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The Era -- Day By Day
Is there a movie or book about Australian war brides coming to the US, you ask? Why yes there is. There is the very enjoyable 1957 movie "Until They Sail" (comments on the movie here: #31,467 ) Which is based on a short story in this book (comments on the short story here...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Pleasure of His Company from 1961 with Fred Astaire, Lilly Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Gary Merrill, Tab Hunter, Charles Ruggles and Harold Fong The Pleasure of His Company is a genuine comedy-drama where both elements get equal attention in this funny, but also serious movie about love...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
The Pleasure of His Company by Bernard Glemser, originally published in 1961 and based on a play by Samuel A. Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner. Some books are art, while others, maybe not rising to the level of art, offer deep insight into the human condition. Some, though, are just fun...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Frank better get to work with his government "connections" and gin up some "legal" adoption papers back-dated for the boy, and fast. ********************************************************************* "A Christmas movie, released in July, from a novel by Somerset Maugham, with Deanna Durbin...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Guilty as Hell from 1932 with Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Henry Stephenson, Adrienne Ames, Noel Francis, Claire Dodd and Richard Arlen Guilty as Hell is a good murder-investigation movie where we know who did it from the first scene, but today, its two drawbacks are some clunky inchoate...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Street Scene from 1931 with Sylvia Sidney, David Landau, Beulah Bondi and William Collier Jr. Director King Vidor, working from a screenplay based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play by Elmer Rice, captured a realistic portrayal of life that is rarely seen on screen. It's not perfect, but...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,559
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
To be fair, we all knew by this point who would win the war, but baseball in '44 was still up for grabs.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Owen got picked off third???? Don't threaten to steal home unless you mean it!" Why not, the guy can do anything stupid he wants and not worry as all anyone will ever remember about him is the dropped third strike. Heck, he could run around the bases backwards and naked and history would yawn...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Up the Down Staircase from 1967 with Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart and Roy Poole You can pull some "timeless lessons" out of Up the Down Staircase, if you really try hard, but it is easier to just see it as a well-acted relic of late 1960s idealism meets reality in an "inner...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
I was taught the metric system in grammar school in the 1970s and was told with great confidence that it is all we'd be using when I grew up.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I can't understand why a star of Bugs' caliber is slumming in this strip, but it's very obvious why Porky is." "I signed with the wrong management team early in my career and am locked into this embarrassment of a strip for another few years. Live and learn; live and learn." - BB- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Razor's Edge from 1946 with Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb and Herbert Marshall On one end of the spectrum, you have a man searching for true meaning in life, a man looking to connect on a deep and sincere level with his fellow man, and on the other end, you have a...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,555
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Fun trivia fact: Tom Harmon and Elyse Knox' son is the actor Mark Harmon. ************************************************************************************ An easier solution might be to find a different family as role model.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Woman on Pier 13 from 1949 with Robert Ryan, Laraine Day, Thomas Gomez, Janice Carter, John Agar and William Talman Those looking for an anti-communism/film-noir mashup have come to the right movie in Woman on Pier 13. The propaganda works about as well as all heavy-handed propaganda works...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,554
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Great comments on "The Killers." I could not agree more. My comments on it here: #30,304- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"CUT! Tell the dog he needs to stay in the shot!" "I went to get the stunt dog after I heard the word 'dynamite' - read my contract." ********************************************************************* "All except Pantywaist here!" "THAT'S IT -- I'm taking a job as a background extra with...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"...the surface primness of England." Tell us something without telling us something.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Oi waaant ye waaard ye won't starrt noothin' with th' Army ahhr th' Navy aaahr noobody else." She knows her daughter.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I forgot to mention that my dad was an Elk. As a small boy, I went a few times with him to "the lodge" in the 1970s as he hardly went himself. It was rundown by then - like every thing else in that town. I remember it having a large pool table. He said he joined years before mainly because it...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I grew up in New Brunswick and, forty years after Joe and Sally's visit, I went to that "collitch," Rutgers. Also, had Joe and Sally strolled down Albany Street (the main street), they'd have come upon a small store selling small appliances, costume jewelry and such where they'd have met a...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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