A Movie Scene Quiz

Hi EOE. Yes to Penny Serenade. Did you see it?

If you have BBC America, you should check out a sitcom called "The Office." It's scathingly funny about office life, and the personalities one comes across when working in an office. (Even though I don't have BBC America, I've seen a few episodes because a friend lent me a video of the first season.)

Oh yes. Cary Grant and Irene Dunn, right?

I'm making a note of it now, Bree. Sounds like my kind of show. (lol)

Yes, EOE, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, and Beulah Bondi was great, too. Remember when their little girl was the "echo" in the Christmas Pageant and had to wear sneakers, and then after she died,the following year, a mother and her little girl came to their home needing a ride to the pageant because they couldn't get a cab during the rain storm, and they saw the child's sneakers.

Have you got a scene for us?

I gotta tell you. That was a heartwrenching movie but to me, neither Irene Dunn nor Cary Grant conveyed the emotion it warranted. It was almost as if they were too beautiful to really cry, which was probably exactly what the studio demanded back then. Don't twist your face up too much. Just a few tears.
An oldie:
She stood on that grand staircase and talked his wife into letting her go away with him instead, to keep him alive and cared for in ways that his wife simply couldn't.

Oh, EOE, I thought they did a great job. Remember, it was told in flashbacks so we didn't have to suffer through the really emotional scenes. (lol)

Your scene is so familiar. I'm thinking.

I'm thinking maybe:

Jezeb el

It does sound like a Bette Davis movie, doesn't it? How about:

the alternate version of Now, Voyager, in which the Paul Henried character leaves his wife and runs off with the Bette Davis character (but the studio wouldn't release it, because it violated the 1940's code which wouldn't allow adulterers to have a happy ending, so they re-shot a new ending, which is the one we know today)?

(lol) I didn't know that Bree. That's priceless.

In Jezebel, Henry Fonda had some sort of fever (maybe, Yellow) and Bette Davis, to atone for her sin of defiantly wearing "red" at the ball Fonda took her to, (because all "good" girls wore white at the ball) offered to spend her remaining years, thus sparing his wife the hardship, tending to him until his death.

Oh, I just made that up about Now, Voyager having an alternate ending -- it's something I like to do when I'm not completely happy with the real ending of a movie!

LOL. I like your ending much better, Bree.

And I've always thought that just because Bette Davis wore her favorite color to the ball that was certainly no reason for Henry Fonda to run off and marry another woman. I mean how much sacrifice can a woman be expected to endure just because she preferred red.

Jezebel is correct.
By the way, wasn't it stated in the movie, perhaps by her aunt, how difficult Julie had always been with Pres? She gave that man a hard time just for sport, as I recall, and the red dress was the last straw for him.

Oh, EOE, you are absolutely correct. Julie and Pres would never have been able to make a go of it. Pres was a stong-willed character who refused to cater to her very whim. I haven't seen Jezebel in a long long time, but I do remember, being frustrated at Julie's treatment of Buck, too. I did'nt want Buck to die.

I may have asked this one before, but here's an

Inbetweener

She harbored a deep resentment toward her sister for marrying the man she loved. She later discovers that he married her sister because he believed at the time that she was pregnant with his child.

One of my mothers' favs.
Dead Ringer, again with Ms. Davis, the second time she played twins in a movie.

Yes indeed. It's Dead Ringer. I recently saw A Stolen Life again. I really liked that one, too.

I'm sorry for the delay in responding, but I had to log off because of thunderstorms and as more are on the way, I won't be back here this evening to check out your new scene. Enjoy!

Somebody give a clue...

For those of you who are eagerly awaiting the release of "Delovely," the movie in which Kevin Kline plays Cole Porter, here's an article about it from Sunday's New York Times:

Cole Porter's Two Biopics? They're Night and Day

I thought it was especially interesting that Kevin Kline was allowed to record the songs live on the set, instead of lip-synching them to a pre-recorded track, which is apparently standard practice. Here's what he said about why he preferred to do it that way:

"When we did the movie of `Pirates of Penzance,' I was driven fairly mad," Mr. Kline recalled. "I said: `How can you act when you're having to lip-sync, and how can we prerecord it when we don't know exactly how it'll be performed? What if I'm hanging upside down?' They said that's how film musicals have always been done, and I said, `Well, it's wrong!' "

Thanks for the very interesting link, Bree. I also read an article in Movieline that had some good photos of Porter and his wife, and Kline and Judd aren't too far off the mark in appearance. It mentions that Porter kept company with Ballets Russes founder, Serge Diaghiliv and Fred and Adele Astaire, and that choreographer Boris Kochno was one of Porter's lovers, so I was anticipating at least one spectacular dance number to Begin the Beguine, but it doesn't look that way. I don't think there'll be any beat beat beat of the tom-tom to Night and Day either.
It will be interesting to see how it does at the box office.

Did anyone watch the AFI's tribute to Meryl Streep? I loved it. I thought Nora Ephron's tribute was hilarious.

Newbie:

While eating pizza in bed, her husband suggests that they sing songs about babies. She can't think of any, so he starts off with "Yessir that's my baby".

I not only watched it, I taped it! I agree that Nora Ephron was the funniest speaker, and I also thought that Tracey Ullman was hilarious. Of course, now I'm dying to know who was the actor in "Plenty" whom Meryl and Tracey didn't like, and were trashing on the plane ride home!

Since I watched the tribute, I know what movie your scene is from, so I'll wait a bit to give someone else a chance to guess.