JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY

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Hibi wrote: December 21st, 2022, 1:22 pm Wish I had that channel. If you watch either of them, get back with me!
Big Brown Eyes can be streamed on the Russian OK website:
According to reviews, Joan Bennett skinny dips in Wild Girl.
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laffite wrote: December 21st, 2022, 7:11 pm
Hibi wrote: December 21st, 2022, 1:22 pm Wish I had that channel. If you watch either of them, get back with me!
$9.95/mo, available at their site.

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Thanks, but my cable bill is too high as it is.
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EP Millstone wrote: December 21st, 2022, 8:49 pm
Hibi wrote: December 21st, 2022, 1:22 pm Wish I had that channel. If you watch either of them, get back with me!
Big Brown Eyes can be streamed on the Russian OK website:
According to reviews, Joan Bennett skinny dips in Wild Girl.

With English subtitles? Thanks.
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Hibi wrote: December 22nd, 2022, 9:40 am With English subtitles? Thanks.
No, the OK presentation of Big Brown Eyes is in English. No subtitles.
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Interesting.
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My favorite female film noir actor. To wit (and in my preferential order):

Scarlet Street
The Reckless Moment
The Woman in the Window
Secret Beyond the Door
Hollow Triumph
Woman on the Beach


Then there are her other films. Yes, TCM Star of the Month is due.
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Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
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CinemaInternational wrote: December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
I can't really remember, but I think you may be right! I'd forgotten all about those Backlot "choices". Joan gets no respect!
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Hibi wrote: December 29th, 2022, 3:47 pm
CinemaInternational wrote: December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
I can't really remember, but I think you may be right! I'd forgotten all about those Backlot "choices". Joan gets no respect!
Not TCM's star of the month, but close. She's the featured star this month on The Criterion Channel. Ten of her films will be available:
  • Wild Girl
  • Me and My Gal
  • Little Women
  • Big Brown Eyes
  • Man Hunt
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Scarlet Street
  • The Woman on the Beach
  • We're No Angels
  • There's Always Tomorrow
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I'm not really a Joan Bennett fan, but I checked out Wild Girl and Big Brown Eyes on The Criterion Channel.

Wild Girl, IMO, is a creaky western that, unintentionally, plays like a comedy. The script (based on a story by Bret Harte), tone, and performances -- particularly the performance by Eugene Pallette -- have the broad, histrionic quality of a 19th century "boo the villain, cheer the hero" stage melodrama. The cast introduces themselves, in character, and the costuming and makeup on Ralph Bellamy, for me, evoked Snidely Whiplash, even though Bellamy's character is not a dastard. Notable among the supporting cast: child actress Marilyn Harris, immortal as "Maria, the flower that didn't float" in Frankenstein, released several months before Wild Girl. An interesting, stylistic touch by the filmmakers is the technique of changing scenes in the manner of turning pages in a book.

Big Brown Eyes is described as a "screwball comedy" in The Criterion Channel synopsis. But it has an awfully grim and tragic element that, for me, totally negated the TCC description. Cary Grant and Joan Bennett have a good chemistry as a crime-solving duo who have a romantic relationship that is more fiery and contentious than the bubbly partnership between Nick and Nora Charles. Walter Pidgeon -- in an atypical role as a suave, sophisticated heavy -- effectively scores with an understated performance. The contributions of Lloyd Nolan, Douglas Fowley (clean-shaven and, to me, looking like Shemp Howard), Alan Baxter, and Henry Brandon both lighten and darken the multitonal plot, which alternates from breezy "battle of the sexes" romantic comedy to violent crime-drama.
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txfilmfan wrote: January 1st, 2023, 3:22 pm
Hibi wrote: December 29th, 2022, 3:47 pm
CinemaInternational wrote: December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
I can't really remember, but I think you may be right! I'd forgotten all about those Backlot "choices". Joan gets no respect!
Not TCM's star of the month, but close. She's the featured star this month on The Criterion Channel. Ten of her films will be available:
  • Wild Girl
  • Me and My Gal
  • Little Women
  • Big Brown Eyes
  • Man Hunt
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Scarlet Street
  • The Woman on the Beach
  • We're No Angels
  • There's Always Tomorrow
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Thanks for the info. That's great news!
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I talked to Joan Bennett in 1971 when she was a guest on the Alex Bennett radio program. I told her I had recently seen SHE KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS and enjoyed it very much. She said "talk about digging up the obscure ones! Well at least you didn't call about DARK SHADOWS!". Funny thing is, I had never seen DS and, in fact, only just started watching it a few weeks ago on Tubi TV!
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Funny!
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See me tonight at 8pm in Little Women!
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