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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 22:43:42 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 22:46:21 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2019 22:49:37 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 9, 2019 23:56:46 GMT
Myrna Loy as the perfect cinematic wife: THE THIN MAN (William Powell) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Fredric March) MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE (Cary Grant) CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (Clifton Webb)
The perfect cinematic wife, indeed. She held her own with every husband in every film. I love her in all of those you mentioned (especially THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, only because the film is so great as we've discussed before). But I take special delight in seeing her with William Powell in anything, and I absolutely adore her in MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE. That's one I've watched again and again and never grow weary of, because of her inimitable charm and grace and her great chemistry with Cary Grant.
I love it that you found a still from a deleted scene featuring Dan Tobin as decorator Bunny Funkhauser; only third person references to him survived the final cut: MURIEL: "Why ask how much until you've seen what you're going to get?"
JIM: "I've seen Bunny Funkhauser. I know what I'm going to get!"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 10, 2019 0:11:04 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 10, 2019 0:22:43 GMT
Vacation From Marriage (AKA: Perfect Strangers) I still haven't seen this one, doghouse, and Deborah Kerr is one of my all-time favorite actresses. I promise that the next time it shows up on TCM I'm going to watch it! No excuses.
EDIT: Btw, when doing some recent research I learned to my surprise that Alexander Korda began his career in Hungary in 1914 under his birth name, Korda Sándor. I always thought he was British!
As licensing agreements have expired (I assume), TCM's inventory has dwindled of late, and their rotations have shortened, so this one's likely to show up again sooner rather than later. All things in their time. With considerably less of it ahead of me now than behind, I've been devoting most of the movie-watching portions of it to older ones I've never gotten around to, or discovering ones of which I'd never heard or, at best, had been nothing more than names on a page. I didn't know that about Korda, either. Guess I never gave it much thought, beyond his having been one of the most influential figures in British cinema.
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 10, 2019 0:53:06 GMT
The perfect cinematic wife, indeed. She held her own with every husband in every film. I love her in all of those you mentioned (especially THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, only because the film is so great as we've discussed before). But I take special delight in seeing her with William Powell in anything, and I absolutely adore her in MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE. That's one I've watched again and again and never grow weary of, because of her inimitable charm and grace and her great chemistry with Cary Grant.
I love it that you found a still from a deleted scene featuring Dan Tobin as decorator Bunny Funkhauser; only third person references to him survived the final cut: MURIEL: "Why ask how much until you've seen what you're going to get?"
JIM: "I've seen Bunny Funkhauser. I know what I'm going to get!" Wow, that's so interesting! I thought there was something odd about that picture when I selected it, but I did it anyway because it was a good one. I can't count the times I've seen the film and yet it didn't register with me. Just my old brain not working so well these days, I guess. Thanks for filling in the blank.
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Post by kijii on Oct 10, 2019 13:27:34 GMT
I haven't seen this one in ages, but I remember thinking that it was underrated. Wonder how I'd feel today? I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it and, frankly, it is the first movie that came to my mind when I saw this thread:
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 10, 2019 15:35:09 GMT
The April FoolsIn a 1955 episode of I Love Lucy, Ricky is to make his motion picture debut as Don Juan, the publicity buildup for which is designed to omit any reference to his being a husband and father. As studio publicity man Ross Elliott explains to disgruntled Lucy, "Don Juan is all about love. It has nothing to do with marriage."
The April Fools is about both, and provides dysfunctional examples of the latter. Rising broker Jack Lemmon and dismissive, self-absorbed, psychobabble-spouting Sally Kellerman. Lemmon's boss, Wall street high flyer Peter Lawford and neglected trophy wife Catherine Deneuve. Lemmon's friend Jack Weston, unsuccessful in attempts to assert himself in his home. Unhappy in their situations, square pegs Lemmon and Deneuve are drawn to one another... ...and their excursions bring them to long-married and still much in love eccentrics Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy, whose enduring happiness suggests a pathway for the younger pair. The April Fools is among a batch of late-'60s romantic comedies combining screwball farce with good-natured social satire that have faded from view in succeeding decades, but offers a time capsule of the conformity-questioning swingin' '60s, wrapped within a sweet and often charming fairy tale.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 10, 2019 16:14:53 GMT
Newlyweds get off to a rocky start in BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
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Post by teleadm on Oct 10, 2019 17:54:37 GMT
The happily married couple that was always disturbed by ghosts, Cosmo and Clara Topper:
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 10, 2019 18:00:33 GMT
Ghosts ... yes ! thanks for the reminder teleadm BEETLEJUICE A young married couple dealing with an after death problem
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Post by teleadm on Oct 10, 2019 18:43:56 GMT
Heaven Can Wait 1943, Mr and Mrs van Cleeve:
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 10, 2019 19:24:15 GMT
THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO -- Van Johnson and Phyllis Thaxter
James Stewart & June Allyson in THE STRATTON STORY / THE GLENN MILLER STORY / STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
APARTMENT FOR PEGGY -- William Holden and Jeanne Crain
FRIENDLY PERSUASION -- Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS -- Paul Scofield and Wendy Hiller
Donald Crisp -- HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (Sara Allgood) / LASSIE COME HOME (Elsa Lanchester) / NATIONAL VELVET (Anne Revere)
THE CITADEL -- Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell
from Director George Stevens:
VIVACIOUS LADY (James Stewart and Ginger Rogers) I REMEMBER MAMA (Philip Dorn and Irene Dunne) SHANE (Van Heflin and Jean Arthur) GIANT (Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor)
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 10, 2019 20:08:31 GMT
I get this and Barefoot in the Park mixed up.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 10, 2019 20:11:47 GMT
Never seen this one but it came to mind.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Oct 10, 2019 20:27:49 GMT
Private Lives (1931) directed by Sidney Franklin is an adaptation of the 1930 comedy of manners from Noël Coward. Upon release NYT critic Mordaunt Hall described the film as "a swift and witty picture" and "one of the most intelligent comedies that has come to the screen." Starring, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Una Merkel & Reginald Denny pictured below. The much dramatized play becomes a daring & delightful pre-code film the story concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are actually staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel ! …
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Post by manfromplanetx on Oct 10, 2019 20:49:35 GMT
Phffft (1954) Dir. Mark Robson. The title of this romantic comedy came from 50s gossip columnist Walter Winchell who declared that when a celebrity couple's marriage broke up it was as "phffft". Nina and Robert Tracey (Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon), have been married for eight years and suffer the typical tempestuous long term marital problems and divorce. But they soon discover through running about with new companions and bumping into each other around town, on the dance floor, the true depths of their love and relationship...
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 10, 2019 21:35:51 GMT
STARK FEAR 1962 Beverly Garland is married to a sadist (Skip Homeier). She really goes through the ringer!
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Post by pippinmaniac on Oct 11, 2019 3:35:28 GMT
"Suspicion"
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