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LBB
07/08/09

In reply to Silent Majority
Anyone who's interested in film history and the badass women of early Hollywood needs to read Without Lying Down... the book focuses on screenwriter Frances Marion, who wrote many of Mary Pickford's films.
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RubyStanwyck
07/08/09

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I adore Pickford for her intelligence, incredible business savvy, and her wonderful acting. Her life was so incredible and should seriously be made into a film. It's so tragic that alcoholism controlled her life in her later years.

If anyone's interested in her, be sure to read her autobiography, Sunshine and Shadow!

I'm still upset that Pickfair was demolished. :(
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brendastarlet is on it
07/08/09

@RubyStanwyck: who could play Mary? Hillary Swank? Naomi Watts?
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DexterHaven
07/08/09

@RubyStanwyck: The amazing thing about her was that she made over 230 films! She also wrote, directed and produced. Incredible.
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otherginger
07/08/09

@brendastarlet is on it: Someone who could play little girl roles at 28, 33, 36....

Maybe Watts. NOT Swank.
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RubyStanwyck
07/08/09

@otherginger:

Yeah, I'm trying to think of an actress that fits that "woman-child" thing Pickford had going, but totally drawing a blank.
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LBB
07/08/09

@RubyStanwyck: Drew Barrymore?
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brendastarlet is on it
07/08/09

In reply to Silent Majority
She founded the Motion Picture Relief Fund, which in turn founded the Motion Picture Home. Without Mary Pickford, many retired actors, grips, stagehands, etc., would have a dismal end to their lives. Hail, Mary!
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hortense
07/08/09

In reply to Silent Majority
Oh, that is the best!

I wish more people appreciated silent films. They are ridiculously beautiful.
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brendastarlet is on it
07/08/09

@hortense: Flesh and the Devil, with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. Very, very sexy.
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NellMood
07/08/09

@hortense: One of those old movie channels, TCM or AMC, used to have Silent Movie Sundays every week starting at midnight. I used to stay up when I was in high school and watch them. I love that whole era of Hollywood, Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish and Clara Bow.
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Caitfish
07/08/09

@NellMood: TCM! They just stopped doing that like two months ago or something. I was really upset when I noticed they decided to stop doing it for some reason.
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KiddyKat
07/08/09

@NellMood: I totally used to do that too! I think TCM still has those. I hope they do, alas, I cannot afford the channel.
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LBB
07/08/09

@Caitfish: They stopped??? No fair! I used to watch those all the time, especially anything with Louise Brooks or Joan Crawford.
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NellMood
07/08/09

@KiddyKat: @LBB: I am so happy to know that other people were up watching those movies at 2am, too!
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Lumbercath
07/08/09

In reply to Silent Majority
I love that America's Sweetheart was actually Canadian born.

I wrote an essay on her in history class in grade 10!
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CrankyOldBroad
07/08/09

@Lumbercath: A Toronto gal! She was a true powerhouse.
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CrankyOldBroad
01/08/09

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Best repartee of any movie EVER. And Bette was stunningly beautiful.
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SisterMaryMartha
01/08/09

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MILDRED PIERCE.
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SisterMaryMartha
01/08/09

In reply to All About Awesome
You should also watch Anne Baxter in I Confess and Bette Davis IN EVERYTHING SHE EVER STARRED IN.

Also, Now Voyager is a really good one.
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SisterMaryMartha
01/08/09

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THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES EVER EVER EVER. I AM RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED ABOUT THE MENTIONING OF IT.

SO GOOD

I HAVE LOVED IT SINCE I WAS 12.
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Ascendo_tuum
01/08/09

In reply to All About Awesome
Love, love, love this movie.
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Raspberry Swirly
01/08/09

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My mother's name was Bettye Davis. Because of the actress. Is that not awesome? Her entire life, people thought she was using a fake name.
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A-girl
01/08/09

@Raspberry Swirl: Dance Party Coordinator: with the extra e? If so, maybe that's why they thought it was fake!
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Raspberry Swirly
01/08/09

@A-girl: Well, the actress is Bette. My mom had a y thrown in. Why? Couldn't tell you. She had no clue either. But it was cool.
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kitsune
01/08/09

In reply to All About Awesome
Speak of the devil, I just watched this for the first time last night! It was great - top notch dialogue. But the theme, repeated over and over, is that a woman's life means nothing without a man. And if she chooses to have a career instead, she ends up a screaming harpie.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@kitsune: Well, think about when they made it. How could they have let it off the lot with any other message?

And since things like Vaughn and Aniston's "Break Up" do seem to be carrying a hideously similar message, well, then, I'd just as soon watch La Holm and La Davis rip up the scenery with their bicuspids.
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apocalypse-nowish
01/08/09

In reply to All About Awesome
The first half of that movie bored the shit out of me, but the last half had me riveted. I know, I know, I'm going to hell.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@apocalypse-nowish: You get half a pass because it starts in flashback, which can confuse the mind.

Now sit down, darling, with a martini, please, very dry, and watch it again.
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A-girl
01/08/09

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Whenever I see Bette Davis in anything (I watch a lot of old films) I think of something I read about her by Edith Head (the costume designer). EH dished on celeb body flaws and gossip in _The Dress Doctor_ in that late 50's ladymag way complaining that Bette Davis never wore a bra! (Or a corset for that matter).

EH headed the Paramount Costume Dept. forever and was loaned out for certain stars (such as Bette Davis and all Hitchcock Films).
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
01/08/09

@A-girl: Trivia: Brad Bird is quoted as having modeled Edna Mode from the incredible "The Incredibles" on her.
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A-girl
01/08/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Yup. She's awesome.
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Topsyjane
01/09/09

@A-girl: I think the story was that Bette's dark dress for the party scene was too tight, so with no time to make alterations, she pulled the straps down to her arms and made it an off the shoulder dress. It's better that way than if the dress fit perfectly, since it matches Margo's nervous discomfort at the party.
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GayRobotsRUS
01/08/09

In reply to All About Awesome
This is one of my favorite movies. Why don't I own this?
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exelizabeth
01/08/09

@Min-T: I own it on VHS but I don't own a VCR anymore!
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