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To: miss marmelstein
You're the only person I know who might appreciate this old story and film.

I love it because I love NYC. NY is the heart of America.

I believe this and I grew up in a tiny town in South Georgia.

2 posted on 05/14/2017 3:38:16 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Thank you! Yes, Steiger was the first Marty. This was shown on tv years ago and I saw it. Nancy Marchand - Mrs. Soprano - plays the spinster.


3 posted on 05/14/2017 3:42:13 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: RoosterRedux; miss marmelstein

I watched this a few months ago. I am on a mission to watch every Best Picture winner.

Enjoyable film.


5 posted on 05/14/2017 3:51:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: RoosterRedux
Wonderful movie. Just saw it on TCM. Only in America could a Jewish intellectual (Chayefsky) from the Bronx write such a moving story about a humble Italian American butcher.

What a great actor Earnest Borgnine was. He was a tough guy in From Here to Eternity and then went on to win an Academy Award for Marty.


6 posted on 05/14/2017 3:51:33 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: RoosterRedux; miss marmelstein

As a born and raised NY City boy, a few years after the TV version, we had to read “Marty” in English class. I did not have a part, but one of my favorite lines was.....

“I’ll never forgive LaGuardia for cutting out burlesque outta New York City”


14 posted on 05/14/2017 4:41:01 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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