Princess of Tap

Has anybody here seen the top 100 films designated by Sight and Sound? it has a decidedly international flavor. Still Hollywood films are well represented in the top 10 - - 1) Ozu-- Tokyo story 2) 2001:Space Odyssey 3) Citizen Kane 4) 8 1/2 5) taxi driver 6) Apocalypse Now 7) vertigo 8) The Godfather 9)Tarkovsky--Mirror 10) The Bicycle Thief Throughout the list you see many of the same films as the AFI list by Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Coppola, Scorsese etc. But I was sorry to see that the only musical they listed that I could find was Singing in the Rain. you might have to google the list because my tablet does not allow pop ups.

Rebecca

Robert Wise is the man who took over from Jerome Robbins on West Side Story - - and they both shared the best director award from the Academy in 1961.

I'm out on a limb with this one - - Greta Garbo?

Bernard Herrmann was the principal Hollywood composer for Alfred Hitchcock.

Roy Glenn Jr

Young and innocent

Azure-- I've got them all on DVD and they are all a lot of fun. Angela is one of those people who is beautiful at any and every age, don't you think so? Azure, you're up- -

Azure-- you are very brave to talk about this because you've never seen Truffaut's movies. But you're absolutely right that he was the one who wrote the letter and the book with Hitchcock. I think you deserve the thread and you can tell us a little bit about what it is you like about the Hitchcock movies if you want to. You might mention Strangers on a Train because I believe I've never seen that film myself. Azure-- it's all yours - -

Marsha--Last call, the bar is closing.

Rebecca seems to fit your criteria.

6) Dorothy Dandridge had originally been offered the role of Tuptim, the slave girl, but when she refused, Rita Moreno was offered the role.

Mike Mazurkie almost stoled the movie from Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet.

Norman Foster appeared in several films produced by Merian C Cooper at RKO.

Azure-- You're right on the case as usual. Do you remember the three movies were talking about here in the question?

Millard Mitchell played Arthur Freed for Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain.

Some came running

HINT--The two directors mentioned in this question never won an Academy Award for Best Director.

Chill Wills

This actress has had a long career She has been mean to Judy Garland. She tried to kill Keith Andes. And she made Raymond Burr regret that he ever became a lawyer. Can you identify this actress and the three films she appeared in, referred to above?

I met Lena Horne in an intimate press interview situation about 30 years ago. She really was beautiful. It was just a natural thing.

A foreign film director came to the United States to publicize one of his films in the early sixties. As he met with film critics and film professionals, he was astonished to learn that a noted Hollywood director was not considered to be a great artist. This upset him so much that he decided to do something about it-- he would write an academic book about the quality of each film that this director had created during his long career. However, to do so he had to get the cooperation of that director and engage him in a series interviews concerning each film. The Following is an excerpt of the letter that he wrote to that film director: If overnight the cinema had to do without its soundtrack and become once again a silent art, then many directors would be forced into unemployment, but among the survivors there would be------ and everyone would realize at last that he is the greatest film director in the world. When your name the director who wrote the letter, please mention what film he came to the US to publicize. And you may mention any others associated with him you care about. Then please name the director that was mentioned in the letter as being the greatest director in the world. Again you can discuss whatever films you find interesting that he created. Also what film was he working on at the time that he received this letter from the foreign film director? As you go through the films of these two directors, can you give us some similarity or differences in the style or the cinematic technique or the mise en scène of the two of them. And What, if anything, can you tell us about these films that is unique to these two directors?

8) the dialogue was patterned after real dialogue between Ingrid Bergman and her then lover Robert Capa, who was a famous war photojournalist.

Foreign correspondent

Gary Cooper was best friends with writer Ernest Hemingway.