film lover 293 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 LornaHansonForbes--No, Laughton and Lanchester made at least six movies together: "The Private Life of Henry the Eighth" (1933) "Rembrandt" (1936) "The Beachcomber" (1939) "Tales of Manhattan" (1942)--episodic film, I don't know if they shared any scenes together. "Forever and a Day" (1943)--don't know if they shared any scenes together. "Witness For the Prosecution" (1957) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I agree Speedracer; I will be looking towards my PVR tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 In lieu of Jerry Lewis (I find him absolutely obnoxious) I watched reruns of Golden Girls and Brady Bunch. Much more preferable in my opinion. Tonight maybe I'll try to clear off some films from the DVR. Speedracer, you hate Jerry but like Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia, plus the Bradys and I like Jerry, and the Golden Girls but hate the Bradys. But I still think we could have lunch sometimes and discuss it, since two out of three common likes can cement a friendship. Game? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I know there are sometimes strange combinations when the daytime theme ends and the evening theme begins, but I particularly like Thursday's back to back showing of FINIAN'S RAINBOW and VIRIDIANA. Although YOUNG CASSIDY isn't all that successful as a whole, you get to see Michael Redgrave as Yeats, Edith Evans as Lady Gregory, Flora Robson with a good death scene, Rod Taylor and Julie Christie looking young and gorgeous. The young Maggie Smith has a delicate beauty and a flawless ivory complexion; too bad she didn't play more romantic roles in her early career. And Sian Phillips, T.P. McKenna, Jack MacGowran--it's a great cast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveGirl Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I know there are sometimes strange combinations when the daytime theme ends and the evening theme begins, but I particularly like Thursday's back to back showing of FINIAN'S RAINBOW and VIRIDIANA. Although YOUNG CASSIDY isn't all that successful as a whole, you get to see Michael Redgrave as Yeats, Edith Evans as Lady Gregory, Flora Robson with a good death scene, Rod Taylor and Julie Christie looking young and gorgeous. The young Maggie Smith has a delicate beauty and a flawless ivory complexion; too bad she didn't play more romantic roles in her early career. And Sian Phillips, T.P. McKenna, Jack MacGowran--it's a great cast. Kingrat, here's the connection between "Finian's Rainbow" and "Viridiana" that you missed. Remember the beggar's din-din in the Bunuel movie, that becomes the sacreligious tableau of DaVinci's "Last Supper" painting in the refectory in Milan. I was there and trust me, if you look at the feet below the table, you will see that they really do resemble the type of feet without shoes that peasants or sharecroppers would be wearing. The same type of scene was filmed for "Finian's Rainbow" at a sharecroppers' dinner, but was excised by the Legion of Decency before release. It is in the newly rediscovered Coppola boxed set version of the film. Only $69.95 and can be ordered from a very large US film distribution unit from their order center in Costa Rica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Yes, a great triple feature would be a night of the Laughton/Lanchester(sp?) troika. Was it just three movies they made together? I think you spelled her name correctly, but I referred to her incorrectly as Lancaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 Thursday, March 17 noon. Three Cheers For the Irish (1940) "A Scottish lad and an Irish lass..." Scottish, Irish? What’s the difference? 8 p.m. Viridiana (1961). by Luis Bunuel.. Followed beautifully with … 9:45 p.m. Kiss Me Stupid (1964) 2 a.m. Never On Sunday (1960). Featuring the real Best performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1960, Melina Mercouri. Sorry, Liz but Butterfield 8 just doesn’t compare. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I think you spelled her name correctly, but I referred to her incorrectly as Lancaster. You will live...this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Thursday, March 17 noon. Three Cheers For the Irish (1940) "A Scottish lad and an Irish lass..." Scottish, Irish? What’s the difference? 8 p.m. Viridiana (1961). by Luis Bunuel.. Followed beautifully with … 9:45 p.m. Kiss Me Stupid (1964) 2 a.m. Never On Sunday (1960). Featuring the real Best performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1960, Melina Mercouri. Sorry, Liz but Butterfield 8 just doesn’t compare. What!? Paddy's Day with NO "Quiet Man" OR "Darby O'Gill...." !? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 St.Patrick's Day theme: I still have not seen Young Cassidy and I am a fan of the stars. My favourite of the movies listed that I have seen is Finian's Rainbow. Evening: Hmmmmmm. Which film is my favourite? Hahahahahahahaha! Actually, I have seen Kiss Me Stupid before and enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limey Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Thursday, March 17 noon. Three Cheers For the Irish (1940) "A Scottish lad and an Irish lass..." Scottish, Irish? What’s the difference? Different dialects of Gaelic. Different accents. Different religious majority (Protestant vs Catholic) Andrew Nov 30th vs Patrick Mar 17th Different national grub (Haggis vs Irish stew). Homelands are on different islands. Johnnie Walkers vs Jamesons Notable similarity - The Roman Empire failed to invade the homelands of either nation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 Different dialects of Gaelic. Different accents. Different religious majority (Protestant vs Catholic) Andrew Nov 30th vs Patrick Mar 17th Different national grub (Haggis vs Irish stew). Homelands are on different islands. Johnnie Walkers vs Jamesons Notable similarity - The Roman Empire failed to invade the homelands of either nation. Scottish, Irish ... what's the difference? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Speedracer, you hate Jerry but like Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia, plus the Bradys and I like Jerry, and the Golden Girls but hate the Bradys. But I still think we could have lunch sometimes and discuss it, since two out of three common likes can cement a friendship. Game? Lol. Well as Meatloaf would say: "Two out of three a'int bad." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Not in the mood to watch a musical tonight, but I will likely watch a Frank Sinatra movie tomorrow in honour of Frank Sinatra Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 3/17 Celebrating my 1/32nd of Irish tomorrow with quite a few films. Apparently there are a lot of Irish films that I am interested in watching: The Key, a William Powell movie I haven't seen. I also enjoy Michael Curtiz' films. The Irish in Us. The cast sounded interesting: Olivia de Havilland and James Cagney. The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady. A Debbie Reynolds movie I haven't seen. Finian's Rainbow. After reading Fred Astaire's autobiography, I've been wanting to see all his films. I haven't seen this one. I'm curious about Fred Astaire, co-starring Petula Clark with director Francis Ford Coppola. Sounds like a very interesting trio of people. --- Then not part of Irish day, but I'm recording Reflections in a Golden Eye, because I really like John Huston's movies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Irene (1940) will be shown on TCM this morning. It's the movie version of a 1919 musical, starring Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, and May Robson. In this election year, it's interesting to note that the show introduced the song "Alice Blue Gown," which was inspired by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 speedracer5, on 15 Mar 2016 - 10:29 PM, said: I really liked My Reputation. I don't know what it is, because usually I'm not a "chick flick" person, but I love the "weepies" or the "women's pictures" of the Golden Age. I think I'm the only person who posts here who just doesn't "feel it" for MY REPUTATION, although for what it's worth I want to like it, and it certainly has all the elements I like in a film, and I will say I think Stanwyck is at her loveliest in it**.... It's weird, because generally I am very pro-glamour and pro-fantasy, but i think MY REPUTATION takes it a little too far, every time i try watching it, it's just hard for me to work up any real sympathy for the lead; i wonder, what's the real conflict here? Oh no, they're whispering about you over at the club. Honey, as long as you can pay your dues, **** 'em. It's a film that, along with another example that i actually do like quite a bit, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, could well be filed under "charmingly dated" by some, and "WHITE PEOPLE PROBLEMS" by others. I mean, I know MY REPUTATION was made in 1944 to be screened for GI's, so i think there was a push to make everyone involved as affluent as possible, show the boys there was a home worth fighting for and all, but i don't know, when the film was released in America in 1946, I just can't help but wonder if anyone else felt a little like me watching Stanwyck "struggling to adapt" at the beginning of the film: Oh, Horrors, Barbara, you're going to have to let the driver and the under-gardener go and make do with just Minnie and George? Next I suppose we'll be shuttering the summer home.... (I mean, this is not exactly PLACES IN THE HEART here.) and in most films, this doesn't get to me- in fact it's usually a plus- but in watching MY REPUTATION, i just can't help but feel like it would be a little more effective were it just a tad more relateable to those of us without a lifetime charge account at I. Magnin. **and I do love that line "I don't know what's wrong with me, I seem to be going all to pieces!" and the read Barbara gives it is perfect. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosebette Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I happily watched The Irish in Us this morning from my spring break condo in Maine. What a joy to enjoy the standard Warners' cast of characters and snappy dialogue with my morning coffee before the electric fireplace. The plot was cliched, of course, but Cagney, O'Brien, and McHugh were in rare form, and my husband was awakened by my laughter at some of the scenes. Olivia was lovely and so poised; it's hard to believe she was just a teenager -- no wonder the boys were fighting over her. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Tomorrow I'm taping Sing and Like It (1934). I love that there's a film starring Nat Pendleton and ZaSu Pitts. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Friday, March 18th: All times E.S.T.: 2:00 p.m. "The Night Is Young" (1935)--One of Maltin's "BOMBS": I Have to see what an Oscar Hammerstein/Sigmund Romberg score is "an insufficient saving grace" for. FWIW, on TCM's "User Reviews" there are five reviews: All raves. You've been Warned/Alerted. 6:15 p.m. "Moonfleet" (1955)--Fritz Lang film I haven't seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 FYI, just caught this @ movie morlocks blog... "To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day I thought I would share a collection of outstanding short Irish horror and dark fantasy films that readers can view online free of charge. The six films I’ve selected showcase the talents of some up-and-coming Irish filmmakers who frequently incorporate Irish folklore and legends into their work...." http://moviemorlocks.com/2016/03/17/six-irish-tales-of-terror-imagination/ & Happy Paddy's Day to horror fans! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 Friday, March 18 Who but TCM would have an Edward Everett Horton day? Hooray. And I confess that I have not seen any of them before. 4:45 a.m. Over the Moon (1940) With Merle Oberon and Rex Harrison. This is my pick of the day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Friday, March 18 Who but TCM would have an Edward Everett Horton day? Hooray. And I confess that I have not seen any of them before. 4:45 a.m. Over the Moon (1940) With Merle Oberon and Rex Harrison. This is my pick of the day. I adore Edward Everett Horton too. I love his films. Most of these I haven't seen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Friday, March 18 Who but TCM would have an Edward Everett Horton day? Hooray. And I confess that I have not seen any of them before. 4:45 a.m. Over the Moon (1940) With Merle Oberon and Rex Harrison. This is my pick of the day. Hopefully he keeps his pants on in his films. I saw him wearing shorts in The Gay Divorcee, and I didn't much care for it--especially when he was wearing socks and sandals! I hadn't realized that Horton appeared in so many films. Prior to joining this message board, my only knowledge of him was that he played Mr. Ritter, the grocery man on an episode of I Love Lucy. In this episode, elderly Miss Lewis (played by Bea Benederet) enlists Lucy to help her "trap" Mr. Ritter, the grocery man whom she has a crush on. Lucy agrees and tries to hint around to Mr. Ritter about Miss Lewis' infatuation. Unfortunately, Mr. Ritter misunderstands and assumes that it is Lucy who has the crush. Lucy then has to play up all of the things that Mr. Ritter hates (like bad cooking, children, messy housekeeping) to try and get him to lose interest in her. Horton was very funny in this episode. He seems to pop up in a lot of the Astaire and Rogers films. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 You mean you don't want Horton to be your iphone wallpaper, Speedy? There are several character actors and actresses I figured out their names because of always appearing in Astaire/Rogers moves. Besides Horton, they introduced me to Eric Blore and Eric Rhodes (BENINI!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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