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Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 21st, 2022, 8:49 pm
by EP Millstone
Hibi wrote: ↑December 21st, 2022, 1:22 pm
Wish I had that channel. If you watch either of them, get back with me!
Big Brown Eyes can be streamed on the Russian
OK website:
According to
reviews, Joan Bennett skinny dips in
Wild Girl.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 22nd, 2022, 9:39 am
by Hibi
laffite wrote: ↑December 21st, 2022, 7:11 pm
Hibi wrote: ↑December 21st, 2022, 1:22 pm
Wish I had that channel. If you watch either of them, get back with me!
$9.95/mo, available at their site.
FYI
Thanks, but my cable bill is too high as it is.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 22nd, 2022, 9:40 am
by Hibi
EP Millstone wrote: ↑December 21st, 2022, 8:49 pm
Hibi wrote: ↑December 21st, 2022, 1:22 pm
Wish I had that channel. If you watch either of them, get back with me!
Big Brown Eyes can be streamed on the Russian
OK website:
According to
reviews, Joan Bennett skinny dips in
Wild Girl.
With English subtitles? Thanks.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 22nd, 2022, 11:11 am
by EP Millstone
Hibi wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2022, 9:40 am
With English subtitles? Thanks.
No, the OK presentation of
Big Brown Eyes is in English. No subtitles.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 22nd, 2022, 12:01 pm
by Hibi
Interesting.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 24th, 2022, 10:50 pm
by ChiO
My favorite female film noir actor. To wit (and in my preferential order):
Scarlet Street
The Reckless Moment
The Woman in the Window
Secret Beyond the Door
Hollow Triumph
Woman on the Beach
Then there are her other films. Yes, TCM Star of the Month is due.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm
by CinemaInternational
Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: December 29th, 2022, 3:47 pm
by Hibi
CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm
Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
I can't really remember, but I think you may be right! I'd forgotten all about those Backlot "choices". Joan gets no respect!
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: January 1st, 2023, 3:22 pm
by txfilmfan
Hibi wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 3:47 pm
CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm
Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
I can't really remember, but I think you may be right! I'd forgotten all about those Backlot "choices". Joan gets no respect!
Not TCM's star of the month, but close. She's the featured star this month on The Criterion Channel. Ten of her films will be available:
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: January 2nd, 2023, 3:10 am
by EP Millstone
I'm not really a Joan Bennett fan, but I checked out
Wild Girl and
Big Brown Eyes on The Criterion Channel.
Wild Girl, IMO, is a creaky western that, unintentionally, plays like a comedy. The script (based on a
story by
Bret Harte), tone, and performances -- particularly the performance by
Eugene Pallette -- have the broad, histrionic quality of a 19th century "boo the villain, cheer the hero" stage melodrama. The cast introduces themselves, in character, and the costuming and makeup on
Ralph Bellamy, for me, evoked
Snidely Whiplash, even though Bellamy's character is not a dastard. Notable among the supporting cast: child actress
Marilyn Harris, immortal as "Maria, the flower that didn't float" in
Frankenstein, released several months before
Wild Girl. An interesting, stylistic touch by the filmmakers is the technique of changing scenes in the manner of turning pages in a book.
Big Brown Eyes is described as a "screwball comedy" in The Criterion Channel synopsis. But it has an awfully grim and tragic element that, for me, totally negated the TCC description.
Cary Grant and
Joan Bennett have a good chemistry as a crime-solving duo who have a romantic relationship that is more fiery and contentious than the bubbly partnership between
Nick and Nora Charles.
Walter Pidgeon -- in an atypical role as a suave, sophisticated heavy -- effectively scores with an understated performance. The contributions of
Lloyd Nolan,
Douglas Fowley (clean-shaven and, to me, looking like
Shemp Howard),
Alan Baxter, and
Henry Brandon both lighten and darken the multitonal plot, which alternates from breezy "battle of the sexes" romantic comedy to violent crime-drama.
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: January 9th, 2023, 10:53 am
by Hibi
txfilmfan wrote: ↑January 1st, 2023, 3:22 pm
Hibi wrote: ↑December 29th, 2022, 3:47 pm
CinemaInternational wrote: ↑December 27th, 2022, 7:20 pm
Wasn't there one time, when they still had Backlot that she was one of two options given to them, and they picked one of the more common TCM personalities?
I can't really remember, but I think you may be right! I'd forgotten all about those Backlot "choices". Joan gets no respect!
Not TCM's star of the month, but close. She's the featured star this month on The Criterion Channel. Ten of her films will be available:
Thanks for the info. That's great news!
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: January 14th, 2023, 6:06 pm
by Ray Faiola
I talked to Joan Bennett in 1971 when she was a guest on the Alex Bennett radio program. I told her I had recently seen SHE KNEW ALL THE ANSWERS and enjoyed it very much. She said "talk about digging up the obscure ones! Well at least you didn't call about DARK SHADOWS!". Funny thing is, I had never seen DS and, in fact, only just started watching it a few weeks ago on Tubi TV!
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: January 19th, 2023, 12:23 pm
by Hibi
Funny!
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: February 6th, 2023, 10:16 am
by Hibi
See me tonight at 8pm in Little Women!
Re: JOAN BENNETT FOR SOTM THIS CENTURY
Posted: February 6th, 2023, 10:22 am
by Hibi