FredCDobbs
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I recognize the actor. I got the title.
You are good at recognizing actors by looking at the back of their ears.
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So what I see again is mostly paranoia.
I was hoping you would see some humour.
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No doubt politicization of the arts is a serious subject, but I think the
worst aspect of leftist dogma was the attempt to ban supersized
soft drinks. That goes right to the heart of our society in a way
that art doesn't. If the commie manifesto contained eleven main
points instead of ten, you can bet that banning big gulp beverages
would have been that eleventh point.
And they are trying to take the fat out of our hamburgers! When will this all stop? What ban is next? No one is safe.
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Going to try this again. THE FILM IS THIS ABOVE ALL- recognized Gladys Cooper at the dining room table in shot#2 and I've seen this Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine film before
Thanks for the information. I'm watching the film now.
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Well dang!
There is a sequence in Out of the Past where Robert Mitchum moves a dead body from one apartment and hides it in a nearby apartment that is empty, filled with ladders and remodeling equipment. But this ain't it.
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In the spirit of happy international multiculturalism, these are three different and successful versions of The Mikado, as produced for US TV, and for live audiences in Japan, and England:
The 60 minute version, from The Bell Telephone Hour (on TV) in 1960:
Groucho Marx in THE MIKADO
(now, apparently, this old production is available on DVD):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T83W3rgQuXQ
This is interesting too:
From the NYT archives:
Japanese Hail 'The Mikado,' Long-Banned Imperial Spoof
(as performed in Japan in 2003)
By JAMES BROOKE
Published: April 3, 2003
No one here was quite sure how Minoru Sonoda, head priest of the Chichibu shrine, local reservoir of reverence for the emperor, would react when he learned that Makiko, his rambunctious daughter, would be playing the role of Yum-Yum in ''The Mikado,'' the Gilbert and Sullivan spoof of all things imperial.
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''It's a very nice play,'' Mr. Sonoda said later from the peace and quiet of his shrine. The priest said he had not heard any grumbling from the traditionalists, and noted that the operetta filled the 1,000-seat Prince Chichibu Memorial Theater night after night.
More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/world/japanese-hail-the-mikado-long-banned-imperial-spoof.html
This is also interesting:
The Chichibu Mikado:
Conductor and translator Toru Sasakibara, director Kyoko Fujishiro, original script and music by W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan.
Performed by the Tokyo Theatre Company as part of the 2006 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, 1 August 2006 (one performance only) at Buxton Opera House (in England)
Review by Sean Curtin:
For the first time ever a Japanese theater company came to the UK to perform the Mikado in Japanese to an enthusiastic British audience. The lively and brilliantly colourful production was part of the 2006 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Buxton, Derby. It perfectly blended Japanese and British elements to create an astonishingly successful hybrid which was true to the original, while incorporating some crowd-pleasing Japanese innovations. The standard musical numbers remained essentially the same except for two insertions of Japanese taiko drums pieces between the overture and the curtain rise and another for the well-received ballet scene towards the end of Act II.
Despite the fact that the audience was a largely non-Japanese speaking British one, they appeared to really enjoy the show. Most were Gilbert & Sullivan aficionados, so were familiar with the English lyrics and seemed to relish the opportunity of listening to them in a foreign tongue. Occasionally, the Japanese company broke into English at the points in the script where the characters discuss the difficulties of the English and Japanese languages. These scenes got lots of laughs, while the innovative ballet scene and taiko drums accompaniments were the highlights for many.
More here:
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Toby Wing, 1930s. Click to enlarge Toby.
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Fred,
Very funny post...though I think you are making a serious comment about the differences in how these women were represented in their given eras.
I did it as a joke and also seriously.
I think most of the girls of the 1930s in movies were more attractive and more feminine.
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No problem. I could hardly believe it was him when I saw it.
It looks just like him but in a very goofy way.
I wonder if Hollywood could make the rest of us look good, with makeup, capped teeth, and the right clothes? Maybe alll of us can be made to be handsome and good looking.
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Thanks for the amazing Errol Flynn photo
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A lot of this stuff looks familiar.
Hey, where is everyone else??
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Hmm. Is this a different guy?
I don't see any hat.
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Fred has very specific concerns related to protest that cause context providers to either alter or censor (not show), certain content like Charlie Chan movies by Fox.
Yes, and that is because the Fox Channel canceled their Chan film festival, all because of 1 small press release from an unknown person/group. And now a new guy is trying to do the same thing in an attempt to get theatrical companies to cancel their traditional productions of The Mikado (the classical 1895 version), by using the same whine-in-the-media technique, and I don't want to see The 1939 Mikado film suddenly disappear from TCM. I would also like to see the Fox Chan films be shown on TCM. I grew up watching them on many local TV stations as a kid in the 1950s and as an adult in the 1960s.
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I think it could have been edgier and more provocative in a few ways.
NOT worth $100:
WORTH $300:
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Looks like an apartment house.
On the right looks like a shadow of a Charlie Chan type hat.
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Hi.
I can't tell if that's a gas station or an entrance to a hotel or nightclub.
It looks like a multi-level city, such as downtown LA or San Francisco.
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Hello.... is there anyone out there today??
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Well of course when they cast an actor like Robert Young for the film they didn't know that he would one day be known as one of the most loveable fathers in T.V. history.
I wonder if audiences at the time had the same feeling? Maybe not, since the screen persona of some of the actors may not have been as well known to audiences at the time as they are to us, all these decades later. Robert Young had already made 56 films before this one, and in most of them he was a nice-guy type, like Robert Montgomery, and Robert Cummings.
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North West Mounted Police (1940) Gary Cooper,
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They look like deer to me.
Ok, sunset, wheat, and deer running through a field. Some hills in the distant background.
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Looks like wheat to me.
What else do they have around that place?
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Looks like a late 1930s or a 1940s Technicolor film, maybe set in the South or Midwest or East. The Yearling started with a similar scene, but not this one.
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The Strange Woman (1946)
I wonder if audiences at the time had the same feeling? Maybe not, since the screen persona of some of the actors may not have been as well known to audiences at the time as they are to us, all these decades later.
The Politicization of Art and Film
in General Discussions
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What a great collection of original old books.
You are probably one of the few people who realizes that reading the original books on these subjects will provide you with an accurate education, while reading modern books about these topics will only give you one-sided propaganda, filtered by the viewpoint of the modern authors.
I've got a copy of Mission to Moscow, by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, and a copy of One World by Wendell Willkie.