CineMaven Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 It'll be okay, just tell her to feed your husband and child. For me, Bellamy would be interesting...but mostly for those he worked with. Joanne Woodward, Bogie, Monty, Cary, Crawford, Blondell. Yeah, Blondell. I see "SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS" will air Thursday, August 25th. Many of the stars want to see is to get their films all in one fell swoop on VHS tape. (By the by, you and Bronxie wrote great write-ups for "SWEET SMELL..."). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 I like Ralph Bellamy a lot and will definitely be watching on his day. In case anyone has doubts about his acting ability, watch Sunrise at Campobello - he's superb in it. Thanks for the comment on SSOS. Sometimes it takes me a while to get my brain working. I can watch and appreciate, but writing about a movie doesn't always come very easily to me. Understanding what it is about a film that gets to me is sometimes really difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 You write very well. When are you giving lasses in film analyses? "I'll be your girl if you want me to." HOLY CHEWIN' TOBACCO. Have on "Parrish" while I'm getting ready to hang out. My god, Connie Stevens is hot to trot in this. As soon as she saw Troy she was ready to go...go...go. She looks like Daisy Mae. And Delmer sure loves the soft-focus close-ups. I know he's mere fishlips to Bronxie, but Troy looks pretty damn good in this movie. Nice colors, athletic. Oh, here's Diane McBain. (Like a Martha Hyer...Grace Kelly type). Uh-oh...she looks like trouble. Very manicured and "well-tended" shall we say. Posh...stuck-up...tease. What is this..."Children of the Damned"? There's a brunette talking to Troy. She doesn't stand a chance. Wish I could stay and tell Troy to run "forrest run" from McBain. So he's got a couple of choices: 'Easy', 'Beeyotch' and 'Regular.' But I guess a boy's gotta do what a boy's gotta do and it's Friday. ...And a Maven's gotta do what a Maven's gotta do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainingViolets101 Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Maybe the brunette talking to TROY was his gorgeous wife SUZANNE PLESHETTE? what ever happened to Diane Mc Bain? she was considered to be Warner's most beautiful star at one time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 This particular brunette was Sharon Hugueny, who also played the beatnik chick in *The Caretakers*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 "SO WHAT'LL YOU DO IF I GET NERVOUS? OPEN YOUR MEATY, SYMPATHETIC ARMS??" Poor Sally....she reminds me of Shelley Winters from A PLACE IN THE SUN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 Yay! Lon on Monday! Trust me when I tell you that SHE MARRIED HER BOSS is in no way,shape or form anywhere near La Cava's MY MAN GODFREY or STAGE DOOR. Claudette and Melvyn have absolutely no chemistry as a couple. Direction is rather leaden and the script weak. Edith Fellows, as Douglas's horrid little daughter with a nasty mouth, steals it. IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD is mildly entertaining, a good "time-waster" on a rainy Saturday afternoon, a screwball murder mystery comedy. Jimmy looks funny wearing goggly glasses, but his character is somewhat less than amusing: greedy and woman-hating. Claudette is hilariously obnoxious sticking to Stewart like glue (she thinks she's Nancy Drew helping him solve a murder and extricating him as a suspect) as a poetess with insane romantic notions about criminals being adventuresome, gallant, colorful rogues. They play off each other pretty well. Dusky, sleepy-eyed Frances Drake (you might remember her from MAD LOVE and THE INVISIBLE RAY) is also in the cast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 MY BLOOD RUNS COLD! TROY GOES PSYCHO! Troy even swims in an underwater cave! He IS the Creature from the Black Lagoon! Joey Heatherton!! It's movies like this that make life worth living! Behold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHMufdYvngQ Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Aug 13, 2011 4:25 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 Thank you for the SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS compliment. Tony Curtis is such a **** as Sidney, s.o.b. though he is. (and I'm not totally convinced of his moral reformation at the conclusion) I love Emile Meyer as fat sadistic Kello. Didn't realize he was Rufus Ryker in SHANE. Cecil Parker's armpits are a revelation in UNDER CAPRICORN. I'm not a major Claudette Colbert fan. Not able to warm up to her too much, like I can with Myrna, Irene, or Carole, and I don't think she was a particularly expressive actress, but she had dry wit, style, and great comic timing. I do like her as Cleopatra. Just saw OUTPOST IN MALAYA. I don't know what frightened me more, the cobras or Claudette's unnaturally pasty, frozen face which to my admittedly untrained eye, did, however, seem to show the effects of some nip and tuckery, because when threatened with a terrorist's machete, that Hollywood mask barely registered the appropriate emotions. The movie is like some hybrid of a jungle Korda Bros. production, blended with Renoir's THE RIVER. Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Aug 13, 2011 6:42 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 HOLY COW! He was Ryker??? I should have known the voice. Chastise me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JackFavell Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I knew as soon as you said it it was him, but it NEVER occurred to me that they were the same actor before now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Before I head out to the Fringe Festival with Chip :x Movies, to see: BETTE DAVIS AIN'T FOR SISSIES Writer: Jessica Sherr Director: Theresa Gambacorta "Dear Warner Brothers, After 40 films and two Academy Awards you continue to discredit and disrespect my talent and worth with meaningless roles. I have a voice. I warn you this Yankee will not be shut up! Respectfully, Bette Davis" I thought I'd leave you all with this Emile Meyer screen cap from "PATHS OF GLORY." Here he walks the last green mile (probably more like shades of muddy brown) with the one...the only (thank goodness)...the inimitable Timothy Carey. STROLL WITH ME TIMOTHY...I WANT TO CHASTISE YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Hey, have a great time - and say hi to Chip :x Movies for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 13, 2011 Author Share Posted August 13, 2011 OMG! Hahahahahahaha!! Gee, Emile was versatile! Dvorak was the whole show in THREE ON A MATCH. I really like her, but felt so bad for Bette in that mousy little role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 MAJOR HYDRATION ALERT --- MAJOR HYDRATION ALERT Remember this April Stevens song? How appropriate... (August 23rd will mark the 85th anniversary of RV's death. I'll review THE SHEIK and THE SON OF THE SHEIK on that day) Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Aug 14, 2011 12:51 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 What the hey....did you go all the way to Bethlehem to get that video? Be still my heart and my pulse...and the pulse in my heart and the pulse in my pulse and... We didn't see Gable or Coop or Jimmy or Tom Santschi or Flynn or Ty or Fonda or Cary or Georgie (Arliss or Raft) or Barton or Dana or Quinn or Orson or Kelly or Big Boy or Bancroft or any of the other major hotties in poses like Valentino did. What a pin up boy. He was not on my radar until you opened my eyes. You brought him to the forefront Bronxie. Thank you! And his forefront's not bad either. Hubba, hubba! (...as Groucho would say). Looking forward to your review. Until then...a mop, STAT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 LOL!!!! Yes, and I've still got sand in my shoes. And after Rudy: (I'm trying to forget Glenn in the tub, also Fred) Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on Aug 14, 2011 2:09 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Nice video. I'd have picked different music. Gary Cooper and Alain Delon looked positively dreamy in their different ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 Gary Cooper -- super duper, classic, timeless good looks. I think Joel McCrea was taking lessons from RV, on the stoop with Jean Arthur in THE MORE THE MERRIER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Coop looked fantastic in that clip. Looks like it was very early in career. Just yummy. Joel and Jean on the stoop? What a soft sweet deliciously teasing scene that was. Better 'n some of the more explicit things you see today. But look who Joel had to practice on: I'm not sure who's luckier: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Whoa, now you're talking - Coop and McCrea. Whew! I like em tall easy going and good looking. Add Ben to the list and I'm a goner. Hydrate me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 RV wasn't that tall (sorry, Rudy, but you know it's true my sweetpea), but two out of three ain't bad. I'm watching SLING BLADE. Doyle: every dog will have his day, um-hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 Frances and Joel, 57 years married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Jack, if you're going to wish for a triple decker sandwich like that, you've got to start building up stamina. You can't keep crying "hydrate me!" Is there a park near you? Do a couple of laps around the lake or something. Come on...make us classic film buffs proud. Represent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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