traceyk65

And they might think they got away...until the police burst their bubble...

In honor of Scrodinger's birthday, here's Schrodinger's Bette (with a nod to Sir Terry Pratchett)

And one last time from L & H...I actually had this song as a kid. I cut the record off the back of a box of Alphabits! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgwuHYSoiAg&list=RD028VR-eeTlJkw

Touchez pas au Grisbi has got to be one of the best movie names I've heard! Good movie too--I have to say that Jean Gabin (so far) has never disappointed me...I want to see Le Chat with he and Simone Signoret someday. Grisbi has a good theme song too :

Carole, darling, let's stop arguing and just mock Miss Streisand's clothing choices for a bit... Edited by: traceyk65 on Aug 11, 2013 12:36 PM

Classic tears... and Laughter for your Sunday afternoon...

That was interesting, dothery. It's wierd that not only did the woman's whole personality change, but she became sort of psychic too. And as far as finding sex funny, well, who wouldn;t? LOL

Someone mentioned ILOVE YOU AGAIN, where amnesia is used for comic effect. I always liked the movie OVERBOARD with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Hawn is a snooty rich b*tch who hires Russell to do some work on her yacht, then refuses to pay him. She falls overboard and loses her memory. He sees her on the news (her real husband refuses to claim her) and sees a chance for a little payback. He claims her and tells her she's his wife and mother of his 3 wild boys. Predictably, they fall for each other and she falls for the kids (and they for her). Cute movie, though the Russell character needs his butt kicked for letting things go on as long as he did.

I am really looking forward to this. I have to admit that I don;t have a lot of knowledge about foreign films, so this will be very interesting and informative. Thanks TCM!

GUM CRAZY A husband and wife go on a cross-country spree, knocking off bubble gum machines... "PUT ALL THE GUMBALLS INTO THE BAG AND NO ONE GETS HURT."

What movie is the Hope/Cagney from?

Swimsuits are for peasants, darling...

Cute. I wonder if that is the picture Dietrich was talking about when she referred to the lame they dressed Carole Lombard in? I can't remember the exact quote, but Maria Riva writes about the search for a perfect fabric for one of Dietrich's films (DEVIL IS A WOMAN maybe?) Anyway, Dietrich didn;t think too highly of it.

Norma Shearer's birthday today: She's a Killer Queen (of the MGM lot): And indulged in a Bad Romance in A FREE SOUL: And was sort of wonderful with frequent co-star, Robt Montgomery:

> {quote:title=crazyblonde7 wrote:}{quote}This is so funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ynBP5GF3BA You're right! I;d seen that sequence before, but never set to the Gangnam song (what is the name of that song anyway?)

> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}I like friggin' Forrest Gump and Texas women with an accent. > I've got a Southern accent and don't intend to try and change it. > > Dune is the worst movie I ever tried to watch. > > I didn't. > > Jake Holman in the Heartland > > Edited by: JakeHolman on Aug 9, 2013 9:07 PM I don;t care about the accents. (Though in the case of Tom Hanks Forrest Gump-ese, I'll make an exception. His Eastern Europeanese in THE TERMINAL wasn;t all that great either. He should probably stay away from accents all together.) It's usually the plotlines and terribly written dialogue that make me dislike a movie. And in the case of Adam Sandler movies, the ridiculous 3rd grade attempts at humor. SO glad my son has finally outgrown that crap (and JACKASS).

FORREST FREAKING GUMP. Hate hate hate that movie. Nearly everyone I know loves it, so I feel less a freak seeing how many people here dislike it. And pretty much anything starring Adam Sandler... I generally like those "so-bad-they-are-good" movies. My sister and I even made up a rating scale known as The Lepus Scale of Bad Movie Goodness, where NIGHT OF THE LEPUS is a 10 (good) and PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE is a 1 (terrible). But we watched THE YESTERDAY MACHINE (1963) not too long ago and I would say I have found one to hate. This stinker rates about a -10. It's about an ex-Nazi scientist who esacaped to America and built a time machine to change the outcome of WWII. It even starts well--a girl wiith an atrocious Texas accent is twirling a baton and dancing to something that might pass for Rock N Roll if you were a white chick from Texas in 1963. There's a night club singer and her newsreporter boyfriend and a mysterious house in the middle of a really big mysteriously empty field, in a town where other teenagers have disappeared mysteriously . Sounds like it might actually be interesting, right? Wrongy wrong wrong! Even Didiyama the dusky slave girl from ancient Egypt couldn't save it...

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So I ordered Memo from David O Selznick expressly to read his GWTW memos, hoping for a little more inisght on the Bette matter (and maybe the Cukor matter). I start reading and find out that they wanted Gable as Rhett and really never seriously considered anyone else and could only get him by allowing MGM in on the distribution and profits. Warner wanted the same thing only for Bette. As they wanted Gable for Rhett more than they wanted Bette for Scarlett, Bette was out. As for Cukor, I was just reaching that section when I discovered that the book was missing 30 pages and now I have to return it and wait for a new one. Sooo frustrating! That having been said, the book up to that point was very interesting, especially the sections about Ingrid Bergman and how they dealt with the fact that she was about 5' 10" and would tower over many of her co-stars.

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote}Arturo, I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that it was John Halliday, in support, not Gary Cooper, that played the part in Desire that would have gone to Gilbert. I stand to be corrected on this one because I'm not 100 per cent about this. Are you certain that Gilbert would have been the male lead in the film? > > Of course, news of the affair between Gilbert's girlfriend, Dietrich, and Cooper on the set of the film put Gilbert over the edge when it came to binge drinking. Tom, you're right. Gilbert was going to play the Halliday part. It's really unfortunate that he wasn't able to do it and died shortly after, because having him in the role would have given Dietrich a "real" choice (Cooper's fine upstanding American, Tom Bradley or Gilbert as the suave, somewhat shady Carlos Margoli) I mean, who would choose Halliday over Cooper? And it might have opened a 2nd career for Gilbert as an Adolphe Menjou-esque older leading man. Edited by: traceyk65 on Aug 9, 2013 7:48 PM

> {quote:title=Edythevanhopper wrote:}{quote}I have to open the thread. It was said of Maria Magdalena when her name changed( Marlene Dietrich) by her friend the poet Jean Cocteau. Wasn't it for her Cafe de Paris opening? Cocteau said it, but she changed her name when she was about 11...

> {quote:title=Edythevanhopper wrote:}{quote}I have to open the thread. It was said of Maria Magdalena when her name changed( Marlene Dietrich) by her friend the poet Jean Cocteau. Wasn't it for her Cafe de Paris opening?

Working for me today too! Thanks!

Some Classic Clinches for your Friday: Pairiing up SUNSET BOULEVARD and "Illusions" by Marlene Dietrich (who apparently was also considered for the role of Norma Desmond):

Insecurity is really unattractive in a man...