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Perpendicular, hanging on a cable car | Threw it all away for 32 animals sewn together in a coat | Are we getting into botany, Doctor? Are we flowers?
Joan Bennett spent a full decade playing (very effectively) nothing but tramps on screen and then, as quick as you can say Jack Robisnon, portrayed the ideal upper-middle-class WASP mom. I salute her dexterity. (I actually kinda love her.) #TCMParty #TheNoirCollective #FatherOfTheBride
We're 35 minutes into this, and all I have to say is WHERE IS MY SECOND-FAVORITE JOAN? #TCMParty #TheNoirCollective #Manhunt
"Accent, smackcent. He's Canadian. No one in Peoria will notice the difference." —Every Old Hollywood producer when greenlighting the casting of Walter Pidgeon in the role of a Brit, yet again. #TCMParty #ManHunt #TheNoirCollective
I know that being a Republican many decades ago was far different from being a Republican today. But I do have a soft spot in my heart for classic film actors and actresses who were stalwart liberals. None of that "Citizens for Goldwater" shit from Joan Bennett. Never. #TCMParty #ScarletStreet
Judging from the lively activity on the #TCMParty feed today, I'd say that Joan Bennett is a very, very good #SUTS choice. #ScarletStreet
Glenn Ford must've made a gazillion dollars (adjusted for inflation) from the early 1950s through the mid-1960s. He's starred in, like, one out of every 10 movies released during that period! #TCMParty #AdvanceToTheRear
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky…
Kim Britt Knits 🧶@kphbritt.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky…
"Twelve or 22, Miss Potter is a brilliant pianist." I cannot. June's 46 years old in this movie if she's a day! #TCMParty #TooYoungToKiss #YesIKnowJuneWasBornIn1917
🎶Lady cab driver, can you take me for a ride?🎶 I can't speak for Prince, but I am minorly obsessed with cataloguing all of the cabbies of the distaff sex who show up in WW II-era films. #TCMParty #TheBigSleep
"The word is cer-AM-ics, and they ain't Egyptian" is a very funny line. She got one thing right! #TCMParty #TheBigSleep
Few people are old enough to remember the vicious Aunt Bea Smack-Down Wars of the early 1960s. I wasn't born until later in the decade, but I vividly recall my mother weeping over the senseless loss of life as she mixed her next round of martinis to help numb the pain. #TCMParty #MidnightLace
I've never bought the story that Doris Day, whose singing voice is a gift from the gods, had little interest in singing until a car accident derailed her dancing aspirations, and she had nothing to do during her convalescence but listen to Ella Fitzgerald on the radio. Doris was DRIVEN. #TCMParty
I am committed to using "That tears it" in casual conversation at least three times a year. You should be, too. #TCMParty #LoverComeBack
Take note: In the film, the title song includes the lyric, "Whoever said they like breakfast in bed with a real good book?" (Huh?) In the version of the song on Wonderful Day, the lyric is: "Whoever said they like crawling in bed with a real good book?" (Naughty!) #LoverComeBack #TCMParty
I’ve a hunch that Patsy Kelly and the local veterinarian are going to become very close friends. #PleaseDontEatTheDaisies #TCMParty
My best friend had his annual checkup today, at a veterinary clinic that was bought out by venture capitalists a few years ago. Total cost: $920.00. They want your pets to die. They want you to die. I am so very tired of the dystopia.
Oh, dear. I wish it hadn't come to this, but recent events on my TL give me no other choice: I'm putting "Odyssey" on another seven-day block. Please, little baby Jesus, make the discourse stop. I been to college like everyone else, but this is tooooo much.
As if we didn't have enough reasons never to trust a man named Steve. #TheNoirCollective #NoManOfHerOwn
This movie is beautifully photographed, its shots complexly structured and lighted. Hats off to the very stern-looking and future Academy Award–winning cinematographer Daniel Fapp. #TheNoirCollective #NoManOfHerOwn
When a character in a film noir says, "I don't have any folks," you know they're doomed. #TheNoirCollective #NoManOfHerOwn
Stanwyck suffers for your sins in this movie. ALL of them. #TheNoirCollective #NoManOfHerOwn
The never-married Sterling Holloway adopted a son late in life. The son was a full-grown adult at the time. Estate Management 101 for elder gays of a certain era. #TCMParty #ElmerTheGreat
Magnani's is one of those "She* earned every fucking ounce of that Oscar" performances. Like, who can quibble? *Or he, as the case may be. #TCMParty #TheRoseTattoo
Pumping... pumping... pumping... Messgage received, Norma. #TCMParty #SunsetBoulevard
Anyone who's owned a vintage caned chair will understand how crazy it is that the rear haunches of Norma's Isotta Fraschini are clad in caning, as was the rage for high-end luxury cars in the 20s and early 30s. imagine the upkeep expenses on the caning alone. #TCMParty #SunsetBoulevard
The Isotta Franchini hasn't been driven since 1932. What did Norma and Max use for daily driving in the ensuing 18 years? #TCMPart #SunsetBoulevard
Wacker. Because on some levels, I am eternally 13 years old.
Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2w agopoll: what is your favorite street name in Chicago? [warning that if you reply you need to be prepared for your answer to be milkshake ducked]
