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GregoryPeckfan

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  1. I remember Doris being more diplomatic in her memoirs, saying Kirk was one of her few co-stars that she didn't get to know well. He was "distant" etc......

     

    This was in a book of quotes people had made to the press about other famous people.

     

    I was not talking about her memoirs.

     

    I happen to be a fan of both of them.

  2. For Tom and Princess:

     

     

    God save our Rathbone

    Sword-fighting Rathbone

    Save our Rathbone.

     

    Send him victorious

    Cad-like and glorious

    Long to back Rains for us

    Our great Rathbone.

     

    This was originally much longer, but I accidentally deleted everything, so I just did the first two stanzas instead.  My bit of silliness with the British song to their Monarch.

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  3. OMG.

    YOU'RE SAYING DORIS DAY LIED?!?!

     

    I think you just made Jesus cry.

     

    I have been waiting for someone to bring this up, but it hasn't.  Doris Day and Kirk Douglas HATED working together on Young Man With a Horn.

     

    Day said that it  was the most unpleasant filming experience she ever had.

     

    He in turn said that he didn't trust anyone who was always smiling and that there must be something phony in it.

     

    My guess is that they are both right.

     

    A lot of people are put off by the intensity of Kirk.

     

    But there is also the sense of THE SHOW MUST GO ON. 

     

    Day was a star who smiled a lot.  She wasn't paid to let her pain of her private life show up in comedies.  And her character is in love with Kirk in that movie.

  4. My guess is it is a reference to movies made about that time period.  I must admit that the title they chose gives me more understanding than yours would.

     

    I also see this as being the 'included in video because there is no Essentials."

     

    I might be wrong.

     

    I mean, The Cabinet of Caligari is a famous film.  Is this not the referenced film?

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  5. Basil Rathbone would not be happy with your selection, GPFan.

    well, you were the one who pointed out the unedited error.  I might have done Best Swordfight between Flynn and Rathbone instead.

     

    Rathbone, by the way, is at his most fun when he is a rotter.  I LOVE him as a bad guy..

     

    I love Basil.  I adore him.  He can't be my favourite Holmes because his Watson made the detective look like he was followed around by a buffoon.  Yet to be a doctor, you have to be highly skilled.  Brett's two Watsons did not do this.  Brett paid a lot for this.  As time went by, Brett the man started to disappear  to be replaced by Holmes like behaviour.

     

    Tragic story, Brett.

  6. REGARDING TIKISOO'S COMMENTS ABOUT ACTING;

     

    This self absorption does not just apply to acting/  It really applies I think to any performing art as the only people I have known to make money at their art on a lifetime basis are people who teach lessons. 

     

    My parents didn't survive on their music.  I never have.

     

    As much as I love to sing, there are days when I wish I did not have a creative bone in my body.  I wish I grew up in a boring, ordinary family with no surprises.

     

    Clift personified everything about how acting is devastating.

     

     

  7. You have no problem with British accents because your head of state is the Queen of England. I have to give it to her - - she speaks English better than anyone I've ever heard in my life.

     

    Ironically, I would say her son, the Prince of Wales would come in second in my book.

    I once memorized When In Disgrace With Fortune....sonnet to audition for Oliver!  I did it with a cockney accent.

     

    I got in and played someone who is upper class.  I never used the accent. 

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