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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Subtitles don't bother me one bit, but an out-of-synch soundtrack is unbearable.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,547
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region by David Alff, published in 2024 Despite its ambitious title, the book's length of only 225 pages (before footnotes) tells you this is not going to be a detailed history, but a breezy survey of the country's busiest rail...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,208
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Brief Moment from 1933 with Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond Hollywood, in the early 1930s, spat out a lot of short morality tales about the classes knocking into each other. In Brief Moment, society playboy Gene Raymond marries lounge singer Carole Lombard, but things eventually go wrong for a...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,545
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before....- Fading Fast
- Post #10,160
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Monte Carlo from 1930 with Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan and Zasu Pitts Monte Carlo is a musical impressively ahead of its time, but with a story and pacing that will try your patience, and characters that you'll often find irritating. The result is this Ernst Lubitsch-directed effort is...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,544
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
("Oi don't know," ponders Uncle Frank as Jimmy shows him an interesting printers' proof. "Oi don't think he quiote got th' expression on th' camel's face quoite roit. Y'know how th' camel looks loike 'ee's aboot t'spit? Oi don't quoite see that here. Have 'im waaark oovar that paaarta th' plate...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,156
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
When my father stopped smoking in the '70s, my mom and I spent weeks scrubbing "yellow" off of everything in the house. It was a nasty job - I remember using an old toothbrush to clean small nooks and crevices on odd surfaces. A disgusting job, but great - truly great - to live in a smoke-free...- Fading Fast
- Post #4,655
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"'Wit' a twenny-five autehmatic," murmurs Alice'." She's awesome. **************************************************************************** Kudos to Costello for going through on the reward and $3500 is a real reward - it's worth about $62,000 today. I still find it amazing that he left...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,150
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Gambit from 1966 with Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Herbert Lom and John Abbott Gambit slots into the heist-romcom niche subgenre of movies that had a brief heyday in the 1960s. These spirited efforts usually centered on a he-she team of smart, well-dressed and polished crooks flirt...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,543
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I thought this would kind of fit here. While the word "burlesque" is slowly disappearing, when it is said today, it's pronounced as "burr -lesk," but when I hear it pronounced in movies from the '30s - '50s, it's often said as "bur-lee-kyoo." Anyone have any idea how / why the pronunciation...- Fading Fast
- Post #6,469
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
The Eagle left a stone or two unturned in its coverage of the Flynn story.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,143
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I'd think the bird would be more annoying than the dripping faucet.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,139
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Daughters Courageous from 1939 with Rosemary, Lola and Priscilla Lane, plus Gale Page, John Garfield, Fay Bainter, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, May Robson, Frank McHugh, Jeffrey Lynn and Dick Foran. Warner Bros. wanted to make a sequel to the successful movie Four Daughters, but since it had...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,540
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Millie from 1931 with Helen Twelvetrees, John Halliday, Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman "Men are all tramps" You just never quite know what you are in for with a precode. Made in 1931, Millie's production quality is clunky, its editing choppy and its directing uneven, but for real life...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,539
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
High Noon from 1952 with Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges and Otto Kruger High Noon was written as an allegory denouncing the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigation of communist activities in Hollywood in the late '40s/'50s, but it's...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,538
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Valley Stream reader: "I don't understand this mermaid story at all."- Fading Fast
- Post #10,132
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Alice has a special talent for knowing how to talk to Sally.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,129
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Makioka Sisters from 1983, a Japanese movie To fully appreciate The Makioka Sisters, the movie, you have to first read The Makioka Sisters, the novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. A classic of 20th-century Japanese literature, Tanizaki's opus follows the travails of the upper-middle-class...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,533
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
Thank you for the kind words. I'm a sucker for a good golden-era train book, too. I was really impressed with this one.- Fading Fast
- Post #9,202
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
It would make sense, but it's hard to confirm as that detailed doesn't seem to have been painted on.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,122
- Forum: The Golden Era
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