To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
#0To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:26pm
I remember loving these movies.
Did you?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#1re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:30pmI remember my mother making me watch To Sir With Love when I was little, it's one of her favorites.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#2re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:31pm
What are they about?
[Don't hurt me...its before my time]
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#3re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:32pmSchool teachers who break through to their students.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#4re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:34pmI never saw To Sir With Love - but I did love Up the Down Staircase. We rented Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean last week and loved Sandy Dennis in it - she is SO strange on film- and yet she compells you to watch her!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#5re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:36pmYou like Altman films?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#6re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:37pm
Both are favorites of mine -- 60's school dramas starring two great actors: Sidney Poitier and Sandy Dennis, respectively. Add "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" with Maggie Smith (recently out on DVD) and you have a great triple feature.
Priest, check out IMDB for the plot synopses. All three feature terrific performances (Dame Maggie got her first Oscar for "Brodie") and great screenplays (and "Sir" has Lulu singing the title song). I love them all.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 9/13/04 at 07:37 PM
#7re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:38pmAlso love the BBC Jean Brodie with Dorothy Tutin.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#8re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:39pm
Oh, are these Altman?
The only two Altman films I have seen (that i remember) are GODSFORD PARK and THE LONG GOODBYE.
Both of which were brilliant and I adored.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#9re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:40pmI wish I could have seen Zoe Caldwell, who got the Tony as the original Broadway Jean Brodie (Caldwell is one of my all-time favorites).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#10re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:41pmsidney poitier happens to be my favorite actor and i love "to sir, with love", great title song sung by Lulu and Judy Geeson isn't bad on the eyes. saw "up the down staircase" a long time ago with sandy dennis...this was good, along with "the prime of miss jean brodie" which i saw on cable a long time ago. speaking of movies with troubled youths does anyone here remember "the cross and the switchblade"? starring pat boone and a very young erik estrada?
#11re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:43pm
Sorry Priest we're jumping around a bit. Sir and Staircase are not Altman films. :)
Marquise do you love Lilies of the Field? I cry like a baby when I watch it.
I LOVE OLD MOVIES!
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#12re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:44pmyeah i love lillies of the field. poitier's a master!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#13re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:45pm
"They call me MISTER TIBBS!"
I just loved him slapping Rod Steiger in "In The Heat of the Night."
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#14re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:56pm
yes! yes! yes! that is a classic scene.
anyone here see "PARIS BLUES"
this one was about jazz musicians and starred Poitier along with PAUL NEWMAN, JOANNE WOODWARD and DIAHANN CARROLL.
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Posted: 9/13/04 at 7:58pm
Gotta check that one out as I love me some Diahann Carroll.
What about Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:10pmI'm seeing "On Golden Pond" with Carroll and James Earl Jones in a few weeks -- should be fun to see them together again (remember "Claudine"?). I saw Jones so many times growing up, I should start a Jones Appreciation thread (I think I will).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#17re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:13pm
Yes, that's a good one but it's sort of a cop out because you rarely see him and his white fiancee really kiss and show some real affection to each other, except near the end and then its seen through a rear view mirror! Tracy and Hepburn...goes without saying but he was fortunate to share the screen with those legends. the man has had an incredible career.
Let us not forget:
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
THE DEFIANT ONES
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#18re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:15pmMargo, I just purchased Claudine on DVD about 2 weeks ago. Carroll received an Oscar nomination for that! Awesome soundtrack to that movie too!
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Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:16pm
Wish I had seen her in SUNSET BLVD. I've heard the sound track and she is gorgeous.
Love her on The Judy Garland Show too.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#20re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:28pmTracy is the real star of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (I believe he died just weeks after completing it). His last, epic speech is a master class in simple, unaffected film acting -- simply heartbreaking (it makes me tear up). Everyone else (except for Hepburn's neice Katharine Houghton) is also very good (especially Beah Richards), but they're pulled down by the safe, well-intentioned but formulaic screenplay.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#21re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 8:34pmOh, Katherine Houghton was Katherine Hepburn's niece? I had no idea. Whatever happened to her?
MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:02pm
It's been rumored for decades that Katharine Houghton, ostensibly Hepburn's niece, is actually Hepburn's love child vis-a-vis Tracy.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#23re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:03pm
Adored BOTH of those movies - and still belt the theme song T'o Sir With Love' whenever I'm with my old roommates...it was one of our favorites.
Great memories, thanks!
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#24re: To Sir With Love/ Up The Down Staircase
Posted: 9/13/04 at 9:05pmTo Sir With Love one of my mom's favorites too, Sword. She made me watch it with her and I actually enjoyed it thoroughly.
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