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Is it Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City fame??

Are these women Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe?

I prefer the remake High Society to the original. That is usually not the case for me. Another exception for me was The Maltese Falcon. Bogart's film was not the original.

Yes, I meant The Music Box. I thought that the stairs were in S.F. but \I wasn't sure.

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7) Oberon never won an Academy Award.

In regards to people looking the same to me so I get them mixed up: The first time I saw an episode of the second season of Star Trek: TOS, I thought that Davy Jones was guest starring in a network crossover deal. Turns out it was another actor entirely who was hired because he looked like Davy Jones and they had to add a Russian character: Walter Keonig. They were often asked for each other's autographs.

I believe there was a movie version made of The Streets of San Francisco They Call Me Mr. Tibbs! And the title escapes me but what about the Laurel and Hardy film where they keep dropping the piano down that long flight of stairs?

Dean Martin Next: Jeremy Brett or Edward Hardwicke

The Big Sleep Next: Dance Hall **(love you new Avatar, Azure)

Just a comment here from someone who a singer herself, the daughter of professional musicians, and with musicians of various genres on both sides of her family for over a century: People who are musical themselves are perfectly capable of just listening to music and enjoying music. However, people who are musical themselves (eg. Sinatra/Anka/Gibb) will also listen to music from the perspective of a musician and composer to see how a particular song could be adapted from one genre to another to appeal to another fan base. It is how the Gibbs continued to write music for other artists while no one wanted to listen to Disco music, heard the name BeeGees and thought "Yuck! Disco!" It is how a satirist such as Weird Al comes up with his songs. It is how - for some reason -Paul Anka decided to sing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as a ballad where you could understand the lyrics. It's how Sinatra who was not a fan of The Beatles, per se, decided to record "Yesterday" and said that he loved the George Harrison composition 'Something." It is something about the way people who are musical are made, just as some people look at a floor plan of a building and se it as a 2 dimensional building (me), and others can see in their minds how it will look when the building is completed. It's just the way people see things differently. There is no "correct" way to listen to music you enjoy. There is only a correct way to listen to music you can't stand: turn it off

Thanks, Cave Girl. You have explained artfully why David Hemmings had fans and why he was popular in Blow Up. In response I say: Regarding the eyebrows: When I said that I would not recognize him in the photograph that Lawrence posted, I meant overall at first glance. There was one recognizable feature - his eyebrows. I happen to be a fan of British actors myself, love Davy Jones, and I love The Beatles. So yes, I get what you are saying with no quotation marks needed. Barbarella is another one of those movies that I have yet to see and I am not sure when or if I will see it. I would be much more likely to have already seen it if I did not know already the type of marriage Fonda and Vadim had. The fact that I do makes me feel that watching the movie would make me uncomfortable even for me to be the only person in the room. By the way - My favourite British born actor of all time is the late Jeremy Brett.

What you are asking for, Sepiatone is for us to use "Favourite" - or for American spelling "Favorite." Okay, Here are some favourites of mine in the rock/pop category of music: The Beatles: In My life as a singer; A Day in the Life as a listener The Monkees: Daydream Believer The BeeGees: To love Somebody and How Do You Mend A Broken Heart tied The Beach Boys: For dancing: Help Me Rhonda; for listening: God Only Knows Ballad regardless of the artist: Percy Sledge: When a Man Loves a Woman Herman's Hermits: Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter Paul Anka: Put your Head on My Shoulder The Rolling Stones: You Can't Always get What You Want

Okay, looking at the exact wording of your original post, I can see how some of us got a bit astray from the original intent. I listed movies from my "One and Done" category -a group of movies and title of group that was created by me and ClassicMovieRankings on his Ultimate Movies Rankings site to refer to movies which we watched because they were famous titles that you should see at least once in your life but that you can't possibly stand watching them again - ever - for reasons mostly related to the subject matter or amount of violence etc. To your original thread post: I admire Judgement at Nuremberg very much. It is full of great performances by a lot of my favourites. But it is emotionally exhausting, so I watch it maybe once every two or three years. Then there is Inherit the Wind which is excellent. Again, I watch it only once every couple of years. It airs on Silver Screen Classics here in Canada often. Gone with the Wind I love. It's length is the reason I don't watch it more than 2 times a year.

Michael Caine did a TCM piece on Cary Grant in which he talks about finally meeting Grant. They were in LA and this was back in the days before DvDs and TCM and people seeing movies that were made long ago. This woman got all excited because she saw Caine and told him that she was on her last say there and this was the first time she saw a movie star there. She turned to Cary Grant - not recognizing him - and mentioned how you never see movie stars anymore. Grant told her she was correct.

Following the lead of Larry's specific awards per day - much easier on my typing skills : Here is my Best Ensemble Category: Top 5 only then winner listed afterwards: not alphabetical: in order of entry in my notebook: THE 39 STEPS: Donat, Carroll, Watson, Tearle, Ashcroft etc. TOP HAT: Astaire, Rogers, Blore, Horton, Rhodes, Broderick DAVID COPPERFIELD: L.Barrymore, Rathbone, Bartholomew, Young, Fields, Lanchester etc. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY: Gable, Laughton, Tone, Crisp, etc. CAPTAIN BLOOD: Flynn, DeHaviland, Rathbone, and Atwill WINNER: TOP HAT: Benini! Tap dancing over Gingers's bed Mistaken identity Eric Blore referring to himself in the plural Eric Blore insulting an officer who he thinks does not understand English The feather dress in Cheek to Cheek - yes, I am counting the feather dress as its own cast member status

Yes, Sepiatone, this is an odd thread. And that's - okay. RE; Gregory Peck - Dargo and I were having a bit of fun here because of my reaction to Marx Brothers as he has a Marx Brothers avatar and I call Gregory Peck My Darling Greg. There are people who prefer the post-Brando acting style and well - this is not Greg. I read on that same site as the one of Marx fans who fast forward through the opera singing that people should not win Academy Awards for portraying people who are similar to themselves in real life as this is "not acting." Thus for them Peck should not have won.

6) This romantic drama is another example of how Charles Boyer was typecast and called The Great Lover.

5) Merle Oberon played The Duchess Caroline in the elevator disaster film Hotel starring Rod Taylor in 1967.

Yes I know. But when I mentioned my reaction to Marx Brothers there was a firestorm of favourite scenes posts. As for the Night of the Opera having too much music, yes I have heard Marx Brothers fans say this on other sites. Not on this site. A Marx Brothers film is great comedy for Marx Brothers fans on this site. I believe it was on a yahooclubs site about classic movies where some people said that they simply fast forwarded through all the opera music to get to the comedy routines. Really.

We don't get The Asphalt Jungle in Canada anymore. I've seen George Brent in comedies before. He seems like he was always in comedies when I see his comedies. Does that make sense? For people who want to see an Art in Movies film done in colour that is not boring and is full of solid performances, check out Lust For Life about Van Gogh. Kirk Douglas looks like Van Gogh, it was filmed on location where the paintings were painted, and Anthony Quinn got some Oscar love. Michael Douglas has said that the portrayal was so real that when he and his brother saw it on the big screen they thought that Kirk had actually cut off his ear like Van Gogh.

You must have missed my post in the favourite performance thread about comedy teams where I said that the only comedy team where I liked everything they did was Laurel and Hardy and would people put me on ignore if I admitted I was not a Marx Brothers fan? I really don't like comedy teams. I seem to be watching the same movie all the time. As for Gregory Peck, yes well - some people do find him overrated.... I don't .....but hey, we don't all have the same taste in movies. Did you hear about how my favourite - my only favourite - Marx Brothers movie is Night of the Opera? It's because it is full of music. I understand that some Marx Brothers fans say it is their least favourite because it has too much music. Still, my favourite comedy routine is from a very famous team who made a lot of horror comedies that seem the same: Abbott and Costello. It's the Who's On First routine that can be found only in The Naughty Nineties in its entirety. That's the 1890s, by the way. It isn't science fiction futuristic.

LIGHTENING STRIKES TWICE (1935): This is a screwball crime comedy about mistaken identity, trap doors/floors where people disappear who are presumed murdered, and total confusion. This stars Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, and several famous nameless faces. This movie is a lot of fun to watch. However, there are so many twists and tunes that if I didn't see it again for 6 months I would not be able to tell you what happened. At all.

BEHAVE YOURSELF: 1951: This is the first time viewing of this comedy which I recorded on TCM last week. The crime comedy stars Farley Granger, Shelly Winters, Sheldon Leonard, Lon Chaney, Elisha Cook Jr. and other famous nameless faces. Granger and Winters are a married couple on their anniversary living with her mother in her mother's house. He has forgotten the anniversary - of course - and tries to buy a present when a dog intervenes and destroys property and then follows him home. Winters and her mother think the dog is an anniversary present. The dog is actually trained to locate illegal loot Bodies pile up. It is, as I have mentioned, made in 1951. The code was in force. Crime does not pay. Very funny.

Re: Astaire/Rogers: I have seen all of them. Let me tell you how I remember them to distinguish them; Flying Down To Rio: The only film where they aren't the stars. Top Hat: Feather dress/my favourite/Eric Blore refers to himself in the plural Carefree: I never remember any of the songs or dances. I think I've seen it once. Swing Time: Excellent song that won Best Song, but it has blackface so it can't be my favourite Barkleys of Broadway: color movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (do I have the title right?): Kilts Roberta: This is the one with Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott not on a ship Shall We Dance: this is the one with the Ginger Rogers masks Follow the Fleet: Randolph Scott without Irene Dune on a ship. Have I not mentioned any others?