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Me too. It's a good moie--lots of fun. And even though the idea of a blonde, blue-eyed Marlene playing a gypsy sound quite ridiculous, it actually works! She's about the gypsiest gypsy ever seen on film...

*Stage Fright* next: bubble gum

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > Undeniably, there is a huge double standard. But, I can think of one where the ladies' man of easy virtue is thought to be sort of posh trash - *Just a Gigolo*. Marlene's last movie...and she was still playing a woman with a past. OK, it was WAAAY in the past, but still.

> {quote:title=MD1SWEETCATASTROPHE wrote:}{quote} > A mediocre plain-jane? Maybe? lol Like her co-star in Stage Fright, Jane Wyman? ::ducks missles thrown by Wyman fans:: Dietrich more or less walked away with that picture.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Honestly--there's a bit about pea soup) Next: ruthless

The Day the Earth Stood Still Smokin' next: Avenue

Birthdays June 5 Walter Plunkett GWTW Many Gowns of Scarlett and company: Some of Ginger?s Plunkett designed gowns: Singin? in the Rain Kiss Me Kate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFowU1k3bU&feature=related June 4 Rosalind Russell June 3 Josephine Baker Princesse Tam Tam (coming to TCM in July, I believe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag-yGpGpkOI Paulette Goddard Tony Curtis

Very nice! I've never seen that one before. Here's one cut from Rick's perspective

*Birthdays* *May 30* *Irving Thalberg* *Benny Goodman* *May 31* *Don Ameche* *Clint Eastwood * *June 1* *Marilyn* *Clive Brook* Shanghai Express http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFOf0sZ0LM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lvmTYQeniQ&feature=related *Andy Griffith* Mayberry A Face in the Crowd *June 2* *Today?s my Anniversary...* (actual montage begins at :30) Classic Romance When I?m Sixty Four

BELL BOOK AND CANDLE IN THE WIND next: summer

At the moment, this is one of my favorite songs--"Turn on Billie" by the Pierces. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dyi2tFDFqs Also, I may have to download parts of the "Burlesque" soundtrack. Christina Aguilera does a really amazing job on "A Guy What Takes His Time" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJ6H3iQZyQ

Great song--great singer. My favorite ablum of hers is Book of Secrets. It's kind of a cool blending of Celtic w/ a sort of gypsy feel. Dante?s Prayer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDw3CyOmj20&feature=related Night Ride Across the Caucasus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz6EFiXbcT8

Followed the Sheryl Crow link from a few days ago and found these two videos from what must be from an Eric Clapton and Friends show? Anyway, very nice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6F2qExLsic&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9kUphljI2o&feature=related

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > I'm so old I still think of Crosby, Stills and Nash! I like Neil Young's music, though. We had, until recently, a local music/headshop called Dingleberry's (yes, I know, ewww, but i think it was around before the more recent meaning of the word) and they referred to them as C, S, N and (sometmes) Y. Used to make me laugh everytime I went in there.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Was that Cameron Mitchell that Bacall picked? I think so. Or Rory Calhoun. Either way, they fall short of Willaim Powell in my eyes.

What about Christopher Lee? He's still alive and (presumably) well, was Dracula for many years (among other horror roles) and is very intelligent and articulate.

*Birthdays* *Bea Lillie* Fairies at the Bottom of our Garden *Josef von Sternberg* The Shanghai Gesture Dietrich *Erich Korngold* The Adventures of Robin Hood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya-W35guPuo&feature=related Captain Blood *Bob Hope* Thanks for the Memories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oHxq77_MI&feature=related *In honor of Memorial Day, here?s to the USO* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLargNxIE9k&feature=fvsr WWII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5VxgHvRews&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJijfPBd55s&NR=1 Korea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22GkBTAC7QQ&feature=related Vietnam Afganistan

I really like this documentary as well. I'd love to have it on DVD. It aired recently, but unfortunately isn't airing again anytime soon. I don't think women were really in power in the early 30's (sadly, women have rarely ever been in power), but many precode movies would like us to think so. And they do it in a very entertaining way. The book is excellent and just came out not too long ago in paperback. As for movies, the documentary suggests a few good choices. For Precode 101 (to quote Mick LaSalle) and films that are available, try Baby Face (the one with the secretary (Barbara Stanwyck) sleeping her way up the building) Female (a fun gender-switch with Ruth Chatterton as a female auto exec sleeping her way through her secretaries--though the final five minutes don;t really fit with the rest of the movie) Red Headed Woman, either She Done Him Wrong or I'm No Angel w/ Mae West and one or more the Busby Berkely musicals, especially Gold Diggers of 1933. Red Dust is another good choice, but not available on DVD, though it may be around on VHS? no idea.

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > The word for a man who sleeps around is BACHELOR! I laugh when I hear the term "sex addict." You mean, A MAN! > > My dog is a ****. She'll sleep with anybody. She curls up next to them, not a care in the world. She usually winds up with me. But if I'm not available, she's fine. Stretch out for nap. You've got company! Hey now, there are a few men out there who don't think with their man parts... This is going to sound wierd, but I used to have a car that wasn't a tramp. You had to handle Aloysious (yes, I named my car) just right or he wouldn't run properly--always stalling out and so forth. Then my next car was, to quote The Lion in Winter, "...like a democratic drawbridge, going down for everyone." That car didn't get a name--no personality.

> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote} > Isn't that funny about Gary Cooper -- yeah, to me, he's a good everyman but not attractive, and yet he was a notorious ladies man. WHY?! Well, tastes change, I guess. > Clara Bow and others claimed he was very well-endowed. Tallulah always maintained he was the main reason she came to Hollywood (though she was probably exaggerating. Probably) As for Bogey, I find him pretty sexy--very cool and cynical, but with a remarkably boyish smile for such a craggy-faced guy. And that lisp! So incongruous.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > William Powell to me is like Bogie...what I said about him was, he's not handsome, and I personally don't think I'd be attracted to him, but I can understand why women were. Like Bogart, he had a great sense of humour, often ironic and understated, a sharp wit, and a way of seeming cool no matter what was going on around him. These are likable and attractive qualities. Yay, William Powell ! > > ( or maybe it was just that pencil-thin mustache.) Hear, hear! I will always stand by my statement that Lauren Bacall picked the wrong hubby in How to Marry a Millionaire. How in the world she could pick whats-his-name (see? I can;t even remember the guy) over William Powell will forever be a mystery to me.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > That's easy for you to say. He's Chevy Chase, and you're not. LOL

> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} . I remember reading a discussion of the film "Quicksand" where the general consensus was that no matter how great a script, Mickey Rooney could never pull off the sex appeal of a Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade or Mike Hammer. Mickey Rooney is a lot of things, but sexy...he isn't.

> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote} > > Maybe TCM didn't think horror was right for May. I was thinking that when I discovered that both he and Christopher Lee had birthdays yesterday. Seems odd that two horror greats would have been born in May...seems too "light" a month.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > Hey, why are there so many words for this for women, and hardly any for men? Plus, the few that do exist for men are mostly vaguely complimentary. (I'm not Molly Haskell.) My teenaged daughter and her friends refer to trampy guys as Man Hos. (There should probably be an apostrophe or something int here somewhere, but oh well)