daddysprimadonna
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Hey, if Hollywood can honor Roaman Polanski, they can honor Leni. I've seen "Triumph Of The Will", and a film in which she acted("mountain play", or something like that,those films were called),and they were awesome.
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MovieJoe,I second your post also,the first one.
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Can I cosign your post?
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They're not spoken of because we just don't know about them,not because we don't care. They may have been GREAT beauties,but as I've said before,the climate was wrong.It's not their fault. There are MANY people who may have been gorgeous who didn't get a chance.
But you STILL didn't have to say"so-called white beauties"-a sweeping statement,not confined to whatever specific white actress/actresses you felt they could have given a run for her/their money.You dismissed them all, because they're white.
Oh well, nevermind.
Let me go find TCM forums.
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No, I disagree. If it had been strictly on merit,then we wouldn't have had the sneaky little barb about "so-called white beauties",making it a black/white issue.I've agreed with her elsewhere about them not getting their due,but I STILL don't come to TCM to get a lecture on whites' past trangressions.
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Why not just compare them on their MERITS, as we have been doing,instead of making it a black/white thing? I get SO tired of seeing race brought into EVERYthing,in a competitive way,as if people have some personal stake in it,with the insults.
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OK, I really am stopping:) I just get tired of seeing things framed racially.
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But I can't help asking a question-how offensive do you think it would have sounded if I'd said,in order to "elevate" a white actress,"so-called black beauty"?
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OK I'll stop right here because I come to TCM forums to discuss classic movies in a relaxed atmosphere free from all the bull elsewhere. But I guess it's not to be.
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So, the phrase "so-called white beauties" was necassary to simply elevate a black beautiful actress?
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Read my post above-I've seen this before,and I've seen where it always leads.
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...and many others who were real beauties and showed great acting talents who were not known outside of the Black communities but movie stars to the Blacks, if given a chance in Hollywood they would of gave the so-called white beauties a run for their money.
So-called white beauties? What are you saying here? That because they were white,they weren't REALLY beautiful and if things had been all fair,they just would have looked like chopped liver next to your examples? See, your veiled insults aren't really THAT subtle.
Why not just have stopped with saying that the examples you offered were beautiful,and you liked them,and that's your opinion,and leave the whole race thing out of it on a forum devoted to classic movies,not race issues?
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Oh for goodness sake does race have to be brought up in a classic movie forum TOO?
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I think Elvis was one of the sexiest men in history,and Clark Gable,especially as Rhett Butler. Which leads me to Vivien Leigh as one of the sexiest women-but my all-time favorite for sexiest woman is Norma Shearer-that woman could sizzle,and do it with class! Those George Hurrell pictures of her are so steamy,her eyes just melt you from right off the page.And he made her legs look good,even-bedroom eyes,bedroom hair,sleek-as-a-cat sexiness in the photographs,and on the screen in her films-she even made Marie Antoinette appear sexy! Even though I LOVED her in "The Women",until almost the end,her sex appeal was SO wasted in this movie.
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I agree with you about Johnny Mack Brown,LOVED him in the silents with Joan Crawford.
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LOL. I get it anyway. Sorry, can't help rambling!
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I mean, he named me after her character in GWTW-Melanie.
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Oh do I ever agree wth you on Olivia De Havilland in "Gone With The Wind", which is practically my all-time favorite movie! I actually thought that she was prettier than "Scarlett" in the movie,besides which my Daddy named me after her:)
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That also reminds me of Katherine Hepburn meeting Spencer Tracy,they were going to do their first film together,and she said"I'll wear flats,I'm a little too tall for you",and he replied(or the man introducing them,there's two versions)"Don't worry,I'll soon cut you down to size".Hahaha!
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Well, I agree that she can act,I also loved her in "Moonstruck"(surprising myself), and in "Mask"(thank God that Bob Seger did the singing!). And the actual words to her Hepburn tribute weren't bad-she DID gush, but a girl WILL do that on occasion:) I just can't STAND her voice-I hope that doesn't mean I'm going to Hell???? She can not stand my voice if she likes(though how anyone couldn't like a honey-dripping Southern accent is beyond me,hahaha).
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Thank you,thank you,I dedicate this honor to all those daddy's girls out there,teehee.
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Your love of Veronica(I love her too,she was sexy as all get out in that scene where she sang while doing magic tricks in the movie with Alan Ladd-shame on me,I can't remember the name)reminds me of a movie with Ginger Rogers,where she plays a juvenile girl to get a train ticket half-fare-she ends up having to stay overnight at a military academy,and there's a dance for the boys and some young ladies from a nearby girls' school-all the girls are "drips",in the words of the boys-there's a scene with them all sitting in a row waiting to be asked to dance-and every last one has Veronica's "peek-a-boo" hairdo-then the teacher-a sterotypical old maid-and she has one too,LOL.
I think the movie was "The Major And The Minor"???
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Well then you completely misunderstood me-I think short women are the stuff too,especially as I AM one! I thought it was interesting and surprising that some of these women,like Joan Crawford,who seem so "commanding" on the screen,were little petite women,is all.Some it's easy to imagine short-like the gorgeous Veronica-and some,when you find out it's a bit of a surprise-like Joan.Norma,my girl,I don't know if I was surprised or not.She seems so elegant and long-lined,to be a short woman-I think it's her long waist and the way she de-emphasised her legs.
But short women rule,hahaha.
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OK, maybe this will be considered "Cher-bashing",but..I can't STAND her voice,singing OR speaking,and hearing her talk about Katherine Hepburn or ANYthing is about as annoying to me as hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. Oh My God the nasality,the whiny pitch-yes, thank GOD for the mute button!!!
I won't even talk about that fake annoying "vibrato" in her singing! And sometimes I get SO TIRED of "strong independent" women who seem to equate those qualities with having foul mouths and no manners-but I won't Cher-bash! Hehehe!
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Ok, "Roaman" was unintentional, but it'll pass as a Freudian slip:)