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What Are You Reading
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, originally published in 1923 More a collection of short stories, with a somewhat connected narrative running through them, than a full novel, The Inimitable Jeeves is best enjoyed for its playfully satirical look at the foibles of early...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Love Letters from 1945 with Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Gladys Cooper, Robert Sully, Cecil Kellaway and Ann Richards During and immediately after World War II, with so many young men and women dealing with loss, Hollywood produced several pictures with a variety of fantasy spins on death...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,518
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"In Williamsbaaarg, yet. Ye can't throow a cobblestone oop thar that ye don' hit a bookie..." :) ******************************************************************** As you've noted several times, I could not care less about any one of the three in "Mary Worth" right now. They all deserve...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,057
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Captain Blood from 1935 with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and a strong cast of many from Warner Bros.' deep bench of talent. Errol Flynn was a versatile actor who played roles in comedy, romance and dramatic pictures, all while his personal life was a swirl of booze, sex and scandal, but...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,516
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Give Kay Williams credit for persistence. She and Gable would each sneak another marriage in before, but in 1955, Ms. Williams finally landed the King of Hollywood in a marriage that lasted until Gable's passing five years later.- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
In today's dollars, Costello left just shy of $500k in a cab. Who does that? **************************************************************** "'I don't recall asking for your help!' Well, somebody had to finally say it!" I had the exact same thought. Also, Mary sounds like she took a cut-rate...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,048
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
A big kudos to Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens (the future super-cool TV's Peter Gunn) for this being the first and only marriage each and for it lasting until Smith's passing 49 years (!) later.- Fading Fast
- Post #10,040
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Reckless Moment from 1949 with Joan Bennett, James Mason, Geraldine Brooks and Frances E. Williams The Reckless Moment is a gem of a movie that masquerades as a crime drama, but is really a hard look at upper-middle-class, mid-century values as seen through the eyes of a desperate mother...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,514
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
Thank you ⇧ . I know you've told me this before, but,clearly, I am confused. I thought the Eagle "hit the street" earlier than the Daily News, thus giving the News a little more time to get a late-breaking story - no?- Fading Fast
- Post #10,036
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
I love the Ginsboigs. They are salt of the freakin' earth. ******************************************************* The Daily News might be seeing the future, but it missed the flying bombs in the present - how did that not make the front page? Or being an afternoon paper, did it have the...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,033
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Heroes for Sale from 1933 with Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon and Loretta Young "Smash the machines!" Director William A. Wellman and Warner Bros. let their inner communist rip in Heroes for Sale, a precode Depression-era tale of cardboard-hero communists/socialists and...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,513
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
"N. Gwendolyn Echo Cushing?" That's a good name and WTF one, but I know we've seen even crazier ones. Sadly, I didn't keep a list; I wish I had. We had one or two married countesses who had names that were in the "nine or ten names long" category. A couple of our society debs have had some...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,028
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"Nora, they took harr to Bellevue." She'd be safer in the Tombs - no electroshock therapy. ************************************************************ "Hey, c'mon. How come Levant doesn't get his picture up there?" They want people to come...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,023
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
""You still got any copies a' t'at pitcheh we took?" "A couple," growls Mozelewski. "Y'loin fr'm ya mistakes." "Gimme one," commands Miss Kaplan. "I wanna send it t' -- somebody." "Who?" demands Mozelewski with a suspcious frown. "A friend inna soivice, Misteh Nosey," snaps Miss Kaplan. "T'boys...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,018
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
White Tie and Tails from 1946 with Dan Duryea, Ella Raines and William Bendix For a short B movie, White Tie and Tails punches well above its weight class because of its strong cast, fun romcom story, smart dialogue and wonderful personalities. All it needs today is a film restoration so that...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,510
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Forty Guns from 1957 with Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson and Eva Brent Forty Guns is a good Western written and directed by Sam Fuller that tries to be a bigger movie than it is, but in an endearing way. Fuller didn't make the epic he seemed to be trying to make...- Fading Fast
- Post #31,508
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
What a great post. I learned so much from it. I can't even imagine a surgery like that without anesthetic. And as you note, what a fantastic life she had. I might just have to seek out "Cecilia." I continue to be amazed at the amount of knowledge - smart, insightful and arcane knowledge - that...- Fading Fast
- Post #9,191
- Forum: The Reading Room
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The Era -- Day By Day
Tell the truth, Lizzie, did you breathe out once while writing the (mainly) Sally monologue? :) ******************************************************************* The Triple Dead Heat is an insanely exciting finish. ******************************************************************* Heels...- Fading Fast
- Post #10,008
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I watched Ms. Stanwyck in the 1957 movie "Forty Guns" this past weekend in which she played a role that foreshadowed her "The Big Valley" matriarch role a bit. Once I get time to write a review of "Forty Guns," I'll post it here. I think you'd like the movie.- Fading Fast
- Post #31,506
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Era -- Day By Day
The full text before war-time paper rationing required editing: "Boston catcher Clyde Klutz will be sidelined today after crashing into the concrete corner of the Braves dugout yesterday while chasing a foul pop off the bat of Mickey Owen. Owen failed to hold onto his bat at the completion of...- Fading Fast
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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