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Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Send Me No Flowers was with Rock & his funny sidekick, Tony Randall. And that big hunk o' man, Clint Walker (6'6") was in it too.




Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Thrill Of It All

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Move Over Darling is actually a remake of the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne movie My Favorite Wife. I also just love Doris Day. I used to love to sit on a Saturday afternoon with my mom and watch all the old Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies. I really loved her old tv show to when I was young. She just always seemed like the nicest person.

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, I liked the original version too...Irene was great in the part.

I loved her as Calam, as Howard Keel called her in Calamity Jane. The woman could sing.(Loved Howard too... that deep voice).

I agree sis, she seemed a very nice person and was/is a beautiful, classy lady.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YES!!! Move over Darling!!!! Thanks it was driving me crazy!!!

I got a chair that was in the kids room from her tv show, we went to an Actors for Animals auction and to my mom's horror I raised my hand to bid! I think I bid 10.00(I was 10), Doris was the auctioneer and when another person bid after me she said, sorry but I have to give it to this cute little girl!! I still have the chair! It says CBS on the bottom.

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG....Pamy, that is so awesome!

Mamie is right....Doris is indeed a wonderful lady. :-)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is such a neat story Pamy.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, now I want to watch one of those movies!!!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a friend who loved Doris Day so much that when he died--he was quite young and had AIDS--he wanted to be buried with his signed portrait of Miss Day. What's even worse is that the last song at his funeral was "Que Sera, Sera"! When we realized what was playing, we all started laughing and crying simultaneously.

Melfie1222
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07-29-2002

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 11:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pillow Talk, Pillow Talk! I love it.

Another of my favorite oldies from the 50's: Desk Set.

Midlifer
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04-16-2003

Monday, June 21, 2004 - 4:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Desk Set, YES! I've been trying to rent that one. I have a newfound appreciation for what Kate Hepburn and the others did since I work in a school library. Librarians ROCK! The story rings way too true since technology is trying to nudge out the love of reading. We deal with this day in and day out. What a great movie.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, June 21, 2004 - 5:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a great story Tish!

Stacerita
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01-15-2003

Monday, July 05, 2004 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All time fave movie

Its a Wonderful Life


Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's one you probably don't remember - Penelope, with Natalie Wood. She was a banker's wife, always taking off her shoes and losing them, and robbing her husband's bank!

A very old movie, 1933, Lady for a Day starring May Robson and produced by Frank Capra, that I really enjoy, because it was a bunch of gangsters who lived in the same neighborhood as this woman who sold apples as Apple Annie. She lived in a small room of an abandoned building. The boss of the gang thought it was good luck to buy and apple a day from Annie. She sent all the money she could to her daughter who was in Europe. When her daughter wrote a letter saying she was bringing home her fiance, Annie got help from the gangsters to make it look like she was living well. Frank Capra later remade the movie into Pocketful of Miracles with Bette Davis.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In October, TCM will be featuring "Mad about Musicals", a month-long, 93-movie festival. A full schedule and more details will be available in a few days. I'll post a link when the site is updated for next month.

From the TCM website:
The film musical - that most joyous and creative of movie forms - was born in 1927 when Al Jolson sang "Toot, Toot, Tootsie," "Blue Skies" and "My Mammy" in the first talkie, The Jazz Singer. TCM's unprecedented, comprehensive review of the genre's first 50 years begins with that landmark movie and ends with Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977), with Liza Minnelli in a dazzling performance as a big-band singer who emerges as a superstar. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the most-loved musical couple of the 1930s, are at their scintillating best in Top Hat (1935), strutting their sophisticated stuff to "Cheek to Cheek" and other Irving Berlin tunes. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), a disarming bit of Americana and one of the most charming movies of the 1940s, is a valentine to both the film-musical form and a burgeoning romance between director Vincente Minnelli and ultimate movie-musical star Judy Garland. The Hollywood musical hit its sparkling peak in the 1950s at MGM, which produced such masterpieces as Minnelli's An American in Paris (1951), an exhilarating visualization of George Gershwin's tone poem. The 1960s marked the age of the epic musical based on stage hits, with My Fair Lady (1964, TCM premiere), the delightful musicalization of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, winning an Oscar® as Best Picture. Among the top musicals of the 1970s was Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), based on Joseph Stein's perennial stage favorite about the Ukrainian milkman who struggles mightily to hold on to tradition.


Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Giant

Sus80
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09-14-2004

Friday, October 22, 2004 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wuthering Heights has one of my favorite movie scenes of all time in it. It's near the end, when Laurence Olivier (Heathcliff) says, "Do not leave here in this dark place alone where I cannot find you....I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!"


Way2prissy
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07-21-2002

Friday, October 22, 2004 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is such a great film. I watched it the first time when I was only 12!

"Enchantment"--1948

"The widowed patriarch of the Dane family adopts a young girl named Larke, whose parents have been killed in a train wreck. This upsets his biological children; Selina, the eldest, and two boys, Roland and Pelham. As the years go by, however, the boys find they like their new "sister" and, as they grow older, they each find themselves in love with the high-spirited, but somewhat manipulative, girl. But each attention and accolade that Larke receives only enflames the jealousy of Selina, who feels Larke is nothing but a parasite, who has usurped Selina's rightful role of both daughter and sister and, eventually, matriarch."



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll go with:

any Shirley Temple movie (when she was little)
To Sir With Love
The Long, Long Trailer (Lucy and Desi)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Howard Keel version)

And, not really "old," but I love the Anne of Green Gables movies (especially the first), when Anne's hair turned green and she cried about getting the color "...from a peddler I met on the road today." I'll watch that part over and over because Megan Follows is SO incredibly funny!

Kiersten_love
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08-03-2001

Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
To Kill A Mockingbird, love Gregory Peck.

The Story of Adele Hugo, Isabelle Adjani love her too.

A Chorus Line, Michael Douglas and the whole cast.

When Harry Met Sally, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.

A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks and all the cast.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Kiersten: This may interest you:

To Kill A Mockingbird will be on TCM this Thursday (Oct 28) at 10PM Eastern

Mssilhouette
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07-11-2001

Monday, November 01, 2004 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I enjoy THE LETTER with Betty Davis. The opening scene is fantastic...if you're going to kill someone, that's the way to do it. LOL


Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of my favorites was on this weekend. Portrait of Jennie

Scout
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01-20-2005

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love Cary Grant movies. My favorite was, "Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House". Another one that I really liked was "Room for One More". The movies that he teamed with Betsey Drake were some of my favorites.
I also love all of Jimmy Stewart's movies - especially "Harvey". The ones when he paired with June Allyson were all good, too.
And Barbara Stanwyck in "Christmas in Connecticut" was great.
I've only recently discovered some of these old movies while taping them for someone. Caught "The Philadelphia Story" for the first time. I would not have known what a great job the actress in "The Aviator" did if I hadn't seen Hepburn in "Philadelphia Story".