Just finished watching The Other Love which I recorded last night and really enjoyed it. Barbara was wonderful, Joan Lorring and Richard Conte were excellent although I must admit I am not a great fan of David Niven.

It looked as though Barbara could really play the piano especially in the opening scene and you were right about the nice interaction between Barbara and Joan.

So pleased that you enjoyed it, and I agree about David Niven, hard to believe that he was only 36, the same age as Richard Conte, and three years younger than Barbara, he seemed middle aged.

Even harder to believe that Barbara was in her 40th year when the film was released, she had never looked more radiantly beautiful, helped of course by Victor Milner's photography, and Edith Head's stunning gowns.

My ideal leading man would have been James Mason, they were wonderful together in East Side, West Side, even though he played her unfaithful husband.

I have the Lux Radio broadcast of the film in which George Brent played Doctor Stanton, and he was so much better, he added some humour to the role. But then he and Barbara were always great in the five films that they did together, their best being their last, My Reputation.

Barbara being a perfectionist, practiced on a dummy keyboard until she was finger perfect. I think that she kept it up because I have photo's of her at home in the 1960's and she had a piano in her living room.

Were you surprised t the ending? because as I mentioned before, that was not the ending that I saw in 1947, I should imagine that you can guess how it ended originally.

The BAFTA Fellowship announcement was a few days before the Oscar nominations were announced so I think it was just co-incidental.

That's fair enough, I must try to be less cynical.

Old cynic!!

I think my favourite male actors in Hollywood during the golden period was a toss between Clark Gable and William Holden. Both were brilliant as well as being attractive of course.

Gregory Peck aswell.

Did you know that Bill Holden was going to be sacked from his first film Golden Boy, until his co- star Barbara Stanwyck intervened. You can see him paying tribute to her here at the 1978 Acadamy Awards. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX2QzYHG1yc

I had you down more as a fan of rugged John Wayne girl?!!

I've always found Cary Grant very dapper, suave and appealing in a suit as well as talented.

I loved John Wayne and Maureen O'Haras pictures together bit I'm not much of a Wayne girl..

Loved Maureen though and what a beauty. Technicolour Queen they called her.

Thanks Walter.

Love Mr Holden. I know he was in love with Audrey Hepburn but if I recall his wife got pregnant.

No, his wife already had two grown sons. Audrey broke off with Bill when she discovered that he had a Vasectomy, and she was desperate to have children.

I had guessed the original ending from what you said but even the amended ending was melancholy as you knew what was going to happen even if they didn't show it, I have just discovered that Talking Pictures channel too so looking forward to watching some films on that, here is the schedule if anyone wants to check it out

http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/

Thanks very much for that. It is just marvellous having this channel showing vintage films, some of them have not been seen for more than 50 years.

WOW! another milestone, 80.000 views, that is 10.000 more since New Year's Day.

We should reach 100.000 by May.

Wow I hadn't realised that Barbara was so bejewelled with awards despite the Oscars snub!

Just out of curiosity did they have what's called the raspberry "awards" during the golden age of Hollywood?

http://radaronline.com/celebrity-new...ery-postponed/

Needs lung surgery apparently but is too frail for it.

The Raspberry Awards were first presented in 1981, Can't Stop the Music with The Villiage People and The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond got the most Nominations.

The most hilarious were the "Movie Worst Awards" that were presented by the Students of Harvard University, here are some of my favourites:

1944: Most in Need of Retirement - Paul Muni

Most Unattractive -The Andrews Sisters in anything but a total blackout

1945: Oldest Actress of the Year - Joan Crawford - with Honorable mention to JoanBennett

1946: Most ludicrous scene - Mickey Rooney dancing with a 6'6'' chorus girl in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy.

1948: Worst Deception - Joan Fontaine as a 16 year old girl in Letter From an Unknown Woman.

Worst Title: That Wonderful Urge.

Most Due for a Pension: Deanna Durbin.

Actress Most Likely to Drag Down Her Husband's Dubious Career as an Actor - Shirley Temple.

All Time Worst Juvenile - Shirley Temple.

Most Nauseating Screen Voice - Shirley Temple.

1949: Worst Female Performance - Shirley Temple in Mr Belvedere Goes to College

Worst Male Performance - Gregory Peck in The Great Sinner

Runner Up - Gregory Peck in practically anything else.

Most Consistently Unamusing - Abbot and Costello

Least Likely to Warm Cockles of Heart Barry Fitzgerald

Least Likely to warm anything - Barry Fitzgerald.

Least Deserving, but Most Due for a Pension - Barry Fitzgerald.

1950: Worst Duo - Esther Williams and Van Johnson, alone, together, or in any combination.

Most Objectionable Ingenue - Elizabeth Taylor

Most Unnecessary Contribution to the American Way of Life - Bing Crosby

Greatest Travesty of the Year - Samson and Delilah

Happiest Event of the Year - Shirley Temple's Announced Retirement

Worst Insult to the American Fighting Man - John Wayne

The Roscoe Award - Elizabeth Taylor, for gallantly persisting in her career despite a total inability to act.

1951: Biggest Argument for Stricter Immigration Laws - Mario Lanza

Worst Dialogue: St Peter interviewing God in Quo Vadis

There are lots more, it goes up to 1978.

Sad. Seems she's not going to make the century (Feb 6th 2017).

I assume they met on the set of Sabrina.....

Bogey was far too old for the rom-com shtick by them, wasn't he???...

Goodness me Barry Fitzgerald and Shirley Temple didn't seem to be very popular with critics of their era!

Yes, they did, and it seems they soon fell for each other, they certainly looked good together, the booze hadn't yet started to show on Holden's handsome face.

I coudn't agree more about Bogart, he was only 55 but looked more like 70. He was also a miserable grump all through the film, and one of her few leading men who wasn't charmed by Audrey.

Cary Grant was Billy Wilder's first choice for that role, and he would have been perfect, as well as being believable as Holden's older brother. Sadly he turned the role down, but proved how ideal he was as a believable leading man opposite Audrey in Charade.

I can only congratulate the Harvard students for their excellent taste.

Barry Fitgerald was an old Irish bore, who carved himself a nice little career in Hollywood by playing old Irish bores.

The most ridiculous situation occurred in 1944 when he was Nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the SAME role in the now dreadfully dated, sickly sweet, Going My Way. He ended up winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, while Crosby won the Best Actor Oscar for the same film.

What is even more ludicrous was that this was the year that Fred MacMurray and Edward G Robinson were not even Nominated for Double Indemnity. Neither of those marvellous actors ever received a single Nomination throughout their careers. Going My Way won seven Oscar's in all, and Double Indemnity lost all seven of their Nomination's.

72 years later, Double Indemnity is looked upon as one of the greatest Film Noirs of al time, while only film buffs have even heard of Going My Way.

Nauseating was the perfect description for Shirley Temple, I always found her totally resistible, and she became an equally unappealing teenager.

My favourite child stars were Margaret O'Brien, (adorable as Judy's little sister in Meet Me in St Louis) and Dean Stockwell, who just a year older than me was my hero. He will be 80 year old next month, and is still active after 71 years in the business.

Margaret O'Brien was a brilliant child actress, famous for being able to cry real tars on demand.

She relates how this abilty came about:


https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/20...-obrien-tcmff/

Bib. Disagree completely. He was a wonderful theatre actor in Dublin long before Hollywood called and was wonderful in each movies aswell in my view

I certainly respect your opinion, but to me he seemed to be playing the same character in every film, so I still have to agree with the Harvard students.

Quite a few films where I thought I was watching Fitzgerald and it turned out to be Arthur Shields.