MCannady1
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I'm sure they did...what a beautiful couple.
They were a beautiful couple. One day about 10 years ago I was in a busy shopping mall meeting a friend for lunch. Suddenly a lady coming around the corner collided with me. She had two big shopping bags. AS she apologized, I thought this lady with the lovely smile looks like Gena. Before I could speak, I heard another lady call out,
"Come on, Gena, we'll be late!" So, before I could stammer out any words, she had gotten into the other lady's car and was gone. I wish I had had a chance to tell her I really admired all of her performances. (This was a big shopping mall in Torrance, CA.).
By coincidence, I purchased the Alfred Hitchcock set a couple of years ago. I just saw a neat episode with Gena and John Cassavetes, her hubby. She played the part of a woman who marries a rich man and then runs into her old boyfriend (John). Great episode with some punchline!
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I'd like to see them on TCM, too.
The Jim Hutton series is on Hulu, and I love watching those. David Wayne plays the father.
I wish they would put the series on TCM too! (I did like Jim's earlier roles like Where the Boys Are and Walk Don't Run, etc. I just feel that Ellery Queen was the ultimate great role he was in).
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When Elissa Landi first appeared on American movie screens in 1931, she had already been in several European films and on Broadway. It was while she was on the New York stage that a Fox talent scout signed her to make movies in Hollywood. During the next five years, she would appear in many hit films, usually as the lead, for Fox and Paramount where she was often loaned. One of her more memorable early roles was in the adaptation of THE WARRIOR'S HUSBAND, which had been a success for Katharine Hepburn on Broadway. Elissa was paired with David Manners and it was the first of two films they made together. In their second film, THE GREAT FLIRTATION, Elissa was married to Adolphe Menjou but deeply attracted to David. The stylish costars became friends off-camera. These motion pictures were different from the usual horror fare to which David Manners had often been assigned in the early years of his Hollywood career. But he and Elissa performed their roles with such flair and self-assurance, it's a wonder they were not paired more often.
Elissa Landi & David Manners present and accounted for..!
I missed this great-sounding film (The Great Flirtation) with Elissa Landi and David Manners. I would really love to see it. A few years ago I was very impressed by David in The Mystery of Edwin Drood '35 with Claude Rains and Valerie Hobson. Claude Rains delivered a fantastic and impassioned performance in that film. I have seen most of David Manner's films and enjoyed them. I really liked his performances with Loretta Young and Barbara Stanwyck..
I came to admire Elissa Landi in some other good performances. One was called By Candlelight.
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The can you figure it out part was something a few of the old mystery shows on radio used to do...but it was highly effective, because it makes the viewer a participant in the action.
The Hutton series should have had a better fate. It had great production values and Universal contract players in guest roles. It was well-written and well-acted. David Wayne was perfect as Ellery's father.
I love the Ellery Queen series too from the very first episode. I love the way Jim Hutton had (as Ellery) drawing us into the plot. David Wayne was great as his father. I recall a very good early episode with Joan Collins. I could never quite figure them out, but came close at times.
I had seen Jim Hutton in some 50's and 60's films where his performances were good, but not outstanding. Here he found his true niche in TV history. Sadly, Jim did not live much longer, but enhanced TV shows of the time.
David Wayne was great in earlier films. He had a noteworthy performance in Portrait of Jennie, a marvelous and spiritual film.
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"The Poseidon Adventure" - it's so bad, it's good.
So true! I didn't like it along the way and then got into it. It got better, I thought.
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BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE (1958):
I re-recorded this movie on PVR when it aired earlier this month. I've seen it several times.
I decided again to watch one of my old favourites tonight rather than shorten my to-see list of first time seen. This movie stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemon, Elsa Lanchester, and Hermoine Gingold and Ernie Kovaks and is a movie good for Halloween or Christmas (starts Christmas Eve).
I must admit that I chose this particular movie tonight for a reason:
I am crazy nuts about cats and I wanted to watch a movie where one of the main characters is a cat!
I love cats.
If my moniker wasn't available I probably would have some reference to cats in my name here.
I love cats too! We have two that are dear to our hearts. I like films with cats too. I had a great James Mason film iin a trade, but a great scene with a cuddly Siamese kitty was cut into by a commercial As a result, we don't see June Havoc embracing and loving the kitty. He would have done better to have played the commercial..
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Have you ever seen EYE OF THE CAT, the 1969 Universal movie? There's plenty o'puddy tats in this suspense tale.
No, but would like to. Sounds very good.
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Dangerous. This is a Bette Davis movie that I've been wanting to see and I don't believe I'd seen it on the schedule before. I'm aware however, that this is not a premiere. This film was crazy. I believe I'd only ever seen Franchot Tone in one other film-- Suzy. I must say that I enjoyed him in this film more. The storyline was bonkers and I thought that Davis did a great job. She won an Oscar for this film. Compared to her 1935 competition, I'm not sure if I'd have given her the award for this film, even though I liked her in Dangerous. I would probably have given it to Katharine Hepburn for Alice Adams. Davis' second Oscar would have definitely been deserved in one of her subsequent films, however. I especially enjoyed the car crash scene. You know nothing good can ever come from a character driving maniacally down the road with a very intent look in their eyes and turning the wheel back and forth. Why do characters "drive" by turning the wheel back and forth? The car would be all over the road! 8/10.
Black Legion. This was an interesting film. It was a Bogart and Ann Sheridan film I hadn't seen before. I recognized the woman playing Sheridan's mother as the woman who plays Errol's mother in Gentleman Jim. This film was very timely, with Bogart becoming involved in essentially the K KK. I thought it was interesting because it was a film in which the Bogart character is actually weak. He appears strong, but in reality, Bogart's anger over being passed over for the promotion allows him to be swept into this racist hate group. The fact that many of his co-workers were part of this group only helped in convincing Bogart to join. The ending scene in the courthouse, I feel, is one of the most emotional and powerful scenes in Bogart's career. The ending scene between Bogart and his wife is heartbreaking. 8/10.
Yes, Dangerous was quite a film. Very good Bette Davis performance. The car crash scene was pretty scary but predictable.
I like Black Legion, too. Bogie and Ann Sheridan and all of the actors / actresses delivered powerful performances. tt was a film that really stayed with me. The extremists were very scary.
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Where is this film from 1933 ? It was made at MGM, but is not part of the Turner film library. It was Marie Dressler's final film. If it still exists could TCM be allowed to screen it ? I would love to see it.
I would love to see this film too. I like all of Marie Dressler's films. I hope that if the film still exists, TCM can screen it.
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"I'm shocked that there's gambling going on at this establishment"?
Shocked, but I don't mind collecting my winnings!
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Got it , my new found friend. What was it that Bogie said to Claude Rains at the end of Casablanca ?
Yes, I did recall that Bogie said to Claude Rains at the end of Casablance, "It looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship".
Clever film with hidden meanings about the "gambling". Casablanca is a favorite of mine too.
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"She" (1935). Great, howling piece of camp from the very beginning. I watched the colorized version on YT; instead of a black and white cheapo-deluxe (which is how it looked the first time I saw it on videotape), it looked like a semi-expensive piece of film. This is maybe the only case of a good job of colorizing a film (and it reflects how bad a condition the b&w video of "She" was in). The plot: Randolph Scott and company are in search of The Flame of Immortality.
Actors are marvelous. Nigel Bruce babbles on brainlessly throughout the film. He's a delight. Randolph Scotts' character seems dimwitted. Helen Mack finally looks attractive (in b&w, she blended into the background), although she gets all the worst lines. Helen Gahagan, as She, gets the most memorable lines in the film and delivers them well.
My favorites: She, in a minor snit, to subjects who had mishandled Scott: "WHO gave you leave to think contrary to MY will??!
Bruce, after the queendom they're looking for has been found, pooh-poohing Scotts' fears of an unfriendly reception: "Oh, Bosh! The natives are preparing a ceremony of welcome!" ( They're definitely not.)
Max Steiner's score is gorgeous, the special effects actually look better colorized than in b&w IMHO, and the dance numbers--are unforgettable,and maybe the funniest things in the film.
One more thing; "She" was nominated for Best Dance Direction(?!?), so "She" would be eligible to be shown during TCM's 31 Days of Oscar! TCM, Please show this in 2017; the last time "She" was reviewed was in 2011!
Wonderfully funny film, a Great watch; 9.5 stars out of 10.
I have never seen this one, but it sounds very good! Somehow I have missed it with all the other 30's films I've seen.
Thanks for neat info. I would be glad to see it either way, but this version sounds even better. Will catch on You Tube. (I do hope that TCM will "listen" to our pleas to air the film).
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Last night I watched the 1947 Harold Lloyd comedy THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK which I had recorded from TCM. It incorporated his silent film The Freshman.
Parts of this movie were hilarious.
Other parts were scary as has been the case with several talkies of Mr. Lloyds. Scenes that are very funny in silent actually are suspenseful such as when he is trying to save the lion and ends up hanging from a building just by the lion's chain around his ankle.
Mr. Diddlebock is a non--drinker when he loses his job but goes on several benders after which he cannot remember days at a time. That's a serious issue.
I quite enjoyed this movie. But as I said, events in silent comedies don't always play out that way when there is dialogue.
This was the first time I saw this movie.
I like Harold in the Silents, but never saw him in a talkie. I know it must be different there with comedic and serious scenes.
It sounds like a neat film to see.
On an interesting footnote, our 24 year old daughter who likes his son Norman Lloyd after watching Saboteur with me not long ago, just looked up Norman and he is 100 years old!
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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.
I saw that too recently and really appreciated the combined talents of Ethel, Maurice and the rest.
I too thought of Maurice as a darling as Samantha's dad in Bewitched and even Rosemary's friend Hutch in Rosemary's Baby. It was pretty scary when they cracked the code toward the end of the movie - They Used to be Witches.
Yes, he was quite talented in Shakespearean roles too.
Ever see the earlier Kind Lady with Alline MacMahon in Ethel's part and Basil in Maurice's part. That one is good too and pretty scary with Basil as villain!
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"13 Ghosts" (1960). Gimmicky William Castle horror film that originally used 3-D(?) glasses for its' effects. Print I saw had Castles' preface and afterword to the film intact. Film is tinted when ghosts appear--they are visible without 3-D glasses, although comments on YT said they were clearer when viewed through red or green cellophane, plastic, whatever. Enjoyable, bloodless film. 6.4 out of 10 stars.
I was nine when I saw it and it was scary to me -lol. THat was a couple of years after it was in theaters. We really liked it. I like the bloodless type still.
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Silver Screen Classics is a channel we get in Canada. The PVR can record any channel. I didn't have one until I switched to a different cable company. I record TCM on PVR too. I love it. I had to get a teenager in my building to show me how to use it, of course.
I know! These teenagers know more about the devices that we do. My kids in 20's and 30's know more than I about them.. I am at sea at times. When we had trouble viewing something on the computer, my older son just checked it out and ho, hum, the TV screen came back! It was like, No problem! (Turns out he switched it from You TUbe back to the TV).
Silver Screen Classics sounds like a great channel to have!
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Thanks. I never knew that.
I am sorry. I was sending you a message that the films got mailed, but it got lost. Not sure how to get it back. IF you can send me another e-mail with the name I would appreciate it. I just can't get back into it. Thanks, Janet
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You can send me an e-mail with the info. so it is not posted on the board..
MINE IS : MCannady1@Verizon.net. I am looking forward to sharing Moulin Rouge with you. The singing is so charming! I feel right at home stepping back into the 30's, which was when my parents were young and loved these films.
ANyway, I'm not sure, but of course would keep it po
Oops, think I need a cup of coffee for energy! I was going to say that is the best way and then if I have any more like that I can let you know, I have a friend who collects them.
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Yes, I would. Thank you so much. How do I give you my name and address without everybody knowing it ? Could you give me your e-mail address ?
You can send me an e-mail with the info. so it is not posted on the board..
MINE IS : MCannady1@Verizon.net. I am looking forward to sharing Moulin Rouge with you. The singing is so charming! I feel right at home stepping back into the 30's, which was when my parents were young and loved these films.
ANyway, I'm not sure, but of course would keep it po
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I will take a look at Moulin Rouge and see. IT has been quite awhile since I saw it. I will get back with you soon. I recall
watching it.
Good News! I just checked Moulin Rouge and give it a 10 for sound being the very best and a 7 for picture quality. If you would like a copy, please let me know. I will be glad to send one.
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Janet just emailed a few more pictures to me (she doesn't know how to post them on the threads). These would be photos of her dad in 1944, and I will let her explain them...
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The picture info. runs as follows:
1. Lining up for drills
2. Snowball antics
3. Dad, the Movie Star!
4. Dad with best buddy (on left)
Thanks for the help. We are in the dark about posting on the threads, but this is the info.
Thanks very much and best regards!
Janet
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I am a subscriber to Classic Images also. Have been with them for over12 years. How was the picture and sound quality of Moulin Rouge. 1 being "awful" through 10 being "excellent".
I will take a look at Moulin Rouge and see. IT has been quite awhile since I saw it. I will get back with you soon. I recall
watching it.
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Interesting. So you are doing a bit of networking to obtain hard-to-find films. Good job, Janet!
THanks! I love the classics too, and "met " several film collectors like myself along the way. IT all started when..... one day I got home from work and there was a free movie newspaper in my mailbox! THis was several years ago. It was a free issue of Classic Images which are circulated monthly. I soon became a subscriber.
THere is also a magazine they publish quarterly called Films of the Golden Age. My ad in Classic Images soon brought up some responses. Our letters covered Film Noirs, Pre-Codes, etc.
Not long ago there was a neat article about George MacCready, and Lynn Bari. They cover a broad span of stars over the Golden Age years.. It was nice to learn about Binnie Barnes who was in British films. I remembered seeing her in the Private Life of Henry VIII with Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon..
Also, there were wonderful articles on Helen Twelvetrees Ann Harding and Anita Louise. These were stars my parents liked.. I have added myself to the list of admirers of their films.
Every month I have something neat in my mailbox; in fact, I just got the latest March copy of Classic Images.
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What is PVR?
PVR sounds neat! I have a regular DVR that connects to TCM and Fox Movie Channel, etc. I always have an eye on those two stations. So PVR is a device to watch silver screen classics? That is really super!
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I love The Miracle Woman too and all of David's wonderful performances. David's brilliant portrayal of a blind man was unforgettable! Wish that I could have met him. My first issue of Classic Images had a wonderful story about David and the friend that visited him in the Actor's home. It spoke of David's books on Metaphysics. He was a brilliant man with multiple talents. (The issue I had was from 2000, I think). David was in his 90's at the time.