The Silver Screen Oasis

I'd love to see Nowhere To Go, but I have a real fondness for A Run for Your Money, so I'm disappointed...especially Hugh Griffith's part. You'll never see Alec Guinness more normal than in ARFYM, it's like he's channeling Fred Clark.

April 7th

Cover Girl (Hayworth/Kelly) and Double Indemnity (MacMurray/Stanwyck) in the afternoon ... and great lineup of Suspense Movies starting with Spellbound that came out in 1945.

I am looking forward seeing Compulsion on Tuesday Night ... that movie came out in 1959.

I loved how Cher's super-loopy white hooped earrings would wobble every time she got really excited about making a comment. RO is the King of Smooth Sailing in the land of classic film commentary.

Purty cute pairing, and I enjoy the lineup of films for A Woman's World: The Defining Era of Women on Film.
The link: http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/5 ... April.html

And I'm looking forward to next Friday's lineup with The White CLiffs of Dover just so I can "fawn" a bit over all things English during the War Effort and The Homefront which begins with So Proudly We Hail and follows with Since Went Away.

Sue Sue Applegate wrote: And I'm looking forward to next Friday's lineup with The White CLiffs of Dover just so I can "fawn" a bit over all things English during the War Effort and The Homefront which begins with So Proudly We Hail and follows with Since Went Away.

Me too. I wanted to see these films too!

Tomorrow, 4/12/2013

So Proudly We Hail and Since You Were Away ... I am looking forward seeing these films after a long day tomorrow.

I plan on setting the dvr to record all 4 films tomorrow evening! I really enjoyed Cher's commentary with Robert Osborne on Mildred Pierce and Stella Dallas. I knew she was a classic film fan, so it's great to see her face light up when she talks about these films. I found it interesting that she didn't discover Stanwyck until later. I didn't really appreciate Stanwyck myself until a few years ago.

Sandy K

I think she was sincere in her appreciation for classic film, and I enjoyed it, too. She made an off the cuff remark about women not looking so great when they tap, or women shouldn't tap, or something like that, and I felt that she might not have made that remark if she had known more about Ann Miller. She did go on to praise Gene Kelly, and I just felt RO wince a bit because he was good pals with Ann Miller.

Christy, I missed the "women shouldn't tap" remark. Why ever not, Cher? I love watching the graceful Ann Miller tap away! Ginger Rogers was a fabulous tapper, too.

Sandy K

Rita Hayworth wrote:Tomorrow, 4/12/2013

So Proudly We Hail and Since You Were Away ... I am looking forward seeing these films after a long day tomorrow.

These two films are one of Claudette's best performances as an actress and I was stunned how well Shirley Temple acted in the 2nd movie "Since You Were Away" ... both of these films are powerful, lots of meanings, and well acted too. I enjoyed these two films and this is the first time I seen Since You Were Away. I was moved by Cher's comments about these films and she is right on the money on what she says about them. I enjoyed the dialogue between Robert Osborne and Cher on TCM tonight.

Since You Were Away was brilliantly acted by all main players and there is not one scene that was below sub par and the pace and the drama was fantastic.

Or Eleanor Powell. Holy Moly!!!

Sandy, it was kind of a flippant remark, and RO moved on rather quickly into the film without comment, but as I recall it had to do with the fact that women aren't as pretty/beautiful while they are tapping as men are, and she capped the remark with how beautiful Gene Kelly was when he danced. Not a well thought choice of words for Cher, but not something RO wished to embarrass her with either, which says a great deal about her guest stints and her elevated status/prominence on TCM. They may be grooming her for more visits in the future?

I got that impression too, Christy, that they were getting ready to place her in a visiting role on TCM more often.

She's entitled to her opinion on tapping and such, but really, you can't compare anyone to Gene Kelly, he's such a controlled dancer who always seemed to be self aware, thus every motion of every part of his body was in the right place at the right time. Watch his arms and hands sometime when he dances, it's amazing how consistent and perfect his arm movements are. I can't think of anyone who dances as well with their upper body as Gene, and that includes even Fred Astaire.