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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM

Bogie56

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Strange as it may seem, Gregory Peck's most frequent co-star was actually Anthony Quinn. They were in three films together: THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (1952), THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961) and BEHOLD A PALE HORSE (1964).

 

Thanks to both of you for confirming what I suspected.   Never really made a connection between Peck and his co-stars until yesterday.

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Strange as it may seem, Gregory Peck's most frequent co-star was actually Anthony Quinn. They were in three films together: THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS (1952), THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961) and BEHOLD A PALE HORSE (1964).

Oh, yes indeed.  I thought right away of leading lady.  But Anthony Quinn did indeed make three movies together.  I associate the two men together very strongly.

 

I loved being in Greece the only time I`ve been outside N.A. and I got to see the actual places where The Guns of Navarone was filmed.

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I can't off the top of my head come up with anyone who worked more often with him, though several actresses worked with him twice.

 

 

Per imdb.com:

 

Ava Gardner:
On the Beach (1959)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Great Sinner (1949)
 
Susan Hayward:
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
And several television programs.
 
Anthony Quinn:
The World in His Arms (1952)
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
And several television programs.
 
I could not do extensive search but I did look at some possibilities and I could find no actor or actress which appeared with him in more than three movies. He perhaps appeared most frequently with:Audrey Hepburn in television programs.
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TONIGHT! Three of my very favorites:

 

Sense and Sensibility

 

Remains of the Day

 

A Room With a View

 

The universe knew I had a bad cold and needed those films.

 

God Bless TCM and Merchant-Ivory.

FYI, Jenny Beavan, who won the Oscar for costume design for MAD MAX: FURY ROAD this year, also won a (shared) Oscar for the costume design in "A room with a view."

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... oh, and not meaning to be all nitpicky, but I don't think merchant and ivory had anything to do with SENSE AND SENSIBILITY... other than creating a definite market for period pieces and giving a start to many of the actors who were involved.

 

That was strictly a Sony Columbia Pictures film.

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... oh, and not meaning to be all nitpicky, but I don't think merchant and ivory had anything to do with SENSE AND SENSIBILITY... other than creating a definite market for period pieces and giving a start to many of the actors who were involved.

 

That was strictly a Sony Columbia Pictures film.

 

No, sorry,  I didn't mean to imply that they were all three Merchant Ivory films.  I was just being grateful to them for the two that were.

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I wish TCM would show HOWARDS END again.

 

I think they've only showed it one time.

Oh yes!  Now that's definitely a Merchant Ivory production and my favorite of all theirs.  It's one I can watch over and over and still see something I didn't see before in it. I think it's perfect.

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Wednesday, March 2nd/3rd: The treasure of the schedule is on late night; All times E.S.T.:

 

1:45 p.m. "Romance On The High Seas" (1948)--Doris Days' film debut had one massive hit song, "It's Magic".

 

5:15 p.m. "Guys and Dolls" (1955)--Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, and co. make this overlong musical worth seeing; Stubby Kaye does a memorable rendition of "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat"

 

1:45 a.m. "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" (1966)--This Sondheim musical won the Best Score Oscar, and is a gem--songs include "Comedy Tonight", "Everybody Ought To Have a Maid", "Lovely", and others.

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y'know,

 

i have very mixed feelings in re: HOWARD'S END.

 

I saw it back in May of 1993 (remember, the Oscars used to be given out in late April, they also used to only have five Best Picture nominees, which actually led to little films like HOWARD'S END and THE CRYING GAME getting all sorts of press and extra business.)

 

i was all of fifteen (and American) at the time, so i think a lot of the points about the British class system (as well as the ways of the world) were lost on me. I also seem to recall saying numerous times of the film "it doesn't end; it just stops."

 

Years later, i can see how it is one of those "swan" films- lovely to look at and completely still on the surface; all the while beating its legs ferociously beneath. It is all about the bigger statements that you the viewer are required to draw from it in re: the oligarchical nature of people everywhere to protect what is "rightfully theirs", while the intellectual leftists do nothing but think on it and the poor just go on suffering.

 

it doesn't have a happy ending, but then again neither does Life, in most cases.

 

SPOILERS:

One thing (NOT the fault of the makers)  that I think definitely hurt my viewing experience of the movie is the fact that- for some completely stupid reason- the clip they used to represent the film at the Oscar show was the scene where the "Upperclass British Twit of the Year" son "defends the honor" of Helena Bonham Carter and "accidentally" kills Leonard Bast, sending him into a bookshelf that topples over onto him. It's a great scene, BUT SERIOUSLY WHOEVER MADE THE CALL TO CHOSE THAT SCENE: SOME OF US HADN'T SEEN THE FILM YET, AND GOING INTO IT KNOWING THAT HAPPENS AT THE END SERIOUSLY DILUTED THE IMPACT IT WOULD'VE HAD. The tender last scene between Thompson and Redgrave would've been a far better choice for an Oscar Clip to represent the film at the show.

 

I also have to say, before seeing HOWARD'S END, i had often wondered what the big honkin' deal was over Vanessa Redgrave-  but she is wonderful- just a really warm performance and one that- had she not left the film so early- would likely have won 'Nessa a second Oscar**. (to date, she has not been nominated since,)

 

I'm thrilled to pieces Emma Thompson won an Oscar for something, even if it did happen amid one of the worst years for performances by an actress in a leading role. laugh if you will, but i think the REAL Best Actress that year was Michelle Pfeiffer in BATMAN RETURNS (in fact, I wrote a high school paper on the very subject.) Thompson's wonderful, but it's not the kind of dynamic performance that generally clinches the Oscar, and honestly, Helena Bonham Carter (who I do not prefer as an actress) has a better role (although, Lord have Mercy, Girl, they have things called combs you can use on your hair. Look into them.)

 

(Bless her heart.)

 

I have to say also, that HOWARD'S END is probably THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN, and it is a film that actually started my life-long love of gardening (which has been on the wane of late as i've been struggling with depression.) i went STRAIGHT home (remember, it was May) and started working in the yard, so inspired was i by the GORGEOUS GARDENS of the film...and (until recently) hadn't stopped since.

 

 

 

**rumors abound to this day that Redgrave DID IN FACT WIN the Oscar

and a mistake from presenter Jack Palance led to Marisa Tomei's supporting "win".

(i have to say i don't really believe this.)

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Yes, Lorna.  Spartacus required a huge cast of extras, and George Kennedy appeared as a rebel soldier in the classic  scene where Kirk Douglas is about to reveal himself as Spartacus when Tony Curtis and then every man in the scene yell out "I'm Spartacus!"

 

 

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Spartacus is a great film, Lorna and I think you would enjoy it.  It is a long film, so record it and watch it when you have time.

 

Some trivia about this movie without giving away too much  of the plot;

 

Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay under his own name.  He was one of the blacklisted writers and producer Kirk Douglas broke the blacklist by putting his real name on the credits.

 

Trumbo is the subject of the 2015 biopic which was nominated for best picture and starred Bryan Cranston in the title role.

 

When this movie was restored there was a scene in a hot bath where Tony Curtis is slave to Sir Lawrence Olivier where all the sound recording had been lost and voice over work had to be done.  By this time, Olivier was dead, so Anthony Hopkins did the dialogue.

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Tomorrow is certainly a breath of fresh air after Oscar month.

 

Of all the Jean Harlow movies I've never seen coming on, I'm most looking forward to The Beast of the City (1932). I've been interested to see this ever since having the ending spoiled for me by TCM's pre-code doc.

 

I recommend others try to catch The Story of Temple Drake (1933), a raunchy, fascinating and very stylish film that has achieved iconic status among pre-code movies. Miriam Hopkins is excellent in it.

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