Not quite the wholesome image from My Three Sons here...speedracer5 wrote: ↑January 13th, 2023, 8:57 pm I watched two new-to-me Fred MacMurray movies recently.
1930s Fred MacMurray was hot.
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Not quite the wholesome image from My Three Sons here...speedracer5 wrote: ↑January 13th, 2023, 8:57 pm I watched two new-to-me Fred MacMurray movies recently.
1930s Fred MacMurray was hot.
In the stage musical GREASE Sandy's last name is Dombrowski, but you are correct that it is Olsson in the movie adaptation (they actually say it in the movie). The change was likely made to accommodate the casting of Australian Olivia Newton-John, whose character in in the movie is said to have moved to the US from Australia. In the stage play, Sandy is an American who has just transferred to another high school. I guess it was thought that movie audiences would more easily accept "Olsson" as the surname for an Australian than "Dombrowski."speedracer5 wrote: ↑January 13th, 2023, 8:35 pmThe Christmas tree scene is hilarious. It's so dramatic. I cannot believe that Sandra Dee made "A Summer Place" and "Gidget" in the same year. Talk about two extreme characters. I love Sandra Dee. Much like Doris Day, she's maligned as a goody two shoes, a reputation further cemented by Rizzo's song "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee" in "Grease." I don't know why she was given this reputation.HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑January 10th, 2023, 3:15 pmAh yes, the Christmas tree scene!
The plastic Christmas tree that Constance Ford's character says should last ten years . . .
I'm a big fan of Sandra Dee. I especially love her in GIDGET and TAMMY, TELL ME TRUE. She's very good in her first movie UNTIL THEY SAIL, where she holds her own with Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine and Piper Laurie (who play her older sisters in the movie).
I also love her in A SUMMER PLACE even though her hairstyle in that movie is not very flattering.
Speaking of "Grease," I once had to convince a co-worker that Sandra Dee was a real person and was not in fact, the name of Olivia Newton-John's character. She thought Olivia was named "Sandy Dee" and I had to explain that 1) No. That's not who the song is referring to; and 2) Sandy's last name in the film is Olsson. I'm pretty sure they even say it in the film.
You don't like Joan Crawford's dancing?laffite wrote: ↑January 11th, 2023, 4:34 pmThanks. I recorded this and plan to view it. I have seen that Joan Crawford dance and didn't care for it. There was no art but she sure seemed to enjoy it. Your post reminds me of The Show of Shows from '29 I think. Always loved that. O man, I want to see that again!
I enjoyed Life Begins, even if it does have flaws. Glenda Farrell is great fun to watch as always.laffite wrote: ↑January 12th, 2023, 1:57 am Life Begins (1932).
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I did not enjoy this. Part of why is that Loretta's character spends a lot of time in a hospital bed. The charm has been quashed between sheets. Story wise there is a sense of morbidity about the whole business I couldn't shake. This does not mean that I am insensitive to the rigors women go through when entering into this new world of imminent motherhood. And yet what would I know about it? Truly identifying with the women is impossible. Maybe that distance informs my impression. At least I can identify with the men. Is this a woman’s movie? Probably, but I didn't give up. I am a notorious chick-flick fan, not by design or by predisposition, I find myself liking them after the fact. But I did not like this one. I don’t like to think of myself as a moralist but I wonder if I thought that childbirth was being too coarsely represented here. And yet maybe the occasional comedy that invokes itself here and there is the palliative to that. Que sais-je?
Yes, I did. Thanks for posting that. When you mentioned her dancing my mind jumped to a different movie (don't know which one off hand, probably earlier) where she dances, not so disciplined as this one. In the other, she seemed to jump around haphazardly while wearing an unbecoming outfit.Fedya wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 6:32 pmYou don't like Joan Crawford's dancing?laffite wrote: ↑January 11th, 2023, 4:34 pmThanks. I recorded this and plan to view it. I have seen that Joan Crawford dance and didn't care for it. There was no art but she sure seemed to enjoy it. Your post reminds me of The Show of Shows from '29 I think. Always loved that. O man, I want to see that again!
Impressive summary of Sandra in those movies.speedracer5 wrote: ↑January 13th, 2023, 8:35 pm [snip]
I cannot believe that Sandra Dee made "A Summer Place" and "Gidget" in the same year. Talk about two extreme characters. I love Sandra Dee. Much like Doris Day, she's maligned as a goody two shoes, a reputation further cemented by Rizzo's song "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee" in "Grease." I don't know why she was given this reputation. In "A Summer Place," she's a teenager who gets pregnant, in "Gidget," she's upset because she can't seem to score a boyfriend and laments to her mother that she "came home pure as the driven snow," in "Take Her, She's Mine," she writes home to father Jimmy Stewart that she's "still a virgin" and the tone of her letter says that she's not happy about it. Then in "Doctor, You Must Be Kidding," she's trying to figure out who the father of her baby is and there are three potential baby daddies!
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Perhaps you were thinking of Dancing Lady?laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 7:48 pm
Yes, I did. Thanks for posting that. When you mentioned her dancing my mind jumped to a different movie (don't know which one off hand, probably earlier) where she dances, not so disciplined as this one. In the other, she seemed to jump around haphazardly while wearing an unbecoming outfit.
I was thinking the same thing; This Dancing Lady scene is a classic; we have Crawford looking as thin as a rail doing some very odd dancing and the 3 Stooges, with Larry, playing the piano.Fedya wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 12:47 pmPerhaps you were thinking of Dancing Lady?laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 7:48 pm
Yes, I did. Thanks for posting that. When you mentioned her dancing my mind jumped to a different movie (don't know which one off hand, probably earlier) where she dances, not so disciplined as this one. In the other, she seemed to jump around haphazardly while wearing an unbecoming outfit.
She has a scene with the Three Stooges, too.
No, not Dancing Lady. Go to 2:06 in the video below. I think that's it. I wonder if it's really as bad as I say. Hard to tell with this video, it's only 4-6 seconds. In the movie (what movie?), it goes on for at least a couple of minutes and I didn't like it much. I didn't know until now that she could dance so well. So maybe I would like it better now, who knows? I ve seen that first video a few times and it is knocking me out. At one point she swivels on one foot and maintains good balance that looks difficult and then executing a swift cut kick, I mean wow Joan.Fedya wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 12:47 pmPerhaps you were thinking of Dancing Lady?laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 7:48 pm
Yes, I did. Thanks for posting that. When you mentioned her dancing my mind jumped to a different movie (don't know which one off hand, probably earlier) where she dances, not so disciplined as this one. In the other, she seemed to jump around haphazardly while wearing an unbecoming outfit.
She has a scene with the Three Stooges, too.
Haha thanks for describing a little about this movie-I had recorded it based on your recommendation but haven't watched it yet. I was brought up in "society" so it sounds right up my alley.Cuthbert wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 7:35 pm Metropolitan (1990)
This movie is on my ten-best list. It’s one of the great New York movies and is my favorite New York Christmas movie.
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At the various dances and after parties in lovely New York apartments during the holiday break, they talk about philosophy (particularly Fourier), romance, literature (particularly Jane Austen) and what they see as the decline of the debutante society in which many of them were raised.
(Like two of the lead characters, I took a cab to the Hamptons once, in an extravagant mood.)