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Oh, Gregory looks like he's having lots of fun!
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If you see this episode as you hear the music, everything really comes to life, and moves you deeply.
But back to Hitch - did Herrmann score the shower scene in "Psycho"? That would probably be one of his movie masterpieces in terms of familiarity and "famousness" (I know, not a real word!). As soon as you hear the first few bars of it, your hair stands on end, lol...
Yes, he scored the entire Psycho movie.
If famousness is not a real word, then it should be.
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GregoryPeckfan--sorry to be late replying: yes, I was thinking of Bruce Dern in "Family Plot" (1976); thanks for the correction.
Now, about Charles Laughton in "The Paradine Case" (1947); Yes he hammed it up, but he also helped secure Ethel Barrymore a Best Supporting Actress nomination. She had only two or three scenes, but she painted a vivid and pitiable picture of a mentally abused wife in maybe ten minutes of film. With the miles of film that was shot, Barrymore probably had scenes cut from the film. I prefer to think Laughton overacted to get Barrymore a Academy Award nomination, instead of overacting without purpose.
Besides Ethel Barrymore, other favorite female performances in Hitchcock films:
Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious" (1946) and "Under Capricorn" (1949).
Grace Kelly in "To Catch a Thief" (1955) & "Rear Window" (1954).
Tippi Hedren in "The Birds" (1963) & "Marnie" (1964)--Hedren gave graceful performances in both films under stressful circumstances.
Nova Pilbeam in "Young and Innocent" (TCM title is "The Girl Was Young") (1937).
No such thing as replying "late" as there is no time limit. in this thread. My love of Hitchcock is endless and I add different topics from time to time just because I am always ready to talk Hitchcock.
Regarding Fonda family, Henry did appear as the title character in The Wrong Man.
I have DVDs and VHS of several Alfred Hitchcock movies. Young and Innocent is one such title. I re-watched The Paradine Case shortly after Louis Jourdan died. Ironically, it was the only movie of his that I actually owned. It was his American screen debut and he was very good in it.
Regarding Tippi and the circumstances under which she made her movies with Hitchcock: I try not to think about it when I watching the movies. The Birds is such a great movie that I have no problem with regard to this movie. But I rarely watch Marnie.
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Though Bernard Herrmann scored quite a number of films and shows in his career, the one theme that stands out for me, my favorite of all time by him, is the music for the episode "Walking Distance" in The Twilight Zone series. Haunting and achingly poignant:
I particularly love the section that starts at around the 10:44 mark...
That is gorgeous. I'm glad you included the link and luckily I was allowed to play it in Canada. Some things on youtube we cannoy play here.
Bernard Herrman was the person I had in mind when I included the word "collaborator' in the title of this thread.
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BERNARD HERRMAN:
Hitch and this wonderful composer collaborated on films for several year and even made a cameo as himself in the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
What are your favourite scores of their films together?
Feel free to talk about your favourite scores of this composer outside of his Hitchcock films in a separate list.
My Favourite 3 Bernard Herrman scores for Hitchcock are, in order of preference:
1. Psycho
2. North By Northwest
3. Vertigo
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Pushover. I watched this noir with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak the other night. I watched it back to back with Bette Davis' The Letter (which I've now seen three times and I love it, I first discovered it during TCM's fantastic "Summer of Darkness" series last year). I really enjoyed Pushover. This was apparently Novak's first film, there was an "Introducing Kim Novak" credit at the beginning of the film. This film was kind of a cross between Rear Window and Double Indemnity. Particularly with 'Indemnity,' MacMurray again is a generally good guy who ends up being seduced by the femme fatale into helping her carry out a crime. The constant surveillance of Novak (and later Dorothy Malone)'s actions from across the street also gives the movie a Rear Window vibe. I really enjoyed Pushover. Novak was gorgeous and gave her femme fatale a very sensual side which made her a very deadly woman to get involved with. MacMurray seems like a slightly older, less suave version of his Walter Neff character, but I still enjoyed his role in this film. This film deserves to be better known.
8/10.
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Susan Slept Here. I watched this film last night. It starred Dick Powell and Debbie Reynolds. It was apparently Powell's last acting role and his only color film. Reynolds was as cute as can be playing the 17-year old juvenile delinquent. Anne Francis portrayed Powell's girlfriend and Glenda Farrell was his secretary. I also couldn't help but notice Alvy Moore, aka, "Hank Kimball" from Green Acres as Powell's friend. While lightweight and silly, I found the film entertaining and a nice way to spend a Friday night. I did find some elements of the story a bit strange, but they only added to the charm. For example, having Powell's Academy Award narrating the story was very weird but also unique (I don't think I've ever seen that) so I could appreciate it. I thought it was funny when Reynolds was using Oscar's head to crack nuts. I did find the May-December relationship between Powell and Reynolds very interesting and I'm surprised that it was allowed in 1954. Reynolds character was only 17 and Powell's police friends who drop her off at the beginning of the film even tell him to remember she's underage and to not lay a hand on her. Powell's character was supposedly 35, but you can't convince me of that. Powell easily looks his 50 years.
Despite all that, Francis was very glamorous even if she basically served to be mad at Reynolds and try to win Powell back. She portrayed the materialistic, vain, rich fiancee of Powell very well. Glenda Farrell was the comic relief as well as the "mother" to the characters in the film. She provided common sense and advice to the characters in the film. Alvy Moore's character was interesting. He's supposed to be Powell's assistant, a "gofer" so to speak, but he also double-crosses his employer at least twice in the film. He proves himself to be a somewhat untrustworthy character.
There is a bonkers dream sequence in this film. While asleep, Reynolds conjures up this bizarre musical sequence about the love triangle between she, Powell and Francis. There is no singing, it's all dancing and large gestures. Reynolds is trapped in a birdcage, Powell is wearing a sailor suit and Francis is a 4-armed black widow spider. Everyone is covered in sparkly sequins. Powell looks a little ridiculous in the sailor suit (it only points out how he is NOT 35) but Reynolds is adorable in sparkly jeans. My favorite part was Powell and 4-armed Francis' dance number where she embraces him with all her arms.
All in all, this film was enjoyable even it if were slightly weird. It was weird in a charming way.
7/10.
Both of those movies are favourites of mine. Kim Novak's birthday is today by the way. She is 83.
Pushover is exactly the kind of movie I love to watch.
Susan Slept Here is a fun movie-but I don't watch it outside the Christmas season.
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BERNARD HERRMAN:
Hitch and this wonderful composer collaborated on films for several year and even made a cameo as himself in the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
What are your favourite scores of their films together?
Feel free to talk about your favourite scores of this composer outside of his Hitchcock films in a separate list.
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Today, February 13th is the 83 birthday of Vertigo star Kim Novak.
I'm glad there are still some Hitchcock collaborators who are still with us.
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FEBRUARY 13TH:
Happy 83rd birthday to Kim Novak!
Happy 72nd birthday to Stockard Channing!
Today was also the birthday of Oliver Reed and Jean Muir.
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Not having gotten in on the fun soon enough, I'll add some favorite films of the 1930s, to keep Bogie's new thread free just for favorite performances. At various times Oscar has nominated from three to twelve films for Best Picture, and I'll keep to that format. Most years will fall in the five to ten range which is what we have now. Best of the best with an asterisk.
1931:
CITY LIGHTS*
M
SAFE IN HELL
MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM
MONKEY BUSINESS
1932:
TROUBLE IN PARADISE*
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
GRAND HOTEL
THREE ON A MATCH
THE MATCH KING
ME AND MY GAL
HORSE FEATHERS
SCARFACE
1933:
DUCK SOUP*
THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN
BABY FACE
LITTLE WOMEN
COUNSELLOR AT LAW
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
DINNER AT EIGHT
QUEEN CHRISTINA
EMPLOYEES' ENTRANCE
1934:
L'ATALANTE*
DAMES
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
LES MISERABLES (D: Bernard)
HEAT LIGHTNING
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
IT'S A GIFT
1935:
THE 39 STEPS*
CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS (LA KERMESSE HEROIQUE)
THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
TOP HAT
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
1936:
DODSWORTH*
MY MAN GODFREY (flip a coin)
MODERN TIMES
LIBELED LADY
THEODORA GOES WILD
SABOTAGE
1937:
STAGE DOOR*
LOST HORIZON (flip a coin)
GRAND ILLUSION
THE AWFUL TRUTH
EASY LIVING
1938:
PORT OF SHADOWS*
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
JEZEBEL
ALEXANDER NEVSKY
THE LADY VANISHES
BRINGING UP BABY
FOUR'S A CROWD
PYGMALION
1939:
GONE WITH THE WIND*
LE JOUR SE LEVE
THE WIZARD OF OZ
MIDNIGHT
THE RAINS CAME
JUAREZ
DARK VICTORY
THE RULES OF THE GAME
STAGECOACH
NINOTCHKA
THE WOMEN
BEAU GESTE
Fabulous!
Now that this thread is open again, I can do the same thing without looking through the whole site to find it and then get lost like I did waiting for a new post.
These are my ten favourite movies from 1931:
1. Frankenstein
2 Little Caesar
3. M
4. The Champ
5. Platinum Blonde
6. The Public Enemy
7. Private Lives
8. A Free Soul
9. Possessed
10. Svengali
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I've made it easier on myself for 1931 coming up by checking out the 1931 in films page on Wikipedia to determine which movies I've seen were actually released in that year before Bogie changes the year and written it down on a separate piece of paper.
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To offset the fact that several people reach their positive response quota for the day (pushing like button) when they spend all their time on TCM forums instead of getting things done the forum will have the opportunity to push buttons that say "unsure," "confused," "sick" and several other negative response buttons.
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TOO VICIOUS!!! TOO VICIOUS!!!!!
Seriously, this one could have some deadly ramifications.
If you go to the thread on technical issues, you will see that someone has actually suggested that we pay a fee for the right to be allowed to record movies by PVR on TCM as a way to increase their revenue since there has been technical issues and we are apparently not allowed to record them by free.
I'm not making that up. It is not a rumour that this suggestion was made.
That post ticked me off.
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It was obviously a screen capture from one of his films. Instead of a clearly photographed publicity shot, which would probably have been a better choice.
Yes, it would have been.
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Joan Plowright, who played Olivier's daughter in THE ENTERTAINER, would become his wife in real life.
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy were already married and she was expecting his baby when they played father and daughter in the movie The Green Years.
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I'm just reminding you that tomorrow TCM is showing the wonderful Terrence Malick film, "Days of Heaven". Truly, it is breathtaking and if you can't get up that early at least record it.
You will not be disappointed.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
7:45 AM DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)
Young lovers pose as brother and sister to survive on the American frontier during the early 20th century.
Dir: Terrence Malick Cast: Richard Gere , Brooke Adams , Sam Shepard .
C-94 mins, CC,
I've never seen it before. I am a big fan of T.M.'s Badlands. I've seen it dozens of times.
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Fried Green Tomatoes starring Kathy Bates
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I've seen the biopic on Ms. Eagles and I wonder to what extent that biopic has on my view of the original film, regardless of the number of times I have seen the version with Bette Davis.
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For me, the title of the thread and the request in the first post are asking two different questions.
I agree, 35 as your first film is indeed later life for an actress.
But for me, Mademoiselle to Matron for any actress in any era is a reference to a never before married woman getting married or engaged to be married during the film, just like in Pride and Prejudice.
It also shows a prejudice - pun intended - that assumes age and marital status of women must be correlated such as if she were older than she must be married.
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TCM,
Instead of not allowing us to record movies for free any longer, can you come up with a system where we can record movies for a small fee of $1.99 or $2.99, similar to purchasing music from the Apple Store? I am sure this would be satisfactory to many TCM viewers who have been recording films from TCM in the past, as well as creating a new revenue stream for TCM.
Please consider this.
Thank you.
Oh I hope not. That ruins the purpose of a PVR completely for me. Unless you are at home and not asleep ever. All you have to do instead is get access to DVDs and play them on your DVD player, or Blue Ray etc. I already pay Optic TV for the right to see TCM, Silver Screen Classics channel), etc.
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Love Eric Blore and he is great in Top Hat one of my favorite Astaire/Rogers musicals (today I say Swing Time is my favorite but ask me next week and I might change my mind!).
Have you seen Blore in Its Love I'm After? This is a first rate comedy with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland and a great supporting cast. Very different Howard \ Davis movie then Of Human Bondage and The Petrified Forest.
Blore has a scene where he does bird calls to get Howard's attention and it is a riot.
No, it has been on my to-see list for a long time.
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Paramount sets release dates for TRANSFORMERS 5, 6 & 7, with one released each June 2017-2019. They also announce plans for a spin-off film centering on the robot character Bumblebee.
Oh wait, these aren't rumors. They're true.
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Forrest Tucker. Nobody ever remembers he was in AUNTIE MAME. Do they?
Oh his role was very flashy . Especially the way his character dies.
He was also in a lot of movies in the 40's and 50's before he starred in F Troop.
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FAVOURITE ONE TIME ONLY HITCHCOCK ACTRESSES:
Janet Leigh in Psycho
Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much
Eva Marie Saint in North By Northwest
Talulah Bankhead in Lifeboat
Nova Pilbeam in Young and Innocent
Jane Wyman in Stage Fright
Kim Novack in Vertigo
Carole Lombard in Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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I haven't seen Fallen Angel yet. It has been on my to-see list for a long time.
I love Dana Andrews movies too. I've seen a lot of films because he was in them, even in genres where I normally would not see the movies more than once in terms of genre.