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- Yesterday, 5:49 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3018
Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
I just looked up Kay Thompson's biography and boy was she TOO TOO! (I didn't realize she also wrote the Eloise at the Plaza book series) What a fabulous, creative, powerhouse personality and career. Boggles my mind actually. Yeah, she was a powerful creative force behind the scenes, sometimes a scr...
- Yesterday, 2:43 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3018
Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
Guys, I know I'm going to incur wrath here but....can I just say that I have never cottoned to FUNNY FACE? In fact, it has taken me more than a few times to actually get through the whole movie. And I am someone who loves Astaire, Audrey, and Stanley Donen! I've been trying to analyze why I'm not a...
- May 28th, 2024, 7:13 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 263
- Views: 68245
- May 28th, 2024, 6:48 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2729
- Views: 177038
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Barbara was also good as the "Queen Mother" of country music in Nashville (1975) and had a particularly memorable moment sharing her tipsy thoughts on the passing of RFK. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMDBmNWE4YzEtN2RlMC00M2NjLThlNTQtOTA1OWI2ZmY4ZWJjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzU4ODM5Nw@@._V...
- May 27th, 2024, 7:09 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: July 2024 Schedule Posted, Eva Marie Saint is SOTM
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1677
Re: July 2024 Schedule Posted, Eva Marie Saint is SOTM
I'm hoping one of the TBA's for Eva Marie Saint is Garry Marshall's Nothing in Common (1986). All the promotional material featured Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason, which is understandable I guess, but it had the unfortunate effect of minimizing the fact that Saint was there in a prominent role as well...
- May 24th, 2024, 6:23 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Screen Presence
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1576
Re: Screen Presence
A good test is whether they can keep you watching even in iffy material and someone who always does that for me is Jane Russell. Underwater! is coming up in June and it's fairly standard Howard Hughes adventure stuff, but he always made sure she was well-showcased and she looks great and gives us fu...
- May 24th, 2024, 6:05 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: July 2024 Schedule Posted, Eva Marie Saint is SOTM
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1677
Re: July 2024 Schedule Posted, Eva Marie Saint is SOTM
I've never even heard of the Japanese space opera/horror flick Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968), which is part of the Drive-In block, but I'm always up for one of their looney-tunes 1960's mash-ups, so I'll be there. I too am glad to see the Constance Ford block. She and Angela Lansbury were bot...
- May 24th, 2024, 8:43 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In Vinyl Veritas
- Replies: 263
- Views: 68245
Re: In Vinyl Veritas
John Williams on piano.
- May 19th, 2024, 8:08 am
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3018
Re: AFI's 25 GREATEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF ALL TIME
My favorite movie musical never makes any lists ever. I saw a summer stock production of Li'l Abner as a kid and have loved it ever since. Interestingly, Paramount Pictures backed the creation of the Broadway show (1956) with the specific intention of making a movie version. The movie (1959) kept mo...
- May 17th, 2024, 8:21 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3867
- Views: 241183
Re: I Just Watched...
Jeanette Basinger, for one, has discussed how difficult it is for actresses in their later careers to play ordinary women. Instead, they play Exaggerated Women. She notes that even Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner, less exaggerated than, say, the later Bette Davis performances, tend to be cast as actr...
- May 15th, 2024, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Coming up on TCM...
- Replies: 187
- Views: 38227
Re: Coming up on TCM...
So sorry I missed this. I love Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. I must not have checked the tv schedule that night. :( Even if you had remembered you would not have been able to see it. There was a glitch in the video on TCM that evening so it was replaced with another showing of Carnival Story . TCM has...
- May 15th, 2024, 4:08 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2729
- Views: 177038
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
"What if twenty or thirty million women started rationing lipstick?" "But I can't return my 127 tubes of rouge! The Health Department won't let me!" "But do we want to keep hoarding?" "Let's pool our resources -- that's democracy!" Uh-oh, lol. The war turned ...
- May 14th, 2024, 6:58 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2729
- Views: 177038
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Sean Connery was one of those actors who really improved the more he aged. ... hes really at his best later on in Robin and Marian and The Russia House. Agree about Sean (although I haven't seen THE RUSSIA HOUSE or ROBIN AND MARIAN). Agree about Sean getting better with age. Wasn't excited about Ro...
- May 13th, 2024, 6:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: For Bronxgirl48: Mother's Day
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2037
Re: For Bronxgirl48: Mother's Day
My favorite movie mother:
- May 13th, 2024, 8:36 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Top Ten Robert Ryan Films
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2482
Re: Top Ten Robert Ryan Films
I guess I'm a little out of step, but my favorite Robert Ryan movie is About Mrs. Leslie (1954) with Shirley Booth, in which he played a married but lonely industrialist who befriended in a mostly platonic way a kindred spirit (Booth) and vacationed with her once a year, the only time he felt he cou...