bhryun
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Actors
Cary Grant
Robert Montgomery
Humphry Boggart
Larry Hagman
Actresses
Kathrine Hepburn
Elizabeth Montgomery
Judy Garland
Barbara Eden
Bette Davis
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This is a WWII movie set in Italy about a village hiding their wine from the Nazis. I saw it once about 30 years ago and can't remember the name or anything else, but I know I liked it. Can anyone help?
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By the way, I think it's "White Shadows in the South Seas" isn't it??
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THE PAGAN has been shown a few times in the last couple of years - I think in fact within the year. I taped it off TCM.
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I just missed taping a great short feature, "Cavalcade of the Academy Awards" which documented the 1939 Academy Awards. The TCM Schedule for the month of February lists "Festival of Shorts #4" and included "Tweetie Pie" and several other cartoons. Needless to say it wasn't "Festival #4" that aired. My VCR just happened to be recording and ran out of tape just moments before "Gone With The Wind" was awarded Best Picture. Can short subjects be searched in the TCM Schedule or will I have to get very, very lucky to ever catch "Cavalcade" again.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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Yes, I do believe that's it! Excellent work!
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It seems to be a huge secret to me. There isn't as much known about many of the black performers of golden yesteryear. Their stories haven't been told. Folks know about Ava Gardener, Katherine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and other wonder white actresses of Golden Yesteryear and that is great. They had lots of talent. But women like Fredi Washington, Francine Everett, Nina Mae Mckinney, Dorothy Van Engle had similiar talents at the same level and had the potential to be movie star material same as the white actresses, but their story isn't heard and networks like TCM and AMC seem to be very reluctant to give them air time. I admired TCM for showcasing the unsung black golden yesteryear films. You have to look at the fact that there was a lot of RAW talent being showcased on such low budgets. The white films were done on much more plentiful budgets and the actors/actresses were even allowed more than one take. In a lot of the black productions the entertainers were only allowed one take. With just one take many of the black actresses and actors mastered the scenes they were doing and did quality jobs. That in itself should say something about the enormous amount of movie star talent that was ignored by white hollywood or rather brushed aside. TCM calls themselves Turner Classic Movies. They should call themselves Turner White American Classic Movies. The reason I say that is because nothing else is really showcased. Why is it that TCM SUDDENLY stopped the Black History Month Golden age showcase to showcase movies from white Entertainers who are given exposure YEAR ROUND?
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Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"
Gregory Peck in "Spellbound"
Clark Gable in "Strange Cargo"
Myrna Loy in "Wife vs. Secretary"
Cary Grant in "The Philadelphia Story"
Those were the movies in which I first saw each actor/actress, and I was breathtaken when I saw them.
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If you're thinking of MGM only, it is usually the stars or the source. If it's got their big stars - Shearer, Gable, Crawford, etc. or is based on a well known novel or play, it's probabaly A. Supporting players in "A" product carrying the show - e.g. Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce - is another good indicator. Also, the budget and length - the shorter the film, the more likely it is to be a programmer.
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Thankfully, most winners are available on video, if not DVD yet, so they are easier to assess than ever.
Best: BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, GWTW, SCHINDLERS LIST, ALL ABOUT EVE.
Worst: BRAVEHEART, FOREST GUMP, DANCES W/WOLVES, ENGLISH PATIENT.
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I'd agree with most of the films listed below, however, I think that time has already not been kind to FOREST GUMP or DANCES WITH WOLVES. The latter is too preachy and pretentious and the former just bad.
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hedy lamarr or vivian leigh...
Robert taylor WAS good looking.
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Has anyone ever noticed the similarities in these movies. I've always thought they were VERY similar, i mean especially thinking of the song that gaston sings
"she's just a girl" compared to Rex Harrison's "I've grown accostomed to her face"
to choose your favorite, which would it be?
(I would be so tempted to say My fair lady at first, but...I dont know.)
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Might be terribly tricky and/or unanswerable, but!
I was watching a movie, once upon a time, and wrote down one line...
i have no idea who was in it, or what it was about,
but the line as stuck with me.
does anyone know where this line comes from?
"Are you in love with this pink chicken?"
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Very Bette.
(though between sister and I, the debate can get quite heated.)
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any line from:
his girl friday
Walter Burns: I still wish you hadn't done that, Hildy.
Hildy Johnson: Done what?
Walter Burns: Divorced me. It makes a man feel he's not wanted.
Hildy Johnson: Oh, now look, junior... that's what divorces are FOR!
The philadelphia story (well covered here)
Dinah: nothing in the very LEAST ever happenens here...mother, how do you get small pox?
and all about eve, well, i may or may not have a bookmarked link to the entire script, just so I can cheer myself up somedays.
but to be original, will add
Gigi
gigi: Gaston? do you make love ALL the time
Gaston: the only people who make love all the time, are liars!
Aunt Alicia: Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more housholds than infidelity.
and adam's rib
Kip: Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called in-breeding; from this comes idiot children... and other lawyers.
Spencer tracy: No matter what you think you think, you think the same as I think.
Katharine hepburn: Are you feeling pinky, cranky?
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I think I heard something along those lines as well...but it could be that either I am making it up, or a friend has, to boast of such a thing.
as per the question:
err...
as an actor I suppose I would say gene kelly, just because he is SO incredibly warm! He's really the guy everyone wants to know, and be with, and watch!
however! I suppose as a dancer...there is none so graceful as fred astaire. The orginal, and best.
(also would like to take this opportunity to say, I REALLY liked finian's rainbow. Im hopelessly biased, in that i had it on video probably before i even could understand what it was about. But it makes me happy. Though i suppose, some characters (namely the loose-moralled leprechaun Og) do not reflect very good values (what with singing such songs as "when Im not near, the girl I love") but he's SO cute! I think it was written as a broadway play in the 40's, I THINK...I like it. and even back to the point, to see how fred astaire STILL can dance at such an "advanced" age...is incredible.
also...I really appreciate the screen name-Liz Imbrie.)
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oh james stewart james stewart james stewart!
(so much for limiting myself to 5)
(and while Im at it, charles Laughton i think maybe deserves a mention.)
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actresses: (definatly not in order, and thinking must limit myself to 5--though I KNOW Im missing ones i should mention)
judy garland
Greer Garson
Katharine hepburn
Bette Davis
Greta Garbo
actors:
gene kelly
robert taylor
fred astaire
Cary grant
Spencer tracy
(and a bonus one just because i had a HUGE crush on him when i was small: Peter lawford.)
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favorite favorites, are definatly hepburn and spencer tracy, to be unoriginal like that. If ever Im in the mood for such things, they two make me happy! (oh so VERY happy!)
particularly, adams rib or woman of the year.
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While I wouldn't call it a 'great' movie, it had a great cast and I thought it was interesting enough. I didn't have to change the channel once (it was on TCM a while back). - Of course anything with Peter Lorre in it has my attention!
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Welcome, whatasalsa! I signed up a few weeks ago. Hope you stay around & chat! Thats some list! The ones I'd definitely agree on are:
GODFATHER
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
STARWARS
PRINCESS BRIDE (just watched Friday)
SCHINDLERS LIST
The only two I'm not sure about are CLOCKWORK ORANGE, because it is so intensely depressing,violent & strange,
(I liked it, but I am strange) and LORD OF THE RINGS. I'm sure many will disagree with that one, but I would prefer to see the books as classics, because now that they're in movie form, many people will probably skip the books and thats a real loss. There is so much more in the books, and the people in those films weren't much like the visuals I got from Tolkien's writings, especially the Hobbits. Whats-his-name looks more like an elf than a Hobbit.
I will get back to you with my picks, have to think about it a bit.
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I forgot to slap The Jazz Singer to the very top of that list.
Your Pix; Top 5 OSCARLESS PERFORMANCES???
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1. Karen Black in "The Day of the Locust"
2. Jessica Lange in "Frances" and "Sweet Dreams"
3. Joan Crawford in "Humoresque"
4. Greta Garbo in "Camille"
5. Nicole Kidman in "Birth"