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FAVOURITE HITCHCOCK ACTRESSES: 2 OR MORE FILMS:
Grace Kelly in Rear Window
Ingrid Bergman in Notorious
Madeleine Carroll in The 39 Steps
Tippi Hedren in The Birds
Joan Fontaine in Rebecca
Vera Mils in Psycho
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Why not get Martin Short to portray all of 'em? Only getting 2 appearances is rather giving Martin Short shrift...
Oh, yes but then the title of the thread couldn't be Vicious Rumours, it would be Rumours We Would Like to Be True....
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I would watch those nights!
So would I!
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I believe he died just a year after his wife did.
By the way, has anyone seen the blurry picture they have for him on his wiki page? I'm wondering how new photos are submitted. He should have a clearer image on his page.
Oh, so that is not just my eyesight.
Yes, usually their pictures are better.
Quite often, widowers who have been married for decades die shortly after their wives die unless they get remarried.
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FEBRUARY 12th Birthdays.
Ann Gillis is still with us. Her birthday has its own separate thread so check it out!
Today was also the birthday of Lorne Greene and Forrest Tucker.
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From now on, all TCM guest programmers will have to have the same nationality as the country in which they air. That way, viewers can feel that he movies they see on TCM are relevant to them. TCM has released the names of 2017 guest programmers and among those will be recording their introductions and conclusions with Robert Osbourne in December. Here are the names for the guest programmers in Canada:
March: Justin Beiber
April: Seth Rogan
May: Ben Mulrooney
June: Celine Dion
July: the late Lorne Greene as portrayed by Martin Short
September: The Weekend
October: Celine Dion's night will be repeated
November: Former Prime Minister Stephan Harper
December: The Late Raymond Burr as portrayed by Martin Short
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FONT:
Lew Ayres stars as a man forced into a war with computers who all look like Hal and who are all named Hal. He was losing a battle against aging eyesight and refused to wear eyeglasses. He and others who fought beside him wanted to be able to understand everything that was put before them without asking anyone to read it for them.
The latest weapon from the enemy computers is a tiny font called Western Font which grows smaller and smaller as you look at it. Lew must get the code to feed into the master computer to alter the font to a size he can read.
Hal: What are you doing, Lew?
Lew: I'm trying to increase the size of the font so I can read it.
Hal: I can't let you do that Lew.........
Lew sees a butterfly icon and pushes it....
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The usual line goes that the story in a musical is just an excuse for the songs and production numbers. There are a number of things that distinguishes Top Hat for me, and makes it my favorite of the Rogers/Astaire movies. In addition to its full complement of musical highlights, it has a pretty love dance between the two main characters, and witty dialogue to match. It's deftly delivered both by the principals and the excellent supporting cast. It's impossible for me to choose who I like best. First I think it's Fred Astaire, so smooth and urbane. Then I jump to Ginger Rogers, as adorable and charming as she ever was. But no, it's Helen Broderick's offhand acerbic line toss. Oh wait, it's Eric Rhodes masterful mangling of the English tongue. And no one could excel Edward Everett Horton's emphatic timorousness. Or Eric Blore--The Glare.
This is my favourite Eric Blore role, and my favourite of the Astaire/Rogers musicals.
Always happy to see another Top Hat fan.
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Favourite Performances in Non-American Films in 1930: in order of preference:
Herbert Marshall in MURDER!
Emil Jannings in THE BLUE ANGEL
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ASTA's TOP TEN TITLE SEARCH OF GREGORY PECK MOVIES:
1. To Save a Mockingbird From a Cat
2. Spellbone
3. The Paradine Corgie
4. The Odor
5. The Bones From Brazil
6. The Cat fighter
7. Roving Holiday
8. Pork Chops Hill
9. Twelve O 'Clock Hound
10. Walk the Lane
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As a cat owner - read, owned by a cat - cat terms just couldn't help popping into my mind.
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Thanks Lawrence. This is exactly right. We have only just finished your great Top Ten Films thread so no need to repeat all that and it is still there if anyone wants to refresh their memory of their own choices or whatever.
Ah, you see I joined just in late January, and I think Lawrence was finished that thread by then, at least I did not read it.
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Actually, he's just looking for your favorite performances from each year in 5 categories. Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, and Juvenile. We're going one year a week. This is the first week, so it's 1930. You're supposed to name your fave performances for each category, indicating your favorite if you wish. Name as many or as few as you want. Much like the old Top Ten Films... thread, the overall purpose is to discover new titles that others may mention that you may not be aware of, to add to your "to see" lists. You have a full week to make your choices, and they can be spread out throughout the week. So if you want to just list Best Actor choices one day, and Actresses two days later, that's fine. Or all in one day, whatever.
Bogie is listing the Oscar nominees and winners much in the same way I listed the 1001 Movies entries, to contrast with what we as viewers choose.
Okay. But I wanted to list my favourite film and director, which I did, at least for 1930-
All Quiet on the Western Front lives on in my mind whenever I think of war films.
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You can see The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry free here:
Simply add the film's title in the search bar.
Thanks very much for the link. I just finished watching it and loved it. It reminds me of Woman in the Window with E.G. Robinson.
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FAVOURITE ONE-TIME ONLY ACTORS WORKING WITH HITCHCOCK: top 3
Rod Taylor in The Birds
Montgomery Clift in I Confess
Martin Landau in North By Northwest
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Favorite Hitchcock films:
Psycho
The Birds
These first two are my top two. I realize how 'cliche' my choices might look, but really, these films are iconic for valid reasons. They are frightening, haunting, brilliant, capture the imagination, and (as in a film like Psycho), give you a lot to chew on psychologically.
The best of the rest (no order):
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (comedy wasn't Hitch's forte but Carole Lombard made it better than it deserved to be)
Suspicion (keeps you engaged, but ugh, that clunker of an ending!)
Strangers on a Train (classic...)
Dial M for Murder (Ray Milland was great at being devious and clever, loved his intense facial expressions; Grace Kelly kind of faded into the woodwork for me and I found Robert Cummings to be a little restrained)
I Confess (Montgomery Clift shows off his considerable acting chops)
The Wrong Man
Honorable Mention:
Lifeboat (where else can you see Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix in the same movie!)
Oh, I don't mind at all how "Cliche' the choices may be. I am not afraid to say that most of favourite movies of artists are those that are named by others as their favourites too.
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My favorite Hitchcock films:
Rear Window
To Catch a Thief
Notorious
Dial M For Murder
Saboteur
Psycho
The Birds
I've seen a few of Hitchcock's films on the big screen: Psycho, The Birds, North By Northwest, Saboteur and Rear Window.
Lucky you to have seen several on the big screen!
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ASTA's TOP TEN TITLE SEARCH OF GREGORY PECK MOVIES:
1. To Save a Mockingbird From a Cat
2. Spellbone
3. The Paradine Corgie
4. The Odor
5. The Bones From Brazil
6. The Cat fighter
7. Roving Holiday
8. Pork Chops Hill
9. Twelve O 'Clock Hound
10. Walk the Lane
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Not in Texas.
I haven't see this film in a long time, but as I recall, Grant Mitchell takes quite a beating, being thrown into a wall.
Yes, he does indeed. It is definitely a pre-code movie. Thanks for the reply.
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STAR WITNESS 1931
Crime drama starring Walter Huston as a district attorney trying to get a family to testify to a mob killing they saw through their window. I had recorded this by PVR on TCM recently and watched it for the first time earlier today.
The cast includes Dickie Moore as the youngest member of the family and Nat Pendleton pre-The Thin Than where he is a gangster he kidnaps one of the boys to try and keep the family from testifying.
I won't go into the plot because I think people can guess what it is. The film has good performances and direction to keep you interested.
One thing I had a problem with near the beginning, though. This family lives in a city full of gangsters. The killing happens when they are all sitting down to eat dinner. They hear what they think is a car backfiring before it is obvious that it is a series of shots. Then EVERYONE but the daughter in the cellar looking for jam goes to the window to watch - mother included.
Wouldn't everyone's gut reaction in this situation be to lie down on the floor and hide behind furniture so as to not be hit with bullets themselves?
Well, then I guess there wouldn't be a movie.....
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Lol.
In defense of Anchors Aweigh, Gene Kelly was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. Lol.
It does seem like a random selection if the other films (Tootsie, Kramer vs. Kramer, and The Deer Hunter) are still intact and I agree that it doesn't seem to fit with the 360 degree thing.
I love Gene Kelly and anchors Aweigh too. I love all three of the movies he made with Sinatra, my favourite male singer of all time.
But yeah, the other movies remain intact.
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1930 Favorite Films
L’Age d’Or
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal CrackersThe Blue AngelMonte CarloMoroccoI just realized that I misunderstood this thread. It's about performances, not movies, right? So my list is incorrect, unless I specify an actor in each film? Sorry -- I'm a bit thick, and I'm finding this complicated!If you go back to the beginning of this thread, you will see that Bogie will change the calendar year in the title of the thread once a week. We are looking at our Oscar choices for each calendar year during the time that the Academy did not have a single year but instead handed awards over a two year period. Bogie said that we don't have to list only the same number that can be nominated in each category, but the idea was to pick a winner and somehow point that out. And that is for best picture, director, actor, actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress etc.
For me, I listed only my winning choice for Best Picture and Best director.
On Sunday - at least that will be seven days from the first post in this thread - Bogie will switch to 1931 calendar year movies.
Does this help?
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I'm also interested in The Richest Girl in the World. The cast sounds intriguing. I've never seen Fay Wray in anything else aside from King Kong.
I recommend:
That Forstye Woman. Errol Flynn plays against type in this film as the stuffy and cold Soames Forsyte. Imo, his performance is the best one in the film.
The Adventures of Don Juan. I love this movie.
Goodfellas. One of the best gangster movies ever made.
WE get Anchors Aweigh instead of Goodfellas.
On of the best examples about how the theme for 31 days of Oscar doesn't quite work in my country.
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THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF UNCLE HARRY (1945).
Director Robert Siodmak has become a favourite among '40s film noir buffs and, if this film ranks as, perhaps, a slightly lesser effort from him, it still has plenty to interest the viewer. Set in a small American town, it features George Sanders as the title character, a middle aged bachelor of a family that once had money, now largely lost, but still living in a large home, his one real possession, as he meekly toils away working as an art designer for the town's large mill.
Living with him in his home are his two sisters, one of them (Geraldine Fitzgerald) seemingly often sick in bed. Theirs is a contented, if unexciting, existence. Along comes a woman from New York City (Ella Raines) and things start to perk up considerably as Raines and Sanders become interested in one another. How, in turn, will this impact Harry's relationship with his sisters, one of whom (Fitzgerald) showing decided signs of possessiveness regarding her brother.
I have a few problems with the writing in this film, but, for the most part, this Universal production is a handsome one and well acted by all its players. It's fun to see Sanders cast against type as a naïve, well meaning clod being twisted around the finger of his sister. Fitzgerald, playing the most noir character in this film, is quite delicious in her role. And Ella Raines, who had already been effectively cast in such previous Siodmak norish items as Phantom Lady and The Suspect, scores well once again as the outsider who becomes a threat to the normalcy of Harry's home life.
At one point Raines's character has an outburst that seems jarring and unreasonable, but the fault there lies will the credibility of the writing, not the performance of the actress. Speaking of those writing issues, the film has a classic compromised tagged on ending (a "twist" to some). To be fair to the screenwriters, though, this was a cop-out obviously forced upon them by the production code.
Interestingly, though, that compromised finale really doesn't detract from the power of the narrative of this film anyway. You can still appreciate this film for what it has to offer right up until those final two screen minutes.
3 out of 4.
People keep talking about this movie, but I have never had access to it.
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At least according to the Film noir book DARK CITY by EDDIE MULLER, in real life, Robert Ryan was a dedicated lefty and anti war pacifist. Basically a hippie before his time and absolutely nothing like the Brutish characters he played. While he enjoyed the challenges is and actor, and the social Activism that came with the work, he apparently was prone to bouts of depression over how type cast he was in crime and War movies and westerns.
He was brought up before the House Un-American Activity Committee but was able to keep working when he pointed out he was a Marine in WWII.
I'd love to read that book.
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Favourite Hitchcock Movies and Collaborators
in Your Favorites
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT - favourite performances of these actors' *complete* careers:
Joseph Cotten
Patricia Collinge
Hume Cronyn
MacDonald Carey
Henry Travers