I just bawled and bawled when they visited his sweet grandmother, and she played for them.
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Clip from An Affair To Remember
And when he saw her as the woman in the picture he painted ... ohdearlord .. rivers of tears.
God rest her elegant soul.
Posted on 10/18/2007 7:57:57 AM PDT by Borges
Every once in a while, you can catch it somewhere on cable TV [that's how I stumbled upon it].
“One of the last of the classy ladies.”
So true! I can’t think of an actress today you could call “classy” (or actor, for that matter.)
“I watched The Wild Bunch recently and Holden had a presence that very
few actors today can muster. He got better as he got older.”
Gad, maybe it’s because I saw them as a young child (they were old
movies then), that I find so many of today’s movies so lacking:
Stalag 17 (especially Holden’s farewell message!)
Bridge Over The River Kwai (I don’t care if it’s not historically-correct)
The Wild Bunch (too bad many directors are now pathetic
Sam Peckinpah wannabees)
Network (the journalistic lion-in-winter)
The Counterfeit Traitor (I’ve longed hoped someone like Mel Gibson
would do a remake-homage)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000034/
One of my all time favorite actresses.
There’s not one today that can hold a candle to her.
I just bawled and bawled when they visited his sweet grandmother, and she played for them.
Clip from An Affair To Remember
And when he saw her as the woman in the picture he painted ... ohdearlord .. rivers of tears.
God rest her elegant soul.
I think that is she on the right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon
From Here to Eternity is one of my favorite movies and a classic. The scene on the beach was very daring for the time.
If you ever get the chance to see Vacation From Marriage (US title) or Perfect Strangers (UK title) with Deborah Kerr and Robert Donat, don’t pass it up.
I think Moreno’s voice was dubbed by someone else.
As I recall, “Reunion at Fairborough”’s key plot point was an anti-nuke protest — typical for the era.
Borges: I watched The Wild Bunch recently and Holden had a presence that very few actors today can muster. He got better as he got older.
Borges: It’s hard to believe but Olviia De Haviland and Joan Fontaine are both still alive. Fontaine will turn 90 in about a week.
William Holden was The Gipper's best man at his wedding with Nancy.
De Havilland teamed with The Gipper to drive the Communists out of Hollywood [at least temporarily] - in fact, their working group met in de Havilland's apartment.
All of the greats of the golden era were Republicans - Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Holden, Charles Heston - all of them.
And what now are the greatest movies that we remember from the glory days of the 1950's? Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North by Northwest - all featured Republicans leads and all were directed by the arch-conservative Alfred Hitchcock.
For that matter, consider the Republican Gary Cooper, starring in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, in 1949 - can you possibly imagine that movie being made in our era?
It's a real shame [actually a tragedy] that we [somehow] capitulated and allowed The Left to seize total control over the arts & letters in this country.
You know, it's funny - I didn't even remember that.
All I remembered was the chemistry between Kerr & Mitchum - even at their ages [in the movie, in 1985, you've got to figure that their characters would have to have been about 60 or 65 years old, if they were to have participated in WWII, 40 years prior to that time] - even at that point, they still had "it", if you know what I mean.
I don’t think it was that simple politically back then. Look at Depression era films. They are much more left wing than most stuff today. And its hard to believe but John Ford was actually a mean old liberal who made fun of Wayne’s politics.
You are right — Marni Nixon did play one of the nuns in “Sound of Music”. I forgot about her singing for Natalie Wood. I didn’t know she also did Rita Moreno’s singing. Darn good dancer, though! (Thanks for the pic!)
Speaking of William Holden, he starred in what could have been one of the greatest movies to come out of Hollywood, Stalag 17. (It was a shame the producers had to include a gratuitous insinution about service men queering off in prison camp...) His performance was one of the greatest performances ever, IMO. I've had times in my life when I could have done better if I'd paid more attention to the moral lesson portrayed by William Holden in that movie.
Back to the chicks, though, Maureen O'Sullivan, from an earlier time still, was the only one who could compare to Deborah Kerr.
I believe she did sing in “An Affair to Remember.”
Sero Sed Serio.
RIP
Back then without CGI they actually had to act.
BUMP
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