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- July 24th, 2008, 12:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: She who knows not fashion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9379
I don't mean this critically, but objectively: What I always wonder is if there might EVER be a return to fashion from before the 1920s. Maybe not a skirt that flows over the floor, but one that nearly touches it. The Gibson Girl look, maybe. Or a renaissance of the preppiness that I was startled to...
- July 24th, 2008, 8:20 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Did Fred ever kiss Ginger?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14756
- July 24th, 2008, 8:09 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Did Fred ever kiss Ginger?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14756
He made some fabulous musicals with fabulous dances and fabulous leading ladies after Ginger but I haven't seen one where he captured the romantic essence he had with Ginger. Have you ever seen his two films with Rita Hayworth? In my opinion, the two dancers burn up the screen--though (as in his mo...
- July 2nd, 2008, 8:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Another of my silly questions...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9270
I do find something new every time. Especially if I watch with someone--either someone who has seen it many times and points their favorite aspects out to me, or someone who never has seen it, and reacts with delight or sorrow to what's going on. That's a vicarious thrill of first-timedness. That's ...
- July 1st, 2008, 1:21 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Was 1940 the great Oscar robbery
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5778
- July 1st, 2008, 8:37 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Was 1940 the great Oscar robbery
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5778
- July 1st, 2008, 8:30 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Michael Caine, Not A Lot Of People Know That
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2525
- May 28th, 2008, 10:18 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Man in the Saddle (1951)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13908
- May 9th, 2008, 8:02 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Pacifically Dreaming of Ava
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6797
Ava Gardner
I've always thought Ava gorgeous, especially singing "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" from Show Boat. (And I know that's not her singing, but she didn't do at all badly in her preserved attempts, and her lip synching was fine.) But for perfect beauty of face and body: Cyd Charisse. If I were a...
- May 1st, 2008, 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Sailor walks into a bar . . .
- Replies: 882
- Views: 286985
This one is rather gentle, but it has a movie theme, and of course I like it! Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and George Murphy were sharing a limousine to a party. A short distance from their destination, however, they found to their dismay that a bridge they needed to cross had collapsed, leaving them ac...
- April 28th, 2008, 2:00 pm
- Forum: General TV and Media
- Topic: How do we pass the Cinematic Torch?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12900
This is a fascinating discussion. To shine a slightly more optimistic light on things: Remember the scene in Yankee Doodle Dandy , in which a few teenagers come ask a retired George M. Cohan (James Cagney) if they can get some water from his well for their jalopy? They're mid-1930s teens, by the tim...
- April 23rd, 2008, 11:12 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: The Major and the Minor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2582
- April 23rd, 2008, 11:06 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Beautiful girls and non convencial good looking leading men
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4933
I've never felt that Fred ultimately requires the presence of Ginger in order to be sexy, but perhaps the point of Kate's remark is that Ginge, with her way of looking at him as if he could move mountains, got him started being viewed as a heartthrob. What's amazing and amusing to me is how well he ...
- April 23rd, 2008, 9:23 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Beautiful girls and non convencial good looking leading men
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4933
- April 18th, 2008, 11:05 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Are you the only classic movie buff in your family?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 22800
My husband is one, too, though he has this quirk of not being willing to watch anything more than once. Oh well, gets me out of too much repeating... My parents both think I'm nuts (on this score), and they always have. It was my grandmother who started it all--we'd sit up watching them half the nig...