traceyk65
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It's Lucille Ball's birthday, here's a little Lucy glamour for your day:
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> My mistake. I thought it was Joan.
Nope. That was Garbo, in her more or less original state, pre-MGM makeover. You can see the potential there, but she ain't GARBO. Not yet.
And thank you for explanation of "Ukelele Ike." I get what you were going for now.
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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALITOSIS
Harry Potter, a teenage wizard goes on a year-long camping trip with his two best friends to discover the secret breath mints of Lord Voldemort, who, angry that his lack of a functioning nose prevents him from stopping to smell the roses, has been threatening to destroy the world with the flaming halitosis of himself and his Garlic Eaters.
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Someone asked, a few posts down, what we think makes a great musical. Well, vickix nailed a lot of it for me: great dancing and singing and great performances outside the musical numbers. I also think a great musical needs, well, great music. Songs with catchy tunes that sort of stick in your head and clever or lovely lyrics that stay with you, long after the credits roll. I also think there should be a good story, with good dialogue. There are many that meet these requirements, but these are my faves.
SINGIN IN THE RAIN
42ND STREET (maybe falls down a bit in the quality of the dancing, but makes up for it in staging)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
THE MUSIC MAN
THE KING AND I
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Disney)
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}With regards to Joe Gillis; He really is a major cad and not a decent guy but Holden has so much charm we overlook the multiple un-decent things Gillis does.
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> Joe is a noir man like Jeff in Out of the Past in that their actions shouldn't have results in their death, but Jeff only did one dishonest thing; lie to Whit that he didn't find the girl and Jeff did what he did for love.
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James, I agree. Gillis was, more or less, an opportunist and a cad, but oh so charming, so we forgive him for it (mostly). He needed money and place to hang his hat and Norma was willing to give it to him. If in return, she expected a little more than just help writing her script, well, it probably wasn't exactly torture. His only redeeming quality ws that he did eventually get disgusted with himself and what he was doing (and what it was doing to Norma) and called it quits. He reminds me a little of the characters Robt Montgomery often played in the 30's--good-looking, charming guys who are always looking for an angle, always ready to take advantage of an opening, always a little on the prowl...
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This one isn't mine--I came across it online and thought it was funny...Bette the Hipster
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VP, I know it sucks when you have to explain your joke but Im at a loss too, I think... ?:|
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Glad you liked them crazyblonde!
It's Louis Armstrong's birthday, so here's a clip from HIGH SOCIETY:
Here's a tribute to classic movies in general. How many can you name?
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> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote}Boycotts have a tendency to backfire- giving the movie more free publicity that it would ever get.
Sometmes it does hurt, some anyway. I remember the controversy over THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST back in the late 80's. There were a lot of theater chains that wouldn't show it (I saw it at a little indie film theater because the local octaplex wasn't running it at all) and I think it was banned in some primarily Catholic countries. Don't know what sort of impact that had on its box office, but it couldn't have been good.
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I just wanted to say that this thread is totally sick and a bit juvenile...and that's what I like about it.
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Quite and active thread going on about Bogart, Cagney and Roninson on another forum,,,
A somewhat unusual tribute to Bogey:
Cagney (LOVE the music on this one)
Aaannd Edward G
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Didn't Lizbeth Scott tour with Tallulah as understudy for Skin of Our Teeth? And I remember reading somewhere (probably in her Dietrich bio? can't remember) that Maria Riva toured (briefly) with Tallulah in something and that Tallulah kept trying to seduce her because she was Dietrich's daughter.
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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote}Thanks, tracey. You're the first poster to do a followup on that observation that, I believe, there have only been three leading lady actresses that have worked with Robinson, Cagney and Bogart: Joan Blondell, Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck. I'm slightly amazed that there were so few, especially since the three actors all worked at the same studio for so much of their careers.
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> *Hmm, I think I misunderstood your post earlier (it was 1:30 am, so that will have to be my excuse) I thought you were saying that no actress had been co-starred with all three, as equals so to speak and that your examples included cases where the actress in question was just in the same movie (like Bogart and Davis in DARK VICTORY). And I thought, No, wait-Davis and Bogie costarred in MARKED WOMAN and completely missed the point. Oh well, that's what I get for skimming...*
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Ugh, ugh ugh. STILL getting my responses swallowed up by quotes! Thought I had that licked...
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> *I have GOT to start looking further ahead on the schedule. I love THE LADY IS WILLING--it's a sort of screwball romcom with Fred Macmurray and Marlene Dietrich and what is probably the cutest baby actor I have ever seen. Macmurray is a oediatrician who deosn't particularly like kids (um what?) and really wants to do research and Dietrich is an (unmarried) Broadway actress who wants to adopt an abandoned baby she (sort of) stole. They make a deal--he can do his research in her really large apartment and she will support him, if he marries her so she can keep the kid. Aline McMahon and Stanley Ridges are hilarious as Dietrich's "keepers" and Dietrich and Macmurray actually have surprising chemistry. The ending is a little odd and Dietrich is a little unbelieveable (ok, a LOT unbelieveable) as a a woman who can;t tell a girl baby from a boy (granted, she hasn't looked in its diaper and it was wearing pink, but yeah) but it's a cute movie.*
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Edited by: traceyk65 on Aug 3, 2013 1:28 AM UGH. My replies are getting eaten by quotes again...
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I got waay behind on this thread (and missed the drama--glad that worked out ok
), but a while back someone was wondering if any actress starred with all three and the answer is "Why, yes: Bette Davis." As noted, she was with Cagney in THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D, with Robinson in KID GALAHAD and with Bogey in MARKED WOMAN. -
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> > Tom, I hope you don't think this is too off-topic, but your comments about the discomfort people would have felt seeing Cagney, a grown man, sitting on his mother's lap, made me think of a very popular children's picture book.
> Maybe you've heard of it, it's really popular with a certain demographic (sentimental older ladies). It's called Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch. It's a Canadian title, actually; came out sometime in the 80s (I think) and it's still going on strong. Personally, I never liked it, partly because I am not comfortable with the book's final image. Check this out !
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> *Gah. My mother-in-law gave this book to my husband for his college graduation and I have always disliked it, partly because it's so sickly sweet. But now that you've pointed it out, that last image is disturbing, partly because she climbs in his bedroom window at night while he's sleeping (eek)...and the fact that it is a grown man sitting on an old woman's lap like a child (ick).*
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> {quote:title=NoraCharles1934 wrote:}{quote}He'll be showing up soon (Aug 24) in A Royal Scandal for Charles Coburn's SUTS day.
Well aaalll right! I haven't perused the schedule more than a week ahead, so this is excellent news to me! I have seen clips from this movie, but never the whoile thing. Looking forward to Tallulah as Katherine the Great...
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Just realized it's later than I thought--pretend this posted on 8/2 as planned...
Myrna Loy's birthday is today...
And Myrna the exotic villain in THIRTEEN WOMEN:
Edited by: traceyk65 on Aug 3, 2013 12:28 AM
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Today is the birthday of Harry Potter creator, J K Rowling and as I am a serious geekazoid for HP, here are a couple of tributes.
A sort of clever tribute:
And a nicely melodramatic one, featuring many Crowning Moments of Awesome:
ANd finally, a rather poignant one to Adele's Skyfall:
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I remember reading that the original version of this script allowed Garbo's character to fool her husband into thinking she actually was her more outgoing sister, making him the butt of the joke. It was rejected by the censor board because they thought it would glorify adultry. So a scene was added that allowed Melvyn Douglas to overhear Garbo's plan to impersonate her sister, making Garbo's character into the joke, not the husband. Even had it been left in the original, it was, as you said, not a good choice for Garbo.
As for Lucille Ball, didn;'t she make a movie with a similar plot? You Can't Fool Your Wife? Not exactly the same, but...
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crazyblonde--I think there are about 170 movies in that video, if that helps. LOL
Lucille Ball's 102nd birthday is today. So here's a little Lucy:
Funny and Candid Lucy (it starts a bit melodramtically, but hang in there):
It's easy to forget just how pretty she really was when you remember her on "Lucy". So here's a tribute from when she was "Queen of the Bs":