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Dargo, obviously that artist was Frenchifying her name, so people would know Jean was a female. Otherwise people in France might have thought it was another French male actor like Jean Gabin. So now, putting extra "n"s and "e"s is also gonna be a bugaboo of yours just like the superfluous "u" thingie?

Maybe you should admit, Dargo as a member of the Claudia Barrett Foot Fetish Fan Club that the real reason you don't care for this photo with the monster is due to her tootsies being encased in shoe apparel? Admit it, you were hoping for a glance to see if her Babinski Reflex was operating in full regalia!

Yay! How cute. Can't say the artist is that great but at least Leroy looks young and Fields looks...well, a bit discombobulated. Looks like it's done in possibly opaque watercolor.

If McCarthy stands up, I hope he is wearing a really long tie...like Trump always does.

Seriously, Dargo, your lack of attention to detail is appalling. Everyone knows that Shirley had exactly 56 curls in her signature hairdo, and do not think Myrna's hair looks like that at all, with the barrel rolled type of style. It is more of a marcelled look, that went awry being that Myrna probably had more hair than most. I will say that in the poster, Myrna's hair does look like Honey Boo Boo's from a low rent beauty pageant though, so I can dig it. That or a tame version of Carrot Top's look?

Yeah, ya gotta love him even when he is dastardly! I was just teasing. Wouldn't take them off my speed dial. I would refuse to let them pick what movie we are going to at the multi-plex though, Lorna.

Double chins are hard to disguise in portraits and so are odd angles, like shots being taken from below the chin, but by far the hardest people to draw are...babies! Now the Gerber baby is marvelous, and so are ones by Maude Humphrey, but some artists just don't get it, and the poor bald things start looking like Edmund Gwenn. I think some artists start putting in lines on the poor infant's face and it is best to be very simplistic in depicting a baby. Let's see some movie posters with Baby Leroy on them for comparison! I hope he and W.C. Fields don't look to be about the same age, as Fields had a rather baby face, with a really enlarged proboscis though...

Didn't notice your lack of a necessary "u", Lorna due to the constant complaining of Dargo about too many superfluous "u"s at the TCM site, so let's blame him! I am simply amazed that anyone would not appreciate LFAUW! Why I might just have to take them off my speed dial for such an infraction. It is simply a divine movie, and besides being gorgeous to view has deeply profound meanings as it weaves its tale. Some folks just got no couth, ya know what I mean?

Apologies for spelling Seyffertitz wrong in my initial post! Yes, Asta looks simply darling, Dargo as you say and the kiddie too. I do have some sympathy for anyone doing a portrait, since I've had some strange requests in my day. One lady told me to make sure her hubby's eyes in the portrait were "sparkling". Another woman said she wanted to have only one chin, instead of the three she really had in reality in her painting. Some might be around 75 years young, but bring in a photo to follow along with the sitting, which was taken when they were graduating college. Balding men often ask for a non-receding hairline, and those with bad teeth want the smile of Jeanette MacDonald. Some folks who are built like Sydney Greenstreet want the physique of Tyrone Power and it goes on and on. Frankly, the best portrait artists I feel can be true to nature and yet, somehow compliment their subject in non-false ways. It's a tough row to hoe though...

You really wouldn't want Norman Rockwell to be painting any attractive ladies on movie posters, as he himself always said he could not draw glamour queens well, and was better at doing character types like Edna May Oliver or women with receding chinlines. Now if it is a film with Zasu Pitts and Patsy Kelly, Rockwell could do them up right.

I'd blame the bad airbrushing technique on this one. Nice hair waves though...

Personally I think it looks just like Lana's legs, but in an older version from her days in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" but who cares when what is really upsetting is that moving version of Errol Flynn which you have for your picture, which is driving me crazy since he is so utterly attractive!!!!!! Please remove it. I can't take the constant torture of his pulchritude.

This is a toughie! As a portrait artist, usually the most important thing is that people can recognize the object of the portrait. But often, a portrait is obviously picturing a certain person and is easily recognized, but it has a ham-fisted quality done by a less than competent artist and not someone like the Leyendeckers, and is not the least bit complimentary. Like when Lyndon Johnson, when confronted with a portrait for the White House of himself, said it was the ugliest thing he'd ever seen! I do think we expect more idealized portraits of stars in movie posters, unless they are portraying Gustav von Seffertitz or Lucille LaVerne?

Boy, you tricked me there since I was thinking this was a movie about Thelma Todd and possibly solving her murder by indicting Pat DiCicco or someone else close to her. Just checked the IMDB and Google and saw that this case inspired the movie "Smooth Talk" with Treat Williams and Laura Dern which I have seen. TTK does sound interesting and I'd watch any movie with both Fay Spain and Gloria Grahame in it. I did notice a preponderance of cast members who are more from television series in this film, like Asner, Broderick, Conrad, Thomas and Montgomery but of course Bel Geddes is a veteran of both. Also noticed its director had a plethora of tv credits as director. This is the type of film that would play well at the drive-in and look forward to seeing it sometime, maybe as a Halloween spooker on some cable channel this month? Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Cigar Joe. I thought I'd read every book on serial killers but this guy, Schmid's MO was new to me.

I looked for years for a copy of "Letter from an Unknown Woman" being a major Ophuls fan. When I finally located a copy, I was mesmerized. It's a movie that deserves more recognition and yes, Fontaine was quite believable in all the ages she played from youth to maturity. Jourdan was never better and Ophuls moving camera, worked tremendously in this film. Supposedly used to counter his perhaps dyslexic tendencies, the sweeping shots are admirably framed and give a thrilling scope to each set piece. Thanks for mentioning this film, Lorna!

I have a photo of Lincoln I've colorized, Nip...please forgive me!

I think this is fabulous! Normally I am not into colorized film, since I love black and white cinematography and think it is perfection. But that is because it was done as an artistic measure to begin with, whereas colorizing documentary type film footage, if it helps to distinguish details, I'm fine with and would applaud. Thanks for the heads up on this project!

They are showing many classics and really great not so famous films, but I heartily recommend to anyone who has not seen it, Tod Browning's film "The Unknown" with Lon Chaney, as Alonzo and Joan Crawford as his potential paramour, Estrelita. Such perversity, mutilation fantasies and morbid situations, have not been duplicated since its release. Truly so full of horror it cannot be forgotten once seen.

You are so right, TB. One can find treasures anywhere that are undiscovered. And even if not a bonafide treasure, still it is fun to see films one has never even heard of possibly. Good show! P.S. Do you go to Confession if you watch a Pre-Code film, with people like Anita Page in lingerie?

I'd really love to see that sketch again. Can't find it on Youtube last time I looked. Another sketch from SNL I will always remember but can't find anywhere, is when Tony Perkins hosted and he played the part of a hotel management school advisor, and it was set in the office from the "Psycho" movie. As I recall it might have even had some of the stuffed birds in the background, but I could be hallucinating in that memory. It was one of the best sketches of all time and Perkins was hilarious. Good actors can do comedy or drama and he proved it!

Hmmm, I'd like the outfit worn by Ann-Margret in the movie "Bye Bye Birdie" for the song, "Got a Lot of Living to Do". Fun topic, Spence and thanks for asking!

Also, "TB Blues" with Van Morrison doing the soundtrack songs.

You forgot "TopBilled of Divorcement" which would be a fine movie title, but too bad Barrymore is not around to star in it. Also, "TopperBilled" with the ghostly Kirbys would be a fun movie.

Love it! No one ever went down and up in flames better, Tom.

Yikes, you are opening up a whole can of worms, TB!