Not a movie...but I just had to post this.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBd3cKuLPPg"]YouTube- Abbott and Costello Who's On First[/ame]

Ok, it's 6am EST, and I haven't been to bed since 5pm last night, and just can't fall asleep. So, I am watching my favorite channel on TV, and being the fanatic I am for classic Hollywood films, the only channel worth watching is TCM (Turner Classic Movies) - in case you didn't know by now.

That said, I must report...it''s been a lovely very late evening/very early morning on TCM - Rogers and Astair, how could it possible get any better?

I just finished watching 'Follow the Fleet' - a favorite since childhood when me and my sister used to watch it on Saturday mornings on 'Million Dollar Movie' in the 60's.

Nothing short of liquid poetry in motion, Rogers & Astair. I am posting one of my favorites: 'Let's Face the Music and Dance'. My only criticism is that I wish it was Astair's voice instead of Nat King Cole's we hear in this vid. This is a montage of several films. I tried finding a sole version of them doing the 'Let's Face the Music...' routine, but couldn't find it.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFI0rFFp8j8&feature=related"]YouTube- Fred & Ginger: Lets' face the music and dance[/ame]

An actress I really like is Jean Arthur.
Really cute, but underrated.
She did some nice work.

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Yes, I love her too. She was great in Frank Capra's 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'.

Love scene from Ryan's Daughter
considered to be one of the most sensuous on film.
David Lean directed and it had the most beautiful main title.
I saw it at the theatre when it was released in the 70's.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZdDMXw42S0"]YouTube- La Figlia di Ryan - D.Lean[/ame]

Never saw it...now, I must. Wasn't Fred Astair in this? Or am I confusing it with another film?

no. watch the clip.

I did, not good for my equilibrium...

Oh, yes, it was Finian's Rainbow Fred was in...it's the Irish names that confuse me...

That seen in The Little Foxes is pretty close to the ice heart of Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, remember Joan gasping and reaching for help? I'm a fan of The Little Foxes because it was written by Lillian Hellman who also wrote Watch on the Rhine and The Children's Hour. I think she was married to Daschiell Hammet (sp)

Hmmm, married to Dashiell Hammett, could be, don't know for sure...

Yes, that scene in The Little Foxes, it is a tour de force for Bette, I think. No dialogue yet so intense and riveting. Reminds me also of the scene in The Letter, where Bette goes to see 'the woman', and she makes Bette stoop down to pick up 'the letter'. The Letter is another phenomenal Davis film, I love it!

Directed by William Wyler who she was having a relationship with at the time. They argued all the time making that movie.

Yes, I know. But, I think Wyler brought out the best in Davis, don't you think?

I guess, she's always a bitch. if he brought that kind of intensity in Davis' nasty characters, my vote would be Jezebel as his best. The scene at the cotillion where she's wearing red and everyone else is in white is riveting. You feel the embarrassment and shame for Henry Fonda.

Other very best favorites...

How Green Was My Valley - I love this film.
The Corn I Green - Bette Davis version - love it!
My Cousin Rachel - why don't they ever show this on TCM, I've requested it several times
Brief Encounter - the original, directed by David Lean (Jet, you know this is my favorite of all time)
A Man For All Seasons - the story of Thomas Moore and his downfall - great film
The Shoes of the Fisherman - Anthony Quinn as the pope

So many other...I can't think right now.

On March 23, at 8pm EST, TCM will be showing 'Roshomon' a film by Akira Kurosawa. A prominent Japanese director with unbelievable and unprecedented 'vision'. He is amazing, you must see this landmark film. Here's a short syopis of 'Roshomon' in my opinion one of the best films ever made.

The story told by Rashomon is both surprisingly simple and deceptively complex. The central tale, which tells of the rape of a woman (Machiko Kyo) and the murder of a man (Masayuki Mori), possibly by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), is presented entirely in flashbacks from the perspectives of four narrators. The framing portions of the movie transpire at Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, where several people seek shelter from a pelting rain storm and discuss the recent crime, which has shocked the region. One of the men, a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura), was a witness to the events, and, with the help of a priest (Minoru Chiaki), he puzzles over what really happened, and what such a horrible occurrence says about human nature.

You know what else they don't show? The Helen Morgan Story with Anne Blythe and Paul Newman 1957. I requested it, but there's a rights problem.

I know who Helen Morgan was...but I didn't realize TCM never showed that film. It could be there's a 'rights' problem, as you said. That's prob the case with 'My Cousin Rachel', tho I wish they would let us know.

YES!!! It is intense, isn't it? I always feel so bad for him during those scenes...but Jezebel was just a natural rebel - she was just being herself. The times and people were just not ready for her, that's all.

They wrote and said it was a rights problem. I love the movie and it took me years to find the soundtrack on vinyl on RCA and then on CD which is now discontinued. Ray Heindorf did the music (I'm a fan of his) and it's kick ass with Gogi Grant dubbed in for Ann Blythe.

Speaking of singers...TCM recently showed 'I'll Cry Tomorrow' -not common fare for TCM. I always loved that film, and I love Susan Hayward. She was very good in this. As you know, she died way before her time of a brain tumor. So sad. She was so beautiful...

I have that soundtrack, too. Another one i spent about 20 years looking for and all because of Alex North's musical direction of "Sing You Sinners" Kick ass version!

Psycho is on tonight on the Chiller Channel.

Watch if you dare!

Jet's FlixMix-Remakes
 

Not sure I understand what you mean...I hate remakes...even of bad 'B' pics. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Tho I must admit, I like The Children's Hour way better then Those 3 any day of the week! And, yep, A Star Is Born - I like Judy in ANYTHING!!!

well, that's your opinion. i think these are good remakes and that's my opinion.

I don't get 'Chiller Channel' whatever that is...but I do have Psycho on tape, and can watch it anytime I want. But you know, after seeing it a gazillion times, it never fails to entrap and mesmerize me - that's the Hitchcock magic at work!!

And we all know that we're entitled to them...opinions, that is.

I'm watching Psycho and then i'm watching another horror flick.

Enjoy...I'll watch TCM for awhile if there's anything worthwhile.

remind me never to accept an invitation to sandwiches and milk

The Nanny, 1965
 

I think one of the best psychological thrillers from Bette Davis is The Nanny, 1965
Check out the trailer.

This is a shpooky...movie...about a nanny whose charge are the two children
of a young, wealthy London couple.

The youngest child, a little girl, dies from a freak drowning accident,
but leaves her older brother suspect and sent away.
When he returns to find their nanny still in the household,
he does everything to protect himself from her in an intense cat and mouse game.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2519YDw4c"]YouTube- The Nunny[/ame]

Gee,not even if there's stuffed birds involved? lol

I love Bette Davis, but this is so not my cup of tea, so, I think I'll pass....
I guess she was needing money desparetedly at this point to consend to this type of film...

never saw it? vintage davis and really well done. others may like it, so i'm putting it out here for those looking for classic movies.

Well, whatever...I just don't like seeing 'The Davis' in that sort of movie...OK, I'm done.

then she must have consented to Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Baby Jane since they were done in a row...must have needed money?

TCM is great tonight. Plenty of sci-fi B flicks from the 50s.

I'm not a big fan of James Coburn or his movies per se.

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But there is a great sort of clock and dagger, whodunit that really is good.
The Last of Sheila plays like a sophistocated Clue game
leaving you at the very last asking, "what really happened to Sheila?"
Most of the movie takes place on a yacht, leaving a cast of star-studded
actors as suspects into the disappearance of Sheila.
I recommend this as a great little psychological whodunit from the 70's.
And well worth the watch and the rent if you can get it.
There aren't any good lifts from YouTube, but at least there's visuals:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWh5R1t3820"]YouTube- #489) THE LAST OF SHEILA (1973)[/ame]

See you at the movies...

5 Easy Pieces
 

There's a thousand comments we could all make about Jack Nicholson as to what makes him a fantastic actor,
a few not even preferring Nicholson.
I won't share my views about Nicholson other than to say the first time I ever saw him was in 5 Easy Pieces in 1970.
He was nominated for Best Actor. All I remember was his profound presence on screen
and the fact that he made everything seem so real. I thought, "I've never seen anybody like that!"
The best scene of all was in the famous diner scene
which typifies Nicholson's edgy, off the cuff presence.
It's awesome and I'd recommend viewing it as well as a great movie which about...

Summary, 5 Easy Pieces

Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields.
He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner.
When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him,
taking Rayette with him. There he gets confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind.

See ya at the movies....

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8"]YouTube- Five Easy Pieces Diner Scene[/ame]

Loved Susan Hayward.

I like sitting down to a classic just because it is classic even if it's not great.
I like The FBI Story as unreal as it was because I like Jimmy Stewart movies.
J. Edgar Hoover had script approval being the paranoid, schizo control freak that he was...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiWHw98XI60"]YouTube- Jimmy Stewart in The FBI Story: Library Proposal Scene[/ame]

I like The Glenn Miller Story too. Helen Miller did wear a size
3 and 1/2 shoe. A peer of mine and I wrote a 3 hour docudrama
for radio on the life Glenn miller called "The Major." They did locate
his single-engine monoplane, a Norseman, in the English channel, a few year's back.
I speculate that, if he would have lived, Glenn Miller would have been a great composer
and arranger in films. He had already done two movies before entering the army and forming the AAF band.
Here's the scene when he discovers "the sound...' after Willie Schwartz cuts his lip on a trumpet. The story is legend but it is a nice one...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_knLCjiWI"]YouTube- Glenn Miller Story-Cut his lip and the sound[/ame]