GregoryPeckfan

Because of the time of day when I get home Sundays, I've already read most of your posts before I make my decisions. Due to my typing with only one hand, I will avoid trying to list everything in one post where I may press the wrong thing and lose what I have written. I also wrote down last night the movies from 1931 that I have seen regardless of what I thought of them to be more organized. This post will look at Best Actor and Best Actress: BEST ACTOR: Lionel Barrymore in A Free Soul John Barrymore in Svengali Wallace Beery in The Champ James Cagney for The Public Enemy Jackie Cooper in The Champ Colin Clive for Frankenstein Peter Lorre for M Frederic March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Montgomery in Private Lives Edward G. Robinson for Little Caesar Winner: John Barrymore for Svengali BEST ACTRESS: Mae Clark in Frankensein Joan Crawford in Possessed Irene Dunne in Cimmaron Jean Harlow in Platinum Blonde Miriam Hopkins for The Smiling Lieutenant (I call her a lead not a supporting role) Norma Shearer in A Free Soul Winner: Norma Shearer in A Free Soul

See this is what confuses me about the existence of the Juvenile award itself. Jackie Cooper gets nominated for best actor as the title character in Skippy and yet he was a child. What was the purpose of a Juvenile award then?

I have my favourite movies, genres etc. But I do try to watch critically acclaimed movies at least once because I enjoy well made movies. Some films due to their content I have avoided seeing until after one of the artists dies as part of a tribute to them. That is what happened with me and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf director Mike Nichols. But it is for me what a friend of mine calls a "one and done" movie for me. for what does not happen to Alan Bates's character and I cried for hours.

She's my favourite writer of all time. I've read all of her mysteries.

It's from a mystery of hers. The killer had certain habits as well all have. It was having this habit that got him caught. I spent a lot of time going through Christie lines deciding which tagline to use. Thanks.

Herrmann is quite distinctive, I agree. I can always pick out his compositions within a few notes. All my favourite film composers share this quality. For example, I know Henry Mancini compositions when I hear them, even if I don't see the credit lines.

SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1934): Actually, I re-watched this last night, but I can't find any other thread where this post would go better. This pre-code comedy stars Mae West and Cary Grant with a great supporting cast. I have only seen two Mae West movies as I have only had access to two Mae West movies. I cannot remember how long ago I saw this movie for the first time, but I still enjoy it. However, I know that I saw it several times before I knew anything about 'pre-code" movies. Now that I do know about them and what was expected to happen to people who do criminal activity, I do look at it differently. SPOILER ALERT.................................................. Diamond Lou kills Rita in self defence with a knife. Then she pretends that Rita is still alive while she is brushing her hair. Then she gets her accomplice to get rid of Rita's body. Once the body and death is hidden, it is no longer killing in defence. After the code came into effect, the ending the movie actually has would not be allowed to happen At the end of the movie, Cary Grant has revealed himself as The Hawk and arrests everyone. He takes Lou into custody as being under his personal custody as his fiancée without there being any mention of Rita. Great movie.

KING RAT: If you are wondering what makes a performance a SUPPORTING performance, try looking at the term "supporting" as a third-named or after actor or actress or after that but still bigger than a cameo. Think about the movies you have enjoyed and if any of the non-leads stand out in your memory, even if the name of the performer is unknown to you. If you think of performers in that way, you can then look up the movie in which the performer appears in imdb or Wikipedia for the name of the actor or actress if she or he is a "famous nameless face." Does this help?

FEBRUARY 14TH BIRTHDAYS: written while it is still February 13th here on the west coast -I'm writing this early which is what I'll have to do for most Sundays as I get up early and then don't get home until about 1pm at the earliest and there are a lot of birthdays on the 14th and I don't want to miss posting them. Florence Henderson turns 82 years old. The 14th was also the birthday of John Barrymore and: Jack Benny Thelma Ritter Vic Morrow Gregory Hines Other days of the week will be listed in the mornings my time zone as I have been doing.

THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (1934): Stars Miriam Hopkins as the title character, Fay Wray as her friend/secretary, Joel McCrea as her potential beau and Reginald Denny as Fay Wray's husband. Fun comedy where Hopkins can't trust any man to want her for herself, so she has Wray to pretend to be her and she pretends to be Wray. Wray's already married to Denny. Enter McCrea who thinks she is a secretary. Hopkins is so determined to prove that she won't be second best choice for McCrea's wife that she very nearly loses him. This is exactly the type of movie that I love and can watch multiple times. There is just something about 1930s comedies that I just love and always have loved.

So thus it was like Silver Screen Classics does - only TCM isn't known for doing this.

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I agree with you about Marie Dressler. As far as the handsomeness of the leading men, yes it easy to see how Grant and Gable became sex symbols. Robert Montgomery was very handsome and became one of biggest stars in MGM in large part because he and Norma Shearer had great on screen chemistry and she asked for him specifically in several movies. Sometimes he got the girl, sometimes he was the other man, but he became a big star. He would go on to serious roles and directing. You may remember that his name appeared above that of John Wayne in We Were Expendable. His daughter used to be referred to as Robert Montgomery's daughter. She knew she made it when he started to be referred to as Elizabeth Montgomery's father. There are people who you understand right away why they became movie stars in ways that you can put into words. And then there are men like Humphrey Bogart. I do wish there were more suave and sophisticated leading men today than there are. I feel like I am more on solid ground for 1931 than I did for 1930. I've seen a larger number of movies, for one. And the individual performances of the smaller roles are more memorable to me. For example, I have seen more than one child star performance which I think is worthy of a Juvenile award.

I watched Days of Heaven for the first time this afternoon, and I can definitely tell that it was directed by the same man who directed Badlands. It has beautiful cinematography, music score, strong storyline and characters and is creepy. I am not sure if I will watch again anytime soon. But I'm glad to cross another Terrance Malik movie off of my to-see list.

No, I haven't. Thanks for the recommendation.

Some of my favourite Bernard Herrmann scores from non-Hitchcock movies; 1. Citizen Kane 2. The Bride Wore Black 3. Cape Fear 4. Garden of Evil 5. 5 Fingers 6. On Dangerous Ground 7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 8. The Day The Earth Stood Still

Your final 1982 film? Do you mean that you own, or do you mean you've seen all the movies released in that year now?

I enjoyed this movie overall when I saw it the first time. My problem was with Horst Buchholz really. I've never warmed up to him.

That has happened to me a couple of times due to weather cutting out power in the middle of a recording.

I haven't tried to watch overnight PVR recorded movies from the last week, so I'm afraid to check them. What you are describing DarkBlue reminds me of the Canadian channel Silver Screen Classics which does have an intermission. Not TCM. I tend to ignore the replaced titles of the same actors as were listed because this can always be a rights issue. But there was movie the other day I recorded that when I started to watch it was not the end of another film but appeared to be in the middle of a Henry Fonda movie -Fonda was not listed in the credits and I do not know what happened.

1) Agnes Moorehead made her big screen debut in Citizen Kane, along with other Welles collaborators from the Mercury Theatre. *Note* This is my first post in this forum. Most of these games threads I don't have a clue what has already been stated in examples since I've just joined. Usually I love games and trivia.

Interesting too that these are two genres War/anti-war Science Fiction Thanks for your list. The only one I have not seen yet is Rob Roy.

I've seen all the movies you list here. You will love The Legend of Lylah Claire. The movie I have seen of Kim's for the first time most recently is her version of the Bette Davis movie Of Human Bondage. I didn't care for Lawrence Harvey's performance, but I loved Novak's performance. Regarding a thread here about the two versions of The Letter - Her portrayal of the original actress is in the back of my mind when I see the original version of the movie, and I wonder what I would have thought about it if I had not seen that biopic. I'm not on Facebook. I tried that for a while, but it was just too invasive for me.

Yes, I was able to listen to it. It is a favourite of mine too.

DANA ANDREWS: Dana Andrews made 8 traditional film noir titles as well as some nourish westerns. Here are favourites of mine: 1. Laura 2. While The City Sleeps 3. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 4. Where the Sidewalk Ends 5. The Ox-Bow Incident (nourish western)