CineMaven wrote:Well...since I don't know the price of Virginia Ham ( "Send Me No Flowers" ) I could easily get fooled about what costs more than what. I know exactly the Lucy moment you mean. She kind of digs her finger into his big strong forearm, she pulls back the brim of her hat and makes some half-ass introduction of the ladies to the butcher, pidjin-speaking their names. Lucy is just amazing from Day One of her career. ( Well...maybe Day 10 ) and I'm glad to see Destiny worked to make her successful. ( Hey she worked pretty hard herself. Not a Kardashian bone in her body. )
I agree, she should have been known as the hardest worker in Hollywood. Yes, that's it, with the hat brim up and her fast-talking salesman or newspaper man routine. Love it! She slays me.
But my favorite moment is still my Sammykins ( Samuel S. Hinds to the rest of you swabs ) having lunch with Hepburn and as the scene fades out, how she touches his arm and says "Dad." Gets me.
I can hear the quiet inflection in your writing when you speak of it. I can hear her voice and see them sitting there. Now I'm choked up!
I was just fantasizing about Gail Patrick in "The Women." Nooooo not as one of the catty gals, and not sexy sassy Paulette Goddard. I can see her playing the novelist and being above the fray.
Wouldn't it be SOOOOO great if she was in it? She really should have been, studio loyalty aside. I just love the idea of her with that cast. I'd love to have just added her in as her stock-in-trade man-stealing self, though it would have been nice if she had gotten to broaden her horizons a little. Maybe as a friend of Crystal's?
My favorite in that movie is Virginia Grey. She's SO gorgeous, and so catty with Crystal on the phone. She always looks like she's having a blast. I should add her to my list of favorite gals who can dish out a line - my favorites all have that snappy way plus a warm quality - Virginia, Myrna, Ruth Hussey, Laraine Day... I like them all tremendously and will watch a movie if any of them are mentioned in the credits.
As I read the dialogue you highlighted, ( love it ), I practiced that "good-lookin' piece of jackrabbit..." line. Aaaaah! The delivery in "Stage Door" is pure perfection.
What is it that Burt Reynolds says about Spencer Tracy in that interstitial that always makes me cry?
"You think you could do it, it looks so simple. Act like Spencer Tracy... but you can't." When you actually try to spin those lines out yourself, it's a pale comparison, or at least it is for me. I used to try to do Katherine Hepburn in
Lion in Winter every now and then when I was still acting, just as an exercise. Well, I'm here to tell you, it's impossible to say those lines any better than she said them! When you try to mimic them, or the inflection, you realize how great those actresses and actors really were... because there is no way, even knowing EXACTLY how they said it, that you can give one ounce of what they gave it. It's downright impossible. I just tried the jackrabbit line myself. Same thing... it looks easy, but it ain't!
...And I have a million of those "six degree of separation" type connections. Bob and I used to make those up all the time, and
without repeating a movie! Aye...there's the rub! BTW, ooooooooooooooh I saw "Purple Noon." Hun-neeee!
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Oh great! Now I have to wait two weeks before I hear how you liked it!
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Ooh la la!