film lover 293
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"The Harvey Girls" (1946)--Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury, and 15--20 other waitresses & "hostesses" destroy a saloon.
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It didn't hurt that Audrey also won the 1953 Best Actress Tony, for a production of Jean Girardoux's 1938 play "Ondine", & that she won the Best Actress Golden Globe for "Roman Holiday" (1953).
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East of Eden
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6.) Silk Stockings was directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
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MarshaKatz--Good guesses but incorrect.
MilesArcher--You are correct. I referred to it as a "disaster" film because it had a disastrous effect on director James Whales' career. He made one more film after Green Hell and then retired from film. I should have been clearer in my original question. Sorry if I caused confusion to anyone. It's your thread Miles.
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Oh, I Hope they will screen a Restored print of "Show People" (1928)! Marion Davies is one of my favorites & when Comcast last aired it, print was in Terrible shape--was almost totally black in places so I could barely tell what was going on!
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speedracer5--See "Morocco" (1930) or "Saratoga Trunk" (1945). In Morocco, he looks the opposite of how he did in Love in the Afternoon (1957). In "Saratoga Trunk", Cooper and Ingrid Bergman play a so-so dramatic script for comedy, & film works beautifully. Ignore the lousy makeup job on Flora Robson, & concentrate on Cooper & Bergman. Going brunette unleashed her comedic sense, IMHO--she and Cooper make a marvelous team, Bergman wrapping every man in sight around her little finger, & Cooper enjoying the show while firing off the occasional zinger--ST is great fun, & Maltin's rating for ST is worthless in this instance, IMHO.
One thing about Cooper--his intelligence and thinking always shone through his eyes.
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I'm veering off topic--but speaking of production design--if you Ever get the chance to see "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) on a theatre screen, GO! The set designers, art designers, and such made New Orleans and Stanley Kowalski's flat so detailed, the eye and ear can't take in all the detail and poetry--I saw the 1993 re-release of ASND & I still remember details--marvelous film was made unforgettable by seeing it on the big screen.
Back to RH.
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"My first judge!!"--Shirley MacLaine as Simone, after she thinks she's bribed a new judge with a kiss--from "Can-Can" (1960).
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"Pal Joey" (1957)--Movie is not great, but wonderful score makes it worth watching. Sinatra is in good voice, as are the people who dubbed Rita Hayworth & Kim Novak. Hayworth does two excellent songs "Zip", and "Bewitched, Bothered. and Bewildered (in spite of Code prudes who insisted on lyric changes); Hayworth makes both work. Film's ending is too sweet, and doesn't fit film; but Novak's qualities of uncertainty, hopefulness, likability, of someone whose hopes you don't want to see dashed, make pasted together ending work. A terrier gets the two biggest laughs in the film.
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"Wherever there's mice, there's always a rat"
Frank Sinatra in "Pal Joey" (1957).
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Did Perry Como destroy his film career by telling Louis B. Mayer to **** off at a birthday party for Mayer during the filming of "Words and Music" (1948)?
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LawrenceA--Dirty Dingus Magee at noon, E.S.T. is also a stinker, IMO. One of the worst westerns I ever sat through.
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TCM has apparently seen this thread--they just showed a Three minute Wine Club spot between films ---I timed it (was between "Guys and Dolls" (1955) & "Pal Joey" (1957)).
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The female Tory sympathizers in "Revolution" (1985); specifically, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski (before she sees the light & becomes pro-revolutionary), & other assorted females--the hairpieces look four feet high, are dusted with powder, all are listing to starboard or port, & all look higher than Norma Shearer's hair in "Marie Antoinette" (1938). When I sat through it, one reason was because I wanted to see a collapse of someone's hairdo--no such luck.
BTW--Film is Not as fun as it sounds.
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8.) Meet Me in Saint Louis co-starred child actress Margaret O'Brien who played Tootie & did the song "Under The Bamboo Tree with Garland.
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Play is "Sayonara", actor is Red Buttons, actress Miyoshi Umeki?
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Two Sisters From Boston (1946)
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10) Starred in Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1951)
NEXT: Vivien Leigh
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Elephant Walk (1954)
NEXT: BOX LUNCHES FOR SALE
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Phil Silvers
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Quest, Hans
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Man With a Million
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K, Joseph--Anthony Perkins in "The Trial" (1963)
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"That's Entertainment!" (1974)--I saw this on original release in 1974. Film is excellent collection of musical clips--From Rosalie (1937) with Eleanor Powell, Broadway Melody of 1940, the "challenge" dance with Fred Astaire & Eleanor Powell, to "Abba Dabba Honeymoon" from "Two Weeks With Love" (1950), to "I Gotta Hear That Beat" from "Small Town Girl" (1953), with Ann Miller & a disembodied orchestra, film is wonderful introduction to classic film musicals. 9/10.