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Post by topbilled on Mar 30, 2024 14:01:22 GMT
Me: "You know what would be great right now?"
Fawn: "What?"
Me: "A milkshake."
Fawn: [excitedly] "That would be."
Me: "Hmhmhmhmhm."
Fawn: "Hmhmhmhmh."
- they each, with forced nonchalance, look around -
Me:"Bed?"
Fawn: [dejectedly] "Bed." |
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 30, 2024 14:48:52 GMT
Me: "You know what would be great right now?"
Fawn: "What?"
Me: "A milkshake."
Fawn: [excitedly] "That would be."
Me: "Hmhmhmhmhm."
Fawn: "Hmhmhmhmh."
- they each, with forced nonchalance, look around -
Me:"Bed?"
Fawn: [dejectedly] "Bed."
What Fawn and I discovered is we are both too lazy to make milkshakes before we go to bed and neither one of us couldn't guilt the other one into making them. |
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Post by topbilled on Mar 30, 2024 18:28:06 GMT
Here's a brief review that was published online when SLEEP MY LOVE was issued on DVD a few years ago:
This is the old Gaslight plot about a husband trying to get his wife to believe she's going mad so he can acquire her money and marry his mistress, but it is not as hackneyed as this sounds. The screenplay is full of unexpected twists and Douglas Sirk's direction contains some exciting Hitchcockian touches, with a cliffhanging climax against the background of Brooklyn Bridge.
Usually seen in more lightweight fare, Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche are suitably angst-ridden and smooth respectively.
He is giving her hypnotic drugs while carrying on with his mistress, a very seductive Hazel Brooks. At the same time George Coulouris, behind thick spectacles, makes a sinister phony psychiatrist.
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Post by topbilled on Mar 31, 2024 15:39:16 GMT
I had forgotten that today was Easter Sunday. I think Christmas and New Year's both recently fell on Sundays...so it's become a 'habit' for us to do these on major holidays!
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 31, 2024 18:01:52 GMT
The Continuing Adventures of Fawn and Me
Me: "You screamed louder than I did when Bogie pulled the curtains apart in last week's movie."
Fawn: "Is that assessment based on the reading from our scream-o-meter?"
Me: "Touche."
Fawn: "You cried more when Bea went away to school."
Me: [pleadingly] "But she was so happy with Stanwyck as her mother and [catching himself and trying to sound unemotional]...uh, I mean you cried more."
Fawn: "Too late, you’ve been seen."
Me: "I'm sorry I care so much that the child has a happy upbringing after all she's been through."
Fawn: "Now you're just reaching for straws to regain your manhood."
Me: "One, crying is not unmanly and, two, if it was, is your argument that you're more manly because you cried less? Is that the hill you want to die on?"
Fawn: [clearly trying to change the subject]: "So what's this week's selection?"
Me: "It's the last of Topbilled's "What Kind of Man Did She Marry" movies, "Sleep, My Love."
Fawn: "It's nice to have a professional choose the movies."
Me: "Not this again. Just watch the movie."
Fawn: "Who is choosing next month's movies?"
Me: "Sorry, I can't hear you, the movie's starting." |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 31, 2024 18:50:47 GMT
I think we're still waiting for the "scientific values" of hypnosis to come forward. I tried it a few times and couldn't even go deep enough to think my cigarettes tasted bad, much less kill someone.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 31, 2024 18:53:51 GMT
I had forgotten that today was Easter Sunday. I think Christmas and New Year's both recently fell on Sundays...so it's become a 'habit' for us to do these on major holidays!  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 31, 2024 18:56:01 GMT
Costumes designed by Sophie.
I assume this means Sophie Gimbel, with whom Claudette Colbert was good friends for many years. Gimbel was a huge fashion designer in the 1930s, 1940s and beyond. She was innovator of the extremely popular New Look following WWII, though Christian Dior typically gets all the credit. Our film today is the only one IMDb credits to Sophie, but I've read in various articles through the years that she did design uncredited for a great many of Colbert's fashions for films.
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Post by topbilled on Mar 31, 2024 18:59:42 GMT
Welcome all...it's another Sunday, yay.
Pressing play...
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Post by topbilled on Mar 31, 2024 19:01:00 GMT
Claudette Colbert as Alison Courtland the unsuspecting wife
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Post by topbilled on Mar 31, 2024 19:02:12 GMT
Queenie Smith as Grace Vernay
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Post by topbilled on Mar 31, 2024 19:04:02 GMT
Up and down, there’s danger all around
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Post by Andrea Doria on Mar 31, 2024 19:04:53 GMT
That's so interesting about Sophie Gimbel and the New Look, which I had, as Bunnywhit said, always heard was Dior's.
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Post by topbilled on Mar 31, 2024 19:05:15 GMT
Raymond Burr as Detective Sgt. Strake
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 31, 2024 19:06:28 GMT
That's so interesting about Sophie Gimbel and the New Look, which I had, as Bunnywhit said, always heard was Dior's.
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