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Post by topbilled on Apr 7, 2024 20:19:57 GMT
It's easy to see why John Garfield earned an Oscar nomination for this performance.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 7, 2024 20:21:23 GMT
Poor Mrs. Ridgefield will be upset her plate was broken.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 7, 2024 20:22:17 GMT
They are fantastic. Other than they are complicated to make and have a short shelf life, it makes no sense that they lost their popularity. It's the complicated part. Personally, I feel if a cocktail takes less than twenty minutes to create, it's not worth it. Fresh ingredients, which is the only way to go, makes twenty minutes hard to stay under for all but the least complicated ones, especially with cleanup.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 7, 2024 20:24:19 GMT
They are fantastic. Other than they are complicated to make and have a short shelf life, it makes no sense that they lost their popularity. It's the complicated part. Personally, I feel if a cocktail takes less than twenty minutes to create, it's not worth it. ROTFL! Oh dear. Reminds me of what my lovely neighbour used to say about rum & cokes. She was a Cutty Sark woman through and through.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 7, 2024 20:24:32 GMT
Goodbye, Mickey.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 7, 2024 20:25:00 GMT
Garfield's moment at the train station....
I know he's supposed to be looking after the train, but he's staring right into our souls. That's some fantastic film making right there.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 7, 2024 20:25:41 GMT
The setter had puppies!
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 7, 2024 20:27:00 GMT
It's easy to see why John Garfield earned an Oscar nomination for this performance. Errr, yes and no...
Warner Brothers mounted a big publicity campaign to get John Garfield nominated for an Academy Award at the expense of his co-star Claude Rains. (The veteran character actor would land the first of his four Oscar nominations the following year for his work on Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).)
Good thing Caesar doesn't hold grudges
John Garfield and Claude Rains co-starred in six movies: "Four Daughters" (1938), "They Made Me a Criminal" (1939), "Juarez" (1939), "Daughters Courageous" (1939), "Four Wives" (1939), and "Saturday's Children" (1940). They also appeared in the short "Breakdowns of 1942" (1942).
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Post by topbilled on Apr 7, 2024 20:28:59 GMT
Wow, who would have thought Mrs. Ridgefield was a closeted gate swinger.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 7, 2024 20:31:51 GMT
What a fun movie. I liked it before and I enjoyed it even more this time.
Great choice.
Might have to get the book.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 7, 2024 20:31:52 GMT
It's easy to see why John Garfield earned an Oscar nomination for this performance. Errr, yes and no...
Warner Brothers mounted a big publicity campaign to get John Garfield nominated for an Academy Award at the expense of his co-star Claude Rains. (The veteran character actor would land the first of his four Oscar nominations the following year for his work on Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).)
Good thing Caesar doesn't hold grudges
John Garfield and Claude Rains co-starred in six movies: "Four Daughters" (1938), "They Made Me a Criminal" (1939), "Juarez" (1939), "Daughters Courageous" (1939), "Four Wives" (1939), and "Saturday's Children" (1940). They also appeared in the short "Breakdowns of 1942" (1942). I don't think Rains deserved a nod for this film...he doesn't have very many dramatic moments to play. Garfield gave a beautiful performance and deserved his nomination.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 7, 2024 20:33:31 GMT
Studio publicity photo
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 7, 2024 20:33:54 GMT
Wow, who would have thought Mrs. Ridgefield was a closeted gate swinger. Sharp-featured small part character actress who played innumerable vitriolic, thoroughly unpleasant spinsters, gossips, stepmothers, landladies and other assorted harridans and dragons from the mid-1910's to the mid-40's.
Unlike her screen personae, she was said to have been a really sweet person in real life.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 7, 2024 20:36:22 GMT
This was a great pick, AndreaDoria. Thank you.
Four Daughters moves me more than Young at Heart (1954) with Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 7, 2024 20:36:54 GMT
Errr, yes and no...
Warner Brothers mounted a big publicity campaign to get John Garfield nominated for an Academy Award at the expense of his co-star Claude Rains. (The veteran character actor would land the first of his four Oscar nominations the following year for his work on Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).)
Good thing Caesar doesn't hold grudges
John Garfield and Claude Rains co-starred in six movies: "Four Daughters" (1938), "They Made Me a Criminal" (1939), "Juarez" (1939), "Daughters Courageous" (1939), "Four Wives" (1939), and "Saturday's Children" (1940). They also appeared in the short "Breakdowns of 1942" (1942). I don't think Rains deserved a nod for this film...he doesn't have very many dramatic moments to play. Garfield gave a beautiful performance and deserved his nomination. Oh no, I know....I am just teasing for my love of Claude. The old Dad bit was a touch painful at points.
It seems like Jules might haven been a moody Brando ahead of his time...
(Screenwriter Julius J. Epstein on John Garfield) Garfield was a nice guy, but kind of a sad sack. We'd tease him. There was something called The Writers' Table, where writers sat around at lunch in the commissary, and I remember Garield coming up once and saying, 'Let's have an intellectual discussion.' I said, 'Sure, who's going to represent you?'
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