Through the static is the sound of you saying meet me at sundown

[sovay]

Character actors, the problem of: a dialogue from life.

TCM's 31 Days of Oscar: Hey, did you know we're showing a movie with Wendell Corey in it?

Me: What, that isn't Rear Window (1954)?

TCM's 31 Days of Oscar: No, Rich, Young and Pretty (1951).

Me: That looks heteronormative as balls and Wendell Corey should sue that mustache.

TCM's 31 Days of Oscar: Hans Conried's in it somewhere.

Me: !@#*$&(#!

(I couldn't finish the last quarter of Tennessee Johnson (1942) even for Van Heflin. I don't know about standards, but I have got limits.)

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[spatch]

I bet they called it Rich, Young and Pretty because they knew they couldn't get Free, White, and Twenty-One on marquees.

[sovay]

I bet they called it Rich, Young and Pretty because they knew they couldn't get Free, White, and Twenty-One on marquees.

Horrifyingly plausible!

[gwynnega]

That is not a good mustache. But Hans Conried!

[sovay]

That is not a good mustache. But Hans Conried!

It's a tough choice!

[thisbluespirit]

*hugs* the unwise lure of 'it has a fave in' *nods*

I'm looking at this worriedly and now wondering, do I have standards for 'contains a fave' any more? XD

and Wendell Corey should sue that mustache.

Never an option, alas. :-{( <--- moustachioed smiley

Although, I suppose it does depend because these days I do need at least three people to recommend a pre-Public Eye film with Alfred Burke in even so!!

[sovay]

I'm looking at this worriedly and now wondering, do I have standards for 'contains a fave' any more?

The deal with Tennessee Johnson is that I originally saw three-quarters of it a number of years ago and it was so ahistorically, conservatively-revisionistly terrible as well as more normal kinds of terrible that when it fell out of the buffer before I had finished it, somehow I did not find myself impelled to track it down for the last missing quarter. And now it's come around on TCM again and I keep staring at it and resenting that if TCM had to show something with Van Heflin in it, why not Johnny Eager (1942), for which he actually won an Oscar and is wonderful besides?

Never an option, alas.

It's worse than the one Lew Ayres, as far as I can tell, actually grew in post-war life because I have seen it on him in three consecutive movies in the late '40's and it did him no favors each time. (It was gone by 1950, but damn.)

Although, I suppose it does depend because these days I do need at least three people to recommend a pre-Public Eye film with Alfred Burke in even so!!

What does that narrow the repertoire to?

[thisbluespirit]

What does that narrow the repertoire to?

None of them, I think! XD

[sovay]

None of them, I think!

Ouch.

Tangentially, I am still not cool with most of what people are using ChatGPT for, but spatch showed me this tweet and I thought of you.

[thisbluespirit]

None of them, I think!

Ouch.

It turns out finding 3 whole people who aren't me to have watched them first is too much to ask! XD

but [personal profile] spatch showed me this tweet and I thought of you.

Aww, that's great! John Finnemore <3