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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!
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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).
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> {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?)
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> tracey baby, here it is:
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> "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*;
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> Looks like there are lots of extra tracks, commentary, etc.
Thanks!
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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.
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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).
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Just watched the original for the first time this morning and, much to my relief, I hated it. After watching Fort Apache and My Darling Clementine and liking them, I was beginning to think westerns were growing on me...
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> {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?
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> > http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm
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> 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!
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*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:
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> *Except I don't think Gloria Swanson was much like Norma Desmond--definitely NOT living in the past.*
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> From what I've read, apparently at this time Gloria turned down a number of roles that were not up to snuff in terms of the importance of the part overall, very Norma Desmond-like if you ask me.
I think she just turned down roles that were too much like Norma Desmond repeats--she didn;t want to get locked into that role. The only Norma Desmond-like thing about her was the fact that she was always the star, wherever she went, somthing that could be said about a lot of those old Hollywood stars (for example, Joan "If you want the girl next door, look next door" Crawford.)
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Very good movie. Thelma Todd is excellent in it as is Clara Bow. I have it on DVD--no idea whether this is bootleg?
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*Birthdays Today:*
*Clark Gable*
With his leading ladies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI2m2Inpbi8
*Helen Chandler*
In the film Daybreak:
As Mina Harker:
To Lucy and Mina?through the years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5mRimUvu6k
*Vampire Evolution:*
Max Shrek as Nosferatu 1922?creepy, ugly, evil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYEHsw9D2M&feature=related
Bela Lugosi as Dracula 1931?classy and handsome, still evil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0mfKWKnSc&feature=fvst
Lon Chaney Jr as Son of Dracula 1944?turns into a bat and cloud of smoke; thinks spelling his name backwards is fooling us; still done in by fire and daylight:
Christopher Lee as Dracula 1958-1972?sexy Dracula has female victims practically begging to be bitten; climbs walls like a gecko; done in by daylight, stakes and ice water and hurt by crosses and Holy Water but can apparently be revived with blood; evil:
The Lost Boys--Edward Hermann and Kiefer Sutherland as Master Vamp and prot?g? 1987?uber-cool teenage vamps as frontmen for secret Master; super strength, flying ability; burst into flames in sunlight, insensible during the day; done in by Holy Water, garlic, stake through heart; evil but only because they need a mother?s care:
Gary Oldham as Dracula 1992?sexy, yet creepy at the same time; can go out in the sun; done in by stake through heart; tormented and searching for his one true love, who turns out to be?Winona Ryder??
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen 2007?arrival of the Vegetarian Vamp; moody and sullen teenager; super-human strength, climbs like a monkey, runs really fast; can survive on animal blood; killed by beheading or fire; freaking sparkles in the sunlight; has a reflection; plays baseball??
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OK, not sure of this is what you mean, but here goes:
Theme--Homage to Classic Stars in Rock/Pop Songs:
*Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Al9blQOhNw
*Candle in the Wind (Marilyn) by Elton John*:
*James Dean by the Eagles:*
*Bela Lugosi?s Dead by the Bauhaus:*
*Marlene by Noir Desir*
*The Right Profile (Montgomery Clift) the Clash:*
*Frank Sinatra by Cake:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZlQAOLXjA
*Just Like Fred Astaire by James:*
*Michael Caine by Madness:*
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OK, I was so busy reading the newspaper clippings I totally missed the first 6-7 Time Travel references...I need more sleep.
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*Birthdays today:*
*Tallulah Bankhead*
Tallulah and Groucho:
*Jean Simmons*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI4PYTxbqKY&feature=related
*Eddie Cantor*
Makin? Whoopie in early Technicolor (or a reasonable facsimile):
In the very precode (and incredibly tasteless) "Keep Young and Beautiful" from 1933's Roman Scandals:
*Joanne Dru*
Red River:
Howard Hawk?s Women:
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Birthdays today:
*Dorothy Malone*
Peyton Place:
*John Ireland*
Red River:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WId6X6uszK0&feature=related
My Darling Clementine:
*John Ford Films:*
How Green Was My Valley:
The Searchers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJMVDnwCLU&feature=fvsr
The Quiet Man:
*Howard Hawk Films:*
Bringing Up Baby:
To Have and Have Not:
Sgt York:
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> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > > {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
> > > All I did was step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and, suddenly I was in the body of a newsstand seller on this *Sunday, January 29th, 1939*:
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> > When do you get your DeLorean? LOL
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> This is "Quantum Leap," not "Back To The Future"; think Scott Bakula, not Michael J. Fox. (The body-changing part should have tipped you off.)
Yeah, I know. It seemed like you were using a different show/movie about time travel each time (the first one was Time Tunnel, right?) so I wondered if you were going to be maybe valet parking the deLorian for this crazy white-haired guy and decided to take it for a spin and you got it up to 88 mph when WHAM!...
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
> All I did was step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and, suddenly I was in the body of a newsstand seller on this *Sunday, January 29th, 1939*:
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When do you get your DeLorian? LOL
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*Birthdays today:*
*John Forsythe*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9AmqoQnPjM
*W.C. Fields*
*Famous Drunks:*
WC Fields:
Humphrey Bogart:
Ernest Hemmingway:
Winston Churchill:
*Victor Mature*
Doing Hamlet:
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> {quote:title=rebeljoe wrote:}{quote}
> Why must people try to "cleverly" espouse their political affiliations when making an otherwise salient point by comparing Sarah Palin to the anti-christ??? Please keep your narrow minded political beliefs out of these forums.
Sorry. I'll try to refrain in the future.
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*Birthdays today:*
*Ernst Lubitsch*
The Shop Around the Corner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2XorNBVOs&feature=related
Trouble in Paradise:
To Be or Not to Be:
One Hour With You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1FRJpp99M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY28AiP6ahU&feature=related
Angel:
(Melvyn Douglas and Herbert Marshall just met and find out they once shared a girl in Paris?, they still are but don?t realize it?yet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBq7XBh58w&feature=related
Ninotchka:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_955wov7w
Billy Wilder explains ?the Lubitsch Touch?:
*Precode Musicals and musical numbers:*
Murder at the Vanities:
Gold Diggers of 1933:
Wonderbar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDCger8veU
Blonde Venus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVrH1OfVjw
She Done Him Wrong:
George Whites Scandals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaikFA06eGs&playnext=1&list=PLCDCFCEDF608260FF
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*Birthdays today:*
*Donna Reed*
Stepford Wives:
Harriet Craig:
*Sabu*
*Kipling:*
Gunga Din:
Jungle Book:
Captains Courageous:
*Troy Donohue*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmoIzIaXVWI
Fifties Teen Idols:
Teen Queens of the Fifties/Sixties:
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If Reality TV, Japanese Game Shows and Sarah Palin weren;t enough to convince you that the Antichrist is here, this should do the trick:
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Poochie Brown. Bubbles Salmon Schinasi... the names are cracking me up.
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > So, who is Ernest Borgine? I see on TCM's Home Page that they are running his 2009 "Private Screenings".
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> > He's an actor. He mostly did/does character-type roles--played a lot of cowboy/outlaws and rough and tough army types. He won an Oscar in the 50's for the film Marty, playing a man who finds love late in life, after he's pretty much given up ever finding Ms Right. Most recently he's been the voice of Mermaid Man on the kid's cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. (BTW the voice of Barnacle Boy is Tim Conway, best known from his work on the Carol Burnett Show in the 70's and 80's)
> > Here's his IMDB page:
> > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/
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> Of course I KNOW who he is!!
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> I was just picking on TCM for misspelling his name ("Borgine") on their Home Page!
Sorry--I'm a little slow tonight. T_T
What was the best movie you watched today?
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> I watched LOVE ME TONIGHT recently as well. It's a great film.
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> 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?