Uncle Stevie, any news on how Fossy's doing?

I wouldn't argue with you one bit, AH. I guess I was musing more about the age of impressionability. I did see the Asquith version as a teen and ended up getting a degree in linguistics years later! It's interesting that the Sound of Music and the Wizard of OZ, just recently mentioned, are other fil...

...lest we forget...

I saw My Fair Lady when I was very young, so young that I couldn't filter anything and just got completely caught up in the story. Watching it years later, I was surprised at how many little details were firmly etched in my memory. In particular, when Eliza was hurt or distressed during the ups and ...

Thanks for those insights everyone. The first copy of the film I bought was a VHS long long ago, out of a retail bargain bin. The montages were just a lot of gray smudges in that one, and the story didn't make a lot of sense. What there was of a story seemed pretty flimsy to warrant such an elaborat...

I totally understand, Feaito. I recently reconciled with Ninotchka . :) Glad to hear you and Ninotchka are back together again. I recently learned that, on the run up to production, they were lobbying hard to cast Cary Grant as Leon. I usually don't indulge in hypotheticals, but can you imagine???

Hi Fealto. I had intended to record the restored version of Metropolis when it recently aired on TCM. Instead, I only got the documentary about the recovery of the lost sequences. That was pretty exciting, but I really wanted to see the film put back together. I had become pretty familiar with the (...

When this thread was initially posted, I went through my collection to see what films I had with Ms. Sheridan in them. (Not counting the hand- and butt-double credits), I only came up with Angels with Dirty Faces and It All Came True. She doesn't have a lot to do in the former, but is very well show...

I just read part two. What a treasure you have provided us! How was the concert?

Also, I LOVED your Kevin Brownlow pieces (I know, late to the party as usual). It's like a documentary on a documentarian...so very "meta." And I liked his expression "My eyes stood on stalks."

Doug, I'm wishing you a stiff shot of vitality.

Really great article--thanks for the link. I've got some Charley Chase talking shorts that I recorded during the Thelma Todd day of Summer Under the Stars . I have to admit that I couldn't quite warm up to him. I remember thinking, "There's something tragic about that guy," and when I look...

I loved the article AH. Your questions really brought Davis out...unfiltered and so informative!

That's a really powerful film, CCF. Before I saw it, I thought that Marian Marsh was sort of a lightweight, but her rage at the end is a tour-de-force.

I would add to that Employees Entrance and Skyscraper Souls. Jaw dropping!

Hi Kingme. You've come across a pretty interesting subject. I first became aware of this "genre" when TCM aired a series of films to mark the publication of film historian Mick LaSalle's book "Complicated Women." He focuses on female screen personalities playing characters that s...