Bethluvsfilms

MR. SKEFFINGTON is one of my favorite Bette films. Yes, she's not very likable, but you could say the same thing about Julie Marsden in JEZEBEL or Regina Giddens in THE LITTLE FOXES. Fanny had such a feisty personality, maybe that's what attracted the guys to her (though once they had to live with her day and night, I wonder just how long they would have continued to have found it fascinating, probably not for very long). And I wouldn't say Fanny was flat out unattractive, maybe she wasn't any raving beauty but she was attractive enough that I could buy a lot of the guys fawning over her. As for the title character himself, well, he always struck me as kind of a loner ( SPOILERS: even though Fanny was only using him to get her beloved brother out of trouble) no doubt she turned on her charm with him overtime. It was only after they married he realized he'd been tricked by her. Fanny needed a dose of reality that looks weren't everything, and even though it came really late in life as they say better late than never. I am happy that she and Skeffington had a chance to finally come to terms with each other, especially when she saw he was blind.

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TO SIR, WITH LOVE

Margaret Hayes

I always loved her in that film too. Her character, Belle Rosen, was very brave and yes, her character's fate in there is heart-wrenching

Simon Oakland

Peter Falk

Alan Arkin

Carl Reiner

Glenn Ford

Awesome! Especially looking forward to THE SEARCHERS, with one of Wayne's most darkest performances (and his best IMO).

BLACKMAIL

FURY

DAMIEN OMEN II

As the monster in FRANKENSTEIN (1931), Boris Karloff terrified me as a child, I couldn't be in the same room when it was on TV. But as I grew older, I lost my fright and grew more sympathetic to him and realized he was as much a victim as those he unwittingly terrified. I don't remember if the TV version I saw showed the child's drowning though. I understand it was cut and wasn't shown on any station until years later when the FRANKSTEIN set came out on DVD.

33 and 39 I can watch again and again, 37 was way too weird for me, 38 I can watch from time to time though I can't say it's one of my favorites, and 40, well despite the love it gets from everybody else, I will NEVER sit through again if I can help it (I love Tom Hanks but not in this movie, though I know I am the minority on that).

INVISIBLE STRIPES

I like SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER too. As you said it had a great cast in it. And it was the only time I ever saw Katharine play a 100 percent, truly rotten character.

Can't say I was ever a fan of the ROSEANNE tv sitcom, or Roseanne either. So that's another show to avoid Parsons in. With some actresses, being shrill can actually be an asset. Shelley Winters can be shrill in some of her films, but dang, for me she at least makes it work.

Saw it, and I can't say I was sold on her acting ability on that film either (though I thought Joanne Woodward was excellent).

THE SEA HAWK

HATARI!

You can say that again!

THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?