traceyk65

I was curious about Brenda Frazier and wanted to find out if she indeed did eventually make a movie and surprise! she didn't. She did continue to show up in the Society pages and tabloids for years. She was dubbed one of the poor little rich girls, along with Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke and died alone of bone cancer at the age of 60, having lived fast and played hard. Sad, really. Here's a warning to Paris Hilton and her ilk...what drugs, alcohol, smoking and far too many late nights can do to your looks in 20 years: Brenda at 46--

*Birthdays:* *Arthur Murray* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrzcdeARFM4 Betty Hutton sings about Arthur *Muddy Waters* **** **** Man *Anthony Perkins* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDeRBCfL1hg&feature=related With some Leading Ladies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QvfUI813E&feature=related *Anthony Perkins Movies (besides the obvious)* On the Beach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5X-DlsGRso&feature=related Green Mansions Pretty Poison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2BMIwQl1Y Desire Under the Elms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nirv99Pa_s&feature=related Evening Primrose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtSJziUovQ

Another vote here for O'Toole's Henry II in The Lion in Winter! He and Kate had such wonderful chemistry. He was a little young for the role--Henry was 50-ish and O'Toole was only about 35--but he pulled it off with ease. O'TOOLE ON CHARLIE ROSE: Here's a link to all eight appearances since 2000-- http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/60

*Birthdays:* *Wow. Many birthdays today!* *Lillian Russell* *Alan Dwan* Robin Hood 1922 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGUI-LW4DA&feature=related Heidi 1937 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7Rx0wiK4M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29CChh-oQrs *Leslie Howard* *Dooley Wilson* Play it, Sam *Sally Rand* Fan Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKUGXFLVgc Bubble Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZcnaRWKXY&feature=related *Doris Day* With Rock Hudson The Man Who Knew Too Much On Gilmore Girls (Best. Show. Ever.) *Marlin Brando* On the Waterfront http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0waNRaz6wU A Streetcar Named Desire The Godfather

> {quote:title=johnpressman wrote:}{quote} > If you have interest in the Civil War, may I reccomend the movie "C.S.A.". Just a warning, it is the most politically uncorrect movie since "Birth of a Nation". "C.S.A." is an British TV mockumentery about America if the South won the Civil War, complete with fake commericals. It's a topic that several sci-fi/fantasy authors have taken on. Harry Turtledove's book, _How Few Remain_ begins a series of books leading up to WWII in which the North and South are two separate countries; Winston Chruchill took on the subject in "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg,: Ward Moore used time travel to fix things in _Bring the Jubilee_. I haven't read it on principle, but Newt Gingrich, writing w/ William Forstchen wrote one too. Alternate history is fascinating--the authors look at various "pivot points" in history (like the Civil War) and figure out how the world might have turned out differently if, say, the Spanish Armada had defeated Elizabeth's English Armada and Spain ruled England or where the Stuart kings were never deposed by the Georges or where the Carthage wins the Punic Wars.

One of the best reasons to watch Ten Commandments... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-u6PwFfLA&feature=fvwrel

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > BY POPULAR DEMAND! > > Coming soon: Wild in the Streets > > > > THE OLD TIGERS ARE SCARED, BABY! That is one of the funniest taglines, Ive ever read! Can't wait for the review...

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote} > I think Orson Welles is the perfect choice for Rochester. Sometimes, when I watch it (and I've seen it many times) I think Welles was the only one who read the book and studied the character of Edward Rochester. He captures the brooding, contrary nature of a man burned first by his own intemperance, then cynically playing up to the manipulations of Blanche Ingram. My favorite version too, hands down. John Houseman provided much the screenplay, which does about as well as you can without it turning into a mini-series. OK, you all convinced me. I will be watching for this movie!

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > Hi, all, > > Well, three months done so far. And the best is still to come. I hope you are all enjoying this thread. > . Yes, yes we are. Thanks!

*Birthdays:* *Buddy Ebsen (why was he up for the Tinman? He?s a natural for the Scarecrow!)* Sing Before Breakfast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxjEqgNIFqI Broadway Melody of 1938 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHTxiAXRzRQ *Alec Guinness* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6EDjoihpM&feature=related Obi Wan Kenobi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxZvNgIcq4 Bridge on the River Kwai *Jack Webb* Dragnet On Johnny Carson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVjW30I-YU *Classic Stars pimp for the tobacco companies* Uncle Jed teaches Granny how to smoke correctly--sooo wrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdqj7YaZOA&feature=related Fred and Barney take a smoke break--even more wrong Bob Barker Lucy and Ricky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppk05iAh9cs&feature=related Steve McQueen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsK-49XyVvQ Dick van Dyke Show cast Jack Webb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUz4YjIsX0&feature=related Edited by: traceyk65 on Apr 2, 2011 4:24 PM because I realized alec Guinness wasn;t even in the Kind Hearts and Coronets video...duh.

> {quote:title=Jayo wrote:}{quote} > Am I the only one to see that this is an April Fools joke? No.

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Reservoir Dogs A Clockwork Orange Phffft! Waking Ned Devine Raising Arizona Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Die! Die! My Darling

*Birthdays:* *Mary Miles Minter* *Jane Powell* Royal Wedding (love the part where they dance in the storm) Hit the Deck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgAosyZJnaU *Debbie Reynolds* Singin? in the Rain *Ali McGraw* (and others) Feelin? a little morbid today, sooo? *Hollywood Murders* *William Desmond Taylor* *Thomas Ince* The Cat?s Meow *Thelma Todd (clips of her films)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpILijFE-o&feature=related *The Black Dahlia* (this video is fine, just pics of her alive and well, but beware the ?suggestions? side bar?eek) *George Reeves* Superman

Dear god. I felt my heart stutter.

> {quote:title=1968B2 wrote:}{quote} > No, no, no! Did I just read Paltrow's playing Dietrich? Can you say rollover in your grave? JEEZ! How much did she pay for that part! First off, and tell me I'm not the only one on this, but don't you have to have a modicum of SEX APPEAL to be able to pull off Dietrich? Or did I miss something in all my years and devotion to any Dietrich/von Sternberg movies? She's not going to re-create the club kiss in "Moracco," is she? Tell me there's a God! Can you imagine, if you dare, Cooper having to pull off a scene opposite GP? Would she have a club in her hand? Dietrich was about seduction, in case you don't catch my drift, and I'd like to know from where, at this late date, GP thinks she's going to pull that out of. I have to go, I feel a little queasy, don't tell me anymore . . . "The as-yet-untitled film will air on the BBC in the UK and HBO in America." Part of me wants to see it--it's like a train wreck--you don;t want to look, because it's bound to be horrible, but you just have to...

Here ya go: http://www.amazon.com/Uninvited-Ray-Milland/dp/B001B504LI

I agree with some already mentioned, like June Allyson (those bangs! and that goofy grin!) McDonald and Eddy, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Mickey Rooney and have to add Mae West after 1934, Greer Garson (except Pride and Prejudice) Shirley Temple (as a young child--she was better as a teen)and Raquel Welch. Moderns: Kristen Stewart (the girl from the Twilight series) and Jim Carrey (except The Truman Show ) Adam Sandler (who hasn't been funny since "The Hanukah Song") Keanu Reeves (even his name is annoying) Aston Kutcher (ditto) MacCauley Culkin Each and every Reality "star"

> {quote:title=ninafan wrote:}{quote} > HANDS DOWN!! It has to be Gwyneth Paltrow. I am sorry, BUT-In almost every movie she has the same facial expression-similar to that of a very small infant having a really good bowel movement. UGH, and that lazy voice of hers. How did she win an Oscar? ...and she's going to play Dietrich. OY.

*Birthdays:* *Richard Chamberlain* Dr Kildare Thorn Birds *Shirley Jones* Nice? ?naughty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJyBCWiUxho *Saints and Sinners* Elmer Gantry Joan of Arc Night of the Hunter ?Harry Powell Gone With the Wind?Melanie Double Indemnity--Phyllis Dietrichson Jefferson Smith--Mr Smith Goes to Washington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyEc7FAMTg&feature=related Cruella De Vil--101 Dalmations Atticus Finch

Loralei Lee Altar Keane Erika von Schluetow Mortimer Brewster Senator Seabright Cooley Philo Vance Norma Desmond Washington Dimsdale Augie Witherspoon

http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=117853&tstart=0 You'd probably like this thread.

*I'm gonna be out of tech-range for a few days, so?* *Birthdays* *March 27* *Gloria Swanson* *Richard Denning* The Black Scorpion My Favorite Husband *March 28* *Flora Robson* Fire Over England *Pandro Berman* Fred and Ginger Movies Undercurrent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cI8ZJHdclA Of Human Bondage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtI6TT3HTCE *Frank Lovejoy* The Hitchhiker *Dirk Bogarde* *Freddie Bartholomew* Captains Courageous *March 30* *Turhan Bey* Mad Ghoul Prisoners of the Casbah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5Z8Jd0z3w *John Astin* Gomez Addams **** Tango reprise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnKND8qMDE&feature=related Gomez Sings? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN36usAH3kY *Warren Beatty* Splendor in the Grass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzt9CNYj-6k Mickey One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrRUg4pvQns

Honestly, classic children's stories are full of nastiness. Hansel and Gretl are abandoned in the forest by their parents and are taken in by an cannibalistic witch, whom they murder in self-defense; Cinderella is turned into a servent by her step-mother, after her father's death; Snow White's stepmother goes to incredible lengths to have her killed; the list goes on and on. And have you ever read the Struwwelpeter stories? Eeek! After Walt was long gone, Disney made The Lion King--talk about nasty! A young lion's father is trampled to death before his eyes and he's made to believe that it was his fault, driven off and left to die of thirst in the desert. It's funny though--kids don't get nearly as disturbed about violence as thier parents think they will. It's pretty common, for example for K-garten teachers to do an entire unit around The Gingerbread Man story (I've done it myself), which is really sort of horrible. A childless couple bake a gingerbread boy to be their kid, then it runs away and is tricked into riding on a fox's back, whereupon the fox proceeds to devour it. And most kids don't care. If you ask them how they would keep the gingerbread boy from escaping in the first place, they suggest things like "Chop off his legs!" or "Eat his feet!" They're blood-thirsty little beasts. LOL

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > I'm afraid I almost always find her "mannered and annoying". And I don't think it's character-driven, I think it's Katharine Hepburn driven. > Although now that you mention it, she did almost always play variations on the same kind of character -another reason why I think she's over-rated. People go on and on about what a great actress she was, but she never demonstrated the versatility of, say Bette Davis or even a lesser-known star like Ida Lupino. I think she tried to expand her range or maybe do projects she felt were "meaningful" when she was younger, and made some really bad choices and nea;ry ruined her career. I think that scared her (so to speak) and when she found a "winning" formula in The Philadelphia Story, she sort of stuck with it for too long a time (haughty, intellectual heiress-type brought down to earth and made human by love or tragedy), then later, her "spinster" roles (Summertime, Rainman and African Queen ) She did vary her roles over the years, though--her character in Song of Love, for example was very different and likeable (though I hated that stupid little bun on top of her head--ugh). And as she aged, she did some very good work. She's devestatingly good in Long Day's Journey into Night and pretty wonderful in The Lion in Winter and Love Among the Ruins.

> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote} > I beg to differ. She was totally believable in Mask and Silkwood and I can't imagine anybody else as Loretta in Moonstruck. She deserved that Oscar. > > Johnny Depp is the best of the modern actors. He will try anything and usually gets it right. He seems to have his head on straight as well. I hope I get to see him "thank the Academy" > > Edited by: wouldbestar on Mar 24, 2011 2:38 PM I agree about Cher. She can act and she does it well. I like Johnny Depp as well. Another modern actor who is good (as long as he's sober) is Robert Downey Jr.