traceyk65
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It is interesting though--when TCM dies show a more modern film, it's usually an award winner or highly praised by critics (and no I'm not referring to Night of the Lepus, which is, BTW, a hoot to watch and I highly recommend it to anyone who has that sort of sense of humor). When it comes to those movies from the Golden Age, they are not nearly so selective. There are a lot of pre-1960 films that TCM plays which are completely ordinary and if I may say it, pretty darn boring.
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> {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.
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> The hand-held camera work was some of the worst Ive ever seen. They used to call that style Cinema Verit?. Lol, thats French for wobbly camera.
I actually thought it was sort of unneccessary for it to have been a documentary--the story of the forger wasinteresting and might have made a good fiction, maybe a thriller-type movie.
I agree w/ you on the wobbly camera thing--I hate that! Another good reason to have made this a straight fictional movie.
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Joseph Mankiewicz:*
Dragonwyck:
All About Eve:
Cleopatra:
Sleuth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCRWZv6kwpo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Gd-J9xY0A&feature=related
*Eva Gabor*
Green Acres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJmJ6Trkb8&feature=fvsr
*Leslie Nielson*
Forbidden Planet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gkE6kkhIc&feature=related
As Frank Drebin:
*Billy Halop*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF07Mw762AY&feature=related
Angels With Dirty Faces:
Dead End Kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXXV1GMFn3o&feature=related
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > Bringing Up Baby
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> >She leads him on a merry chase ... and destroys his dinosaur.
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> Yeah, don't you hate when that happens!
I know it ruins my day...
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I'm probably way behind on this one, but I saw in my Now Playing that Charlotte Chandler did a bio of Dietrich. Has anyone read it? I was very disappointed with her sanitized, boring Davis and Crawford bios.
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Maybe I'm easily fooled, but I liked it. I was completely sucked into the story of the forger and his work and connection to Picasso and so on and then Welles comes on and says, "Fooled ya!" I was sort of conflicted at taht point--I thought it was unneccesary (with some way to wrap up the plot, it could have been done as a straight movie, instead of documentary style--it was an interesting story), but then what he says at the end about fiction and forgery and so on was...porfound maybe? Or maybe it was only psuedo-profound and that's why I am conflicted?
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> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote}
> Am I the one person here who hates, hates, hates *Member of the Wedding* ? I keep hoping Ethel Waters would strangle Julie Harris. Harris' character is what Woody Allen might have done if he played a 12-year-old girl. That sort of character is irritating when Allen plays it; and it's downright rage-inducing coming from somebody like Julie Harris
No. Julie Harris as a little girl gives me the creeps. She doesn;t really look or act 12-ish. It probably worked on stage because there are no close-ups. She's perfect in The Haunting though.
Ethel Waters, on the other hand, is great.
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Bringing Up Baby
Cary Grant's nerdy professor, David Huxley, is this close to entering a sexless, loveless marriage with Miss Peabody when he meets Katharine Hepburn's free-spirited Susan Vance. She leads him on a merry chase across the Connecticut countryside, does him out of a $1,000,000 donation, gets him arrested, breaks up his engagement and destroys his dinosaur. And it's the best time he's ever had in his life.
Edited by: traceyk65 on Feb 10, 2011 10:14 AM
for TYPOS. I have GOT to learn to type.
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Jimmy Durante*
Young at Heart:
Frosty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pu-bVrndgY&feature=fvw
As Long as it Comes From the Heart w/ Sinatra:
*Alan Hale Sr*
Little John in Robin Hood:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=314112
Thank Your Lucky Stars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcy9mhIKotk
*Lon Chaney Jr*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJelFr0hHj4&feature=related
The Werewolf of London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLDOC2rl6s&feature=related
Bride of the Gorilla:
*Judith Anderson*
Mrs Danvers:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4b80YF9KYw
*Robert Wagner*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspH-y4k2AA&feature=related
On NCIS:
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > We had Divorce...so how about Divorce and Re-Marriage?
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> And of course, *My Favorite Wife*
Probably could include The Women, too.
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Ronald Colman*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGM3ODMi6w&feature=related
*Alberto Vargas*
The Vargas Girl:
*Carmen Miranda*
The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flfB4PGBHhE&feature=related
South American Way:
*Gypsy Rose Lee*
Put the Blame on Mame:
*Brian Donlevy:*
Destry Rides Again:
The Great McGinty:
*Kathryn Grayson*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoO0JKvEMM
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If we're going to mention Rock Hudson, why not the obvious ones--Rock and Doris Day and Rock and Jane Wyman?
Rock and Doris:
Lover Come Back
Pillow Talk
Send Me No Flowers
Rock and Jane:
Magnificent Obssession
All That Heaven Allows
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne:
Penny Serenade
My Favorite Wife
The Awful Truth
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
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> > I don't know whether you are being tongue in cheek, but later in life, when her film career was winding down, Marlene DID tour with a singing act, with a young Burt Bacharach spending time as her accompanist.
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> Not tongue in cheek at all, just countering tracyk65's assertion that Marlene's singing was an "acquired taste," and not widely appreciated. Touring a singing act after a successful acting career doesn't necessarily prove one is a good singer, just that one has a following from the acting. My assertion was that if she hadn't been a film star, she could have been a singing star.
I think it just may be an acquired taste for modern audiences? Most people for whom I have played her songs just look at me like I am crazy (but then I get that about old movies a lot too)..,and there are several people on these boards who don't care for her singing either.
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Lana Turner*
*Charles Ruggles*
*Bring Up Baby:*
Instructing Aunt Elizabeth in the art of leopard calling:
*King Vidor*
Beyond the Forest (which was played on TCM??when??)
Show People:
The Fountainhead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4TIQQQNQ8&feature=related
*Jack Lemmon*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5Wun0mM70
Some Like it Hot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xRJcUmt6Io&feature=related
*James Dean*
*Unforgetable Classic Actors (sung by Queen Latifah):*
*Gorgeous Classic Actresses in Action:*
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks Tracey...you're a sweetheart. What a treat!
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> This will be an on-going thread. I have found hundreds of actors that don't even get mentioned now.
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> By posting their pictures, a brief bio and some links like you have done, my goal is that hopefully classic film enthusaists can begin to rediscover them and their unique talents.
No problem. Seems like an interstng thread!
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Hilo Hattie in action:
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Eddie Bracken*
Miracle at Morgan?s Creek:
The Fleet?s In:
Selling Peanut Butter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dzps9o3DI
*Buster Crabbe*
Tarzan the Fearless:
*Jungle Men and Women in the Movies:*
Tarzan:
Bantu the Zebra Boy:
White Cargo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dsTcjgDFoE
Liane, Jungle Goddess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QduqkUXSts&playnext=1&list=PL4A61978127BDB250
Jungle Girls:
Panther Girl of the congo:
Wild Women of Wongo:
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We had Divorce...so how about Divorce and Re-Marriage?
Old Wives for New
Don't Change Your Husband
Why Change Your Wife?
The Lady Eve
The Philadelphia Story
Palm Beach Story
His Girl Friday
The Awful Truth
Bluebeard?s Eighth Wife
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> I don't know whether you are being tongue in cheek, but later in life, when her film career was winding down, Marlene DID tour with a singing act, with a young Burt Bacharach spending time as her accompanist.
And she was already a well--known musical stage star in Berlin (and was beginning to make her mark in films), before von Sternberg "discovered" her. I think she'd recorded "Jonny" and "Peter" before she ever left Berlin.
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According to this website, it was Jack Braun in 1906's Dream of the Rarebit Fiend:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/the-ultimate-movie-spitta_n_812174.html
My question would be, does anyone do this in real life??
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> {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote}
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> > Um...wow. Ive never seen this one. Olivier in blackface??? Oh my.
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> Yes, but I thought he was very good in this.
Maybe so, but I'm not sure I could get past the blacface. Was the movie B&W at least? Only those color shots make him look green. If he was female, he'd be an Orien slave girl...
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And Happy Birthday!
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Huh. And I always though that George Lucas was the first to really cash in on movie merchandise. But apparently it was Walt Disney, to a ridiculous degree. "Snow White" foundation garments? Really??
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