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Another good acttress, Patricia Hayes, i believe she was with Hancock too. "Go to work on an egg".

Back later I expect.

Pam.

PS. Picked up a DVD for 99p...all about the year I was born...1955!

Morning film lovers,

Roy I still haven't watched my DVD! Going to have to give it a look tonight!

Yes I remember Patricia Hayes in that play years ago, I have to be honest though...think i was more interested in going out with my boyfriend of the time...but I think they may have repeated it. It makes me think of Alan Bennett's Lady in The Van...I have that on Audio tape and love listening to it...if you have trouble sleeping Mr Bennett's voice just lulls you to sleep, better than a sleeping tablet I suspect!

Take care everyone...........

Pam.

Dear All

Hello

Yes, Roy I remember seeing this film.

I also like "Here comes Mr Jordan" a film on a similar theme, with
Claude Rains, Robert Montgomery and James Gleason.

Oh and another excellent fim "A matter of life and death"
with David Niven.

We have a stockpile of films that we all seem to watch over and over again.........!

Hello Pam, nice to see you back.

Best wishes to all
xx

A little nudge

Thank you
xx

Hi folks, thanks for nudging this thread too!

Haven't been on here for a bit as have done a couple of night shifts...and Roy I still haven't watched Sunset Boulevard...but am going to in a while.

Hi Elizabeth, hope you're okay.

Totally agree with you about the film A Matter of Life and Death, very good. I think I have mentioned this film before, can't remember who starred in it...but it had such a sad ending and made me cry when I saw it as a little girl..."A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

Regards to all......

Pam.

Hello all, atlast made time to watch Sunset Boulevard, oh what a great film, really enjoyed it...and I'd forgotton the beginning and what a strange start it had. Exellent stuff.

Getting back to A tree Grows in Brooklyn, I can remember getting so upset as the dad in the film, And I'm guessing he was played by James Dunn, Roy, dies in a doorway and it's snowing, it broke my heart as the dad was his daughters hero, much like my dear dad was to me and I think that's what upset me so. I was very young when I first saw it...don';t think I could watch it without getting upset even now, some film evoke such memories don't they.

Haven't seen The Spiral Staircase, so will keep an eye out for it.

Pam.

If you get the opportunity to watch it I recommend GUNS AT BATASI in which Richard Attenborough plays RSM lauderdale. Made in 1964. Mia Farrow has her first film role in this. Also starring Jack Hawkins and Flora Robson.

Michael Caine's made a new film where he plays a geriatric avenger of wrongs in his high rise estate

Richard Attenborough also played the husband of a rather deranged psychic medium

He is a very versatile actor

The arresting officer sat in on her last seance

You mentioned john Leyton in The Great Escape and Gunns at Batasi.
both good films
I remember seeing him on tour with Billy Fury,Joe Brown,Eden Kane and Karl Denver.Loved his records ,Johnny Remember Me ect

I'm showing my age MO I can remembder all of them lol

It was my first every live gig I saw
It was great

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are all well and doing okay.

Here's a couple of musicial films I found in the local charity shop:

"Les Girls", 1957

Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor and Kay Kendall.
This was the last film that Cole Porter did a film score for.
Mitzi Gaynor, who was in "South Pacific" is still performing in USA and is very popular.

"Take me out to the ball game", 1949.

Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett,
and Esther Williams. Esther plays the new owner of a all-male baseball club at the turn of the century and she knows more about baseball than the players!

Most of the cast were reunited for the classic "On the Town".

"To be or not to be", 1942

Jack Benny, Robert Stack and Carole Lombard.
Sadly, this was her last film as she was killed in a plane accident.

It is about a Polish acting troupe, who help to outwit the nazis during WW11. Considered to be one of the finest satires made.

Very best wishes to all
xx

Hi all, how nice to see the thread 'getting going' again so to speak, I know that we all have busy times in our lives and can't always come on the threads as often as we sometimes have been, myself included.

Hi Mo hope you're doing okay...still so envious of you seeing Free or was it Bad Company live, anyway seeing my Paul Rodgers live!

David, I don't think you can ever go wrong with any film with Richard Attenborough in it, great actor.

Elizabeth, my dad's favourite was Carole Lombard...well one of many film stars he was in love with! Think she was promoting War Bonds wasn't she when that plane crash happened. Clarke Gable was inconsolable for many years apparantly.

Roy, I think Seance on a Wet Afternoon was on telly the other afternoon. Getting back to films we can't watch 'cos of evoking memories and upsetting me so, I can't watch "Hear My Song", with Ned Beatty playing Josef Loke, my dad and I used to watch it often as he lived here with us in his final years as he became so frail, also Doctor Zhivago, Waterloo Road, Wicked Lady, lots of Fred and Ginger films too....all the old ones that I still have on video, but I can't part with them.

Hope you're all keeping okay and lovely to see our thread so busy!


Pam.

Wasn't the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd a dancer before politics ?

Hi all, yes I think she was David, certainly she was a very glamorous lady and kept them all in check!

Yes Elizabeth, hope you're feeling better.

Roy that was wonderful i'll bet meeting all those celebs, I'm very envious!

Talking of Carole Lombard, I know i have mentioned this one before but it was a while ago..."Bolero" with her and George Raft, their dance routine was fabulous. He was an exellent dancer as I'm sure you all know, and a good looking man in his younger years...think some of the people he knew may have been a bit "iffy" to say the least. Am I right in thinking he was banned from casinos in London in the fifties, remember my dad telling me something along those lines.

Anyway have a good day and keep safe folks.

Pam.

Pam,iit was Bad Company and he was brilliant

Dear All

Hello

Thank you Roy and Pam for your good wishes.

"I confess", made in 1953 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Montgomery Clift plays a priest who hears a confession and then finds himself framed for murder.

Karl Malden and Anne Baxter co-star.

Has anyone watched "The Thin Man" series of films with Myrna Loy and William Powell? The series "Hart to Hart" was loosely based on this.

Has anyone noticed that none of the five channels show musicals now?
Its been ages since a Deanna Durbin film was played.

Best wishes to all
xx

Hi all, yes Roy "They Drive By Night" another good one, saw it last year on the telly one afternoon. This is a bit goulish I know, but apparantly George Raft and Mae West had a bit of a fling when they were younger and passed away within a very short time of each other, so close infact they were both in the same mortuary, although not buried near to each other.

Good film on at 10.30 0n BBC 4 tonight..."In Which We Serve"...I bet David watches it! I know i shall.

IO always liked Rod Steiger, and think he was exellent in "Scareface", the older one about Al Capone, or maybe it was called Al Capone...not sure to be honest.


Anyway going to watch In Which We Serve in a little while.

Working a night shift tomorrow night so be back on here Monday evening all being well.

Regards to all...


Pam