'Shindig'
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I have a liking for Katherine Hepburn, but Bringing Up Baby annoys me; however, I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.
And Shanghai Express ... I'm always reminded of the line, "it took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily".
It was only ten months or so in the making, but seeing Scola and Hec this past weekend inspired me to finally wrap up my look at the 1930s: [link]
I'm bookmarking this to read later!
I have a liking for Katherine Hepburn, but Bringing Up Baby annoys me; however, I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.
I love Katharine Hepburn movies, including Bringing Up Baby, although it is very different from her other roles.
I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.
I love HOLIDAY. The 1930 version is also quite good: Ann Harding & Mary Astor play the sisters and (hilariously) Edward Everett Horton plays Nick Potter yet again.
I also love Holiday! I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years! But she was extremely fun to play- I used my Anya “I will barf too!” Imitation.
I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years!
Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.
Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.
I think my love for Lew Ayres in Holiday is one reason I loved All Quiet on the Western Front so much.
I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years!
I can't remember the name of the actress in the '38 version but in the '30 version it's Hedda Hopper!
Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.
My Nick Potter actor was way too young for me in reality, but I sort of fell in acting love with him! But it was so much fun to play, and I so rarely act. It made me want to act again (I was doing it as a a favor to a director friend). But it is fun that Hedda Hopper played her, and that helps me see why he asked me (He is known for his whole directing style is casting the right person and just letting them go).
The Potters are absolute marriage goals. As much as I love everything else about the film as it unfolds, I got sucked in on the very first watch in the very first couple of minutes as poor Johnny Case is standing outside their apartment door ringing the bell and pounding on the door, and they're both sitting serenely in their comfy chairs in front of a fire, buried in books and newspapers with more books and newspapers stacked up all around them, and they're both so warm and content and happily lost that neither wants to be the one to set down their reading and answer the damn door.
I thought I’d make a double feature of Murder on the Orient Express and Death in the Nile after work yesterday, but I got too sleepy to finish the second one. Woke up early for whatever reason and finished it off this morning. Now, there are a lot of choices made in Branagh’s adaptations that I don’t mind or actively applaud but there are definitely some that grate. Perhaps foremost among the latter is giving not only Poirot but specifically the famous moustaches a tragic backstory. I do not approve. No.
They did the same thing to Jean-Luc Picard this season. I mean, not the moustache—they gave him a new, tragic backstory that they never referred to before. So unnecessary.