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Post by manfromplanetx on Nov 20, 2017 6:10:14 GMT
Doing his share of the cooking... The Kid (1921)
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 20, 2017 16:23:14 GMT
"Babette's Feast"...and that scene from "Tom Jones" with Albert Finney where he and his mistress are lustfully scarfing down food...!!!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 18:53:54 GMT
Tasty examples, all, spiderwort, and together, they represent a concentration of some serious onscreen kitchen time. Idle thought: other than in wacky latter-day comedies, actors playing multiple roles in a film has fallen out of fashion, hasn't it? Two of our most chameleonesque, Streep and Shaloub, doing so would be quite the feast.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 19:01:54 GMT
I re-watched Frenzy (1972) last week so Vivien Merchant and her cooking school delights for her poor husband are fresh in my mind.
Mmmm. Looks like quail with grapes! There's nothing like a simple roast bird. What a memorable example, and I'm full of self-reproach for not thinking of it. The expression of resigned dread on McCowan's face is priceless. In contrast to those ghastly concoctions served by Mrs. Oxford, seeing the Inspector wolfing down his English breakfast always makes me hungry.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 19:04:26 GMT
"Babette's Feast"...and that scene from "Tom Jones" with Albert Finney where he and his mistress are lustfully scarfing down food...!!! Many thanks, koskiewicz. Babette's Feast is one I've still not caught up with.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 20, 2017 19:05:15 GMT
Pollyanna 1960 Jack and Diane cooking up somthing in Something's Gotta Give 2003 The Women 1939
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 19:23:42 GMT
Pollyanna 1960 Jack and Diane cooking up somthing in Something's Gotta Give 2003 The Women 1939 Don't you just love those expansive movie kitchens? Although it doesn't involve cooking, the rather poor 1956 remake of The Women, The Opposite Sex, transposes the leg-biting battle between Rosalind Russell and Paulette Goddard in Marjorie Main's front yard to a pot-hurling, furniture-upsetting, hair-pulling brawl between Ann Miller and Dolores Gray in Charlotte Greenwood's kitchen.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 20, 2017 19:44:19 GMT
Doghouse6I was trying to find the absolute opposite of expansive kitchens from the British so called kitchen sink movies, that were both small and depressive, but I couldn't find any kitchen scenes (pics) from them.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 20:01:44 GMT
Doghouse6 I was trying to find the absolute opposite of expansive kitchens from the British so called kitchen sink movies, that were both small and depressive, but I couldn't find any kitchen scenes (pics) from them. This is the best I could come up with, from The L-Shaped Room
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 20:22:15 GMT
teleadmPerhaps the closest U.S. equivalent were those in shabby domiciles found in films noir, such as Gloria Graham's cubbyhole in 1947's Crossfire, in which Paul Kelly here prepares coffee.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 23:03:56 GMT
Sabrina: Donnie Brasco:
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 23:04:10 GMT
spiderwortI love those staged, stars-at-home kitchen shots. One of my favorites, Boris at the burners: A couple more: Widmark doing K.P. Lucy with leeks (maybe?) 1933's Bombshell lampooned them, with Jean Harlow as pampered star Lola Burns hoisting a peeled potato from a boiling pot for the photog and announcing to the reporter, "I just love baked potatoes."
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 23:23:04 GMT
Further thoughts on movie kitchens and their real-life counterparts. Compared to some of the more opulent kitchens a star was likely to inhabit onscreen, those in their actual homes appeared so modestly suburban in the past. No more, as many issues of Architectural Digest or online celebrity real estate listing pics will illustrate. Here's how that Karloff kitchen appeared last time the house was on the market: The restored vintage stove's a nice touch, but it's clearly not the one the Karloff's had.
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Post by deembastille on Nov 20, 2017 23:24:09 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 20, 2017 23:28:23 GMT
Looks like How To Murder Your Wife (?)
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Post by gunshotwound on Nov 21, 2017 1:06:03 GMT
I am a big fan of Jacqueline Bisset's and one of my favorites of hers in Who Is killing the Great Chefs of Europe (1978) which features several scenes in kitchens.
Bisset puts the finishing touches to her Chocolate Raspberry Bombe Richelieu
There are several other scenes with Jean-Pierre Cassel cooking Pigeon en Crout Philippe Noiret preparing Pressed Duck and other chefs with their dishes which I can't remember.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 21, 2017 2:13:40 GMT
I am a big fan of Jacqueline Bissett's and one of my favorites of hers in Who Is killing the Great Chefs of Europe (1978) which features several scenes in kitchens.
There are several other scenes with Jean-Pierre Cassel cooking Pigeon en Crout Philippe Noiret preparing Pressed Duck and other chefs with their dishes which I can't remember. Although I haven't seen it again in ages, I recall it being a tremendous lot of fun. I share your admiration of it (and of Bissett) and am terribly impressed that you can recite not only some of the dishes but who prepared them! I loved the brief moments of appreciation for their work the chefs allowed themselves before announcing with a celebratory flourish, "Take it away!"
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 21, 2017 2:18:20 GMT
George Dzundza whips up some scrambled eggs at the end of The Deer Hunter:
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Post by teleadm on Nov 21, 2017 17:56:18 GMT
French comedy/farce L'Aile ou la cuisse 1976 aka The Wing or The Thigh?
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