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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 4:47:35 GMT
Not his usually dapper self … Cary Grant in Father Goose
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 6, 2018 4:57:59 GMT
William Powell is found in a hobo/homeless camp during the Depression in "My Man Godfrey."  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 5:04:22 GMT
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE  Dobbs gettin' spruced:  see below  |
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 6, 2018 5:08:49 GMT
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Dobbs gettin' spruced: My first thought (of course). |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 6, 2018 5:16:08 GMT
After a boating accident Bill Cardew (Fred MacMurray) is presumed drowned. Marooned for six months he returns, and is in desperate need for a spruce up before surprising his lonely wife ?.. in Too Many Husbands (1940)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 5:19:16 GMT
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Post by kijii on Dec 6, 2018 5:59:47 GMT
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Post by london777 on Dec 6, 2018 13:41:23 GMT
Bogart getting spruced up again.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 15:46:33 GMT
POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES (1961)   |
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Post by vegalyra on Dec 6, 2018 15:50:36 GMT
Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (maybe the ultimate "sprucing up"?)   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 15:51:24 GMT
THE AFRICAN QUEEN   Charlie ~ slightly spruced  |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 6, 2018 18:57:23 GMT
The earlier version of Pocketful of Miracles, Lady for a Day 1933, with May Robson getting a workover.   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 19:16:45 GMT
  
teleadm May got a makeover in Lady For a Day .. a workover is getting beaten up  … Idioms in another language are such fun, eh ? |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 6, 2018 21:01:35 GMT
Just married Betty (Claudette Colbert) follows her enthusiastic husband Bob (Fred MacMurray), to the countryside where his dream is to be a successful chicken farmer. The first major problem is, their home is old and needs to be repaired and, spruced up .. The Egg and I (1947)
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 6, 2018 21:03:36 GMT
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Post by london777 on Dec 6, 2018 21:59:50 GMT
a workover is getting beaten up … When I worked in printing. it also meant working consecutive shifts. I could not find that use in online dictionaries but did find it also means extensive renewal work on an oil-well. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 22:05:47 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 22:14:37 GMT
In the Emerald City  "Can you really change my eyes to match my gown ?" |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 6, 2018 22:20:00 GMT
Scarlett found herself in need of a new gown :  |
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 6, 2018 22:25:00 GMT
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