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Spencer Tracy version of Father of the Bride

Yes, a lot of people see Fred Astaire as a song and dance man and he is excellent as both. But anyone who doubts he was a solid and serious performer needs to see On The Beach. That man could do anything.

I see this as a good entry to this thread, but like you, I enjoy this film a lot more than just mediocre, because I have always found Louis Jourdan hot.

The Sting

Victor/victoria

The Man Who Would Be King Next: Brothers

The are about 12 movies or so that this could be. I think Vautrin was referring to the fact that Patti without an 'e" is a different person. I will get this thread started by saying that the best known film, for me as a fan of Christie, is AGATHA. Is the song from Agatha?

Roland Young was in Topper with Cary Grant

TV show The West Wing The Best Man

Sid and Nancy never actually met each other. It was all a publicity stunt to sell records.

Barton Keyes has just announced in G.D. that due to health concerns, Robert Osbourne will be unable to attend this year's festival. I hope everyone will be more concerned that he gets well than the fact that he will not be able to interview people. I would like to reemphasize Mr. Roberts statement about Mr. Osbourne being a great interviewer.

Gigdet Goes to Rome. Not needed follow up to the first film.

Were you nicknamed Alfalfa, Dargo?

Thanks for the news Barton. This is heartbreaking news for his family. I know that people will be disappointed that he is not there, but really our number one concern is that he be able to concentrate on his health and well being. His interviewing Richard Kind is now even more a treasure and I am glad that I was able to see it. I keep Mr. Osbourne and his loved ones in my prayers.

Oh, I am a big fan of Mr. Kirk Douglas. I have not mentioned him yet because - well? I am not sure. Kirk is the one living actor whose work I am able to watch regardless of the fact that he has most of his life behind him. When Gregory Peck re-broke his ankle, I promptly stopped being able to watch him in anything that was sentimental or where people were old enough to die of old age. That is why I have not yet seen The Portrait. It was available to me, but with his real life daughter playinghis daughter, it was too close to home. I have not had access to it since. Kirk's dynamic performance and intensity in all his roles makes me able to watch all of the movies he made and enjoy them without it being in the back of my mind that he is 99. And I admire him for making the first step in breaking the black-list by putting Trumbo's name on the opening credits of Spartacus.

I'll tell you why. It was because when he was not working he wanted to spend all his time at home with his wife and daughter. He would not go out to parties etc. He was married to one woman for life. After she died, he married Susan Blanchard who had been married to Henry Fonda. This made Peter see him as a step-father. Widmark did not like his name to be in gossip papers and he was horrified when his daughter married Sandy Koufax because he was a famous pitcher and that put him back in the gossip columns. Spencer Tracy was his favourite actor. Widmark believed in getting the job done.

Yes, I agree. Bobby had another dream come true when his idol Frank Sinatra mentioned his recording of Mac the Knife in among other greats when Sinatra did his own recording of "Mac the Knife."

I would never had gotten that. I spent a lot of time thinking about Bronson and Ireland before realizing neither fit.

Oh, wow. I didn't realize that they had to go back and reshoot anything from Days of Wine and Roses after they had supposedly finished with scenes. I can't imagine having to go back and reshoot such traumatic footage. S.O.B. I can't watch without focusing upon Holden.

I understand completely. I never fully appreciated Mr. Widmark in Murder on the Orient Express until I saw Yellow sky for the first time and couldn't take my eyes off of him even when Gregory Peck was on screen. So I paid attention to him in the credits. Then I looked him up on imdb and realized I already knew him. Then I watched everything I could find with him in it. I've seen most of his work, although not the same percentage as Mr. Peck. He appreciated the online fan club we had that his daughter showed him. We were never an official l fan club. But his daughter kept us up to date and told us he did not want a lifetime achievement Oscar so we could please stop trying to get him one.

I love the Private Screenings that used to be done. I have a hard time watching Kim Novak's interview. Maybe it would have been different if I had been there. But watching it on television I felt like an interloper watching something that was private. It was beautiful. But I wanted somehow to reach out and touch her and calm her down, and of course, it was on television. I marvel at Robert Osbourne's ability to adapt. The 20th anniversary of him on TCM was charming. I am at 40 old enough to remember when Johnny Carson was still on the air. His show was no longer 90 minutes long. But it was and always will be unmatched by any version of The Tonight Show that followed.

Oh, I agree with you about that. The reason that I narrowed my list to 46 movie seen recently is that I want to give myself a fighting chance to not be overwhelmed as well as not wanting to bore people with listing every movie I've seen of my favourite actors. Hence my Hitchcock, Kipling, Peck, Sinatra threads, etc.. I write about them all I want on threads I started and anyone who is bored by me always talking about them can ignore those threads. As if they say "oh, GregoryPeckfan has mentioned another Peck film..."

No, they are not twins. Banis just wanted to have a couple posts with famous sisters in them. One was with Joan and Olivia. The other was Gypsy and June.

I often wonder if this film would be as well known as it is if it had not be William Holden's final film. I certainly can't seem to ever rwatch it without this in mind.