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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 21:32:30 GMT
Thank you Fading Fast for hosting this week's edition of Live on Sunday. Your enthusiasm for precodes and code-era melodramas is contagious! That's very nice of you to say. Thank you.
I don't think next week's movie will be loved as I'm started to understand this group's preferences.
We could switch to "The Country Girl," which I think would be better liked - thoughts?
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 21:38:45 GMT
This film had above average acting...but a fairly weak script. Weak because of the contrivances and because it borrowed too much from OF HUMAN BONDAGE.
The middle section was much more subdued when we had those long romantic scenes between the two main characters.
I looked at the list of 11 films for which she was nominated, and I think she should have won for some of the others not this one. And one film, where she wasn't nominated, I think she gave an Oscar level performance-- THE CATERED AFFAIR (1956).
Thanks, TB. My favorite Davis pictures, The Virgin Queen, Dead Ringer, White Mama were ignored by the Academy. C'est la vie. Oh yes, THE VIRGIN QUEEN is one of her best. In terms of Oscar, I would have given the award to her for OF HUMAN BONDAGE, THE LETTER, THE LITTLE FOXES and THE CATERED AFFAIR (which failed to garner a nomination). And she should have been nominated for THE VIRGIN QUEEN. Interestingly, I think her best films are with Herbert Marshall supporting her...not sure if that is by design or coincidence!
I will be in the minority with this remark, but I don't like her performance in ALL ABOUT EVE...I think it is too showy and she is deliberately stealing it from Anne Baxter. I like to say that it is all about Eve, not all about Margo. And I think Mankiewicz failed to reign her in...it should have been played and edited as support, not grasping for central focus. The fact that people associate her more with the film than Anne Baxter proves that the end result takes us away from what the story is supposedly about.
THE STAR is what I love to call a bargain bin version of SUNSET BLVD and I am surprised she was even nominated for it.
I do like her extended cameo in PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER very much, and I think it contains her best work despite the limited screen time.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 21:42:15 GMT
Thank you Fading Fast for hosting this week's edition of Live on Sunday. Your enthusiasm for precodes and code-era melodramas is contagious! That's very nice of you to say. Thank you.
I don't think next week's movie will be loved as I'm started to understand this group's preferences.
We could switch to "The Country Girl," which I think would be better liked - thoughts?
I have never seen THE COUNTRY GIRL, believe it or not. So I was glad you put it on your list.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 21:49:43 GMT
That's very nice of you to say. Thank you.
I don't think next week's movie will be loved as I'm started to understand this group's preferences.
We could switch to "The Country Girl," which I think would be better liked - thoughts?
I have never seen THE COUNTRY GIRL, believe it or not. So I was glad you put it on your list. Do we want to switch to "The Country Girl" or stay with "The Rich are Always with Us?" I'm good either way.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 21:50:55 GMT
I have never seen THE COUNTRY GIRL, believe it or not. So I was glad you put it on your list. Do we want to switch to "The Country Girl" or stay with "The Rich are Always with Us?" I'm good either way.
Whatever you would like to do, I am sure we are fine with it. You can think on it for a day or so and let us know, if you like...No need to rush to a decision.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 21:57:00 GMT
Do we want to switch to "The Country Girl" or stay with "The Rich are Always with Us?" I'm good either way.
Whatever you would like to do, I am sure we are fine with it. You can think on it for a day or so and let us know, if you like...No need to rush to a decision. Okay, thank you. I'll kick it around for a day or so. Big picture, we'll eventually do them both over time.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 23, 2023 20:31:45 GMT
I think WB should have remade this in the 40s with Ida Lupino. I would like to have seen her take on this type of role. Would Lupino have wanted to do another remake of a Bette Davis character? Lupino was already cast in They Drive by Night, a remake of Bordertown (with They Drive by Night being the better film). Note that WB placed Eleanor Parker in a remake with Of Human Bondage. I don't think many actors wish to be involved in a remake, by the same studio, when the prior performance either won an Oscar or was Oscar worthy.
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