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Old 24-12-2016, 22:59
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Nice Christmas picture of the three Gabor sisters.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:04
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Goodness Ava Gardner would have been 94 if she was still alive!

Any other big Hollywood legends were born over the festive period?
Ava died five days after Barbara in January 1990, that was a bad year, we also lost Margaret Lockwood, Joel McCrea, Terry-Thomas, Eve Arden, Capucine, Jill Ireland, Rex Harrison, Paulette Goddard, Robert Cummings, Sammy Davis jr, Irene Dunne, Garbo, and Joan Bennett, Although this year has been pretty bad too for show biz deaths.

Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day, and Dean Martin died on Christmas Day.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:15
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Will you be being joined for that tomorrow Walter by fellow local friends who are classic movie fans?
I have never liked Christmas, and luckily my friends feel the same, and it is one time of the year when I love to be on my own. I can think of nothing worse than family Christmases, I hate all the commercialism and phoniness, and the desperation to have a good time, and if that makes me a Grinch well, so be it.

I love to be able to sit in front of the TV eating what I like and watching what I like. Several people have said to me that they wish that they could do that, but they have commitments. There are some who can't bear to be on their own, but I need my space, especially at this time of the year.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:22
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Ava died five days after Barbara in January 1990, that was a bad year, we also lost Margaret Lockwood, Joel McCrea, Terry-Thomas, Eve Arden, Capucine, Jill Ireland, Rex Harrison, Paulette Goddard, Robert Cummings, Sammy Davis jr, Irene Dunne, Garbo, and Joan Bennett, Although this year has been pretty bad too for show biz deaths.

Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day, and Dean Martin died on Christmas Day.

Your photographic memory is impeccable. I think Eartha Kitt died on Christmas day too but I'm not sure if she branched out into films.

1990 was a pretty bad year. I seem to recall 1998 (Sinatra, Roddy McDowell) and 2003 (Gregory Peck and others whom my bucks Fizz filled memory is currently failing to remember) for Hollywood deaths too although 1990 sounds staggering.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:34
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Not exactly a Christmas picture more a Christmas treat to myself of golden era Hollywood Hunk Burt Lancaster looking very hot
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:36
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I have never liked Christmas, and luckily my friends feel the same, and it is one time of the year when I love to be on my own. I can think of nothing worse than family Christmases, I hate all the commercialism and phoniness, and the desperation to have a good time, and if that makes me a Grinch well, so be it.

I love to be able to sit in front of the TV eating what I like and watching what I like. Several people have said to me that they wish that they could do that, but they have commitments. There are some who can't bear to be on their own, but I need my space, especially at this time of the year.
I know a lot of people like that.

Some people do tend to put unbearable expectations upon themselves to make an impossibly perfect day and it creates more misery than joy.

I'm a sucker for kissing under the Christmas mistletoe though
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:39
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Your photographic memory is impeccable. I think Eartha Kitt died on Christmas day too but I'm not sure if she branched out into films.

1990 was a pretty bad year. I seem to recall 1998 (Sinatra, Roddy McDowell) and 2003 (Gregory Peck and others whom my bucks Fizz filled memory is currently failing to remember) for Hollywood deaths too although 1990 sounds staggering.
Yes, you right, Eartha did die on Christmas Day 2008, aged 81.

She made her film debut in Casbah (1948) as one of the Katherine Dunham dancers.

I saw her in New Faces in 1954, which was a musical version of the hit Broadway show.

In 1958 she appeared with Nat King Cole in St Louis Blues, and with Sammy Davis jr in Anna Lucasta.

She even starred opposite Frankie Howerd in Up the Chastity Belt in 1972..
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:41
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I'm a sucker for kissing under the Christmas mistletoe though
I would expect nothing else from a young hussy like you.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:24
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Yes, you right, Eartha did die on Christmas Day 2008, aged 81.

She made her film debut in Casbah (1948) as one of the Katherine Dunham dancers.

I saw her in New Faces in 1954, which was a musical version of the hit Broadway show.

In 1958 she appeared with Nat King Cole in St Louis Blues, and with Sammy Davis jr in Anna Lucasta.

She even starred opposite Frankie Howerd in Up the Chastity Belt in 1972..
Well I learn something new every day as I had no idea her background in film was as much as that. I thought maybe she'd just camoed in Batman for some reason?! 😁

I would expect nothing else from a young hussy like you.
I'm going to treat that as a compliment! 😁 😉
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Old 25-12-2016, 01:25
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Well I learn something new every day as I had no idea her background in film was as much as that. I thought maybe she'd just camoed in Batman for some reason?! 😁

I'm going to treat that as a compliment! 😁 😉
Did you ever see the divine Anne Baxter in Batman? That wonderful lady who played the lead role in All About Eve camped it up outrageously, playing two different characters, Zelda the Great, and Queen Olga of the Cossacks, and was unforgettable in both roles.

That comment was meant as a compliment, I would be doing exactly the same if I was your age.
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Old 25-12-2016, 03:46
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Did you ever see the divine Anne Baxter in Batman? That wonderful lady who played the lead role in All About Eve camped it up outrageously, playing two different characters, Zelda the Great, and Queen Olga of the Cossacks, and was unforgettable in both roles.

That comment was meant as a compliment, I would be doing exactly the same if I was your age.

I haven't seen Anne Baxter in those roles but given it sounds so gloriously camp I may have to check it out with pleasure!

Awe I'm glad you view me being a hussy under the mistletoe as complimentary behaviour!!
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Old 25-12-2016, 03:50
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Nice picture of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart at Christmas
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Old 25-12-2016, 09:44
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Nice picture of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart at Christmas
Hard to believe, but that little boy Stephen is now 67, and 10 years old that his father when he died.
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Old 25-12-2016, 10:01
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I haven't seen Anne Baxter in those roles but given it sounds so gloriously camp I may have to check it out with pleasure!

Awe I'm glad you view me being a hussy under the mistletoe as complimentary behaviour!!
There was nothing subtle about our Anne, but then her Nefertiti in The Ten Comandments was one of the few hilarious highlights in that de Mille dirge.

There are lots of clips of her chewing the scenery on YouTube, but when she got a plum role like Eve there was no one better. She comes a close third in my favourite actress list, after Barbara and Geraldine Page.
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Old 25-12-2016, 11:33
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Yes indeed time flys Walter regarding your point on Stephen Bogart

I wonder if he will ever write a book on his iconic parents?

Beautiful photo of Jayne Mansfield looking super glamorous and picture perfect at Christmas time.
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Old 25-12-2016, 11:43
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Clip from The Ten Commandments which illustrates Walter's point.

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I always had a bit of a soft spot for Anne Baxter as that was also my late mothers name and she was born in 1922 the year before Anne Baxter the movie star.
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:02
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There was nothing subtle about our Anne, but then her Nefertiti in The Ten Comandments was one of the few hilarious highlights in that de Mille dirge.

There are lots of clips of her chewing the scenery on YouTube, but when she got a plum role like Eve there was no one better. She comes a close third in my favourite actress list, after Barbara and Geraldine Page.
Geraldine Page was great in The Trip to Bountiful. I think she won an Oscar for that role.
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:10
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Clip from The Ten Commandments which illustrates Walter's point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXjOOS4zAq4

I always had a bit of a soft spot for Anne Baxter as that was also my late mothers name and she was born in 1922 the year before Anne Baxter the movie star.
That was just wonderful, there was no one who could heave their breasts as dramatically as Anne, not even Marilyn.

She came to the UK in 1958 to star with Richard Todd in a marvellous thriller, Chase a Crooked Shadow, and was at her bosom heaving best in that one. It is no longer on YouTube, but is available from Amazon for under £8.

One of the best ever Columbo episodes was Requiem for a Falling Star, in which Anne played, what else, but a great Movie star, and she played it to the hilt. She even got her good friend, Paramount's dress designer Edith Head, to play herself in a guest role.

Anne was one of the guest speakers at Barbara's Lincoln Centre Tribute, I was so busy taking photo's of Barbara that I only got one not very good shot of Anne, but at least I saw her in the flesh.

I loved Bacall on stage in Applause, but I wish that I had seen Anne, just image, watching Eve taking on the role of Margo Channing. The greatest compliment came from Bette Davis who was watching from the wings, and said to Anne, "You WERE Margo!"
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:12
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Geraldine Page was great in The Trip to Bountiful. I think she won an Oscar for that role.
She did finally, after her eighth Nomination. I would have given it to her for Sweet Bird of Youth which made me an immediate fan. She was up against Bette in Baby Jane, and lost to Ann Bancroft for The Miracle Worker.
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:14
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I have never liked Christmas, and luckily my friends feel the same, and it is one time of the year when I love to be on my own. I can think of nothing worse than family Christmases, I hate all the commercialism and phoniness, and the desperation to have a good time, and if that makes me a Grinch well, so be it.

I love to be able to sit in front of the TV eating what I like and watching what I like. Several people have said to me that they wish that they could do that, but they have commitments. There are some who can't bear to be on their own, but I need my space, especially at this time of the year.
I know how you feel. The best part of Christmas for me is Boxing Day. Just me, my dog and the television.
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:26
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She did finally, after her eighth Nomination. I would have given it to her for Sweet Bird of Youth which made me an immediate fan. She was up against Bette in Baby Jane, and lost to Ann Bancroft for The Miracle Worker.
Geraldine won a Bafta for her performance in Woody Allen's Interiors, she was brilliant in that movie. I also remember her in The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood.
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:31
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I know how you feel. The best part of Christmas for me is Boxing Day. Just me, my dog and the television.
That is wonderful, so civilised, and SANE!
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Old 25-12-2016, 12:34
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Geraldine won a Bafta for her performance in Woody Allen's Interiors, she was brilliant in that movie. I also remember her in The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood.
She also did a lovely film with Glenn Ford and Angela Lansbury in which she played a frustrated spinster, but only her fans seem to know of "Dear Heart."

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Old 25-12-2016, 12:39
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She also did a lovely film with Glenn Ford and Angela Lansbury in which she played a frustrated spinster, but only her fans seem to know of "Dear Heart."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaBbKmxRnCo
I must look out for that film, sounds interesting.
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Old 26-12-2016, 20:36
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A nice camp Christmas picture of Anne Baxter which I'm sure Walter and some others will like!! 😁
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