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I agree also re: Asta. That dog was a ham,LOL.

I don't guess anyone would categorise her as an "under-rated" dancer per se,but Katherine Grayson held her own in "Kiss Me Kate". That movie is so fantastic, when I first saw it, I loved it so much that I bought the DVD and watched it something like 3 times in a row.So much talent,singing,dancing-Ann Miller,Katherine Grayson,Howard Keel,Ann Miller,Bob Fosse,Vera Ellen,Tommy Rall-what a great group of talent!

Hey Prekgranny! When it comes to discussing our beloved classic movies,the more the merrier,and the folks here are really nice and fun:)I was so happy to find a place where other people cared about these great films.

Cool! I've been just drooling to see this movie since I first saw it ages ago on that other formerly to be un-named classic movie channel,

Don't forget that "Chance At heaven" is coming on March 30! This movie is great,it has Ginger Rogers and Joel McRea

I think I'll just watch your channel,and then I won't have any of the problems,hehe.

Oh my, I didn't explain myself very well at all,LOL. I didn't mean,that I never thought she would say the "b-word",hehe,but that she wouldn't have that "sarcastic" air she had when saying the line in the movie. She seemed like a person,from all the books I've about and by her,like someone much more straightforward than that.She would say something like that,very sparingly,which would make it carry more weight when she DID use the word,but I just can't see her as the sarcastic ironic type no matter what she said,she seemed too forthright for that. Lord,I didn't mean to get so off-topic with this,but I completely made myself misunderstood:)

More vintage cartoons and newsreels-add that to my programming also:)

Cinemetal,I guess I didn't state that very well:) I meant,I know that people cursed and all then,I don't think it was some ultra-pure era,and emotions are universal and timeless,and I think that Mary Pickford amongst others would very well have had those kinds of feelings and even expressed them,I just didn't think that it would have been her "style" to express it the way they have her character in that movie do it.She wasn't considered "modern" even in her own day,she was beloved for being kind of a throwback even then.I didn't think that sarcasm would have been her way,or overt bitchiness,as it was in that movie. I know that Tallulah Bankhead,for an example,was famous for her colorful vocabulary,LOL,and Anita Loos and Dorothy Parker were examples of women who used irony and sarcasm and biting wit to perfection.It just didn't seem like Mary's style,from what I've read,even in her private life. I think that irony is more of a modern phenomenon:)

Silents,silents,and more silents! Including the very early ones,all the way back to "The Great Train Robbery", Melies,etc. Definitely documentaries-including some new ones on style,fashion,make-up,interior design trends,cuisine,from those days,up to the early-mid Thirties. More Pre-Code movies.Specials featuring as many early film stars/artists/behind the camera people as remain.Some made-for-TV movies or documentaries about legendary movie stars-the few I've seen weren't very good,they're always anachronistic to me,ascribing modern sensibilities of speech and thought to the people in them(such as "Chaplin",that movie could've been really good,but they showed things like Mary Pickford saying catty things,which I just couldn't believe-not saying that people didn't have the same feelings as we have now,but com'on-I just can't picture Mary Pickford being overtly publicly catty,and people saying words like "bitchy" so casually as they do now). More showings of the "revue" type films,such as "Paramount On Parade" and "King of Jazz". Oh, and silents with music scores more like they would have been originally,instead of modern-sounding music with them. That type of music can be good,and very fitting,so I guess I'd like to see them shown with both styles of music scores.

Stellabluegrl,all I can say to that is,well, damn! That suicide note,and that three people in that movie killed themselves.That's sad! George Sanders-I won't forget it again:) He was so great in that movie. I loved Herbert Marshall in "Riptide" with Norma Shearer.

Who is the actor that played the critic in "All About Eve",the one who helped Eve in her nefarious scheming against Bette Davis? I love him. What other movies has he appeared in? I've seen him in a few,but I can't remember his name or the movies.

I love Cecil B DeMille's movies. I especially love his silents,and his movies with Gloria Swanson,and his glamorous bedroom and bath sets.I don't mind him being right wing,but if he was a snitch(unless people were really undermining the country),that's not good.

My favorite movie of hers is "This Property Is Condemned".

Hey Stellabluegrl,the part about villains waiting their turn to attack is one of my pet peeves,but I love it in deliberately cheesy movies,or "B" type movies. Could a movie ever be made about a normal middle-class family with no drama? You know,they go to work and school,the kids don't get in trouble,the parents don't have affairs or neuroses,they make ends meet without TOO much strain,the parents teach the kids instead of vice versa,etc. Naw,I guess there wouldn't be a story! Wait, Andy Hardy came pretty close to that,that must be why I love that series.

Dang Udprt,that was good,and really articulated the essence of why we love Ruby Keeler. She's just so appealing,her movie characters are so of the times during the depression-"The show must go on",and the whole esprit de corp attitude. And she wore some of the cutest costumes,the big ruffled collars,and the darling little suspendered rompers for practicing routines.

Nobody has bathroom needs,even on the run away from all mod cons,hehe.

Children usually have all the answers *gag*

Lillian Gish,ice cream,because I can't forget reading in her autobiography thst she was addicted to it.Plus I always think of her getting frostbite from trailing her hand in the water during a blizzard for take after take during the filming of "Way Down East". That's a great movie too.

What's the deal with Jack Palance? That made me think of Jack Lalane!

I'd love to see the whole Andy hardys series back to back in sequence,and I'd love to see "Les Vampires" again.

I don't want to invite them to dinner,I want a standing invitation to the Algonquin Round Table! I'd probably just sit there slck-jawed at the wit,and hope to remain invisible,as I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of some of those witty barbs. If Anita Loos would join in,it would be perfect,I've read a couple of her books,and she was just born with a snappy remark. But would there be room at the table for both Anita and Dorothy Parker?

I agree with your example,I love that movie,and I do always root for Richard Dix also. I remember feeling just that way about a few actors,and I'll post examples as soon as I recall them:)

Um, that's "chauffeur",as in somone who drives you,not related to Stauffer's,a frozen dinner. LOL!