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Post by bravomailer on Mar 16, 2020 4:35:59 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 16, 2020 4:50:13 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 16, 2020 5:00:55 GMT
"Put that coffee down!" Glengarry Glen Ross  |
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 16, 2020 7:21:21 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 16, 2020 7:45:26 GMT
De Niro stirs his coffee....and stirs, and stirs, and stirs, and stirs, and....  |
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 16, 2020 7:47:48 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 16, 2020 15:07:18 GMT
In addition to a cuppa in the morning 'making your day,' it can also help to be a warning sign (as illustrated here):
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXDzsuqXFg
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 16, 2020 15:57:06 GMT
In addition to a cuppa in the morning 'making your day,' it can also help to be a warning sign (as illustrated here):
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXDzsuqXFg Looks like Tarantino paid homage to that scene, to put it charitably.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 16, 2020 18:11:11 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 16, 2020 21:18:25 GMT
Virginia Christine was a talented actress whose career was overshadowed by her long-running adverts for Folger's coffee. (A brand unknown to me in the UK).  So much so that, when her birth-town (Stanton, Ohio) wished to commemorate her, they reshaped the town's water-tank as a coffee-pot. I've always felt that it must have been both blessing and curse for an actor to become strongly associated with one character, especially one that's a longtime commercial pitch person, such as the Maytag repairman (Jesse White), Mr. Whipple (Dick Wilson) or Mrs. Olson (Christine). On the one hand, it can bring a measure of financial security; in Christine's case, it was a gig lasting over 20 years. On the other, it can interfere with other acting opportunities. Christine had had a solid career in film and television dating to the early '40s when signing on for Folgers. Having cut my classic film viewing teeth on horror/sci-fi films of the '30s through the '50s, she was already familiar to me as the reincarnated Princess Ananka in The Mummy's Curse...  ...and as Cousin Wilma in Invasion Of the Body Snatchers...  ...who can't convince anyone that Uncle Ira isn't really Uncle Ira. Another pre-Olson standout role was as the obsequious housekeeper Mrs. Halbestadt in Judgement At Nuremberg...  ...who becomes uncomfortably defensive when questioned about her political views during the reign of the National Socialists. A great deal of work in dramatic television accorded her a wide range of roles on shows like Wagon Train and Perry Mason, although she seemed to specialize in those of fraught or concerned matrons. Companies employing such pitch persons sometimes become protective of their public images, so it was good to see that Christine wasn't hampered in accepting unsympathetic roles such as the passive-aggressively bigoted Hillary St. George in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner...  ...here being elegantly told off by Katharine Hepburn. Incidentally, her one marriage lasted 53 years until his passing, to beloved comic character actor Fritz Feld.   Happy looking couple, don't you think? Amassing hundreds of credits between them, they were very much a part of the backbone of classic film and television, that of reliable character players who always provided exactly what any job required.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 17, 2020 2:56:59 GMT
Doghouse6SVENGOOLIE has nothing on you when it comes to who was in what ! and that photo of the Felds …  it !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 17, 2020 3:05:17 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 17, 2020 3:06:57 GMT
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Post by london777 on May 7, 2020 18:18:32 GMT
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice [Ochazuke no aji] (1952) dir: Yasujirō Ozu. Not sure it would qualify as "a nice cuppa" in my local lorry-drivers' caf' though. 
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