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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 9:15:42 GMT -5
Last night I watched Sing and Like It starring Zasu Pitts. What a hilarious actress! The movie was funny. Nat Pendleton (who had been a wrestler and won a medal at the Olympics before becoming an actor) plays a gangster who "discovers" Zasu singing (very badly and off key) and wants her to star in a play he producing for Broadway. What struck me about the movie was Zasu Pitts. She was not the standard early 30s glamour girl, but had a sad, forlorn look about her--however she is a riot. Her delivery outshines comedic actresses of today by far. Great movie!
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 7, 2017 14:06:04 GMT -5
Last night I watched Sing and Like It starring Zasu Pitts. What a hilarious actress! The movie was funny. Nat Pendleton (who had been a wrestler and won a medal at the Olympics before becoming an actor) plays a gangster who "discovers" Zasu singing (very badly and off key) and wants her to star in a play he producing for Broadway. What struck me about the movie was Zasu Pitts. She was not the standard early 30s glamour girl, but had a sad, forlorn look about her--however she is a riot. Her delivery outshines comedic actresses of today by far. Great movie! I love them both, ZaSu Pitts and Nat Pendleton. Hal Roach teamed up ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd as a comedy team for a series of shorts much the way that Laurel and Hardy were teamed up. I've only seen one of the Pitts-Todd comedies, but it was HILARIOUS!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 14:44:18 GMT -5
Last night I watched Sing and Like It starring Zasu Pitts. What a hilarious actress! The movie was funny. Nat Pendleton (who had been a wrestler and won a medal at the Olympics before becoming an actor) plays a gangster who "discovers" Zasu singing (very badly and off key) and wants her to star in a play he producing for Broadway. What struck me about the movie was Zasu Pitts. She was not the standard early 30s glamour girl, but had a sad, forlorn look about her--however she is a riot. Her delivery outshines comedic actresses of today by far. Great movie! I love them both, ZaSu Pitts and Nat Pendleton. Hal Roach teamed up ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd as a comedy team for a series of shorts much the way that Laurel and Hardy were teamed up. I've only seen one of the Pitts-Todd comedies, but it was HILARIOUS! I think I have watched one of those shorts. Zasu Pitts was a telephone operator and she meets a boxer who becomes very smitten with her. She is wearing a very unique hat and he asks her to attend his match that night and wear the hat so he can see her in the crowd. It was very funny--most of the humor coming from the hat disrupting the view of the other patrons at the boxing match.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 7, 2017 14:55:35 GMT -5
I love them both, ZaSu Pitts and Nat Pendleton. Hal Roach teamed up ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd as a comedy team for a series of shorts much the way that Laurel and Hardy were teamed up. I've only seen one of the Pitts-Todd comedies, but it was HILARIOUS! I think I have watched one of those shorts. Zasu Pitts was a telephone operator and she meets a boxer who becomes very smitten with her. She is wearing a very unique hat and he asks her to attend his match that night and wear the hat so he can see her in the crowd. It was very funny--most of the humor coming from the hat disrupting the view of the other patrons at the boxing match. In the one I saw, Thelma Todd was in her underwear a lot. I have a feeling it was not an uncommon occurrence.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 16:06:40 GMT -5
Hoosier X said: I love them both, ZaSu Pitts and Nat Pendleton. Two great movies and I wished I could see them again ... Great Write Up @mrjupiter
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 16:12:46 GMT -5
I just watched "War of the Worlds" ... Gene Barry and Ann Robinson for the 20th time last night and never, ever gets tired of it.
One of my favorite Science Fiction Movie of all time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 0:44:39 GMT -5
I just watched The Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo ... and it's was a sizzling romance with lots of angles and it was filled with drama and suspense that really lights up the scenes. One of my favorite scenes is when she drinks the can of Pepsi and talking to the Police Detectives there and that's really cracks me up. I really enjoyed the ending of this movie and that's made it even better knowing that they made for each other. I haven't seen it for a while and glade that I had a chance to watch it tonight. It was released in 1999 and I was stunned how long ago it was made.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 8:22:02 GMT -5
I finally watched A Summer Place yesterday. It had been on my DVR for a few weeks and I am glad I watched it. Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire were both awesome as was Constance Ford as Egan's very repressed wife. Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue were awesome as well as the star-crossed teen age lovers. I was surprised at how frank (in a subtle way) this movie was with such taboo subject matter (for 1959)--affairs, teen pregnancies. The locations were gorgeous as well as the familiar musical theme.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 11, 2017 13:48:47 GMT -5
Why do I think Saturday Night Fever and Urban Cowboy are the same movies but on alternate Earths?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 9:00:57 GMT -5
Last night I watched Panic in Year Zero (1962). It is about a nuclear bomb leveling Los Angeles. A family of four who are in the mountains for a vacation escape the blast, but must deal with looters and other lawless survivors. The family takes shelter in a cave as they encounter other survivors with less than pleasant intentions. Ray Milland stars and directs. Frankie Avalon is in it as well. This movie was interesting as there are no radiation crazed mutants running about, just ordinary people who have the worst in them brought out. Ray Milland is determined to keep his family safe--although he comes across as gruff in parts of the movie. The jazz score didn't quite go with the film, but it didn't deter my interest. A creepy, well made, low budget gem!
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 14, 2017 12:36:58 GMT -5
I'm reading a book about Jackie Robinson, and TCM conveniently scheduled The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), so I DVRed it last week and watched it last night. In the movie, young Jackie gets a baseball mitt from the nice white people in Pasadena. In the book, Jackie encounters quite a few problems with Pasadena's racists during his childhood. The movie doesn't seem to be aware that Jackie was court-martialed and almost kicked out of the army during World War II because he argued with a bus driver about where he could sit on the bus. It was a bus at a military installation (Fort Hood in Texas) and Jackie had seen the order that public transportation on military installations would not be segregated. So the military authorities at Fort Hood (named after a traitor Confederate officer) thought it was a good use of manpower to harass Lieutenant Robinson and tell a bunch of inconsistent lies about his conduct after he was arrested. Fortunately, there were enough witnesses to contradict all the racists trying to get Jackie kicked out of the military. The racists were probably all upset that there were so many white people who would pick the TRUTH over the childish lies of a bunch of racist jerks. The movie does acknowledge that Robinson had to deal with racists when the Montreal farm team and the Dodgers would play in the South. So there's that. Jackie Robinson plays himself, Louise Beavers is his mother, Ruby Dee is his wife and Minor Watson is Branch Rickey. Don't know if you saw this, Hoosier. Robinson is a true hero. The saint of baseball. classiccomics.org/thread/4403/past-event
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2017 13:29:07 GMT -5
Last night I watched Panic in Year Zero (1962). It is about a nuclear bomb leveling Los Angeles. A family of four who are in the mountains for a vacation escape the blast, but must deal with looters and other lawless survivors. The family takes shelter in a cave as they encounter other survivors with less than pleasant intentions. Ray Milland stars and directs. Frankie Avalon is in it as well. This movie was interesting as there are no radiation crazed mutants running about, just ordinary people who have the worst in them brought out. Ray Milland is determined to keep his family safe--although he comes across as gruff in parts of the movie. The jazz score didn't quite go with the film, but it didn't deter my interest. A creepy, well made, low budget gem! I've never seen this but I love Ray Milland's later films. I try to keep X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Thing with Two Heads and Frogs in rotation so that I see one of them every two or three years. I saw The Thing with Two Heads on Halloween night in 2015. And I saw X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes last year. It's been a few years since I saw Frogs. I call these films Ray Milland's Terrible Trilogy. I need to look for Panic in the Year Zero.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2017 13:33:51 GMT -5
I'm reading a book about Jackie Robinson, and TCM conveniently scheduled The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), so I DVRed it last week and watched it last night. In the movie, young Jackie gets a baseball mitt from the nice white people in Pasadena. In the book, Jackie encounters quite a few problems with Pasadena's racists during his childhood. The movie doesn't seem to be aware that Jackie was court-martialed and almost kicked out of the army during World War II because he argued with a bus driver about where he could sit on the bus. It was a bus at a military installation (Fort Hood in Texas) and Jackie had seen the order that public transportation on military installations would not be segregated. So the military authorities at Fort Hood (named after a traitor Confederate officer) thought it was a good use of manpower to harass Lieutenant Robinson and tell a bunch of inconsistent lies about his conduct after he was arrested. Fortunately, there were enough witnesses to contradict all the racists trying to get Jackie kicked out of the military. The racists were probably all upset that there were so many white people who would pick the TRUTH over the childish lies of a bunch of racist jerks. The movie does acknowledge that Robinson had to deal with racists when the Montreal farm team and the Dodgers would play in the South. So there's that. Jackie Robinson plays himself, Louise Beavers is his mother, Ruby Dee is his wife and Minor Watson is Branch Rickey. Don't know if you saw this, Hoosier. Robinson is a true hero. The saint of baseball. classiccomics.org/thread/4403/past-eventReading Jackie Robinson's biography, I'm real impressed with Branch Rickey as well. Sometimes you hear people defend old racists and America's racist past by saying that's just how it was. But there's always people like Branch Rickey and William Lloyd Garrison to show how lame that sophistry is.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2017 16:51:37 GMT -5
Yesterday afternoon, I watched Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965). Yup. It's a movie. Sort of. It sure had an awful lot of things that movies usually have. Including a few things that sounded an awful lot like jokes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 17:46:29 GMT -5
Hoosier X ... It's a 60's version of Austin Powers with lots of idiotic jokes aboard! ... I have seen it a couple of times with friends that insisted on watching it. There is a lot of fans out here enjoy this crazy movie. It's a cult favorite.
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