CaveGirl
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Gus the Fireman, Sepia???
Why didn't I think of that. Yep, he always looked like he had Progeria from birth!
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When Amy Irving was doing publicity interviews for YENTL, she said that B Streisand looked very cute in her role. Intrigued, I went to see Y, and I watched enough to realize that I did not want to know what Irving would have described as hideously grotesque.
Well, "cute" is a very strange word to use to describe Streisand. Sounds more like someone with a poor vocabulary than anything else.
I have always felt that for some strange reason, Streisand seems drawn to make movies wherein she is finally told by the male star that she is "beautiful" above all other qualities. Probably goes back to some childhood issues?
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To the moon, Cavegirl.
One of these days, Down....POW!
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Aw! He was so good in as Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff"!
No, Honeybunny that is the one "p" Sam Shepard not Doctor Sam Sheppard.
Easy to confuse.
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"Attack of The Giant Leeches" (1959) three of ten stars/six of ten stars. If you're looking for a "good" movie, pass this by; if you want one" so bad it's good", this is one to watch. Film is set in The Everglades, but has Southern accents from every state in the South. A few high/lowlights: Victim #1 sits on a full bottle of booze with no pain (viewers of "Sabrina" (1954) will remember William Holden & the champagne glasses); accents are applied as actors remember( or forget) to use them; the first Good look at the "Leeches" is memorably funny; heroic scientist takes his wife (along with coffee and china cups!) with him to search the swamps for a killer creature.
Photography varies from abominable to OK. Film is just over one hour.
Any movie which stars both Yvette Vickers AND Bruno VeSota has to be a winner!
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Humor Risk (1921) was the first Marx Brothers film. The short was never released and is now considered a lost film. The print may have been accidentally thrown away when left in the screening box overnight. Another version of the story says Groucho, unhappy with the film's quality, intentionally burned the negative after a particularly bad premiere screening.
Filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey, its title was a spoof of the then-popular Fannie Hurst drama Humoresque, one of the biggest film hits of 1920. In addition, the brothers were working separately, rather than as a team, and did not incorporate their trademark comic personalities for which they later become famous. Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a long moustache and was clad in black", while Chico was probably his "chuckling [italian] henchman". Zeppo portrayed a playboy who was the owner of a nightclub in which most of the action took place, including "a cabaret, [which allowed] the inclusion of a dance number". The final shot showed Groucho "in ball and chain, trudging slowly off into the gloaming". Harpo, in a rare moment of romantic glory, gets the girl in the end.
Publicity still taken on the set of Humor Risk, Groucho and Harpo up front, Zeppo behind Harpo. Chico almost unrecognizable in glasses behind Groucho.
What a great photo, Mr. Kimble!
This brings to mind something that I've been thinking for a long time. Alan Arkin looks like the doppelganger for Harpo Marx doncha think?
But two photos beside each other, with them both bald and I'm sure you will see it. And they both have that cute smile too!
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I will go with Dolores Del Rio on this one.
Great bone structure can hold back the years apparently.
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I watched "Kind Lady" with Ethel Barrymore and it was such a pleasure to see Maurice Evans as the really nasty bad guy.
I mean he is always so nice and plays great guys like Rosemary's friend, Hutch [?] in RB and in "Bewitched" on tv he is just a darling, and seeing him in all the Shakespearean parts where he is noble and kind was so diametrically opposed to seeing him as this dastardly villain.
It was truly was eye opening as to his talent, of which I was aware but now I am even more impressed.
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I got a bit lost in this thread but all the talk about Holden got me to wondering if anyone knows why Humphrey Bogart supposedly could not stand the Golden Boy.
Anyone know?
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I love that movie AWUTI and Cassavetes was a very good director. But he will still always be Guy Woodhouse [?] to me from "Rosemary's Baby" and I wish I'd seen that certain gesture he made in "Luther" which so impressed the head warlock!
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Hey TB, thanks for reminding me about "Nightmare Alley". Who can't dig a movie about carnies and this one with Power as the Geek is the best.
I always watch to see antiquated stage actor Taylor Holmes, who is wonderful. He was the father of Phillips Holmes and also voiced the King in a Disney animated film, maybe "Sleeping Beauty"?
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I believe TV framing shows more at the top of the screen than theatrical projection. Often boom mikes can be seen when you watch on TV which were not visible when the film was shown theatrically
I knew you never killed your wife, Richard!
I bet that Sam Sheppard did it!
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The WWII German Army didn't ride(and so McQueen couldn't have stolen) the British-built Triumph motorcycle seen here in order to jump this barbwire fence.
However there's a story to this...
After McQueen talked THE GREAT ESCAPE 's director John Sturges into including this sequence into the film, due to concerns about the lead actor's safety, McQueen was denied the chance to perform this stunt. And so, McQueen called his friend and fellow motorcycle racer Bud Ekins in California to ask if he'd attempt it. When Ekins arrived to survey the situation, he reportedly said that there was no way he'd attempt this stunt on a heavier BWM motorcycle and the appropriate brand the German Army of that era would have ridden.
A Triumph motorcycle was then found and fitted to resemble as much as possible something more resembling what the Wehrmacht would have used during this war.
(...btw...the "barbwire" was actually plain wire draped with rubber bands...still a very impressive stunt for the times, however)
Wow, this is mind boggling, Dargo! Good to hear that Steve got his way since I think it was George Cukor maybe who would not let W.C. Fields add a pool scene to the bit when he played Mister Micawber in "David Copperfield", since it was not originally in the Dickens novel.
What a loss!
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Cars must be a period film makers nightmare - aside from having to ensure that the vehicle, it's registration plates & accessories are correct for the time portrayed, there's all that lovely brightwork, glass and other reflective surfaces to give you unintended glimpses of off camera crew & equipment.
And when the detective, like Sam Spade has to put a watch under someone's tire to show when they left the scene of the crime, even the watch must be accurate to the time period. So true so true, Limey!
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If you're referencing March in TBYOOL, then March is at the minimum drunk in two scenes, DGF.
He was also drunk at his bank's welcome home banquet for him, and even though he appears to be maintaining his actions in that scene.
(...remember Loy keeping count of the number of drinks he's had on that tablecloth?)
When did the topic issue change to Oscar winning drunken set pieces, Dargo?
My favorite is the one where the catchphrase is "T'ain't a fit night out for man nor beast!"
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CaveGirl: the other nominees:
Paul Muni as Emile Zola for "The Life of Emile Zola"
Charles Boyer as Napoleon Bonaparte In "Conquest"
Fredric March as Norman Maine in "A Star Is Born"
Well, then I'd probably go for March in ASIB! Thanks, FL!
Since Emyln Williams originated the role on stage in "Night Must Fall" I would have preferred seeing his version onscreen than Montgomery's. They say it was quite superior.
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Oh, geeez; OK, my four favorite technical slip-ups:
"Julie" (1956), starring Doris Day and Louis Jourdan: Holds the record for the number of times the boom mike Shadow appears in the frame (I quit counting after ten, LOL).
"The Big Fisherman" (1959), starring Howard Keel: Holds the record for the number of times the boom mike itself appears in a film.
"North by Northwest" (1959)--A little boy holds his ears Before a gunshot sounds.
"Body Double" (1984)-- As Melanie Griffith and Craig Wasson are being filmed in a bar, the cameramen and director Brian De Palma are briefly shown in a full length mirror opposite the two stars.
I knew the third one but was not aware of the others, but now I shall add them to my list to watch for, Film Lover!
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My favorite is an early street scene in Brian De Palma's 1983 remake of "Scarface." After a prologue about the 1980 Mariel boatlift that allowed more than 125,000 Cubans to emigrate to America, a USA Today box can be spotted. The Nation's Newspaper didn't begin publishing until September 1982.
Love it!
Thanks, Jakeem!
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I recently saw him in his last film appearance, in NOTHING IN COMMON. His was an abrasive, unfunny performance. He should have gone out on a better note.
So, the Great One wasn't great, DGF?
Maybe Alice needed to be there to knock some sense into him.
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Somebody who had free tickets to a revival of "Brother Sun Sister Moon" made me go to see it. Now, the kicker was that the reason the film was free was because the joint never told patrons what movie they were going to show, so one was literally in the dark till the credits rolled.
Of course if I had only known the title, I would have been unavailable but never thinking it could be a film that awful, I had agreed to go and stupidly let my friend drive.
I wanted to leave so badly! But I was stuck since I had not driven and had to watch that abomination for hours.
A valuable lesson was learned. No freebie is worth it.
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I recently started a thread on 1937 and had 24 people vote on top movies and acting for the year.
There was a tie for Best Actor with these two getting 3 votes each:
Spencer Tracy (Captain’s Courageous) and Robert Montgomery (Night Must Fall)
I chose Tracy, but can see an argument for Montgomery. Please help break the tie or choose your own.
!937 titles I watched: 173
I kind of don't like either. I usually like Montgomery but in this case would have preferred seeing Emyln Williams in the part. And I can't pick Tracy either. Who else was in the running?
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I remember reading long ago that in the film "The Virgin Queen" there is an extra wearing a wrist watch. I always mean to look for it but get involved in the movie and forget. But there is nothing I love more than seeing something that does not belong in the scene like a boom mike or shadows, which I relish.
To this day I keep trying to figure out why the curtains keep moving in Scotty's apartment in "Vertigo" but it is still a mystery.
It is fun to spot things like this in films you've seen many times, since you can ignore the frontal action and watch for silly mistakes, either of incorrect time period stuff or out and out goofs.
I loved the scene, in I think "Amelie" with the fly on the window behind the movie. It is always enjoyable to see such true to life moments.
Things which are anachronisms might be the most delectable, since the makers of the film surely had lots of time to find out if there were telephone poles in London when the film was set or it the Maserati in a scene is of the right vintage. But for whatever reason many mistakes seem to get by.
If you have some you cherish, please share!
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If someone has already mentioned that those with weak bladders REALLY love intermissions, I apologize.
I bet you also love movies about Blad the Impaler, DGF?
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Well some people find data/statistics interesting. I am sure it's proving useful or helpful to TCM...at least I hope so!
I guess I was right in not joining, TB since I do not approve of day to day communication.
Just too much contact with humans for my taste.
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A Very Odd Definition Of Cute
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You're bad, James.
My mother said she would always just say when looking at an infant's photo, that resembled J, Fred Muggs, "Well, that sure is a baby!"