traceyk65
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}
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> In private matters the 1st Amendment does not apply. The Breen Office, which administered the Motion Picture Production Code from 1934 to the late 1960's, was an institution whose dictates the studios signed onto voluntarily; as such, the studios were merely agreeing that an impartial arbiter (Breen) would judge what content was, and was not, acceptable in Hollywood's films. The impartiality of Breen's vetting was meant to take the place of the patchwork of local and state censorship boards, whose banning of films, or excising of what they ruled was material inconsistent with the local "standards" and "morals," which wrought havoc among the studios, which simply couldn't tailor films to suit every locale as a matter of sheer economics and logistics.
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I would hardly call Breen "impartial." He was a hyper-religious, anti-semetic, homophobic, bigoted, male chauvinist prig who really did want to dictate morality. The studios signed oin because they felt they didn;t have a choice--he had threatened boycotts in major cities w/ large Catholic populations and the studio heads caved-in to save their profit margin.
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> I would take a remake of a proven classic any day over the "original" storytelling that is being churned out now. Seriously. I would take a miscast remake of GONE WITH THE WIND over an Ashton Kutcher sex movie.
"Aston Kutcher" and "Sex Movie" are two phrases I never would have put together. He's just not sexy. He's like Sexy's goofy little brother...
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*Birthdays:*
*Harry Carey Sr*
The Night Rider:
*Yet another tribute to Westerns and the Cowboy Stars:*
*Alexander Knox*
The Longest Day (Fonda, Wayne, Burton, McDowell, Mitchum and Robert Ryan go on a beach outing in Normandy along with Eddie Albert, Robert Wagner, George Segal and Richard Todd(Alex Knox is in there somewhere)) :
*Everyone?s a star in these movies:*
Grand Hotel
(Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Jean Herholst)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cxLJw3rSE
Dinner at Eight:
(John and Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lee Tracy, Billie Burke):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPpfAAPf0x0
Murder on the Orient Express
(Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Perkins, Michael York, Jacqueline Bissett and more):
Death on the Nile
(Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, David Niven)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaUP3LCXCZA&feature=related
The Lansbury Tango:
The Ten Commandments
(Charleton Heston, Anne Baxter, Edward G Roninson, Yul Brynner, Yvonne deCarlo, Vincent Price)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXyEcMG5bDs&feature=related
Ramses!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-u6PwFfLA&NR=1&feature=fvwp
It?s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Ceasar, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters cameos by: Zazu Pitts, Buster Keaton, Edward Evrett Horton, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, The Three Stooges):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZzOIG1g3Q
Around the World in 80 Days
(David Nivens, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Caesar Romero, Ronald Colman, Peter Lorre and many more):
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}
> h4. It is awful, isn't it?
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> I saw a movie the other day where this woman had a love affair with a man she just met. She didn't tell him anything about herself, for, well, it would have been a big turn off. It turns out she was married to a guy that had died in Concentration camp only weeks before! Then, she dumps her new lover as he's waiting to marry her!
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> A year later, she meets old lover by accident in another city and they start up where they left off!
> AND GET THIS! Her husband didn't die after all, and is with her in this other city!
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> I am going to watch this again . .
You are killing me. LOL
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*Birthdays:*
*Lloyd Bridges:*
Sea Hunt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD7cMjBr2ZA&feature=related
Airplane!:
Starring on ?Suspense?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ltbBkIyYI
*Classic Movie Stars on TV:*
*Guest Spots:*
Bette Davis on Gunsmoke:
*Joan Crawford:*
Scrubbing steps on The Lucy Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGa4M0zmOLI&playnext=1&list=PL3CA803BCCC5016EA&index=79
Getting? a barefoot feelin? drinkin? Mtn Dew:
On The Night Gallery:
*Rock Hudson on Dynasty:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s_n5RzSkEM
*Harpo on Lucy (well not literally):*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iNLlYOgFZ4&feature=related
*A Rogues? Gallery of Batvillians:*
*Starring Roles:*
Barbara Stanwyck on Big Valley:
Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons:
The Loretta Young Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRUkk24l4Ng
The Doris Day Show:
Eva Gabor on Green Acres :
And of course?LUCY! (and Desi):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3P8JSvxVmc
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 15, 2011 10:52 AM
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Lauren Bacall has had the same 'do since the 40's, but on her it works.
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Eve Arden in Mildred Pierce
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What about Jane Wyman? She had (more or less) the same 'do from about 1950 all the way through the Falcon Crest years.
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> {quote:title=gwtwbooklover wrote:}{quote}
> traceyk65-I've read Flynn's Wicked ways and I overall appreciated his candidness but this still made me want to if I could slap him up side the head. Asking myself What were you thinking..How could you do that...Really? But his observances of human behavior or his sharing with you what he has learned was eye opening. He wrote this1949-50? Just wait till you read his explanations of Objective Burma! His philosophies on life (whether you agree with it or not) and his views on women.
Ive picked up a bit of his views on women...and brown people...but I have to remember that he had the same attitudes that most white males had then. He does have some amusing anecdotes however--getting caught in a whorehouse in Havana that happened to be across the street form a Catholic Girls' school full of admiring jailbait, picking up a transvestite in Harlem etc, etc
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*Birthdays today:*
*Harold Russell:*
*William Bendix:*
Babe Ruth Story:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=354797
Kill the Ump trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIc6wSj1hac&playnext=1&list=PLC328032A9A8C6FFC&index=2
*Baseball Heroes in Movies:*
*Baseball Movies:*
Pride of the Yankees:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6cJiiSTz0
Fear Strikes Out:
The Bad News Bears:
My Favorite Baseball movie?A League of Their Own:
?There?s no crying in baseball!?
Katharine Hepburn goes to the ball game:
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> >Janet Gaynor--$252,583/ year:
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> Nice tribute to Janet Gaynor....but what was up with that shot of Clara Bow in the middle of it???
No idea--I missed it the first time--maybe the maker thought it was Janet??
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> If an actor was expected to smoke in a movie, but was a non-smoker, was there an alternative to real cigarettes that he or she could use? (no reefer jokes, please)
You can fake it--just pull the smoke into your mouth and don;t inhale. (No Bill Clinton jokes, please
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> She was wonderful in "Witness", but one of my favorite performances of hers was a film I haven't seen in at least 25 years. It's the 1947 production of "Golden Earrings", she plays a gypsy who saves Britisher Ray Milland during WW2. It was a fun film with some dramatic turns with the Nazi's after Milland. She looked great. I seem to remember it in color, but it could be a trick of the mind, like "Yankee Doodle Dandy"....
B & W. But I kept picturing it color too, especially the gypsy costumes.
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> traceyk65,
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> Hey! Don't forget about *TIDE OF EMPIRE* the week before.
I'll put it on my DVR list.
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*Merry Christmas and Happy Smoking! (I know there's something VERY wrong with that...):*
*?Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking. ?*
*(and sadly, they make it look good )*
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I know it's totally silly to admire someone for smoking, but they did it with such style...Anything with Marlene Dietrich or Bette Davis. Dietrich even rolls her own in Destry Rides Again.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Very nice, tracey. Now I want to see both those Dietrich movies - I've never seen either. (By the way, even if *Song of Songs* is a pre-code, surely it wasn't shown in North America uncut? That nude drawing, the statue - shocking ! Oh wait, I bet if I looked it up I'd discover it's a European film, probably German, right? )
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> No, I looked it up and it's an American film (Rouben Mamoulien). Still, pre-code or not, did they leave those shots of the statue and drawing unedited?
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> Edited by: misswonderly on Jan 12, 2011 5:12 PM
> misspelt "Dietrich"
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> Edited by: misswonderly on Jan 12, 2011 5:16 PM
As far as I know, yes they did. They even sent out replicas of the statues to display in theatres. Some places put clothes on them! LOL
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*Birthdays today:*
*Robert Stack:*
In To Be or Not to Be w/ Carole Lombard:
In Airplane!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszrLYK_LA0&feature=related
*Kay Francis?one of the highest paid actresses of her time:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-irptoooHs&feature=related
*Highest paid actresses of the 1930?s:*
Carole Lombard--$500,000 a year:
Ruth Chatterton--$8000 a week:
Mae West--$8500 a week:
Marlene Dietrich--$450,000 for one picture in 1936:
Greta Garbo--$250,000 a picture:
Claudette Colbert?$427,000 in 1938:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN6U8pgO-gI
Joan Crawford--$9700 a week in 1937:
Janet Gaynor--$252,583/ year:
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> There is only one film I know of that shows Marlene out of character. It is ?Dishonored? (1931), in which she briefly plays a peasant Russian maid at a WW I military headquarters. She is unrecognizable in her maid?s makeup and costume, and she plays a character unlike anyone has ever seen her play before or since.
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> http://www.thewoodmovie.com/images/cache/screen_image_272561.jpg
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> This one film reveals that her famous Dietrich persona, that we all know, was not the true Dietrich, and was, I fact, the creation of her director, Josef von Sternberg
She plays a young innocent in both Song of Songs and at the beginning of The Scarlet Empress which is pretty different from the worldly, jaded types she usually played. She's really very good as the country girl in Song--when she drops her clothes for the artist, she acts like you'd expect the character to--ashamed but determined and when she goes romping through the fields with him later, she looks very contented and happy, without a bit of irony. She doesn't do so well in Empress--over-does it a bit with the wide eyed wonder--but it still works. More or less.
She reverts to type in both, about halfway through. Kind of like getting two Marlene's for the price of one.
Song of songs:
Empress:
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> It wouldn't be much of a fight.
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> Doesn't Liechtenstein sounds like the name for a gay Frankenstein?
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Lichtenstein: the Gay Prometheus...LOL
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Reading Flynn's _My Wicked, Wicked Ways_ right now. Very very candid. Whew. Interestingly, he claims to have been very uptight during love scenes on camera, which is exactly the opposite reported by Bette Davis of him. She claims he tried to stick his tongue down her throat.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> My knowledge of late 1950s womens' intimate apparel is rather thin, but I seem to
> remember that Lee confided to Jimmy that she didn't wear one. Whether that was a
> big deal in 1959, I'm not sure. Can't remember Eve Arden's status in that regard.
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> So...um...Mrs...I mean Laura...you don't...er...wear...one of those...er...things...either...
> well, um...I suppose...I mean I guess...that's...well...your own...um... business. Now
> about your...well...um...your...your pant...your...personal...below...those...er
> garments down there...now...um...you...said...they're...rather...small...and...er...dainty
> ...um...do you mind...I...need a...um...drink of water.
I remember my mom using one (with those garter clip thingies attached) as late as the early 70's and as far as I can remember (I was pretty young at the time) she didn't need one at that point in her life.
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*Birthdays today:*
*Luise Rainer is 101 today!*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX25GTZXPGw&feature=related
*Well, it worked for Luise Rainer?*
Katharine Hepburn et al in Dragon Seed:
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan:
Peter Lorre as Mr Moto:
Myrna Loy and Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu and daughter:
And Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany?s--oh my.:
I have a new idea for a make-over reality show
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I wonder who got Hepburn to stop skinning her hair into such a tight knot back in the 50's. In practically every film she made and every "candid" photo I've seen she has her hair pulled up in a skimpy little knot that makes her look even more gaunt and skeletal than she was during those years. By the 60's, however, she'd relaxed a little and while she still had her hair up in a bun, it was much looser and more feminine-looking.