REALLY? I haven't seen Paris When It Sizzles--thanks for the generous information on this regard. By the way, remember the roller-skate dance sequence in...
Let me back up Chris's verdict on Paris When it Sizzles. It's a stinker. I once sat through it to see how they handled Fred's song. They had cut it out for...
I think it helped Gene that he played hockey in his youth, as well as other sports. Fred roller skated in his youth. Who knows what he could have done on...
Cole Porter could walk a mile, lyric-wise, with that question...as could Johnny Mercer. "When an irrestible force, such as you." Commas, by and large, I think...
As I commented a few years ago, only Astaire's voice is present in the film. Audrey wakes up and follows the series of manuscript pages from her bedroom to the...
This may create a modicum of controversy, but when I look back upon all of the television interviews with Gene and Fred, I really think that they were trying...
Wonderful commentary, Chris. Jay P.S. Bill Holden was an intriguing actor. How you go from I Love Lucy to "Network," I don't know. ... pages ... the ... the ...
This morning Rob and I tuned into Turner to see what they were showing, and it was a movie we'd just viewed recently. Rob switched to the HBO channels to see ...
And they cut that scene out!. Why, I'll never understand. At the time I made a videotape and even played back through it afterwards to verify. The captions...
The danger of having Turner on in the morning. I've been "almost" late for work many times. For me, I lost TCM to digital a couple of weeks ago but will get ...
"Paris When It Sizzles" is based on a French film classic of the 50's, "Holiday For Henrietta." I saw it once years ago in New York. It's a good satire on...
William Holden has always been one of my favorite actors, other than this one and Sabrina, was he in any other movies with Audrey Hepburn? Dan Jim Mulholland...
This is how Holden got from sizzling Paris to the Brown Derby and Lucy's cluthes, to Manhattan's UBS Network. He made a stop on the way to Stalag 17, and...
Only those two. During the making of "Sabrina," the two fell in love, but things did not work out (for one thing, he was married at the time). I often wonder...
Oh, and I forget his return to Broadway in "The Country Girl" where both he and Bing Crosby fell in love with Grace Kelly -- not only in the movie, but in real...
I got the Paddy right but not the Chayefsky Felix Unger: Idiot idiot idiot! Oscar: Hey, Felix! You gonna be cryin' in the toilet all day? I've milk here that...
Holden did find it difficult to work with Hepburn again and was drinking heavily during the shoot. In fact, the only reason that Tony Curtis is in the movie...
Just thinking such thoughts is the reason I find myself glued to the television during a broadcast of something I own on DVD and have seen hundreds of times. ...
I'll say Holden's Billy Wilder's favorite, all started with Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder is a master for black and white movies. Dan samiskee@... wrote: ...
One of my proudest moments is when my hubby turned to me and said "if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have experienced all of these great movies". Awwwwww......
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Jun 1, 2007 7:39 pm
<..."Though it's true Astaire wasn't impressed with Bojangles...> On the contrary, my understanding is that Fred was quite an admirer of "Bojangles" (Bill...
He may have been nuts about the number, but he wasn't a huge fan of Bill Robinson. John Mueller's Astaire Dancing p.116: "Astaire was not particularly ...
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Jun 1, 2007 8:54 pm
I'm inclined to accept Fred's own description of Robinson as a "great" and even "incomparable" dancer as evidence of his admiration, which is not to say that...
If I remember correctly, Robinson didn't use his upper body much. Dottie ... From: RussellMA@... To: astaire@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 3:53...
What the two men thought of each other is, from my limited perspective, clouded by tact versus sincerety. However, they were competitors...let's face it. Jay ...
... one tough act to follow. I cannot imagine that Mr.Astaire felt any jealousy because he did not have to prove anything; Gene Kelly, if anything, had to...
