Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (...and with apologies to Messrs Yakko and Wakko Warner for appropriating their tagline as my thread title, I now begin...) While watching the movie HARVEY again last night for the umpteen time, I began to notice I couldn't take my eyes off of the lovely Peggy Dow, who in her much too short three year career in Hollywood played nurse Ruth Kelly. Seems the now 88 year old lady's first love wasn't acting, and so she would quit the biz in 1951 to marry a Texas oil man and raise a family of 5 children. Sure wish she would have chosen to work a few more years in Tinseltown, as I think she not only possessed a very attractive appearance, but also thought her acting in this film was first rate. Not only in her line readings but especially in the manner in which her face just beamed at Jimmy Stewart's whimsical Elwood P. Dowd as he enchanted her with his warm and welcoming likability. Okay, and now, this thread was NOT started just to extol Miss Dow's virtues, but in hopes others here might offer up some of their own favorite nurses in cinematic history. And so, does anybody else have one in mind? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 "Medication time." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (...and with apologies to Messrs Yakko and Wakko Warner for appropriating their tagline as my thread title, I now begin...) While watching the movie HARVEY again last night for the umpteen time, I began to notice I couldn't take my eyes off of the lovely Peggy Dow, who in her much too short three year career in Hollywood played nurse Ruth Kelly. Seems the now 88 year old lady's first love wasn't acting, and so she would quit the biz in 1951 to marry a Texas oil man and raise a family of 5 children. Sure wish she would have chosen to work a few more years in Tinseltown, as I think she not only possessed a very attractive appearance, but also thought her acting in this film was first rate. Not only in her line readings but especially in the manner in which her face just beamed at Jimmy Stewart's whimsical Elwood P. Dowd as he enchanted her with his warm and welcoming likability. Okay, and now, this thread was NOT started just to extol Miss Dow's virtues, but in hopes others here might offer up some of their own favorite nurses in cinematic history. And so, does anybody else have one in mind? Nurse Ratched from OFOTCN would be the low-hanging fruit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I like these two, as well. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 "Medication time." Yep Lawrence, gotta admit when CUCKOO'S NEST first the screens and I saw it, I thought Louise there was kind'a hot in a "whip and chains" sort'a way! (...and I think Mr. McMurphy deep down inside kind'a thought that too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 I like these two, as well. Well, YOU know how some of those night shift nurses are, doncha Lawrence?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yep Lawrence, gotta admit when CUCKOO'S NEST first the screens and I saw it, I thought Louise there was kind'a hot in a "whip and chains" sort'a way! (...and I think Mr. McMurphy deep down inside kind'a thought that too) Whatta ya mean"Yep, Lawrence"? Yep, DGF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Whatta ya mean"Yep, Lawrence"? Yep, DGF. Lawrence evidently beat ya to Nurse Ratched by a split second in posting about her, DGF. (...and so because I used his picture to reply to, that's why I referenced his response) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 He's touchy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 He's touchy... Yeah, sometimes. (...but then again, getting picked on by Trader Joe's security guards for no good reason will sometimes make a guy that way, ya know) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 DGF needs Nurse Ratched - whom I always refer to as "Nurse Ratchet" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Joan Crawford in "The Caretakers" (1963). Olivia De Havilland in "Not As A Stranger" (1955). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 DGF needs Nurse Ratched - whom I always refer to as "Nurse Ratchet" Yeah Kid, but then again I DO understand a "nurse ratchet" is often required to work on a nurse diesel... (...and if you lose your nurse ratchet, you won't get any fruit cup!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Lawrence evidently beat ya to Nurse Ratched by a split second in posting about her, DGF. (...and so because I used his picture to reply to, that's why I referenced his response) My time indicators show that Lawrence and DGF posted at the same time (10:14am Pacific) and therefore I call for an investigation on the action taken by Dargo in answering one instead of both. Dargo, you won't need a lawyer, this is simply a Congressional investigation, which of course means nothing. I can see CNN getting involved with this. Dargo will be interviewed with Lawrence and DGF on the telephone. Lawrence can talk movie reviews and DGF can offer his inimitable pithy remarks on just about anything. I can't wait. We need a fresh breaking news story and no doubt this will trend well. == 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yeah, sometimes. (...but then again, getting picked on by Trader Joe's security guards for no good reason will sometimes make a guy that way, ya know) He would know.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Trump needs to tweet about this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 DGF can have Nurse Ratched. I abdicate any and all claims to first-posting rights, including any and all privileges associated therewith. I will remain content with my Blondell-Stanwyck submission. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 CNN, never mind ... you can go back to Trumpus Erroneousus Patheticus now. Back to our beloved nurses. (sorry for the temp derailment, back on track now, thanks) Laffiticus -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Trump needs to tweet about this... Naaah, not really, Hibi. Remember here, this thread is about "nurses", and what THAT guy needs is a good DOCTOR who specialized in the field of Psychiatric health care. And of course, in my opinion so does anybody who buys into what he's sayin', and which usually seems to specifically encompass the branch of this practice concerned with issues of Paranoia. (...but enough about that...and him) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 LOL!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Thelma Ritter as: Nurse Stella in: Rear Window (1954) Elsa Lanchester as: Miss Plimsoll in: Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Mary Wickes as: Miss Preen in: The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Sally Kellerman as: Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan in: M*A*S*H (1970) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Great picks, Sans!!! (...and thanks for gettin' this baby back on-track) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 The great Hattie Jacques! Carry On Nurse Carry On Matron Carry On Doctor (with Kenneth Williams) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Good picks there, "Mr. Anglophile"!!! (...so how are your superfluous-U's treatin' ya today there, ol' boy?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 I was just thinkin' here(and while the following thought might better be placed within CaveGirl's "Obsolete" thread) how come nurses today don't wear those folded little caps anymore? (...'cause of course, this dates any movie which shows 'em wearin' those things) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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