traceyk65

January 12, 2011

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}

> Sometimes you Americans can be a little weird, especially at the Canada/US border crossings. Read this link:

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> http://ca.news.yahoo.com/womans-candy-egg-seized-border-20110110-145449-459.html

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> And Whitman's chocolates aint got nothin on Kinder Surprise....

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> Edited by: misswonderly on Jan 11, 2011 5:16 PM

"The U.S. takes catching illegal Kinder candy seriously, judging by the number of them they've confiscated in the last year. Officials said they've seized more than 25,000 of the treats in 2,000 separate seizures"

Wow. If only were so good at catching drug smugglers...Do you suppose there is a "Kinder Egg Czar" in charge of this effort?

January 12, 2011

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}

> That's hilarious. Speaking of Uncle Fester, I actually thought that the Arizona shooter looks like a young version of Fester, at least in that shot released yesterday with his hair shaved.

****. That was my first thought too!

January 11, 2011

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}

> If it took more than two seconds to figure out that puzzle, you're disqualified. And since you have now revealed your answer to everyone on the board, I hereby deem the contest invalid. *; )*

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> (Besides, the answer is really Towery Peron, a very tall member of the Eva Peron clan who tried to make it in movies.)

Well boo. And I really wanted the trip to the World's Fair too...

January 11, 2011

To get back to the original topic, I can;t bring myself to watch Kiss Me...just the title sets my teeth on edge. My favorite BW's are (in no particular order) :

Witness for the Prosecution

A Foreign Affair

Some Like it Hot

Double Indemnity

Ninotchka

Midnight

Sunset Blvd

January 11, 2011

> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote}

> > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}

> > > Witness for the Prosecution is fun as hell, but something about it doesn't add up in the end (to me);

Me either. The original Agatha Christie short story "Witness for the Prosecution" ends after Christine (Romaine in the story and the play) says, "I knew he was guilty." One of those classic surprise endings short story writers love. But when she turned it into a play in the 50's, Christie tightened up the story (which was good) and changed the ending because she didn't like Vole getting away with murder. I personally like the short stpry ending--think about the film and in your mind ends it after Christine says, "You don't understand. I knew he was guilty." Doesn't it play better that way?

January 11, 2011

> {quote:title=phroso wrote:}{quote}

> . My guess is that if an entire print of the film were ever to be assembled, that these scenes would all precede the lengthy story involving the dead parakeets and the Loch Ness monster.

OK. Just based on that sentence alone, I *HAVE* to get a hold of a copy of this movie!

January 11, 2011

Thanks for the imput you all. I don't know what to think--I guess I'll have to watch it and decide for myself...

January 11, 2011

WER-YOT-NO-PER =Tyrone Power

Now where's my $1500?? LOL

January 11, 2011

*Birthdays today:*

*Rod Taylor is 81 today:*

The Time Machine:

Rod vs The Birds:

*Lionel Stander:*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCh5HPcRWRw&feature=fvsr

The Voice:

W/ Betty Davis in The Wicked Stepmother:

*Hal Roach Studios:*

*Laurel and Hardy:*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVWQEhwUBS4&feature=related

*Our Gang:*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDO7W7uP7E&feature=related

Just the Ladies:

The He-man Woman Haters? Club:

Buh-wheat sings! Eddie Murphy?s Tribute to the Little Rascals:

*Not just comedy?Billie Holiday LIVE from Hal Roach Studios:*

January 11, 2011

Thanks! No idea where I got those dates...

January 11, 2011

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}

> > {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}

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> > By the way, does anyone besides me have trouble of thinking of Jackie Coogan being married to Betty Grable? Uncle Fester married to the pin-up queen?

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> If I had had anything in my mouth when I read that, I would have spit it out!

LOL Here's a wedding picture!

January 11, 2011

*Birthdays today:*

*Paul Henreid:*

Viktor and Ilsa:

Deception:

Golden Age of Hollywood Drama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Q9K0npBvQ

*Ray Bolger:*

The Harvey Girls:

They deleted this???

*, Francis X Bushman:*

Scarlet Arrow Trailer:

Ben Hur (1925) chariot race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWEpQiYgZo&feature=related

*Sal Mineo*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2pLOeCFP-s&feature=related

On Shindig:

January 10, 2011

Speaking of lists, I received the book 501 Must See Movies for Christmas last year and have been working my way through it, just to see if I can. (I am up to about 311 at the moment.) Here's a link to the list:

http://www.rinkworks.com/checklist/list.cgi?u=bringtherain&U=sirdizzy&p=501mustseemovies

What do you all think of this list?

January 10, 2011

I went through my list of movies I own on DVD or VHS and noticed that I tend to get on "kicks" about certain stars or directors. These are the actors/directors I seem to have the most of:

Hitchcock: 35

Katharine Hepburn:20 plus 3 w/Cary Grant and 6 w/ Spencer Tracy

Dietrich: 21

Bette Davis: 18

Spencer Tracy: 11 (including w/ Hepburn)

Cary Grant: 7 plus 3 w/ Hepburn, 1 w/ Dietrich, 2 w/ Mae West and 4 Hitchcocks

Loy/Powell: 13 plus 2 Myrna Loy and 5 William Powell

George Cukor:16

Billy Wilder: 10

William Wellman:9

Howard Hawks:8

W S VanDyke: 6

Mitchell Leisen: 5

January 10, 2011

I see that this will be showing on January 30 and I am looking forward to seeing it for the first time. My question is, am I going to be disappointed by it? Everything ive read about it indicates it's really amazing, but is it really? Anyone know?

January 10, 2011

That Jackie Coogan story just kills me--how his mother could have taken all his money when he earned it...he won that lawsuit didn't he? Didn't they pass a Jackie Coogan law or something requiring parents to set up trust funds for their child stars? I think Shirley Temple was in a similar position when she got to be 18 as well.

January 10, 2011

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}

> I don't view Holiday as a New Year's movie either (but certainly not a Christmas movie).

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> For a great New Years comedy there is It's Love I'm After with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland. The story is set on New Years eve and day. One of the top comedies of the 30s.

Very funny movie. I think it, All About Eve and (to a lesser degree) The Bride Came C.O.D. prove that Bette Davis could hold her own in a comedy.

January 10, 2011

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}

> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}

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> > And of course the kiss...and Madonna thought she was soooo risque for kissing Britney Spears a few years ago. *Marlene did it in 1930!*

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> I repeat, Britney wasn't alive then...

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> And, Marlene wasn't alive in 2003...

OK I'm a little slow...not enough sleep lately.

January 10, 2011

On one of the programming challenges a while back, I did a thing with re-makes. Here's what I came up with:

Pre-code vs Post Code:

Red Dust 1932/ Mogambo 1953

When Ladies Meet 1933/ When Ladies Meet 1941

The Last of Mrs Cheney 1929/ The Last of Mrs Cheney 1937

Silent/Talkie Remakes

Blood and Sand 1922 / Blood and Sand 1941

Love 1927 / Anna Karenina 1935

Robin Hood 1922 /Adventures of Robin Hood 1938

What Price Glory? 1926 / What Price Glory? 1952

Foreign Remakes part 1

Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986 / Boudu sauve des eaux 1932

Three Men and a Baby 1987 / 3 hommes et un couffin 1985

Breathless 1983 / a bout de souffle 1960

Diabolique 1996 / Diabolique 1955

Classic/Modern Remakes

Father of the Bride 1991/ Father of the Bride 1951

Born Yesterday 1950 / Born Yesterday 1993

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 / Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978

Foreign Remakes part 2

Love in the Afternoon 1957 / Ariane 1931

Magnificent Seven 1960 / Seven Samurai 1954

Rashamon 1950 / The Outrage 1964

Remake of a Remake--Doh!

Little Women 1933/ Little Women 1954 / Little Women 1984

Love Affair 1939 / An Affair to Remember 1949 / Love Affair 1994

Brewsters Millions 1921 / Brewster's Millions 1935 / Brewster's Millions 1978

Musical Remakes

Philadelphia Story 1940/ High Society 1956

Ninotchka 1939/ Silk Stockings 1957

Bachelor Mother 1939/ Bundle of Joy 1956

Anna and the King of Siam 1942 / The King and I 1952

The Women 1939 / The Opposite Sex 1956

Pygmalion 1939 / My Fair Lady 1964

Shop Around the Corner 1937 / In the Good Old Summertime 194

There's also recently the movie Dinner for Schmucks, which is a remake of the french film, Le diner des cons (1998) and I don;t know this for sure, but Get Him to the Greek sounds an awful lot like My Favorite Year. And wasn't City of Angels a remake of a german film?

Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 9, 2011 10:06 PM

Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 9, 2011 10:08 PM

January 10, 2011

> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}

> I am not that familiar with Dragon Seed having never read the book but The Good Earth is one of my absolute favorite novels (and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and I want to see it done right not with actors in Yellow Face.

Dragon Seed starred Katharine Hepburn as a Chinese woman. Not a good role for her, though she tried. It wasn't a bad story (she gets involved with the Chinese Underground during WWII against the Japanese and in one scene manages to kill off most of a garrison by poisoning their soup)--it might be good as a remake with an actual Asian cast...

January 10, 2011

> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote}

> Not many are aware that "Holiday" was first filmed in 1930, with Ann Harding in the role Katharine Hepburn played eight years later. (I believe Hepburn did play it on stage before she entered films in 1932.)

She got the role, but was fired before it opened. She thought it was because Leslie Howard didn;t like her. Or possibly becasue she was nearly as tall as he was.

January 10, 2011

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}

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> I am looking forward to Furious Love the story of the love affair between Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, which they say will break your heart. I have it on my Kindle but have to finish Jeanine Basinger's Silent Stars first.

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> Edited by: lzcutter for additions

_Silent Stars_ is excellent! While Bassinger talks about some better-known silent stars, like Gloria Swanson, Valentino and Mary Pickford, she also highlights some lesser-known (lesser-known today, anyway--in their day they were stars) like Tom Mix, William S Hart, the Talmadge sisters and Coleen Moore. She sort of divides it up into categories--Cowboys stars, flappers, etc. Very thorough look into the careers of these stars--made me want to see a lot more of their work.