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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Separate Tables from 1958 with Wendy Hiller, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Gladys Cooper, Deborah Kerr and Rod Taylor When a movie can expose people's hopes, fears, insecurities, failings, kindness and decency, with sympathy and honesty, and on all but one set and with no more...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
We haven't had a Wasp-waist alert in a long time, but well: I think that is what Burma is really PO'd about. In her thirties, she's a mighty fine-looking woman, but she doesn't have a teenager's waist anymore.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,248
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Royal Bed from 1931 with Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Nance O'Neil, Anthony Bushell and Robert Warwick The Royal Bed is an early and stagy talkie that riffs on one of classic Hollywood's favorite themes: royals who are bored and tired of being royals. This one includes the common subplot of...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,569
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Yarr loocky Oi don't send ye parcel post." Ma is channelling my old man. "Than ye c'n staarve t'death aaahr not," Oh yeah, it's him. ******************************************************************************* "We had a bank robbery here in town the other day, but I doubt they were...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,241
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Most amazingly, they opened a restaurant - a restaurant! - in 1943 amidst food rationing.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,238
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Thank You All Very Much (US release) / A Touch of Love (UK release) from 1969 starring Sandy Dennis "Boy you've been a naughty girl / You let your knickers down" - McCartney-Lennon Thank You All Very Much is a "kitchen sink drama" for upper-class Fabian Socialists in Swinging late-1960s...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,567
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Is there a movie or book about Australian war brides coming to the US, you ask? Why yes there is. There is the very enjoyable 1957 movie "Until They Sail" (comments on the movie here: #31,467 ) Which is based on a short story in this book (comments on the short story here...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,231
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Pleasure of His Company from 1961 with Fred Astaire, Lilly Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Gary Merrill, Tab Hunter, Charles Ruggles and Harold Fong The Pleasure of His Company is a genuine comedy-drama where both elements get equal attention in this funny, but also serious movie about love...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,561
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
The Pleasure of His Company by Bernard Glemser, originally published in 1961 and based on a play by Samuel A. Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner. Some books are art, while others, maybe not rising to the level of art, offer deep insight into the human condition. Some, though, are just fun...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,211
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Frank better get to work with his government "connections" and gin up some "legal" adoption papers back-dated for the boy, and fast. ********************************************************************* "A Christmas movie, released in July, from a novel by Somerset Maugham, with Deanna Durbin...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Guilty as Hell from 1932 with Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Henry Stephenson, Adrienne Ames, Noel Francis, Claire Dodd and Richard Arlen Guilty as Hell is a good murder-investigation movie where we know who did it from the first scene, but today, its two drawbacks are some clunky inchoate...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,560
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Street Scene from 1931 with Sylvia Sidney, David Landau, Beulah Bondi and William Collier Jr. Director King Vidor, working from a screenplay based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play by Elmer Rice, captured a realistic portrayal of life that is rarely seen on screen. It's not perfect, but...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,559
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
To be fair, we all knew by this point who would win the war, but baseball in '44 was still up for grabs.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Owen got picked off third???? Don't threaten to steal home unless you mean it!" Why not, the guy can do anything stupid he wants and not worry as all anyone will ever remember about him is the dropped third strike. Heck, he could run around the bases backwards and naked and history would yawn...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,213
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Up the Down Staircase from 1967 with Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart and Roy Poole You can pull some "timeless lessons" out of Up the Down Staircase, if you really try hard, but it is easier to just see it as a well-acted relic of late 1960s idealism meets reality in an "inner...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,557
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I was taught the metric system in grammar school in the 1970s and was told with great confidence that it is all we'd be using when I grew up.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I can't understand why a star of Bugs' caliber is slumming in this strip, but it's very obvious why Porky is." "I signed with the wrong management team early in my career and am locked into this embarrassment of a strip for another few years. Live and learn; live and learn." - BB- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Razor's Edge from 1946 with Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb and Herbert Marshall On one end of the spectrum, you have a man searching for true meaning in life, a man looking to connect on a deep and sincere level with his fellow man, and on the other end, you have a...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,555
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Fun trivia fact: Tom Harmon and Elyse Knox' son is the actor Mark Harmon. ************************************************************************************ An easier solution might be to find a different family as role model.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Woman on Pier 13 from 1949 with Robert Ryan, Laraine Day, Thomas Gomez, Janice Carter, John Agar and William Talman Those looking for an anti-communism/film-noir mashup have come to the right movie in Woman on Pier 13. The propaganda works about as well as all heavy-handed propaganda works...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
