laffite

>For me, the most memorable line in the movie is when Astor says to Huston, "We?.....We?", when Huston has said "we'll go someplace". It's the first time he has implied a long-term interest in her. A wonderful moment. He doesn't even catch it. He goes and looks for the map. The scene ends well though, a well-crafted "love" scene. Edith Cortright is an immensely attractive character, I practically fell in love with her the first time I saw this film.

Shumberger, Violette : Agnes Morehead in *The Big Street*

>Well this member of the audience did NOT feel Catherine shutting out Morris from her life was a mistake. Morris was still after only money. My view is that Catherine had grown and was now ready to find a man that would love her for her character and not her money. The most plausible explanation. The snipping of the embroidery strand was the end of her old life.

The Big Street conversation while sitting at a patio

>See, I don't read it that way at all. I don't think the end of the movie was the end of their relationship. I think she just taught him a good lesson that night, and knowing him, he tried again and knocked on the door each night until she felt he had changed enough to let him back in. That's a curious comment. I haven't seen this in awhile so I took a look at the ending. I didn't see that, just me perhaps. I've always had a notion that she may commit suicide. When her maid says "You must finish it," referring to the embroidery, Olivia says, "I must finish it now, for I shall never do another." Later just as Morris arrives we see a close up of her snipping the thread on the embroidery. The thread of life. She has a curious look on her face as she mounts the stairs. Of triumph? Yes. Of a conviction of some sort? Hmm. IMO she kills herself before she lets Morris back into her life. I think that last scene shows that her mind is quite made up. >There is no way a woman is going to turn a hunk personified by Montgomery Clift away. You're going to teach him a lesson, bring him to his knees, and keep him so nobody else can have that fine gene pool. Montgomery is just an actor and as such has nothing to do with the story. Gene pool? This is a story about gene pools?

*CineM wrote about Jackie:* >you're lofty AND down to earth. >?you could be published. You're that good. Lovely post, CineM. And yours too, Jackie, absolutely wonderful. I want to second those two quotes that I know CineM will not mind my borrowing, these are two things that I have long admired about you. You express yourself so elegantly without the slightest trace of affectation. I don?t think that?s particularly common. And I have never mentioned it here but I have thought many times to myself that you are worthy of publication. CineM is absolutely right about that. A few years ago you wrote a review of a first-run movie showing in the theaters. There was no DVD yet, so you must have written the review from memory after just the one viewing, I don?t know, but I was simply bowled over by it. I had one of those reactions that CineM just wrote about. And I thought, this should have a wider audience than just here on the board (and to make it worse, this was down in the genre threads where hardly anybody goes, what a waste!) And that?s only one example. I do want to thank you, Jackie, for those oh so kind words you wrote about me, perhaps too kind I think, and to thank you for what you wrote about ALL of us, I am still mining my reaction but I know there is something wonderful and special about that post. I think you really honored us. Another thing, Jackie, and please forgive me if this sounds patronizing at all, there are things you sometimes say about yourself or in response to what others say about you that betray what I believe to be a genuine humility about your own writing that makes me believe that perhaps, although you are certainly aware of your worth, there might be a small part of you that nevertheless might not be ENTIRELY AND FULLY aware of how good you REALLY are. And at the risk of sounding smarmy (heaven forbid, please) I think there is something charming about that.

Quilty, Clare, played by Peter Sellers in *Lolita* (1962)

"Who took my Batmobile! Who took my Batmobile! Whaaahh!

Inglorious Basterds running on the beach

City Lights falling down a flight of stairs

Upon Approval ...of the OP, we might be willing to revive a certain moribund storyline with something out of one's own creativity, a new tale beginning with...

The Graduate fluke

Chimes at Midnight baptize

Random Harvest heinous

Hulot, (Monsieur), Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Yes, sorry for the confusion, probably not necessary for a game like this, please take the word in any way that brings up a title for you...again, sorry. harmony

>All I know is that if one uses WORD and then copies the text into this forum the quotation marks etc.. don't show up. Thank you. That explains a couple of other problems too, apostrophe's etc. "I should like to meet the ladies and gentleman of the press."

The Set Up harmony (fig.)

I?m trying to contemplate what it would have been like to walk into a theater in 1953 to watch ROMAN HOLIDAY without ever having seen Audrey Hepburn. She was so new and no one knew her. She must have made quite an impression.. *UPDATE* Laffite wrote: >I am halfway through ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) and am liking it. Everyone already knows how delectable Audrey Hepburn is and I think I knew it too, but I didn?t REALLY know it until NOW. She is introduced in this movie so I guess it?s her first, she is so young and fresh, positively adorable. Early on an Italian housekeeper runs her out of the bathroom and Audrey comes out wrapped in a towel. Talk about arresting. A few minutes later she says to Gregory Peck, ?Thank you for letting me sleep in your bed last night.? The context of that statement is squeaky clean but nonetheless to hear those words at face value coming out of the mouth of such an angel is, uh, well, arresting. (Have I mentioned how arresting she is? ) Strangely enough, there is something wrong with Gregory Peck. His role calls for some buoyancy, nimbleness, and banter in the style of light comedy and I don?t think he quite pulls it off for me. At least it?s not a persona that I associate with him and he doesn?t seem comfortable. Maybe he will get better for me in the second half of the film. As for Audrey, she will not get better. How can you improve upon perfection. I have reservations with Peck?s comedy, but he surely makes up for it with his nearly wordless performance at that scintillating press conference. Were ever the words I LOVE YOU ever been left unsaid, yet so clearly felt, on a movie screen?. I love everything about this. Audrey was positively divine. ?I should like to meet the ladies and gentleman of the press.? I guess not even Hollywood would dare have an English Princess run off with newspaper reporter. Either they had the scruple, or they did not want to offend the British Government (since, I learn, this very issue was in the news regarding the real Princess Margaret at that time). Or maybe (probably) they realized is was just better this way. I agree. == Above, the sentence: *I should like to meet the ladies and gentleman of the press* is supposed to be in quotation marks. Does anyone know how to get the quotation marks to work? Edited by: laffite on Feb 7, 2014 2:34 PM

>I can't remember the actress, but I also liked the little brunette who was crazy about Johnny Is this her? I?m sure not, I'm thinking now. This was in my files, this was Lana's friend. I posted extensively on this movie some time back and now I'm struggling to remember it. The actress shown was related to Thalberg, I believe. I capped her way back when because I think she is cute. I really liked that movie or shall I say I remember liking that movie, my failing memory. You make other references that are drawing blanks. Van Helflen was quite good, I remember that much. >i'm sure lafitte would agree that sun, warm trade winds, sea and 'treasure islands' are hard to beat. We are in accord Hope you enjoyed yourself as I suspect you did, and nice to see you again. Edited by: laffite on Feb 8, 2014 12:19 AM

Where Angels Fear To Tread bubble bath

Adele Cross in Scarlet Street

Wolf: arf, arf Dog: Hey that's my line

The Human Stain persuasive speech

Carrie (1952) piano solo