traceyk65

February 18, 2011

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}

> WHY CAN'T WE HAVE A GARBO FILM IN A RUSSIAN SILENT ABOUT THE RISE OF NAZI PROPAGANDA ???

lol

February 18, 2011

*Birthdays Today (and yesterday):*

*Edgar Bergen*

The Edgar Bergen Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ryPoD6fVo

Mortimer Snerd:

*Chester Morris*

Smacking Jean Harlow:

http://fan.tcm.com/_Red-Headed-Woman-1932-Pre-Code-Film/VIDEO/1104772/66470.html

On Ben Casey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuhsFK65Mvg

*Buster Crabbe*

Flash! Ah-ah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwlo1mm124&feature=related

*Arthur Kennedy*

Flying Instructor in a USAF training film:

Lawrence of Arabia:

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue:

Edited by: traceyk65 on Feb 17, 2011 9:08 PM

February 16, 2011

My least favorite complaint threads are either the one that point out some trivial (ok, sometimes not so trivial) mistake by Robert Osborne and the ones written in CAPSLOCK that complain about the lack of Garbo movies or Russian silent films or Nazi propaganda films or whatever.

February 16, 2011

What I want to know is why they dropped the original format? It was, to me anyway, more interesting:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area'>http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area'>http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area'>http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area

(OK I know Sydney Pollack died...)

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area

February 16, 2011

I keep a vhs because some movies I want to watch aren't around on dvd yet...I also have an all region dvd player because many movies aren;t available for R1 right now, but you can find them for R2 and R4. The lengths we classic film lovers go to...sometmes I wish I could be content watching modern stuff, but alas, there's really not enough I like.

February 16, 2011

After seeing her in Intolerance, I really want to see more of Constance Talmadge. I know there's one dvd out there:

Her Night of Romance (1924) / Her Sister From Paris (1925)

and I'm planning on getting a copy, but I'd like to see Dulcy and The Duchess of Buffalo as well.

February 16, 2011

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}

> RED DUST should not be hard to find. THE BOWERY has played on Fox Movie Chanel.

I've seen Red Dust on vhs, but not dvd. Of course, I haven't gone bootleg yet...

February 16, 2011

Jack Benny smuggling trial? Whaaaat?

February 16, 2011

*Birthdays Today:*

*John Barrymore*

20th Century:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=212558

Not chewing the scenery in A Bill of Divorcement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs34M15UXzw

*Claire Bloom is 80:*

Limelight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8CALr-PwI&feature=related

*Cesar Romero*

Dancing:

The Joker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjiIHfKwi0Q&feature=related

*Gale Sondergaard:*

Menacing Bette in The Letter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ppjBD1XdZg

The Life of Emile Zola:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=238191#player_area

February 14, 2011

Katharine Hepburn

A Bill of Divorcement 1932

Love Affair 1994

Carole Lombard

A Perfect Crime 1921

To Be or Not to Be 1942

Mae West

Nigt After Night 1932

Sextette 1978

February 14, 2011

My Holy Grails (which may be out there somewhere, but if so, I'm unaware of it):

Beyond the Forest (Bette Davis Joseph Cotton)

The Monte Carlo Story (Marlene Dietrich and Vittorio deSica)

Red Dust (Jean Harlow and Clark Gable)

Love Among the Ruins (Katharine Hepburn and Lawrence Olivier--I know it's out there; I just haven't found a copy)

Martin Roumagnac w/ English subtitles (Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich)

February 14, 2011

Could be.

February 14, 2011

*Today's birthdays:*

*Jack Benny*

Buying a watch:

With Mel Blanc:

To Be or Not to Be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9zaMlFrHGs&feature=related

*Thelma Ritter*

Pillow Talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FNGZnlSj1o

Pick-up on South Street:

All About Eve:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area

*Stuart Erwin*

With Helen Kane (Betty Boop) in 1930:

*Valentines? Day:*

*Romance, Hollywood style:*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVzyw62kds

Holiday:

Disney-style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJiQiLNZZAo&feature=related

Han and Leia-style:

February 14, 2011

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}

> > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}

> > You were tricked into thinking you were *watching a good documentary,* simply because it had Welles in it. With no Welles, you would have never seen this trash.

> >

>

> You have misunderstood the film very badly. The whole point of the film is that ALL film, even documentary, which is supposedly true, is artifice and deception. It pretends to be a documentary, then reveals that it is all lies.

>

> Not in the same league with *Touch of Evil*, true. But, still an excellent film.

>

> Edited by: ValentineXavier on Feb 12, 2011 11:06 PM

That's what I meant by profound (or possibly pseudo-profound--I haven't decided yet) comments at the end of the film. I still think it would have made a good, straight fiction movie--like a thriller or crime drama.

February 14, 2011

Thanks! I'd love to know where she got her voice, though--I can carry a tune, but my voice is very ordinary and her father can't even do that.

February 14, 2011

To quote Margo Channing:

"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men."

As a society, I think we are easier on men--we value that look of character and, I don't know--wisdom maybe?--that aging brings most men. Women on the other hand are supposed to be all bright-eyed and fresh and smooth-skinned. As soon as the first wrinkle sets in, it's all over. I get the feeling that things aren't so cut and dried in Europe--that they have a much better attitude towards againg than Americans do.

To name a woman who seems to be aging gracefully and well, Jamie Lee Curtis looks just fine, silvery hair and all.

February 14, 2011

There's nothing quite like that final scene in City Lights, in which the formerly blind little flower girl touches the "Little Fellow's" hand and realizes who he is. Chaplin's face is a masterpiece of love, uncertainty, and hope.

I think he remained more a "silent" actor even in his sound filsm. So much of the "action" is in his expressions. He had a face like rubber and could move from one expression to the next with ease.

He appeals to the everyman in us all I think--his characters were usually down on their luck and getting by the best way they could manage.

February 14, 2011

He could let others be funny while he played straight man--In Tillie's Punctured Romance, most of the laughs go to Marie Dressler and he just gets to react to her silliness.

February 14, 2011

*Kim Novak*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObbAl57ar0&feature=related

*Beginning of 2 Day Valentines? Day Tribute:*

Classic Couples:

Tracy and Hepburn:

Dick and Ruby:

John and Maureen:

Jeanette and Nelson:

Rock and Doris:

Myrna and William:

Joan and Clark:

Clark and Jean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSOy07Kneqg&feature=related

February 13, 2011

Wow. Hedda should have started writing for the movies. She's as least as sarcastically funny as Billy Wilder.

February 13, 2011

Chaplin could be funny. Often it was the situation that was funny--for example, in The Pilgrim, he's an escaped convict who's mistaken for the new minister and he pulls it off for a while...or in The Dictator, he's a Jewish barber who pulls off pretending to be Hitler. Some bits are funny becasue they are so silly and childish--in A Dog's Life, he escapes from the police by rolling back and forth under a fence while the poor cop runs back and forth through the gate. Instead of getting up and taking off, Chaplin continues playing around almost like he's enjoying it, very much like a little kid would. In some ways it's funny like Bugs Bunny is funny or Lucy for that matter.

This scene reminds me of both Bugs and Lucy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CReDRHDYhk8&feature=related

February 13, 2011

I always thought Sean Connery looked better in his 60's than in his 20's.

This is great:

February 13, 2011

Ok, here's a dictionary definition of classic. It pretty much covers ALL the bases:

classic [ˈkl?sɪk]

adj

1. of the highest class, esp in art or literature

2. serving as a standard or model of its kind; definitive

3. adhering to an established set of rules or principles in the arts or sciences a classic proof

4. characterized by simplicity, balance, regularity, and purity of form; classical

5. of lasting interest or significance

6. continuously in fashion because of its simple and basic style

(and if someone already posted this and I missed it, 1000 apologies)

February 13, 2011

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> What instrument does she play?

Actually, she sings. A lovely dark alto voice. She and the rest of the group who went did very well--1's and 2's across the board in class A (in Ohio they are rated 4-1 with 1 being highest and class A being the most difficult)