GregoryPeckfan
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Great examples Fedya.
What about Frankenstein's Monster or King Kong? To go the creature route. Both these characters trusted people.
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South Pacific
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In any case regarding the last few posts, if I managed to insult MissWonderly I apologize. None of us need any enemies. I prefer to make satire posts.
I had a long conversation with my neighbour today who is turning 14 this month and his class finished watching The Outsiders and he was feeling sad about the state of the world. I am part of the group of people involved in "It takes a village to raise a child." But I have no idea what I would do trying to raise a child today.
Where are my Monty Python videos?
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For the record, regarding the Lionel Barrymore movies tonight:
in order that they air in Canada
1)I've heard of One Man's Journey but never seen it
2)I saw Treasure Island years ago
3) I saw Young Dr. Kildare years ago
4) I saw Key largo very recently. It is my favourite of Barrymore's movies and I watch it several times a year
5)and 6) These two Kildare movies I am recording overnight I saw years ago
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I believe that an argument could be made that there is distinct difference between: watching a movie for the first time even although you have known of it for a long time and: seeing for the first time that there is a movie of which you were not aware of its existence.
She has explained the foible of the post but I do not wish to pass up opportunity to argue as I am disagreeable person.
Oh, Sansfin, I know the feeling. Go ahead and argue. There are times when I feel disagreeable and you can tell by the post I made that I was in a disagreeable mood when I first read that comment and then decided why should I care? I never passed up an opportunity to argue with my late father. So I just decided to write a new script in Vole about typewriters, Ray Milland and dubbed singing.
And you are quite right about the fact that some movies have long been on my to-see list and others I had no idea they existed.
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Seemed like a pertinent question to me - nothing at all to do with typing.
More to do with trying to understand what the difference is between "watching movies new to me" and "seeing new-to-me films".
Perhaps you were indicating that there's a difference between a movie and a film? Or perhaps "watching" and "seeing".
If misswonderly hadn't asked "what's the difference?", I'm pretty sure I would have.
There is no difference at all. I messed up then went off and did not read until after I was quoted.But I do get the idea that sometimes there are a couple of people who only quote me when I make a mistake as supposed to people who answer me all the time. Not a big deal, really, since we Canadians all have free health care.
I did not quote Miss W. I quoted myself and answered it.
I meant to write that some are new to me, some I love and have seen often and some I saw once a long time ago and would like to see again.
I made fun of my own typing in 20th century vole.
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TCM knows how fond everyone is of The Wizard of Oz.
Therefore, in an effort to create a sense of childhood about the channel for those people who are too young for the TCM Wine Club, Ben will from now on be doing all his introductions in alternating months in makeup as 1) The Cowardly Lion, 2) The Tin Man, 3) The Scarcrow, 4) The Mayor of Munchkinland
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I'm not sure who you heard that from, but they must have been pulling your chain. General Lee was dead 69 years before the film was made!
Thanks. But I *do* know that when the movie was originally released, there were still some people who were still alive who had been alive when the war was over. How old they were during the war is another matter........
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Myna Loy was in The Best Years of Our Lives with Frederic March
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The I am Most Famous For Singing, But I Can Act Too Boxed Set: Men
1. Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind
2. Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express
3. Fred Astaire in On the Beach
4. Bobby Darin in Captain Newman M.D.
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Lon Chaney
Next: sign language
Spencer Tracy whose son was deaf
Next:
Child star who never acted as an adult
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THE JUNGLE ANIMALS SET:
1. Born Free
2. The Macomber Affair
3. Tarzan, the Ape Man
4. The Wizard of Oz (Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh, my!)
5. Greatest Show on Earth
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Actors not yet mentioned:
(Classic Stars):
- Kim Novak
- Tippi Hedren
- June Allyson
- Jane Powell (I noticed this one in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!)
- Ryan O'Neal
- Rod Steiger
- Cary Grant (I've seen him write right handed, but everything you read says he is left handed... Ambidextrous perhaps?!)
- Rock Hudson
(Newer Stars):
- Hugh Jackman
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Dennis Quaid
- Lisa Kudrow
- Christian Slater
- Ray Liotta (I noticed this one in Goodfellas, using his left hand for his gun and most of his jewelry was on his right hand).
- Luke Perry (I noticed this on Beverly Hills, 90210!)
*I find being left handed fascinating! Probably because it isn't the norm. I myself am right handed, but my identical twin brother was born left handed. He was trained to write with his right hand by an occupational therapist.
In the general population, we account for only around 10-15%. But among creative people/occupations, this percentage soars. There are actually a lot of presidents and presidential candidates who have been left handed.
Obama is left handed. So is Bill Clinton. According to a book about left handed people, one out of six American presidents is left handed.
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Bette Davis
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Male choreographer/actor/dancer
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Theodora Goes Wild
Since you answered one minute before Marsha, this means yours is the one we are supposed to consider, so:
IRENE DUNNE was in Theodora Goes Wild.
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Another Thin Man
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Olivia DeHaviland was in Gone With the Wind with Clark Gable
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Robert Mitchum, a veteran of a Southern chain gang, turned down the role
of Jackson because blacks and whites would never be chained together in
the segregated South. The story was corrupted into the claim, repeated by
Curtis and others, that Mitchum refused to work with a black man. (Wikipedia
entry on The Defiant Ones).
Thanks for that further information. Curtis did a great job of the part.
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When I was a crow in a production of Wizard of Oz, Tom, there were three of us and the dog Toto was invisible.
That was back in 1998.
The girl we had playing Dorothy was blond.
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And before the war there was an overseer played by Victor Jory. And I can recall Scarlett O'Hara calling him white trash when after the war he had made some money and wanted to marry her. Southern white people who worked for Scarlett O'Hara's family certainly were not rich either.
But it would make sense that the people that associated with Scarlett O'Hara would be on the same social level that she was on.
Oh, yes for sure.
But I heard it said that when General Lee saw the film and the number of dead soldiers on the ground which included dummies which other actors made move, he said that if there had been that many soldiers in gray then they might have won the war. It certainly glamorized things.
However, this is ultimately a movie about survival. The survival of Scarlett, and all the other women left to fend for themselves and others while the men were off at war. And that is a sentiment which is not limited to the American Civil War.
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My Mom purchased for me, the
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals:
- Show Boat
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Kiss Me Kate
I loved this because I had never seen any of these before.
Last night I watched:
and LOVED both of them!! (it was also the first performance of Ava Gardner's I'd ever seen... now I'm a fan!!!)
These are all fabulous musicals Paul. Have fun watching them all for the first time.
Ava Gardner is a big star. Did you record On the Beach on Gregory Peck's birthday? It is a great movie.
After she died, Gregory Peck took in her dog.
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Excellent list. Though I like Ethel's performances best.
I have Ethel last more because she made fewer movies for her length of life rather than quality.
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interesting. Maybe Ronald was ambidextrious and that was what was meant?