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#26

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:45am

Wow!! I feel better that I am not alone. I love Lucille Ball too. Was she perfect for this role? Probably not, but I loved her just the same.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis

#27

She wasn't bad, but she wasn't great.
She got off to a weak start with It's Today, but seemed to get better as the movie went on.
Which is weird b/c I'm sure it wasn't filmed in sequence.

I love the one new song he wrote for Robert Preston also.

....but the world goes 'round

#28

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:53am

I Love LUCY!MAME. It's just a lot of fun filled froth. Although I don't like the way they made Pegrin (sp?) the maid versus Interior Decorator...I felt like it all fell apart then.

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#29

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:40am

Yeah!! Two more people that love Mame. To think, all this time I thought I was alone.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis

#30

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:45am

I know it's practically sacrilege, but I preferred MAME to AUNTIE MAME. Let the flaming begin!

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#31

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:47am

they're both great in different ways.

....but the world goes 'round

#32

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:48am

Agreed taz.

Too bad Angie didn't get to preserve this on film...at least non-silent home movie film.

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#33

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:51am

I'm surprised they haven't done a revival of this.
There's gotta be a star who could make it work.

....but the world goes 'round

#34

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:52am

I really disliked Peggy Cass' Agnes Gooch, though.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#35

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:54am

There is a star Taz, Lauren Graham.

She's 40, can sing, has the comedy, has the ability to be serious. She'd be perfect. Plus she is a bankable name.

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#36

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:57am

Well, there a Broadway-bound Kennedy Center production a couple years back with Christine Baranski which never materialized.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#37

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:03am

SM2-
For a *very* good reason.

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#38

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:05am

Wait, dind't Jane Connell play Gooch in the movie?

....but the world goes 'round

#39

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:10am

Jane did Lucy!Mame, not Roz!Mame

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#40

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:11am

You saw Christine's MAME, husk?

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

#41

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:20am

Not in the conventional sense. It was pretty bad.

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#42

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 7:45am

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbft-6o4MQs

#43

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 8:11am

wow this thread went from "splendor in the grass" to "mame"...very funny.

i love "splendor in the grass". i can relate to it. barbara loden as beatty's sister does some stellar work in the film.

as far as "mame" goes, well, um...yeah, so i loved "splendor in the grass".

#44

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 8:50am

Yay! I've been waiting for this day!

I thoroughly enjoyed Mame, and Lucy in the role too. I would watch it right now if it were on!

Whew, there, I said it!

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#45

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:15am

Lucy's MAME is brilliant.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#46

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:25am

The lady who played Sally Field's creepy mother in "Sybil" is in Splendor In the Grass too! She's the school teacher toward the beginning of the movie.

That woman gives me the willies.

TRIVIA: When Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins were working on casting the film of West Side Story, they arranged for an early screening of "Splendor in the Grass" to check out the young Warren Beatty for the part of Tony.

Turns out, that screening is where they finally found their Maria, instead.

I've only ever held one Academy Award before... and it was William Inge's Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Splendor.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#47

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:50am

And yes, Barbara Loden was awesome as Bud's drunk, party-happy sister.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#48

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:51am

"Everyone's wild about Mabel, she's the talk of the town. Mabel's willing and able..."

#49

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:52am

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#50

re: Splendor In The Grass

Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:54am

That woman gives me the willies.

Me too! It's that weird, flat, almost Louise Fletcher voice of hers that does it for me.

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