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A woman at the head of a household: a portrait of the lady of the house They were all immensely surprised when Gweneth Cassella, the lady of the household, came through the front door, her own briefcase at her side. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/lady MIDNIGHT LADY ?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CkopWHvBuk

Whatever happened to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS on TCM?

Midnight 12 O'clock Twelve O'clock Matriarch Dame May Whitty Mrs. Bramson So? Which is it?

CITIZEN KANE snow globe, first seen on Susan Alexander's dresser (in front of old photo of young girl) the night Mr. Kane first meets her.

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Modern women's "fashions" are ugly.

Hi James, Rachael had no reason to hide the laburnum seeds in an envelope in a locked drawer of her room, except to use as poison to kill Philip. Since there were laburnum trees growing on the estate, and also growing on her estate in Italy, she had no reason to hide the seeds in her room except to kill Philip. Another plot flaw as that Philip signed over his entire estate to her, before she agreed to marry him and before they had time to get married. Nobody does this except a crazy guy. The laburnum doses were making him crazy just like they had made Ambrose crazy. In a more realistic situation, she should have married him and then poisoned him, and the entire estate would have been hers. She kept making him think she was in love with him, until after he had turned over the estate to her, and then she no longer needed him and didn't need to poison him. There was no mystery at the end of the film, except for the one the author tried to push off on us in a fraudulent manner. ===================== PS This film should have had a more solid ending, such as REBECCA did. It should have made it absolutely clear that Rebeca did try to poison Philip, and that he realized it at the end, and that he was sorry she died, but he was more sorry she had tried to kill him, since he loved her so much.

MORE SPOILERS......... Here is what New York Times reviewer, BOSLEY CROWTHER, wrote about it in 1952: “For Miss du Maurier's story, which has been masterfully mounted and staged by Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Henry Koster and Twentieth Century-Fox, is perforce a dubious quantity, so far as its ultimate effect is concerned, it being in essence a mystery that is never remotely solved.” This is exactly correct. The film has no ending, no solid ending, a mystery that is never solved and it is designed that way, that is, to have no ending. And this is not very satisfying. It would be like ending REBECCA when the new Mrs. DeWinter faints at the public hearing, with no conclusion to the film. Crowther also said this: This impulse of ambiguity, which runs all the way through the film and endows it with constant fascination and uninhibited suspense, considerably obliterates the effect when it crashes against the stone wall of the author's deliberate admission of inconclusiveness. And as one searches back through the complex of personality revelations and clues, one finds that the story is little but a package of deceptions and tricks. Hey! That’s exactly what I said in my first post..... “flip-flop tricks” is the term I used.

SPOILERS..................... I've been waiting for years to see this whole film, and I saw it today on YouTube. I think TCM has shown it before, but I've always missed it. Anyway, I don't like this film at all. What could have been a very good romantic mystery was merely a series of flip-flop tricks of the screenwriter and director, designed to confuse the audience and change the whole "plot" of the film every 15 minutes, right up until the very end, and beyond the end. I'll never watch it again.

I found this. Several of our people have posted information about these leaning boards, which were used by actresses who could not sit down in their tight dresses: http://misslindsaylane.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-hollywood-inspired-1930s-fashion.html For the screen, clothing above all, had to be photogenic. There was little concern for comfort and practicality. The dresses were too tight for the actresses to sit in. This meant that between the takes, it required them to recline on leaning boards.

My Cousin Rachel (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEkyugPaTY

Thanks. That's what I thought. I guess it wouldn't work for AlisonB (in her original post) to make a copy of the dress for herself to wear, unless she planned to just stand around in it and not walk.

Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946) IMDB keyword search term: TOWN SQUARE http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=town-square

Another clue please.

Can a lady walk normally in this type of dress? It seems too tight at the knees for the legs to swing freely. She doesn't walk much in this entire segment.

sounds accurate to me.

This prank is so danged funny!!!! These are real people on the street.

Were you there that week? How about the riot? Were you there the night of the riot?

I love her too. She was so beautiful and desirable in so many of her early films, and then still beautiful and desirable in many of her middle-aged films too.

The Wiki article said that some copies of the film for TV had the word "Trigger" dubbed in with someone else's voice. I don't know how they could make a movie today and use the original word. Seems like the original word would strongly distract from the basic story of the film and the airmen would no longer be heroes. How about making a modern movie and changing Everyone's name, including changing the true names of the military people? That is often done in some history movies.

Vautrin and Andy, I've enjoyed your discussion. You two seem to know a lot of factual information about the case, which I have studied in some detail myself. I was living in the deep south at that time as a young freelance photographer, and I saw people from both groups, the killer K-KK people and the Communist Party people who were working with the Civil Rights movement. It was a weird, hot, dangerous time in the South in those days (the 1960s), especially with crackpots like Oswald (on one side) and Walker (on the other side) stirring up people for their own personal egotistical crackpot reasons. And then a 3rd major crackpot, Jack Ruby, thrusting himself right into the middle of the situation fairly quickly.

Red Planet Mars 1952