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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplay#Photoplay_Medal_of_Honor
Medal of Honor/Gold Medal Winners 1920–1968
1920: Humoresque
1921: Tol'able David
1922: Robin Hood
1923: The Covered Wagon
1924: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1925: The Big Parade
1926: Beau Geste
1927: Seventh Heaven
1928: Four Sons
1929: Disraeli
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: Cimarron
1932: Smilin' Through
1933: Little Women
1934: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1935: Naughty Marietta
1936: San Francisco
1937: Captains Courageous
1938: Sweethearts
1939: Gone with the Wind
1940–1943: awards not given
1944: Going My Way
1945: The Valley of Decision
1946: The Bells of St. Mary's
1947: The Jolson Story
1948: Sitting Pretty
1949: The Stratton Story
1950: Battleground
1951: Showboat
1952: With a Song in My Heart
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: Magnificent Obsession
1955: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
1956: Giant
1957: An Affair to Remember
1958: Gigi
1959: Pillow Talk
1960: no awards
1961: Splendor in the Grass
1962: The Miracle Worker
1963: How the West Was Won
1964: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
1967: The Dirty Dozen
1968: Rosemary's Baby
That's a pretty good list, and I've seen every one of those classics except maybe that one about Abraham Lincoln, unless I know it by another name. "Tolable David" would be my favorite since I love Richard Barthelmess.
Photoplay also was a great movie fan magazine. Thanks for posting, Mr. Fugitive!
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Well, there's Anjanette Comer, who as it happens played Aimee Thanatogenos in the 1965 film The Loved One (which is based on the Evelyn Waugh novel by the same name.)
Appropriately, she also appeared in a made-for-TV movie entitled "Dead of Night" (no doubt a kind of remake of the Ealing movie), and something called Netherworld. Oh, and apparently an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Hey, she could be eligible for your "Sorcery" thread.
I love Anjanette, Miss Wonderly. Always thought she was so pretty and different than other actresses. Wasn't she in "The Loved One"?
Oops, just so you don't think I am hallucinating. I was reading your answer and your post flipped down and I did not see when I first posted, that of course you had written that she was Aimee in "The Loved One".
Mea culpa, and thanks for the info, Miss W!
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I can't recall ever seeing an interview with Gable. Shoot, he didn't even want to talk at the premiere of GWTW. Didn't he say something like "This is Margaret Mitchell's night."
Good way to get out of talking I guess.
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That's because I haven't been around for awhile. My topics tend to stir things up a little.
Let's see some of that "stirring" asap!
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Can you guess the ones I'll be spotlighting?
In the week ahead:
Saturday March 26th: Precode star known as the Lone Wolf.
Sunday March 27th: Hollywood couple, together for over 50 years.
Monday March 28th: RKO star/character actor known for crime dramas.
Tuesday March 29th: Canadian actress who appeared in Hal Roach comedies.
Wednesday March 30th: Actor turned director, once costarred with Lucille Ball.
Thursday March 31st: Austrian stage and film actress.
Friday April 1st: Played the Fuller Brush Man.
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I'm hoping one of them is Hedy Lamarr. She led quite the exciting life and I should know since I read her autobiography. I look forward to your coming "spotlights", TB!
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I must remember that one, the next time I drive over the Police Officer's foot by accident.
It wasn't me - it was the machines that did it!
Once our friendly
big brotherpal, Google get the appropriate coding/legal stuff sorted, you won't even need to look where you're going, or do boring things like weave around (movie style) with the steering wheel anymore...This post was brought to you by the Legion of Luddites (LOL).
I used to be a Luddite, Limey but I strayed.
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I keep reading here daily about stars who have gone on to that great drive-in in the sky [or maybe way down below the sky] but what I'd rather read is who is still with us.
What stars of any type of entertainment style are alive and well, particularly if they are over perhaps let's say maybe eight decades old?
I think Chuck Berry and Little Richard and Fats Domino are still kicking and Betty White, Debbie Reynolds and my pal, Jerry.
Name anyone you can think of that is still around and keep my spirits up, knowing that I will not be reduced to watching Kardashian crapola for entertainment for the rest of the year.
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I've always thought Oliver Reed looks like the beat up version of Tony Curtis.
I also think that Caitlyn Jenner looks like Karen Carpenter.
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So what constitutes a female intellectual? And what does she see upon viewing a picture of a nude man?
FWIW & IMO, humanity would have a much simpler existence, if it managed to get over it's historical hangups with nudity. And recognize that nudity does not automatically imply sex (though they do sometimes stroll together hand-in-hand). And that sex (whether recreational, or reproductive) does not automatically imply immorality. And finally, that morality is probably best left as a matter of personal judgement, rather than something that society assumes automatic authority over.
As to your question about what does a "female intellectual see when she is viewing a nude man", I would guess that type woman would need to know first, is this a good looking man or otherwise, Limey?
Maybe you should ask Sister Rose?
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Friday March 25, 2016
David Lean's 106th birthday on Hulu
HOBSON'S CHOICE with John Mills
SUMMERTIME with Katharine Hepburn
"Hobson's Choice" is such a great movie and not as famous as his other stuff. Thanks, TB!
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Doug.
(...and re the "Hoser" thing...you'll have to get the final word on this from one of our Canadian friends around here, but as far as I know, the term is mostly an affectionate one or at least not sensed as being primarily derogatory, but one which is seldom actually used among them up there)
Good to know.
You notice I did not call you st_d.
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Sorry to hear this.
I saw him perform earlier in his career at The Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach CA, and knew then he'd be a big success. A very funny guy who seemed to learn a lot from watching the great Jack Benny.
R.I.P. Garry
I'm telling you; they are dropping like flies.
Everyday another entertainer dies. I'm kind of getting depressed. Soon no one will be left.
Sorry to hear about Shandling.
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Why, THANKS, CG! That's quite a compliment there.
(...you "hockey puck" you)
You are so welcome.
Hoser!
P.S. I hope that is not an obscene Canadian term! I learned it from Bob and the other MacKensie brother. What was his name?
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OH, so YOU have "a thing" for that devil-may-care Mr. William TOO, do ya GPF?!
How could anyplace that has Dargo as a visitor be boring???
This is like having Rickles over for a party and saying that the laughs are over.
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Well, I'm learning an awful lot just from that picture.
I see no reason to condemn a photo of a guy who looks like a 12-year old in his undies!
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Hmm.
Explicit ....maybe that we can see everything and don't need to use our imagination such as in soft porn?
The term "Nude" to me makes me think of artwork such as painting or sculpture. Naked refers to having closes off regardless of the context.
Of course, my mother is an artist, so I naturally think of the word "Nude" and "naked" in two different ways.
GPF, this conversation is starting to remind me of the New Yorker magazine bit about what constitutes a male intellectual.
And the answer was, that he is one who looks at a picture of a nude woman and sees a rose.
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I love Larry, but Shemp and Moe and Curly not so much.
Just kidding!
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It is natural in European movies, but not in American movies from the time the Hays office kicked in.
Ya know, it's funny, GPF that Hays is seen as being so much a straight laced censor, when the truth was that a lot of his moves were controlled by Adolph Zukor, and he actually wanted to let Fatty Arbuckle back in the fold after being acquitted from the rape charges and death of Virginia Rappe, but Zukor and people like Marcus Loew and other studio heads forced Hays to ban Arbuckle, in order to save their industry from being regulated or censored by government agencies. I know Hays is looked at as the problem, but don't you think he was a bit of a pawn for Famous Players/Lasky studios and others?
P.S. My intent about defining "explicit nudity" was that nudity is nudity, so why is the word "explicit" needed? For some reason to me, the word "nude" sounds much more salacious than "naked". What do you think?
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TCM has an interesting way of celebrating the Lenten season and Holy Week.
While Catholics tonight are celebrating the Mass of the Lord's Supper, commemorating the meal that Jesus shared with His disciples before His suffering and death, TCM will be showing films condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency.
The timing for this festival is curious.
What might you have suggested be more proper viewing for the TCM audience, Paul?
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Just to clear the air of mystery around a few of the selections this month, here are explanations from the USCCB website (Note that O has taken the place of C, the condemned rating):
Ice Castles -- When a talented young skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson) training for the Olympics is blinded in an accident, her father (Tom Skerritt) and boy friend (Robby Benson) persuade her to resume her career. Director Donald Wrye gets good performances in this mildly inspirational tale but the movie is undone by frequent rough language and its sympathetic attitude towards premarital sex on the part of its teenage heroine. (O) (PG) ( 1979 )
The Carey Treatment -- Hip California doctor (James Coburn) comes to a conservative Boston hospital where he uncovers the murder of the chief-of-staff's daughter and the disappearance of large amounts of hospital drugs. Director Blake Edward employs a good deal of rather self-conscious vulgarity and profanity but worse is its casual attitude toward abortion and marital commitments. (O) (PG) 1972
Those Lips, Those Eyes -- Sentimental look at summer theater in a 1951 Cleveland suburb where a college student (Thomas Hulce) takes a job as a prop man and gets so carried away with show business and one of the dancers (Glynnis O'Conner) that he wants to go to New York, much to the anguish of his father (Jerry Stiller). Directed by Michael Pressman, the nostalgia is unfortunately marred by some explicit nudity in a bedroom scene, compounded by the movie's rather benign attitude toward casual sex. (O) ® ( 1980 )
Competition, The -- Rival concert pianists (Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving) fall in love but have problems because of his sense of insecurity in a romantic melodrama written and directed by Joel Oliansky. Despite good performances, it is but mediocre entertainment marred by crude sexual references and a graphic bedroom scene. (O) (PG) ( 1980 )
No "mystery" for me about any of these movies, since I've seen them all, and it is up for conjecture if they really contain what might constitute scenes that are so objectionable to world morality, in portraying storylines that are a bit more earthy in tone, than one about Our Lady of Fatima or Joan of Arc.
I would ask that the term "explicit nudity" be defined, since it does not seem so out of place in any bedroom scene.
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So Stephan, you owned a Fiat 124 Spider for a time TOO, did ya? Man, sometimes I think you and I might have been two SoCal boys separated at birth!
(...yep, I owned a black with red interior 1977 124 Spider for many years too)
Speaking of "red" on transportation items, I had a red Schwinn with multi-colored handlebar streamers, Dargo!
Sorry I am not in your or Stephan's league.
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MY guess, Sepia?
Well, somebody will start a thread about Paul and it'll be a very very long one.
(...and it'll start goin' off in tangents about stuff like "who was better, The Stones or The Beatles", or maybe even end up being about stuff like "Ringo's favorite recipe for Yorkshire pudding", and yep, pretty much like almost every thread around here usually does that goes on longer than two or three pages)
I don't have Ringo's favorite recipe for fish and chips, Dargo but I do have the Presley family cookbook that I bought at Graceland and it was signed by the uncle of Elvis, Vester Presley. You haven't lived till you've tried the fried banana and peanut butter sandwich recipe!
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I'm transplanting from a post in "Hits/Misses" Thread because it seems just as appropriate for this Thread: I'm using the title I knew the film by:
"Lemora: The Lady Dracula" (1973)--HOW is Sister Rose going to explain a Southern Gothic/Folk/Wanna-Be European Art/Vampire film in three minutes or less?? I've got to stay up for this!
Don't get your hopes up, FL because in past sessions Sister Rose has only had the epilogues and prologues on like the first three or so movies and did not comment on ones that followed.
Trust me, I stayed up till 4am I think that one night to hear her remarks on "Untamed Youth" and she was not on.
She was probably scared to watch Mamie Van Doren cavorting, and I doubt that Sister would even know about her affair with baseball player, Bo Belinsky!
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Really, GPF? Even with all the great and funny and KNOWING(as in a keen observance of the human condition) dialogue written by Billy and his collaborator I.A.L. Diamond which they supply to the entire cast?
(...gotta say while it's certainly not a "belly laugh" kind of comedy, all the little touches that humorously present our species' inclination toward self-serving behavior has always at the minimum had me chuckling throughout my many viewings of this film)
I think Mr. Sheldrake is so abominable and seeing Edie Adams do him in always makes my day, which is one reason I love this film. It also has a great theme song, and I found the 45rpm of it the other day while going through my dad's music stuff. I think it was played by Ferrante and Teicher.
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When I left the Luddite organization, I joined the Adamites.
You can find them pictured in that Hieronymous Bosch triptych painting all around the center wading pool.