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Marsha and I both answered a minute apart with Joan Fontaine for a Damsel in Distress. I had asked for soft spoken. But Marsha asked for a mob thug playwright. Soft spoken; PETER LORRE never raised his voice really. Mob thug playwright: tricky. I'll say E.G. Robinson because he played a lot of mobsters and some of them must have been play-inspired. Next; Terrifying laugh

Since he was considered to be the greatest actor of his generation by his peers, I will pick Spencer Tracy. Next: Tony Randall or Jack Klugmaan

Stuart Whitman was in The Sound and the Fury with Yul Bryner

Oh, now I have solved the mystery of how we started talking about Fred as Sheldrake in this thread. I had been talking about him with Limey in the pitchfork thread. I had forgotten that I mentioned him replacing Douglas ....

In anticipation of the switch to 1941 in the Favourite Performances thread, here are my top 10 movies from 1941 in no order except the first: 1. Here Comes Mr. Jordan 2. The Maltese Falcon 3. Citizen Kane 4. How Green Was My Valley 5. Suspicion 6. Mr. and Mrs. Smith 7. The Wolf Man 8. You'll Never Get Rich 9. The Sea Wolf 10. Shadow of the Thin Man

That makes sense. I saw The Aviator where he would watch The Outlaw outtakes over and over. Ice station Zebra is a favourite of mine. I wondered about the genre, but it is a very well made suspense film.

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. I try to watch it only after dark. Alan Arkin has gone on record saying that he loved Audrey and it made him sick to treat her badly.

Yes, the woman who hit him with her purse made Fred decide to NEVER play a bad guy again.

Okay, this is strange; The pitchfork thread still exists, but Lafitte's quote of mine about The Apartment and everyone's subsequent answers are in this thread... Strange truths indeed.

That is right. I did not mention this in my post because I already read yours, but there was also some anger about lady in the lake.....

Probably there were. Certainly they Clark Gable fans were outraged to see him dancing in Strange Interlude. And when Robert Montgomery played Phillip Marlowe in Lady in the Lady fans were outraged that they could see him only in the mirror and hear his voice. So MGM got Robert and his leading lady to tack on an ending that suggested Marlowe got the girl and this enraged Robert Montgomery so much that he quit MGM after 20 years and never worked there again. I love Fred M. in everything he did. I adore Fred in any role he did because he was a great actor. Remember he played a cad in The Caine Mutiny as well.

The acting was fabulous. I am not talking about Fred the man. But people who loved Disney movies wanted him to bee Disney-friendly. The fact is, he did not give a damn about the fact that Shirley tried to kill herself and wanted to give her 100 bucks for Christmas. He is the kind of man who makes me wish I were a lesbian. I feel the need to point out that this is a satire thread, however. Remember I was responding to Limey's comment. Remember too that most people in this film need pitchforking. The fact that everyone might do it does not mean that it is okay. And remember too that one of my nominees was the weather network. EDIT: I SEE THIS I IN STRANGE TRUTHS INSTEAD OF THE PITCHFORK. HAS THE PITCHFORK THREAD BEEN DELETED?

Hercule Poirot because I am hungry.. Next: Would you like to have a ride with Steve McQueen on the back of his motorcycle or in a race car?

Thompson, Emma

Junior as Senior sounds like a very bad father Next: Tommy Tune or Bob Fosse

Dear Heart Next: Fried Food

Joan Fontaine played the title character in Damsel in Distress, so Joan Fontaine Next: Soft spoken

John Ireland was in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral with Deforest Kelley

Interesting. I did not realize he liked that type of movie.

Duly noted: Johnny Eager and 49th Parellel are on my 1941 list. Yikes! I have to keep writing these down in a variety of places as I keep misplacing my books of notes.

Thanks. This was available to me and it looks like a combined version of the Disney film and Sabu's version. As such, I will enjoy it.

Well, he might have gotten a Hollywood makeover like a lot of stars did. That is my guess. For the first few English language movies he made, he did not yet know how to speak English, so he had to memorize his dialogue without understanding what he was saying. Amazing.

Oh, okay, Lawrence. It's CGI animated and real people too. I will keep this in mind. I do love The Jungle Book itself and I do try to see everything based upon his writing if possible as he is my ancestor, but I might not go out to the big screen to see it. Lorna did amend her review a bit saying that she was in a bad mood because of Prince dying.

Yes, I have a hard-bound book of The Jungle Book and re-read it every now and then. I know that from the original animated version, the songs that were originally written were all thrown out by Disney - with the exception of one - as he considered them to be too dark and he wanted it to be a light ending and romantic. The one song that was kept was; The Bare Necessities of life.

Okay, so the reviews of the new The Jungle Book animated version give it an F, so as I love the original, I will skip this new version.