FredCDobbs
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I think this might be the original 1938 version of GODZILLA.
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MLA says either underline or italicize, but I see all caps, boldface, quotation marks etc too.
MLA and other text guidelines are generally for the old print media of newspapers and magazines, You know, the stuff we read back in the 19th Century.
The main TCM dot COM webpage uses different formats on the same page, but in different sections of the same page, such as ALL CAPS and BOLD, or upper and lower case, such as Gone With The Wind. Sometimes I see upper and lower case and BOLD, such as on the SCHEDULE page. The formats are standardized in each page section, but they vary from section to section.
For our message board headlines and general post text, just make it clear that you are mentioning a movie title inside a headline or sentence, such as "Did you like GONE WITH THE WIND?" or "Did you like Gone With The Wind?" You would not want to say "Did you like gone with the wind?"
Oh, and PS: An underline in computer text is often a HOT LINK and is not the same as an underline in an old newspaper.
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Ahh, I remember that day well.... It was September 29, 1960, the day the Jefferson Davis
Middle School Principal announced to the kids that their school was being desegregated
by Federal Court Order.
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I do not like the looks of this new film at all.
I just saw a preview clip on YouTube. Looks creepy to me. Reminds me of those two 12 year old girls who stabbed another 12 year old girl a few days ago, because of some computer fantasy character. Disney cartoons weren't so creepy when I was a kid.
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I was reading these posts and got to thinking of what I'd once read about Garbo's death scene in Camille. It's very subtle andother than the fact that she looks like Garbo and not like an end stage TB patient, fairly realistic. He's holding her and talking and she just stops. No dramatic gestures, no last words, just a sigh and it's over.
Anyway, I remember reading that people at the time were completely bowled over. Some thought she was really dead and some swore that they saw Garbo's soul leave her body. Forgive me, but that's a little "moronic..."
That was because films (and especially sound films) were still very new back then, and most people lived in rural areas and millions of them were not yet familiar with the "play acting" concept of films. Many people who went to see their first films (even many adults), thought the films were of real people doing real things. A phenomenon something like the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast in 1938. The people who fell for it did not notice the "time compression" phenomenon that was built into the script. The broadcast was less than one hour, yet the events in the radio play covered several days, which many people did not notice.
We are faced with something similar today: YouTube hoaxes that are made up of computer-generated fake video, such as people who seem to be hit by cars, the airplane that seemed to land ok after one wing fell off, etc.
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The Lifeboat
The Silver Chief
The Stagecoach
The Wind
The Titanic
The Forbidden Planet
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See my PM.
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Who is this actress who was popular in the 1940s. This could be difficult.
Looks like GLORIA JEAN to me.
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Cyrano de Bergerac 1950
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Finally I got a pix posted. This is an image of Jose Torvay, that engaging compatriot behind the beaming Alfonso. And he's also in The Last Sunset, though I rather doubt that many noticed him.
Is this him in BORDER INCIDENT?
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LOL, I'm beginning to think this is the famous FEMA film, "How to Shelter In Place".
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Kid, I hope you don't mind if I post some comments.
I usually don't watch these types of films, so I'm usually not familiar with them. However, some of your photos contain visual clues, just enough so that I can recall seeing film clips from this movie on TV. Just a few seconds, but many times over the years. It is a famous film.
But the oddest thing, for me, is that I noticed a kind of "fog" of the image, a photographic negative fog, in other words, a bad print from a bad negative. I've never seen a good print of this film.
Also, there is another very valuable clue that should eventually become obvious to everyone.
Anyway, I'm going to disqualify myself again.
You sure fooled me with the Pygmalion film.
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bansi4:
A true story from old Hollywood newspaper files:
In the early days of William Boyd’s career, in the 1920s, he played a handsome young leading man, before he became a cowboy star. Another older Broadway actor named William Boyd started making movies back in the 1930s too, and they both used the same name. However, the older Boyd kept getting arrested for public drunkenness, and one time the younger William Boyd’s photos turned up in newspapers, in error, as “the” William Boyd who had been arrested for public drunkenness.
The younger Boyd we all know threatened a lawsuit because of the error and was able to testify before a judge, causing the judge to issue an order that the drunken Boyd always be henceforth identified in movie credits as William “Stage” Boyd, since he had been a Broadway actor.
So that is why we see the William “Stage” Boyd’s name in credits in movies that were made in the later 1930s.
See:
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Sorry, Fred. Edythe "Eagle eye" vanhopper beat you to itGood for him!
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Kid, this is a good one!
Don't give up on us. We are still working on it.
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Fred and Kid,
Thanks.
I went back and put a Spoiler Alert on my post.
I still don't understand the ending of the film.
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SPOILER ALERT ABOUT "SECONDS". Do not read if you haven't seen the film yet.
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I liked Rock in SECONDS, but I don't understand why they strapped him down at the end, and why was he screaming? Were they going to kill him? Why would they kill him?
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Hi all!
The plot goes something like this there is a lady who comes into town, she seems like a nice lady and this lovable guy (maybe his name was Big John dunno why but that seems to maybe fit?) anyway this guy falls for her and wants to marry her and even finds a house for them but I think she refuses in the beginning because as it turns out she used to work in a brothel or a saloon, she had a shady past and she thought he deserved better. Anyway the movie seemed like it was set more in a western style but I'm not sure it was a Western.
Sounds like the end of STAGECOACH, 1939
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_98
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Great story Fred. Is that the picture of Gloria DeHaven that you took that day?
No, my photo was just a simple snapshot of a lady sitting on a bench inside a shop. At that time she looked just like any other random 52 year old lady who had gone out to the shop without bothering to fix her hair or put on any makeup. She didn't look bad, but she didn't look like the Gloria De Haven we all know from her early movies. She looked like an average human being, a completely average middle-class person who never expected to encounter a photographer that day.
On the other hand, I was able to photograph Ava Gabor at the Premier of some big new movie at the Pantages in Hollywood, and she was all dolled up and fully made up and ready for the cameras. She looked great, but she had gone to a lot of trouble to look great.
Judy Garland was there, and she looked sort of middle-class at that time.
It was the movie about the big 19th Century car race with Jack Lemmon, THE GREAT RACE. Lots of famous actors where there that night. Big crowds of people, flashing spotlights filled the sky.
I was in LA that time for about three weeks, and I also filmed David O. Selznick's funeral at that time, in late June of 1965.
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I think this thread is going slightly off track. It is not about wealthy movie stars (who invested their studio earnings well) or about the ones who wound up down and out in their final days.
I was hoping we could discuss the ones in the middle more-- the ones that get overlooked because they do not fall into the extremes.
One time I was sitting in a CB radio shop in the Sherman Oaks/Studio City area of North Los Angeles, in the Valley, and I was waiting while the manager helped a customer, a little ol’ lady, who was sitting quietly next to me.
After a while the manager, who knew me quite well, asked me if I knew who I was sitting next to, and I looked at the lady and said “No”.
He said, “This is Gloria De Haven”.
I was embarrassed when my jaw dropped, and I had a stunned look on my face, because I realized she did not like looking her 52 years of age. Nobody would have recognized her. No-body. I asked if I could take her picture and she said ok. So I did, and later I dropped off a copy of the photo at the shop and the manager gave it to her. Later the manager said she would like some more copies to put in her current portfolio. That surprised me, but I think it was because the lighting was just right and her wrinkles didn’t show up.
Anyway, she had become San Fernando Vally Middle-Class and made only about one minor film or TV show a year. I see on Google images that she must have had a make-over and continued to make more and more TV shows, and was able to make herself over as an attractive older mother and grandmother.
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A number of stars invested in Los Angeles real estate back when it was very affordable to do so.
They could have sold the property years later at very hefty profit.
"Gerald O'Hara: Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."
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Format for movie titles?
in Information, Please!
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That’s what I was taught in high school too, but that was back in the days of typewriters, and typewriters didn’t have any italic keys, so the underline method was used in typed manuscripts to indicate a book title, movie title, song title, etc., and the final newspaper and book typesetters could translate the underlined manuscript text into italics for final publication.