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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 1, 2023 17:17:53 GMT
The best business with a hat I ever saw was Humphrey Bogart's in The Big Sleep, the scene where he's trying to scope out the book store. He pauses outside, pulls some shades out of his pocket, flips up the brim of his hat and enters the store as a completely different person, all within a matter of seconds. Genius.
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Post by dianedebuda on Sept 1, 2023 17:20:22 GMT
There are people over there I still miss from the TCM board, but I've tried a bunch of times to sign up and just gave up. Grow where you're planted, eh? New home, new identity. (I was DougieB at TCM.) |
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Post by intrepid37 on Sept 1, 2023 17:28:46 GMT
See Dargo on SSO, but wish he was here with his eccentricities. 😆 I liked Dargo a lot - but he kept getting me into trouble. He always had a smart-ass comment to make about every one of my posts it seems - and when I responded it would set off a back and forth. But he was popular and I wasn't - so lots of people would take his side and apparently complain about me (according to Lomm and Tiki who said so after the banning - I never knew about these so-called complaints). Next thing you know - I'm banned for "bickering" (Lomm's word). Without any warning. I'm pretty sure Dargo knows that it was his neverending needling that led to my banishment. I'm not saying that he knew it would ultimately lead to that or that he knew Lomm would go so far, but I can't imagine he doesn't understand that engaging me with smart-assed remark after smart-ass remark after smart-ass remark unendingly was in any way to my benefit. Just couldn't help himself. I guess SSO wasn't the place for me - but I sure do miss Masha (TCM's SansFin). Wish she would come here. |
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Post by dianedebuda on Sept 1, 2023 18:16:39 GMT
I was surprised by what happened to you there, Intrepid, but glad you made it here. Like I said, the boards have different personalities.
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Post by intrepid37 on Sept 1, 2023 18:23:56 GMT
I was surprised by what happened to you there, Intrepid, but glad you made it here. Like I said, the boards have different personalities.
I'm not sure why it is, but people here don't seem to be as intolerant as over there. It seems there are some over there that simply can't bear to read something they don't agree with. |
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Post by dianedebuda on Sept 1, 2023 19:55:57 GMT
I was here as soon as I learned this existed - that was about a week after I'd found SSO. It was a post at SSO in which I inquired after Nipkowdisc's presence that I learned about this community - and joined it immediately. Yes, I remember. I was the one who told you on SSO where Nip was posting here. 😆
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Now, back to the fascinating berets...
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Post by intrepid37 on Sept 1, 2023 20:32:52 GMT
I was here as soon as I learned this existed - that was about a week after I'd found SSO. It was a post at SSO in which I inquired after Nipkowdisc's presence that I learned about this community - and joined it immediately. Yes, I remember. I was the one who told you on SSO where Nip was posting here. 😆 Yes, it was you who informed me to look at Miscellaneous to find Nip's posts. But it was EP Millstone who first told me about this site and that Nip was here. He's the one who propelled me to come here on March 31. Not that any of this matters - I just like to keep the record as exact as possible. |
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Post by NoShear on Sept 2, 2023 1:20:38 GMT
Re: "I guess SSO wasn't the place for me - but I sure do miss Masha (TCM's SansFin). Wish she would come here." If I correctly recall, intrepid37, SansFin consistently contributed interesting photos to Richard Kimble's "The Post an Interesting Pic" thread - including, I'm confident, one of the following gilded duo:  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 2, 2023 14:38:58 GMT
Here are a couple of white dresses on staircases from the 1950s. Not that dissimilar, yet also not that much alike. If push came to shove, I'd vote for Taylor's.
The Seven Year Itch (1955) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
 
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Post by dianedebuda on Sept 2, 2023 14:54:26 GMT
Here are a couple of white dresses on staircases from the 1950s. Not that dissimilar, yet also not that much alike. If push came to shove, I'd vote for Taylor's. 😆 |
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Post by intrepid37 on Sept 2, 2023 15:33:57 GMT
Although I loved Marilyn more, I do think Liz looks better in a white dress.
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Post by NoShear on Sept 2, 2023 15:54:08 GMT
For a lot of those old westerns the hats were pretty basic and standardized, but when western stars started to emerge so did more individual styles? This one worn by Errol Flynn in Dodge City (1939) seemed distinctive to me. It reads as asymmetrical, but that must be the way the brim has been shaped. The fringed buckskin helped set the character, but then the dandy-ish air of the hat took it in another direction. Add a plume and he's D'Artagnan. I was wondering if he was a cavalry officer in the past, because that could maybe explain his style of hat, but that's not mentioned in the movie, so I guess it has to be chalked up to the character's (or the wardrobe department's) choice. He be stylin'.  But then I looked around and realized that maybe the hat itself isn't all that different, just the personalized shaping, the way all those guys in Eddie Muller Land did with their fedoras. Now I see it's maybe a standard variety of western hat, just with a dash of Errol thrown in. I remembered John Wayne wore something like it in The Big Trail (1930), but with the brim slightly lowered (and with a chin strap...a Spanish inluence?). This is the best image I could find of it.  And here's the poor hat after the snow hit the fan.   I don't really know much about hats, especially cowboy hats, and just went down a rabbit hole. But there may be stuff to say for people who do know about them? John Wayne even found an excuse to don a Stetson or two in "HELLFIGHTERS" - after all, real-life inspiration and technical advisor Red Adair operated out of Houston... I'm going to pull a sad and empty yield here ( , Fading Fast) by suggesting that Wayne's "Chance Buckman" character, with all that oil money around, purchased his fancy cowboy hat - the one seen near the end of the 1968 movie - at the Neiman Marcus in Dallas. John Wayne is seen dwarfing Red Adair to his immediate right:  |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 2, 2023 19:38:46 GMT
Elizabeth Taylor always gets my vote for most beautiful.
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 7, 2023 15:28:38 GMT
In "High Sierra" Ida Lupino sports a bold beret, but sadly, despite neglecting the work that pays my bill for too long, this is the only picture of it I could find. As an aside, her role in "High Sierra" is one of my favorite roles of Lupino's. If this beret spotting continues, the question we are going to have to ask is if any female star of the classic era ever went through her entire career without sporting a beret at least once?
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 7, 2023 21:43:43 GMT
"Who, me? A bad girl?" sez Mamie. "I'm wearing white."  |
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