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by clore
February 23rd, 2022, 7:02 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Sad news re: Moira Finnie
Replies: 4
Views: 32696

Re: Sad news re: Moira Finnie

This was terribly sad for me to discover on Twitter a month ago. I posted of it on Facebook as Moira was a friend there, here and the TCM boards. It's been a while since I've been around here, some health issues and the loss of my older son have cast a shadow over my activities. But I do wish to exp...
by clore
December 12th, 2017, 8:58 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: The Q & A on Michael Curtiz with Alan K. Rode on Dec. 12th
Replies: 30
Views: 62248

Re: The Q & A on Michael Curtiz with Alan K. Rode on Dec. 12th

One of my favorites of the religious epics of the 50s is THE EGYPTIAN which Curtiz helmed. It gets a bad rap, Brando walked out on it and Zanuck's squeeze Bella Darvi took a beating. I think she's fine as the ice-blooded femme fatale, it may be that she's limited but for me she fits the demands of t...
by clore
December 12th, 2017, 8:58 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: The Q & A on Michael Curtiz with Alan K. Rode on Dec. 12th
Replies: 30
Views: 114215

Re: The Q & A on Michael Curtiz with Alan K. Rode on Dec. 12th

One of my favorites of the religious epics of the 50s is THE EGYPTIAN which Curtiz helmed. It gets a bad rap, Brando walked out on it and Zanuck's squeeze Bella Darvi took a beating. I think she's fine as the ice-blooded femme fatale, it may be that she's limited but for me she fits the demands of t...
by clore
August 27th, 2017, 2:49 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Ricardo Cortez Q & A with Dan Van Neste on 8-26 & 8-27
Replies: 35
Views: 65603

Re: Ricardo Cortez Q & A with Dan Van Neste on 8-26 & 8-27

Thank you for your appearance here given all else going on. Not so much a question here as I'd need to know a bit more before being able to ask one. I do look forward to reading your book as I've wondered just how circumspect Mr. Cortez was about it all. I've often pointed to his career as an exampl...
by clore
December 19th, 2016, 12:47 am
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18
Replies: 36
Views: 68060

Re: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18

Clore - Very interesting details on Raft's career. I'm glad Sylvia had the opportunity to work with him and appreciate what he had to offer. I did get to see Sidney's episode on Naked City (1961). Ed Asner was also in this. I met Asner earlier this year and asked if he had any recollections about h...
by clore
December 19th, 2016, 12:31 am
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18
Replies: 36
Views: 68060

Re: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18

I hope Scott can address this one too, clore! Saw this episode of Naked City, "A Hole in the City" for the first time about 2 years ago. Sylvia was remarkable--I wonder how Robert Duvall and the actress liked working together? Have you seen "A Motherless Child" on Route 66 with ...
by clore
December 17th, 2016, 8:09 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18
Replies: 36
Views: 68060

Re: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18

TCM aired SOULS AT SEA in June 2015, so I made a DVD of it. I hadn't seen it since the 70s and it still moves me. I believe that it is out on Universal's Classic series. Another Raft and also from Henry Hathaway is SPAWN OF THE NORTH which has Raft top-billed over the rising Henry Fonda and the decl...
by clore
December 17th, 2016, 3:54 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18
Replies: 36
Views: 68060

Re: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18

“Miss Sidney scores her points quietly, efficiently. She is always in character. Mr. Raft is in and out of his ... one cannot dodge the impression she is patiently and ever so subtly teaching him how to act.” I believe their mutual affection/understanding of each other, helped Raft relax. Sidney so...
by clore
December 17th, 2016, 11:27 am
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18
Replies: 36
Views: 68060

Re: Welcome Scott O'Brien for a Q & A on Sylvia Sidney 12-17 & 12-18

No questions - not yet anyway, I just learned of this thread. Just a thank you for recognizing the Queen of the Depression-era melodrama. She was so good that even George Raft showed chemistry with her. ;) STREET SCENE is my favorite and she and Estelle Taylor are actually believable as mother and d...
by clore
October 30th, 2014, 7:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Someone's having a birthday!
Replies: 1503
Views: 427525

Re: Someone's having a birthday!

movieman1957 wrote:Happy Birthday Mr. Lore. I hope it is a great day. (So many October birthdays I am finding.)
Thank you Chris. I guess we October births are the result of cold January nights although I was almost two months premature and thus the result of a March mating.
by clore
October 27th, 2014, 1:13 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Bad Movies You Love
Replies: 1143
Views: 297727

Re: Bad Movies You Love

Moira Finnie wrote:
I don't know how we were supposed to accept Capucine as a Texas-bred whore, but maybe I missed the part where she went to Paris for training or something? Was she supposed to be a French creole, perhaps?
She was from Paris, Texas.
by clore
June 13th, 2014, 2:21 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Gone With or Without fanfare
Replies: 2721
Views: 787310

Carla Laemmle

From the L.A.times: Carla Laemmle, a dancer and actress whose uncle, Carl Laemmle, founded Universal Studios, where she grew up, died Thursday night at her home in Los Angeles. One of the last links to Hollywood’s silent film era, Laemmle was 104. “Her heart just stopped,” Laemmle’s great niece, Ros...
by clore
June 9th, 2014, 8:53 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Gone With or Without fanfare
Replies: 2721
Views: 787310

Martha Hyer

Academy Award-nominated actress Martha Hyer dies at 89 By Robert Nott The New Mexican | 0 comments Martha Hyer, one of the last studio glamour girls of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died May 31 at her Santa Fe home. She was 89 and had lived in Santa Fe since the mid-1980s. A representative from River...
by clore
May 8th, 2014, 2:29 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome to Scott Eyman, Our Guest Author May 8-9
Replies: 52
Views: 83129

Re: Welcome to Scott Eyman, Our Guest Author May 8-9

Thank you for stopping by Mr. Eyman, that's very nice of you. My question is more of a Lauren Bacall one than of John Wayne, but it concerns their second film together. Ever since I first saw the film back in 1976, I get an eerie feeling watching it. It's because Bacall is playing a woman who must d...
by clore
May 3rd, 2014, 12:07 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Gone With or Without fanfare
Replies: 2721
Views: 787310

Re: Gone With or Without fanfare

RIP to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/efrem-zimbalist-jr-dead-star-700983 77 Sunset Strip was my first favorite adult show and I've been watching a bunch recently. I'd even commented to a friend that it was amazing that the show had been off the air for 50 years, yet its t...