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Spencer Tracy version of Father of the Bride
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I just watched "On the Beach" last night, and I'd like to throw Ava Gardner's hat in the ring for a nomination for Best Lead Actress and Fred Astaire's for Best Supporting Actor. Both were excellent--especially Astaire.
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.
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Speaking of The Eternal City and mediocre movies...I now submit the title THREE COINS IN A FOUNTAIN for consideration here.
Sinatra singing his hit title song as we see various locations in Rome before the opening credits being the high point in this otherwise overblown little soap opera.
(...well that and maybe looking at the cute as hell Jean Peters whenever she's on screen, anyway...okay, her and Dorothy McGuire...I always had a thing for hot older women too, ya know)
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.
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Victor/victoria
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The Man Who Would Be King
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What was the song and film?
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?
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Roland Young was in Topper with Cary Grant
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TV show The West Wing
The Best Man
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Sid and Nancy never actually met each other. It was all a publicity stunt to sell records.
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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.
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Gigdet Goes to Rome.
Not needed follow up to the first film.
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Were you nicknamed Alfalfa, Dargo?
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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.
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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.
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Of all these actors, William Holden has always been my favorite. A particular favorite movie of mine was Alvarez Kelly. It was Widmark and Holden playing adversaries during the Civil War.
Widmark plays the Confederate General trying to get the beef for his troops from Cattle Man Holden. It's too much fun seeing them fighting against each other.
They were so good together; I bet the audience never noticed how drunk Holden was during most of the movie. Reports were: they had a to tie him on the horse to keep him on it.
I loved Richard Widmark's southern accent - - I think it was one of his most colorful portrayals.
I don't know why Richard Widmark never reached the high level of stardom as say,Lancaster, Heston, Curtis or Holden. I don't know if it was a studio thing, a sex appeal thing or just one of those things.
I thought he had sex appeal LOL
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.
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I would add GPF, that Darin's performance in a film called PRESSURE POINT was equally if not MORE compelling than his in "Newman".
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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."
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Robert Tessier
I would never had gotten that. I spent a lot of time thinking about Bronson and Ireland before realizing neither fit.
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Supposedly THE PARTY was Elvis' favorite film (however that was determined). S.O.B. is noteworthy with the big cast of notable people, but it's sad seeing William Holden and how aged he looks (not to mention his fate soon after) . I just recently saw a Tonight Show episode with Jack Lemmon (from the late 70's). Johnny Carson asked Jack about DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES and the memorable scene in the greenhouse. Jack said that the whole day of taping that scene had to be shot a second time when the original tapes got messed up while being developed.
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.
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I always have to put in a plug for Richard Widmark. I even think he would have been a good "Mister Roberts". Widmark had a lot of versatility as an actor, some not realized as well as it should have been.
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.
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I think its great that right now the nostalgic cable channels are showing Johnny Carson Tonight Shows and Dick Cavett. The Tonight Shows are complete shows (some are the older 90 minute shows) so the whole show isn't one guest like some of the Cavett shows. Just recently I saw a Carson show with Jack Lemmon (I can't remember if that's the one that they lifted the segment for the "Carson on TCM" ). Many of these actors made several appearances . There are so many interviews from these shows that would be fascinating to see again . I always think of Tom Snyder's interviews , the number of people he had on and some of the great stuff they talked about. I hope that sometime some of his shows can be rerun. And let's not forget TCM's Robert Osborne, the recent interviews with Kim Novak and Ernest Borgnine were priceless.
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.
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GPF--
My answer would be closer to I've seen all these movies for the last 46 years. As you watch a movie and do study and research about it, the director, the actors, the set design, the writers, etc, and then let's let us never forget people like Edith Head-- over the decades, you may change your opinion or improve your opinion or lower your opinion.
Of course, lately I've been able to see more movies because of DVDs in the last time 10 years or so.
I would say I've already seen all these movies a number of times, except for the Robert Donat movies which I only recently saw on DVD two or three years ago.
It's important that you review movies that you saw when you were a child or a teenager or in your twenties. Because with maturity and more knowledge of Cinema you might change your opinion. And then again you might not.
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..."
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Are Olivia and Joan twins? If so I never knew it.
I thought Joan was Olivia's younger sister by a few years.
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.
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Using only washed-up actors of yesteryear.
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.
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