Actually, I do too, megan. But Cary Grant and Baby make it up to me.
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
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javachik - Mar 09, 2010 5:22:45 pm PST #7191 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
P.M. Marc - Mar 09, 2010 5:43:26 pm PST #7192 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sorry, JZ. The Lady Eve made me twitch and want to throw things.
It's no Nothing Sacred.
I do love Bringing Up Baby, though, so we can meet in the middle.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 6:19:29 pm PST #7193 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I thought Heath Ledger was a brilliant idea as the Joker before it happened, FTR. So there.
I prefer to believe them.
Fred Pete - Mar 10, 2010 5:58:25 am PST #7194 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Third the sentiment that Hepburn plays (quite well, I do admit) a very annoying character in Bringing Up Baby. Second that Grant's comedic timing makes up for it.
A brilliant lesser-known screwball -- It's Love I'm After. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis play a famous but long-bickering stage couple who are invited to a country estate for the weekend -- and the daughter of the house (Olivia de Haviland) falls hard for Howard's character. With Eric Blore almost stealing the show as a valet.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 6:27:47 am PST #7195 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love Katherine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby. Her character and Cary Grant's are both very broad and cartoony to serve the plot but they commit to it totally and have a lot of fun.
Bringing Up Baby is a farce more than a comedy and it doesn't bear scrutiny. You just have to roll with the ridiculousness.
Vonnie K - Mar 10, 2010 6:49:41 am PST #7196 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I regret to inform you that you are all freaky alien people whose brains are filled with wrongness.
I'm with JZ in general arm-flailage and muttering "but... but... it's Lady freakin' EVE!"
My favourite Grant/Hepburn is actually Holiday, but I wouldn't call that film a screwball comedy. It's too melancholic. Who was it that wrote that great piece about the appeal of Holiday on Salon? It was probably Stephanie Zacharek or Laura Miller. Or that woman whose name I'm memfaulting on who used to write a lot about Buffy. Judith someone?
Kathy A - Mar 10, 2010 6:52:44 am PST #7197 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember seeing My Man Godfrey in college (they showed classic films in the union on Wednesday nights--first time I saw Dr. Strangelove and lots of other films, too). Really liked it, and it was fun seeing William Powell in his heyday, instead of just as the doc in Mr. Roberts.
Scrappy - Mar 10, 2010 6:59:59 am PST #7198 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I love My Man Godfrey, but she is SO not good enough for him.
sighs with deep Godfrey love
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 7:00:11 am PST #7199 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ is crazy about Lew Ayers in Holiday.
Holy shit, I'm watching TCM and they're showing the trailer for The Lady Eve right now. It is, of course, fucking great.
In The Lady Eve I love how Fonda seems like he's from an entirely different movie. He just plays it so incredibly straight and gets bounced around to great comic effect.
Who couldn't like it? It's got Barbara Stanwyck in a tiara!
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 7:00:51 am PST #7200 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love My Man Godfrey, but she is SO not good enough for him.
I'm still kind of hot for the bitchy, older brunette sister.