traceyk65
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"We're Americans! Our ancestors were kicked out of every decent country on the globe."
LOL I love that quote! Funny movie too.
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think when they do these movies themes it would interesting to extend them to topics like--
How the role of women has changed in America
I'd like to see a series on women's roles too and how Hollywood has portrayed women over the years. All that BS about the double standard, the almost compulsory taking back of the cheating husband the complete turnaround in the last 5 minutes of nearly every film featuring a strong, successful woman with a career...sheesh. And as much as I like them, Film Noir didn't exactly do wonders for our image of women either. I know this topic was touched on during the Pre-code salute a few years ago, but I'd like to see a more comprehensive analysis.
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She's always good, and yes, she's great in *Rear Window*. But I'll always maintain that her best work was in *Pick Up on South Street*.
Yes! She was excellent--she made that movie! Thelma was just about the best female supporting actress in the business. She played alongside some of the boggest names in Hollywood and more than held her own. And her delivery of a sarcastic line was unbeatable. Probably only Eve Arden comes close. Or Lucille Ball in supporting mode (as in Without Love--she's one of the best reasons to watch that movie)
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not picking on you. It just seems that whether they got it right or not, describing her even as a secretary says less about her than it would to describe her as a spinster. The story revolves around her losing a certain status, and that would be irrelevant of her occupation
Good point, well made. She could have been a circus clown, really and it wouldn;t have mattered, though the nose might have gotten in the way...
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*Happy Fourth of July!*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOUI-xaOuo
*Fireworks as a metaphor...very subtle...not.*
Summertime
To Catch a Thief
*Birthdays*
*Gloria Stuart* (who was apparently quite a firecracker herslf in her youth)
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IT doesn;t really--it just bugs me. They should know better than that.
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Sadly, no print of CONVENTION CITY is known to exist.
On the plus side at least you can enjoy SAFE IN HELL on TCM.
I know--I keep hoping someone will find one in a vault somewhere.
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I love those behind the scenes pictures! They are sometimes funny--like intimate love scenes with a camera 2 feet over their heads. Ive got one of Greta Garbo in the final scene of Queen Christina and the "ship" is just the prow. When I think of the scene in the movie, I am seriously impressed--it doesn;t occur to me that she's anywhere but on a ship, out in the middle of the ocean.
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I don't think they have run out of ideas. They are making production decisions that minimize risk in adverse economic times. They want projects where audiences will respond favorably, and they think that these familiar stories are the answer
Exactly. Hollywood has always mined its past successes for material, sometimes within a few years of each other (How about the two versions of Holiday, filmed in 1930 and 1938 respectively? Or the many versions (4?) of A Star is Born ? And don't forget all the straight film to musical remakes...and remakes of literary classics, like Little Women and A Christmas Carol)
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Thanks mark! July looks to be a pretty good month. I'd personally like to recommend Summertime (1955) on Tues. Beautiful cinematography and Hepburn gives a wonderful performance as the lonely secretary who secretly longs for romance in Venice. It's a character who could have been sort of pathetic and annoying, but Hepburn plays her with a sharp intelligence under the wistfulness--there's a sort of balance there bewteen the practical woman who's managed on her own all these years and the hopeful romantic.
It's Love I'm After is really good too, especially if you like screwball comedy. And I'm looking forward to seeing Theif of Baghdad and Son of the Sheik.
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It's a very good movie regardless. If you haven't seen it, you should. Hepburn gives a wonderfully wistful performance--she's heartbreaking. And the cinematography is gorgeous!
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What!!! Bad guys being smart enough to play a trick like that (or even to be able to hit the hero with a six shooter or a laser blaster or whatever?) Inconceivable!!
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What about...Bette Davis dropping her handkerchief so George Brent can pick it up for her, thereby noticing what a fine young woman she is, at that. But I can't remember the title of the film - see? I know the cliche scenes, but not the specifics. Anway, I do know that it is an old movie cliche to have a young lady attempt to get a gentleman's attention by nonchalently dropping her lace handkerchief near him so he can retrieve it for her and notice her charms as her hands it to her.
*Mr Skeffington
I can't think of any other movies like that Ive seen that aren't parodies. I'm pretty sure Bugs Bunny uses it at some point though. Ive read it in book scenes several times--maybe women really did that at some point in history?
Actually now that I think about it, I may have used a variation on that trick once or twice myself, leaving books or something in a guy's dormroom back in college so I could go back to get it or better yet, get him to bring it to me...baaad Tracey.
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Pies in the face? I read somewhere that Mabel Normand may have been the first...oe possibly Ben Turpen?
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or the damsel tied to a log headed for the spinning sawmill blade!
I actually saw a variant on that one in a recent movie, Sherlock Holmes (2009). Rachel McAdams is chained to the conveyor leading to a spinning saw blade in what I guess is a slaughterhouse. The blade is used to saw pig corpses in half. I think "Scooby Doo, Where Are You? may have done something similar, possibly with Shaggy and Scooby. LOL
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Why can't TCM seem to get the plot of Summertime (1955) right? Everytime they have aired it, the description reads "A schoolteacher..." Hepburn's character was a secretary, not a teacher. Ive seen other little, but obvious mistakes over the years too. I don't usually complain about TCM, but this one drives the OCD in me crazy!
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My favorite Giner movies are Bachelor Mother, Roxie Hart, The Major and the Minor--any of her comedies really. She had brilliant comedic timing.
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Ginger doing "We're in the Money" in Pig Latin--starts at about 1:38
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audreyforever--thanks for the Ginger Lucy clip!
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Birthdays
George Sanders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJKYey6B91A
Tribute to movie cowboys
Roy Rogers
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*Birthdays this week:*
*Susan Hayward*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m16cM6XlwHw&feature=related
*Lena Horne*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__4YpxYLqhQ&feature=related
*Glenda Farrell*
*Nelson Eddy*
Balalaika
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxUiQcI7xnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHdZtNAMNI&feature=related
*Ray Harryhausen (and his creations--seriously impressive.)*
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Kingrat, Martin Roumagnac stars Marlene Dietrich and Jean Gabin. It's about a woman with w a past (the only kind of woman, with a few exceptions that she played)named Blanche who moves to a small town when her uncle dies and leaves her a shop. She meets a rich lawyer and wants to marry him for the money, but he's already got a wife, who's dying of some movie disease. Blanche meets and falls in love with Martin (Gabin) who is a relatively poor builder. Well, somewhere along the way the wife dies and Blanche decides to marry the money, which, as you can see from the video, drives Martin into a jealous rage. It's the only film of Dietrich's (besides the silents and Ive seen a couple of them) I've not seen, with the added bonus of Jean Gabin as a co-star. Here's a tribute video I found a while back:
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OK, now that Ive had time to go back and read everyone?s schedules?
Filmlover?I love all the Robin Hood movies! Alan Hale was the best Little John EVER! He and Ruth Hussey in one schedule?fantastic! The Sound of Music as a Halloween film! LOL I like the Movies for the film festival idea?I?m not that picky?I?d just like to be there?
Lzcutter?Glenda Farrell as STOM means lots of opportunites toplay pre-codes?cool! And Torchy Blaine? Charles Coburn?he?s one of my favorite character actors (and he does look like the Monopoly Man?now whenever I play Monopoly, I?m going to hear Coburn?s voice when I read my Community Chest cards). And I like the sort of sneaky ways you managed to get more Joel MacCrae and Fairbanks Sr films in there?LOL
Countessdelave? Huttons?who knew there were that many? (and the name ?Ina Rae Hutton and her Melodears? gave me a giggle!) I like your ?triples? too, especially the triple by-pass theme?clever! I like the night of Ida Lupino films?she gets overlooked?a lot.
Btw: ?Louie, Louie? is apparently the State Rock n Roll song of Ohio?
Hollywoodkjk?Bette Davis and George Brent?he was another one of those leading men who just stood back and let the woman do her thing..and Bette does! Everyone vs the Nazis?well it took Hollywood a while, but once they stepped up, wow! Love it! And who knew there were that many ex-Olympians in Hollywood? (Interesting that they kept trying to make them into Tarzans though) Powell-full Musicals?puns really should be banned?LOL
Fedya?like I said, your schedule was so good, it made my question go right out of my head. All of it?terrific!
Scottmacgillivray?Gloria Jean is star I?ve never heard of. Thanks for introducing me to her?she sounds interesting. I like the Ships theme?and it goes well with the TCM cruise coming up?The French connection films are great?I like that you contrast real French films and Hollywood French films. And a whole day of detective films! Super!
Jamesinarlington?saw your Garbo tribute and did a double-take?thought you were someone else?great choices! Irene Dunne?she?s one of those stars I always forget about?until I see a movie of hers and go , ?Oh yeah, I LOVE Irene Dunne!? LOL Chuck Jones? birthday tribute is great?those Looney Tunes cartoons are the best. And I LOVe William Powell (and that?s one I never forget!)
And I didn't know I could opt out of the actual voting? I honestly did this for fun and a chance to maybe pop a few ideas into the programmers heads...
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BTW, does anyone know why my ' and -- keep disappearing? I'm really not totally punctuation challenged, I promise.
TCM entering world of politics????
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Once you've seen real Arabic bellydancing in a real Arabic movie, then the dances in all the Arab-themed Hollywood films looks so fake, and it is fake.
This is from Egypt in 1941:
Taheya Carioca in "Laila Bint Al Reef" (Laila the country girl):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67igtykUrbg&feature=related
The Production Code (and even before--remember the cut to Mae West's face in I'm No Angel?) would never have allowed A) that much skin and
that much hip action. No one could have done anything even remotely like real belly dancing in a classic movie...