traceyk65
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Frank Sinatra:*
Say what you will about the man, he did it his way...:
New York, New York:
High Society:
Because I'm hoping for a Snow Day tomorrow
:*Edward G Robinson:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB20-bndPc8&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf_i6l0_rxk
Mr Robinson does Batman!
Classic Film Gangsters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgI4iwYsW_4
The Sesame Street Gangsters??
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I'd like to see a re-running of the documentary Complicated Women, along with the films that were shown along with it. Several Paramount pre-codes were featured, mostly from Mae West and Marlene Dietrich and also Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living. It would be great if they could pick up some others, like The Story of Temple Drake and some of the Fox films, like Hoopla, Broadway Bad, Born to be Bad, Blood Money and so on.
I know TCM has played a few of these, but an entire series would be very nice.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > That's a good list. I'd also like to see some of Jean Gabin's french films besides Quai des Brumes , Le Jour se Leve and Grand Illusion. Don't get me wrong, I like those films, but I'd like to see Pepe le Moko and maybe a few of his later films, like Le Chat or Touchez pas au Grisbi (love that title!) AND, I'm still waiting for someone to put out a version of Martin Roumagnac with subtitles...and not the chopped-up version shown in the States under the title The Room Upstairs.
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> > Oh and since for some reason Ive never seen it, Id like to see The Bicycle Thieves as well, but I have no idea if that's been played on TCM before. Maybe a monthly theme on French/European film? New wave? Is that the term I want? The ones that came out in the 50's and were shown in Art Houses and so on?
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> *Quay des Brumes*, aka *Port of Shadows*, *Le Jour se Leve*, aka *Daybreak*, and *The Bicycle Thief* have all been on TCM, I think within the last year. Perhaps you missed them, because they used the English titles. I think *Pepe le Moko* and *Grand Illusion* were shown as well. I'm sure *Moontide* was shown.
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> Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 11, 2010 11:33 PM
I caught the Gabin films when they were aired (except Pepe ), but somehow missed The Bicycle Thieves/Thief. I'll have to watch for it.
Edited by: traceyk65 on Dec 12, 2010 4:56 PM
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That's a good list. I'd also like to see some of Jean Gabin's french films besides Quai des Brumes , Le Jour se Leve and Grand Illusion. Don't get me wrong, I like those films, but I'd like to see Pepe le Moko and maybe a few of his later films, like Le Chat or Touchez pas au Grisbi (love that title!) AND, I'm still waiting for someone to put out a version of Martin Roumagnac with subtitles...and not the chopped-up version shown in the States under the title The Room Upstairs.
Oh and since for some reason Ive never seen it, Id like to see The Bicycle Thieves as well, but I have no idea if that's been played on TCM before. Maybe a monthly theme on French/European film? New wave? Is that the term I want? The ones that came out in the 50's and were shown in Art Houses and so on?
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I love the 30's! It's my favorite decade for film, followed closely (and MUCH to my surprise) the 50's.
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She reminds me a little of Patsy Cline. I am NOT a country fan, but for some reason, Patsy just moves me for some reason:
Your Cheatin' Heart:
Crazy:
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It's been done...in fiction anyway. A review of _Remake_, by Connie Willis:
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> Davis is good in EVE...but so is everyone else. It's a dream cast.
I know. One of my favorite movies. I can't imagine anyone else in the role, not even Claudette Colbert--she just doesn't do wicked as well. I think if she'd done it, it would have been a VERY different movie!
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*So, I watched All About Eve last night...*
There are particular aspects of Margo's life to which she would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges...
I love this one:
Anne Baxter:
*A collection of Wicked Women:*
Cora:
Ellen:
Lulu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUZWEc3ElE&feature=related
Scarlett:
Phyllis:
Concha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkF0VHzslA&feature=related
Erica:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYLcpkq3-Sk&feature=related
Baby Jane:
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Just re-watched All About Eve last night and have to add Bette Davis as Margo Channing:
she's "maudlin and full of self-pity." Magnificent!
Bill Sampson: Many of your guests have been wondering when they may be permitted to view the body. Where has it been laid out?
Margo Channing: It hasn't been laid out, we haven't finished with the embalming. As a matter of fact, you're looking at it - the remains of Margo Channing, sitting up. It is my last wish to be buried sitting up.
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Birthdays today:
*Kirk Douglas:*
"I am Spartacus!":
Whale of a Tale--who knew he could sing?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXRWdySrjDc&feature=related
*Margaret Hamilton:*
As grandma frump of "The Addams' Family"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4prYbppJjA
In the role, which, for good or bad, she's best known:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qHaIO0LU38
"...and your little dog too!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igXWtUMmTOw
*Judy Garland doing "Get Happy from Summer Stock, just because:*
*"Good Mornin' " number from Singin' in the Rain:*
Edited by: traceyk65 on Dec 9, 2010 9:29 PM
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> The drunk scenes are really what got him his Oscar.
Probably. Or that he probably should have won earlier for Mr Smith Goes to Washington?
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Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story is one of the funniest drunks ever:
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*Pearl Harbor Day:*
"A Day Which Will Live in Infamy":
Pearl Harbor in the Movies:
From Here to Eternity:
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Wake Island:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3V87reuo8E
Pearl Harbor:
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*Birthdays today:*
*Agnes Moorehead:*
As Endora on Bewitched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MktaLD5l2p4&feature=related
Dark Passage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0BRlYCm21g&feature=related
Caged:
All That Heaven Allows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEdidTWIxM&feature=fvw
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte:
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> I didn't know *All About Eve* was based on a short story, nor did I have any idea that Margo and Eve were modelled (sort of) after real people. I wonder, was there an actual George Sanders type?
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> clearskies wrote: "...the only book I didn't finish was "Moby Dick." Have you seen the Woody Allen film, *Zelig* ? It's a running joke in the movie that one of the Zelig character's ambitions is to read (to the end ! ) Moby Dick . I think he finally does, right at the end of the film, when he's "cured". Zelig's got something on me...I only read the bits I had to to fake it in my first year English class .
Mankowicz said that Addison DeWitt was based in part on himself and in part on theatre critic George Jean Nathan. And part of the characterization of Margo was based on Tallulah Bankhead, though neither Mankowicz nor Bette Davis ever admitted it publically. Tallulah, however, took it personally and ran with it, mining the "feud" between she and Davis for material for years.
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*Birthdays today:*
Walt Disney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmvz5S6r3w&feature=related
Disney Girls:
And Boys(plus Anastasia, for some reason):
Fritz Lang:
Metropolis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RdhOwPbGvA
M:
The "Lynch Mob Scene" from his first American film, Fury:
Fury trailer:
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Reading a book called _All About All About Eve_ by Sam Staggs. It's interesting--he chronicles the making of the film from it's beginnings as a short story in a magazine (based loosely on a true story--there actually was an Eve, though her name was Martina and "Margo" was Elisabeth Bergener) through the stage play to the film to the musical version, Applause and all the gossip and wheeling and dealing along the way. He even tracks down the real "Eve" and includes an interview with her and with Mary Orr, who wrote the original story. It's a fun read.
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*Classic Film Gangsters:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KScBAXf6KUE
*Underworld:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ToBzwCaQ8
*Scarface (1932):*
*Manhattan Melodrama:*
*Angels with Dirty Faces:*
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> {quote:title=LuckyDan wrote:}{quote}
> >I was reading and sort of laughing when I came across this under a listing of Howard Hughes' lovers: "Katharine Hepburn (with whom he had a son)" (yep, that's right--this guy was a grammatically correct gossip).
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> Hello, Tracey
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> Thumbing through my copy of _Howard Hughes: The Untold Story_ by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, I find no mention of any children fathered by Howard Hughes.
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> He did propose to Kate, and she accepted. He even met her family and spent a few days with them at their summer home, where Kate's ex was ever-present as "part of the family." Mrs. Hepburn didn't care for Howard, and Dr. Hepburn was cool to him, though they eventually formed something of a friendship.
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> Kate changed her mind of course and they never married. No kids, but he did get her to quit smoking.
I found two mentioned, both illegitimate. One is named Andrew J Cipolla; the other Ernest Kinzler? However, upon doing more research, they seem to be hoaxes. Possibly.
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*Woody Allen is 75 today.*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybF6OEcTtQ&feature=related
Appearance on Dick Cavett from 1971
*Bette Midler is 65:*
Classic appearance from 1979:
Otto Tisling:
And more recently (with Katie Couric):
*"Big Spender" (from Sweet Charity):*
*"He's A Tramp" (from Lady and the Tramp):*
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*Virginia Mayo would have been 90 today:*
Virginia teaches her Daddy-o some blues In A Song is Born:
The Kissing Rock w/ James Cagney:
As Cagney's fur-clad moll in White Heat:
*Hollywood couples:*
Virginia Mayo and Danny Kaye:
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> tracey, baby, how interesting that you resurrected this thread to talk about Confederacy of Dunces , because I finally decided to start reading it a few days ago. So far I'm not sure what to make of it -Ignatious is so dislikable ! I guess that's why he's supposed to be funny. I can definitely see Jack Black in the role. ( That sounds as though I don't like Jack Black, but actually, I do.)
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> Edited by: misswonderly on Nov 29, 2010 11:23 PM
He gets funnier as you go. But then, if I remember correctly, he gets less funny towards the end and by the time he's gone, I remember being almost relieved.
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? A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them." ~~ Hardy Amies
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Please TCM, More EARLY '30s films!!
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote}
> Tracey, COMPLICATED WOMEN will be airing Jan 24 in the wee morning at 5:15AM! It follows an airing of BABY FACE!!
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> Taking another glance at the Jan schedule shows quite a few early 30's flix throughout! Highlights are Kay Francis' birthday, plus one of the Friday evenings they are showing pre-code gangster films, but there are lots more too!
WOOT! I'll never get up that early LOL so I'll have to DVR it. Thanks!