traceyk65

*Castaways* The Admirable Crichton Lord of the Flies Robinson Crusoe The Black Stallion Swiss Family Robinson *South Sea Floozies:* Seven Sinners Miss Sadie Thompson Rain South Sea Sinner South Sea Woman Isle of Forgotten Sins

What was Dietrich doing at Warner's in 1939? I thought her only pic for them was Manpower in 1941?

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > CHANG!! Wizard of the Orient. Whew!!! I wonder what kind of show HE put on. > > Paulette Goddard as Scarlett. < ( Sigh! ) > What might have been... Her screen tests were good--a little too modern maybe, but good. She was hilarious when she was doing Mammy, though.

*Birthdays today:* *J. Carrol Naish, man of a 1000 races:* Italian: That Midnight Kiss?Papa Donetti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huCkpSe9Isk Chinese: New Adventures of Charlie Chan?Charlie Chan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cWdRUNPLZg&playnext=1&list=PL0113F72BAFEC4892&index=3 Native American: Annie Get Your Gun?Sitting Bull http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7Hh5PzELo Russian: Beau Geste-Rasinoff *Ethnic Masquerades--a fine old Hollywood tradition...* Warner Oland does Chinese: Dietrich does Mexican: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqp7AW2aKU Charleton Heston does Mexican: Henry Brandon does Native American: Yul Brynner does Siamese (Thai): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iirDxAGlvdY&feature=related Spencer Tracy does Portugese: John Wayne does, um Mongol? Not to mention Agnes Moorehead?who comes off rather better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8U1LVNjJx0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14_9EbDmvrM&feature=related Anthony Quinn does Greek, Arab, Native American, well, you name it:

> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote} > The United Daughters of the Confederacy protest! Marlene Dietrich goes on a chop suey diet! Filmlover, this is so much fun. Ironic about the United Daughters, though, protesting a Brit for Scarlett. Didn't the British support the South and keep them going, money-wise until the blockades stopped trade betwen the two?

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > lz, glad you are reading on a daily basis and for the historical info you provide. > > I got a kick out of the Wayne Morris story today, which, of course, ties back to the January 5th piece on him marrying Bubbles Salmon Schinasi, cigarette manufacturer heiress. > > BTW, where's MissGoddess, haven't seen her for any of the GWTW stories? Bubbles Salmon Schinasi. Still makes me laugh...

*Birthdays today:* *Patricia Neal* Making Sparks with Gary Cooper: *Colin Clive* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pznr5I1o28A&feature=fvwk *George Burns* *Classic Comedy Teams:* Burns and Allen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myj4lMd2dkg&feature=related Abbot and Costello: Lewis and Martin:

The Prince and Showgirl was my favorite movie of the day today. Terrific little romantic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and Lawrence Olivier. (It's a wierd pairing. but it works.) He's the Prince-regent of a small Baltic state and she's an American showgirl working in London around the time of the coronation of King George V. They meet one night when he visits the theatre and he is charmed by her...um, wardrobe malfunction and invites her for a private supper. She shows up and completely confounds him, laughs at him, tells him "Better luck next time, only not with me," and after about 7 shots of vodka, passes out at his feet. The next morning, she wakes up, tells him she loves him and procedes to sweep him off his feet (using, in an amusing role-switch, his own methods against him). Marilyn is funny and sweet and wears the same white gown through most of the film (which makes obvious that she is a very mature girl who has no use for undies). Her Elsie may seem ditzy and silly, but underneath that blond hair is a very good brain (rather like the real Marilyn). She manages to make the formerly cold and distant Prince-regent bend and feel and brings him together with his son, the underage king, who has been planning on over-throwing his father and allying with the Germans. Monroe more or less steals every scene she is in; all Olivier can do is hang on while she takes him for a ride. The writing is very good--many quotqble lines and funny scenes. The supporting cast is excellent--Sybyll Throndike is marvelously dotty as the Dowager Queen and Richard Wattis is perfect as the British attache (?)--worldly, knowing, practical and just a teeny bit corrupt, but willing to help Elsie and lend a sympathetic ear to the Prince-regent. The ending was a little jarring--maybe too realistic for the times and the type of film this is?

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > Comics: > > *Doonesbury* > > *Fritz the Cat* > > *Howard the Duck* > > various Spidermans, Supermans, X-Men > > *Daredevil* > > > Modern Shakespeare: > > the Basil Dearden/Patrick McGoohan take on Othello, *All Night Long* > > Peter Greenaway's *Prospero's Books* > > Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 19, 2011 4:24 AM More Modern Shakespeare: Ten Things I Hate About You (Taming of the Shrew) Kiss Me Kate (ditto) Strange Brew (Hamlet--really) Forbidden Planet (The Tempest) A Double Life (Othello)

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Maybe with FIRST KNIGHT, they were trying to avoid any homosexual implications. It is more hetero if they are competing for the woman and jealousy ensues. I guess, but I think it lessens the characters.

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > Gail Patrick would of been great in the role since she played a similar role in My Man Godfrey. She had the looks but she could be a real,,, well you know not so nice gal,,,, and thus when the ending called for her character to show her true side she would of done great (not that Nolan didn't pull this off since she did). > > I don't know what studio she worked for other than Godfrey was MGM. Poor Gail Patrick--so often playing the woman you love to hate...the evil sister in Godfrey, the sleazy girl in Stage Door, the woman Cary Grant marries, then spends the rest of the movie avoiding in My Favorite Wife, the "old flame" in Love Crazy...

Love the little blurb about Arlene Dahl...that is the same Arlene Dahl, isn;t it?

*Birthdays today:* *Tippi Hedren is 81 today:* Marnie (not my favorite film, but a good song): *Alarming, Charming Blonde Women (and Men):* *Hitchcock's Blondes:* Grace Kelly: Janet Leigh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV5WBOZ0yz8 Kim Novak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObbAl57ar0&feature=related Marlene Dietrich: ****************************** Rosemary Clooney and Marlene: Betty Grable: That other Bette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5__uUuxoU Robert Redford: Randolph Scott: Jean Harlow: Kirk Douglas: Van Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6rp87Nzc0E Greta Garbo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrEcI-ULbQ Bombshells~~ Marilyn, Jayne, Jean, Diana, Lana and Veronica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJvuz64vTvA&feature=related Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 19, 2011 9:04 PM

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > *Many Birthdays today:* > > > >*Curly Howard* > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTzsi6WT6Q&feature=related > > > > > > > > > > > It's nice that Curly Howard is included in this tribute, but today is not his birthday, instead, it's the anniversary of his death in 1952. > > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397219/bio Oops! Blame it on the Celebrity birthdays thread...LOL

*Many Birthdays today:* *Cary Grant* Grant, Cary Grant: *Danny Kaye* The Black Fox: Singing with Louis Armstrong?wonderful!! Danny does the Muppet Show! *Oliver Hardy* Singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOXYWEB7LgA&feature=related *Curly Howard* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTzsi6WT6Q&feature=related

> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote} > tracey, that's very interesting, especially seeing the Duke of Windsor (aka the ex-King of England), though Elsa Maxwell did hold parties for the Royals. Was there a caption? It just told who it was and where (Cap de Antilles) and the photographer (which I can;t remember right now.

This is a wierd pic I found in one of my books--it's Elsa Maxwell, Tyrone Power and the Duke of Windsor:

I think they call them "country house murders" or "country manor murders" http://www.cozy-mystery.com/tv-movies-dvds/Cozy-Mystery-TV-and-Movies.html http://hubpages.com/hub/British-Character-Actors-Enliven-My-Life

Also Mary Astor and Jean Arthur (but maybe they were too "big" to play 2nd fiddle to Hepburn?)

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > With regards to Nolan; The point was that if one look at the basic categories that would cause a man to fall for a women, especially given the times, some might say Nolan is lacking in the looks department. Now of course this is very subjective. The point is that it is hard to believe Grant fell for her because they had a common set of values or the size of her heart. They clearly don't have these in common and that is key to the entire plot. So if not those the most common one is good old sexual appeal and some feel she lacks in this especially compared with Grant (i.e. a 10 on that scale to most women!). Yeah, I never understood it either. There were plently of other, better-looking supporting types around (I was going to say at RKO, but Holiday wasn't RKO, was it? It was Columbia) And they had Rita Hayworth by that time and it looks like they also had Fay Wray. Either of them could have done that role and been a more convincing match for Grant.

Written by Hemmingway: Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls To Have and Have Not A Farewell to Arms The Killers Snows of Kilimanjaro The Macomber Affair The Sun Also Rises

Written by Dashiell Hammet The Thin Man (all of them, actually) The Maltese Falcon The Glass Key Woman in the Dark Watch on the Rhine (really? wow)

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > *STORIES OF KING ARTHUR* > > Gah. I hated that film--they missed the whole point! Arthur loved them both--that's why he was so torn up, not because he was jealous. Not even Connery could save it for me.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > I agree that MY DARLING CLEMENTINE is a good film. But in my opinion, it's not as great as it could be. Alan Mowbray is wonderfully miscast in a western (and I mean that in a good way!). I love the type of unusual humor he brings in such a locale. He's a fish out of water, just like Richard Harris is in Eastwood's UNFORGIVEN. > > But there are a few problems with this film, and they are not John Ford's fault. I blame them on Zanuck. Zanuck is too busy trying to promote Darnell, so her character sort of gets in the way of the plot. Walter Brennan's character should have more screen time, since he is essentially the lead villain. Stretches of the film go by without him present or even mentioned, so in a way there is no looming threat over the town's law and order like there should be to increase dramatic tension and make it truly interesting. > > But one problem that I do think is Ford's fault, along with Zanuck, is that I think the film loses sight of its hero. About half-way into the picture, Victor Mature takes over and Henry Fonda's Earp becomes a supporting character (in a film about Earp, where Fonda should remain front and center). As a result, we get a decentered protagonist and the story shifts into one that focuses more on Doc Holliday. You're right--the film does seem to lose focus about halfway through--I almost forgot Fonda was looking for his brother's killer. Well, it may have been a bit meandering, but it was an enjoyable meander...

Once again it's....A WESTERN! How does this keep happening??? I hate westerns! Watched My Darling Clenentine this morning and quite enjoyed it. Anothe rone of those John Ford westerns--no John Wayne this time, but Henry Fonda was back, in a very different role from his Fort Apache one: Wyatt Earp, the Marshall of Tombstone a job he takes after his cattle are rustled and his youngest brother killed. With his reamining brothers to back him up, he makes a change in the town. He even befriends and manages to win over the town "boss" Doc Holiday, played in a nicely tortured and vaguely threatening way by Victor Mature. The two remain allies even when Earp accidently on purpose steals Doc's Eastern lady friend, Clementine. Linda Darnell was great as the fiery Chihuahua (seriously--she's named after a dog? Or perhaps a Mexican provence? What was wrong with calling her Maria or Lupe or something?)who, in the great western tradition of naughty women, takes a bullet for her man. Earp finally discovers who killed his brother, leading to the famous Shootout at the OK corall (which was terrifying--I kept expecting them to hit the poor horses), Doc dies and Earp rides off into the sunset, leaving Clemintine behind...whhuuuut? This version of the story seemed to focus more on the realtionship between Earp and Holiday and their female comapnions. Ford uses humor a lot--.Fonda even had a bit of a comic turn--after a visit to the barber, he comes out smelling like a rose--literally. For the next few scenes, everytime someone comments on the scent of the air, he says, "No, that's me." LOL The travelling thes[ian played by Alan Mowbray is a nice comic relief character and his incomplete performance allows another side of Holliday to be shown: when the actor forgets his lines from Hamlet, Holiiday finishes the speech for him before stumbling away. When Clementine arrives, Earp finds out "Doc" isn;t just a nickname--Holliday trained as a doctor but doesn;t practice anymore. This part bothered me--no explanation is really made for why Holliday came West and why, if he hates it so much, didn;t he go back home? (Unless that nasty cough was TB?) Or why he no longer practices medicine--one would think he'd be needed in the wild, wild west?