Author Topic: ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!  (Read 2532883 times)

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"K" is Kitty Foyle
« Reply #2130 on: December 14, 2007, 12:22:51 pm »


Interestingly, Katherine Hepburn was offered the role of Kitty and turned it down.  Ginger Rogers ended up getting an Oscar for it, beating out Hepburn for The Philadelphia Story.
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"L" is The Letter
« Reply #2131 on: December 14, 2007, 03:03:09 pm »

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"M" is The Man With Nine Lives
« Reply #2132 on: December 14, 2007, 03:28:54 pm »
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Boris Karloff as a mad scientist, using cryogenics to find a cure for cancer. Some might say it's ahead of its time but ice cubes and IV coffee to wake people up?

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"N" is Nurse-Mates
« Reply #2133 on: December 14, 2007, 03:54:38 pm »

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"O" is One Million B.C.
« Reply #2134 on: December 14, 2007, 04:07:40 pm »




Produced and directed by Hal Roach, the film stars Victor Mature, Carole Landis and Lon Chaney Jr. The film was one of the first to portray primitive humans in any sort of a serious manner.

One Million B.C. was a popular success and was nominated for two Academy Awards for its special effects and musical score.

The film was remade in 1966 as One Million Years B.C. starring John Richardson as Tumak and Raquel Welch as Loana.
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"P" is The Philadelphia Story
« Reply #2135 on: December 14, 2007, 04:12:51 pm »
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Classic comedy with Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart.



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"Q" is Queen of the Yukon
« Reply #2136 on: December 14, 2007, 05:53:54 pm »
Here you go, since I'm Canadian and all...


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"R" is Rebecca
« Reply #2137 on: December 14, 2007, 10:28:43 pm »

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"S" is The Shop Around the Corner
« Reply #2138 on: December 15, 2007, 01:29:56 am »


David Thomson wrote of it in a review:

    The Shop Around the Corner... is among the greatest of films... This is a love story about a couple too much in love with love to fall tidily into each other's arms. Though it all works out finally, a mystery is left, plus the fear of how easily good people can miss their chances. Beautifully written (by Lubitsch's favorite writer, Samson Raphaelson), Shop Around the Corner is a treasury of hopes and anxieties based in the desperate faces of Stewart and Sullavan. It is a comedy so good it frightens us for them. The cafe conversation may be the best meeting in American film. The shot of Sullavan's gloved hand, and then her ruined face, searching an empty mail box for a letter is one of the most fragile moments in film. For an instant, the ravishing Sullavan looks old and ill, touched by loss.
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« Reply #2139 on: December 15, 2007, 04:28:07 am »


From IMDb: Magazine editor Margot Merrick (Myrna Loy) pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!