FredCDobbs

You were watching the end of ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

Well, it's sort of a fantasy movie. You are allowed to believe either way. You are allowed to belive that they did really change and that he did really hug her, but you are also allowed to believe that they did not change but only felt like they changed. In other words, he didn't really hug her with both arms, but mentally thought that he did or pretended he did or remembered (incorrectly) that he did. Or, you can believe in "magic" and say that he really did but that such magic didn't happen when anyone else was around. Some audience members will believe one way, and others will believe the other way. It's like Snow White and the 7 dwarfs. You can believe they are real, or you can believe they are not real. Whichever way you want to believe. To me, they are real.

Walmart shoppers, as they see themselves: http://pics.livejournal.com/b_a_n_s_h_e_e/pic/0000yr0z

>In the Enchanted Cottage when the couple sees themselves as beautiful, how is Robert Young Abel to use his right arm? He acts physically like we first see him but how if he cannot use his arm? He doesn't notice that he can't use his right arm. It's like an older man who limps who doesn't notice he limps and gets upset when someone mentions it. It's like a guy who is losing his hair who doesn't notice that he's losing his hair, but everyone else notices. It's like Blanche DuBois not noticing that she's crazy. So, when when Robert Young thinks he looks good again and can use his arm again, he really doesn't look good and doesn't notice that he can't use his arm. Strangely, I once knew a young couple who, individually, were fairly ugly. I met them separately. Later I met them together and I found out they were married. All of a sudden, they looked like a really attractive couple to me. A strange effect, a strange trick of the brain. What is "ugly", what is "beauty"? I swear, that couple suddenly looked very good as soon as I first saw them together and was told they were married. They suddenly looked very good to me and they were a cute couple. Life is strange.

>did anyone else ever notice in HIS GIRL FRIDAY, a reporter, sitting on a table by a window of the press room that shows a staicase on the other side, would contort himself to be able to look up the dresses of women who climbed that staircase? That scene is at about 3:26 into this clip:

>So if Shirley had come along at some other time, she wouldn't have become a star? The time she came along helped her brief career, plus she was lucky that sound was in and she had a cute voice and could sing, dance, and remember her lines. People liked cute kids. I think fewer movie-goers today like kids. She could carry a film all by herself. She seemed to like working so she made a lot of films in a short amount of times and never seemed tired. She made 42 films (including shorts) between the ages of 4 and 10. Today, have you noticed that many actors let a lot of time go by in-between their films? So for modern cute kids, they can grow up before they've made more than about two or three films. So they can't become a child star for very long. In fact, one reason we don't have too many famous young female stars like Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Crawford is that stars today don't seem to make as many films each year. By the time they become noticed and then make their fourth film after that, they are old.

I agree. I think Drue is a sweet lovely lady. I enjoy her very much and I hope TCM keeps her a long time. She and Bob really get along well and seem to like each other very much.

Say buddy, will you stake a fellow American to a meal?

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See this: http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Francis,%20Kay/Annex/Annex%20-%20Francis,%20Kay%20(Man%20Who%20Lost%20Himself,%20The)_01.jpg

Maybe A Farewell to Arms?? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050379/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37

>Kay wears some truly ridiculous outfits, such as one with a severely oversized bow and another that might be more backless than Jean Harlow's outfit at the end of Dinner at Eight. > >Other than that, it's a bunch of vapid piffle. That sounds Great! My favorite kind of Kay Francis films!!

>I've seen Blue Velvet. Is that close? No, it is similar to National Velvet, but without the horse.

*Living on Velvet* (1935) Kay Francis, Warren William, George Brent *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOWMS56Dno*

Thanks. So it is pronounced: Poll-Glaze ?

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George Sanders really helps make this very good and even a great film. Clever idea, carried out well, good script, and Sanders helps makes this film a really good one. And I think the director did an excellent job of making all the blonde kids seem alike and act alike. They really look real. Other opinions?

>Fred, you're so confused. Dodsworth doesn't end up with the actual actress Mary Astor. James, your statements are becoming a little silly.

>I agree that Astor the ACTRESS is younger and better looking than Chatterton the ACTRESS. But note that Dodsworth the fictional CHARACTER doesn't end up with either ACTRESS. Yes he does. He winds up with Mary Astor, the actress playing Edith. Mary was much younger and better looking than Ruth, and that's why they cast them like that. That's what they do when casting actors and actresses for movie. Edith was much younger and better looking than Fran. See: Casting 101, UCLA Film School

Surely you noticed the padding around her stomach and rear end and hips. Typical of the character she was playing. She wasn't ugly, she was just 44 years old and looked it. While Mary was 30 and looked it. It took a while for old Doddsworth to begin to notice Mary's figure and good looks, but in the end, that's what he went back to. *Baroness Von Obersdorf: [to Fran] "Have you thought how little happiness there can be for the... old wife... of a young husband?"*

>You're a hoot Fred. Just look at them, James. Mary Astor is much younger than Ruth Chatterton, plus Chatterton is either fat or has padding under her dresses to make her have no youthful figure. Mary has a younthful figure and is only 30 years old and looks only 30 years old.

>FredC, > >But Mary Astor's character, Edith, was closer to Fran's age than Mary actually was at the time she played the role. I've got eyes. I can see. Dodsworth's chubby older wife winds up with no younger man, while Dodsworth winds up with a younger thin woman. End of story.

Mary Astor was 30 years old when she made the film, while Ruth Chatterton was 44, and they both looked their true ages. Walter Huston was 53.