LonesomePolecat Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Phil Silvers — SUMMER STOCK and COVER GIRL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Betty Garrett - ON THE TOWN, TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME, WORDS AND MUSIC Vera Ellen - ON THE TOWN, WORDS AND MUSIC Douglas Fowley -SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME, DEEP IN MY HEART 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 June Allyson (Thousands Cheer, The Three Musketeers, Words and Music) Lucille Ball (DuBarry Was a Lady, Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies, A Guide for the Married Man) Kathryn Grayson (Anchors Aweigh, Ziegfeld Follies) Lena Horne (Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies, Words and Music) Van Johnson (Pilot #5, It's a Big Country, Brigadoon) Fredric March (It's a Big Country, Inherit the Wind) Red Skelton (DuBarry Was a Lady, Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Hume Cronyn -- The Cross of Lorraine (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1945) José Iturbi -- Thousands Cheer (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945) Ann Miller -- On the Town (1949), Deep in My Heart (1954) Virginia O'Brien -- Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Thousands Cheer (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Reginald Owen -- The Three Musketeers (1948), The Pirate (1948) Rags Ragland -- Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Anchors Aweigh (1945) Keenan Wynn -- Ziegfeld Follies (1945), The Three Musketeers (1948), It's a Big Country (1951), Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 two thousand three hundred sixty-ninth category Local yokel SWAMP WATER (1941) ROSEANNA MCCOY (1949) L’IL ABNER (1959) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Humphrey Bogart (?!) looks for talent in the hills in Swing Your Lady Elvis runs into his kin folk in Kissin' Cousins Fred MacMurray can't tell Mert from Bert in Murder, He Says 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY DELIVERANCE NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS How about Don Knotts? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Wheeler and Woolsey in Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) -- these two yokels pose as the king's physicians Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle in The Egg and I (1947) and the subsequent Ma and Pa Kettle series Diane Cilento in Tom Jones (1973) -- 18th century English yokels Betty Hutton in Annie Oakley (1950) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Broadway_ Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Phil Silvers and Gene Kelly's musical number in Summer Stock (1950) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Tobacco Road 1941 The Shepherd of the Hills 1941 The Real McCoys tv show 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Bricks Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Timothy Carey in Poor White Trash a.k.a. Bayou (1957) Tommy Lee Jones in Jackson County Jail (1976) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Gomer Pyle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 YOKEL BOY (1942) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 two thousand three hundred seventieth category The climax is a head scratcher CONFIDENTIAL REPORT (1955) HARPER (1966)JURASSIC PARK (1993) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 4 hours ago, TopBilled said: two thousand three hundred seventieth category The climax is a head scratcher CONFIDENTIAL REPORT (1955) HARPER (1966)JURASSIC PARK (1993) I wouldn’t mind a bit more explanation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 3 hours ago, LonesomePolecat said: I wouldn’t mind a bit more explanation Sure...like the ending was a bit of a letdown, or maybe didn't make sense, based on what happened earlier in the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 These are movie endings that bug many people including me— OUR TOWN — Movie ruins the play’s poetic ending by having Emily come back to life and have the death all be a dream (in the play she really is dead which is the whole point) *******additionally most movies where it’s all a dream are lame endings (unless it’s really well set up like OZ) but that’s the only one that came to mind TITANIC — Jack dies from Rose not letting him on the giant door, then somehow Rose doesn’t get frost bite or syphyllis, then chucks the mcguffin diamond in the ocean that, then reunites with that guy she knew for a week instead of her actual family MR BUDDWING — Even James Garner wondered… what the heck happened exactly at the end? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Suspicion (1941) -- sudden, tacked-on, unsatisfying happy ending These Three (1936) -- substituting accusations of a heterosexual "affair" for a lesbian one robs the story of much of its force The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) -- final, post-"comeuppance" scenes added by studio are painfully obvious and don't match style of the rest Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) -- as with These Three, Production Code rules forced some fairly preposterous rewriting of crucial scenes Fatal Attraction (1987) -- Glenn Close morphs into an absurd caricature so the audience can cheer her demise; meanwhile Michael Douglas goes scot-free Also, any movie (and there are lots of them!) where a man treats a woman like cr*p for nearly the entire film, but we're supposed to look on their sudden, final reconciliation as both inevitable and a "happy" outcome (My Fair Lady, Notorious, The Pajama Game, Pillow Talk, etc.) This bothers me not so much in a #MeToo sense (since that would tend to be anachronistic) but simply in a believability and logic sense. Plus the scene in Schindler's List where Liam Neeson suddenly breaks down and expresses his remorse at not having been able to help save more lives (a moment which, not surprisingly, never happened in real life). This always strikes me as gratuitous, phony, and simply wrong -- it asks us to shift our focus from all the people who've suffered indescribably for years (and most of whose lives we still know nothing about) to our hero's regrets, which can't help seeming trivial by comparison. Re Lonesome Polecat's lame "it was all a dream" endings, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari springs to mind, especially since this was imposed on the writers against their will. I used to feel the return to Kansas at the end of The Wizard of Oz was kind of a letdown, but nowadays Oz seems like a place one couldn't actually live a meaningful life anyway, even if you wanted to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 This probably deserves to be its own General Discussions thread. (Just a thought.) 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 5 minutes ago, Fausterlitz said: Also, any movie (and there are lots of them!) where a man treats a woman like cr*p for nearly the entire film, but we're supposed to look on their sudden, final reconciliation as both inevitable and a "happy" outcome (My Fair Lady, Notorious, The Pajama Game, Pillow Talk, etc.) This bothers me not so much in a #MeToo sense (since that would tend to be anachronistic) but simply in a believability and logic sense. This reminds me of the incredibly vexing ending to the unspeakably upsetting GREASE — that the GIRL has to give up everything that is important her just to date the world’s biggest loser, and of course the guy doesn’t have to give up a darn thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 1 hour ago, Fausterlitz said: This probably deserves to be its own General Discussions thread. (Just a thought.) 🙂 Thanks. I love the examples that you and Lonesome have mentioned. It never occurred to me that Michael Douglas gets away with his transgressions in FATAL ATTRACTION. Probably because we're so invested in Close's demise and in Archer's life not being ruined, so she has to be reunited with Douglas for the obligatory happy ending. I think I should definitely create a General Discussion thread about this topic, a spinoff if you will! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 I have seen tons of movies with lame endings thanks to Mystery Science Theater/Rifftrax, but I think my favorite of those is THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN. The movie ends with an old man turning to the camera asking, "What would you do?" It comes out of nowhere and stays there--what would I do about what?!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 two thousand three hundred seventy-first category Sexy moves on the dance floor SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) DIRTY DANCING (1987) STRICTLY BALLROOM (1992) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Cyd Charisse in An American in Paris (1951)... ...and Cyd Charisse in "The Girl Hunt Ballet" from The Band Wagon (1955), and Cyd Charisse in "Baby You Knock Me Out" from It's Always Fair Weather (1955), and pretty much anytime Cyd Charisse was just standing still.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Rita Hayworth in Affair in Trinidad and in Gilda George Raft and Carole Lombard in Bolero Grease 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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