Movies
 

Yesterday mom and I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur.

It was great!

Rats! I can't find it. I did find Rear Window which I have never seen. Even though its in color I will take a look.

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I am sorry that you could not find the movie. Mom and I had never heard of it and mom is a classic movie buff. It was made in 1942 and it is black and white. I hope that you get to see it one of these days.

more Hitchcock
 

Marnie...
 

More Hitchcock!

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I googled it and found this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubt05JHujd0

I have been gifted with a list of great black and white movies that I will be enjoying very soon. Thank you!

I ran across the Nanny with Bette Davis and it came up on the Firestick so I am about to enjoy it!

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Since the first thing I do is read the trivia, i will share:
Working with the flu, Bette Davis would drink out of her co-stars' glasses and cough in their faces.

The role of the Nanny was originally intended for Greer Garson who first accepted then declined, saying the script would not be good for her career. Jimmy Sangster who wrote and produced the film later said, "I went to Santa Fe and met with Greer, and she said she liked the script, and everything was fine. When I got back to London, we had a message from L.A. saying that Greer Garson didn't think the script would do her career much good. I didn't like to say she didn't have a career in those days."

According to writer Marcus Hearn in "The Hammer Vault", Davis unsuccessfully tried to seduce producer Jimmy Sangster.

Jill Bennett says Bette Davis gave her one important acting tip: "make love to the furniture."

Ten year old co-star William Dix could not attend the film's British premiere because of the "X" rating it originally earned.

Director Seth Holt found Bette Davis "impossible" to work with.

The last film of Nora Gordon.

Bette Davis forced co-star Jill Bennett to walk behind her at the dog track one night because she thought she was underdressed.

The last Hammer film to be made in black and white.

Alfred Burke replaced Harold Lang.

The battery-powered walking robot toy Joey is playing with is a Horikawa "Silver Gear" model, made of tin in Japan. In good working condition it could be worth $800, even without the box (in 2015).

Of Human Bondage.... 1934
 

Love Love Love Bette Davis!

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Acclaimed Flop: The film actually lost Warner Bros $45,000 but was heaped with praise.
Actor-Inspired Element: Bette Davis designed Mildred's make-up for her varying stages of tuberculosis herself. Her intent was to make it look realistic as opposed to "as if a deb had missed her afternoon nap".
Enforced Method Acting: Leslie Howard was very frosty to Bette Davis at first, which she said helped her to be horrible to him in the scenes that required it.
Executive Meddling: Mildred dies of syphilis in the book, but the Hays Code had it changed to tuberculosis instead.
Fake Brit: Famously with Bette Davis playing Mildred. The mostly English cast were horrified at an American playing the part. Leslie Howard however was quickly won over with Bette's dedication to the role.
Star-Making Role: This turned Bette Davis into a star. Bette herself anticipated this and lobbied hard for the part of Mildred, sure it would be her breakout role.
What Could Have Been: Katharine Hepburn, Ann Sheridan and Irene Dunne all turned down the part of Mildred.

Classics
 

I am watching Another Thin Man 1939 with William Powell and Mryna Loy.

I love this series.


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I wouldn't consider this a classic... but Bette Davis was in it... (who they killed off! ) Burnt offerings........ meh.. it was just silly...

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Classics
 

I am watching The Man Who New Too Much (1956) with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. It is good.




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Ugg, typos make me nuts. The Man Who Knew Too Much.
There!

Indiscreet (1931)
 

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Indiscreet (1931)

I like how a lot of these older movies were shorter, easier to get through when you're tired. I really liked this one mostly because of the message and between the two main characters there are some of the cutest couple scenes I've ever seen.

OMG Susan Sarandon nailed it!
 

Alice Adams..1935 Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray,

The Philadelphia Story
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
An Affair to Remember

I may have a soft spot for Carey Grant.

It's A Woman's World...1954

In order to select the new general manager of his auto company, (Clifton Webb) summons three strong candidates to New York, along with their wives. While Sidney (Fred MacMurray) and Elizabeth Burns (Lauren Bacall) have a strained relationship, Bill Baxter (Cornel Wilde) and his wife, Katie (June Allyson), are earnest and down-to-earth. Rounding out the competitors is the poised Jerry Talbot (Van Heflin), whose uncouth spouse, Carol (Arlene Dahl), threatens to derail his chances.

Homecoming 1948 Stars: Clark Gable Anne Baxter, Lana Turner :movieguy:

Indiscreet 1958 Gary Grant

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him...even though he's already married.

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Double......1944 Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

About Mrs. Leslie (1954) Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan

About Mrs. Leslie. Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, casts Booth as a philosophical boarding house keeper who recalls her life and loves in a flashback.

Born on the wrong side of the tracks, Vivien (Booth) escapes her surroundings by becoming a cabaret singer. She meets and falls in love with handsome, secretive George Leslie (Robert Ryan), then becomes his mistress, assuming his last name in the interests of propriety.

Upon Leslie's death, Vivien discovers that her lover was actually a fabulously wealthy industrialist.

Another classic with Shirley Booth is Come Back Little Sheba also starring Burt Lancaster.

From IMDB: An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

If Winter Comes........
 

Stars Walter Pigeon and Angelia Lansbury )1939)

In the small English town of Penny Green events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school text books, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries some one else.

Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with husband Tony. Mable is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging.

Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.

Flamingo Road.........(1949)Joan Crawford

A small town corrupt sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with an out-of-town carnival dancer.
This synopsis doesn't do justice to the movie nor sound that good, but I really enjoyed it :movieguy:

A Life at Stake (1955) Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott

A ruthless, domineering woman is married to an alcoholic D.A., her childhood companion and the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt seventeen years earlier.

My Reputation.........1946 Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent,


A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.

Written on the Wind...............1956

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.

Thelma Jordon (1950) Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly


Assistant district attorney falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.

When Ladies Meet (1933) stars: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy



Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

All the Thin Man movies.

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Dear Heart stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury


Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanizing salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When their paths cross she wonders if this is finally the man for her.

All This And Heaven Too stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn


When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband.

All The King's Men.....(1949) stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland


The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.


Sidebar: There is also a remake of this with Sean Penn.

Anything with Greer Garson, including:

Mrs. Miniver
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Random Harvest

OMG - we share a first name!