TCM Love Thread- Page 16

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 11:54am

You know I love "YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER".

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 12:00pm

On the phone with AndyHardy.
He just pointed out that major character played by Virginia O' Brien has just disappeared from the film. Not even half way through! Says she got preg (in real life).

[morosco]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 12:06pm

Last night they showed Trip to Bountiful. Geraldine Page's performance as Carrie Watts is one of the most astonishing performances ever captured on film.
Updated On: 2/3/08 at 12:06 PM

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 12:15pm

Actually I just saw a pic of her and her daughter. She was making one of those silly faces at the little girl and the baby just stared at her. Evidently the ability to keep from smiling was genetic!


I saw the ABT's production of Sleeping Beauty yesterday. The dancing was gorgeous (although the costumes were a bit.... garish(?).

Just curious - did you even dance the part of the blue bird? The young man dancing the part yesterday seemed to have wings on his heels. His face and thick dark hair made me think of you.

Updated On: 2/3/08 at 12:15 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 12:16pm

According to Andy -
The Harvey Girls cost 2,524,315.06 to make.
The Harvey Girls grossed in excess of 5,175,000.00 in its initial release.
Van Johnson said he thought M-G-M stood for Make-Garland-Money.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 12:31pm

How is AndyHardy? His birthday is the day after mine. He's been gone a long time!

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:19pm

That was simply breathtaking.

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:27pm

Mamie - AndyHardy said "Hi Gemini!"

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:28pm

Did you see my question above?


This part always cracked me up. That Greek chorus and the big egg.

Updated On: 2/3/08 at 01:28 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:32pm

Opps, sorry.
I have danced BlueBird but never with Joffrey.
We did not have 'Sleeping Beauty' in our rep.
Did you like the new ABT - McKenzie/Kirkland/Franklin 'Beauty'?
Maybe you saw Herman Cornejo - my favorite male ABT dancer?

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:41pm

No - but I can see from his picture that he would look even more like you! He's one of the principal dancers (dancing Prince Desire) but he didn't dance yesterday. Sascha Radetsky was the Bluebird and David Hallberg was Desire.

edit - I may have spoken too fast. He's pictured in the program as one of the principal dancers but I can't find him listed on any of the performances.

Updated On: 2/3/08 at 01:41 PM

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:50pm

Thank you very much Mamie - I wish I looked and danced like Radetsky.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 1:56pm

He's definitely a cutie but you look just fine to me. Don't change!



Time for those cute Pontipee boys! (I can never get anything done on weekends when I'm home with TCM)

Updated On: 2/3/08 at 01:56 PM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 3:06pm

The barnraising scene has the best choreography on film EVER!!!!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:41pm

Okay, maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps the last 20 minutes of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is the best!

[gettinhep]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:45pm

Yes, yes it is.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:57pm

It makes me cry every time I see it. I'm sitting here alone, and I actually applauded at the end. And I've probably seen this movie 25 times!

[nitsua]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 2:31pm

I started watching THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE during lunch.
We'll either watch GIGI or AN AMERICAN IN PARIS tonight.

We watched SEVEN BRIDES last night. It was fun, but who made the decision to sing operatically in some of the songs? It felt so out of place. Sometimes the actors would sing normally, but other times, it'd be this big, grand tones that were so odd.

Anyone know what was up with that?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 5:10pm

It's the backwoods of Oregon in 1850, where the mountains are one-dimensional and all the main characters have movie-star looks and perfect makeup. The fact that they sing and dance at all is completely preposterous, so who cares if it's opera, jazz or punk. It's a musical! It's fantasy!

(P.S. I miss Michael Kidd.)

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 7:53pm

I love when Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli tried to explain the ending of "An American In Paris" to their brand new studio head Dore Schary.

He looked at them and said, "Let me get this straight... you want to end this picture with 20 minutes of dancing? A romantic ballet done in the style of various impressionist painters? And then there's a tiny scene after that where nobody speaks? So for the last 20 mintues of this film, NOBODY TALKS. I don't understand a thing you're saying, but I can tell that you believe in it... so go make your picture the way you want it."

Pretty incredible.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 8:00pm

I remember that story, too, Besty. It may be the greatest ending to any film.

Updated On: 2/4/08 at 08:00 PM

[nitsua]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 8:02pm

I was watching QUIZ SHOW earlier.

[zepka102]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 8:12pm

Wings is on right now... so exciting. I've never seen it!

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 8:13pm

"It may be the greatest ending to any film."

It's certainly one of the most daring. People take that for granted today, because it worked so wonderfully, and it's such an iconic finale to the story... but that kind of structure in a film had never been tried before.

I love it when the "envelope is pushed."

And I know some people moan over its choice as Best Picture for 1951, competing against two huge heavyweights: A Place In the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire... but I totally see why it won. It was original and incredibly special. And it was Kelly, Freed, Minnelli and newcomer Caron at their zenith.

The film's ballet is picked for the finale in That's Entertainment. And host Frank Sinatra doesn't hesitate to tell us "everyone who worked here would agree, it's the best."

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 8:23pm

Zeppy---I LOVE Wings. It's such an epic story and the aerial battle scenes are jaw-dropping. Remember, there were no CGI special effects back then.

One cool thing---and I don't know if the footage has ever been found---This movie actually had its sky battles open up into WIDE SCREEN back in 1927 in the Hollywood premier run. They achieved it not unlike the early Cinerama filming of "How the West Was Won" nearly 25 years later. The center screen played the print you're now watching, and at the end of the first half (right before intermission), the sides opened up to reveal left and right screens, extending the footage taken from two other cameras simultaneously. They say the audience gasped and applauded every night.

After the intermission, the projection was reset back to the one (center) "normal" screen. Then, once again during later aerial battle scenes, it opened up again.

From what I understand, the footage for the "left" and "right" screens has been lost, since it was only used at the one theatre equipped to show it that way. I hope someday Paramount finds it. What a great DVD that would make!

By the way, this is one of only TWO Best Pictures not available on DVD.

And one more bit of personal trivia: I met and got to know Buddy Rogers (the film's lead) back when I first moved out to L.A. I met him through a mutual friend (an actress) and went to dinner with him a few times. He was such a nice, spirited man, even at that age. Very energetic, and a great sense of humor.

God! Everybody's dead now.

*crawls away sad*

Updated On: 2/4/08 at 08:23 PM