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Post by I Love Melvin on Jun 6, 2023 13:57:07 GMT
Thanks, and I'm aware of your group and like the idea, but Sundays aren't the right fit for me. I love The Winslow Boy, and also the more recent David Mamet adaptation, so I know you'll enjoy yourselves.
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Post by topbilled on Jun 6, 2023 14:30:09 GMT
It's getting easier for me to hide my ignorance because I recognize/have seen more and more of these. I first saw Paramount's Peter Ibbetson in a revival house many years ago and it's remained one of my very favorites from this era all these years. It's such a dreamy blend of fantasy and romance and so beautifully atmospheric. Top Hat wasn't the first Astaire/Rogers pairing for RKO, or even the first for that year ( Roberta is also on the list), but it's probably the one most revived and the most associated with the two. I'm also a fan of RKO's The Last Days of Pompeii, which very ably took the DeMille template for historical/biblical films and ran with it. I'd liked Preston Foster as a kid when he starred in the TV series Waterfront as the captain of a harbor tug and was surprised to find out later that he'd had a movie career. That was true of a lot of actors I first knew through TV; the more I started to watch classic movies, the more I realized they'd had a whole previous history of which I was entirely ignorant. My nasty mind got the better of me again with Republic's Hitch Hike Lady, figuring it was some easy dame on the lam, but it turns out to be a comedy about an elderly British woman who travels to the U.S. to see her son and discovers he's in San Quentin, necessitating the hitchhiking. Again, shame on me. HITCH HIKE LADY is one of my favorite early Republic films. It has an exceptionally good cast, including Mae Clarke, James Ellison, Arthur Treacher and Alison Skipworth as the elderly British lady who learns what sonny boy has been up to! It's a creative variation of the roadtrip movie with a swift pace and sparkling performances.
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Post by sagebrush on Jun 10, 2023 13:40:37 GMT
I know the studio system worked their actors to near death, but Fox studios having a very young Shirley Temple starring in 3 films in 1 year is borderline child abuse.
I always admired her for how she left Hollywood behind and lived a fulfilling adult life.
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