daddysprimadonna Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 For any random comments anyone may wish to make while watching the great, the incomparable, "Gone With The Wind". "War, war, war, fiddledeedee, y'all aren't having any dinner at my house if you don't hush!" Just that opening music gets my heart racing! Message was edited by: Melanie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 The Tarleton twins don't look like twins, especially since one of them grew up to be Superman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 I hadn't noticed that, I'll have to look next time I watch my DVD. I swear, watching other movies is watching a movie--watching GWTW is an experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Yes, I plan on watching Vivien Leigh in the tub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Well then I get to watch Clark Gable in the shower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Frankly my dear ... oh well, I am calling it a night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Sweet dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Stuart Tarleton was played by George Reeves, who we all know, became TV's Superman. And did you take a really close look at Gerald O'Hara's horse? Well, Hi-yo Silver! Yup, that horse was the Lone Ranger's beloved Silver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 I love the "mushmouth" Charleston accent of Scarlett's friend Cathleen. I think the actress really was from Charleston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Can we get the conversation back to Frances Dee?!!! Uh.....oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I though this was the Diana Dors thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 D'ya mean Jim Morrison and the Doors? PS, speaking of one of the Tarleton twins, I just saw George Reeves play Geraldine Fitzgerald's husband in "Till We Meet Again." A shame he wasn't given a real chance in Hollywood. Now...back to the puns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 As another poster suggested in November: > I presume you would feature Samuel L. Jackson in the role of Prissy? "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no @!%*# %#*!@ babies!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 That's not quite accurate. Don't you mean Jackson would say: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no mother @!%*# babies on no mother $%%^^#*8# plane!"??? That'd be more like it, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 GONE WITH THE WIND TRIVIA: Gone with the Wind is Ted Turner's favorite movie, as such he launched the TNT network with a broadcast of this film. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh spent their time between takes playing battleship as said by Olivia de Havilland during an interview called, "Melanie Remembers". They permitted de Havilland to play once and she promptly beat the both of them. She was not allowed to play again. Also in Olivia de Havilland's interview, she stated that when it came time to get into character she would take at least twenty minutes to fully become Melanie while Vivien Leigh could march before the camera and become Scarlett O'Hara. All the liquid used for alcohol was tea, but during the scene where Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel are drinking to the birth of Bonnie Butler, Gable (as a joke) replaced the tea with real alcohol. McDaniel did not know until she took a swig. Olivia de Havilland's character Melanie is the only principal character to die in the movie. Ironically, de Havilland is the only member of the top four members of the cast to still be alive. Leslie Howard died in a plane crash during the war, Clark Gable died of a heart attack in 1960, and Vivien Leigh died of tuberculosis in 1967. Vivien Leigh reportedly stated that she did not like kissing Clark Gable citing his breath smelled foul due to his false teeth. During the filming of Gone with the Wind, Vivien Leigh was reported to have smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. In 1989, Gone with the Wind was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it #4 on its "100 Greatest Movies" list. Rhett Butler's infamous farewell line to Scarlett O'Hara, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", was voted in a poll by the American Film Institute in 2005 as the most memorable line in cinema history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattHelm Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 "War, war, war, fiddledeedee, y'all aren't having any dinner at my house if you don't hush!" Melanie, I'd bet that's the way you keep the undesireables away for the holidays ... but I'd also bet that you'd let some of them in, based on how good-natured you are. Message was edited by: MattHelm for Freudian typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Sorry, I thought this thread meant Deanna Durbin playing the violin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Rimshot if you please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 >Rimshot if you please Here you are: http://faultgame.com/images/rimshot.wav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Mercy buckets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Fred, loved the rimshot sound effects. RV...this is the Itzak Perlman thread. But I don't know what he has to do with Classic Films. I'm lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Perlman was Ian Fleming's second choice for Bond .. just imagine all the gadgets Q could have built into that violin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Bond can't wear glasses. All a bad guy'd have to do is knock 'em off, and he'd be out of commission. No...I think Perlman would've been better served as a Bond villain to join the pantheon of villains like Scaramanga, Blofeld, Goldfinger, Dr. No and Lotte Lenya's character with the lethal shoe. Can't you see him plucking those strings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Good point ... he could try to pluck Bond to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 NOW you're talkin'!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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