A Movie Scene Quiz

Oh, my ... he may be 102 years old, but he still looks good.

None But the Brave (Sinatra) + Lonely Heart(s) (Roberts) - written and directed by Clifford Odets, adapted from a Richard Llewellyn novel

Were you referring to Gustav's avatar, bree?

I had no idea Cary would be that age. I'll always remember him as he was in "Notorious". <sigh> He looked pretty good 11 years later in "An Affair to Remember", too.

Yes to "None But the Lonely Heart". What a depressing novel. It's hard to believe that it's by the same author as "How Green Was My Valley (although it had many sad moments, it wasn't depressing).

I thought Ethel Barrymore was superb as Cary Grant's mother in None But the Lonely Heart.

Don't be silly, wandeljw -- Gus's avatar doesn't look a day over 101.

That picture of Cary Grant took my breath away. <sigh>

Happy 64th birthday to Michael Crawford. You know - That Music of the Night guy.




and remembering John Raitt who was also born on this date. (1917-2005)






That's Jan Clayton , the original Julie, with Raitt in Carousel. I never saw her on "Lassie". (She died at age 66. )

They both have fabulous voices! How funny that they share a birthday.

Must be something about Jan. 19. One of my first heartthrobs also shares their birthday. This is how he looked in his first movie except he had curly hair poking out of his sailor cap. He was on leave from the Coast Guard, spotted at a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast, and signed for a small role as a sailor in a Selznick movie. Before the movie was released he went back to the service and then the studio was inundated with fan mail and requests for a photo of him.




(I still like to look at his picture. )

I have to admit, I had never heard of Guy Madison until you posted those pictures (a little detective work with the "properties" of the images you posted gave me his name). And, after taking a quick look at the list of his movies on imdb, I don't think I've seen any of them. But he certainly was easy on the eyes.

Same here, this is the first I've heard of Guy. He looks very familiar though.

From IMDb:

Despite an initial amateurishness to his acting, Madison grew as a performer, studying and working in theatre. He played leads in a series of programmers before being cast as legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock in the TV series of the same name. He played Hickock on TV and radio for much of the 1950s, and many of the TV episodes were strung together and released as feature films. Madison managed to squeeze in some more adult-oriented roles during his off-time from the series, but much of this work was also in Westerns. After the Hickock series ended, Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and travelled to Europe where he became a popular star of Italian Westerns German adventure films. In the 1970s, he returned to the U.S., but appeared mainly in cameo roles. Physical ailments limited his work in latter years, and he died from emphysema in 1996. His first wife was actress Gail Russell."

You've got to watch TCM to see Gail Russell. I doubt if you saw "The Uninvited" or "Angel and the Badman" in which she was a Quaker and John Wayne was the badman, or"Wake of the Red Witch" .
And I doubt if you would care to see them. (lol)

I just looked up "Angel and the Badman" on imdb. One of the comments described it as being remarkably similar to "Witness", which made it sound intriguing (perhaps more intriguing than it really is).

It's a pleasant movie and one of John Wayne's better ones, but with a typical Hollywood ending. (I'm not a John Wayne fan)

Russell's "The Uninvited" was a hit in its day.
Tagline: From the Most Popular Mystery Romance since "Rebecca"!

and it was exciting back then. Ray Milland was the leading man and it had a good cast with Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Donald Crisp.
Gail Russell also played Cornelia Otis Skinner in "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" and I remember really enjoying that one.

From IMDb: On August 26, 1961, Gail was found dead in her small studio apartment in Los Angeles, California. Death was attributed to an alcohol induced heart attack. She was only 36 years old. Had it not been for the alcohol, Gail's career could have been one of the most stable in Hollywood.

Gail and Guy were the ideal movie magazine couple.

White Countess finally opened in Houston today and I saw it after work. It was good and bad. I kept thinking of how it reminded me of other movies. (Yeah, I know, that's because I see so many!) The sleazy nightclub scenes and some costumes reminded me of Cabaret. I was reminded of the Shanghai scenes in Empire of the Sun. And, as bree pointed out, the similarities to Casablanca were there too.

Mostly, it was a big waste of talent. Lynn & Vanessa had about 20 lines between them. And which American actor would I have cast? It's hard to think of someone who doesn't seem too modern, and is believably proper enough to be a former diplomat. I guess that's how they ended up with Rafe.

"Good and bad" is a good description of The White Countess, mac. I'm not sorry I saw it, I'm just sorry it wasn't better than it was.

This singing-without-a-microphone thing is obviously catching on: at Barbara Cook's concert at the Metropolitan Opera (you read that right) last night, she sang her encore, "We'll Be Together Again" without a microphone. I heard every word from my seat in the grand tier (I had to strain a bit to hear her at first, because my ears were accustomed to hearing her sing with a microphone, but once I made the adjustment, it was fine).

It was a fabulous concert, and would have been so even without the special "surprise guests" -- although I'm certainly not complaining about having Elaine Stritch drop by to sing "The Ladies Who Lunch", to say nothing of appearances by Audra McDonald and Josh Groban.

Barbara Cook began the program by singing "If They Could See Me Now" in front of a photo of her first grade class, projected onto the back wall of the stage. She went on to sing a wonderfully varied program that included songs by Gershwin, Berlin, Arlen, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sondheim (several of his songs), and a couple of contemporary songwriters. She said the concert was being recorded, and I definitely intend to buy the CD when it's released.

The song that made perhaps the biggest impression on me was "A Wonderful Guy", from South Pacific, simply because she made it new: we've all heard the song hundreds of times, but when Barbara Cook sang it last night, it became a song about a real woman who is simultaneously head over heels in love and able to laugh at herself for being in that condition. Sounds obvious when you read it in print, but it was a revelation in performance.

<sigh> Thanks for going and for reporting back, bree. I'm sincerely jealous. Do let me know when the CD comes out - that's one I'd like to own too.

Oh bree, that sounds like a wonderful concert. And, at the Met. <sigh> Thanks for telling us about it. (I wish they had televised it. ) I, too, will look for that C.D.

I'm thinking of Elaine Stritch and the very first song I ever heard her sing. "Zip" from a fifties Broadway revival of "Pal Joey" and some verses from that song.

Zip! I consider Dali's painting passe.
Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?
Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark.
Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!
I have read the great Cabala,
And I simply worship Allah.
Zip! I am just a mystic.
I don't care for Whistler's mother,
Charlie's aunt, or Shubert's brother.
Zip! I'm misogynistic.
Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand.
Zip! Who the hell is Sally Rand?

Zip! Toscanini leads the greatest of bands.
Zip! Jergens Lotion does the trick for his hands.
Zip! Rip Van Winkle on the screen would be smart.
Zip! Tyrone Power will be cast in the part.
I adore the great Confucius,
And the lines of luscious Lucius.
Zip! I am so ecletic.
I don't care for either Mickey Mouse and Rooney make me sicky!
Zip! I'm a little hectic.
Zip! My artistic taste is classic and dear.
Zip! Who the hell is Lili St. Cyr?

I wonder if she thought of that song while she stood on the Met stage.

I wonder too. She performed "Zip" in her one-woman show (the one for which she won a Tony) a couple of years ago, so the lyrics should still be pretty fresh in her mind.

Oh, I had forgotten about that show.
I remembered that she was in the revival of Show Boat. On the CD, as Parthy,she talks, more than sings, Why Do I Love You? , the song originally sung by Magnolia and Gaylord.