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- April 17th, 2008, 12:16 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: West End/Broadway star the new Miss Marple
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2979
- April 17th, 2008, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: Who is Virginia O'Brien?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6953
Yes I always thought she was a welcome addition to every film but there was only so much stone-faced singing a movie could take. I believe she was married to a B picture actor called Kirk Alyn (didn't he play Superman at one point?). But she pretty much disappeared from sight after the heyday of the...
- March 14th, 2008, 2:51 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: In The Spotlight Redux
- Replies: 389
- Views: 175520
There is something extremely watchable about Joan Bennett although I don't think she was a great actress. She always seemed passive to me and was always competent rather than inspired. She seemed to me the very epitome of a workaday actress who worked extremely hard to get where she was. Her main im...
- March 14th, 2008, 2:45 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: jean arthur - any other fans?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 50575
- March 8th, 2008, 9:34 am
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: Petula Clark
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4964
- February 3rd, 2008, 11:37 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Margaret Lindsay - Forgotten Warners Star !
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4592
- October 15th, 2007, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: The Wonderful Deanna Durbin
- Replies: 81
- Views: 92025
The Wonderful Deanna Durbin
I always thought this talented actress and singer was at least the equal of Judy Garland. She had a great personality, wonderful singing voice and fine sense of comedy and made several highly-rated movies in the 30s and 40s which stand the test of time even now. Which makes her retirement at the age...
- October 7th, 2007, 11:31 am
- Forum: Comedies
- Topic: Claudette Colbert
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15642
Claudette Colbert
I adore Colbert but Noel Coward found her very difficult to work with too as he describes that she fussed around trying to direct the other actors in his TV version of "Blithe Spirit". I think he was rather cruel to her in one rehearsal by saying "I'd wring your neck - if you had one!...
- October 7th, 2007, 11:27 am
- Forum: Musicals
- Topic: Scarlett Sings!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5797
Scarlett singing
I think it was the 1972 stage production that prompted Noel Coward to say of Bonnie Langford the very young actress who played Bonnie Blue "They should cut two things - the third act and the child's throat". LOL. The production was also notable in that it starred Bessie Love, the former Am...