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.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
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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."
msbelle - Mar 10, 2010 7:01:33 am PST #7201 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Now is when I admit to the highly unpopular, I don't much like Katherine Hepburn.
megan walker - Mar 10, 2010 7:02:01 am PST #7202 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think much of why I don't love TLE or BUB is that the guys don't work in those roles for me (as much as I love both Grant and Fonda in almost anything else).
Kathy A - Mar 10, 2010 7:03:45 am PST #7203 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think I prefer later Kate Hepburn over her earliest work. Except for Stage Door--she was terrific in that. But her best performance was in Lion in Winter.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 7:05:03 am PST #7204 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now is when I admit to the highly unpopular, I don't much like Katherine Hepburn.
I like Kate a lot, but I love Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Arthur and Irene Dunne.
Also, I have to once again pimp The Vivacious Lady with Ginger Rogers. Best Slap Fight Ever.
Vonnie K - Mar 10, 2010 7:07:34 am PST #7205 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
JZ is crazy about Lew Ayers in Holiday.
Poor sad drunk Neddie. He breaks my heart. Linda got out, Julia's got her own brand of cold resilience, but you just know that family would completely destroy Ned. Poor puppy.
One of my favourite screwball comedies I haven't seen mentioned yet: The More the Merrier. Jean Arthur! Joel McCrea! Charles Coburn! "You've been shushing me for 22 months now. You've shushed your last shush!"
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 7:22:01 am PST #7206 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh no! Tim Burton's Secret Formula is horribly accurate.
msbelle - Mar 10, 2010 7:25:13 am PST #7207 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have a vague memory of being told I'd like Myrna Loy movies. Can't remember if that was here or not. Am not sure if I've seen anythign with her. Off to Netflix.
JZ - Mar 10, 2010 7:25:37 am PST #7208 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Vonnie, it was Zacharek - and her review is actually top of the "External Reviews" list on IMDB; Holiday was languishing for years with two sad links consisting of old TV Guide "Pretty good for an old movie, or anyhow better than the other version from a couple years earlier" blurbs, and when I found Zacharek's gorgeous essay I started poking the Contact Us email addresses on IMDB pleading with them for someone please, please to read her essay and then to link it. I never heard back from them, but it went up a week or two after my plea. So, I preen just a bit.
Oh, Neddie. Poor lamb. God knows Hepburn could be cringingly stagey and stilted, but she was utterly at her best, most emotionally naked and tender, in that quiet drunken New Year's Eve conversation with Ayres.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2010 7:28:52 am PST #7209 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have a vague memory of being told I'd like Myrna Loy movies.
In Sex Tips For Girls Cynthia Heimel's ethos in life was: When in doubt, do what Myrna Loy would do.
Sometimes this involves downing four martinis in succession and doing a fantastic pratfall.
Did you know that Myrna Loy grew up as a childhood friend of Gary Cooper? And she worshipped him because he was a big, ol' beautiful cowboy? Also, she was tall and a redhead, but in her early career in Hollywood she was frequently cast as an "exotic" (i.e., gypsy girl).