Lamarr70 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Yes, having trouble posting here, too. Have you girls ever been to the Dr. Pepper museum in Waco? Another reason to visit Waco besides looking at the Branch Davidian site! That is funny about finding twins - Carol is really pretty! I just can't imagine your exact twin living as close to you as Gary and Slim. Even their lips are the same, looks like the same eye color and shape - it just seems a little too weird not to be related. I met my twin once and wasn't happy about it - a girl who looked very much like me was visiting our Baylor theatre department with a group from Australia and my boyfriend hit on her big-time right in front of me. She did me a favor, but it was weird to talk to someone who was kind of like looking in the mirror. You always want to think that you are unique, a one-of-a-kind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamarr70 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Gary and Deborah Kerr look really nice together - lovely as an older couple in that photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Many, many years ago we went to the Dr. Pepper and TX Rangers (cops not the baseball team ) museum that's also in Waco. The main thing I remember is how hot it was that day. We made the mistake of going during the summer. Oooh speaking of TX Rangers that makes me think of *Northwest Mounted Police* since Gary played a Texas ranger in it. Oh he was so cute in that one (but of course I really do say that about all his movies) and playing a Texan which I love :x. That is one dull movie though and even though it's just a little over two hours, it seems to go on forever. I think what bothers me the most about that one is there are long stretches with no Gary and I hate that. After about 15 minutes without him I start yelling at the tv 'where's Gary?!?!'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Hi Angie---that sounds like it might have been fun to visit that museum. I love Gary's character in NWMP but I have always been perplexed why deMille gave him the decidedly secondary role, who horror of horrors, does NOT get the girl. I found that totally unbelievable and unacceptable back even when I was *not* a Gary Cooper fan. BTW, in NWMP he has my favorite character name in all his movies----"Dusty Rivers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Robert Preston definitely comes off as more the leading man in NWMP which does seem kinda weird. He was quite often a leading actor but not when he's matched up with Gary. I was also quite surprised when Madeliene Carroll ended up with Preston even though she was his girl through most of the pic. I'd have to dump him and skedaddle back to Tx with Gary. Dusty Rivers is a good name but my fave is Cole Harden from *The Westerner*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamarr70 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Waco in the summer does not sound like fun!!! Way hot and feels desolate. Maybe that's why it's good to get some Dr. Pepper as a break from the heat! Maybe it's just me, but Robert Preston's characters always seems a bit like they'd prefer to end up with another man instead of the female lead. I can't imagine many women choosing him over Gary, even though I enjoy his films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I think too if they had just cut out the whole storyline involving Paulette Goddard and Preston Foster (there are too many Preston's in this movie!) it would have been a tighter picture. The couple of plot points that involve their characters which are actually important probably could've have just been re-written and then it would have been a little shorter and maybe flowed a little better. There are just too many characters in this one and it doesn't flow together as well as it could have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 You're cracking me up!!! I haven't seen that many of Robert Preston's films but I didn't get that vibe from him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamarr70 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Could be that I can't get Preston's character from Victor/Victoria out of my head! I think that was the first movie I ever saw RP in, but his performances were always wonderful, I just personally never understood why he played any romantic leads. Just watched a clip from Along Came Jones during lunch and Gary is so darn cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Am I the only one having the absolute worst time tying to stay logged in and respond to this thread? It's taken me hours to get in here! Arrrrg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I'm glad you liked the video! Hey I was perusing ebay this morning (a very dangerous thing for me b/c I have no willpower - ha!) and I found an ad for spark plugs with a pic of Slim Talbot and OH MY GOSH, the resemblance between him and Gary is uncanny!!!!!!!! He looks more like he could be Gary's brother than his own brother did. YIKES! I saw that a long time ago and I showed it to my mom and she thought I was trying to trick her; I was like, "mom this is NOT Gary!!" She walked away and still, to this day, doesn't believe me, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamarr70 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 No, it's really frustrating to me today, too. And I want to talk about Gary, but it is sloooow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 A gal is uploading the whole Ball of Fire film: http://www.youtube.com/user/nyctori214 This is insane; I'm going to complain because this is so insanely slow and it always times out! ARGG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamarr70 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 I love it when Gary says "I'm appealing to you... Miss Totts". He is VERY appealing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leobertucelli Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 But when will tcm aire 10 North Fredrick Street? I think he was great in that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 But when will tcm aire 10 North Fredrick Street? I think he was great in that film. It isn't scheduled yet; but you can request it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 It is very frustrating how slow the site is. It took me several tries to get the screen to come up so I could respond. That's funny that your mom is still convinced that pic of Slim is Gary. It is really freaky!! Here's a cool story I found at the Fox news website about women who built planes during WWII. Since we like that time period I thought I'd share it here. *Real-Life Rosie the Riveters Get Chance to Fly in Warplanes They Built* Friday, August 31, 2007 NEW YORK ? Anne King was 19 and earning $12 a week in a dime store when she was recruited in 1942 to learn how to make airplane parts. She worked at Republic Aviation on Long Island as a mechanic and riveter on P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and other U.S. aircraft. King and five other women who performed wartime factory work were to gather Friday at what is now Republic Airport in Farmingdale and take rides in a B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-24 Liberator "as a tribute to their war efforts," said Hope Kaplan, a spokeswoman for the American Airpower Museum on the grounds of the airport. Exhibitions by vintage aircraft are holiday fixtures at the museum, but this is the first time any of the women, the "Rosie the Riveters" who helped build World War II aircraft, have had a chance to fly in them, Kaplan said. King, who turns 85 on Saturday, said she was "not the least bit nervous" about her first flight in a vintage bomber. "I'd like to ride in the B-24," said Josephine Rachiele, 82, was also scheduled to take a tribute flight. "My friend Bernadette's father was a waist gunner on a B-24, and I would like to tell her what it's like." Rachiele recalled that when she first went to work as a riveter at Republic in 1943, "I didn't know a rivet from a nail, and it was so noisy that I was really frightened. The rivet guns shooting rivets and the drill press stomping on metal ? it was pandemonium." At war's end, she said, the women were given the choice of staying or leaving so that returning servicemen could have the jobs. Rachiele quit, but returned in later years to Republic. Georgette Feller, 86, said she was "already one step ahead" when she joined Republic Aviation as a riveter. "My father was an excellent mechanic, and I already knew how to use a rivet gun, and I could tell aluminum from steel," she said. "It was a great job, but I had trouble with the man who was my first partner ? he said he wasn't happy working with a dizzy broad." Feller knows Friday's flight is a great opportunity. "I'm at the end of my days, and I want every good experience I can have," she said. "That sounds like a good one for me." While the actual number of women employed in defense plants is uncertain, historians say the war brought about 6 million women into the work force for the first time. They almost always made less money than men working at the same tasks. In 1943, a promotional film using an actual riveter named Rose at Michigan's Willow Run bomber plant as its model popularized the "Rosie the Riveter" image. A song furthered the cause, as did a Saturday Evening Post cover by illustrator Norman Rockwell, depicting Rosie with her feet resting on a copy of Adolf Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf." According to the Collings Foundation, a nonprofit "living history" organization based in Stow, Massachusetts, which owns the two bombers, the B-24 Liberator is the only one of 18,000 built during the war that remains in flyable condition today. Its B-17 Flying Fortress, which flew 100 missions over Europe including 18 raids on Berlin and was rescued from a salvage yard, is one of 14 still flying among 12,000 built. About a third were lost in combat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 Slim Talbot on a radio spot - Stuntmen of Hollywood: http://ia350611.us.archive.org/2/items/DaredevilsOfHollywood/DoH_38-05-06_Slim_Talbot.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 No messages for two days? Guys, we're falling behind! (Although it's kinda nice to have a break once in a while apart from 200 messages a day, lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 I figured out how to do screencaps and here's some from *Along Came Jones*. I don't know how Kim has done so many movies already b/c man, it takes a long time. I also may have gone a little overboard b/c I got like 60 screencaps. Oh well you can never have too much Gary!! Here's a couple pics just to wet your whistle but since there are so many I'm just gonna post the links. http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture63.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture62.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture61.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture59.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture58.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture57.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture56.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture55.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture54.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture53.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture52.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture51.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture49.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture48.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture47.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture46.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture45.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture44.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture43.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/screencap.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture9.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture8.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture6.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture42.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture41.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture40.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture39.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture38.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture37.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture36.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture35.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture34.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture33.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture32.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture31.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture30.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture29.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture28.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture27.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture26.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture25.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture24.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture23.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture21.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture20.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture19.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture18.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture17.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture16.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture15.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture14.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture13.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture12.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture11-1.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture10.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture5.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture4.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture3.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture2.jpg http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/coopsgirl_30/Picture.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopsGal Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Did anyone get to see King Vidor's special on TCM? I missed it 'cause I was at my sisters and she doesn't have cable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coopsgirl Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 I didn't see it either but I imagine they'll show it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterscotchgreer Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 ooooooooh angie sis!!!! i absolutely am swooning over those melody jones pics!!!! i have saved every one of them. thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterscotchgreer Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 hey kim sis!! i have missed you!! hey angie, i watched the virginian again, b/c we were laughing and talking while watching it at your house, and i didnt really get it. heehee!! i looove it...again. i also watched the disco indians again in Distant Drums again to fully grasp the movie. heeheeheehee!!! he was so gorgeous with that cute jacket on. sighs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 I hope everyone had an enjoyable, long weekend! >>>Maybe it's just me, but Robert Preston's characters always seems a bit like they'd prefer to end up with another man instead of the female lead<<< Ha ha ha! Lamarr, you started my week off with a big giggle there. I'm afraid that's my feeling, too, especially in NWMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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