BRONXGIRL'S MOTHER, HENRY FONDA'S HIRSUTENESS, ETC.

[JackFavell]

Did you know Calleia started as a singer? Zowie! it's a good thing I never heard him croon.

[JackFavell]

I'm howling!

 

"He's no Yul Brynner."

 

Who is?

 

No, I'm really asking. I need to find him.

[CineMaven]

Bronxie you probably know this already...but your Mother is PRICELESS!! Hope she had a good Mother's day.

 

JACKAAAY...

 

Spit take!! Oh heck WHAT am l saying?!

[Bronxgirl48]

Sob, sniff, BLAAAAAAT! (excuse me I'm clearing my nose after THE CHAMP) What a great child actor was Jackie!! I loved him and Beery; film holds up exceptionally well, no phony sentiment. And I've never seen such a young Marcia Mae Jones. Awww! And Cooper/Wally were together again in TREASURE ISLAND. Upon my word! Wonderful, classic stuff.

 

I forgot to tell Mom that Donna won an Oscar for FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. But she was confused enough already.

 

Yul, Yul, Yul, woof!

[Bronxgirl48]

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}

> Did you know Calleia started as a singer? Zowie! it's a good thing I never heard him croon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did not know that, lol. The music world's loss was OUR gain.

[Bronxgirl48]

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}

> Bronxie you probably know this already...but your Mother is PRICELESS!! Hope she had a good Mother's day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She asked me why TCM was showing Jackie Cooper today, so I told her that "Dink" just passed away.

 

"He was cuter than Mickey Rooney"

 

I took Mom out for a quiet Mother's Day repast. During the main course, she told me, with some relish, that she crushed a baby anole to death who was placidly sitting in her bathroom sink, waiting to say "Hi!"

 

"I don't want crawling things in my house"

 

 

>

[Bronxgirl48]

Oh! Oh! Listen to this: I SAW RICARDO CORTEZ AT WALGREENS TODAY!!!!!

 

A pint-sized look-a-like clerk, with bedroom eyes and slicked jet-black hair, asked me if I needed help. I could only stammer, "Er, no, I'm...just...getting...dental floss..." Then he smiled charismatically and sauntered away. Not the most romantic encounter, although with clean teeth, love is so much more pleasant.

 

This partcular drug store seems to be a haven for dead celebrities. You might recall I bumped into Vivien Leigh there several years ago.

[JackFavell]

Oh my gosh! Ricardo in person? These kinds of things only happen in Florida, I bet. The only celebrities I have ever run into in Connecticut were Paul Sorvino and Madge the Palmolive Lady ("You're soaking in it!"). As for dead celebs, they must have retired to the Western part of the state, it's much classier thay-uh. (My best Kate Hepburn imitation.) I gotta move to Florida to get sexier dead folks to admire.

 

Why though do they inhabit your drugstore? Do they sell Tanna leaves?

 

My mother in law once impaled a large very slow bumblebee on her fork, because he was flying too close to her lunch, which she was enjoying on the patio. It hurts me to think about it.

 

Look who else was in *Tough Guy* today:

 

 

1st clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pmyW_T44w

 

2nd clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6z792jWdjY&NR=1

 

3rd clip (this is about where I started watching):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPxZc0bi7pU&feature=related

 

Calleia sings a little, but it isn't too impressive. But he's waaaaay better than Jackie.

 

Edited by: JackFavell on May 13, 2011 9:28 PM

[Bronxgirl48]

Oh, my gosh, ha! Dwight Frye! (wearing a very unflattering black hat) And Joseph making such an amazing (and inexplicable) transformation from suave icy gangster to soft-hearted, unshaven, woodsy-idylled good guy who talks to bunnies? How did THAT happen? LOL, I love Duke/Rinty not buying the thug's "Here doggie, have a sandwich" as they try to figure out how to escape from him. (the old guy with the cap and moustache looks like the zoo custodian from CAT PEOPLE. "Nothing left to do, oh, nothing left to do...") I like Rinty leaping on top of the getaway car! What a pooch, he puts Lassie to shame, and I love Lassie!

 

I'm here to tell you that Palmolive works. I've been washing dishes with it forever and my hands are as soft as a baby's bottom. I actually spent a hangover-driven night on HORTENSE DAIGLE'S couch in Connecticut. Ironic, isn't it? Yes, Claude's grief-stricken, boozed-up mother. Eileen Heckart, who was very gracious. I don't remember all the details, as my girlfriend and I were very drunk. She knew someone who knew Eileen...

 

Oooh, that poor bumblebee! I love them, they're so round and fuzzy.

And supposedy their sting cures arthritis!

 

I'm convinced there is some sort of dead celeb VORTEX in my local Walgreens.

 

"My" Ricardo was about the same height as Mickey Rooney. Still, he was a, er, dead ringer.

 

I'll let you know who shows up next.

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on May 13, 2011 10:11 PM

[Bronxgirl48]

Did you see the impossibly skinny and firm arms on Esther Williams in the PAGAN LOVE SONG clip I uploaded? I do hundreds of exercises for the back of mine, but they still look like Margaret Rutherford's at a party doing the Twist with Stringer Davis in MURDER MOST FOUL.

 

Oh, that this too, too solid flab would melt! I live in Florida, you'd think I could get in some swimming year-round.

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on May 13, 2011 10:53 PM

[Bronxgirl48]

Happy Blithe Spirit Friday the 13th! (speaking of Margaret Rutherford)

 

[SansFin]

Easy Exercises for Englishwomen -- Number Eleven: Bending over and touching another person's toes.

[Fedya]

> Well you know, Hungarian men in general seem to have a sexy Magyar air about them, even if they're not so good-looking like Victor Varconi or the young Bela Lugosi.

 

I'm imagining you cuddling up to "Cuddles" Sakall.

 

It's probably easier than cuddling up to Michael Curtiz....

[JackFavell]

So instead of my Ricardo- Jack sandwich, I get an Oskar-Cuddles sandwich?

 

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I'll take it.

[JackFavell]

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}

> Oh, my gosh, ha! Dwight Frye! (wearing a very unflattering black hat) And Joseph making such an amazing (and inexplicable) transformation from suave icy gangster to soft-hearted, unshaven, woodsy-idylled good guy who talks to bunnies? How did THAT happen? LOL, I love Duke/Rinty not buying the thug's "Here doggie, have a sandwich" as they try to figure out how to escape from him. (the old guy with the cap and moustache looks like the zoo custodian from CAT PEOPLE. "Nothing left to do, oh, nothing left to do...") I like Rinty leaping on top of the getaway car! What a pooch, he puts Lassie to shame, and I love Lassie!

 

I didn't recognize Dwight AT ALL the first time watching. That hat! But he managed a couple of great bug eyed, scaredy cat moments in the film.

 

I have no idea how Jackie managed to charm Joe into being the kind of guy who sings in the woods to bunnies (and then shoots them for dinner). But I do like him unshaven, bare armed. Swoon! This movie was obviously remade as *No Orchids for Miss Blandish*, with no Rin Tin TIn. What can I say, I love a good bad guy, especially if he has sexy, bedroom eyes. I need to come for a visit...Maybe one of your ghosts at Walgreens will kidnap me, and fall in lurve.

 

Rinty was by far the smartest of them all... he's more attractive too. Good teeth. He brings no bad guy baggage to the relationship either, lol.....Good move on the sandwich, maybe he knew eventually he might get that dead bunny. Rinty was even smart enough to GET OFF THE CAR as they stupidly tried to cross the disintegrating bridge... Rinty knows that a dead dog is no help at all.

 

> I'm here to tell you that Palmolive works.

 

Does it remove saggy underarms? I'll try it! I was just thinking the other day while watching Margaret Rutherford in that watusi scene that I am starting to look like Miss Marple.

 

>I've been washing dishes with it forever and my hands are as soft as a baby's bottom.

 

Oh. Rats!

 

>I actually spent a hangover-driven night on HORTENSE DAIGLE'S couch in Connecticut. Ironic, isn't it? Yes, Claude's grief-stricken, boozed-up mother. Eileen Heckart, who was very gracious. I don't remember all the details, as my girlfriend and I were very drunk. She knew someone who knew Eileen...

 

Holy cow! I am so jealous! Now THAT'S a celeb! I love Eileen! I wish you could remember more.

 

Madge the Palmolive lady, alias Jan Miner, was super nice, probably the nicest celeb I have met. We talked to her in the bathroom at Yale. She was doing some one acts and was taking off her makeup in the bathroom behind the stage, which we snuck into because there was a big line at the other restroom. She was as sweet as pie, and had done some grocery shopping before the show, so off she went after chatting with us, schlepping her grocery bags with her.

 

> Oooh, that poor bumblebee! I love them, they're so round and fuzzy.

> And supposedy their sting cures arthritis!

 

The boys don't even have stingers either. Poor thing!

 

> I'm convinced there is some sort of dead celeb VORTEX in my local Walgreens.

>

> "My" Ricardo was about the same height as Mickey Rooney. Still, he was a, er, dead ringer.

 

Perfect! I'm shorter than Mickey too!

 

> I'll let you know who shows up next.

 

Lets hope it's Bobbie Donat, The Ghost Goes West you know...LOL.

[CineMaven]

Richard Greene!!!!! He's one of my British hunks!

 

Yum-meeeee. Almost as good as Haagen Dazs.

 

Almost. Isn't that the way with us women? Would a man pass up, say Ava or Marilyn, for a pint of ice cream?

 

Naaaaaw they wouldn't. Men are built differently. Some wouldn't pass up Ava or Marilyn for their wives. But our bombshells would be neck and neck if a big Sports day was at hand.

 

When a fellow isn't sure he's going to make it through the night with the hyenas cackling outside the tent, who would they want by their bedside? Ava, Hildy, or Susan?

 

If a man thought he "might" stand a chance, he"d go with Susan. She?s so ferocious, she?d bite the head off a cobra. If a man thought he was terminal...why not go out with a smile on his face with Ava.

 

I really like Joan. She's subtle, quietly powerful, and charismatic, keeping the audience at a distance while dreamily drawing them in. Her voice can be deadpan, but ring with sarcasm, irony, and black humor.

 

Wonderfully descriptive.

 

Why thank you.

 

I must hone down my long-windedness. I like the succinct way you write.

 

I know what you mean about the tone in TRADE WINDS. It was kind of a mish mash -- adventure, mystery, romance, comedy. March and the python at the piano was trippy.

 

Yeah...the python could have really been tense where Joan debates whether to save the man whose job it is is to take her back. Yes, ultimately, of course, she does shoot the snake. I did find it funny when March patted down his own hand.

 

 

I wonder who played the python in TRADE WINDS.

 

Probably the grandfather of the one who bit Elizabeth Taylor in ?CLEOPATRA.?

 

Ann was trying too hard for my taste. Even Ralphie overdid it with the obtuseness. Maybe the genre was screwball comedy Kind of hard to tell.

 

My favorite Ann Sothern role was ?LETTER TO THREE WIVES.? She was pitch perfect.

 

I don't want to see Paul Muni in JUAREZ.

 

I don?t want to see Muni in ?...PASTEUR.? Who made him the go to guy for Hollywood biographies?

 

And remember Barbara as "The Woman" in I REMEMBER MAMA?

Married to "Uncle Chris", Oscar Homolka. Can you imagine, lol?

 

Oy! Please don't make me imagine Oscar Homolka with a woman.

 

LOL!!! That would put me off my Haagen-Dazs. And to think poor little Sylvia Sidney is married to him in SABOTAGE. His eyebrows alone are frightening.

 

If you were married to Homolka...you?d get more than his eyebrows. (But I did like him in ?BALL OF FIRE.?

 

I'm a real Wimpy, I love a good hamburger. Where is Five Guys?

 

They're all over. Just a hamburger, fries joint.

 

Sounds good, so I know they're not in South Florida.

 

And I?m s?posed to go West Palm? I?ve got to bring my own food?

 

Did you see TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE? Oh...my....heavens.... Mantan Moreland on the phone with.....Cheetah. Too horrible for words.

 

Yeeeeeikes! I blessfully don't remember that. All I see is Johnny Weissmuller diving off the Brooklyn Bridge. Spectacular!

 

 

Yes, you definitely do NOT want to rememeber Mantan and Cheetah.

 

Which was which? Oh boy, now I?ll have the NAACP after me.

 

Just the idea of Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge is so darned neat, isn't it?? I love it! Nothing will stop him from finding Boy!

 

That?s what real fathers do.

 

I must confess I'd take Lund over Homolka, but Homolka over Larry King. Heck, I'd take anybody over Larry King.

 

What? You have a thing against suspenders? ...Or mummies.

 

I'd probably have to take more sleeping pills than Fran if ever I found myself stuck with King. Dr. Dreyfuss would never be able to wake me up, coffee-and-slap-wise.

 

GEEZ!! HA!!!

 

Thanx Bronxie for citing the ?WHAT?S MY LINE?? shows featuring Esther Williams. She was incredibly sexy in a fun wholesome way. I was very surprised. She was a quick wit. But did you notice how Arlene Francis said she was ?Mrs. Martin Gabel?? It makes me chuckle when women remind women....

 

Oh! Oh! Listen to this: I SAW RICARDO CORTEZ AT WALGREENS TODAY!!!!! This partcular drug store seems to be a haven for dead celebrities. You might recall I bumped into Vivien Leigh there several years ago.

 

Well this is a fair trade-off. We have Five Guys burgers...and you have dead celebrities. Remember to put that on the tour when I visit.

 

I'm convinced there is some sort of dead celeb VORTEX in my local Walgreens.

 

So I shouldn?t feel bad that I didn?t make it to Forest Lawn when I was in California two weeks ago. I can see who I wanna see in Florida?

 

 

I like Rinty leaping on top of the getaway car! What a pooch, he puts Lassie to shame, and I love Lassie!

 

Rinty is Gable. Lassie is Robert Redford.

 

I'm here to tell you that Palmolive works. I've been washing dishes with it forever and my hands are as soft as a baby's bottom. I actually spent a hangover-driven night on HORTENSE DAIGLE'S couch in Connecticut. Ironic, isn't it? Yes, Claude's grief-stricken, boozed-up mother. Eileen Heckart, who was very gracious. I don't remember all the details, as my girlfriend and I were very drunk. She knew someone who knew Eileen...

 

Oooooh, that?s the story I wanna hear. I love the stories where drunken details are fuzzy. Tell! Tell!!

[JackFavell]

>Rinty is Gable. Lassie is Robert Redford.

 

That is brilliant! You're right!

 

>My favorite Ann Sothern role was ?LETTER TO THREE WIVES.? She was pitch perfect.

 

She's My Favorite Wife.

[Bronxgirl48]

What in the wide, wide world of sports were everybody thinking with THE SEA CHASE??

 

I'm waiting for it to be over, hoot though it is.

I don't know what I expected, since I never heard of this John Wayne vehicle.

 

At the opening, we hear Hitler spewing forth on a ship's radio, and then Wayne's gruff voice, "Turn off that wireless!" So I knew right off the bat John was not even going to attempt to conceal his "Duke"-ness. Lana comes on board, direct from the Riviera (dear old Monte) but Captain Karl Ehrlich (Wayne) indelicately tells Elsa she's a man-trap who doesn't deserve to be married to any man, let alone his best friend David Farrar. Lana must endure Wayne's suspicions, rats (real ones) in her cabin, and, perhaps worst of all, being made love to by Lyle Bettger. There are some embarrassing MR. ROBERTS-type hijinks that occur. "Men, we have a lady present, so you'll put on some clothing for the morning and evening swim. However, we hope she'll cooperate during your mid-day break and stay inside".

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on May 14, 2011 9:20 PM

[Bronxgirl48]

 

Lana looked beautiful as a "German". She had the usual anachronistic hairdo, although it was very flattering. Some elegant scarves were quite charming.

[CineMaven]

Hey Bronxie...please don't think I'm stepping on your review. I think Miss G's RAMBLES II thread in Films and Filmmakers got mixed up in your Mom's thread here.

 

Hey Jaxxxxxxon....

 

I'll take Oskar Homolka over John Lund any day![/b]

 

WoW! I think I'd have to agree with you.

 

The process shots from Trade Winds were actually photographed by Garnett himself, and on location in the actual places..... but they sure didn't look like it. He built the movie around the footage he took on his trip the year before the movie was made.

 

Yes I remember Robert saying this. Nice idea. I wonder when people saw this originally, did the shots look like the stars were actually there or what. Did people EVER buy that? (I still see George Sanders and Anne Baxter walking on the streets of Connecticut when her play opens out of town. Yikes!) Tay Garnett as a frustrated Robert Flaherty.

 

I think I'd opt for nibbling on a Five Guys bacon burger and a large fry, champagne, lobster and a cherry coke on the side for my last meal.

 

Oh that sounds like a meal.

 

Or maybe a Jack LaRue-Ricardo Cortez sandwich.....

 

See girl, NOW you're talkin?! Whooaaaa...you just made my mouth water long distance!

 

I had to let my secret passion for Oskar be known...I couldn't keep it in any longer.

 

Bronxgirl's Thread: Where Confession Is Good For the Soul.

 

Poor Fred has nothing on Larry, mummy wise.

 

Oh snap! Spit-take! Haaaaaa!

 

OK call me fickle, but I got sidetracked just now by Joseph Calleia in Tough Guy.

 

Not a bad track to follow. I really liked him in "GILDA." Character actors are the foundations of films .anyway.

 

I'm recording this one next time. Calleia, LaRue, and Cortez have the most beautiful bedroom eyes.

 

I would add George Raft's eyes to that bedroom. I say the eyes have it. Oh yeah and the arms and...

 

As for dead celebs, they must have retired to the Western part of the state, it's much classier thay-uh. (My best Kate Hepburn imitation.) I gotta move to Florida to get sexier dead folks to admire.

 

Hepburn. Ha.

 

Why though do they inhabit your drugstore? Do they sell Tanna leaves?

 

I know it's crazy to just reply with an LOL! But I've gotta let you know how funny you are, man.

 

My mother in law once impaled a large very slow bumblebee on her fork, because he was flying too close to her lunch, which she was enjoying on the patio. It hurts me to think about it.

 

I'm for shoo-ing nature out of the way first. Poor little bee.

 

Madge the Palmolive lady, alias Jan Miner, was super nice, probably the nicest celeb I have met. We talked to her in the bathroom at Yale...She was as sweet as pie, and had done some grocery shopping before the show, so off she went after chatting with us, schlepping her grocery bags with her.

 

And you guys didn't help her with her grocery bags? Rotten college kids!

[Bronxgirl48]

I have a confession to make.

 

I'm in love with Rin Tin Tin.

 

It's probably because he reminds me of Dick Powell.

 

I can honestly say I really don't remember a whole lot of the meeting with Eileen Heckart. My girlfriend and I drove cross-country from California to visit her family in Connecticut. and while there, we spent a day and night at Hortense's lovely home. I should have taken the advice of Bunny from VIRGINIA WOOLF, "never mix, never worry", but didn't, and wound up on Heckart's couch wishing I were dead. I don't recall much else.

 

Did you happen to notice Joseph's cute little caboose in TOUGH GUY?

 

I had dinner at an Italian bistro on Las Olas Blvd. this afternoon and one of the waiters looked like Diane Lane's young hunk from UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN. I practically choked on my chicken marsala.

 

Did Jan give you free bottles of Palmolive?

 

Jackie, I saw THE GHOST GOES WEST.

 

Oh my goodness, Robbie in a KILT!!!! HIS LEGS!!!

 

I'll talk about the movie tomorrow.

 

I guess everyone stayed away from THE SEA CHASE. They were smart.

[Bronxgirl48]

You're shorter than Mickey Rooney?

 

Awww!

 

Are you Judy's height?

[Bronxgirl48]

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote}

> > Well you know, Hungarian men in general seem to have a sexy Magyar air about them, even if they're not so good-looking like Victor Varconi or the young Bela Lugosi.

>

> I'm imagining you cuddling up to "Cuddles" Sakall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ooooh, "Cuddles"!!! And he could make me chicken paprikash afterwards.

>

> It's probably easier than cuddling up to Michael Curtiz....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HA!!!!!!

 

Evelyn Keyes in her biography said that director Charles Vidor "awakened" her. Then they got married.

[Bronxgirl48]

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}

> Easy Exercises for Englishwomen -- Number Eleven: Bending over and touching another person's toes.

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL!!!!!

 

Ever see Rutherford in BLITHE SPIRIT? She takes a "daily constitutional" on her trusty bike, and enjoys being "deafened with birdsong". Then returns home for a cup of cocoa before turning in.

[Bronxgirl48]

No, you're definitely not stepping on anything, Maven. And I think I should have posted my comments about Ricardo/FLESH in Miss G.'s Rambles. That would have been the better place for them, including the video clip of "Nick" treating "Laura" so terribly.

 

I'm telling you, I was amazed at my reaction to Esther Williams in PAGAN LOVE SONG. Previously I'd never thought much about her, if at all, but when she gets out of that hammock and sings, wow! I was also delighted by her What's My Line? appearances. How the heck did Bennett Cerf know it was her? Was that show rigged, lol? Usually Mrs. Martin Gabel, er, I mean Arlene Francis, was the one who invariably nailed the celeb.

 

And speaking of dead celebs, Florida does seem to have its fair share. If you come down here during the summer (and bring enough New York food for the both of us) we'll go to this particular Walgreens and hope a whole slew of them show up, not only Ricardo, Joseph, and Vivien, but Joan Bennett, Hedy, Marilyn, Richard Greene, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Robert Donat, Dwight Frye, Yul Brynner, Ida Lupino, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, et. al. I'm not sure I want to see Wallace Beery though. Too much pinching might occur.

 

As for TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE, my jaw literally dropped when I heard what Mantan said to Cheetah.

 

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on May 15, 2011 2:35 AM