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Movie Review: ‘Pygmalion’ (12/8/38)
Microfiche-New York Times archives
| 12/8/38
| Frank S. Nugent
Posted on 12/08/2008 5:45:53 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: moviereview; realtime
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To: fredhead; r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; ...
Marge and I watched this British procuction of the G.B. Shaw play over the weekend and we both enjoyed it. I liked it more than ‘My Fair Lady.’ But then I am not a big fan of sixties musicals. It is refreshing to hear, “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain, or, “I’ve grown accustomed to her face,” without the actors breaking into song. I didn’t verify this but this may be Leslie Howard’s last role before he became Ashley Wilkes.
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posted on
12/08/2008 5:56:07 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
I didnt verify this but this may be Leslie Howards last role before he became Ashley Wilkes. Almost.
Intermezzo: A Love Story
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posted on
12/08/2008 8:20:00 AM PST
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
As an aside, I wish I could read the landing points on the TWA route. I’m pretty sure that the one I see there is Albuquerque. I remember when I was a kid and TWA still flew into Albuquerque (before it was the Sunport and SWA). You still had to walk out to the plane and walk up the stairs on the truck.
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posted on
12/08/2008 8:25:49 AM PST
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
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posted on
12/08/2008 8:37:10 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
To: CougarGA7
Intermezzo: A Love Story.U.S. release 9/22/39. I see GWTW didn't open in the U.S. until December 15. I thought it was earlier. I'll have to run the review of Intermezzo. Especially if there is nothing much happening in the news that month.
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posted on
12/08/2008 9:09:51 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: CougarGA7
As an aside, I wish I could read the landing points on the TWA route. My first impression from that ad is that the artist had a problem with scale. It looks like either a tiny airplane about 20 feet over the waving cowpoke or a flying colossus high over the southwest.
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posted on
12/08/2008 9:13:17 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
It wasn't until a recent viewing of
My Fair Lady that I realized that the movie
Trading Places was also
Pygmalion.
It was the scene in MFL where Col. Pickering bets Prof. Higgins that he could convert Eliza Doolittle into a Lady that reminded me of the scene where the Duke brothers reveal their $1 bet that they could turn petty thief Billy Ray Valentine into a Wall Street business man.
Of course, the stories diverge at some point, but the early similarity in plot stood out when I made the "bet" connection.
-PJ
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posted on
12/08/2008 9:24:23 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Leslie Howard fan here! Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
12/08/2008 7:11:35 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
To: LibFreeOrDie; Jakarta ex-pat
Leslie Howard fan here! Thanks for posting this.You are welcome. The movie reviews (and sports stories) are a nice respite from the grim news of this time.
I mean to ping the alphabet-movie guy to the reviews, but I keep forgetting. I finally remembered. I also went back and added the moviereview keyword to all of them over the weekend.
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posted on
12/09/2008 6:10:20 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
We have old copies of the New Yorker that we can check out at the library. It’s interesting to read about this time of our history in real time.
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posted on
12/09/2008 6:15:31 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Here's tonight's offering from Campbell Playhouse
Rebecca.
This is the last one till "A Christmas Carol" which will be presented on the 23rd. (I'm looking forward to that one.)
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12/09/2008 8:47:13 AM PST
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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