traceyk65
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*Birthdays today:*
*Ann Southern:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WmCipGcf0U&feature=related
Maisie:
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zmtECLhHQ
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp#player_area
*Actresses of the 40?s:*
*A Tribute to the War Years:*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FF7MDZ5T1Y&feature=related
Swing Fever:
Twice Blessed:
40?s Women?s Fashion (check the corset at 1:00?OUCH!):
The ?Elegant? Man:
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My faves from that year:
Bachelor Mother
Destry Rides Again
Another Thin Man
Five Came Back
Gunga Din
Le Jour se leve
Midnight
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Bette Davis had a busy year that year--didn't The Old Maid come out that year too?
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
> tracey, if I recall right, there is another piece coming up on this.
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> Remember, you are experiencing 1939 as it happened. Have to wait. : )
Oh sure. Tease us...
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BTW, I have about 1500 of these cards, usually in complete sets, so if you have a fave from the 20's or 30's you wanna see cards of, let me know. There's a good chance I have at least one card of them.
*Dietrich:*
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 21, 2011 1:18 PM
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*Robert Montgomery:*
*Mae West and Bette Davis:*
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*Anna May Wong*
*Myrna Loy and William Powell:*
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*Gable and Crawford* (I know one card shows Crawford w/ Spencer Tracy and one shows Gable w/ Myrna Loy)
*Charles Laughton:*
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 21, 2011 1:02 PM
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*Katharine Hepburn:*
*Carole Lombard and Norma Shearer:*
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1930's cigarette cards, featuring my favorite stars:
Jean Harlow:
Edited by: traceyk65 on Jan 21, 2011 11:18 AM
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It's interesting--everything Ive read about this film seems to indicate that the two main characters end up in love...it's like Hollywood wants to be bad, but just can't quite manage it.
Is the only movie where the characters actually have a long-term no strings attached realtionship (though even they end up having feelings for each other) Same Time Next Year? I'm sure there are others, but thta's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
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I have it and nobody will play with me anymore. Boo.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> We know that motion pictures that depict explicit sexual acts and whose
> characters use little else but profane language are a poisoned arrow aimed
> directly at the hearts and minds of the noble working class. Such films can
> only weaken the proletariat's' sense of class consciousness and undermine
> their feelings of societal duty. Such films should be given as little distribution
> as possible.
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> Trains were Il Duce's thing.
Thank you Mr Breen (or was that Daniel Lord?) Either way, LOL
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*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
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What was Dietrich doing at Warner's in 1939? I thought her only pic for them was Manpower in 1941?
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
> CHANG!! Wizard of the Orient. Whew!!! I wonder what kind of show HE put on.
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> 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.
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*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:
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> {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?
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}
> lz, glad you are reading on a daily basis and for the historical info you provide.
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> 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.
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> BTW, where's MissGoddess, haven't seen her for any of the GWTW stories?
Bubbles Salmon Schinasi. Still makes me laugh...
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*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:
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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?
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> Comics:
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> *Doonesbury*
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> *Fritz the Cat*
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> *Howard the Duck*
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> various Spidermans, Supermans, X-Men
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> *Daredevil*
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> Modern Shakespeare:
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> the Basil Dearden/Patrick McGoohan take on Othello, *All Night Long*
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> Peter Greenaway's *Prospero's Books*
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> 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)
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> {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.
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> {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).
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> 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...
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*Birthdays today:*
*Randolph Scott:*
*Dan Duryea*
One Way Street
Chicago Calling
Woman in the Window
*Ridiculously romantic movies:*
The Clock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsrH1w6tnc
Woman of the Year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSV08eCV7bM&feature=related
Love Affair:
Now Voyager:
A Brief Encounter:
Random Harvest:
Camille:
Garden of Allah (nicely over-wrought song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaxx5OmsJzI
Sabrina:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcwu8kEYXA&feature=related
Beauty and the Beast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtTPTxvoPA&feature=related