FlyBackTransformer Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Doris Day ain't my cup of java but I love flicks that contain scenes of our lost americana like Audrey Meadows in the automat. Movies were once bright and airy and positive and girl talk was like the smell of pastry in the neighborhood grocery store. Hope you all don't mind the nostalgia. That tastykake junior I had for sunday breakfast got to me. :^0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 America seemed a lot CLEANER in those movies back then, didn't it? And because I was very young when that, and other movies of it's ilk came out, it seemed that way to ME too. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 If I ate a Tastykake Junior, it would put me down for the count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeniaH Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I love this movie! While it's not as fun as Day's movies with Rock Hudson, I still enjoy it. I don't know if this is necessarily a thread about automats, Flyback, but another movie containing a scene in an automat that immediately comes to mind is *Easy Living*, with Ray Milland. But if you're referring generally to movies that show a slice of Americana in yesteryear, great idea for a thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Yes the automate scene in the Jean Arthur picture Easy Living is a funny one and really gives us a view into a slice of Americana. (oh, and see how I slide a Jean reference in here; Ray Milland movie my foot! ). As for Touch of Mink; I'm not a fan of Day as a 30 plus year old virgin. To me the theme of the movie is forced and it gets old real quick. While the movie tries to make use of the Hitchcock type Cary Grant persona unlike the Hitchcock movies it isn't believable here (i.e. we know Grant's character is a sweetheart at heart). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeniaH Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 *(oh, and see how I slide a Jean reference in here; Ray Milland movie my foot! ).* LOL. Here's a case where the script running through my mind doesn't translate to page. I was thinking of both Jean Arthur and Ray Milland in the Automat - and I didn't even mention Jean, one of my top-5 favorite actresses! So yes, I also agree that it's not a Ray Milland movie. ("By the way, Jean Arthur is also in this movie", LOL...) Back to "Mink" - I'd read somewhere that Cary Grant wasn't especially excited to work on this film, and his acting is a little stiff compared to other roles. Yes, Day is doing her straight-laced, sensible, viriginal turn... My favorite line comes when she calls Grant from his place in Bermuda. "Guess where I am?" He responds sarcastically, "Disneyworld??" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 A great automat scene is in the movie *There Goes My Heart* with Virginia Bruce and Patsy Kelly . The whole movie (also starring Fredric March) is a great screw ball comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoraCharles1934 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Just thought I'd mention that Olive is releasing this film on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday. The previous DVD incarnation was notoriously-lousy, but I've been pleased with Olive's recent output (pricey-ness aside), so here are fingers crossed: http://www.amazon.com/That-Touch-Mink-Blu-ray-Grant/dp/B00CZ7AKHY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375077817&sr=8-2&keywords=thattouchof+mink If we're throwing out automat scenes, I have to mention Thirty Day Princess - hungry actress Sylvia Sidney is discovered for the title role in one, and later, Cary Grant inroduces the American dining-phenom to the "princess". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 EASY LIVING (1937) is one film I'd love to see, but have not. Has TCM shown it in the past few years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I like Doris Day and I like Cary Grant, but I've never been wild about this movie. I think it's mainly because they both seem too old for the parts they are playing, especially Doris. Having said that though, I would agree that the automat scene is funny. However, when I hear the words "automat scene," the first movie that pops into my head, like so many others here, is *Easy Living*. That's really a great scene and a very funny movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > EASY LIVING (1937) is one film I'd love to see, but have not. Has TCM shown it in the past few years? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 In That Touch of Mink the automat scenes are in color! Horn & Hardart eat your hearts out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 When I was a kid, I put the quarter in the slot for getting a cheese sandwich at the Automat, without noticeing that there was no sandwich in that perticular window. Oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhygLeGuy Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 > {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}My favorite line comes when she calls Grant from his place in Bermuda. "Guess where I am?" He responds sarcastically, "Disneyworld??" Sarcastically, as in your movie career will be over before such a place exists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 LOL Good one, PLG. (...but of course Eugenia meant to say "DisneyLAND") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Maybe she meant to say Wayne's World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Audrey Meadows saves the movie for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Surprising that Audrey was in so few movies. I know she played Jimmy Stewart's wife in TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Word is Cary Grant was a big fan of "The Honeymooners" and thus pressed the producers of this movie in getting Audrey for this part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 She had all the best lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 > {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > > EASY LIVING (1937) is one film I'd love to see, but have not. Has TCM shown it in the past few years? Yes. You can also get the dvd from TCM: http://shop.tcm.com/easy-living-dvd/detail.php?p=311240 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Is pressure like that what was required to get Audrey into a film? Did she have leprosy or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 LOL. Probably because she was considered a tv actress. Was a lot of bias back in those days..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Audrey Meadows had a strong supporting role as the second female lead in Tyrone Power's 1948 comedy, LUCK OF THE IRISH. She seems to have as much, if not more, screen time as Anne Baxter, the nominal leading lady. But I guess her movie career never hit it big before she moved to television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoraCharles1934 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 > {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}Audrey Meadows had a strong supporting role as the second female lead in Tyrone Power's 1948 comedy, LUCK OF THE IRISH. She seems to have as much, if not more, screen time as Anne Baxter, the nominal leading lady. But I guess her movie career never hit it big before she moved to television. Actually, that was *Jayne* Meadows (Audrey's big sis) in The Luck of the Irish. The respective ladies Meadows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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