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The Canadian-Born Actor Playing An American Collection: 1. William Shatner playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek and various films 2. Raymond Burr playing Perry Mason 3. Raymond Massey playing Abe Lincoln in several films 4. Walter Huston in any title requested by the person ordering the set

Consider it done.

Re: Heaven Can Wait - this is a good example of how a similar title about the same kind of idea (Heaven or Hell and life and death) can get people confused and think they are going to be watching a remake of a movie that really is not a remake. The Warren Beatty movie Heaven Can Wait is a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, not the Don Ameche movie. Beatty changed the sport from boxing to football because he had played football. W.B. took Montgomery's role. James Mason took over the title role from Claude Rains. Both films are enjoyable.

William Holden is one of my favourite actors of all time. My favourite movies of his include Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17, and Sunset Boulevard.

Sounds like my movie watching between 1970 -1994 except for John Hughes films. The famous films I have seen are few and they rely upon my being interested in the actors in the movie. Meanwhile, I don't think I have seen a George Formby film before......

Yes, Happy birthday, Laffite!

Hey, CMR; I just revisited your Actress page to comment on the re-introduced Doris day at number 5. My top favourite is still Audrey at number 2. I just love reading all these ideas on who could be or should have been in the top 25.

Kay - As Tom said, everyone should be able to give you some ideas as to what to watch in 1940. Between all of us, we certainly are getting a lot of ideas.

Great list. I need to see The Great McGinty and The Mortal Storm again. It has been a long time.

You give it a higher rating than I would, Film lover. I might be mistaken, but I think I remember that the actual Broadway musical is shorter considering the amount of time is actually spent on the story itself. The score is gorgeous. In the original Broadway version from the 60s, Robert Goulet played Lancelot, Julie Andrews played his leading lady, and Richard Burton played King Arthur. I've got a set of six recordings by decade of various Broadway and Hollywood musicals, and my Early 1960s tape has Goulet singing "If Ever I Would leave You" and Burton singing "Camelot."

That's the title. Thanks Cigarjoe. I thought that someone would come up with the title for me.

Love Me or leave Me

2) Bonita Granville played Nancy Drew on the screen.

I hope so too. I really enjoyed this version. I enjoyed the film that looked at the disaster from the perspective of the other ship that actually saw them but thought that their use of fireworks to get their attention was actually just a party. They did not realize it was an S.O.S. Webb had quite a long career and I've enjoyed his performances most of the time, even when the overall film did not impress me. There are several actors and actresses who give good performances even when the material is lacking. Webb was one of them.

Thanks, Tom and Bogie for the discussion of The Biscuit Eater.

I believe that Bette Davis did the movie because she believed that it was meant to make fun of Joan Crawford. I have seen the whole film, and I believe that has everything to do with it. As for Sterling's performance, well, he had great performances and not so great performances.

Ingrid Bergman who fell out of favour with American audiences for a while but eventually came back to American films. Sinatra reinvented himself several times. Buster Keaton had a career resurgence after being totally forgotten.

It seems the spammers have arrived in general Discussions again.

Mitchum is considered one of 'THE" film noir actors and I have seen all the movies you have mentioned that you have recorded to see. Interesting what you say about his rugged looks. One of the things that makes Cape Fear so frightening to me compared to the remake is that Mitchum often does indeed look attractive in the film. To me, Deniro never looked attractive in the remake.

Thanks for posting this clip. It brings back a lot of memories.

I noticed you did not bother to list a specific film for June...

David Hemmings in Eye of the Devil David Hemmings in Camelot

Okay, that is the second time I've read about The Biscuit Eater which I have not seen. Could someone talk about it in detail, please?

That is quite possible. I know that the production of German films slowed during WWI according to the documentary From Hitler to Caligeri which I started to watch as it aired then decided to record and watch at another time. Chances are the same thing happened in WWII. Britain and Canada and Britain's other commonwealth countries all joined in 1939.

I love My Favourite Wife. I prefer the movie The Awful Truth for the lead's pairings, however. I think I put up with things more than others regarding "stupid white people" in movies because I often see these movies meant to entertain audiences who are worse off financially. This was in 1940, but during the 1930s screwball comedies were based upon the idea that people wanted to see *rich* people acting stupid. We know ahead of time that Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are going to end up together again. I remember the first time I saw Bringing Up Baby being annoyed that Kate was interrupting Cary's life all the time. The person who was watching it with me told me that they were supposed to be together because they were the stars of the film. So then I just allowed myself to enjoy the film.