bhryun
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on the promo clip there is a scene with a lady chasing a man who jumps over the bed - the lady follows gun and hand and shoots the man in the back. what movie is this?
as a side note - i managed to randomly catch Nocturne for the first time a few nights ago, what an amazingly shot movie. man.
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I just found out that my recently deceased uncle was in an obscure Claudette Colbert movie called "Thunder on the Hill", 1951. Could someone please give me ideas as to how I can go about getting a copy of this movie. I have looked everywhere I know of. Comments will be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Liteguy
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Here's a few lesser known gems
Irene Dunne in 'My Favorite Wife' to Cary Grant - "I bet you say that to all your wives"
Carole Lombard in 'My Man Godfrey' to William Powell - "Can you buttle?"
Jimmy Stewart in 'It's a Wonderful World' to Claudette Colbert - "I need you like I need a giraffe."
Carole Lombard in 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' to Robert Montgomery - "Someday when your backed is turned, I'll stab you."
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I just picked it up. Will post on how it looks.
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I have always had a thing for Carole Lombard (that loveable silliness), Irene Dunne (that wonderful smile), Jean Arthur (that voice) and Claudette Colbert (those eyes)
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As if the screen name didn't give it all away, what about all the great screwball comedies and regular comedies from the the 1930s and 1940s? It seems like a lot of 'films noir' from the 1940s have been released recently or will be released in the next few months, but what about a few classic funnies like...
"Midnight" - Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert
"Miracle at Morgan's Creek" - Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
"It's a Wonderful World" - Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Stewart
"The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" - William Powell and Jean Arthur
"The Devil and Miss Jones" - Jean Arthur and James Coburn
"Love Crazy" - Myrna Loy and William Powell
"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" - Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper
"Easy Living" - Jean Arthur, Ray Milland and Edward Arnold
"Hands Across the Table" - Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
"Holiday" - Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn
"I Love You Again" - Myrna Loy and William Powell
"I Met Him in Paris" - Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas
"Joy of Living" - Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
"The Mad Miss Manton" - Barbara Stanwyk and Henry Fonda
"The Major and the Minor" - Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
"The Moon's Our Home" - Margaret Sullivan and Henry Fonda
"The Princess Came Across" - Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
"That Uncertain Feeling" - Melvyn Douglas and Merle Oberon...."Keeks!!!!"
"Too Many Husbands" - Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas and Fred MacMurray
"True Confession" - Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
...also anything else starring Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, and William Powell
I didn't offer this list to show off my knowledge of these old comedies, but treat it as a pathetic prayer that someone with the movie industry will happen upon this topic.
OK, like the rest of you, I could go on for hours about the movies I want on DVD. I mean, does the world really need seven different versions of "The Mummy Returns"? Also, if you're into these old comedies, all the "Thin Man" movies are getting released in a DVD boxed set in August and "Ninotchka" is coming out in September.
Well, off to the movies...
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I changed again. Sorry. Doris Day and Olivia de Havilland. That is my final answer. Thanks for cooperating with me. I'm just having a hard time finding who is still alive.
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Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone recognizes the following movie? I don't know if it is 100% correct but this is what I think..My sister told me this information and I'd really like to see it if it is a Hitchcock film.
A women and a guard make a plan to help her escape so they can be together. She is in prison and they make a plan where he helps her escape by attaching her to a dead body and burrying her. But the twist at the end is she is burried under him!
Is this an Alfred Hitchcock film? if so anyone recognize it and can repost with the title?
Thanks in advance.
Jalanna
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It actually isn't an original, it's just a reproduction. Sorry that I mislead you. I sure wish I had an original. I'm still glad to have it though.
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Sorry to change my mind again, but you can forget everyone I mentioned. I would like the address of Doris Day and any other well known actor/actress that is still alive. Thanks so much.
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Actually.....forget Lauren Bacall. Instead could you look up Maureen O'Hara? Thank you so much.
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Every once in a while when there is extra time between showing movies, TCM will put on their own short programs like "One Reel Wonders".
One of these programs is called "100 Years of Cinema" where they show short clips from most of the influentual movies of our time from the beginning up until 1994's Schindler's List. They have a musical score in the background that changes to different show tunes, depending on what movie they are on (i.e. Rock theme plays when they get to 1976's Rocky)......
Anyways....I know they run this program whenever they want to, and when there is spare time, but I wondered if there was a way to find out WHEN they will put it on........is it on the schedule so I can make sure not to miss it?
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Thanks so much! Could you look up Debbie Reynolds? Thanks you soooooooooooooo much!
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Casablanca (of course!)
Philadelphia Story
Maltese Falcon
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
My Man Godfrey
The Lady Eve
Annie Get Your Gun
Singin' in the Rain
These are just a few.
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I got my poster from my parents. You can find them at many print stores. Just look around. Good luck with your collection.
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Thanks for the replies....
And thanks Mongo for giving me the "gray haired guy's" name...lol..Robert Osborne....uggg I could not remember that for the life of me.
Castle
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Memorial Day always makes me think of the tumultuous events of the last century and the impact that all warfare, for good or ill, has had on individuals and societies. As a classic movie buff, it occurred to me that perhaps the social upheaval that accompanied the first great conflict of the 20th century, called contemporaneously The Great War or World War I, may have left its mark, physically and psychologically, on the creative people whose work as actors, directors and writers formed the ?golden age? of movies.
It may be going too far to say that a lot of people were ?liberated? by the war, but it certainly affected the lives of many of the creative people who, born at the end of the Victorian era or the early years of the new era became?instead of civil servants in colonial India, or the scions of mercantile firms, or lawyers or doctors or clerks?individuals who had the audacity to try to make a living in, of all things, the performing arts!
As I was mentally reviewing how the long shadow of The Great War may have cast itself across some of the lives of my favorites, I came up with the following first try at a compilation. I?ll make this first link in the thread Part One, and I hope to contribute further thumbnail profiles of the impact of WWI on film actors, writers and directors in the very near future?I hope that you?ll feel free to add others to my list along with your own reflections.
The list below, in no particular order, is a compilation of some of those whose lives, in film and in reality, by their participation in WWI:
Actors:
Ronald Colman: Working as an unhappy clerk after the death of his silk merchant father?s death, Colman had hoped to study engineering at Cambridge. He had participated in amateur theatricals prior to the war, but after joining the London Scottish Regionals and being sent to France, he was seriously injured at the battle of Messines within two months of his deployment. Several biographies cite the injuries that he suffered for giving him that slightly soft, warm voice that helped make him so memorable, though it also probably contributed to his lifelong susceptibility to lung problems that killed him in 1958. Perhaps his beautiful realized performance as the amnesiac casualty of war in Random Harvest came, in part, out of his first hand knowledge of war and its aftermath.
Basil Rathbone: Born in South Africa and raised in England, he was fascinated by theatre from a relatively early age. Rathbone, after leaving the Repton School prior to the war, followed his father?s wishes and worked as an insurance clerk briefly until he couldn?t stand it any longer, and embarked on a theatrical career that included appearances at Stratford-on-Avon. Rathbone served in the British Army during the war, eventually becoming a second lieutenant in the Liverpool Scottish, 2nd Battalion, and subsequently received the Military Cross of England for bravery, while working largely in military intelligence.
In a self-deprecating interview with Edward R. Murrow in 1957, Rathbone related the story of how, during his service, he disguised himself as a tree to get near the enemy camp to obtain information. "I went to my commanding officer and I said that I thought we'd get a great deal more information from the enemy if we didn't fool around in the dark so much . . . and I asked him whether I could go out in daylight. I think he thought we were a little crazy. . . . I said we'd go out camouflaged -- made up as trees -- with branches sticking out of our heads and arms . . . We brought back an awful lot of information, and a few prisoners, too." He also lost his younger brother John in WWI, and could never bring himself to forego his British citizenship, despite his many years working and living in the states. His moving performance as the commanding officer cracking up in the ?The Dawn Patrol? may owe something to his wartime experiences as well.
Walter Brennan: After studying engineering and working in vaudeville as well as a bank clerk and lumberjack prior to his enlistment in the United States army at the age of 23, he became a Private in the 101st Regiment Field Artillery, and spent two years fighting in France during World War I. His ability to play older characters during his career as an actor, probably owed something to the fact that he lost half of his teeth, and much of his hair, in a World War I gas accident. He also may have acquired that distinctively raspy voice of his from that event. After discharge in 1919, he spent some time working in Guatemala before settling in southern California and gradually making his way into movies, at first as a stuntman, where, in a way fortuitously, he lost the remainder of his teeth in an accident on a movie set in 1932. His three supporting Oscars validated that his warmth and appeal as an actor, as well as his versatility, were not inhibited by his unprepossessing appearance. At the end of his life, Brennan was also very well known for his conservative patriotism.
Bela Lugosi: Born in Hungary in 1882, Lugosi was already an actor when WWI broke out. He served as an infantry lieutenant for the Central Powers. He was wounded three times while serving, and, one wonders if this led to his first exposure to morphine, which later contributed to his sad demise. After the war, following his persecution for his activities as an actors? union organizer, (he was later instrumental in his support for the nascent Screen Actors Guild in ?30s Los Angeles), he emigrated to the U.S. playing his signature role as Dracula, along with all its horror variations until his death in 1956. Typecast by his early horror roles, this genre, according to several film commentators, bloomed perhaps in part due to the impact on Western culture of the unbelievable bloodletting that accompanied WWI?s grisly events. Of course, death, in all its grotesque, and sadly, given the weaknesses of human nature, attractive, forms became an underlying theme of popular culture, especially films.
Claude Rains: Born in 1889 into a large family in dire poverty in London, Rains was taken under the wing of the legendary stage actor, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as a boy working backstage. Tree had the insight to see Rains? potential, and paid to have him receive elocution lessons to erase the boy?s lower class intonations and lisp. While already recognized as a fine actor by 1913, ( he was said to be George Bernard Shaw?s favorite interpreter of his works), he joined the Scottish Regiment at the start of the war, and was gassed, losing most of the sight in one eye, and acquiring, like several of his colleagues mentioned above, a wonderfully distinctive voice?in Rains? case, a voice like rough velvet. His position as among the first rank of character actors was secured by his first role on film, as "The Invisible Man", a part that was truly dependent on the actor?s voice as well as his ability to play madness in a compellingly believable manner.
Raymond Massey: Canadian Massey was born into a very successful farm implement manufacturing family, Massey-Ferguson Tractors, and served in the Canadian army from 1914-1918. His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he left the firm and took a chance as an actor on the London stage. His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. In 1936 he starred in the somewhat nightmarish, though brilliantly conceived version of H. G. Wells' Things to Come. During WWII, Massey became closely identified with his perennial role as Lincoln, on stage and film as well as a series of Nazi fiends. However, the most moving, and according to the actor, the most fun role that he had during his tenure at Warner Brothers, was as the Merchant Marine captain dodging fate along with compatriot Humphrey Bogart in the memorable Action in the North Atlantic. BTW, most of the vivid scenes in burning ships and on rafts, were usually conducted, according to Massey, after he and Bogie shared a three martini lunch, which gave them the ability to face the controlled, but very real danger, with proper foolhardiness.
To Be Continued...
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This article pretaining to Roslyn Herman and several others are completely false. Damaging the credible and undisputed reputation of Roslyn Herman. She has been in business for 30 years, and has delt with all the major auction galleries, selling and buying movie memorabilia. Her consignees and customers are known the world over. This lethal article has been posted on Google for all to view. This person has no proof of his poisonous allegations,and yet he has been given the space to assassinate a person who has devoted her career to being honest and a hard working dealer. She checks out her items for sale and sells authentic items, with letters of authenticity.This is a rebuttal to the letter posted on May 2, 2005.....
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I am looking for something, I'm not certain of the title, but I would recognize it if I saw it, if there were a master list of Turner Classic Movies to browse.
I know I saw it on TCM. The title was short, 3 words, I think one of the words was Dark. The subject was fascism in the work-place. It's age cohort would have included things like The Night of the Hunter, and Robert Mitchum's Cape Fear.
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I have a Casablanca poster.
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Does anyone know the addresses of any classic movie actors that I could write to? Thanks
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Luckypenny84, I also starting getting into older movies with I LOVE LUCY. It's still my favorite TV show today. Casablanca was the movie that really got me to love classics. My dad showed it to me last summer and now I'm hooked. I just wished that my friends cared about them.
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I agree with you when you say that music is very important to a movie. Some movies with good music are Casablanca, Charade, and To Kill A Mockingbird. Those are just a few of my favorites.
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I watched a movie with my Dad about 2 weeks ago on this channel and we both loved it. I want to buy it for him for fathers day but I can't remember the title. Now the clock is ticking, so please if this description sounds familiar, help.
Two older guys have a small fishing boat, then a gangster starts making them pay to dock their boat, and the one guy who is a tailor has a daughter and she starts dating the gangster. It's set in Brooklyn, I think, and I believe the title has the word 'Fog' in it.
This would be the best fathers day gift EVER so if anyone has any idea PLEASE HELP!
Favorite Actors/Actresses
in Your Favorites
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ACTORS
Cary Grant (hands down)
William Powell
Jack Lemmon
Bob Hope
David Wayne (usually a supporting player, but no one was better at it}
Jimmy Stewart
Tony Curtis
ACTRESSES
Carole Lombard
Irene Dunne
Jean Arthur
Claudette Colbert
Myrna Loy
Dina Merrill
Katherine Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn