FredCDobbs

How about Kid, Hey You, and Little Girl?

Ayn Rand’s 1947 testimony to HUAC. Starts on page 82. This is a book scan so there are some typos. http://www.archive.org/stream/hearingsregardin1947aunit/hearingsregardin1947aunit_djvu.txt

What an idiot! Quite often we NEED to be part of the collective.

Sorry, I missed your earlier reply. Yes, it is Myrna Loy. This has been a bad day for me. My first mistake was getting out of bed.

No, but she became as famous. She changed her image from this early silent-era look. She became known as an "Oriental type" for several movies, then a married lady, and later a screen mom.

It would make a good musical.

Ok, who is mine?

Madame Butterfly, 1932 Sylvia Sidney

I can't believe this!! While I was typing my response, you were posting yours!

Times have changed. He migh have been a female in the past.

Yes, this is a weird movie. I don't think it proposes ANY kind of specific and understandable "political" point of view. I think it just focuses in on a whole group of crackpots. The guy who designs the weird ugly buildings. The publisher who puts himself out of business. The girl who loves the designer, yet to prove some kind of political point, the marries the old guy whom she does not love. That doesn't even make any sense. She smashes her own hearth stone instead of just asking the guy for a date. Is there any weird hidden symbolism in her breaking her own hearth stone?? Then at the end, the guy blows up some other company's building, and the jury lets him get away with it. THE UPSIDE DOWN BUILDING IN THE MOVIE:

Nyaaaaa, I know, I know!

Yes.

Yes we are. Sorry for the confusion. I'm still half asleep. My photo is a different person from the 1920s-30s.

No.

You tricked us. I'll get you for this.

Yes, I wondered if they put something on her face because her face was chubby too.

She was very good as Victoria and is probably the best Victoria I've ever seen. She was older and chubby, at age 52 when the film was made. Wiki says the film was a big hit in England, and I'm sure the US problem was due to the ancient English accents. It sounds like a Chaucer play, i.e. pre-Shakespeare. Apparently, good British actors can speak in various accents, such as Chaucer, Elizabethan (Shakespearian), London neighborhoods, Irish, Scottish, and mid-Atlantic. Americans generally can understand only mid-Atlantic.

I'm watching THE MUDLARK (1950) now on Fox. I never heard of it before. Irene Dunne as Queen Victoria Alec Guinness as Benjamin Disraeli Andrew Ray as Wheeler Beatrice Campbell as Lady Emily Prior Finlay Currie as John Brown, Queen Victoria's servant It looks like a Charles Dickens imitation, based on a novel published in 1949. I can't understand a word they are saying because they are speaking British. I can't believe this is Irene Dunne playing Victoria. It looks like Victoria, but not like Irene Dunne.

I heard on CNN news several days ago that news people can no longer use the term Paddy Wagon because it is a derogatory racist term. I swear this is true. Seems that the term "Paddy" is a reference to a common first name of Irish men in New York in the 19th Century. The current approved substitute for the old term is now Transport Van. However, I suspect this might possibly be a racist insult against all men named Van, such as Van Johnson.

475 "Yes, I made the furniture myself out of plumbing pipes, old pillows, and scraps of cloth, and if you don't like it you can get out of my apartment."

Errol Flynn James Stephenson or Tom Conway

Kid, we had a thread about this dress several years ago, and someone turned up a color photo, from a movie poster I think, that showed the color of the dark stripes to be a pale lime green, with white stripes.