marcar
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5.)She was director Sidney Lumet's second choice to play Princess Dragonmiroff in MOTOE. His first choice was Ingrid Bergman.
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No, sorry I didn't cover that one...so it's anyone's guess!
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Is it "A Doll's House" premiered in Copenhagen in 1879 had several movie adaptations, including a silent version in 1922 and in 1973 with Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins. It was then adapted into a musical "A Doll's Life" with lyrics and book by Comden and Green?
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From Dusk to Dawn
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Eight Legged Freaks
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Mr. Sandman--in "Back to the Future"
next: happy song used in a sad/depressing scene
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Richard Widmark
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(Agent) K aka "Kay" from "Men in Black" played by Tommy Lee Jones (1997)
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Cooper, Chris
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Nancy Gates was in "Hitler's Children" with Rita Corday.
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Blood Simple
next: finding a hidden message in a book or map
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O Lucky Man!
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PRUDENCE AND THE PILL (1968) another film written by Hugh Mills
next: Magic Town (1947)
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I interviewed Dolores Hart when she was a nun in the abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem CT where she is now the Prioress. Although it's a contemplative Benedictine order of the Catholic Church it is welcoming to visitors during certain times of the year, holds retreats and sells a variety of homemade items in a gift shop that is open year-round. I was working as a writer for a small New England-based magazine at the time in the 1990s.
She was very forthcoming about her Hollywood days and talked about it without nostalgia or rancor. She was pretty amazing and she didn't resent the attention about her movie-making days, Elvis and all that--instead she spoke pretty freely about it. It seems that's because she felt she made the right decision in joining the abbey and has never regretted a moment of it.
The movie, "Come to the Stable" with Loretta Young is based on the founding of the abbey in 1947. Actress Patricia Neal WAS a benefactor and frequent visitor to Regina Laudis. I met her there for a book signing once.
The abbey, which I think has 40 or so nuns, is full of accomplished women, including a microbiologist who makes artisanal cheeses, a lawyer and former member of the CT House of Representatives, and a Ph.D. in literature from Yale. So Hart is in good company.
As for Hart herself, she was engaged to Don Robinson at the time she entered the Abbey. He remained unmarried at the time I met her and he is a frequent visitor to Regina Laudis and a "good friend", she told me.
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"Suspiria" (1977) a Dario Argento horror movie with Tess Harper as an American ballet student attending a German ballet school
"Dr. Coppelius" (1955) a film based on ballet "Coppelia" starring Walter Slezak
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"The Dumb Girl of Portici" (1916) stars Anna Pavlova as a poor Italian girl in love with a Spanish nobleman but their affair triggers a revolution. Pavlova is acting not dancing, but as she was one of the greatest prima ballerinas, I include it.
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I did find a real oddity from the BFI.
A sequence called "Balletomines" from a film called "Mining Review" (1954). It's a group of 8 husky British miners from the West Riding Colliery performing "Coppelia" in tutus at a charity event. It's a documentary piece of film.
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The Turning Point (1977) had to put that right up front for Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft performances and also Mikhail Baryshnikov is in it
Mao's Last Dance (2009) a biopic of Li Cunxine, a Chinese dancer who defected to America (played by Birmingham Royal Ballet's principal dancer Chi Cao)
The Company (2003) Robert Altman's take on a ballet company with Neve Campbell vying to become principal dancer
Grand Hotel (1932) with Greta Garbo playing the aloof ballet dancer
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O'Shea, Sugarpuss played by Barbara Stanwyck in "Ball of Fire" 1941
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Harper Lee who wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" (one of my favorite movies)
Emily Bronte who wrote "Wuthering Heights" also made into a great movie.
John Hughes, one of my favorite writer/director/producers such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "National Lampoon Vacation" (the original)
Johnny Depp (I've read)
Daniel Day-Lewis
Terrence Malick, a director of some great movies who doesn't attend premieres
Julie Kavner, an actress who doesn't do interviews or photo shoots, but is great in many comedic roles
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Five Days One Summer (another Fred Zinnemann movie)
Next: The Man Who Never Was
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Victor/Victoria
First Movie SONG That Comes to Mind
in Games and Trivia
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"Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland in "Wizard of Oz". Is that what you meant or the same song used over and over in the same movie?