Hello everyone. Here are the titles for yesterday's movies:
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Psycho (1960)
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Shane (1953)
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The Red Shoes (1948)
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
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Tall Story (1960)
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Bang the Drum Slowly (1971)
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Blow-Up (1966)
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Nashville (1975)
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Wings (1927)
Wow, that was a tough one. But guess what? Monday's game will be a tiptoe through the tulips.
Hello again, movie fans. It's Thursday. Just another run-of-the-mill dreaded Thursday at Bookman's Movie Screenshot Game. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
Here are the titles for yesterday's lineup:
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
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Laura (1944)
Nosferatu (1922)
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Out of Africa (1985)
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
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Enchanted (2007)
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Pumping Iron (1977)
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Gaslight (1944)
Congratulations to catbert for getting all 10 movies correct. Honorable mention to Paul for coming so close.
On This Day in Movie History …
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| Clark Gable, Jack Holt, Spencer Tracy, and Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco (1936) |
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| Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta (1935) |
… Jeanette MacDonald was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1903. Today a fading memory, her fame in the 1930s and 1940s rested mostly on her beauty and her singing ability in musical-romance-comedies.
Her appearances in her early Paramount films with Maurice Chevalier made her a bona fide star. When she moved to MGM and was teamed with Nelson Eddy, she became a box-office powerhouse. Though she hadn't trained in opera (as Eddy had), her coloratura voice was a soothing counterpoint to Eddy's piercing tenor. The songs she sang in films became hits on the radio.
I think her most impressive performance occurred both behind the scenes of, and in front of the cameras for, the 1936 film, San Francisco. She spearheaded MGM's making of the movie. She brought Anita Loos's screenplay to MGM production chief Irving Thalberg. She personally chose Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy for their roles. She gave, for her, a nuanced performance, which was quite a feat considering she and Gable disdained each other and didn't hesitate to show it when the cameras weren't rolling. Her singing in this movie was largely responsible for Douglas Shearer's second consecutive Oscar for sound recording, having won the previous year for another MacDonald movie, Naughty Marietta. San Francisco was nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture and, for Spencer Tracy, Best Actor, the first of his nine Oscar nominations.
By the mid-1940s, on the down slope of her film career, she went to Europe and formally trained for the opera. She performed as Juliette in Canadian and American opera houses in Roméo et Juliette, and as Helen in American opera houses in Faust. Her performances were universally praised. "[I]f Faust must sell his soul to the devil, at least this time he got his money's worth," according to the music critic at the Chicago Tribune.
MacDonald retired from performing in 1959 and died in 1965.
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Hello again. It's Wednesday, which means we're ramping up the difficulty a bit more.
Here are the titles for yesterday's movies:
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Annie Hall (1977)
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Chicago (2002)
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Field of Dreams (1989)
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Cape Fear (1962)
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Gilda (1946)
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Damn Yankees! (1958)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
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The Artist (2011)
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The Alamo (1960)
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Lifeboat (1944)
Congratulations to catbert once again for getting all 10 of yesterday's movies.
On This Day in Movie History, …
He and Charlie Chaplin performed in the same music-hall comedy troupe in the UK before crossing the Atlantic Ocean together in a cattle boat in 1910. Laurel made his first movie with Oliver Hardy in 1921, the same year that Chaplin made The Kid.
Laurel appeared in 118 films, 107 of them with Hardy. He conceived and directed all his and Hardy's gags, never receiving credit. He often worked late into the night, rewriting scripts and blocking his slapstick moves. He worked around the clock editing the Laurel & Hardy Oscar-winning short, The Music Box (1932).
After WWII, with their film careers in decline, Laurel & Hardy toured the UK and mainland Europe in a series of comedy-sketch theatre performances. They visited and performed in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston. They even gave a Royal Variety Performance in front of King George VI and his wife-consort Elizabeth. The boys spent 7 years in the UK and Europe, returning periodically and briefly to the US before crossing the pond again.
Hardy suffered a debilitating heart attack in 1954 and they had to cancel their tour and return home. Laurel suffered a stroke in 1955. Hardy died in 1957. By all accounts, Laurel never recovered from his partner's death.
In his later years he was befriended by Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, and a young comic named Dick Cavett. Each called Laurel at home after having found his name and number in the phone book. Stan Laurel died in 1965.
A bronze statue of Laurel & Hardy prominently stands outside the Laurel & Hardy Museum in Ulverston, UK.
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| Ginger Rogers in Roberta, one of five Rogers movies released in 1935. |
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| Humphrey Bogart posing with "the dingus" for The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
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101 Dalmatians (1961)
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Forrest Gump (1994)
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The Karate Kid (1984)
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
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The Godfather, Part II (1974)
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Chinatown (1974)
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Groundhog Day (1992)
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
Congratulations to catbert for correctly identifying all 10 of yesterday's movies.
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Hello movie fans. Here are the titles for yesterday's movies. 1. Dances with Wolves (1990) 2. The Birds (1963) 3. Moulin Rouge! (2001...
