A Movie Scene Quiz

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It's a small world :wink:

I've got a question.

Today, while watching Madame X with Lana Turner, our power went off due to strong winds. It was just before the end of the movie. I have never seen the end. Grrrr.

Can anyone tell me if her son, Keir Dullea, ever finds out that Madame X , Lana Turner, is his mother?

Raggedy,

It has been a long time since I saw the film, "Madame X". I vaguely remember Dullea's character finding out in his last conversation with Madame X.

Hi Wandeljw. Thanks for your input.

It had been such a long time since I'd seen the movie, I couldn't remember. So I decided to watch it again. I was under the impression that her son never found out her true identity, but now I'm not certain.

Raggedy,

I am not sure either. I saw the film only once. I remember that I was watching the first network television showing of "Madame X". This would have been the late sixties or early seventies.

Speaking of network television, my daughter Katrina now lives in Burbank, California where she works as a production assistant for the WB network.

Somebody here will know the answer I'm sure. Maybe, Mac.

I hope Katrina likes her job, Wandeljw. Sounds like a "fun" job to me.

I don't know that film at all! Sorry, maybe bree will wander by...

HI Mac. You've got to see that one. It's a tearjerker no one should miss.

Darn, Netflix doesn't have it! I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for it on cable.

It was on TCM and I'm sure will be on again. If you are going to watch it some time, maybe it's good Wandeljw and I forgot the ending.

Just want to tell Bree and Mac that I agree with them about Annette Bening's performance in "Being Julia". I watched it yesterday and I thought she was superb. I also enjoyed Juliet Stevenson's character.

And Mac, you mentioned "Under the Tuscan Sun". I watched it, too, and liked it a lot.

I'm just wandering by to say that, unfortunately, I've never seen "Madame X", so I don't know how it ends.

The reason I didn't wander by sooner is that I just got back, last night, from four days in Paris. I had enough miles on Delta for a free ticket, and I figured that, now that Delta's bankrupt, I should use the miles sooner rather than later. To answer the question that everyone has been asking, I was fortunate in that my trip wasn't affected by the riots. In fact, if I hadn't watched CNN or read the International Herald Tribune, I wouldn't have known that anything out of the ordinary was happening in Paris.

I had a great time: I visited several museums (impressionists at the d'Orsay and the Marmottan, the "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries at the Cluny), went on a walking tour of Art Nouveau architecture, and the rest of the time I just walked around and soaked up some of my favorite places in Paris (the Luxembourg Gardens, the Place des Vosges, the Place Dauphine). And, of course, ate and drank very well.

And now to return this thread to its movie theme: on the flight home, I watched - but did not listen to, because sometimes it's more fun to watch a movie that way - "Wedding Crashers". If anybody here saw it, can you tell me whose funeral they were at in the scene near the end, with Will Ferrell?

Oh, and Raggedy, I'm glad you enjoyed "Being Julia". I loved the scene where she's berating herself for being a terrible person, and her husband -- instead of reassuring her that she really isn't terrible -- says, "Nevertheless, you're a great actress".

I can't help you with Wedding Crashers, bree. I'm sure someone on a2k could though, if you want to ask about it on a new thread.

I'm so glad you've been in Paree and that the riots didn't affect your visit!

Thanks for posting about your trip, Bree. I'm so glad you had a great time. <sigh> I just watched "The Last Time I Saw Paris" with Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson. (based upon F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited") and "Before Sunset". I've never been there, but I can dream, can't I?

I didn't see "The Wedding Crashers" either. (I didn't know that you enjoyed silents, Bree. )

I'm surprised that neither you nor Mac saw "Madame X". The play by Alexandre Bisson was called "La Femme X". In 1937, Gladys George had the title role, in 1966 Lana Turner , and in 1981 Tuesday Weld (TV). I did not see the 1937 version or the TV version . It's a real "soaper", and Lana Turner really gave it her all. It's just too bad I can't remember the end.

As for that scene with Bening and Irons - I can still see the expression on Bening's face. Priceless.

Well, in 'Madame X', Lana Turner dies in the end and her son, who was her court-appointed lawyer, never knew that she was his mother. Hope that didn't spoil it for anyone but...

but now I don't have to watch it again, EOE. Thank you so much.

Nice to see you again.

Just checking in...

My mother and I would watch 'Madame X' whenever it came on television. It was one of her favs.

It was a favorite of my mother, too, but with Gladys George. She never saw Turner's version.

I just wish the son would have found out her true identity.

Continuing our book into movie theme, Bree asked this one before, but since it's his birthday today, and I want to post his picture, I'm asking it again.

Marisa Tomei (two words in title) + Robert Mitchum (one word in title)



My favorite:

My Cousin Vinny (Tomei) + Rachel and the Stranger (Mitchum)

Wow -- today would have been Richard Burton's 80th birthday. It's hard to imagine him being that age.