Bronxgirl48 Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 > {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quo > > I realize this is not gonna sound good, but, he looks like he just got off the boat, LOL > Give me your tired, your poor, your Rudy Valles yearning to breathe free. But I'd like to go back on that boat -- and become an expat with the beautiful villa like Mary Astor in DODSWORTH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Dear Bronxgirl, It is with pleasure that we, here at TCM Connection, have matched you with your perfect partner. Your soul mate, Mr. Porter Hall, will accompany you for this evening's festivities. Wait till you see his socks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled villas yearning to be...rented by some wacky single & married female classic film buffs longing for love underneath the Tuscan sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 > {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > Dear Bronxgirl, > > It is with pleasure that we, here at TCM Connection, have matched you with your perfect partner. Your soul mate, Mr. Porter Hall, will accompany you for this evening's festivities. > > Wait till you see his socks! Granville Sawyer? LOL I'm glad Mr. Macy fired him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 > {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled villas yearning to be...rented by some wacky single & married female classic film buffs longing for love underneath the Tuscan sun. You can address all correspondence to me here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I'll take Porter Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 Me too, over Kent Smith. I was just reading that Rudy loved animals so much, he was often seen, at the start of his career, walking around with a lost puppy or kitten in his arms, making sure they got fed and were alright. Oh, Rooooody! Also, that his speaking voice was "low and husky, and very much part of his charm". His accent was strong. One woman's account was that he introduced himself to her: "Pleas' (sic) to meet you", and she melted. Mama mia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I find Porter Hall strangely adorable. I feel we could have a Charles Coburn/Marilyn Monroe *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* type relationship. I'll be Marilyn, in case anyone is confused. I fear his socks would be wrinkled and falling down. More Rudy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHdCngChGc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 Oh lordie Jackie, where do you find these great vids with more new Roooody photos?? The Little Tramp looks all pasty and positively.....girlish, lol, next to hunky olive-skinned, well-built Rudy. (as one YouTube poster commented, "It's an open and shut case") Are you the python or the goat in your Porter Hall scenario? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Definitely the python. Charlie looks like a giggling schoolgirl sitting next to Rudy. This is Donna Hill's video, I believe, and she has been collecting photos for her book for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Charlie got all this action, though, even with Paulette Goddard. I don't understand it, lol. I'm loving Donna Hill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Could any other actor in 1921 play this scene with equal parts tenderness, romantic ardor, and sheer sensuality, without being corny or artificial? Rudy has subtlety, believability, and a modern authenticity and edginess that is fascinating. He is sensitive, melancholy, passionate, yearning, I can't get enough of Valentino! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIPxwJDTXhM Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 12, 2011 9:01 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 No.. I don't think anyone could have played it as well....Rudy is totally believable, which is saying so much. To translate to our time without a false step, really he was something special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Wow, that photograph is a pefect example of his modern appeal/ All in black, and looking like a young Brando, Newman, Depp. (we can forgive the clenched fists -- after all, it WAS the teens or early twenties, lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I thought it looked very modern too. That clip from Conquering Power was lovely, I have to go back and re-watch the movie. Today I had a thought - if he had lived, he and Rita Hayworth might have crossed paths. Both Latin, and both dancers..... he'd be older, but still .... I think of the tango they might have done together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 I was thinking the same thing about him and Hayworth. In 1946 he would have been 51 years old, so perhaps the tangoing might have been a bit more sedate. Then again, knowing it was Valentino (and he prided himself on keeping fit) I'm sure the director would have expanded his role so that Glenn Ford REALLY had cause to be jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Yeah! That guy was definitely no threat to Glenn...... I love that my man Obregon was in there too. sigh This pic cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 I was going to mention Joe! Yeah, Gerald Mohr as Capt. Delgado, It's hilarious how Rita tells Glenn, "I love Latin men, they know how to dance". Oh if only they had cast Rudy! The dance floor would have CLEARED for him and Gilda. Ah, what might have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I'll say! Just imagining it makes me salivate. I have got to go to bed now. Sweet dreams, Bronxella, I know I will have them after this conversation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Me, too. Oh, grazie! Sweet Rudy dreams to you as well. We can't help it: Ciao bella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Anybody fluent in Italian? I would love to know what the old woman is saying about Valentino. Thanks in advance! Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Jun 13, 2011 12:53 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 "I find Porter Hall strangely adorable. I feel we could have a Charles Coburn/Marilyn Monroe 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' type relationship. I'll be Marilyn, in case anyone is confused." HA!!!! No doubt. You'd be a great Marilyn...I'm sure of it! "I fear his socks would be wrinkled and falling down." If a man can't keep his Argyles up...then I dunno! That doesn't bode well. Uhmmm...no pictures, please. (Whew!) "Today I had a thought - if he had lived, he and Rita Hayworth might have crossed paths. Both Latin, and both dancers..... he'd be older, but still .... I think of the tango they might have done together." JackaaaAaaay, now THERE's a thought a Maven can work with (rather than Porter's wrinkled socks. Oh the imagery; la im-a-gerie)! Who the heck needs a maltese falcon when THIS is the stuff dreams are made of. Yeah, Rudy and Rita...doing a nice close...slooooow tango. Wait a minute, that clip you chose...were you really just trying to sneak in a plug for your boy Joe? Why Marilyn... you sly fox!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 ?You can address all correspondence to me here...? June 13th, 2011 Ms. Bronxgirl48 c/oGrand Vesuvius Capri Luxury Loft Posillip Naples, Italy Dear Bronxie, How's it going? How are you enjoying the villa. And how is your, your...company. I hope he is giving you a wonderful very attentive guided tour of Napoli. What have you seen so far? Nothing? You haven't even left the villa? Well what have you been doing? Ohhhhhhhhhhh... Regards, CineMaven * * * In 1946 he would have been 51 years old, so perhaps the tangoing might have been a bit more sedate. Then again, knowing it was Valentino (and he prided himself on keeping fit) I'm sure the director would have expanded his role so that Glenn Ford REALLY had cause to be jealous." Yeah that's quite a scene. I hope Rudy would be ready for a 1946 Rita Hayworth. Have you seen Rita in "GILDA"? It'd be fun to watch him use ev'ry bit of his charm and charisma to melt in his arms, someone who could have melted the sun. Yeah, Gerald Mohr as Capt. Delgado, It's hilarious how Rita tells Glenn, "I love Latin men, they know how to dance". Oh if only they had cast Rudy! The dance floor would have CLEARED for him and Gilda. Ah, what might have been. I had this dream last night that... Anybody fluent in Italian? I would love to know what the old woman is saying about Valentino. Thanks in advance! One of my friends is Italian. I'll ask him to get on it. (The old gal probably thinks she slept with Rudy waay back when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metsfan Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Io capisco un po l'italiano. What a fiesty Signora! I thought she was going to hit the man with the microphone. haha From the little that I understood, she mentioned that Rudy was best friends with her brother Pepino and he stayed over sometimes at their house. She conserved everything the way it was when he stayed there. She was never in love with him and didn't think he was extremely gorgeous as others thought. He was quite a bad boy from her account. lol Barb, do you approve of Rudy bringing this baby camel to your villa? I'm afraid he can't part with it. By the way, was his father a veterinarian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 How adorable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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