CaveGirl
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Here's all you need to play:
Your Brain
A Computer
Three Movie Titles [with corresponding plotlines]I'll start:
Lust in the DustDuel in the Sun
A River Runs Through It
Next?
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Saturday April 9, 2016
Paul Robeson's 118th birthday on Hulu
THE EMPEROR JONES with Dudley Digges
THE PROUD VALLEY with Edward Chapman
SANDERS OF THE RIVER with Leslie Banks
Okay, for the record I really like Paul Robeson, but I'll watch anything with Leslie Banks!
Thanks, TB.
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I'm not touching that link with a ten-foot pole.
Or even a six-foot one, like Lech Walesa.
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Oh, c'mon now, CG! Use your imagination here.
Can't you maybe see Georgie donning a priest outfit and tellin' say, oh I dunno, maybe Sean Penn, "Look Rocky, as you're heading to ol' sparky today, I want ya to act yellow and so those rugrats, ahem, I mean KIDS out there won't think you're some kind'a hero!"
Heck, I CAN certainly see Clooney pullin' that act off with aplomb!
(...or ANY kind of small fruit he might wish to use as a prop, for that matter)
C'mon, like we need more priests here, Dargo?
I could dig George a lot more if he had Rosemary's pipes.
Can't you just see him singing "C'mon-a My House"?
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Why Wayne over Cooper?
I'm with you on this one. I have no idea why Mad Anthony would be liked over D. B. who is a bonafide folk hero.
His style, with the vaselined hair and black sunglasses and attache case, which looked so nice flying down into the forestland with all the hijacking money.
It definitely should be Cooper over Wayne fer shure!
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I dunno, CG. While I never have gotten the impression that Clooney himself thinks he's "more attractive and intelligent than he really is", I DO sometimes wonder why he's viewed in that manner by so many of the public.
I mean, I've always liked the guy, but that idea that's he's somehow "The New Clark Gable" sometimes throws me for a loop.
'Cause I've actually thought he more resembled Pat O'Brien, who wasn't a bad lookin' guy when he was young...
...but he sure wasn't any Clark Gable!
Whoa, Nellie!
You think Georgie Porgie looks like Pat O'Brien?
Gee, I dunno. I'd have to hear Clooney say something like "Let's all win one for the Gipper" to decide.
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You speak the truth, Slayton.
Who cares what the movie is about or how could it is, if it contains iconic performances from the likes of Holliday and Armstrong.
Now I have one dvd and probably the only such performance on film, of Bix Beiderbecke playing with the Paul Whiteman orchestra.
I treasure that and wish TCM would do an all jazz festival with such iconic stars on film, even in shorts like Soundies.
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If you read about those who judged these screen tests it was thought that Dean had a mercurial style on film, whilst Newman was stiff as a corpse. This tomfoolery of course is not them reading lines but just playing around. Newman had actually read for the Cal part in the initial casting auditions.
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Nah, I think it was Dapper Dan.
(...you know, like the stuff Clooney used in that one Coen Bros flick)
Clooney, bah humbug!
He thinks he is way more attractive and intelligent, than he really is.
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I loved Brandon de Wilde so much - he was such a superb child actor.
Who could forget him in "Shane" or "Goodbye, My Fancy"?
As he grew older, I loved him, too, in his film with Warren Beatty, "Hud" and "In Harm's Way".
And I retain a special place in my heart for his performance in "Blue Denim".
He starred in a famous episode of "Thriller", which was quite thrilling.
And he guest-starred in a first-rate episode of "The Virginian".
I saw him on-stage in a Broadway comedy by Evan Hunter.
He was "golden", of course.
His death in a bizarre traffic accident was truly tragic and robbed us of a unique presence in film, on stage and in television.
RIP, Brandon de Wilde, you could never be forgotten.
Oh, wow maybe we can start a fan club, Rayban?
I simply love him too. I remember the first time I saw "The Member of the Wedding" I was about nine and not really understanding the story totally, just thought his character was hilarious. All that talk about Frankie's hair and pinheads at the carnival, but later came to see what a fine child actor he was. I bought the boxed set of Thriller episodes just to own that one called "Pigeons From Hell" which justifiably is blood curdling.
It was quite a loss to have him die as he did at such an early age but thankfully we have his many fine performances still to relish and wonder what would have resulted as he aged in films.
Whenever "Shane" is on I have to always watch the ending to hear his plaintive voice calling Shane back.
RIP, Brandon you are not forgotten.
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The Women’s Army Corps began in 1943, though it originated with the formation of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps a year earlier. After the United States had entered World War II, female civilians wanted to do their share to help military personnel. There was a backlash against the women volunteers at first, but quickly, they were seen to be quite useful.
As the Women’s Army Corps gained respect and earned a place in history (continuing until the late 1970s), Hollywood took notice. Studios cranked out some noteworthy films devoted to the subject:
A WAVE, A WAC AND A MARINE (1944)
Monogram Pictures produced this musical comedy, which is notable for being the first feature film directed by Phil Karlson (credited here as Phil Karlstein). The film stars Elyse Knox (the mother of TV actor Mark Harmon). She and Sally Eilers play gals involved with a talent agency that aims to put on a Broadway-type show for military personnel. British comedian Henny Youngman plays one of the agency men who, naturally, hires the ‘wrong’ people.
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KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY (1945)
This time it was MGM’s turn. Lana Turner is cast as a spoiled rich girl who joins up. She is teamed with Laraine Day and Susan Peters whose characters seem to be much more practical. Of course the screenwriters pull out all the stops. There are typical hijinks, rivalries between the girls that turn into friendships, and romance with handsome soldiers. With everything going on, one wonders how there was any time to keep their uniforms pressed and their powder dry.
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I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (1949)
Howard Hawks directs Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan in this broad farce at 20th Century Fox. Sheridan is a WAC stationed in Germany after the war. She meets and marries Grant, a French Army captain. But bureaucratic hassles prevent them from traveling together. Soon they decide the only way her foreign husband can accompany her back to America is by posing as a nurse. They do not have a typical honeymoon.
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NEVER WAVE AT A WAC (1953)
In this RKO production, Rosalind Russell stars as a divorced socialite who decides to join the Women’s Air Corps, thinking she might get sent to Paris. This is so she can be near her boyfriend, a man who happens to be a colonel in the U.S. Army. It may not be the smartest idea, but she is convinced it will work. When she tells her ex-husband (Paul Douglas) about her plans he tries to talk her out of it, but she doesn’t listen. Soon she’s going through basic training with another enlistee, played by screwball comedienne Marie Wilson. The WACs will never be the same after these ladies are finished.
I like Elyse Knox but think it was good she married Tom Harmon and got out of acting, TB.
By the way, Cary Grant makes a horrid looking woman in IWAMWB!
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Yeah, me and Howard!
Although I think it's either Mr.Roberts or Bogie around here who have a thing for Jean too, as I recall.
(...oh, and for Audrey Dalton, who we think resembled Jean quite a bit)
I love her; she's so pretty and demure. Audrey always reminded me a lot of Jean Simmons.
Too bad you couldn't have married her, and become part of the Dalton Gang. Just think how nice the name, Dargo Dalton sounds?
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Yeah, gotta admit Louis is "pretty" TOO , alright!
(...I remember noticing this very thing about a year ago or so while watching him and Joan Fontaine in 1948's LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, and about halfway through it thinking to myself somethin' like, "DAMN, that dude is prettier than JOAN is, isn't he?!") LOL
Dargo, I hunted for that movie for years on dvd, LFAUW!
It is by Max Ophuls and is just terrific.
You may be right though, Louis is awful purty in it!
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..so the adage, there's no such thing as bad publicity, is incorrect?
I think that this is correct, both in publicity or bad reviews even.
Or as the father of Bette Davis once said, "Just remember, today's newspaper is tomorrow's toilet paper."
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Of course I'm speaking of the divine Glenn Milstead.
Of all his movies, with or without John Waters intervention, my favorite would be "Polyester". I mean what other movie has both Tab Hunter AND Odorama Cards to scratch and sniff.
I can still remember seeing it at a revival, and those smells were horrid, as in stinky feet, bad eggs and the like. But still the audience was convulsed with laughter and a fun time was had by all at least if one has a sense of humor and enjoys seeing Baltimore.
Name your favorite Divine film or a film that seems divine, or devoo, as Jayne Mansfield might say.
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Hey Hibi, you DO know your next reply to DGF should now be somethin' like...
"Well then, isn't Trader Joe's open by that time?!!"
Dargo, I'm going to Trader Joe's later today.
Can I get you anything?
Bavarian Pea Pods?
Wally Cox Memorial Chablis?
Crab Rangoons Wrapped in Bacon with Brown Sugar and Dipped in Absinthe?
Yoko Ono Brand Sushi?
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Well, if you NOW wanna place it in THOSE kind'a terms, I suppose I have to admit back when I was a little "rugrat" MYSELF, after climbing off the chair of that damn barber my father used to take me to, I DID kind'a feel like I looked a lot like this "little rascal" HERE for a day or two and until I was able to wash all that damn Pomade out of my hair!...
Was that Dixie Peach Pomade, darling Dar?
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Robert Osborne, to my eyes, is truly a great interviewer.
He manages to ask penetrating questions without being intrusive, and is complimentary without being cloyingly sycophantic no matter who the star is.
Which not many interviewers manage.
Best of health to him and I hope he is back soon!
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Speaking of The Eternal City and mediocre movies...I now submit the title THREE COINS IN A FOUNTAIN for consideration here.
Sinatra singing his hit title song as we see various locations in Rome before the opening credits being the high point in this otherwise overblown little soap opera.
(...well that and maybe looking at the cute as hell Jean Peters whenever she's on screen, anyway...okay, her and Dorothy McGuire...I always had a thing for hot older women too, ya know)
I remember being in Rome at the Fountain of Trevi, Dargo and we were looking for spots nearby from the movie and locals laughed and said that the movie fudged on how close some other spots seen onscreen were during the action.
I always liked that movie too, even though Maggie really always kind of grated on my nerves. But Jean Peters was adorable, as both you and Howie Hughes apparently thought.
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Gigdet Goes to Rome.
Not needed follow up to the first film.
And what would Hawaii be, GPF without seeing "Gidget Goes Hawaiian"?
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Nah, CG. Other than THAT, I really have little in common with Bobby.
'Cause first, I was always much taller and MUCH better lookin' than that little squirt, I never ever had a pet cockatoo, AND I've never EVER had to spend a vast fortune on some high priced shyster lawyer in efforts keep me out of prison for killing my wife outside an Italian restaurant while I also resided in the environs of greater Los Angeles all those years.
(...nope, but I suppose other than THOSE slight differences, I guess I can see how our mutual reference to the little tots out there in the world might bring some similarity to mind between the two of us)
Okay, okay, Dargo!
But you have to admit that you are a "Little Rascal" at times.
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At the risk of being accused again of going off-topic, even though I didn't bring up these specific things (although I did bring up Huck Finn, and I kinda wish I hadn't), I must say this: The secular government saw slaves as property, but God saw them as human beings; therefore, helping slaves escape was a crime but not a sin. If some folks on behalf of religion said slavery was not wrong, then that is terrible. That's going along with the culture.
All I will say about the throwaway line dissing Mother (soon to be St.) Teresa is that there are other ways to remember her than by way of Christopher Hitchens. Let's just leave it at that. I have no desire to respond any further on that off-topic subject.
After all this, I am really looking forward to reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn! And I want to see the Jack Pickford, Jackie Coogan, and Tommy Kelly portrayals of Tom Sawyer; and the Mickey Rooney and Eddie Hodges portrayals of Huckleberry Finn. I'm thinking these films probably avoided that controversial word. Does anyone know if the Jack Pickford film from 1917 used it?
" The secular government saw slaves as property, but God saw them as human beings"
Paul, I can see how you might be able to deduce the visions of the secular government from their pronouncements, but were you told the second revelation of how "God" saw things, directly by divine intervention or by hearsay messenger?
I've always thought, as in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" that one should let John Alden and others, speak for themselves.
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I read HUCKLEBERRY FINN for English class my sophomore year of high school, and I distinctly remember getting goosebumps when Huck declares, "All right, I'll go to Hell" when he finally decides to commit to helping Jim no matter what. After being raised to be terrified of going to Hell the first 16 years of my life, I was profoundly struck by Huck's decision to do what he considered the right thing no matter what his organized religion has taught him. To me, it was the most powerful moment of the book. Pretty sure in my super-Christian community it was not the intent for anyone in the public school system for any student to ever take away this revelation as the most important of the entire book - I'm reasonably sure no one teaching the book in my part of the world had ever even noticed that one sentence. It helped change my whole outlook on religion and how one lives one's life in this world.
Boy, SEW, you sure scare easy!
What if someone said to you that if you ever post again at the TCM Message Board you will go to H_ll?
Personally I think it would be worth it!
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Yeah, I suppose. However, this now reminds me of something our friend Speedy said the other day...
...and which I believe is always a very salient point when it comes to the development of children's intellect.
(...from just an "outsider's POV" of such a thing in MY case of course, because I never ever had any freakin' rugrats to raise...THANK GOD...couldn't have afforded to retire at age 55 if I had, ya know...those "things" cost a hell of a lot of money and time invested to raise right, ya know?!!!)
LOL
Dargo, are you really Robert Blake in disguise at the TCM board?
He was noted for always calling kiddies, "rugrats".
One Big Fat Historical Document
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Hey, Slayton I hope you have been watching that PBS, Ken Burns special on Jazz.
I saw it way back the first time it was on, and bought the boxed cd set, but it is worth watching again with all the info on King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Fletcher Henderson, Louis, and all the other greats.
I assume also that you know about the movies coming out about jazz legends, Miles and one that I think is in production, about Chet Baker. They are using Ethan Hawke to play Chet which I believe is a good choice.
Having seen that movie documentary on Chet called "Let's Get Lost", wherein he goes from looking young and cute to old and toothless and then dies before they ended production, by falling out of a window, his story is made for Hollywood. I had a relative on my dad's side who played with him for years and boy, did he have some stories!
I hope TCM shows more movies starring jazz legends, and don't forget "Hollywood Hotel" is on later this month with Gene Krupa and the Benny Goodman band.