Irene Papas

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 9:01pm

Post your love here.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 9:13pm

Well, let me be the first then. A wonderful actress and a True Lady ! She really makes us Greeks proud !

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 9:20pm

Loved her in "Anne of the Thousand Days" and I have a music recording of hers done with Vangelis called ODES that I adore.
Still need to see "The Trojan Women".

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 10:11pm

ROME is on and it made me think of Irene.

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 10:47pm

^^^ only film i've seen with irene papas.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 10:49pm

Wow, I was so little when I saw this film I didn't know who anyone was except Haley Mills.
Thanks Marquise!

PS - Pola Negri was in it? Wow!!

[justme2]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:29pm

Ha! I was thinking the same thing, glebb...Pola Negri was in it?

Now there's an actress I could go on and on about!

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:31pm

On your mark.
Get set.
Go!

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:41pm

The Moon-Spinners is the sh!t.

I remember many a time watching that at 4 am on The Disney Channel, sometimes after Summer Magic.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:43pm

Walk feminine, talk feminine.....

[justme2]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:45pm

Well.....I just finished watching a series of silent Greta Garbo movies (thanks, TCM) and the overwrought "vistim of my own design" qualities of her performances in those movies made me think of my dear Pola...a vamp with slut qualities that would have made these young fans of today blush.

There is a story that goes around about Pola Negri and Louise Brooks. They were apparently at a "party" at Charlie Chaplin's house in the mid twenties. This "party" was in full "swing" when Chaplin appeared on the upper staircase, in his full naked gloriness. The "girls" were giggling madly, as Chaplin, who had a thing about getting any type of venereal disease, had painted "a certain part of his body" with iodine to prevent such problems from occuring.

Brooks tells this story in one of books, apparently.

But I digress....

If anyone wants to learn how to be an evil temptress, one who thinks nothing of causing her lovers to commit murder or suicide over her, watch some Pola Negri movies.

*end threadjack*

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:46pm

Will do and thank you!

Now back to that Wild Party.
What drugs were they on?

[justme2]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:52pm

well...iodine was ON something...LOL

Can you imagine a party in the twenties with a naked Chaplin running around showing off his medicated ******, Louise Brooks and Pola Negri giggling in a corner, and god knows who else running around naked and high?

I can. That book...I have to find it so I can get the title...is filled with memories like this example. I loved the book.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:55pm

I love Chaplin and I picture a Sunset Blvd type mansion.

I LOVE IT!!!

[justme2]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 12:02am

He had this beautiful home on Summit Drive in LA, and there are pictures of the interior of the house in one of the many Chaplin books. There is an upper hallway with a railing overlooking the main floor.

All I can think about when I see that photo is Chaplin and iodine.

The main house still stands, as of two years ago. It used to be the only house on a hill; now you can barely see the home through the thousands of other homes squashed around it in that ritzy area. His studios, however, are still on La Brea. I don't know who owns the building now, but it was designed to look like a London village, and it still does. It's right on the corner of La Brea and something, and believe me, you CAN'T miss it!

But once again... I digress.

Sorry!

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 8:14am

It's ok justme2. Irene P. does not seem to be getting much attention after all.

I have a Chaplin book that I read several years ago and I'll get it off the shelf to view the pix. I love Chaplin films. They usually break my heart. I also have the Robert Downey Jr bio-pic on DVD which I enjoy watching from time to time. I love old Hollywood.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 4:45pm

Irene's filmography is kind of hard to navigate, but I think most of these films feature her prominently: Tribute to a Bad Man, The Guns of Navarone, Antigone, Elektra, Zorba the Greek, The Moon-Spinners, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Trojan Women, The Brotherhood, Z, A Dream of Kings, Sutjeska, Moses the Lawgiver, The Message, Bloodline, Iphigenia, Lion of the Desert, Into the Night, The Assisi Underground, High Season, Jacob, The Odyssey, Yerma, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, A Talking Picture.

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/10/05 at 5:12pm

Wow!
By far one of the best threads on here today.
Great stories justme2. The image of Chaplin running around naked and "medicated" is hilarious.
As for Irene Papas, I have seen more than one movie with her after all!
Zorba the Greek (D-UH Me!), Guns of Navarone, Bloodline and Anne of the Thousand Days are four others I've seen.

[justme2]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 12:12am

Glebb...I also enjoyed that movie; Robert Downey was fantastic as Chaplin, and the movie is on my shelf as well. And yes...Chaplin's films will break your heart. City Lights anyone? The ending? The flower girl? The hands?

*dissolves into sobs briefly*

Now, for some Irene Papas...she was in Zorba the Greek? Tell me she wasn't the one Anthony Quinn was placing heated glasses on!

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:50am

<-- Needs to see Zorba The Greek.

Troy is on right now though. :)