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*Birthdays* *Ian Fleming* Interesting editing on this one-Bond vs Bond vs Bond Vs Bond? *Carroll Baker* Baby Doll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPtZ6IjVHQ&feature=fvwrel *The Dionne Quints* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAjV78xbV4&feature=related *Yesterday-Wow. Two horror greats...with May birthdays??* *Vincent Price* *Christopher Lee* With an interesting take on Beethovan?s 5th Man of (nearly) 1000 faces Ok this is just?well, I?ll let you watch it

*Birthdays* *Ian Fleming* Interesting editing on this one?Bond vs Bon vs Bond Vs Bond? *Carroll Baker* Baby Doll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPtZ6IjVHQ&feature=fvwrel *The Dionne Quints* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAjV78xbV4&feature=related *Yesterday?Wow. Tow horror greats?with May birthdays??* *Vincent Price* *Christopher Lee* With an interesting take on Beethovan?s 5th Man of (nearly) 1000 faces Ok this is just?well, I?ll let you watch it

> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote} > Yeah, Bad & the Beautiful does look like Wilder. A little too glossy though. Wilder's films always have a sort of noir-ish (Berlin-ish?) feel to them. Except maybe the ones with Audrey Hepburn...

> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote} > How about Katharine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby? The screwball heroine is not how I would classify her but I think she is excellent in this film and it is one of her best performances. And it opened up a whole new type of role for her--she'd never really done a lot comedy up to that point--just Stage Door, which more like a "dramedy" and Holiday (can't remember which came first--Baby or Holiday) and next thing you know, she was starring in The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike, Desk Set ...

I haven't had time to do one of these since the 2nd or 3rd challenge, but the timing of this one is just about perfect. Our last day of school is June 10 and I'll have a lot more free time then. Possibly. LOL

> {quote:title=voranis wrote:}{quote} > Thursdays in June! I am looking forward to Drive-In Double Features on TCM. Finally, TCM delves back into the classic sci-fi vaults! Although I would prefer more alien films instead of monster films, there are still plenty of great movies to choose from. And lots of TCM premieres! > Me too! My sister and I have been on a kick of watching these old classic cult flicks for a while now (curent faves: Barbarella, Night of the Lepus and Attack of the Killer Shrews! ) and we're looking forward to expanding our horizons. June looks like a great month for fans of really bad movies!

In another forum about a week ago, someone (good that I'm so specific, huh?) mentioned that they had noticed a horse painting in any number of classic films. So I went looking for similar items and found a poster on Youtube who's done my work for me! And has really great taste in music too...Thanks Barthesian, whoever you are! *Recurring Paintings in Classic Movies:* *Framed Butterfly pics in Classic Movies:* *And finally--the Murphy Bed:*

Coming up on the end of the school year, too much to do? *Birthdays* *May 20* *James Stewart* *May 21* *Robert Montgomery* I just love this one??Sing Sing Sing? replay: A more serious Robert?to Britney Spears? Oddly, it works: *May 22* *Laurence Olivier* Hamlet??Get thee to a nunnery!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vXtWb__8lE&feature=related *May 23* *Douglas Fairbanks Sr* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Y7DNZExas Mark of Zorro *Herbert Marshall* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3av_v6_RE *Joan Collins* She was once blonde??? *May 25* *Bill Bojangles Robinson* The step dance Busking w/ Shirley Temple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBG7P7ChRGk&feature=related *Ian McKellen* Macbeth Gods and Monsters *May 26* *Norma Talmadge* *John Wayne* Billy Idol did a song about John Wayne??? Um, ok.

oops, double post... Edited by: traceyk65 on May 26, 2011 9:18 PM

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > Marlene Dietrich was somehow beyond these labels. Like her or not, she's always portrayed very independent women who get what they want, be it money, power, sex, or love, whatever way they want - but usually that way is sex. Because she played this type of woman from the very beginning, audiences seem to have accepted her in that kind of role. There are quite a few of her early films I haven't seen, so maybe she wasn't always a naughty lola. But she certainly excels at playing that kind of character. > > That's one interesting thing about Dietrich--she seemed to "get away with" that type of woman long after the Production Code went into effect. She does pay for her sins by taking a bullet for her man in Destry Rides Again and Rancho Notorious, but she more or less gets off scott free in Desire, The Spoilers, Angel (did she or didn't she sleep with Tony? Apparently her husband doesn't really care, so long as she goes to Vienna with him) Kismet (cheats on her hubby, the Grand Vizier and gets banishment with her lover as punishment. This in a culture that still executes women for adultry...), Flame of New Orleans, Golden Earrings and even A Foreign Affair (does anyone really belive she moved even a single von brick in that prison camp?)

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Marlene Dietrich was somehow beyond these labels. Like her or not, she's always portrayed very independent women who get what they want, be it money, power, sex, or love, whatever way they want - but usually that way is sex. Because she played this type of woman from the very beginning, audiences seem to have accepted her in that kind of role. There are quite a few of her early films I haven't seen, so maybe she wasn't always a naughty lola. But she certainly excels at playing that kind of character. Ive only seen 2 of her silent pictures, but according to the summaries in one of my books, she was the tramp about half the time. There are a couple of these I'd like to see and can't find-- The Art of Love, in which she plays a "love" coach teaching a young prince about sex; and The Woman One Longs For in which she plays a mysterious woman seen briefly on a train by a man who becomes obsessed with her (even though he's on his honeymoon!) and agress to help her escape her lover (who has recently helped her kill her husband).

> {quote:title=William wrote:}{quote} > Marlene was def not one of those in "Judgement at Nuremberg" 1961 OK, fair enough, but she played enough of them during her prime...

> {quote:title=mr6666 wrote:}{quote} > "Garden of Allah" '36, as 'Domini Enfilden ' Oops. Forgot that one...

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote} > Dietrich is transcendent. She can play tarts, but there is something so special about her, it's not like other actresses playing tarts. Dietrich lifts her characters from tart to art! Very well said.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Which major actresses NEVER played ladies of easy virtue? K. Hepburn for one? (I haven't read the rest of this thread, so it may have been mentioned).....OK, I had my arm twisted to read all the posts on this thread, and my question still stands. > > Edited by: finance on May 16, 2011 9:39 AM Or the reverse--besides Song of Songs, in which she starts out pure and ends up a floozy--did Marlene Dietrich ever play anyone who wasn't something of a tart? Ok, she's sort of straight in The Lady is Willing, playing a stage actress who marries so she can adopt a baby, but anything else?

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > > DId Myrna Loy ever play a floozie or tart? I don't think so. She was too busy exploring another vice with William Powell (drinking ). I like Myrna a lot, by the way. Loy played a number of loose, often oriental or "half-caste" women in her early films. Someone mentioned her role in Penthouse and in the Fu manchu movie. She played a man-hungry countess in Love Me Tonight, a masochist who likes to be beaten in The Barbarian, Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair (1932) and the mistress of a criminal baron in Topaze.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Which major actresses NEVER played ladies of easy virtue? K. Hepburn for one? (I haven't read the rest of this thread, so it may have been mentioned).....OK, I had my arm twisted to read all the posts on this thread, and my question still stands. > > Edited by: finance on May 16, 2011 9:39 AM Well, she played Eleanor of Acquitaine in The Lion in Winter and she was portrayed as a woman who'd been more than once around the lighthouse. Several lines refer to it: "Let's have a tally of the beds you've spread out on."(Henry to Eleanor) "I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody." (Henry to Eleanor) "I put more horns on you than Louis ever wore!" (Eleanor to Henry) " I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children." (referring to jewelry) "He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the commandments on the spot." Eleanor about she and Henry) "I wonder... do you ever wonder... if I slept with your father." (Eleanor to Henry)

> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote} > Norma Shearer had a lot of racy roles in pre code films, like A Free Soul and The Divorcee. Sometimes she was trampy and sometimes she slept around to teach her fiance/husband a lesson. And sometimes she slept around just because she wanted to...and because she could.

> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote} > I believe some of you people would have loved seeing June Allyson instead of Janet Leigh in *Psycho*, am I right? O heavens no. Then we'd have had to have seen her in her bra and slip...

*Birthdays* *Jean Gabin* Never get tired of this one?still wanna see the film Speed Painting of Jean Gabin *Maureen O?Sullivan* ?You Jane. *Dennis Hopper* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWhbL9Ne6rA&feature=related *Speedpainting!* *I am totally fascinated by these things!* Miss Marple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TzNSfVlUxk Bette Davis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sahHSNy_Uk Marilyn Monroe Charlie Chaplin Elvis Cheetos Painting replay

That's funny! I noticed another horse prop--those Chinese horse statues. I first noticed them after an entire Brady Bunch movie (yes, the modern ones w/ Shelley Long--don't judge me) was built around the one on the stairs in the original Brady Bunch series. Then not long after I watched Bell Book and Candle, and there was that same staue, right in James Stewart's office. I found it again on "Bewitched" and went looking for more. None so far, but I'm keeping an eye out.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote} > > GASP!!! Traceyk65, you only JUST saw Mockingbird?! I'm shocked! But hh how I envy you being able to discover that as an adult. > > I know, right? It was my 18-yr-old son who got me to go see it, after he read the book and saw the movie in English class. Soooo glad he did! I loved the book just as much as the movie. The movie focused more on the trial, (which it would, since Gregory Peck was the star) and the adult issues surrounding it, albeit from the point of view of the children. And it included many great childhood moments, scenes between Scout and Atticus, the pants on the fence incident, the moment when Jem realizes his Dad is the coolest Dad ever and not a nerdy geek and so forth. It's interesting--even though the children were in every scene, they are the last ones listed on the IMDB page. The book spent more time on the day-today life of Scout and Jem. I didn't grow up in the 30's, but I grew up in a small town and so much of what Scout and her friends did reminded me of my own childhood (we even had a murderer's house that we told staries about and dared each other to peek into the windows of) All the little battles and triumphs that kids experience (especially in the days before video games)--Harper Lee captured them so well! The trial and the adult issues were more like punctuation--the kids knew it was inportant and wanted to help their Dad, but really didn't understand it all. They sort of forgot about it when it wasn't actually happening. They were more concerned w/ Boo Radley and the mysterious presents in the tree and whether Scout was going to make it through her first week of school without being kicked out for fighting and so on.

*Birthdays* *Joseph Cotton* *James Mason* *Anny Ondra* *The Hitchcock Connection?* North by Northwest Blackmail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzwBTyL7zyw&feature=related Shadow of a Doubt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX6s3LTds3s&feature=related Under Capricorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeSxQjweTs *?And one I would have included before, but didn?t find* O is for Orson

How about BOTH?

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > cujas, I picked those two June Allison films at random - although they do seem to be among her most well -known. > > Regarding Kate Hepburn, you suggested to me: > "Kate Hepburn needs no defense in any way. If you don't like her, you probably need to stick to War movies and Westerns." > I know she needs no defense - I suspect that, unlike June baby, she has more fans than detractors. However, there are many types of films besides war movies and Westerns that were unsuited to Katharine Hepburn's style, and I enjoy lots of movies outside those genres that are Kate-less. > > Film noir is my favourite genre, and other than *Undercurrent*, I can't think of anything very noirish that Kate was in. I actually don't mind her in this film. Try Keeper of the Flame. It's like 9/10 of a Noir film, before it turns into anti-fascist propoganda (which isn't a BAD thing, just please don't hit me over the head with. Subtley is good )