relegated to the B-side of his January 1965 single release "My Heart Would Know" which reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100: "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" would be featured on Martino's Somebody is Taking My Place album. When the song earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Song, Bette Davis herself reportedly was hoping to perform it:[2] however Patti Page performed "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" on the April 5, 1965 37th Academy Awards broadcast, Page singing the song from the perspective of a third-party reassuring Charlotte that she [i.e. Charlotte] has John's constant devotion: Page had recorded the song in a February 17, 1965 session at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville.
Here's Patti Page's recording of "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte":
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Yes, we all make boo-boos from time to time. But when one is attempting to call out TCM's boo-boos and instead makes two boo-boos in their post, well, I feel they should consult Yogi for advise before attempting another post.
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Tuesday, June 16
4:45 p.m. And Goodbye My Lady (1956) is another boy and his dog movie that I have yet to see. And I like Brandon de Wilde.
I'm a big Brandon deWilde fan, and I highly recommend GOODBYE, MY LADY.
I'm still hoping that TCM will eventually air BLUE DENIM, a movie that has never been released on video.
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in all honesty, Anthony Harvey is one of the very few things I remember about CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (the others are ernest thesiger in an "old auntie" caftan and flora robson as Cleopatra's devoted (and deadly)wild-eyed maid Tapatipa.)
Ps- ernest looks good in a caftan.
Is CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1946) the one with Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra?
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My mom came into the room I was in to tell me about Princess Diana too. When I used to watch Nick at Nite, my family had two TVs-- the "big TV" which was a 27" tube TV and then we had an 18" (or something like that) old black and white TV that even had VHF and UHF dials on it. I was always banished to the black and white TV at the back of the house because "[my] shows are all in black and white anyway" my dad would say. For a years I had to watch non black and white shows like I Dream of Jeannie and The Brady Bunch on black and white until my parents later got my sister and I a 20" color tube TV that was specifically for SNES--my dad got tired of the SNES hogging the big TV. Finally! I got to watch TV on a bigger screen and watch the color shows in color-- unless my sister wanted to play SNES, then it was banishment to the back of the house again to watch on the black and white TV. Lol. Talk about first world problems.
Hehe, yes, first world problems indeed.
I'm feeling bad now because I had a TV in my bedroom.
Whenever I hear SNES I always think about Yoshi.
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I really like The Lucy Show too. I haven't seen all the episodes either. I remember it being on Nick at Nite for a fleeting moment and then it disappeared-- I think it may have moved to TVLand back when it was new and didn't suck like it does now. I really liked the episode where she showed Jack Benny the crazy vault that the bank designed to store his money. I also liked the one where she and Viv tried to install a shower and end up getting trapped while the shower is filling because Lucy installed the drain wrong and Viv put the shower door on backward.
I have seasons 1,2,4,5. I don't know why I don't have season 3 or 6. I should get on that.
Holden, I think you and I might have the same "TV on DVD" library. Lol. I miss Nick at Nite (I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who was watching it every night. I remember I was watching the Lucy block that aired on Saturday nights when news broke that Princess Diana had died). Nick at Nite was a good way to spend an evening back in the day. I'm bringing back Nick at Nite's Block Party Summer starting next week. I have enough TV on DVD to support this cause.
When I first started watching Nick at Nite in the mid-90s, I loved the retro graphics and jingles they used to have for the channel. It was so much fun. Then they scrapped the cool graphics and started adding more contemporary shows and booting all the good shows over to TVLand. Then TVLand went down the tubes. Now Nick at Nite is a former shadow of itself and is lame.
So TV on DVD it is.
::Sigh:: I miss you Nick at Nite! :'(
Yes, I miss Nick At Nite and the old TVLand very much as well.
I think you're right about THE LUCY SHOW eventually moving to TVLand.
Lucille Ball almost drowned during the filming of the "Lucy and Viv Put in A Shower" episode.
Vivian Vance saved her life. Lucy went to the bottom of the shower and wasn't able to get back to the top.
Vivian realized something was wrong, pulled Lucy up by her hair and then ad-libbed until Lucy was able to catch her breath and resume the scripted dialogue. All this was left in the episode.
PS. I remember my mother coming into my room to tell me about Princess Diana's death.
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I believe that DeVol also composed the music that was used on The Brady Bunch.
Hard to believe he did both the Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte music and The Brady Bunch.
in addition to composing the music for THE BRADY BUNCH and HUSH . . . HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE, Frank DeVol also composed the music for THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE.
The musical stinger that accents the moment when Elsa steps into Lylah Clare's footprints outside Grauman's Chinese Theater (and other dramatic moments in the movie) was actually recycled by DeVol for THE BRADY BUNCH Hawaii episodes.
This bit of music ("Oo-ee-oo-ee-oo WAH!") is used to accent the tiki statue that brought the Bradys so much bad luck, including Greg's near-fatal surfing wipeout and Alice's back injury during her hula lesson.
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The funny thing about that scene to me is the fact that the hat she is wearing is really kind of goofy...or it would look so on nearly everyone alive but Gene Tierney, who (of course) pulls it off impeccably.
You or I or almost anyone else would look like the gay Gordon's of Glouchester Fisherman in this hat, but Gene? Fabulous.
I wonder if Oleg did it for her...
I agree only Gene Tierney could pull off this look!
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I think DeVol- who wrote it- likely had a lot of friends and admirers voting for him.
I'll try to find out who performed it live during the show....
Here's a clip of Bette Davis singing the song on the TV show I'VE GOT A SECRET in 1965.
This aired before the Oscars were awarded.
The movie's nominations (including the one for Agnes Moorehead) were discussed before Bette Davis performed the song.
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I remember hearing she bought a town (or perhaps just the buildings). I wonder what owning a town would do for you financially. I'm not sure if you can legally buy a town. Though it doesn't seem any different than buying an island. I remember a few years ago hearing that you could buy a town in South Dakota for something like $850k.
Here's what I found online:
In 1989 actress and Georgia native Kim Basinger and other investors bought 1,751 acres of [brasellton's] 2,000 privately owned acres for $20 million from Braselton Brothers Inc, intending to turn it into a tourist destination. Five years later, on the eve of personal bankruptcy, she and her partners sold the town at a large loss
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Try saying that ten times fast.
My attempt was unsuccessful.
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My Wicked Wicked Ways, by Errol Flynn. Not the most historically accurate of show business autobiographies (Flynn loved his tall tales) but surely one of the most fun to read. The book certainly captures the actor's mercurial personality, even if ghost written by the accomplished Earl Conrad, with whom Flynn worked on the actor's Jamaican estate.
Not only does the book provide some cynical insights into the Hollywood that Flynn knew, it is also alternately hilarious as well as surprisingly philosophical, at times, as the actor tries to probe why his life had turned out as it had. In the process Flynn, who at times is brutally frank in self assessements of his own talent on screen, as well as his failures, reveals the complexity of a man who certainly knew how to have fun (sometimes outragiously) but also possessed the sometimes tortured soul of a person who wishes that he had done something more than that with his life.
Take note of the less than complimentary photograph of the actor that Flynn elected to have on the back cover on the first edition of his autobiography. It's of an aged, contemplative man, not a legendary hell raiser, an identication of the many sides of Flynn that existed in this enigmatic creature who sailed the high seas, knew countless women, emptied the contents of countless bottles, played Robin Hood, among other heroic roles, in the movies, and wrote three books, with this one, My Wicked Wicked Ways, remaining the longest selling show biz autobiography in history, a fact that would have both surprised and greatly pleased Flynn.
Errol Flynn had aspirations to be a writer before he became an actor.
Dictating this book was very important to him.
Errol Flynn's girlfriend at the time was jealous of all the time that Flynn was spending with the ghost writer Earl Conrad during the writing of the book and she spoke negatively about Conrad when the book was publlished after Flynn's death.
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Why not? She was the hot one on the show.
I still don't understand why Rosie O'Donnell was cast as Betty Rubble in the FLINTSTONES movie.
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DGF made another boo-boo.
Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bogie56-re History is made at Night (1937)--a DVD Is available--but has Spanish subtitles and seller is charging $28.00.
They are hard coded subs, are they not?
Hard coded subtitles meaning they cannot be removed.
So are the subtitles on the DVD hard coded or can they be turned off?
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Did you know that Tor Johnson wrestled under the name "The Swedish Angel," after changing it from "The Swedish Meatball?"
No, I did not know that until now.
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tonight, 6-13 for Robert Vaughn:
12:00 pm ETColor97 min
TV-PG
horrorMind of Mr. Soames, The (1970)A man in a coma since birth reawakens with the mind of an infant.
Dir: Alan Cooke Cast: Terence Stamp , Robert Vaughn , Nigel Davenport .
Article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83535/Mind-of-Mr-Soames-The/articles.html
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Argh! I missed this one.
Hopefully TCM will air it again.
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Thanks for this information about THE MIND OF OF MR. SOAMES.