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@slimfern posted:

I'll avoid those ones then El

I watched 'The Titfield Thunderbolt' on Saturday...a classic Ealing comedy
Then yesterday I watched 'Pillow Talk' & 'The Duke'

A small mercy due to the football coverage

I've only seen one Alain Resnais film and found it boring

I had a suspicion that you might have watched "The Titfield Thunderbolt" and "Pillow Talk" Next Saturday BBC Two has "27 Dresses" which I assume is one of those American rom-coms and on Sunday morning another Doris Day comedy "Lover Come Back". Sunday afternoon they've got "Mary, Queen of Scots" (Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson) so somewhat different from the other films.

El Loro

I posted this in the old thread

Slim, I see that "It Should Happen to You" (1954) is on the Film4 channel tomorrow morning at 11 am. An American comedy about a young woman (Judy Holliday) who goes to New York dreaming of fame. Jack Lemmon is in the film in his feature film debut as is Peter Lawford. It's a likeable film

@slimfern posted:

Thanks El

I'll look forward to watching that

Thanks, Slim
I've transferred my post and your reply to this thread and deleted those on the old thread. I won't go into details as to how I've done that as it's quite complicated.

El Loro

I hear that the French actress Anouk Aimee has died at the age of 92. She was in some of the most famous foreign films of the 1960s, films which you may have heard of even if you've never seen them - Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" and 8Â―, and Claude Lelouch's "Un Homme et La Femme". Francs Lai's main theme for that film is famous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3y8tsDUl0s
which features her and Jean-Louis Trintignant as the widow and widower who meet in that film,

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

I hear that the French actress Anouk Aimee has died at the age of 92. She was in some of the most famous foreign films of the 1960s, films which you may have heard of even if you've never seen them - Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" and 8Â―, and Claude Lelouch's "Un Homme et La Femme". Francs Lai's main theme for that film is famous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3y8tsDUl0s
which features her and Jean-Louis Trintignant as the widow and widower who meet in that film,One of my my favoir

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@El Loro posted:

I posted this in the old thread

Slim, I see that "It Should Happen to You" (1954) is on the Film4 channel tomorrow morning at 11 am. An American comedy about a young woman (Judy Holliday) who goes to New York dreaming of fame. Jack Lemmon is in the film in his feature film debut as is Peter Lawford. It's a likeable film



Got this on atm and enjoying it so far El

slimfern

All about Eve was a powerhouse   

@slimfern posted:

I'll bet Ms Davis was non too pleased about that

Anne Baster was also in contention for the Best Actress Oscar for "All About Eve".
Gloria Swanson was also in contention for the Best Actress Oscar for "Sunset Boulevard".
Quite a year
There was also a nomination for Eleanor Parker in "Caged", which isn't a film in the same league as the others.

Here's a brief clip of the Oscar being announced. The host that year was Fred Astaire. The presenter was Broderick Crawford who was also in "Born Yesterday". It's likely that the winner was not expected as Judy Holliday wasn't there. Broderick Crawford could have accepted the award on her behalf as he was also in "Born Yesterday". (He wouldn't have known who had won beforehand, just a coincidence). Her aware was instead collected by Ethel Barrymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZqRrSxoMgw

El Loro