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The Era -- Day By Day
Carole Landis' moon picture, in case you were wondering. My favorite Carole Landis pic. And let's note this very forward 1944 thinking:- Fading Fast
- Post #10,494
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Pretty smug, aint'cha? Heard from your son lately? More importantly, just tell us this storyline if finally over.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,490
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"T'is ain' got nut'n t'do wit'tat daughteh'ra yehs, does it? She makes me noivous." That's awesome. **************************************************************************** A gang'a hoodlums beat'im oop on th' street an' left'im farr dead!" What the heck, is she losing her mind or is it...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,487
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I See a Dark Stranger from 1946 with Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Garry Marsh and Tom Macaulay Had Alfred Hitchcock made I See a Dark Stranger, it would probably be a classic as nobody combined spy intrigue with humor better than the master director. Here though, director Frank Launder still...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,615
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Heeh," offers Alice, scratching the match on the seat of her overalls. "Lemme help...." Freakin' perfect.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,483
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Paid from 1930 with Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, John Miljan, Purnell Pratt and Douglas Montgomery Other than getting a bit muddled and mawkish at the end, Paid is a hard-hitting and entertaining precode that says some cops are bad and the legal system is brutally unfair and...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,614
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"I'm losing track of interest in how old all these people are supposed to be."- Fading Fast
- Post #10,476
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"That IS true, isn't it," sighs Ma. "Oi'm saahry, Francis, Oi know Oi roide ye haaard soomtoimes. Ye carry a heavy lood." She needed to say that; she's been hard on him for months now. ***************************************************************************** "Monozygotic" is a word you...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,472
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Split Second from 1953 with Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Robert Paige, Paul Kelly, Frank DeKova, Arthur Hunnicutt, and Richard Egan. At only eighty-five minutes long, there is a lot of plot, a lot of characters, and a lot of philosophy on life, love, and honor...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,611
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The Copacabana agreed yesterday to replace its Manhattan nightclub license with a temporary six-month permit and to pay the city a total of $37,371.34 in business taxes, while leaving unresolved the question of whether purported slot-machine king Frank Costello is a part owner of the club. The...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,463
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Three Strangers from 1946 with Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Joan Lorring and Alan Napier. If you put O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi into a film noir blender, something like Three Strangers could come out. In O. Henry's tale, good people learn a lesson about giving...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,608
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
...since he caan't droive aroond in that caar oof his noo moor. I miss the mayor mobile. ********************************************************************** Uncle Frank, attempting a pull on his Tootsie Roll.... :) **********************************************************************...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,459
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Yeh," acknowledges Alice. "I bet Hooveh neveh t'rew 'is BVD's onna stage... She's relentless. **************************************************************************** -- but if V-E Day is proclaimed on a day already marked as a holiday, no additional day off will be given. Somebody...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,455
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Well, it's like this. Nine years ago I knew this guy named Judas, a real pirate, and we were working the China coast, but I double-crossed him with this big curly-haired Irishman who was bumming around with a couple of kids -- one of whom was Terry, godbless'im, just a little kid in short pants...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,452
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Purple Noon from 1960 with Alain Delon, Marie Leforêt, Maurice Ronet and Bill Kearns First, read the book The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith because it's very good and you get to form your own images of everything and everyone in your head. Then watch Purple Noon to see how...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,607
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Wasn't there a daughter a while back who stole some money and ran away, and her parents, too, sent out a message like this? Had I stolen money from my Dad and ran away, he would have 1. written me off as a complete loss ("Nope, no children, never had any."), or 2. posted a classified like this...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,445
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"J is for the Joy of it, giving sweet pain." Is Burma ghostwriting to pick up a few extra bucks?- Fading Fast
- Post #10,444
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I was so proud of Alice tears welled up in my eyes. ******************************************************************* Re, Ms. Landis' nickname (from Wikipedia): "A press agent nicknamed her "The Ping Girl" (an awkward contraction of "purring")."...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,440
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Shanghai Express from 1932 with Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brooks, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland and Lawrence Grant. Shanghai Express, one of several Marlene Dietrich collaborations with director Josef von Sternberg, uses a train journey from Peking to Shanghai as a metaphor for the personal...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,604
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Alice does five years in stir for Mickey, Ma's son, and Ma via Frank gives Alice the name of a forger and Alice agrees that settles the obligation. That could be the single worst, single most unfair deal we've seen on all these news pages in all the years we've been doing Day-to-Days, including...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,435
- Forum: The Golden Era
