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Post by Viced on Dec 4, 2017 3:50:27 GMT
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 9, 2017 16:08:28 GMT
Pillow Talk! That's the one I will never tire of. My favorite scene is when the woman overhears Rock Hudson blatantly lying to Doris Day and sings "you lied you dog and you will be sorry!" And Hudson smirks.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 11, 2017 18:53:27 GMT
Love Me Or Leave Me! That's my fave Cagney too.......
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 11, 2017 23:13:29 GMT
Love Me Or Leave Me! That's my fave Cagney too....... Apparently... Pacino, Winona Ryder, n Harold Becker were to do a remake, I think in the '90s? !
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 11, 2017 23:56:15 GMT
I'm a big fan of her as an actress (a pretty bang up singer as well), but her image kept her in more wholesome roles. Nothing against those (and she was excellent in all of them), but my favorite of hers has got to be The Man Who Knew Too Much. She was allowed to go outside of her typecasting and blew me away.
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Post by taranofprydain on Dec 12, 2017 0:12:15 GMT
Pillow Talk, but then again, she is one of my very favorites, and I liked all the films I have seen of hers to varying degrees.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Dec 12, 2017 6:17:17 GMT
Lover Come Back
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Post by MsMovieStar on Dec 13, 2017 8:01:00 GMT
Midnight Lace
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 20, 2017 17:16:54 GMT
I'm a big fan of her as an actress (a pretty bang up singer as well), but her image kept her in more wholesome roles. Nothing against those (and she was excellent in all of them), but my favorite of hers has got to be The Man Who Knew Too Much. She was allowed to go outside of her typecasting and blew me away. She is one talented lady. I love her speaking voice too (as well as her singing voice).
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Post by pickpocket on Jan 9, 2018 11:06:18 GMT
Big fan. Her sunny disposition and boundless energy elevates even the weakest of material. It's not spoken of much, but she could really hold her own against some of the heavyweights (Cagney, Gable, Lemmon). She's so effective in dramatic efforts like Love Me or Leave Me, it's a shame she didn't get to develop upon that further.
Because of her midwestern background she easily slipped into everywoman roles. She was probably most in her element in social satire. She's great in The Pajama Game and It Happened to Jane, where she strips the Hollywood veneer and inhabits these small town environments and their homegrown battles with a conviction that doesn't leave a trace of acting.
I love her in her more urbane forays too, notably Pillow Talk, where her chemistry with Hudson is one of the highlights of their careers. You can tell they're having an immense ball.
Her range might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but she covered a fair amount of ground from musicals to thrillers, romantic comedies, social satire, and westerns. To achieve the success she did as a leading lady spanning the late 40s through to the 60s is pretty impressive.
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Post by pickpocket on Jan 10, 2018 10:22:36 GMT
Big fan. Her sunny disposition and boundless energy elevates even the weakest of material. It's not spoken of much, but she could really hold her own against some of the heavyweights (Cagney, Gable, Lemmon). She's so effective in dramatic efforts like Love Me or Leave Me, it's a shame she didn't get to develop upon that further. Because of her midwestern background she easily slipped into everywoman roles. She was probably most in her element in social satire. She's great in The Pajama Game and It Happened to Jane, where she strips the Hollywood veneer and inhabits these small town environments and their homegrown battles with a conviction that doesn't leave a trace of acting. I love her in her more urbane forays too, notably Pillow Talk, where her chemistry with Hudson is one of the highlights of their careers. You can tell they're having an immense ball. Her range might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but she covered a fair amount of ground from musicals to thrillers, romantic comedies, social satire, and westerns. To achieve the success she did as a leading lady spanning the late 40s through to the 60s is pretty impressive. Partly her fault though right? she chose projects which didn't alienate the fanbase she had at all. Well according to her autobiography, her husband (producer Martin Melcher), exerted a great degree of control over her career and convinced her to take on projects for the paycheck. Finances that he controlled and used towards his gambling. You might wonder at her lack of autonomy, but remember that she was working in a conservative, male dominated era.
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