GregoryPeckfan
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Thanks, Kidd.
I try to read everything My Great-great, great and how many generations Uncle wrote and the movies based upon his writings. My favourite Kipling poem is "If."
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Keeping with writers:
Whose story with a realistic bleak ending about waiting for medical help to arrive was changed because the studio believed that the star should not be killed off, making this writer angry? A lot of his work has been made into movies.
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I'll take this.
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This actor was unable to take part in a musical number with Fred Astaire and Nanette Fabrey because he had just had a heart attack.
Name the actor, the number, and the movie.
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Virginia City
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Sandra Dee in Gidgit.
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Grumpy
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My favourite film composer all time is Henry Mancini.
Next is, of course, the Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann.
Others I love everything they do are Enrico Morricone, John Barry, and Leonard Bernstein
Composers where I love some and not others are John Williams, Leo Shiffron(spelling?), Alfred Newman, and others.
I spend a lot of time listening to scores when considering if a film works for me.
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Yes, I'm familiar with the behind the scenes history of The YEARLING, a movie I have a difficult time watching.
I've seen the documentary and it is excellent.
My favourite Tracy/Gable movie is BOOMTOWN. The cast and story are excellent.
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I love O HENRY'S FULL HOUSE!
It has got great 20 minute-30 minute stories with Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, and my favourite is The Gift of the Magi which I always watch at Christmas time. The last one stars Farley Granger.
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Regarding choices for movies;
This is going to sound odd coming from a woman who calls herself GregoryPeckfan and a Hitchcock fanatic, but I am not a big fan of The Paradine Case.
I own a VHS copy of it in a 4 movie volume set from the Hitchcock Days at Selznick Studios and I did recently re-watch it when Louis Jourdan died because it was his American screen debut. The film has individual performances which I admire, and I try to pretend Hitchcock had nothing to do with it and was a book drama only, but when it comes to those four, I order them this way:
REBECCA
NOTORIOUS
SPELLBOUND
THE PARADINE CASE
As for John, I wish they had focussed upon his earlier career before the rages of alcoholism took over. There is no way I would have included ANY Bulldog Drummand movie at all.
John Drew Barrymore is seen great in WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS.
I guess the Drew Barrymore movie to include would be ET, which -due to my young age when it was released (1 year younger than Drew), my best friend getting nightmares from it then, and the fact that I would like to see it for the first time on the big screen as it was originally intended and not with the alterations the director made for its 20th anniversary I still have not seen.
I'm not sure what the best Diana movie would be.
I really hope that THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE is available in Canada. I have never seen it.
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Larry Hagman as his mother was Peter Pan
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Walt Disney or Mel Blanc
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To kill a Mockingbird
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Lassie
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Morris or Grumpy Cat
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M*A*S*H
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Oh, is it my ancestor Rudyard Kipling (his brother actually) who is the writer?
The movie is Gunga Din?
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Margaret Rutherford
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Asta or Rin Tin Tin
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Orson welles
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Fishing rod
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Eva Marie Saint was in North By Northwest with Cary Grant.
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Two For the Road
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Stanwyck, Barbara
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Gia Scala was in my favourite Gregory Peck movie THE GUS OF NAVARONE.
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Young Man with a Horn
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Blues singing
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Debbie Reynolds was in The Gazebo with Glenn Ford.
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2) Felicia Farr has a plum of a roll in the Glenn Ford western 3:10 To Yuma as a woman in charge of the bar who used to sing but had to move to a dry climate because of coughing.
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In looking how the poll stands now with only 6 votes, the 40s and the 70s both have two, and are the only with two.
I had to laugh when I saw this, because when it comes to a decade where I have seen virtually no movies that are famous except maybe 10 of them and the likelihood of me being able to see them when they are in such poor print quality that if the poll were about which 20th century decade of films could you easily live happily without watching them for me it is the 1970s.
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They should have had one film with Diana Barrymore; one film with John Barrymore Jr (John Drew Barrymore); and one film with Drew. The tribute seems incomplete without them.
True, it would have been great to have them all. But at least it is happening at all.
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