georgiegirl

I love that pic of Judy as a little girl and the others. She looks younger than 13 to me. Is that a pic in your private collection?

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > I still remember as a kid that in a Bugs Bunny cartoon that "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" book saved Bugs from being mauled by a pack of dogs. The dogs ran toward Brooklyn after seeing the title. It was the ending of that cartoon short. > > Seriously, I've seen the movie twice and like it very much. That was my only movie other than "Bright Eyes" that I've seen James Dunn and liked him in it. Oh, hahahahahaa! I just got it, the dogs and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! lol I must have missed that Bugs cartoon. I loved the old cartoons, so much better than any of these stupid Poke Mon or whatever cartoons today. If you want to call what the kids watch today cartoons. lol Well, I do like the Simpsons, South Park and Beavis and Butthead. lol Hm, I can't think of another movie I saw Dunn in. I'm sure I have, I just can't think of any others than the two you've mentioned. I re-read Betty Smith's Tree every so often. I'm the same way with books as I am with movies I love, I'll re-read them time and again. However, next time I pick up ATGIB, I know I'm gonna think of Bugsy. lol :-)

> {quote:title=ChipHeartsMovies wrote:}{quote} > Hehe, yes GeorgieGirl I am a fan. Not a scary fan, just a lifelong fan, so I have had a lot of time to catch all this. Not a scary fan. lol

> {quote:title=Poinciana wrote:}{quote} > Have you ever read The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Teri Ryan? If not, make haste too your library or bookstore and read it (I think they made a movie out of it). If you don't already know, it's the story of a family in the fifties with ten kids and an alcoholic father and the brave and wonderful mother who kept the family afloat by entering advertising jingle contests and winning many of them. Hey, thanks for recommending that book! I'll look for it on Amazon on the cheap. lol My grandmother wasn't so lucky to win contests. She could barely afford the stamps to enter, never mind the envelopes. lol She worked like a dog most of her life to support the family. My mother and her siblings saving grace was music and play acting, which my grandmother fully encouraged in them. :-)

I can never get enough of a behind the scenes look at a celebs life, so for me any bio is right up my alley. Judy unplugged, why not? I think she'd like it. :-)

OMG! I'd say you are a Judy fan! lol Wow! :-)

> {quote:title=PTAndersonFan wrote:}{quote} > Ok, guys and gals. How would anyone in here feel about a film that dealt with the beginning of Judy Garland all the way to her last film in which she was nominated and lost. > > Would you watch a film that excluded her singing career and dealt more with the drama of her father and mother and the abandonement of her sisters? And then have the focus on her which carries on to her turbulent career with MGM? If I remember correctly, a few years ago Lorna Luft did a movie for TV on Judy's life and it focused more on the drama of it than the singing. It was a good movie and the woman who played Judy, whose name escaped me, did a bang up job. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250581/ I digress. Yes, I would watch a movie that didn't have her singing and just consentrated on her life. She always thought her voice was a curse, so to see her life story and not have her gift of song be the primary focus would in some respect honor her as a person, not the singer.

> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote} > gorgiegirl, the B'way musical version of the story has a wonderful unappreciated score. The album is still available on Sony CD. Johnnie Johnston, who was formerly married to Katherine Grayson co-stars in the show. As far as I know the musical version of the story has never been revived. I vaguely remember the TV non-musical version and it couldn't compare with the 1945 film. The TV version had a good cast but the chemistry just wasn't there for me as it was in the original. The three main characters were played by fine actors in their own right, Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker and Pamela Ferdin, and I like each of them as actors, just not in this TV version of ATGIB. I always go into the remakes with an open mind, but maybe I'm just to biased to completely give myself over to them. lol Someday maybe I'll get to hear the musical. :-)

> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote} > FOX intended to film the B'way musical version of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Talks were set for Marilyn Monroe to play the Aunt Sissy role (played on B'way by Shirley Booth) but the deal collapsed upon the death of Monroe. The musical score is so wonderful is sad that this version was never filmed. I had no idea there was a B'way version. I hated the TV one, and I pretty much hate all remakes of the classics, but to see it as a musical may be different. I know my mom would have loved it as a musical. Musicals were her fave. :-)

> {quote:title=Poinciana wrote:}{quote} > Like the Poster who asked if there had been another Thread abt The Three Faces of Eve, is there an existing Thread abt A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? > > I was so happy that TCM showed this wonderful movie. Yes it's flawed, but you'd have to watch it many times to catch the little things that might have been better thought out. > > But Peggy Ann Garner's superb, wistful, dreamy performance - what can I say? She was the perfect embodiment of Francie with the imagination of her father and the practicality of her mother. > > The standout supporting cast, Lloyd Nolan with that FACE full of the emotions of Officer McShane, and of course, the touching performance of Joan Blondell. > > I hope you love this film as much as I do. Thank you TCM, I taped it upstairs and downstairs. Love the book, love the movie. One of my all time favorites. Make Johnny Nolan a nasty drunk and add eleven more kids and you have my mother's life story.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > Well I just seen a movie on the IFC Channel that would be perfect for this thread. It is "Ed Gein" which is based on actual events and was the model for the movie "Psycho". > > It has the psycholic killer obeying the voice of mother. Has anyone ever seen it? Its rated TV-MA. > > For the story of the real life creep http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm > or go to Wikipedia. > > Strange I never have heard of this guy before - now that's scary! I saw a documentary on Ed Gein a few weeks ago. He was something else, and scary ain't the word! And I had never heard of him before. The producer of the movie you saw was in the doc. They advertised it on TV as a documentary of the man who inspired Bates, Hannibal and Leatherface.

> {quote:title=vnp wrote:}{quote} > I was watching The Front Page this afternoon and I was apalled at the blatant overt disrespect to African American viewers. A telephone conversation ensued whereby a reporter phoning in a story referred to an African American woman as "Colored" and her newborn child as a "pickinini". It would seem like in 2009, these obnoxious commentaries would be buried with the people that made them. pparently Ted Turner still finds them to be entertaining. I don't. I'm new here and probably don't have any business in this business, but I don't see why you should be attacked for your take on this issue. If you found it offensive, that's a good thing, but as someone stated, it is just part of our American film history. Sure that scene can probably be edited out, and I have no doubt there are many others out there who feel it should be, but just try to understand it was what it was for the time and to edit it out of the film would be unfair for some of the sound reasons given. We can use such scenes to gauge where we were as a society back them and see just how much or how little progress we've made since then. Don't dismiss TCM for this, it's a great station to get to see some great acting and movie making, for all their politically incorrect boo-boos and taboos. To shut it off now, you'll also miss out on movies made to lash out against race and religious bigotry that had a great impact on society. If you get a chance watch Gentelman's Agreement. Hang in there and give them another chance. :-)

> {quote:title=Jenetico wrote:}{quote} > I read the book "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" years ago when I was quite young. I was undone, by the reference in the book where the mother paints a face on her breast, in order to break one of her children of breast feeding. It was traumatic at the time, now not sure why? I did enjoy the movie immensely. I agree that Peggy Ann Gardener did a splendid acting job. I'ver read the book twice and watched the movie more times than I can count. Love both! My grandmother painted her breast trying to wean my uncle. It was a common practice way back when. She painted the face with mustard, but, without going into detail, my uncle just worked his way around it and continued to nurse. lol :-)

I've only seen the one with the Smart Grid so I'll have to get back to you on this. lol

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote} > Surprised there is no thread on this.......... I didn't watch it last night but I've seen it a dozen times. Good movie, great performance by JoAnn Woodward.

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > Working with George in a collaborative fashion? The mind reels.... > I believe his father was one of the mainstays with AMC, if I remember correctly. But I wouldn't be surprised if he was here in this forum. ( cblover gushing.....) > > I better awake from this fantasy.... I am older than him, and I've never seen him with an older woman-- other than a blood relative. Yes, you're right, it was AMC. I forgot just how much their format changed. What a shame. It use to be so good. Oh, well. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of celebs checked in here from time to time. Who doesn't like TCM? I play their memory game. And where I've solved the jumble puzzle, it is most frustrating at times. lol Hey, keep the faith. Maybe George will stop in here, see your post and give you a shout out. If nothing more, maybe to ask what you're working on if he's looking for a new story to produce. Stranger things have happened in this world and on the old internet. And this is America where dreams do come true all the time. And what better place for a dream such as that to take hold? A message board about Hollywood; where dreams are made. :-) And if you think you're too old for George, think how I feel about Johnny Depp. Ha! I'm sure the gap is much larger between him and me than you and George. lol

> {quote:title=sarah1493 wrote:}{quote} > georgiegirl: I guess I sound like her too, because whenever I pick up the phone, some people just start talking like I'm her. I'm just used to it by now! That's the one, Penelope Ann Miller! Man, these guys here are good! They read my mind! lol Folks say I look like my mom, and now as I'm getting older I see her face more than ever when I look in the mirror in the morning. lol

> {quote:title=sarah1493 wrote:}{quote} > I've been told Rosie O'Donnell, which I don't see at all. Everybody says I look like my mom, though. I don't see Rosie O. but I see another actress. I just can't think of her name right now. But you do look just like your mom. Ha!

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > I can't believe I'm the only one will brass enough to actually show my photo! C'mon, just "saying" you look like someone gives us nothing. A pic would be good, but how do you upload it to this site?

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > That's the goal. Paris produces wonderful romances, so he'd have to be good lookin' -- and my definition is broad and unique. George Clooney is handsome, but on an everyday basis, too intimidating. He probably couldn't type anyway. Well, Mr. Clooney writes his own screenplays, so you never know, he may be able to type them up himself. And being he's an old movie fan, he may very well show up here one day. lol :-) If I'm not mistaken, didn't his uncle host TCM at one time?

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > When I was 20, I was told I looked like Tyrone Power and Peter Deuel. > > At 35 I was told Robert Urich. > > Now at 50+ I'm told that I look like Oliver Reed. Hm, pretty good so far and up to this point. Don't you wonder who's up next, as far a look-a-like, in your 60s? lol

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > RIght now, I would not say a movie but the TV show *10 items or Less*. I have a goal that my life could be *Paris When It Sizzles*. But who be willing to be my typist? Gender and role reversal.. Maybe a male TCM memeber and lover of the movie will read this and volunteer. lol

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > I used to get phone calls intended for a guy who had the same name as me. We decided to meet, and consider whether we could be related. So, I'm waiting in the restaurant. In walks a good looking guy with wavy hair, square jaw and shoulders like Iron Man. So much for being related! > > Message was edited by: redriver Ha! lol I think you jest about your own good looks, but you still could be related. Did you go into your family trees just to check it out anyway? lol

> {quote:title=Catwoman915 wrote:}{quote} > This isn't a classic but I'd have to say Heat because I live, eat and breathe police work. It sounds like you love your job. :-)

> {quote:title=WhyaDuck wrote:}{quote} > People I've been compared to > Some people look like Santa Clause all year long. Is that a good look ? I don't think I'ld want to look like St Nick all the time. In my book Santa is a very good look! Especially one with Paul Newman eyes. :-)