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Post by ibbi on Jun 10, 2022 14:27:07 GMT
Today would be this absolute legends 100th.
Faves?
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Post by stephen on Jun 10, 2022 14:32:34 GMT
I mean, she'll always be Dorothy to me, and that's a hell of a signature performance. Were it not for the fact that performance came out the same year as two champion all-timers like Vivien and Greta, that performance would be an easy choice for Best Actress.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 11, 2022 17:40:26 GMT
Other than Oz.... I think she's very funny in The Harvey Girls, a fun little Western Musical..... and pretty underrated in A Child is Waiting under Cassavetes.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jun 12, 2022 5:14:54 GMT
Easter Parade For Me and My Gal Meet Me in St Louis In the Good Old Summertime Girl Crazy (my favorite of her Mickey Rooney collaborations) for post MGM days, Judgment at Nuremberg
Heartbreaking talent:
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Post by akittystang on Jul 21, 2022 2:33:50 GMT
Her performance in A Star is Born is an all-time great for me. I watched this with my partner recently, I hadn't seen it in a long time, and I had forgotten just how good she was in it. That movie is so frustratingly close to a masterpiece but those stills-only sequences might only last 10 minutes but it feels like a half hour. They stop the whole thing in its tracks. I wrote this article on Lost Media Wiki to see if there was any interest in finding out whether or not these scenes still exist. I hope so.
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Post by countjohn on Jul 21, 2022 2:44:50 GMT
One of the great voices of the 20th century and had that one of a kind star quality where you have to drop everything you're doing and watch her when she's on screen. Clearly had dramatic acting chops too with Star is Born, The Clock, her little part in Judgement at Nuremberg, and the Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas scene in Meet Me in St. Louis.
I don't think she has a great filmography, a lot of those big 40's musicals she did at the peak of her fame were fluff that haven't aged that well. Wizard of Oz and Star is Born are pretty much her legacy today but that's not bad.
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Post by ibbi on Jul 21, 2022 8:29:50 GMT
Her performance in A Star is Born is an all-time great for me. I watched this with my partner recently, I hadn't seen it in a long time, and I had forgotten just how good she was in it. That movie is so frustratingly close to a masterpiece but those stills-only sequences might only last 10 minutes but it feels like a half hour. They stop the whole thing in its tracks. I wrote this article on Lost Media Wiki to see if there was any interest in finding out whether or not these scenes still exist. I hope so. Can't you still watch the non-restored version??
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Post by hugobolso on Jul 21, 2022 15:56:11 GMT
Today would be this absolute legends 100th. Faves? I don't like it. OK she was great in Oz, but just that. To name one in The Pirate for the first and only time she was also beautiful. She was also a pretty "teen" in "Meet me in Saint Louis".- Last week I tried to see the harvey girls, common on, this movie aged badly. Angela Lansbury is totally miscast. Lansbury never a trully beauty, and looking much older than her age, was prettier than Gaarland in it.- Gaarland was sensitive and fun, but just that. Being a better actress and more charismatic than Deanna Durbin doesn't make her film more wothing than a Durbin one, even with a better script, a better cast, in techincolor and a much more expensive one.- I prefer Durbin voice.- Her films were mostly colourfuls, but at the end plain. Just to have fan and feel good. Of course there should be some exceptions.-
I prefer her daugther Liza, who wasn't prolific but even in the silly film directed by her father and co-stared by Ingrid Bergman was better than everything Judy Garland made.-
I get bored in her two oscar nominated performance films.- Don't get me wrong, she was more than fine in a Star is Born, but the film was boring as hell.-
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Post by akittystang on Jul 22, 2022 6:37:51 GMT
Her performance in A Star is Born is an all-time great for me. I watched this with my partner recently, I hadn't seen it in a long time, and I had forgotten just how good she was in it. That movie is so frustratingly close to a masterpiece but those stills-only sequences might only last 10 minutes but it feels like a half hour. They stop the whole thing in its tracks. I wrote this article on Lost Media Wiki to see if there was any interest in finding out whether or not these scenes still exist. I hope so. Can't you still watch the non-restored version?? I think it was released back in the 80s on VHS, but I honestly have never seen that version and I don't think it's available to view.
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