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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:26:06 GMT
This film has a weak plot. It's charming, but not very consequential.
it easily could have been done as a radio program. It lacks a cinematic feel. It's a very much a college B movie. A better one of the type, but of a type.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 13, 2023 19:30:39 GMT
One of the obvious problems is they have the characters driving around or walking down sidewalks on the MGM backlot...most of the outside scenes are not filmed on an actual campus.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:30:40 GMT
You can feel what a rich insular world college was in the 1930s. All these kids knew each other from prep school and summer tours of Europe. Plenty of money for everything.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 13, 2023 19:32:52 GMT
Sterling Holloway is miscast as a college dude putting the moves on females. LOL
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:34:57 GMT
I like how smart O'Sullivan's character plays it - no weeping or complaining, even telling him how happy she is he's going, which is making it so much worse for Ayres.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 13, 2023 19:38:53 GMT
Hussey's voice reminds me of Eve Arden.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:40:08 GMT
Hussey's voice reminds me of Eve Arden. Yes, and Arden could play the role with her eyes closed.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:40:43 GMT
"Is he a communist or just a meatball?"
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Post by Andrea Doria on Aug 13, 2023 19:46:33 GMT
Sterling Holloway is miscast as a college dude putting the moves on females. LOL Yes, I usually love him but he just seems sort of weird here.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Aug 13, 2023 19:52:48 GMT
"Idiots and imbeciles have been my friends" I love Ruth and Burgess's arguments.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:53:52 GMT
As Andrea noted last week, about 94% of kids didn't go to college, but they bought movie tickets, so clearly they wanted to see this precious Ivy world.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 13, 2023 19:54:05 GMT
"Idiots and imbeciles have been my friends" I love Ruth and Burgess's arguments. Agree...they work well together.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 19:54:31 GMT
"Idiots and imbeciles have been my friends" I love Ruth and Burgess's arguments. I love O'Sullivan in this one, but Hussey really steals it.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 13, 2023 19:57:18 GMT
As Andrea noted last week, about 94% of kids didn't go to college, but they bought movie tickets, so clearly they wanted to see this precious Ivy world. The thought I have watching this is that a lot of these actors, male and female, didn't go to college. I think Robert Taylor, who studied medicine, was one of the few MGM contract players who had a college education.
A lot of them were busy doing vaudeville, radio or working as extras on movie lots trying to get a big break. Their goal was not a college degree.
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 13, 2023 20:03:40 GMT
Beckett sliding O'Sullivan's name to "out" when he left with her in front of Ayres was a nice touch.
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