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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 10, 2024 12:09:18 GMT
Please join us this Sunday for the continuing story of our four daughters.
This week the honeymoon is over for our young ladies and real life has arrived.
Yes, Galacticgirrrl that's John Garfield in the poster! I know you were concerned that the grieving period had been callously short, but apparently ... something.
I just watched (but purposely did not listen to) the trailer, and was left saying, "Whaaaaa??" Let's all find out together on Sunday!
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 10, 2024 12:11:28 GMT
I re-high hosey Priscilla for this week.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 10, 2024 12:56:44 GMT
I don't blame you! Her picture must be after "cute" in the dictionary. Or after "choir of angels," if you're really smitten.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 10, 2024 13:37:04 GMT
And we have film footage of what happened after Fading Fast tried to make eye contact with Ms. Lane on the boat ride over to last week's Sunday Live! screening.
Fawn: "Looks like another heart you didn't break."
Me: "Maybe she doesn't like fawns; I told you, you were standing too close to me."
Fawn: [with tears welling up] "Who doesn't like fawns? And you know I'm scared of the water, so I stayed close."
Me: "It's okay buddy. I bet she didn't even see me."
Fawn: [muttering] "The things we tell ourselves just to get through the day."
Me: "What?"
Fawn: "I said it looks a little grey today."
Me: "Oh, yeah, it does."
Fawn rolls his eyes.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 10, 2024 14:34:48 GMT
Trailer:
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Post by topbilled on Apr 10, 2024 14:40:20 GMT
I'm a bit disappointed that Warner Brothers didn't round up the Lane sisters later to make FOUR GRANDMOTHERS.
Imagine what the Lemp family would have been like in the late-1960s.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 10, 2024 14:50:16 GMT
Looks like we're back to the ~2 minute trailer. I don't like to complain, but Priscilla's hair looks a little less blonde in this one. In real life, that's what happens, but I expect more of Warner Bros. hairdressers.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 10, 2024 15:04:02 GMT
Incidentally I tried to find some photos of Priscilla from later in her life. But I was not successful.
It seems like after she left the movies in 1948, she focused on her life as a wife and mother. She briefly hosted a TV talk show in the 50s but quit that after a year since her four kids and husband demanded her attention. She just faded from the spotlight. Still, it's interesting that there are no photos of her online from the 50s onward. She was active in Catholic charities in Massachusetts but there are no photos about any of that. I guess she was content to live a quiet life. Obituaries for her in 1995 just included photos of her from her movie days.
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Priscilla lived the longest of the four Lane sisters...
Leota Lane (October 25, 1903 – July 25, 1963)...age 59, was not in the films, had no children
Lola Lane (May 21, 1906 – June 22, 1981)...age 75, had no children
Rosemary Lane (April 4, 1913 – November 25, 1974)...age 61, had one child
Priscilla Lane (June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995)...age 79, had four children
and
Gale Page (July 29, 1910 – January 8, 1983)...age 72, had three children
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Apr 10, 2024 18:57:04 GMT
I'm surprised Priscilla Lane contract with Warner Bros. wasn't renewed after her last film for the studio Arsenic and Old Lace. Director Frank Capra requested her for the role. (film was made in 1942 but released in 1944 until after the Broadway play's run had ended).
Her next film was Saboteur (1942), for Universal, directed by Hitchcock that did well at the box-office despite no before-the-title stars.
Priscilla did a few films for United Artist and took a break due to having her second child. Since the family lived in Studio-City she was able to balance work and raising her children. In 1948, RKO signed her for one "B" noir film Bodyguard with Lawrence Tierney. But the studio didn't sign her to a longer contract, and she decided to retire. She was only in her late 30s, but maybe that spunky, full of life, type screen persona only works for under-30 actresses during the studio-era?
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Post by topbilled on Apr 11, 2024 14:20:25 GMT
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 12, 2024 10:23:55 GMT
Interesting! I can not imagine Eddie Albert in the role of Mickey Borden.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 13, 2024 2:12:12 GMT
Yes, Galacticgirrrl that's John Garfield in the poster! I know you were concerned that the grieving period had been callously short, but apparently ... something.
I just watched (but purposely did not listen to) the trailer, and was left saying, "Whaaaaa??" Let's all find out together on Sunday! Ha! Good one. I watched the trailer with the sound up but still can't make heads or tails of what kind of moody, smoking, non-blithe spirit or mental apparition he is going to manifest as come Sunday.
Speaking of odd hair changes - his looks crazy in that poster, like some Dep or Dippity Do is at work.
Interesting to note Garfield based Mickey in part on Oscar Levant, who married a Gale sister. Art imitating life.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 13, 2024 22:41:01 GMT
Interesting! I can not imagine Eddie Albert in the role of Mickey Borden. There's a short article on the TCM database for FOUR MOTHERS. I will post the link for it next week, after you create the thread for that film.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 14, 2024 17:39:43 GMT
The Continuing Adventures of Fawn and Me
Me: "It's week two of the Lemp family."
Fawn: "I love them."
Me: "I do too, buddy."
Fawn: "It would be hard to choose a favorite, but I wanted to marry Emma when her heart was breaking, just to make her feel happy again."
Me: "I'd like to have seen those wedding pictures."
Fawn: "Jealous, aren't you?"
Me: "Yes, that's it. But in truth, I think she needed to heal first and not to just fall into a rebound relationship with a cute fawn."
Fawn: "Sure, sure, but I think we'd have been happy."
Me: "Well, it seems things worked out for her."
Fawn: "Yes, thankfully. Maybe Kay was the right sister for me all along?"
Me: "Maybe, but you're young and they are characters in an old movie."
Fawn: "What!?"
Me: [scrambling]: "I said they are so interesting, they could be characters in a movie."
Fawn: "Oh, yes, I agree, but what about Kay for me?"
Me: "Let's first get you to not shoot fifty paces away when I introduce you to a female fawn before we worry about getting you married off."
Fawn: "Oh, I see what's happening here, you're afraid you'll be all alone because I won't invite you over for the holidays when 'the family' gathers at Dad Lemp's house."
Me: "It's 'Dad' already is it?"
Fawn: "People take to me quickly. But they'll come to like you in time, [muttering] maybe."
Me: "Just as long as I'm there."
Fawn: "You'll always be welcome, just call first."
Me: "Of course, I don't want to intrude."
Fawn: "And bring something when you come; you want to make a good impression."
Me: "Yes, yes."
Fawn: "And don't dominate the conversation; your stories are not as interesting as you think they are."
Me: [getting dispirited] "I'll stay in the background."
Fawn: "And maybe get some new clothes and don't forget to press a crease into your pants. You've gotten sloppy in your appearance and these are my inlaws."
Me: [with some irritation creeping in] "I don't want to embarrass you. Maybe, I should just stay home."
Fawn: "That might be better. But call anytime. Just not too early or too late. Oh, and not on holidays when the house is busy."
Me: "Maybe I'll just write."
Fawn: "Good idea, just don't ramble, you tend to ramble in your letters."
Me: "How about I just send a brief telegram?"
Fawn: "That would be best."
Me: "I'm glad I'm always welcome."
Fawn: "Kay's and my house is your house."
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 14, 2024 18:28:39 GMT
Ahhh [wiping laughter tears from my eyes] you two are getting funnier every week. I almost forgot why I came here this early. I still haven't posted a link to the movie. Off to search.
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