We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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but had time to add Steve’s latest You Tube video to this page. Ms. Eva Marie Saint.
Hey Bob…..sorry my message before going to work took you aback….well….I am headed back to work….maybe this will be easier for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81PJ7bXyLQ
lol.
Hey Bruce were you going to work when you posted that hi ho hi ho stuff or were you coming home? Your recent post suggests you were going to work. This is a puzzlement, as Yul Brynner would say in King and I. Bob was ‘taken aback’ by your post and was forced to invoke Cthulhu. Dangerous. 😉
Both times…I was headed to school. I have to be at work at 8:20 AM….I live about 10 minutes away….so I have to be off the computer by 8:05 AM or I will be late for work. Generally I have about 40 minutes between getting little girls on buses and the time I go to work. Bob was demonstrating his wealth of knowledge by invoking Cthulhu. If only he would invoke “parlay” when discussing Gloria Grahame….lol.
Bruce is in a happy happy mood Bob, he just loves going to work! 🙂
1 STEVE Apparently Eva Marie was included as Ma Kent in Superman Returns because Brando was to be in it and as a sentimental tribute to their teaming in On the Waterfront way back in the 1950s the producers wanted to reunite them one more time in a movie albeit without scenes together. When Waterfront was released in 1954 Bruce hadn’t yet been sent down to us so I think he has ever appreciated how fine and nostalgic a touch it was to have Eva play Superman’s earthly mother whilst her first screen beau reprised his iconic role of The Man of Steel’s father on Krypton.
2 This time I am not going to be drawn into a debate on the subject but in my opinion Eva was never a top box office star. Nevertheless on the strength of her Waterfront performance, which earned her a supporting Oscar,she had a highly successful career in cinema and on TV earning a slew of other awards/ nominations in both mediums down the years, and immediately following Waterfront she got star billing with Hope in That Certain Feeling and with Clift and Taylor in Raintree County and was nominated for a Golden Globe for the 1957 A Hatful of Rain.
3 Of those 3 movies only Raintree County drew large audiences but that movie and her next two, North by Northwest and Exodus, earned an overall adjusted domestic gross of 840 million dollars [and a whopping average of $280 million each] according to Bruce figures on the pages of Eva’s co-stars.
4 Her nail-biting cliff hanging scene on Mount Rushmore with Cary in N by NW is possibly almost as legendary today as the Brando & Steiger taxi scene in Waterfront and her performance in the Grant movie was also superb. Unusual for a Hollywood celebrity when she married TV director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951 she stayed married to him for 65 years until his death last year and this year little Edie Doyle from the waterfront is a massive 93 years old whilst her first screen boyfriend has sadly departed this world.
5 Because of that nostalgic Brando 50s link I would always have been looking for ways to praise this video but that’s academic because despite the brevity of the selections there is anyway in my opinion an abundance of good things in the Saint profile. Here are my pick of the posters – The Sandpiper, That Certain Feeling, Loving, The Stalking Moon, All Fall Down, and A Hatful of Rain. I must single out for special mention though the stunningly originals for Exodus, On the Waterfront and North by Northwest.
6 I loved the fine run of stills too – the one from The Russians are Coming and 36 Hours and those of Eva with (1) Beatty (2) Monty Clift and Liz Taylor, obviously posed (3) Newman (4) Grant and (5) saving for the last the good wine Eva with Mr M, as said her first screen co-star.
7 Overall I rated this video 96.5%. Eva seems to be one of Hitch’s stable of blondes who got
on well with the Master of Suspense according to her opening quote , strengthening my view that overall she is a nice lady.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and comment, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters and stills.
I was surprised at how few films she had appeared in, for a while I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it a top 20.
I also thought On the Waterfront would be an easy no.1 here but didn’t reckon on how well loved North by Northwest was, it just pipped Waterfront to the number one spot, practically a tie. Hitch’s classic thriller is an all time favorite of mine so I was happy with the outcome. I’ve had a peek at Bruce’s ratings for those two films and Waterfront gets 92% with Northwest just in front with 93% so we have the same top two for Eva Marie.
Two Eva Marie films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources, no surprises here – On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, four scored 8, All Fall Down, The Russians are Coming, Exodus and Raintree County.
Highest rated at IMDB is Northwest with 8.4, followed by Waterfront with 8.2.
At Rotten Tomatoes, Northwest has a 100% fresh rating followed by Waterfront 98%, their average ratings puts Waterfront out in front.
2 You have certainly being doing actresses proud in the last while and if those “feminist” friends of W o C at her work learn that you have been giving females their due on your site there is a good chance that they will regard you as their pinup boy!
3 I think that Eva’s assured and authoritative performance as the cool spy in N by NW was a versatile contrast to her nice, innocent little Edie Doyle in Waterfront and I’m sure that she will have seen being in those two iconic films as such a feather in her cap that she wouldn’t care which had a marginally higher rating than the other.
4 Certainly it take a talented actress to hold her own on screen with both Mumbles and Alexander Archibald Leech. The fading continuous scene where Cary starts by pulling Eva up from the cliff and finishes by hauling her up into bed is vintage Hitchcock and will always be treasured by movie buffs. Of course she was also a big part of the glove scene in Waterfront which critics still rave about.
5 Overall what a first 5 years in movies! though as she was a complete newcomer in Waterfront I always wondered what she thought of those great egos of Mr M and Steiger thrusting themselves about on the set and vying for supremacy.
Bob, Eva was born in the same year as Brando, 1924, and she’s still around!
Eva Marie Saint on Brando – “I did refer to him once as a hummingbird because you just felt his sensitivity – his sensitivity to life, I guess, and certainly to the other actor and to the material and to the moment at hand. A hummingbird you’re in awe of, and you can’t really catch it, but every time I see one I wish I could get even closer. And so, Brando, in that sense, is humming with all that sensitivity, and in the beginning in put me off a bit. It felt like he understood me more than I understood myself, knew more about me than I felt I knew myself. And after a while I just relaxed. And I’d come from the Actors Studio; we all had, so I just relaxed and used that. People ask me “Weren’t you nervous opposite Marlon Brando?”. But no, I was at the Studio, and he was a member and a fine, fine actor.”
1 STEVE What a nice tribute to Mumbles from Eva Marie which goes to prove again what Bruce and I have recently agreed – that people aware of or who knew Mr M either loathed him as in the case of Tracy/Cagney or adored him in the way Liz Taylor did and now Eva Marie does. Anyway it’s a tribute that’s new to me and I will add it to my collection, so thank you for making it available to me.
2 I still can’t get over WH’s earlier post to you and at the back of my mind there was something else that it reminded me of that I couldn’t quite place but now the penny has dropped.
3 However I thought that as you are a sci fi fan I’d ask you to confirm the matter which is isn’t that the way that the Great Cthulhu used to sound to earthlings when he was communicating with his grandfather Yog-Sothoth gatekeeper for the Dark Gods in a parallel universe?
4 Certainly if His Majesty can tap into that universe and understands their lingo it might explain some of the rather strange critiques that have appeared on this site in the past while. It reminds me of an Audie Murphy western in which he and Dan Duryea are surrounded by Indians and Murphy who speaks their language negotiates the way out of trouble. A grateful Dan then says to him “Gottta hand it to you. You know their ways.”
5 Catch up with you again when your next profile appears.
Honestly Bob, how do you know about the great Cthulhu? Were you a Lovecraft reader?
There was a young lady on my movie forum who was a Lovecraft fan and whenever she got excited about something or other she would blurt out some incoherent mumbo jumbo from one of Lovecrafts stories. For example – Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn – which as everyone well knows translates as “In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
I misread Bruce’s post at top and thought he was going to work, but it looks like he was returning home from work.
HI STEVE
Thanks for pleading my case in your reply to :Lupino.. However my posts date well unlike Joel’s material and somebody reading t mine 100 years from now will still find them fresh and relevant whereas Joel’s mutterings will prove again the wisdom of the first line of L P Hartley’s The Go Between “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”
1 Thanks for the compliment. Sometimes on this site even hard facts are ignored let alone literary quotations with for example one post appearing on the site today that suggested a certain actress with abysmal stand-alone box office was a mega star because she quickly learned how to fill Charlton Heston.s pipe for a scene!
2 Actually these exchanges of post and your particular reference to Germany have reminded me that next weekend my wife and I are going to Berlin for a mini break. I’m very excited because I’ve never been there before.
3 I’m always glad to hear that my Deanna is still “packing em in” so I was pleased that you watched Lady on a Train. I’ve mentioned before that the director of that one was Frenchman Charles David who subsequently married Deanna and they lived happily ever after for 50 years until his death in 2000. Saying that has made my eyes well up with tears so I’ll cut short now but very nice chatting to you as always.
Hey Bob….just for you….Deanna….is one of the stars that I want to get all of her trailers attached to her page……just finished doing all of Doris Day’s trailers….with the other DD close behind on the list I came up with a couple of weeks ago.
1 Great news about the DD and DD trailers but should we not be getting a Gloria Grahame page with trailers as Steve seems to think that Miss Grahame was star of the same status as Doris.
2 I don’t think that it is a matter of my protecting my divas. Monroe was a massive star whose celebrity today exceeds even Crawford’s and Day’s but I don’t like MM. and of course adore Joan and Doris. Conversely whilst I personally wouldn’t agree with it there IS a case of sorts for including Loy among the first rank of stars. That’s not far fetched but to say the same of Gloria is simply fantasy. However fantasy and even shades of the Twilight Zone are to be expected when Steve joins Bruce quoting Joel!. It would appear that Hirsch has now got on this site his own Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee! Anyway great trading views with you both.
Hello BOB,
too bad I didn’t get back to you before your Berlin visit, but I hope you had a GREAT time there! I have been to Berlin numerous times during the last 4 decades, and although I still miss the Berlin of the old days (before the wall came down), I still consider it a highly interesting city. In my youth, Berlin was that special place you could only enter after going through a “foreign” country with mean looking customs officers giving you the creeps, while the city itself was vibrant, lively and just “different”, with a strange air of melancholy hovoring over it. Nowadays, it is still a city filled with many historical places of inerest, culture…and really nice people with the cutest german accent. In fact, when they adapted My Fair Lady for the german stage, they replaced Eliza’s Cockney accent with a heavy Berlin accent- and it worked just great!
About “Your” Deanna- she had the misfortune of “packing them in” during a time when american movies were not shown in german cinemas- thus, she never was very famous here. In fact, I only remember two of her movies ever being shown on german telly. Those were It started with Eve and Christmas Holiday. Since then, I’ve tracked down two more: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday and Lady on a Train. I enjoyed them all and hope to see more of her in the future.
As always, great talking to you, although the “snail mail” seems to be much quicker currently than our chit chat over the internet 🙁
1 Wrong again! Bruce NEVER returns from work but just moves to another desk. He reminds me of Bernie Schwartz in the 1950s when he was under contract to Universal and sometimes would be making 3 films at the one time so they gave him a bike so that he could fly round the lot to drop in on each set as required.
2 He would for example be making a cowboy movie and would quickly change into a pirate’s costume and then take off on his bike to the pirate set. Like Richard’s Dreyfus’ sponger character in Once Around, Bernie “Always seemed to be arriving but never seemed to leave [the lot]”
3 I was always a great Lovecraft reader when I was young but I had a pal who was an even bigger sci fifan than I and lapped up people like Lovecraft and John Wyndham [The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes]. My fiend had a habit of working Cthulhu into all types of conversations and situations.
4 For example we were in a restaurant once and complained about the standard of the meal but the management wouldn’t recognise our complaint and I said to my chum, “There’s some unopened bottles of house wine on that table at your elbow. Why don’t we compensate ourselves by sticking a bottle of it in your rucksack,”
4 He responded “Well WE are the only ones right beside it, so if the waiter asks us who took it who do we tell him? Cthulhu!”
1 Thanks for the additional feed back Interesting stuff about The Donald though I’m surprised that at her age Kim gives a d**n about what Trump thinks.
2 You are wring to say though that “time is getting to all of us” because Steve and Bruce seem to think that Arnie, Sly Stallone, Harrison Ford are immune to the ageing process and will be with us forever. However whilst I don;t like to be morbid on this normally cheerful and positive site is not difficult to imagine what the poet Thomas Gray would think of those 4 gentlemen because Gray wrote in his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard way back in 1751
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Women grow old, while men just become more interesting with the years…I guess this saying is not just a german one?
Let Steve and Bruce dream, in the end we know that we are right in our belief that time gets everyone of us 😉
I enjoyed your video on Jane Wyman immensly. Great posters and some nice stills of Jane. My favs are Johnny Belinda, All that Heaven allows, Stage Fright, The Glass Menagerie, The Yearling and, of course, The lost Weekend, though that one belongs to Ray Milland and Billy Wilder. When I’m in the right mood, I also love Pollyanna…usually around christmas time? Same goes for Miracle in the Rain, which is a great movie, but relying heavily on religious beliefs…or a knack for soap opera. So, how do we get Mr. Cogerson to follow up your video with a Jane Wyman page????
Hi Lupino, thanks for checking out my Jane Wyman video, glad you liked it. You’ve certainly seen more of her films than I have. Now to your question, how do we get el supremo to produce a Jane Wyman page for his loyal readers? As you know he’s a busy fellow, he only recently replied to a comment Bob posted some time last year, the comment was so old it had moss growing on it.
There are wonderfully lucid and semi-lucid comments I’ve posted on this site that Bruce doesn’t even know exist, one day he may discover them and shed a tear or two. 😉
What I’ve noticed is that the videos I produce provide him with ideas for future UMR pages, just as his index page and charts helped me look for video subjects in the past. I would guess that a Jane Wyman page is more likely now than it maybe would have been a few weeks ago.
Hey Steve,
I know what you are talking about…Bruce doesn’t catch up with each and every comment posted here…but then, this place may be a little more crowded than it used to be in the beginning 🙂
I have posted many comments that went by unnoticed during the short time I’m a regular here, but I am sure this has nothing to do with preference, but just with the quantity of the comments. I am still glad I found this place, because I did have some bad experiences on other forums, and I really enjoy the way people treat their fellow posters here…so I can easily overlook the fact that I’ve been literally talking to myself on quite a few occasions here.
Maybe you are right about Wyman’s page- but I can’t complain, looking at the number of requests Bruce has already honoured on my behalf 🙂
Hey Lupino…..you are 100% correct. One of the things we originally took pride in was the ability to respond to every comment. As the site has become bigger and bigger…and the views have increased….that is something that is something I am having a harder and harder time doing.
For example…Friday morning….I was caught up (minus the ones I have missed in the past…that are now really hard to find….sorry Bob)…..but after working Friday, seeing Wonder with the kids….hanging out with WoC…..producing two new pages….Kathleen Turner and Angela Bassett….the comments backed up on me. So today I have spent every spare moment trying to catch up……my goal is to finish before sleep…..but the eyelids are getting tired.
I am sure at some point….I will have to give up responding to every comment….assuming the website continues to grow…..but currently I am still trying to respond to everything. At some point I will have to decide…do I do the comments….or do I continue to get new material out on the website. I will say….even if I do not respond…you are not talking to yourself….as I my view reports actually breakdown the views into those looking at the pages and those looking at the comments….and it is a good 70% to 30% breakdown….so for every 10 people that visit a page….7 read the page and leave…while 3 check out the comment.
Thanks for the comments this weekend and all the ones in the past…..they are greatly appreciated.
Hey Lupino….she is on the list of UMR subjects to do. I remember at one time …..we only had a few actresses…well now we are near 200 actress pages….and Wyman should be one of them. The next page is another actress..but it is not her.
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Its home from work we go
Whistles: do do do do dodododo
Hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho Hi ho
Its home from work we go
hi ho
but had time to add Steve’s latest You Tube video to this page. Ms. Eva Marie Saint.
Goodness! when the first line of Bruce’s 8.06am post flagged up it took me so aback that I at first thought it was more of Joel’s gibberish
Hey Bob…..sorry my message before going to work took you aback….well….I am headed back to work….maybe this will be easier for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81PJ7bXyLQ
lol.
Hey Bruce were you going to work when you posted that hi ho hi ho stuff or were you coming home? Your recent post suggests you were going to work. This is a puzzlement, as Yul Brynner would say in King and I. Bob was ‘taken aback’ by your post and was forced to invoke Cthulhu. Dangerous. 😉
Both times…I was headed to school. I have to be at work at 8:20 AM….I live about 10 minutes away….so I have to be off the computer by 8:05 AM or I will be late for work. Generally I have about 40 minutes between getting little girls on buses and the time I go to work. Bob was demonstrating his wealth of knowledge by invoking Cthulhu. If only he would invoke “parlay” when discussing Gloria Grahame….lol.
Bruce is in a happy happy mood Bob, he just loves going to work! 🙂
Thanks for sharing my vids chief. You da man!
1 STEVE Apparently Eva Marie was included as Ma Kent in Superman Returns because Brando was to be in it and as a sentimental tribute to their teaming in On the Waterfront way back in the 1950s the producers wanted to reunite them one more time in a movie albeit without scenes together. When Waterfront was released in 1954 Bruce hadn’t yet been sent down to us so I think he has ever appreciated how fine and nostalgic a touch it was to have Eva play Superman’s earthly mother whilst her first screen beau reprised his iconic role of The Man of Steel’s father on Krypton.
2 This time I am not going to be drawn into a debate on the subject but in my opinion Eva was never a top box office star. Nevertheless on the strength of her Waterfront performance, which earned her a supporting Oscar,she had a highly successful career in cinema and on TV earning a slew of other awards/ nominations in both mediums down the years, and immediately following Waterfront she got star billing with Hope in That Certain Feeling and with Clift and Taylor in Raintree County and was nominated for a Golden Globe for the 1957 A Hatful of Rain.
3 Of those 3 movies only Raintree County drew large audiences but that movie and her next two, North by Northwest and Exodus, earned an overall adjusted domestic gross of 840 million dollars [and a whopping average of $280 million each] according to Bruce figures on the pages of Eva’s co-stars.
4 Her nail-biting cliff hanging scene on Mount Rushmore with Cary in N by NW is possibly almost as legendary today as the Brando & Steiger taxi scene in Waterfront and her performance in the Grant movie was also superb. Unusual for a Hollywood celebrity when she married TV director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951 she stayed married to him for 65 years until his death last year and this year little Edie Doyle from the waterfront is a massive 93 years old whilst her first screen boyfriend has sadly departed this world.
5 Because of that nostalgic Brando 50s link I would always have been looking for ways to praise this video but that’s academic because despite the brevity of the selections there is anyway in my opinion an abundance of good things in the Saint profile. Here are my pick of the posters – The Sandpiper, That Certain Feeling, Loving, The Stalking Moon, All Fall Down, and A Hatful of Rain. I must single out for special mention though the stunningly originals for Exodus, On the Waterfront and North by Northwest.
6 I loved the fine run of stills too – the one from The Russians are Coming and 36 Hours and those of Eva with (1) Beatty (2) Monty Clift and Liz Taylor, obviously posed (3) Newman (4) Grant and (5) saving for the last the good wine Eva with Mr M, as said her first screen co-star.
7 Overall I rated this video 96.5%. Eva seems to be one of Hitch’s stable of blondes who got
on well with the Master of Suspense according to her opening quote , strengthening my view that overall she is a nice lady.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia and comment, much appreciated.
Glad you liked the posters and stills.
I was surprised at how few films she had appeared in, for a while I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it a top 20.
I also thought On the Waterfront would be an easy no.1 here but didn’t reckon on how well loved North by Northwest was, it just pipped Waterfront to the number one spot, practically a tie. Hitch’s classic thriller is an all time favorite of mine so I was happy with the outcome. I’ve had a peek at Bruce’s ratings for those two films and Waterfront gets 92% with Northwest just in front with 93% so we have the same top two for Eva Marie.
Two Eva Marie films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources, no surprises here – On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, four scored 8, All Fall Down, The Russians are Coming, Exodus and Raintree County.
Highest rated at IMDB is Northwest with 8.4, followed by Waterfront with 8.2.
At Rotten Tomatoes, Northwest has a 100% fresh rating followed by Waterfront 98%, their average ratings puts Waterfront out in front.
HI STEVE
1 I enjoyed the feedback – thanks.
2 You have certainly being doing actresses proud in the last while and if those “feminist” friends of W o C at her work learn that you have been giving females their due on your site there is a good chance that they will regard you as their pinup boy!
3 I think that Eva’s assured and authoritative performance as the cool spy in N by NW was a versatile contrast to her nice, innocent little Edie Doyle in Waterfront and I’m sure that she will have seen being in those two iconic films as such a feather in her cap that she wouldn’t care which had a marginally higher rating than the other.
4 Certainly it take a talented actress to hold her own on screen with both Mumbles and Alexander Archibald Leech. The fading continuous scene where Cary starts by pulling Eva up from the cliff and finishes by hauling her up into bed is vintage Hitchcock and will always be treasured by movie buffs. Of course she was also a big part of the glove scene in Waterfront which critics still rave about.
5 Overall what a first 5 years in movies! though as she was a complete newcomer in Waterfront I always wondered what she thought of those great egos of Mr M and Steiger thrusting themselves about on the set and vying for supremacy.
Bob, Eva was born in the same year as Brando, 1924, and she’s still around!
Eva Marie Saint on Brando – “I did refer to him once as a hummingbird because you just felt his sensitivity – his sensitivity to life, I guess, and certainly to the other actor and to the material and to the moment at hand. A hummingbird you’re in awe of, and you can’t really catch it, but every time I see one I wish I could get even closer. And so, Brando, in that sense, is humming with all that sensitivity, and in the beginning in put me off a bit. It felt like he understood me more than I understood myself, knew more about me than I felt I knew myself. And after a while I just relaxed. And I’d come from the Actors Studio; we all had, so I just relaxed and used that. People ask me “Weren’t you nervous opposite Marlon Brando?”. But no, I was at the Studio, and he was a member and a fine, fine actor.”
1 STEVE What a nice tribute to Mumbles from Eva Marie which goes to prove again what Bruce and I have recently agreed – that people aware of or who knew Mr M either loathed him as in the case of Tracy/Cagney or adored him in the way Liz Taylor did and now Eva Marie does. Anyway it’s a tribute that’s new to me and I will add it to my collection, so thank you for making it available to me.
2 I still can’t get over WH’s earlier post to you and at the back of my mind there was something else that it reminded me of that I couldn’t quite place but now the penny has dropped.
3 However I thought that as you are a sci fi fan I’d ask you to confirm the matter which is isn’t that the way that the Great Cthulhu used to sound to earthlings when he was communicating with his grandfather Yog-Sothoth gatekeeper for the Dark Gods in a parallel universe?
4 Certainly if His Majesty can tap into that universe and understands their lingo it might explain some of the rather strange critiques that have appeared on this site in the past while. It reminds me of an Audie Murphy western in which he and Dan Duryea are surrounded by Indians and Murphy who speaks their language negotiates the way out of trouble. A grateful Dan then says to him “Gottta hand it to you. You know their ways.”
5 Catch up with you again when your next profile appears.
Honestly Bob, how do you know about the great Cthulhu? Were you a Lovecraft reader?
There was a young lady on my movie forum who was a Lovecraft fan and whenever she got excited about something or other she would blurt out some incoherent mumbo jumbo from one of Lovecrafts stories. For example – Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn – which as everyone well knows translates as “In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
I misread Bruce’s post at top and thought he was going to work, but it looks like he was returning home from work.
HI STEVE
Thanks for pleading my case in your reply to :Lupino.. However my posts date well unlike Joel’s material and somebody reading t mine 100 years from now will still find them fresh and relevant whereas Joel’s mutterings will prove again the wisdom of the first line of L P Hartley’s The Go Between “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”
BOB, I’m well impressed with your litraray knowledge. The Go Between is one of my favorite novels, by the way!
HI LUPINO
1 Thanks for the compliment. Sometimes on this site even hard facts are ignored let alone literary quotations with for example one post appearing on the site today that suggested a certain actress with abysmal stand-alone box office was a mega star because she quickly learned how to fill Charlton Heston.s pipe for a scene!
2 Actually these exchanges of post and your particular reference to Germany have reminded me that next weekend my wife and I are going to Berlin for a mini break. I’m very excited because I’ve never been there before.
3 I’m always glad to hear that my Deanna is still “packing em in” so I was pleased that you watched Lady on a Train. I’ve mentioned before that the director of that one was Frenchman Charles David who subsequently married Deanna and they lived happily ever after for 50 years until his death in 2000. Saying that has made my eyes well up with tears so I’ll cut short now but very nice chatting to you as always.
Hey Bob….just for you….Deanna….is one of the stars that I want to get all of her trailers attached to her page……just finished doing all of Doris Day’s trailers….with the other DD close behind on the list I came up with a couple of weeks ago.
BRUCE/STEVE
1 Great news about the DD and DD trailers but should we not be getting a Gloria Grahame page with trailers as Steve seems to think that Miss Grahame was star of the same status as Doris.
2 I don’t think that it is a matter of my protecting my divas. Monroe was a massive star whose celebrity today exceeds even Crawford’s and Day’s but I don’t like MM. and of course adore Joan and Doris. Conversely whilst I personally wouldn’t agree with it there IS a case of sorts for including Loy among the first rank of stars. That’s not far fetched but to say the same of Gloria is simply fantasy. However fantasy and even shades of the Twilight Zone are to be expected when Steve joins Bruce quoting Joel!. It would appear that Hirsch has now got on this site his own Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee! Anyway great trading views with you both.
Hello BOB,
too bad I didn’t get back to you before your Berlin visit, but I hope you had a GREAT time there! I have been to Berlin numerous times during the last 4 decades, and although I still miss the Berlin of the old days (before the wall came down), I still consider it a highly interesting city. In my youth, Berlin was that special place you could only enter after going through a “foreign” country with mean looking customs officers giving you the creeps, while the city itself was vibrant, lively and just “different”, with a strange air of melancholy hovoring over it. Nowadays, it is still a city filled with many historical places of inerest, culture…and really nice people with the cutest german accent. In fact, when they adapted My Fair Lady for the german stage, they replaced Eliza’s Cockney accent with a heavy Berlin accent- and it worked just great!
About “Your” Deanna- she had the misfortune of “packing them in” during a time when american movies were not shown in german cinemas- thus, she never was very famous here. In fact, I only remember two of her movies ever being shown on german telly. Those were It started with Eve and Christmas Holiday. Since then, I’ve tracked down two more: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday and Lady on a Train. I enjoyed them all and hope to see more of her in the future.
As always, great talking to you, although the “snail mail” seems to be much quicker currently than our chit chat over the internet 🙁
Hey Lupino….good information on Berlin. Hopefully Bob had a good time. I am sure he appreciates the information on Deanna Durbin. Good stuff.
Good quote…….like Lupino says….impressed with your literary knowledge……you are the man.
STEVE
1 Wrong again! Bruce NEVER returns from work but just moves to another desk. He reminds me of Bernie Schwartz in the 1950s when he was under contract to Universal and sometimes would be making 3 films at the one time so they gave him a bike so that he could fly round the lot to drop in on each set as required.
2 He would for example be making a cowboy movie and would quickly change into a pirate’s costume and then take off on his bike to the pirate set. Like Richard’s Dreyfus’ sponger character in Once Around, Bernie “Always seemed to be arriving but never seemed to leave [the lot]”
3 I was always a great Lovecraft reader when I was young but I had a pal who was an even bigger sci fifan than I and lapped up people like Lovecraft and John Wyndham [The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes]. My fiend had a habit of working Cthulhu into all types of conversations and situations.
4 For example we were in a restaurant once and complained about the standard of the meal but the management wouldn’t recognise our complaint and I said to my chum, “There’s some unopened bottles of house wine on that table at your elbow. Why don’t we compensate ourselves by sticking a bottle of it in your rucksack,”
4 He responded “Well WE are the only ones right beside it, so if the waiter asks us who took it who do we tell him? Cthulhu!”
HI LUPINO
1 Thanks for the additional feed back Interesting stuff about The Donald though I’m surprised that at her age Kim gives a d**n about what Trump thinks.
2 You are wring to say though that “time is getting to all of us” because Steve and Bruce seem to think that Arnie, Sly Stallone, Harrison Ford are immune to the ageing process and will be with us forever. However whilst I don;t like to be morbid on this normally cheerful and positive site is not difficult to imagine what the poet Thomas Gray would think of those 4 gentlemen because Gray wrote in his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard way back in 1751
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
LUPINO
Sorry I mentioned 4 actors but listed only 3 The 4th apparent immortal is Mel Gibson and of course I typed wring instead of wrong.
Women grow old, while men just become more interesting with the years…I guess this saying is not just a german one?
Let Steve and Bruce dream, in the end we know that we are right in our belief that time gets everyone of us 😉
Me, Peter Pan and Indiana Jones will defeat time yet……lol.
Hello Steve,
I enjoyed your video on Jane Wyman immensly. Great posters and some nice stills of Jane. My favs are Johnny Belinda, All that Heaven allows, Stage Fright, The Glass Menagerie, The Yearling and, of course, The lost Weekend, though that one belongs to Ray Milland and Billy Wilder. When I’m in the right mood, I also love Pollyanna…usually around christmas time? Same goes for Miracle in the Rain, which is a great movie, but relying heavily on religious beliefs…or a knack for soap opera. So, how do we get Mr. Cogerson to follow up your video with a Jane Wyman page????
Hi Lupino, thanks for checking out my Jane Wyman video, glad you liked it. You’ve certainly seen more of her films than I have. Now to your question, how do we get el supremo to produce a Jane Wyman page for his loyal readers? As you know he’s a busy fellow, he only recently replied to a comment Bob posted some time last year, the comment was so old it had moss growing on it.
There are wonderfully lucid and semi-lucid comments I’ve posted on this site that Bruce doesn’t even know exist, one day he may discover them and shed a tear or two. 😉
What I’ve noticed is that the videos I produce provide him with ideas for future UMR pages, just as his index page and charts helped me look for video subjects in the past. I would guess that a Jane Wyman page is more likely now than it maybe would have been a few weeks ago.
Hey Steve,
I know what you are talking about…Bruce doesn’t catch up with each and every comment posted here…but then, this place may be a little more crowded than it used to be in the beginning 🙂
I have posted many comments that went by unnoticed during the short time I’m a regular here, but I am sure this has nothing to do with preference, but just with the quantity of the comments. I am still glad I found this place, because I did have some bad experiences on other forums, and I really enjoy the way people treat their fellow posters here…so I can easily overlook the fact that I’ve been literally talking to myself on quite a few occasions here.
Maybe you are right about Wyman’s page- but I can’t complain, looking at the number of requests Bruce has already honoured on my behalf 🙂
Hey Lupino…..you are 100% correct. One of the things we originally took pride in was the ability to respond to every comment. As the site has become bigger and bigger…and the views have increased….that is something that is something I am having a harder and harder time doing.
For example…Friday morning….I was caught up (minus the ones I have missed in the past…that are now really hard to find….sorry Bob)…..but after working Friday, seeing Wonder with the kids….hanging out with WoC…..producing two new pages….Kathleen Turner and Angela Bassett….the comments backed up on me. So today I have spent every spare moment trying to catch up……my goal is to finish before sleep…..but the eyelids are getting tired.
I am sure at some point….I will have to give up responding to every comment….assuming the website continues to grow…..but currently I am still trying to respond to everything. At some point I will have to decide…do I do the comments….or do I continue to get new material out on the website. I will say….even if I do not respond…you are not talking to yourself….as I my view reports actually breakdown the views into those looking at the pages and those looking at the comments….and it is a good 70% to 30% breakdown….so for every 10 people that visit a page….7 read the page and leave…while 3 check out the comment.
Thanks for the comments this weekend and all the ones in the past…..they are greatly appreciated.
Hey Lupino….she is on the list of UMR subjects to do. I remember at one time …..we only had a few actresses…well now we are near 200 actress pages….and Wyman should be one of them. The next page is another actress..but it is not her.