Thanx Madame Finnie. I think E.G. was probably pretty happy in the marriage. I'll bet Anne could balance the household budget like nobody's business! Just look...it get them a trip to war-torn Hungary. ( )[u][color=#0000BF]MOIRA FINNIE[/color][/u] wrote:Very entertaining account of your experience with The Journey, CM! Thanks for all the insights. I always feel sorry for E.G. Marshall being married to Ann Jackson in this movie. Poor guy probably half-hoped that he would get caught in the cross-fire between Anouk Aimee's insurrectionists and Yul Brynner's commies. That was one way out of Hungary and that marriage.
Okay. I understand what you mean.Well, now. I only meant that Leslie Howard was Stuart Little as drawn by Garth Williams--not as seen by today's soulless animators...but that's probably just me . There's an intrepid quality about the way that Williams drew Stuart as small but adventurous that shone through in Howard's screen persona in his best films (NOT Gone With the Wind).
I like my ball bearings theory better, but I know I need just the facts, ma'am if I want to be taken seriously. Thanx Moira.But I agree about Yul Brynner's panther-like qualities. I don't believe Mr. Brynner had "ball bearings in his hips" as you described it, but he did consort with gypsies and trained circus performers during his youth in Paris, becoming an accomplished trapeze artist with the legendary Cirque d’Hiver Co.--which probably helps to explain some of his grace.
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I saw that in the movies as a kid. ( Hey, we were just dragged with our parents. I didn't understand what the heck was going on. ) I enjoyed her prim, Bohemian, sensible, schoolmarm way of calming down a trussed up Burton, and understanding the needs of a jazzed up Ava. ( Trivia: She and Ava both appeared in "The Hucksters." )[u][color=#804040]CHARLIE CHAPLIN FAN[/color][/u] wrote:She's quite interesting in Night of the Iguana too, a much underrated actress. From what you've all said The Journey sounds like it's a film to look out for.
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[u][color=#008000]KING RAT[/color][/u] wrote:Maven, thank you for your wonderful post about The Journey. If you need more Litvak, The Long Night, The Snake Pit, and Decision Before Dawn are also mighty fine.
Thank you Brother Rat. I've got "The Long Night" and "The Snake Pit" ( amazing performance by deHavilland ) under my belt. Guess I'll have to check out for "Decision Before Dawn".
The first movie I was able to go to alone ( not with my kid sister, or with the neighborhood kids - "13 Ghosts" "Bye Bye Birdie" ) was to see Kerr & Niven's "Prudence and the Pill." On tv, NYC used to show four times a year, "The Schaeffer Award Theatre" ( sponsored by Shaeffer beer. ) They would show a movie with only four commercials and my father'd let me stay up late with him to watch a movie. ( One time it was "The Hanging Tree." ) Imagine my while watching "The Sundowners" with my dad and Kerr starts toweling herself off in front of Mitchum. I wanted to die of embarassment, I couldn't look at my father, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't run away b'cuz I was getting to stay up late...past 11pm; when the movie came on TCM ( twice ) recently, I chuckle at my young self.Deborah Kerr had an interesting career. She played her share of repressed spinsters (The Innocents, The Night of the Iguana, Separate Tables) and nuns (Black Narcissus; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison), yet Fred Zinnemann cast her effectively as the adulterous wife in From Here to Eternity and as the sexually glowing wife in The Sundowners. She also played adulterous wives in The Journey and The End of the Affair, and a kept woman in An Affair to Remember. Underneath that proper exterior and the proper voice seemed to be something decidedly improper. She worked with a number of top directors and made a lot of fine films.
I've often liken Kerr's career to Audrey Hepburn's in terms of working with some of the BEST leading men Hollywood had to offer: Gable, Lancaster, Tracy, Peck, Niven, Grant, Sinatra, Mitchum, Brynner, Burton, etc. I was so happy when the Academy finally honored her with an honorary Oscar. I've admired her for so long.
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Thanxx a lot. I'm not as eloquent as what I've read in this thread...but the feelings that poured out of me kind of jolted me b'cuz I didn't expect what I was seeing.[u]MISS GODDESS[/u] wrote:I'm so glad you enjoyed The Journey as much as I could have hoped, T! Loved reading your impressions of this favorite of mine.
Hmmmm, "...Liberty Valance." Where have I heard that movie before?? Sounds familiar. The three points of that triangle ( Montand - Bergman - Perkins ) reminds me of the absolute Type of Taylor - Clift - Winters. Somebody always gets hurt. Yul letting Kerr go like that was like pulling a gigantic bandage off your heart. Rick letting Ilsa go. Oh man. Do real life humans make sacrifices of the heart like that...or is it just "in the movies"?...I thought his sacrifice at the end, letting them go, reminded me of, yes I have to say it, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He knew even if there were no Mr. Fleming (Robards), he could never be part of Deborah's world, nor she his.
Ha!!!!!!And I do know what you mean about feeling impatient with Deborah's character at times. I do, too. But she can't help being well-bred, I suppose.
I did read the discussion on "Goodbye Again." Great read, great points made on the side of countries' & gender point of views. I've said it before & I'll say it again...the writing...the writing...the depth of the writing keeps me hooked.Earlier in this thread we all talked a bit about another favorite Litvak film of mine, Goodbye, Again. There is a Yul-connection, since he was on set a good deal of the time in Paris, wooing and photographing Ingrid.
Yul & Ingrid? Together?! My stars!! Glad I saw the film, glad I bumped up Litvak on this board...and in my mind. He's sounding kind of like an important director.
The picture you posted of the two of them is beautifully dramatic.