LornaHansonForbes Posted June 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Hibi said: Blonde hair [on JOAN CRAWFORD]? She was only a blonde for a few films in the early 30s...... Maybe Speedy meant to say "butch" and it got autocorrected? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sukhov Posted June 4, 2018 Wednesday at 6 AM Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West with regular collaborator, James Finlayson 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted June 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Hibi said: Blonde hair? She was only a blonde for a few films in the early 30s...... Maybe orange hair is more accurate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted June 4, 2018 57 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said: Maybe Speedy meant to say "butch" and it got autocorrected? Lol! No. I posted a screenshot from The Best of Everything to Hibi. Joan had a period in the mid to late 50s where she had this weird orangey red hair with the big black caterpillar eyebrows. She is thisclose to looking like Maggie's nemesis, the unibrow baby in The Simpsons. Somebody drew this picture of Joan as Medusa for some Etsy product. This is hilarious. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fedya Posted June 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, speedracer5 said: Lol! No. I posted a screenshot from The Best of Everything to Hibi. Joan had a period in the mid to late 50s where she had this weird orangey red hair with the big black caterpillar eyebrows. Like the hair she had in Torch Song. Especially in the "Two-Faced Woman" number. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted June 4, 2018 9 minutes ago, Fedya said: Like the hair she had in Torch Song. Especially in the "Two-Faced Woman" number. I don't even know what looks worse, her hair or the blackface? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristineHoard Posted June 5, 2018 10 hours ago, speedracer5 said: Maybe orange hair is more accurate. Strawberry blonde? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 5, 2018 12 hours ago, speedracer5 said: Maybe orange hair is more accurate. Yes, yes it is. If you'd said "orange" we'd've all been "yup. TORCH SONG. BEST OF EVERYTHING. Got it." Brassy, bad henna, Kool-Aid dye- all appropriate as well, but "blonde" doesn't quite get the effect Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 5, 2018 11 hours ago, speedracer5 said: I don't even know what looks worse, her hair or the blackface? Hair. At least the make up is smooth and evenly applied. And I kind of enjoy the diamonds on the eyebrows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted June 5, 2018 Wednesday, June 6 6:15 p.m. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969). I haven’t seen this western with Robert Mitchum and David Carradine. Heck, I hadn’t even heard of it which isn’t always a good sign. 11:15 p.m. Greyfriar’s Bobby (1961). Good Disney flick with a great understated performance by Alex Mackenzie as ‘Auld Jock.’ 1:15 a.m. Big Red (1962). Like The Incredible Journey (1963) this is shot in Quebec. Seeing this as a kid made me want to have a red setter. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted June 5, 2018 16 hours ago, speedracer5 said: Maybe orange hair is more accurate. LOL. Yeah, it was orange a few times......... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted June 6, 2018 Thursday, June 7 “And your little dog too” 8 p.m. The Wizard of Oz (1939). I'll hide behind the couch when this comes on. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted June 6, 2018 On 6/4/2018 at 7:55 PM, speedracer5 said: I don't even know what looks worse, her hair or the blackface? LOL! NOT becoming! I was going to mention that, but got beaten to the punch....... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted June 6, 2018 On 6/5/2018 at 7:45 AM, LornaHansonForbes said: Hair. At least the make up is smooth and evenly applied. And I kind of enjoy the diamonds on the eyebrows. But it looks like only one eyebrow! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted June 6, 2018 On 6/4/2018 at 7:41 PM, speedracer5 said: Lol! No. I posted a screenshot from The Best of Everything to Hibi. Joan had a period in the mid to late 50s where she had this weird orangey red hair with the big black caterpillar eyebrows. She is thisclose to looking like Maggie's nemesis, the unibrow baby in The Simpsons. Somebody drew this picture of Joan as Medusa for some Etsy product. This is hilarious. Joan had this Medusa-like do in The Caretakers (circa 1960) 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 6, 2018 21 minutes ago, Hibi said: But it looks like only one eyebrow! they were on a budget! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted June 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said: they were on a budget! LOL!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 6, 2018 getting off topic maybe, but one other thing about TORCH SONG that I find slightly amusing is how INCREDIBLY CHEAP THE SETS ARE! Budget priorities on that one were OBVIOUSLY: 1. Crawford 2. Wardrobe 3. Hair and make-up 4. Lighting ...and then they were like, "how much we got left for sets?" and someone was like "a buck ninety-five" and off they went to a Hardware Hank's in Culver City and threw together the stages. I'm still not quite sure WHY they couldn't borrow already dressed stages or props from other MGM Productions. (God knows they borrowed the music!) all the sets- especially Crawford's apartment- just look so cheap. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted June 6, 2018 Yeah, it was basically a B movie dressed up for Crawford's return....... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted June 6, 2018 1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said: getting off topic maybe, but one other thing about TORCH SONG that I find slightly amusing is how INCREDIBLY CHEAP THE SETS ARE! Budget priorities on that one were OBVIOUSLY: 1. Crawford 2. Wardrobe 3. Hair and make-up 4. Lighting ...and then they were like, "how much we got left for sets?" and someone was like "a buck ninety-five" and off they went to a Hardware Hank's in Culver City and threw together the stages. I'm still not quite sure WHY they couldn't borrow already dressed stages or props from other MGM Productions. (God knows they borrowed the music!) all the sets- especially Crawford's apartment- just look so cheap. They must have only had $2 in the hair budget for Joan's reddish orange 'do. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomJH Posted June 7, 2018 On 6/4/2018 at 7:55 PM, speedracer5 said: I don't even know what looks worse, her hair or the blackface? Mammy Dearest 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 7, 2018 19 hours ago, Hibi said: Yeah, [TORCH SONG] was basically a B movie dressed up for Crawford's return....... THAT'S GENEROUS. I'd say it's a C+ at best. Marjorie Rambeau is great tho. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LornaHansonForbes Posted June 7, 2018 ...so are we just straight up getting pelted with nothing but musicals for the whole month of June? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted June 7, 2018 56 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said: ...so are we just straight up getting pelted with nothing but musicals for the whole month of June? I think the musicals are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They're part of the material for the Musicals class. I'll admit that I haven't been watching any of them for the class, but in my defense, I've seen most of them. I did watch Born to Dance. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NipkowDisc Posted June 7, 2018 On 5/15/2015 at 9:57 PM, manderstoke said: I'm pleased that TCM acknowledged James Mason's birthday by showing six of his movies - of course they hedged their bets by starting them at 6am and 7:30am, presumably because not enough people would be that interested in watching them. Nevertheless, any Mason is better than no Mason. My choices would have been different. Forget NORTH BY NORTHWEST, which is hardly a Mason film - it belongs to Grant all the way. And THE LAST OF SHEILA? Well, Mason is in there somewhere among the crowd. And THE PRISONER OF ZENDA stars Granger and Kerr ( but surely you will agree that Rupert of Hentzau steals every scene he's in.) It would have been a delight if TCM had shown some of Mason's films that made him the number one star in Britain - those delicious Gainsborough melodramas and how about THE SEVENTH VEIL, THE UPTURNED GLASS, THEY WERE SISTERS? Mason was drop dead gorgeous in these films and created a new screen persona - the dark, Byronic, tormented (and tormenting) antihero, over whom women worldwide swooned and plunked down their cash to watch him over and over again. Is it that TCM can't get access to these movies, or is unfamiliar with them? Other, later Mason films I would have preferred include: FIVE FINGERS, JULIUS CAESAR, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, THE MAN BETWEEN, THE SEA GULL, THE DEADLY AFFAIR, THE SHOOTING PARTY. And there were the two delightful comedies he starred in - A TOUCH OF LARCENY and TIARA TAHITI. (He made a couple of other comedies, but they were ghastly). In short, why couldn't TCM have picked movies that starred Mason? Lord knows, he made enough of them. Anyway, as I said, any Mason is better than no Mason. But, please, no more NBNW touted as a "Mason film." It ain't. lets see the tcm slackers show Hatter's Castle with james mason as a Scottish town's doctor. they never show that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
