One word: Nosferatu!!!
Is this your wife? What a lovely throat.
-Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in Nosferatu
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Michael Gordon directed over 20 films, including I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Cyrano de Bergerac, Move Over Darling and my personal favorite Pillow Talk!
You are my inspiration (insert name here). A perfect combination (insert name here). Your eyes, your hair, are beyond compare so is it any wonder — you’ve captured me and now I’m under your spell (insert name here). – Rock Hudson (as Brad Allen) in Pillow Talk
And here is a fabulous Vintage Newsreel youtube clip of the 1959 Pillow Talk Premier!
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Harry Myers appeared in over 275 roles (some uncredited) — and is probably best remembered as the Eccentric Millionaire in Charlie Chaplin‘s City Lights!
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin): Be careful how you’re driving.
Eccentric Millionaire (Harry Myers): Am I driving?
-Harry Myers as the Eccentric Millionaire in City Lights
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Howard Morris appeared in over 120 film & TV roles, including Mr. Elmer Kelp in The Nutty Professor (1963), Julius in 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962) & of course — most famously — as ‘mountain man’ Ernest T Bass on The Andy Griffith Show! What a voice!
Ernest T. Bass
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Howard Morris was also the voice of Mr. Peebles (The Magilla Gorilla Show) & Breezly Bruin (The Peter Potamus Show) among others!
Magilla Gorilla and Mr. Peebles (Howard Morris)
Breezly (Howard Morris) & Sneezy
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Lastly Howard Morris directed lots of TV Shows including the pilot for Get Smart, plus the films Who’s Minding the Mint & With Six You Get Eggroll.
Don Adams and Barbara Feldon from TV’s Get Smart (Howard Morris directed the pilot called “Mr. Big” which aired on Sept 18, 1965)
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I am very happy and excited to say that CMH is giving away FIVE copies of the Hollywood Collection DVD: Audrey Hepburn Remembered this week, courtesy of Janson Media!
All you have to do is be one of the 1st five fans to rate 12 posts on CMH’s BlogHub. Simple as that! And I’m hoping that, as you browse and rate posts from these really interesting and informative Classic Movie Bloggers, you’ll discover some new and exciting blogs to follow!
And if you don’t win this week, you can enter again next week to win yet another Hollywood Collection DVD (Gregory Peck, His Own Man). And there will be even more prizes to follow!
About the Audrey Hepburn Remembered DVD:
From the star herself we learn of her career, and the family and friendships that were her priority. Directors Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards and Stanley Donen, composer Henry Mancini, actors Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer, George Peppard and Roger Moore, fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy and others, join Rob Wolders and Sean Ferrer to help complete this loving portrait. With clips from Roman Holiday, Sabrina, War and Peace, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, My Fair Lady, Two for the Road, Robin and Marian and more. LENGTH: 66 Minutes – Total Content: 103 Minutes
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Born September 2, 1929, Victor Spinetti!
Yes, I admit I have a soft spot in my heart for The Beatles! And with that being said, here’s a mini ‘celebration’ of the hilarious (and quite melodramatic!) Victor Spinetti in two of my favorite Beatles’ movies…
T.V. Director: I won an award.
John Lennon: A likely story.
T.V. Director: It’s on the wall in my office.
–Victor Spinetti (as the TV Director) in A Hard Day’s Night
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With a ring like that I could – dare I say it? – rule the world.
–Victor Spinetti (as Professor Foot) in Help!
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Fred MacMurray is remembered mostly as the affable, good-natured father figure in the lexicon of Classic Hollywood. So clean-cut, so moralistic – one can almost say that he was something of a ‘Mister Rogers’ of Americana Cinema. Almost. See, what makes MacMurray so important, to me, is not his career as the perfect dad or the ideal husband – instead, it’s the roles that allowed him to flex his acting muscle and flip that image on its head.
To see a person like, say, Robert Mitchum play the anti-hero is fun, comfortable, expected. Not to say that ‘expected’ is always a bad thing, but when the unexpected happens, when the comfortability of the norm is shattered, when you’re forced to ruminate about what’s happening on the screen in front of your face, something happens. You become more attentive to the actions of those on screen. I mean, by having an actor remove himself so far from his carefully manipulated onscreen persona, how can you not? To me, this is the importance of MacMurray.
He was so good at playing good you almost couldn’t believe it when he played bad. As an audience member, you sit there and wait for the morality to shine through, for “goodness” to win. And when it doesn’t, there is a slight devastation, and bitter disappointment. That is the importance of MacMurray. He offered something in the world of Classic film not often seen from our onscreen idols: the skillful disillusionment of the crafted persona. And in a way, that makes this father figure of a bygone era more contemporary then most of his Classic Hollywood peers. So, let us pay tribute to this man by looking at a career built on disillusionment.
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Fred MacMurray upholding his traditional image of perfect on screen father on the television show My Three Sons.
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Fred MacMurray as the moral man manipulated into darkness in Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder director)
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Fred MacMurray upholding the image of perfect dad and husband while cheating on his wife, manipulating and using his subordinates – all with a smile on his face in The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder director)
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Ingrid Bergman was not a Classic Hollywood star. No. To call her that would be limiting to her sphere of influence known as the globe. Bergman was an International Star, a globetrotting, world-weary actress whose talent could not be limited to one language. To quote Bergman herself in a letter she would write to future husband, Italian director Roberto Rossellini:
“If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only “ti amo”, I am ready to come and make a film with you.”
So, let’s pay tribute to this multi-talented, multi-lingual actress, on her birthday no less, by highlighting her films that fall out of the jurisdiction of Classic Hollywood. Let’s look at the films that made her an international Star.
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Ingrid Bergman in her first international hit, the Swedish film Intermezzo (1936, Gustov Molander director)
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Ingrid Bergman with George Sanders in the Italian film Journey to Italy (1954, Roberto Rossellini director)
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Ingrid Bergman showing off her French in the Elena and Her Men (1956, Jean Renoir director)
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Appeared in over 90 roles, including Mr. Abeel in The Heiress, Lloyd Crowley in Teacher’s Pet, and my favorite — Mr. R.H. Macy in Miracle on 34th Street!
Is it true that you’re the owner of one of the biggest department stores in NYC? -John Payne as Fred Gailey
THE biggest! -Harry Antrim as Mr. Macy in Miracle on 34th St
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Over 240 roles and the GREAT Comic Foil to Laurel & Hardy! Known for the double-take-&-squint, the one-eyed stare… and the ORIGINAL “D’oh” !!!
“And the next time, I want my payment without any detour! Huh, she gave it to you and you gave it to him and who give it to what! Why, You’re all nuts!”
– James Finlayson from the Laurel & Hardy short, Thicker Than Water
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