therealfuster
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a bunch of my favorites with "Jean Arthur. Irene Dunne. Joan Blondell. Glenda Farrell. Ann Sothern"
I could add Claire Trevor, though she is not known for her comedy, but if she had to I bet she could do it.
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heavy weights in the scene are, I am always drawn to watching Peter Lorre.
Interestingly, while other actors raise the volume, he lowers his voice, and makes you have to listen to each word.
Some of my favorite of his films besides the obvious one or even M, are Mad Love, Stranger on the Third Floor, Quicksand, Black Angel and The Mask of Dimitrios.
And then who can forget his performance on tv in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing with the Zippo [?] lighter opposite Steve McQueen in that Man from the South episode?
The only Lorre I'm not too into, is at the very end where he made a few hammy performances with other screen horror heroes.
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a real film buff?
I'm not saying that it is pretty or something to aspire to, but there are things that separate the men from the boys, and the women from the girls.
Let's see...I'll start.
If you saw a film you've looked for for years on Ebay, that is obscure and in the thousand dollar range...you'd figure out how to cut back on eating to afford it.
You disdain people who won't watch films made in black and white, as riff raff and unworthy to associate with long term.
You would cancel your wedding date, if you found out that TCM found a pristine copy of London After Midnight, and are giving it a one time tv presentation.
People that talk only of the stars of the films....are of no interest to you, since you are into the directors and cinematographers.
You can take on 26 people alone, in playing Silver Screen Trivial Pursuit and win with one hand tied behind your back.
You will drive a hundred miles to see a film in a proper theatre with old fashioned seats and not in a multiplex with a squished screen.
You have a film cataloguing system for your dvd's and videotapes, so that you can find a film in a second's notice.
You can talk about the silent films of Rex Ingram and know to which movie star he was married.
Being a Valentino fan, you want to see Hayley Mills in the film The Moonspinners since you know Pola Negri is in it.
You always stay till all the credits have run in a theatre.
You have signed photos of Wanda Hendrix, Steffi Duna and Robert Newton in your collection and are looking for ones of Sybil Jason, Billy Benedict, Dan Tobin and George Coulouris.
Nothing ever filmed is necessarily not worthy of at least a slight peek, unless you know the makers track record for drek. Even a hack can occasionally make a masterpiece....
What other proofs are there that one is totally obsessed and a "real" film buff?
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man's woman.
I remember reading about her slugging Errol Flynn for getting a bit risque with her when she came to Hollywood.
I've always liked her performance in Jamaica Inn, though she is so young one hardly can recognize her.
Thanks!
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does not necessarily mean that it is no good, as in saying that if you aren't a fan of Bringing Up, Baby or Grant that it means they are not with merit and must be overrated.
I'm not a fan of the soccer and yet I can accord anyone who scores in it and is effective, to be someone of some talent.
Cary Grant was a most unique individual. I've never had him on the top of my list of most favorite actors, but that does not mean that I take lightly his abilities. As many actors who've done serious roles will say, like Jack Lemmon...comedy timing is much harder.
Grant was a physical actor, could do some things better than anyone onscreen and just because he looked good while doing it, does not take away from his talent. Name any actor who could replace him in any of his films like Monkey Business, Bringing Up Baby or North by Northwest.
Name one actor who could be the romantic lead in Htich's films with Grant AND who could also be the comic butt in a film like Monkey Business or The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, all at the same time?
Call me when you come up with someone.
As Laurence Olivier once said, he admired the talents of Mickey Rooney, who he said could sing, dance, do drama and do comedy, which Olivier did not feel was his forte.
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one can never have too many Claude films to watch!
I just bought that Legacy package with the Invisible Man, so that I can stop rewatching it every time it shows up on tv. Of course I also have it on tape, and that never stopped me sitting down to rewatch.
Mr. Rains graced and complemented so many films with his style, exceptional voice and delivery and panache, that he certainly does deserve a birthday bash. The ones I've never seen are Stolen Holiday, though I've seen the Resnais film, Deception, and of course rewatching all the classics I've already seen.
By the way, Claude can the the father of Lon, just like Jessie Royce Landis can be Cary Grant's mother in North by Northwest [in spite of being born the same year]. Claude doesn't even resemble an iota of a hair on Creighton Chaney's head...alas!
Thanks for the reminder on Mr. Rains.
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in Indiana, and it looked fine.
The Hedy Lamarr film I mean.
So sorry you missed it; maybe they will reshow it soon. Must have been your cable system maybe?
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the Pre-codes too!
Who can beat the TCM schedule?
I just perused and see that today we got a dose of the lovely Virginia Bruce and legendary Ann Dvorak, and then some early Ruth Warrick.
Though it's not an obscure film, who can not like any movie with both James Mason AND Alan Bates as tonight in Georgy Girl?
One starts off Tuesday with Josephine Hutchison, who played the robot grandmother in that great TZ episode of Bradbury's story "I Sing the Body Electric". Next a Curtiz directed gem with the mellifluous Claude Rains and the inimitable Kay Francis, whose lisp was endearing. I'm skipping over the fine Hardy family to envision how great it is to see a Tod Browning film with the marvelous man from Tennessee, Henry Hull [the original Wolf Man and actor of both stage and screen], Edna May Oliver makes it worth watching Larry Olivier be the original version of the dour suitor Mr. Darcy who is hiding mucho character in Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and in Waterloo Bridge we get the tearjerker of all time, with Vivien Leigh being the ballet dancer driven to prostitution, due to the supposed war death of her fiancee. This is just one day of viewing at TCM, and look at all the great stuff to see.
Other films I've seen but look forward to seeing again this month are Mr. Skeffington, Strange Cargo, Clash by Night, I Walked With a Zombie, Dodsworth, Rollerball, Fury, A Face in the Crowd, and He Walked By Night. Some films I am really looking foward to are Night Nurse with Stanwyck, Mann's The Naked Spur, Mother India, Gabriel Over The White House with the astounding Karen Morley, Mark Robson's Roughshod, Ulmer's Strange Illusion, Joseph Losey's Finger of Guilt, Cast a Dark Shadow with the incredibly talented Dirk Bogarde, The Honey Pot by Joe Mankiewicz, the first lady of the American theatre in The White Sister and lastly...All Fall Down, which is a classic by Frankenheimer. We even get to see the wonderful Ann Sothern as Maisie and Marx Brothers classics that even Minnie would approve of, and end up the month with Murnau's film Phantom and some Busby Berkeley tasty morsels with the likes of screen beauty Dolores Del Rio, who still looked good as the mother of Elvis in her dotage. They don't make high cheekbones like that anymore, at least not without some Botox and major surgery.
There are so many films to watch on TCM, but so little time to watch them all.
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is right up there with All About Eve for scintillating dialogue and sophisticated repartee.
Thanks for the heads up on that one coming out on DVD!
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He Said is a decent film, but from the same year I think, one can look for Two Lane Blacktop by Monte Hellman, which is a better film in my opinion.
Get into a whole time warp, and rent all the films from a five year period then, like 200 Motels, Head and maybe Buster and Billie.
There are lots of good films from all decades, including the Seventies. One just has to separate the wheat from the chaff, as in all things.
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does Mary know of your crush on Norma?
Personally, I'm more of a Constance fan but I thought I had seen some of Norma's stuff at Movies Unlimited's online catalogue.
Here's what they have on video:
Norma Talmadge Video Titles
Available from Movies Unlimited
Going Straight (1916)
The Forbidden City (1918)
DuBarry, Woman Of Passion (1930)
I think Show People is out on vhs, but I have not seen it for awhile.
Good luck! Just do a search online for the Movies Unlimited catalogue.
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an impossible question.
These ten films [plus one Lon Chaney silent perverse classic] just popped into my mind:
Viridiana
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Searchers
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Cameraman
Au Hazard Balthazar
The Tenant
Written on the Wind
Hiroshima Mon Amour
La Ronde
The Unknown
I'm leaving out 99% of the rest of my film collection...alas!
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who are also fine actresses.
I shall nominate Carroll Baker. Personally I liked her fresh scrubbed gorgeous look in "Giant" but it had to happen that they would glamour her up to play the Baby in "Harlow", but she still shines through.
I don't think I've ever laughed as hard at a comedy performance of the magnitude she gave in the Southern Gothic satire called "Babydoll" and to this day she is still lovely and still talented.
I could also add to the good looking roster, Shirley Knight who was excellent in so many films, Alida Valli and Ann Sheridan.
On the other hand, there are some great looking actresses of whom I see little talent like Gene Tierney, but until I've seen all their films I shall remain mute. I used to feel that way about Merle Oberon, having only seen her in Wuthering Heights, and realized I had been unfair after I saw her in These Three and That Uncertain Feeling, in which she equitted herself most equitably.
Your nominations for beautiful but talented women of the silver screen?
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I always watch a film if it has Everett Sloane in it.
I had read once, that he had his nose surgically altered after his screen career began, and could never get used to it.
If you look at the footage from Citizen Kane, and then compare his genial countenance to that in some later films of the 1950's, there seems to be a different person playing the part. Regardless, he is always real and true to the role.
I think Laurence Harvey was highly underrated, and always enjoy his take. He was kind of Peter Lawford with a perverse twist.
I think Alan Arkin is a marvelous actor, and was so fine in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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Hi!
Are you saying that this person has prerecorded tapes or dvd's of the episodes from the Alfred Hitchcock Presents, half hour shows and the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes OR, that they have episodes that they have taped themself from tv?
I have taped most of them myself every time they show up on a festival on some cable channel, and I have seen some show up on dvd.
How many episodes do they have, if you know?
Thanks!
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is that vague comments about not having anything to watch on TCM, are taken seriously by anyone here.
Let's get some specifics here. Person A complains that the same shows are repeated over and over. But...Person A rarely gives any real just criticism in detailing which films they are referring to, or with what they should be replaced in their Utopialike film schedule.
Why do I feel that it would be a horrible thing and I'd be seeing a bunch of less than golden gems, if some of these people got their wish and were in charge of programming. Be careful what one wishes for.....
Hmmm, I've seen a boatload of movies, try to have seen at least one film of every actor, actress, director, or cinematographer who ever lived, have seen both good and bad films, foreign and domestic, A's, B's and Z's, silent and talkies and own all those books on WB, Columbia, MGM, Paramount etc. that came out way back, and yet every day I see films listed on TCM that I doubt have seen the light of day since they were first shown at the Orpheum in anyone's home town.
And this thrills me. Sure...Casablanca is shown more than a film like Sunrise, but I'm just happy that Sunrise is shown at all.
Tell me that the common person has seen Cain and Mabel with Clark Gable, or Babyface with Barbara Stanwyck, which are representative of the anomalous character of some rarities TCM shows. Where else would one get a night of all Joe E. Brown films?
Some may hate Joe E. Brown [though I could not like such person!] but he is a part of film history, and as such it is fun to see him in his prime, and NOT just in Some Like It Hot.
If I were to guess, I don't really think this constant refrain of complaints comes from such genuine, dyed in the wool real film buffs, but rather from those who may have seen less movies than the normally obsessed film fan, and does not even want to watch some of the wonderful 1930's goodies that TCM shows daily. Maybe they just turn their nose up. They are just whining because they noticed that the Thin Man series is being shown again or something. As if, AS IF...every film every day for all 24 hours should please them totally, with no regard for anyone else or their tastes.
I personally do not care for films about aircraft, but I can relent and allow those who do a little enjoyment occasionally at TCM. One can shut the tv off for a couple hours, instead of expecting TCM to totally entertain people for 24 hours solid, 7 days a week. Ye gads!
I'm all for free speech in government, and one does have a right to complain there, as it's your money paying for things, but it amazes me that a channel like TCM which is commercial free, and shows class films or at least ones with historical interest, and not the usual pabulum which shows up on other channels, is treated so shabbily by a few of its viewers with their constant whining.
NO...I don't work for them. But I'd probably work for free, if they'd give me access to the whole film library.
I'd like to see some of the complainers make pertinent and specific remarks concerning what movies they would like to see to replace some of the ones they seemingly don't like on TCM. All this vague referencing and crying and gnashing of teeth is a bit childish.
I was honored to watch the film Babyface with Stanwyck the other nite, as it was a real gritty eye opener, and I also thoroughly enjoyed all the rare silent shorts they showed last night, particularly The Invaders, which topped many Hollywood extravaganzas in using the true Native Americans in their glorious attire. Name one other channel which would show such gems or the one with Dorothy Gish or the commercial tie in oddities.
My opinion is that real film buffs love TCM, and bogus ones only want to be negative, just to have something to say to harp about.
I never say...love it or leave it, if I'm talking about the country, but I would say it to anyone who complained about TCM's fine schedule. Only real film buffs could appreciate seeing films daily with Eugene Pallette so young that he is thin, George Brent without a mustache, and Bebe Daniels as a little child.
Those who are trying to commandeer this fine ship, will eventually sink it and those who love movies of the whole spectrum of film, will be left again to watch stations like AMC ad infinitum, and will then regret not speaking up.
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who can explain this message being received in emails.
I had been receiving the monthly schedule and bulletin from TCM in my emails, since I registered recently. Till this past week, everything worked fine.
For the last few days, I keep receiving emails with the following type header line:
"L-Soft list server at TBS, Inc? Subscription probe for TCM-SCHEDULE - please ignore"
I'm not opening these so I don't know what is inside.
Does anyone know what this is about. Does it contain the schedule and should I be opening these emails?
Thanks for any information!
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so I'll go with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.
Or Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery.
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What an interesting combination of brushes.
But both of the old sod, so that is nice.
I will toast them both today when I order my first Guinness!
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Fay was in almost a hundred films from silent days to talkies, and besides King Kong was in greats like The Most Dangerous Game, Four Feathers, Doctor X, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Cobweb and Queen Bee, besides Stroheim's The Wedding March which you so justly mention.
Just because a lot of these are not seen regularly on television, unless one has TCM, does not mean that Fay does not deserve a place in film history.
Just like James Dean who only made three films, it is quality and not quantity which earns one a right to the film pantheon.
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intermissions!
A true film fan will appreciate them for showing the exact way the film was shown in a theatre originally.
Films like "Lawrence of Arabia" or "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or others have those interesting prologue type parts which play theme music and are a lot of fun. I enjoyed hearing Mendelsohn's compositions while waiting to see Mickey Rooney as Puck, the last time TCM played the latter film.
Let AMC cut out the extraneous sections, as they are only worried about time constraints and cutting up films.
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Clem Bevans' day!
James Woods would introduce all the films for obvious reasons....
After that it might be fun to have a Roland Young Day!
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Are you talking about that group of overlapping still type pics, which is all blurry and recedes to the right of the screen?
I think I can see shots with Gary Cooper, Toshiro Mifune, Dorothy Dandridge, Metropolis, Rita Hayworth
Godzilla maybe, Max Shreck from Nosferatu and
Fred Astaire?
The thing is so unclear the way I'm looking at it, I can barely see some of the pics.
Help, I'd love to see all of it more clearly!
Can you give us a way to see it better?
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they were both still ticked off at both having "dated" in the Biblical sense director Vincent Sherman, during both of their heydays?
Yes, I've read of the feud, and that Bette did things like kick Joan and Joan was dead weight when Bette had to pull her off the bed, and Bette hurt her back consequently.
And I'm sure Bette had little regard for Joan's acting, knowing that she was the superior actress technically.
But I always watch a Bette or Joan flick, as both are rivetting on screen. Even when they are chewing up the scenery, so seeing them together is a bit of fun.
Wasn't Joan supposed to be in "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" too but the first screen pairing did her in?
I'm just glad they made WHTBJ as it is a Grand Guignol classic!
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in some film, when I was little.
He just got such a big kick out of her deadpan singing approach. Now when I see her in any film, it takes me back as if I were alive during WWII, as she did add such charm to many films of those days.
Venerados, you have an interesting list there with Elsa Lanchester, Martha Raye, and Betty Compson. I have always admired the talents of the distaff half of Laughton, in so many parts including Bell, Book and Candle and Martha Raye showed some talent beyond the comedic as Chaplin's foil in Monsieur Verdoux. I have not seen enough films with Betty Compson, but as the B's are what I look for mostly now, I do hope to.