O'Toole and Joan... 
Fontaine both passed away today. Two more from my youth... 
gone--
Posted on 12/15/2013 5:16:52 PM PST by Borges
And now I’m off to shuteye land. 5am comes mighty early...
You’uns have yourselves a great night...
Filthy lifeforms.
You too...stay warm!
RIP. She and her sister had/have two of the best names (as in the elegant sound of them, to this American pair of ears) for movie stars.
“...their mother played one off against another, making them compete with each other in unhealthy ways.”
Very sad.
RIP Joan Fontaine.
“She was also in “Gone With the Wind”.
Olivia DeHavilland is in GWTW, not her sister Miss Fontaine.
And she is GREAT in it!
O'Toole and Joan... Fontaine both passed away today. Two more from my youth... gone--
“...a lot of people have died.”
As my snarky Irish grandmother would say: people are dying who never died before.
“We won’t know if they’re famous for another 20 or so years, if they’re born today...”
Well, except for that wee British Royal born earlier this year.
And my grandson, I feel sure he’ll be famous someday, I just hope it’s for good! He’s a very nice little boy, as I’m sure Kate’s baby is too.
Amen to that.
Loved Parker in “The Man With The Golden Arm”. Sinatra was also great in it, and it was one of Kim Novak’s better roles, IMO.
Billy Jack died, too. The original Billy Jack, Tom Laughlin.
In addition to Parker and Fontaine, I also read that another familiar 1940s/50s actress, Audrey Totter, 95, also died a few days ago. Don’t think it was posted here, but I saw it reported elsewhere.
“Arsenic and Old Lace”
Oh God, I hated that classic film. I hated it so much I have no idea why I watched it all the way through the end.
Never seen it.
The funny thing about Gone With The Wind is of the main four actors (Gable Leigh Howard and De Havilland) Olivia has outlived the others but in the movie itself her character Melanie is the only one of the main four that dies. If Olivia makes it she will turn 100 in 2016. She has probably outlived almost everyone associated with Gone With the Wind including the child actor who played Rhett and Scarlett’s daughter.
I always thought Rhett should have gone after Melanie; they would have been perfect together.
Bitch Scarlett should have ended up with her precious 3/4 of a fag, Ashley.
I always enjoyed “Arsenic and Old Lace.” But I remember when I saw Cary Grant during the time he was going around on a tour of colleges (shortly before he died), and taking questions from the audience, someone asked him about the movie, and he stated he LOATHED his performance in it. Felt he played it too broadly. Wasn’t happy at all about the film.
Actually, he had a point. The film is undeniably funny, but was a tad too overdone, in both the direction and some performances. If it had been toned down just a smidgeon, with more subtlety and more dryness, I think the film would have been even better.
No kidding...53 Dallas Cowboys died today from asphyxiation.
I’m trying to think of a comedy that I’ve seen that I would rate as poorly. “Flubber” with Robin Williams and “Inspector Gadget”, maybe “Men in Black 2”. Even those while incredibly stupid weren’t torturous to watch like this movie.
Maybe it’s just me.
On IMDB I set it to show me “love/hate” when it comes to reviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/reviews
I’d consider giving another it chance, it was a while ago I saw, but I read a review from this guy who said he saw it as a teenager and still hates it.
I also hated “Field of Dreams”. It can lonely hating a classic movie that most people LOVE.
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