traceyk65

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > Thank you, Tracey. Celebrity birthdays are listed daily on IMDb. Thanks!

*Birthdays Today:* *Tim Holt* *John Carradine* With Tyrone Power and an exotic gene Tierney: Count Dracula: Vampire Hookers (probably NOT his proudest moment): *Salute to Classic Movies:* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0YdBWdmXk&feature=related

Hey mongo--love the pics! Tell one thing though--where do you find all those birthdays??

> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote} > Audrey's style of acting is very different from the Method actors, but it would have been interesting to see how some of those pairings turned out. I like her with Anthony Perkins in Green Mansions. > > Unfortunately, Maggie McNamara killed herself. That's what I mean by "30's type" of actress. And I'll bet that's part of the reason she kept being paired up with older actors. Even though they were twice her age, actors like Gary Cooper, Fred Astaire and Cary Grant matched her style of acting better than the young men her own age.

Here's Jane Fonda and her Big 60's (and 80's) hair:

*Birthdays today:* *Ida Lupino* *Nigel Bruce* As Watson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhFXS7lywA&feature=related *Women directors:* *Dorothy Arzner:* Merrily We Go To Hell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG7WbFaVHCM Christopher Strong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9xde3eM3Rs *Ida Lupino:* The Hitchiker Outrage: *Penny Marshall:* Big: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKrZiddRphw *Sofia Coppola:* Lost In Translation: *Nora Ephron:* Sleepless in Seattle: You?ve Got Mail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1zySUz465w&feature=related

> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote} > The one that started the day, Witness for the Prosecution. It seems like a well done but familiar courtroom drama yet like the lawyer you know there's something not quite right when its over. Laughton and Lanchester are delightful together, Una O'Connor is amazing, and Dietrich is so powerful you can't look away when she's on screen. I'm not sure what to say about Ruta Lee without giving it all away. If you haven't seen it, do it! I second that!

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > I agree...they were trying to make her into this serious actress to rival Garbo. And they should have let her do more commercial projects, too. Exactly. Instead she got smothered by (but not completely flattened by) von Sternberg's over-the-top exoticism and crazy masochistic storylines and it almost ruined her. But those films are fascinating to watch.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > > Speaking of trailer parks, ever seen "The Last Starfighter" (1985)? Plot is simple, a teenager living in a trailer park who thinks his life is going nowhere became an intergalatic hero. Movie is low key but the Centauri charactor played by Robert Preston sort of made it enjoyable. His way of dressing reminded me of some Sam Spade movie. > I have loved that movie for years. I watch it everytime I catch it on TV.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > MONTE CARLO (1930) is about an aristocratic woman (Jeanette MacDonald) who browbeats and abuses her personal stylist, a male, at every turn (played by Jack Buchanan). She fires and hires him back countless times, and gradually realizes that she loves him. The irony is that he is a moneyed aristocrat himself, in hiding from his wealthy family. LOL > > It's a highly implausible story, but there are songs and plenty of merriment. It's not bad...but like I said earlier, I think if they had chosen Dietrich to vamp it up, instead of MacDonald, it would've been sharper and funnier. Unfortunately, in 1930, Dietrich was still working exclusively with von Sternberg and wouldn't have been "allowed" to do a comedy. As much as I like to look at those von Sternberg-Dietrich collaborations, I wish he'd given her a bit more free rein and allowed her comic side to come out (there are hints of it in Shanghai Express and The Devil is a Woman )--maybe she wouldn't have gone through that "box office poison" period.

*Happy Chinese New Year!* *No Birthdays today, so I thought I?d post a few ?speed paintings.? These fascinate me!* Audrey Hepburn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTBiTqXFtVQ&feature=related Indiana Jones: Bogart and Berman in Casablanca: Ava Gardner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_3PDaB_24 Brando as The Godfather: Marilyn Monroe: Dietrich: Bette Davis done in mascara! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sahHSNy_Uk And my all time fave?Elvis done in Cheetos!

Go up to the Fan Community heading above and click on "Suggest a Movie." It will ask you to confirm your email (if you haven't already) and you can suggest movies to your heart's content. Sometimes, TCM even pays attention to our suggestions.

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > > > Very good movie. Thelma Todd is excellent in it as is Clara Bow. I have it on DVD--no idea whether this is bootleg? > > > > > > > > http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm > > > > > > > It most certainly positively and definitely is. > > > There has been no authorized video or DVD release of CALL HER SAVAGE. > > > > All right...but I'm not giving it up! > > > Hey, you shouldn't! > That's what they get: if the companies that own these rare films refuse to release them on video or DVD then they can just sit back and watch as bootleggers put them out, sell them and make the money that the proper owners could be making. As long as they don't go all Napster on us fans!

Plus Chevalier gives me the creeps. Brrr. Me too. Thank Heaven for Little Girls, indeed! Actually that whole movie is a bit creepy... And I still think Dietrich should have at least been nominated for Witness for the Prosecution. And NOT for the scene where she snarls, "D**n you!" and breaks down, nor even for her cockney woman (though that was pretty good). No, I think she should have won because she does a very difficult thing--she plays the role of a passionate woman who is playing the role of a cold-hearted b**ch and the mask only slips once before the end--when she's waiting for the jury to read the verdict, the fear on her face and her relief at the aquittal, when she nearly collapses in the doorway. Very subtle work.

> {quote:title=ChorusGirl wrote:}{quote} > I think I can guarantee I will not be at the tribute to Roy Rogers at the Film Festival. Hopefully something appealing will be playing concurrently. > > Those B westerns put me right to sleep in 10 minutes. > > I have enjoyed MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, RIO BRAVO, DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, ONCE UPON THE TIME IN THE WEST....but none of these are run-of-the-mill Saturday matinee stuff. I do need to catch up on my John Ford though. I like those too (except Rio Bravo, which I haven't yet seen) All of them have prominent female characters and/or humorous moments (or in the case of Once Upon a Time, interesting casting--Fonda as villain). Add Johnny Guitar, Fort Apache, The Shootist and Rancho Notorious and that pretty uch sums up my list of "watchable" westerns.

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote} > Yes, Audrey and Jack Lemmon. What might have been.......... Now he would have been fine with her.

> {quote:title=JefCostello wrote:}{quote} > I've often thought that as well. > > Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson. She didn't do films with these guys, as opposed to say Liz Taylor, who did movies with all these men and was only a few years younger than Audrey. Taylor works with those actors, for some reason. I can't picture Hepburn with any of them, really. Maybe she was a sort of 1930's-type, who just happened to be making films in the 50's?

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > I watched LOVE ME TONIGHT recently as well. It's a great film. > > I also rented MONTE CARLO from Neftlix, since it's one of the Ernst Lubitsch - Jeanette MacDonald titles not in rotation right now. She's paired with Jack Buchanan, not Chevalier this time around. But her acting is not as sharp as I would have liked. I think Marlene Dietrich would've done a much better job. The picture needed a more vixenish diva and Jeanette is too sweet, too soft to play such a role. The rest of the film is fine and has the typical Lubitsch trademark humor. What is it about? Monte Carlo, I mean? Dietrich did a film called The Monte Carlo Story in the 50's. Wonder if they were related at all?

The best movie I watched yesterday was Love Me Tonight. From the beginning sequence of street sounds building to a complicated rhythm, followed by Chevalier strolling through town greeting everyone he meets and giving us a sample of life in Paris (which was borrowed for Disney's Beauty and the Beast ) to his rendition of "Isn't it Romantic?" (which travels from person to person until it is picked up by a daydreaming Jeannette MacDonald as the Princess) to the final scene (featuring the Princess running down the train on horseback in order to stop her true love, who's "only a Tailor") it was completely enjoyable! Charles Ruggles was hilarious as the wastrel Viscount who commissions a new wardrobe from Chevalier's tailor and whom Chevalier follows to his Uncle's country palace (which also happens to be the home of the love-lorn Princess Jeanette) to collect his fee. Myrna Loy does a nice comic turn as his man-hungry sister and Elizabeth Patterson, Blanche Friderici and Ethel Griffes as a trio of maiden aunts (who are reminiscent of any number of witch/crone trios) spend the movie casting love spells or dashing about clucking like chickens. Chevalier poses as a Baron in order to fit in until he can get his money and manages to charm everyone, including the Princess. This movie was a lot of fun and I am so looking forward to One Hour With You l later this week!

I have always liked A Foreign Affair Billy Wilder had a tendency to be a little too caustic and cynical at times (Charles Brackett seems able to tone him down better than I A L Diamond did later, I think) but here he strikes a good balance between Jean Arthur's naive sophisticate and Dietrich's cynical opportunist. (Poor John Lund gets sort of lost--the best chemistry is between the two ladies).

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > I didn;t even know there was a boxed set of the Coens! Cool--something else for my Wish list this year...which films are in it (if you don;t mind digressing a bit more?) > > tracey baby, here it is: > > "COEN BROTHERS COLLECTION", from Universal/Alliance (it's got a gold cover); includes 6 of their films: > *The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, No Country for Old Men* > *Burn After Reading* (the only one I haven't yet seen), and *A Serious Man*; > > Looks like there are lots of extra tracks, commentary, etc. Thanks!

What I've never understood is why they kept sticking her with men old enough to be her father? (Or grandfather?) Weren't there any leading men her age who could have been paired up with her besides George Peppard? Even Gregory Peck and William Holden were old enough to be her young uncles...Of course, all the studios were doing that, I guess, but unlike Marilyn Monroe or Sophia Loren, who look like they'd go for older men, she looked so young and innocent.

Part of my problem with westerns is that A) they, like war films, seem to be a mostly male dominated genre, with no real women characters (and the few I like do have prominent females) and B)many show a complete lack of humor (again, of the few I like, most have humorous characters thrown in for comic relief).

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > Very good movie. Thelma Todd is excellent in it as is Clara Bow. I have it on DVD--no idea whether this is bootleg? > > > > http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm > > > It most certainly positively and definitely is. > There has been no authorized video or DVD release of CALL HER SAVAGE. All right...but Im not giving it up!

*Birthdays today:* *Frank Albertson* Singing of Spring in 1930: Singing of bees and fleas and flies in love (also 1930): The Last Hurrah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocq67IlRqQ&feature=related *Bonita Granville* Nancy Drew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODVs9LCmMd8 *Little Girl Stars from Mary Pickford thru Drew Barrymore:* Hayley Mills: Judy Garland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzCWjWLTY4 Jane Withers: Virginia Wiedler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjo_8sKRwQ4 Margaret O?Brien: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2Q8_P_msg&feature=related With Tallulah??? The Little Princess of all Child Stars, Shirley Temple: