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THE DIVORCE OF LADY X:
This is a first time view of this version of the story. I've seen the original black and white version.
This stars Lawrence Olivier, Merle Oberon, and Ralph Richardson.
This movie was as delightful as the original.
It was great to watch Olivier and Oberon in a comedy together. I love Wuthering Heights. But this was a joy.
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Here is the Errol Flynn page by ClassicMovieRankings on his Ultimate Movie Rankings website;
http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/errol-flynn-movies/
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I'm surprised I got one right in this category.
I'll try to come up with one that is interesting:
Here it goes:
This actor was a song and a dance man on musicals who could do a variety of dancing styles. He isn't one of the first people you think of when you think male dancers, and yet, he danced all the time. He was supposed to do a movie with Judy Garland but could not due to a medical issue. He would later be famous for a Television show.
Name the actor/dancer, the movie he was supposed to make with Judy and the TV series he starred in.
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That's right Azure.
She really did not like that song and could not understand why it should be a hit with an adult singing it. Yet it is the song most people think of first when they are asked to name a Doris Day song.
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That reminds me of David Niven's line in Death on the Nile. He does not know how to speak French and Poirot - Ustinov- is from Belgium. They are in Egypt. Poirot is trying to interview people in their own language and Col. Rice -Niven - says:
I wish people would talk in some known language.
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I was sorry when I read about Veronique Peck dying not that long ago. She met Gregory in Italy when he was shooting Roman Holiday and interviewed him. He was separated from Greta by then. He called her up and asked her out at her office over the phone She was supposed to interview Albert Switzer. She had to make a split decision with everyone in the newspaper office watching her.She decided to go out with Gregory.
After they married Veronique told him about this interview she was supposed to have done, and he replied:
You made the right choice, Kiddo.
His grandson Ethan just turned 30. I have never seen him in a movie, but he looks just like his grandfather.
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This is a rare photograph, Jake.
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I'm watching one of my favorite movies-- Grumpier Old Men. It seemed more appropriate than the first one, since the first one is usually one of my Christmas movies.
I love all of Burgess Meredith's double entendres and innuendo.
GRANDPA: I have been to Hawaii
MAMA: Oh yeah? Which island?
GRANDPA: Come-on-I-wanna-lay-ya
The outtakes at the end are funny, especially when Grandpa is making all his suggestive comments with the cucumber and the cannelloni.
I prefer the original Grumpy old Men.
But yes, this film is funny too.
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Not in Sask, either, as it would mean 24 hours a day of sunshine in the summer.
It is just that I thought perhaps being that I made a silly script in this thread about the time change in this thread that is really in fun might still be forgotten by some people.
I made a comment about DST in the photo captioning fun thread too.
I really hate losing an hour of sleep as I am an insomniac anyway.
But when USA changed DST dates, Canada had to as well in time zones the same so that airplane flights would have the same time tables.
I mean can you imagine the difficulties of people trying to travel internationally if the time zones had different dates of changing for Canada and USA?
There has to be a movie in that somewhere.
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I wish Dana Andrews and his brother Steve Forrest had worked together.
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Seriously people, you do know that the clock is moving an hour ahead overnight, yes?
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2) Merle Oberon made a film called Lydia about a group of men in the title character's life.
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The Street With No Name has some unintentionally funny scenes in it.
Widmark has a nasal problem. Here he is a tough guy - and remember this is the man who did Tommy Udo - and everyone is afraid of him.
But can you really be afraid of anyone who has clogged sinuses?
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At some point, yes. But they were still blue. I guess that is the important colour - Blue lettering.
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Speaking of ketchup, which I generally only use with French fries, how about the movie Bad Day at Black Rock when Spencer Tracy is in the diner trying to eat chilli and Earnest Borgnine keeps making him change chairs and then puts ketchup into the chilli.
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No, Larry. Police cars are not yellow in Canada. Last time I saw a police car here in B.C. it was blue and white.
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The Guns of Navarone
You know, I was thinking about James Darrin. I think a lot about this movie.
This movie was such a departure for him. Yes, he sings in it, but that is in a wedding scene where everyone is singing. It's not like Gidget.
He was a pop singer, very handsome and here he is in a war fantasy adventure (really, had the Nazis had guns that large the European part of WWII would have been much longer and the Germans may have won), He is a brutal killer.
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Limey, what's wrong with alliteration?
Are Catholics not supposed to write poetry with it?
I did record Wild Boys of the Road and it is waiting for me. I have never seen it.
I am not sure about revisionist theory at all.
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Yes, well Speedy there is a reason why the grocery scene was chosen for Martin to appear in for Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
And of course, if you are expecting people to behave like real life in genre films like film noir......
Let me remind you about horror film characters hiding in the shed.
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Has anyone mentioned Martin's role in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band --the movie. The few songs I've heard from it amply vindicate the view that it's utterly horrible. (Seriously 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is either a song about psychedelic drugs or a song for children--it's not a Las Vegas lounge act.) And can you imagine a major critic for a respected national publication who thinks this is a better movie than Days of Heaven? Well, the critic for Macleans, Canada's equivalent of Time, thought so.
Lucy and the Sky with Diamonds is a song for children, although many of their songs were drug-related. The song is based upon a drawing that Julian Lennon did of a classmate he had named Lucy. He drew her in a sky with diamonds. John loved it so much he wrote a song about it.
Sadly, the Lucy who inspired the drawing recently died of ms.
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I don't usually watch sorcery movies except in October.
I am a fan of the Montgomery family and I love the TV series Bewitched.
I enjoy watching Bell, Book, and Candle all year round. Of course, it has Piawackett.However his name is spelled.
There was a really odd episode of Star Trek: TOS which dealt with Halloween.
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My Wicked Wicked Ways was fascinating. I know that Flynn was a great raconteur, so it's hard to know what he's telling the truth about and what he may be embellishing, but I do appreciate that Flynn wasn't writing a tell-all expose. I choose to believe him when he says that he didn't do such and such, like his notorious statutory rape trial, because some of the things he did admit to doing were rather unsavory. I laughed when he defended himself against one of the plaintiffs in the trial by saying that he would never rape her because she was "gruesome looking." Despite only living to 50, you can't say that Flynn didn't lead a full and colorful life.
I also loved Desi Arnaz' autobiography, A Book. While not quite as crazy as Flynn's, Arnaz' story about his affluent childhood growing up in Cuba and later having to flee the country for Miami because of a revolution was very interesting. Arnaz endured a riches to rags to riches story. It's very inspiring to read how he worked himself up from making a meager living cleaning canary cages in Miami to eventually becoming the President of one of the top television studios in the country. Arnaz' book is very honest and you can hear his voice in the narration.
RE: Flynn autobiography;
Have you read David Niven's yet? I know he and Flynn were close and then Niven broke off the friendship.
I'd love to read Desi's book.
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My favorite Frank Sinatra movies:
On the Town (my favorite one)
The Manchurian Candidate
Anchors Aweigh
He also has a brief singing cameo in Till the Clouds Roll By, which (if you like music) is a good film.
Thanks for giving your favourite Sinatra movies, Paul.
I've seen Sinatra's cameo in Till the Clouds Roll By. I own the DVD. I love Jerome Kern music. Fascinating how he just missed dying on the Luisitania (however it is spelled) because he had to go back home to get his ticket and missed the sailing by 10 minutes.
I always have at least one Sinatra cd in my stereo at all times.
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We both seem to be watching Gregory Peck, Speedy.
I'm not sure what an appropriate pairing would be for The Guns of Navarone since I don't have any Greek food with me.
So you decided not to eat Ravioli while watching Designing Woman?
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Yes, Midnight they did remain friends throughout their lives. She spoke about him after he died about how they were great friends.