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Post by dreamer on Jan 23, 2008 16:56:01 GMT -5
So true Judy - have always wondered about that too - did he mean Richard and now that you have 'said' it too - am sure he meant him. You really makes me laugh you know  |
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Post by Kama on Jan 23, 2008 17:05:40 GMT -5
Judy, you wrote about the scenes that make me wonder, too. The "Dick" line is one of my favorite moments from SOTU. I don't remember this movie well, I've watched it only once and I like it but I felt it wasn't created for them. About DS scene - I also think it was ad-libbed. I don't think her laughter was acted. There was too much laughter in this laughter. I hope you know what i mean (sometimes I don't know myself)  |
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Post by Judy on Jan 23, 2008 18:48:31 GMT -5
So true Judy - have always wondered about that too - did he mean Richard and now that you have 'said' it too - am sure he meant him. You really makes me laugh you know I'm fairly positive he meant Dick, her brother. You must watch it again. Look at his face a second before he utters the line: He looks off camera for a split second. Almost as though he had set this up with Capra so that he wouldn't cut the scene. The scene is, of course, edited - because right after she kicks him it cuts to a shot of her crouching down next to his chair - they probably HAD to cut it cause she really kicks him hard. But when they edited the movie, they left her reaction in...her back is to the camera when she laughs and then it quickly cuts to her crouching down. So we don't get to see her face. But the laugh's there. So cool. |
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Post by martha on Jan 23, 2008 19:50:59 GMT -5
I don't think her laughter was acted. There was too much laughter in this laughter. that is a LOVELY way to describe the genuineness in these movie moments .. |
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Post by Hep on Jan 23, 2008 20:39:52 GMT -5
Ive never seen SOTU but reading about that scene makes me wanna run to Amzon.com and buy it right now lol.
as for Desk Set-LOVE THAT MOVIE !
my personal favorite scene is the "Mexican Avenue Bus" scene. I dont know why but its great! the "wonderful letters" scene is ADORABLE; ughhh i love them <3
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Post by martha on Jan 24, 2008 22:04:51 GMT -5
the images and the posts in this thread inspired me to look on the Internet Broadway Database (a favorite resource) 'cause I knew this was a play before it was a movie ... the link: ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=2544surprise to me: that the ephrons adapted from this original play by another dude .. william marchant. of course if i'd looked at the movie credits and the imdb listing just a bit more closely this would not surprise me .. but c'est la vie one trivia detail that i remembered from one source or another .. our man SMITHERS in the movie (who refers to 'PAR-son-ell") .. who bunny meets by the water cooler on her way to lunch with sumner on the roof ... was played by a guy named harry ellerbe who was also in the original production of the play on broadway. and that's the end of my trivia romp for the moment. |
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Post by Judy on Jan 24, 2008 23:10:43 GMT -5
the images and the posts in this thread inspired me to look on the Internet Broadway Database (a favorite resource) 'cause I knew this was a play before it was a movie ... the link: ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=2544surprise to me: that the ephrons adapted from this original play by another dude .. william marchant. of course if i'd looked at the movie credits and the imdb listing just a bit more closely this would not surprise me .. but c'est la vie one trivia detail that i remembered from one source or another .. our man SMITHERS in the movie (who refers to 'PAR-son-ell") .. who bunny meets by the water cooler on her way to lunch with sumner on the roof ... was played by a guy named harry ellerbe who was also in the original production of the play on broadway. and that's the end of my trivia romp for the moment. Yep. It was a play. Shirley Booth once again played a part onstage that Kate played in film. Great actress, Booth. I actually got to see her onstage once - in the 2nd to last play she did on B'way: a musical remake of Lillies of the Field called Look to the Lillies. |
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Post by martha on Jan 25, 2008 8:49:37 GMT -5
and just to clarlify .. i knew it was a play first (ah, so many of the best films were plays first .. ) ... i had just blithely assumed that the ephrons had written the original .. oh, so wrong, this assumption ... ah, shirley booth. 'come back little sheba' ... i never saw her on stage, just the movies. and television .. but that's another story .. 'sheba' is a haunting play . .. saw a great production here in chicago this past year ... |
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Post by Kama on Jan 25, 2008 9:00:44 GMT -5
oh, so wrong, this assumption ... I thought it was Ephrons play, too. We should watch DS more often: Richard: Never assume.
Bunny: Never assume, hmm?
Richard: Never assume.
Bunny: Moral: Never assume. |
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Post by martha on Jan 25, 2008 9:05:26 GMT -5
perfect follow up, kama. are you CERTAIN that you are not a native english speaker? "never assume" .. ha ha ha !! |
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Post by Kama on Jan 25, 2008 12:59:30 GMT -5
are you CERTAIN that you are not a native english speaker? You couldn't say anything nicer to me I love this board but writing in English makes me nervous. But I'm absolutely certain I'm not a native English speaker. Honestly, I afraid I'm not a English speaker at all - native or not  |
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 25, 2008 13:30:48 GMT -5
I'm late in this conversation but whatever. Shirley Booth! A staple of my classic television diet. HAZEL! I watched this when I was a 7-year-old... And am the girl I am today because of it.
Or at least I have a proclivity for funny housekeepers.
Isn't Smithers fun? He had a beefier part in the play. Sumner was less beefy. I think the Ephrons did a swell job adapting it to screen. Though, ov corz, I haven't been able to get my hands on the original script. Nor The Time of the Cuckoo. I want to read The Millionairess, too. I'd like to know why my school, that boasts its reputation as being the largest research school in the area, does not have a lousy Shaw script on record.
[Golly Moses, I just had a tea party with Missy and Kate... in book cover form. Between two bookshelves in this gigantic library. I've hit the nadir, folks.]
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 25, 2008 13:33:58 GMT -5
Oh and POLISH PEOPLE UNITE! I have the 'ski' surname to prove it. I'm a mutt, really. I'm also Italiano, English, Welsh, German and Austrian? Random.
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Post by Kama on Jan 25, 2008 15:34:07 GMT -5
Oh and POLISH PEOPLE UNITE! I have the 'ski' surname to prove it. I'm a mutt, really. I'm also Italiano, English, Welsh, German and Austrian? Random. Great mix And I'm Polish without "additions". But I don't have the "ski" surname Judy, I saw SOTU "you brother Dick" scene a few minutes ago. I think you're absolutely right about this. Because of all the things you said and one more thing: a barber's reaction! |
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Post by Hep on Jan 25, 2008 19:57:29 GMT -5
I ordered SOTU on Amzon today! Its coming on monday-and I have off from school so im watching it the second it comes-sooo excited hahaa. im a dork. kbye.
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