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Post by topbilled on Nov 28, 2023 15:18:55 GMT
We're starting a month of Home Front melodramas with MRS. MINIVER.
Join us!
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Post by topbilled on Nov 29, 2023 13:13:59 GMT
Hi Andrea,
I just replied to your message about January's selections. I like your ideas!
*** Back to Home Front Melodramas in December...a nice copy of MRS. MINIVER can be found here:
ok.ru/video/1620670614143
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Post by topbilled on Dec 1, 2023 15:05:55 GMT
Fading Fast mentioned there were some GIFs for MRS. MINIVER online. But I just realized I have never uploaded a GIF and don't know how to do that!
At any rate, here's a lovely photo to savor before our screening on Sunday:
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 1, 2023 15:24:48 GMT
⇧ That is a nice picture.
(GIFs load the same way pictures do on this site.)
Here's a fun GIF from "Mrs. Miniver"
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Post by topbilled on Dec 1, 2023 17:53:16 GMT
Thanks for helping with that!***Here is an excerpt from TCM's article: Winston Churchill wrote MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer that MRS. MINIVER (1942), a tribute to the courage of British families during the dark days of World War II, was "propaganda worth a hundred battleships." The film, based on the novel by Jan Struther, was started when much of America favored isolationism. While still in production, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, changing most American minds and turning the film into the year's hottest property.
Audiences around the world were inspired by Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as the stalwart British couple enduring the London Blitz.
Norma Shearer had been Mayer's first choice for the title role, but Shearer, at 39, was not thrilled with the prospect of playing a woman with a grown son. Neither was second choice Ann Harding. Garson had the same reservations since she was only 33.
During filming, Garson fell in love with nine-years-younger Richard Ney, the actor cast as her grown son. Mayer persuaded the couple to wait until the film had played through its first run before being wed; their marriage lasted four years.
MRS. MINIVER racked up 12 Academy Award nominations and won six Oscars including Best Picture, Director (William Wyler), Actress (Garson) and Supporting Actress (Teresa Wright), plus an Irving G. Thalberg Award to the film's producer, Sidney Franklin.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Dec 1, 2023 20:07:20 GMT
Wow! Amazing behind the scenes information, Topbilled. I love this movie and Greer Garson. I'll watch it this time with the secret love story in mind. To think that two years before this one she played a nineteen year-old girl in, "Pride and Prejudice," yet I never thought she was too old to play Elizabeth Bennet nor too young to play Mrs. Miniver.
What I do always think when I watch this is that she and Walter Pidgeon were perfectly cast opposite each other, because they both have such large faces. Tiny faced Teresa Wright seems almost childlike in their scenes together and maybe that was part of the reason she was cast.
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Post by topbilled on Dec 3, 2023 18:09:14 GMT
Wow! Amazing behind the scenes information, Topbilled. I love this movie and Greer Garson. I'll watch it this time with the secret love story in mind. To think that two years before this one she played a nineteen year-old girl in, "Pride and Prejudice," yet I never thought she was too old to play Elizabeth Bennet nor too young to play Mrs. Miniver.
What I do always think when I watch this is that she and Walter Pidgeon were perfectly cast opposite each other, because they both have such large faces. Tiny faced Teresa Wright seems almost childlike in their scenes together and maybe that was part of the reason she was cast. I agree that Garson & Pidgeon are perfectly cast as the Minivers. They had previously played a married couple in MGM's earlier film BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST (1941)-- in Technicolor.
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 3, 2023 19:32:40 GMT
The Continuing Adventures of Fawn and Me
Me: "Wow, you're here and in your spot early."
Fawn: "You know me, I love Sunday Live!"
Me: "But I had to hurry you up all last month."
Fawn: "Huh, how bout that?"
Me: "It couldn't be because I was hosting last month?"
Fawn: [unctuously] "Were you hosting last month?"
Me: "Oh come on!"
Fawn: [with more forced earnestness] "Do we have a new host this month?"
Me: "I'm guessing so since you wrote in big block letters 'Topbilled hosting Sunday Live, Yay!' across the top of our kitchen calendar for December and put a bunch of stars next to it."
Fawn: "Did I do that? I thought maybe you did that."
Me: "Ehhh, Give me some popcorn."
Fawn: "You know, the 'Holly and the Ivy' wasn't half bad."
Me: [smiling] "Shut up and watch the movie."
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Post by topbilled on Dec 3, 2023 19:35:17 GMT
That's hilarious.
I love how you used the word 'unctuously.' LOL
Good job!
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Post by topbilled on Dec 3, 2023 19:58:59 GMT
Trivia question...
Which actress played Kay Miniver in the TV movie remake of MRS. MINIVER..?
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 3, 2023 19:59:12 GMT
Just saying upfront. I love this movie. I know it's propaganda and I love this movie.
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 3, 2023 19:59:55 GMT
Trivia question...
Which actress played Kay Miniver in the TV movie remake of MRS. MINIVER..?
Trivia answer: I refuse to watch a TV remake of this movie.
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Post by topbilled on Dec 3, 2023 20:00:04 GMT
Based on a book by Jan Struther...pressing play.
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 3, 2023 20:03:13 GMT
Based on a book by Jan Struther...pressing play. It's one of those where the movie equals or maybe even surpasses the book, but it's a heck of a good read.
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Post by topbilled on Dec 3, 2023 20:03:45 GMT
Henry Wilcoxon as the vicar.
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