...It's interesting to me that they have three Hardy books on the list (I'm lucky because I have read almost all of Hardy), but no Maugham, Dreiser, Crane, London, or Wharton. No Henry James. No Milan Kundera and no Colette.... No Virginia Woolf. Maybe these are the books that someone deemed to be ...

Oh, it probably helps if you see The Andy Hardy movies at a very early age--then they sort of grow on you. Oooh, wish you hadn't mentioned Breakfast at Tiffany's . I'm afraid I loathe it, and just remembering Mickey in it hurts. In the audio commentary interview with Blake Edwards on the DVD of Bre...

klondike wrote:Hmmm . . could Dame Anderson, unsurpassed queen of Brit noir, be genetically linked somehow to Patrick Stewart?

Do you think they look alike? I thought she was doing a Mae Clark impersonation.

http://a.imageshack.us/img231/2297/meetmeinstlouis.png If that's who you mean, I have no idea who she is. IMDB lists Helen Gilbert as "Girl on Trolley (uncredited)" Here's Helen Gilbert: http://a.imageshack.us/img696/582/1barufucov5xcuvr.jpg Doesn't look like the same person, though. Hele...

mongoII wrote:Julie dining out with first husband Jack Webb

What?!

The trailer for HBO's Mildred Pierce has been released:

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Thank you so much for joining us at the Oasis. This thread is delightful reading already. I'm heartened by the hints of your work to get Letty Lynton to the public, though I can't image how one would begin to get around the legal obstacles. Is it just a matter of waiting for the rights to the origin...

Alison, the only film I'm aware of where Gene & Fred danced together is "Ziegfeld Follies" in 1946. The number was 'The Babbit and the Bromide' which didn't include a scene of the image I posted. It could possibly be trick photography. No, no; it's not trick photography. It's from the...

Each year I pray that TCM will give Joan Blondell the day on her birthday...

mongoII wrote:Before the genius kicked in

I love this Chaplin photo! It's as if we're seeing him from behind the celebrity mask for the first time. Real, poignant. Thanks!

mongoII wrote:
Ma Gertrude Berkeley celebrates her birthday with Mickey Rooney,
son Busby and Judy Garland at MGM

Beautiful cake! Too bad Judy couldn't have any.

It takes no great amount of imagination to ponder how bad Rita's dear friend Glenn Ford must have felt for her, and her children, at that point in her life, and for years thereafter, as good ol' Dick " I Wouldn't Do That !" Haymes slapped her around, cheated on her, ruined her professiona...

mongoII wrote:Hey...Grant's sparring partner looks like Gable.

Not with that Caulifower nose... Grant's shorts are hoisted to a very high altitude. Any higher and they'd be considered a turtle neck.

Handsome couple Madeleine Carroll & Sterling Hayden in 1941 and soon to be married You've done it again, Joe! I would never have put these two together. I always considered them as coming from two different eras. Madeleine Carroll makes me think of the 1930's ( 39 Steps , Secret Agent , Prisone...

Gee, I think we should open this up to all Cinderella s, from Disney's animation to Jerry Lewis' CinderFella . Then I could point out my favorite fairy godmother as Estelle Winwood's dottie character in The Glass Slipper . And my favorite step family as those who tortured Deanna Durbin in First Love...