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Post by topbilled on Jan 29, 2024 16:31:00 GMT
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Post by Guest on Jan 30, 2024 21:40:01 GMT
I like both. John Garfield makes a magnetic screen debut in the 1938 version. He and Priscilla Lane have nice chemistry. Plus there are two supporting actors who improve any movie they are in: the always charming Claude Rains as the father and May Robson as the their aunt.
The remake tweaks the ending and adds music. Doris Day chirping "I'm ready willing and able..." on the beach with her idyllic family is adorable. And you can't get much better than Sinatra sitting at a piano in a dark bar enveloped by cigarette smoke crooning "One For My Baby.". Add in Ethel Barrymore and Robert Keith as the aunt and father as well as Gig Young, Alan Hale Jr, and Dorothy Malone and you've got a nifty supporting cast.
So, how do we get TCM to show this double feature?!?
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Post by topbilled on Jan 30, 2024 22:10:50 GMT
I like both. John Garfield makes a magnetic screen debut in the 1938 version. He and Priscilla Lane have nice chemistry. Plus there are two supporting actors who improve any movie they are in: the always charming Claude Rains as the father and May Robson as the their aunt. The remake tweaks the ending and adds music. Doris Day chirping "I'm ready willing and able..." on the beach with her idyllic family is adorable. And you can't get much better than Sinatra sitting at a piano in a dark bar enveloped by cigarette smoke crooning "One For My Baby.". Add in Ethel Barrymore and Robert Keith as the aunt and father as well as Gig Young, Alan Hale Jr, and Dorothy Malone and you've got a nifty supporting cast. So, how do we get TCM to show this double feature?!?
I agree that Sinatra crooning 'One for My Baby' is a highlight...so sublime. In a way, watching the remake, with all the songs and the use of Technicolor, it seems like a series of early music videos strung together with a basic melodramatic plot.
Supposedly Day disagreed with Sinatra's insistence that his character live at the end. She thought the original idea, with him dying, made a great impact about the meaning of life. But Sinatra prevailed. I guess since he had just recently died on screen in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, he didn't want to do another death scene. |
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Post by Guest on Jan 30, 2024 22:28:17 GMT
I like both. John Garfield makes a magnetic screen debut in the 1938 version. He and Priscilla Lane have nice chemistry. Plus there are two supporting actors who improve any movie they are in: the always charming Claude Rains as the father and May Robson as the their aunt. The remake tweaks the ending and adds music. Doris Day chirping "I'm ready willing and able..." on the beach with her idyllic family is adorable. And you can't get much better than Sinatra sitting at a piano in a dark bar enveloped by cigarette smoke crooning "One For My Baby.". Add in Ethel Barrymore and Robert Keith as the aunt and father as well as Gig Young, Alan Hale Jr, and Dorothy Malone and you've got a nifty supporting cast. So, how do we get TCM to show this double feature?!?
I agree that Sinatra crooning 'One for My Baby' is a highlight...so sublime. In a way, watching the remake, with all the songs and the use of Technicolor, it seems like a series of early music videos strung together with a basic melodramatic plot.
Supposedly Day disagreed with Sinatra's insistence that his character live at the end. She thought the original idea, with him dying, made a great impact about the meaning of life. But Sinatra prevailed. I guess since he had just recently died on screen in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, he didn't want to do another death scene.I'm OK with the 1954 ending, it certainly is more upbeat. While I don't mind the 1938 ending , it is pretty damn dark. It also says, I think, that she and Mickey should never have gotten married. Did she love him or just feel sorry for him or a little of both. Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn are a more likely couple. |
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Post by topbilled on Jan 30, 2024 22:34:34 GMT
I don't think TCM has shown the 1954 version since 2014, as part of its 20th anniversary when 20 fan programmers hosted their picks. One of the fan programmers picked YOUNG AT HEART.
I agree that Sinatra crooning 'One for My Baby' is a highlight...so sublime. In a way, watching the remake, with all the songs and the use of Technicolor, it seems like a series of early music videos strung together with a basic melodramatic plot.
Supposedly Day disagreed with Sinatra's insistence that his character live at the end. She thought the original idea, with him dying, made a great impact about the meaning of life. But Sinatra prevailed. I guess since he had just recently died on screen in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, he didn't want to do another death scene. I'm OK with the 1954 ending, it certainly is more upbeat. While I don't mind the 1938 ending , it is pretty damn dark. It also says, I think, that she and Mickey should never have gotten married. Did she love him or just feel sorry for him or a little of both. Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn are a more likely couple.
I do really enjoy Ethel Barrymore's performance as Aunt Jessie. I read that she and Sinatra got along very well on the set. |
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Post by Guest on Jan 30, 2024 22:53:11 GMT
I'm OK with the 1954 ending, it certainly is more upbeat. While I don't mind the 1938 ending , it is pretty damn dark. It also says, I think, that she and Mickey should never have gotten married. Did she love him or just feel sorry for him or a little of both. Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn are a more likely couple.
I do really enjoy Ethel Barrymore's performance as Aunt Jessie. I read that she and Sinatra got along very well on the set.Yes, Gig is left alone but I also feel sorry for the husbands of the sisters who all had a crush on Gig. They were descent, if not the most exciting, fellows. I like how "Ernie" (I think) stepped up and was level headed and took charge after the car crash. It put him in a new light for his wife. |
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