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Post by teleadm on Jun 5, 2020 21:30:40 GMT
Always Together 1947, as weeping man at window. A nearly forgotten movie with nearly forgotten stars, Robert Hutton and Joyce Reynolds.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 5, 2020 23:39:33 GMT
teleadm Another addition awol from my master list ...will have to sue that website ! Thanks "Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Turner gets better and wants his money back, opening conflict for the newlyweds. Throughout the movie Jane imagines her own experiences as if they were taking place in movies with real movie stars in them."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 6, 2020 14:12:49 GMT
More on Casablancathanks mattgarth and "During production, Humphrey Bogart was called to the studio to stand in the middle of the Rick's Cafe set and nod. He had no idea what the nod meant in the story--that he was giving his O.K. for the band in the cafe to play the "Marseillaise." "
May be true , maybe not ... IMDb trivia not 100% guaranteed ! "Producer David O. Selznick, to whom Ingrid Bergman was under contract, at first did not want to loan her out for the movie. After he heard rumors that Sweden might become an ally of Germany, he was afraid that her career might be in danger because she was Swedish. He changed his mind and loaned her out before her image might get tainted." "Dooley Wilson was borrowed from Paramount at $500 a week."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2020 3:39:46 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2020 22:03:05 GMT
The Two Mrs. Carrolls as Geoffrey Carroll (1947) An artist forms an attachment with a woman on holiday in the country. As the relationship develops, his behavior and information about his past cause her increasing concern.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 13, 2020 8:49:43 GMT
Interesting thing--in ONE NIGHT IN THE TROPICS (1940), Abbott and Costello make reference to Humphrey Bogart in a joke--I assume he was famous enough by that time (as a gangster at least since they were in a night club with shady dealings).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 15, 2020 18:43:48 GMT
Dead Reckoning (1947) A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 16, 2020 1:09:56 GMT
Action In The North Atlantic / Lloyd Bacon (1943). “Action” is the right word to describe this WWII saga about the Merchant Marines and their mission to deliver war machines and supplies from the U.S. across the ocean to the front lines while trying to avoid German U-Boats. The film opens with a 20-minute hard driving action sequence as the freighter commanded by Captain Raymond Massey and his First Officer Humphrey Bogart is torpedoed, burned, and sunk by a Nazi submarine. Massey vows to make them pay as he, Bogey, and what is left of their crew float for days on a raft before being discovered. There follows a short interlude on shore that shows Massey at home with his wife (Ruth Gordon, loving and sensitive) clearly feeling the emotional effects of his combat experience – what we would now call PTSD. We also see Bogart, drinking hard while making a play for barroom singer Julie Bishop, and other members of the crew waiting to find another vessel to ship out on. It is during this relatively short sequence that we get all the “why we fight” propaganda, and then it is back to action and nail-biting suspense on the high seas. This was Bogart’s first assignment after “Casablanca,” but he didn’t mind taking second lead because he liked several members of the cast and he liked the director, Lloyd Bacon, who had guided him through seven previous pictures. He even befriended the newest cast member, a young actor that Warner had high hopes for. Bernie Zanfield had appeared in a handful of other Warner films, usually uncredited, but now he had a substantial role to play. The producers wanted a screen name for him so came up with a few clunkers like Brick Bernard and Zane Clark. In later years, he gave credit to his new friend Humphrey Bogart for suggesting the name he finally adopted: Dane Clark. “Action In The North Atlantic” is his debut film under that name. Raymond Massey and Ruth Gordon
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 16, 2020 1:21:25 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 16, 2020 1:24:50 GMT
Couldn't have put it better myself.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 16, 2020 6:03:19 GMT
Two Guys from Milwaukee 1946 as an airplane passenger (cameo)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2020 22:25:04 GMT
The Two Mrs Carrolls ... second film in the Wednesday HUMPH Day on the Movie Channel. Missed the first 20 minutes but caught up with the plot with the help of the Films Of Humphrey Bogart Book ... Change of pace for Bogart ... an artistic type married to Barbara Stanwyck in her sickly-headachy- worried-wearing-filmy-flowing-night-clothes mode she does so well. He has a young precocious daughter who has an upper crust sounding English Accent (perhaps that is explained in the missed 20 minutes (?). A couple of jump scares and intriguing story. Worth a rewatch, imo.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 17, 2020 22:57:19 GMT
The Two Mrs Carrolls ... second film in the Wednesday HUMPH Day on the Movie Channel. Missed the first 20 minutes but caught up with the plot with the help of the Films Of Humphrey Bogart Book ... Change of pace for Bogart ... an artistic type married to Barbara Stanwyck in her sickly-headachy- worried-wearing-filmy-flowing-night-clothes mode she does so well. This was the second of two films Bogart did in the '40s in which he's a borderline psychotic suspected of doing away with an inconvenient wife. The first had been Conflict, which was produced in mid-1943 but held from release until June of '45...when The Two Mrs. Carrolls was in production, itself held from release for another two years just as Conflict was. Weird. Stanwyck and Bogart were thorough professionals who put forward their best efforts, but they just didn't spark together onscreen for me. What'd you think? Just the same, that hasn't stopped me from revisiting this one every so often. It's a fun little suspenser.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2020 23:05:49 GMT
Doghouse6 Yeah .. the spark was missing but I thought that maybe it was because I had missed the start of the pitchur or because Stanwyck is not my go-to-gal for over-wrought wives. This was a first timer for me but will check it out when it re-runs. Will watch for Conflict as well. Wacko Bogarts are cool !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 17, 2020 23:24:01 GMT
BATouttaheckI know what you mean about Stanwyck. She naturally projected so much strength onscreen that playing the victim seemed like a stretch (but she finally hit all the right notes in Sorry, Wrong Number). Something similar was going on in 1946's Undercurrent, with Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor and Robert Mitchum. Kate's never quite convincing cringing in terror, nor as the awkward and dowdy fish-out-of-water bride of a high-powered D.C. mucky-muck.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2020 23:30:31 GMT
Doghouse6I still have not seen Undercurrent. Not on purpose ! I saw Sorry but she was not my cuppa in that one either. Too darned healthy looking to be an invalid. I cannot imagine Kate as wimpy-worried-cringy. Dowdy, tho ... ok. Even if it's just because people tell her that she is (Lizzie in Rainmaker)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 17, 2020 23:47:12 GMT
Doghouse6 I saw Sorry but she was not my cuppa in that one either. Too darned healthy looking to be an invalid. Dokie-okie. To each their cuppa. True, but that was a decade later. In '46, I thought she still had too much of her natural Philadelphia Story/ Woman Of the Year glam and elegance. 'Course, I'm probably out in left field on this. Now that I recall, a lot of critics and ticket-buyers described her as "awkward" from the beginning of her years on screen. I'm counting on the thread-meister to excuse this little detour but, if not, I hope you'll intercede on my behalf (I hear you have some influence therewith).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 17, 2020 23:54:04 GMT
Doghouse6 Re the thread meister ... off track / side track ... beats a bump three months from now. May try for a Community Kate album down the road ! Dragging the thread back on line would be easy if this were the 50's Volume !
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 18, 2020 4:31:31 GMT
Action In The North Atlantic / Lloyd Bacon (1943). “Action” is the right word to describe this WWII saga about the Merchant Marines and their mission to deliver war machines and supplies from the U.S. across the ocean to the front lines while trying to avoid German U-Boats. The film opens with a 20-minute hard driving action sequence as the freighter commanded by Captain Raymond Massey and his First Officer Humphrey Bogart is torpedoed, burned, and sunk by a Nazi submarine. Massey vows to make them pay as he, Bogey, and what is left of their crew float for days on a raft before being discovered. There follows a short interlude on shore that shows Massey at home with his wife (Ruth Gordon, loving and sensitive) clearly feeling the emotional effects of his combat experience – what we would now call PTSD. We also see Bogart, drinking hard while making a play for barroom singer Julie Bishop, and other members of the crew waiting to find another vessel to ship out on. It is during this relatively short sequence that we get all the “why we fight” propaganda, and then it is back to action and nail-biting suspense on the high seas. This was Bogart’s first assignment after “Casablanca,” but he didn’t mind taking second lead because he liked several members of the cast and he liked the director, Lloyd Bacon, who had guided him through seven previous pictures. He even befriended the newest cast member, a young actor that Warner had high hopes for. Bernie Zanfield had appeared in a handful of other Warner films, usually uncredited, but now he had a substantial role to play. The producers wanted a screen name for him so came up with a few clunkers like Brick Bernard and Zane Clark. In later years, he gave credit to his new friend Humphrey Bogart for suggesting the name he finally adopted: Dane Clark. “Action In The North Atlantic” is his debut film under that name. Raymond Massey and Ruth Gordon In the scene where the crew has to abandon ship, Bogart made a wager with Massey: "I'll bet you that my stunt double is braver than your stunt double!"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 22, 2020 14:38:26 GMT
To Have and Have Not (1944) During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.Trivia galore
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