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    (I've mentioned this before, please bear with me) Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney make the costuming in White Christmas so special. Two blondes who couldn't really be lovelier, yet, have such distinctly different appearances. Yeah, they played sisters of two different dads, lol. God bless Edith Head:
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    First, I love that this story has this prolog about the murder, essentially starting like a flashback, though it does a little too much set up about Sam's suggested future. I would like more to been made of the Aunt and Martha's money, but that was subtext. Yeah, in reference to "DID ANYONE NOTICE THE DEAD CAT ON THE STAIRS?" The scene needed a catalyst for the murder and so this cat was created to, what? Make Auntie pretty awful, justifying Martha's attack? I already got that impression from Sam and Martha in the boxcar, and later by Auntie herself. But you're right TikiSoo, there's the cat to show Martha's intruder story isn't all that accurate. But cops don't mention it and the poor kitty is just forgotten on the stair. Maybe they thought the intruder was busy beating cats too. Lizbeth Scott's Toni is probably accurate, but she may be more a victim of circumstances.
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    Sometimes, repeating the post makes the pic show up. Great slip. they never fit that well on me
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    I am absolutely shocked at this pics, and I am afraid I would laugh watching Robbie Benson in Ode to Billie Joe.
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    (sigh) I can't find a hairdresser and Audrey can so easily, even working on impulse.
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    Yes!
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    and let's not forget Edith Head's transformation of Kim Novak in Vertigo. From Madeliene: to Judy: and back again:
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    Love these Makeover characters, Lonesome! Great job digging up these great photos. Audrey has it down in the ingenue category. It is fun to realize she did the reverse in Roman Holiday From princess (big picture): to tourist:
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    But I gotta tell you, Holden, my favorite Lucy performance was with --
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    Ah, Linda Darnell. As Lora Mae Finney, she could play it lowbrow: coy and coquettish. Charming when she wants what she wants, for instance, Porter Hollingsway (Paul Douglas) Porter claims she has no class, but she sure is beautiful:
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    Rita Phipps grew up in the Hudson River town that's the setting for Letter for Three Wives. She has a very progressive marriage with George, and a hopeful chance at the big time writing radio serials (days before television). She manages her home with the help of Sadie Dugan (Thelma Ritter) who is very aware of Rita's background and doesn't care for snobs like the one Rita has to entertain. Poor Rita, lovely, smart, creative, and would-be snob.
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    First of the wives is Deborah (Jeanne Crain), a former farm girl placed in a position of society lady of leisure, overnight, by marrying Brad Bishop (Jeffrey Lynn). She meets Brad's childhood friends, middle class (but rising in stature) George and Rita Phipps, played by high school teacher Kirk Douglas and radio story writer Ann Sothern. Her dress more than suggests her hayseed background. But that was a couple years ago. Deborah Bishop cleans up good. Or, as George Phipps would gently correct, she cleans up well..
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    Arturo, you inspired a movie with an excellent job of costumes defining the character. A Letter to Three Wives: Linda Darnell - Ann Sothern - Jeanne Crain
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    This is great, everyone has beaten me to mentioning my favorites. Another one I like is Easy Living, with Victor Mature:
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    Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier: Classic 1940's Office "girl" and Of Course, the Dress: And that nightgown- She wore it, I am sure, to help the morale of the troops.
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    The return of the dress on another star- I first saw it on Claudette Colbert in Palm Beach Story: Then I discovered it in a fashion test shot on a Jane Wyman (check out the lace gloves): And I agree with you about the less than glamorous way Gene was treated in the fifties. I think a youth movement was taking over by then.
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    Now, Jean Arthur's apron I like!
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    1990s, the way I remember it- a retrospective: Wayne's World Spice Girls Golden Girls
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    Yeah, Holden, but what did you think of Meryl Streep's apron? haha.
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    Saw a couple of good evil guys this last week, and played by the same guy, Lyle Bettger Totally creeping out Barbara Stanwyck in No Man of Her Own (1950) And playing a newly released convict (apparently paroled out from some heinous crime) in Dear Brat -- Mona Freeman plays the brat. In it, Lyle like to whistle a dirge and slowly sharpen knives and blades, and wear a very crazy/angry look on his face. I watched Dear Brat as a double bill with Slingblade.
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    Olivia did an evil turn in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (it's the cross I bear) to poor maligned Bette Davis in that one, but I would have preferred to see an evil Joan (she could turn those beautiful eyes so evil in a flash) like her role in Ivy (1947).
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    The Funny Girl pics are very good. Thanks for sharing. Fanny Brice has never looked lovelier. This afternoon, I have been dealing with The Hours (2002), which I believe is aptly named. It seems to be much longer than it actually is. One thing it does well, though, is define the three generations of women involved at three different eras of the 20th Century- 1920's 1951 2002 remember how badly we dressed in the late 1990's ? Ugh.
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    No, I couldn't either. I love the TV production values of the '70's. I am just waiting for the next season of Call the Midwife. The music offerings include some of the mid to late Fifties hits, like Perry Como. Hot Diggity! haha. Right now, I am watching old episodes of Frasier. Favorite lines from episode 6: Noel: Hi Roz, you've never worn that sweater on a Tuesday before. Roz: I've asked you to take your hands out of your pockets when you talk to me.
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    Very good. and I love the Brandenburg concertos, so there!
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    Where the Sidewalk Ends is a much better film than I expected when I first saw it. Gene is a b-story line here, and her character intro throws the viewer off, which makes it a good crime drama.
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