Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Aldebaran]

Portrait of Jennie
Random Harvest
No Highway in the Sky
The Haunting
The Green Man
Green for Danger
The Devil Rides Out
The King and I (musical version)
Oliver
My Fair Lady
A Man For All Seasons
The Cat and the Canary
All the Roger Corman horror films
The Blue Dahlia
While I Live
The Glass Mountain

As a newbie, I am reading old topics and am pleased to see "Portrait of Jennie" at the head of someone's list. I thought no one loved that old film but me. "A Kid For Two Farthings" would be high on my list, as well, although hardly anyone in America knows it.

[barnflatwyngarde]

Thanks for the site - I happen to like "The Man Who Came to Dinner" too. There is a radio show of it with Clifton Webb as Whiteside, and he does well in the part, though Monty Wooley made it his own. Interestingly, while he is with Maggie looking over the get well messages one has been added - Whiteside gets a telegram hoping he gets well from Lynn Belvedere. The radio version is also on You Tube.

If you are not aware of it "Banjo" is based on "Harpo Marx" who was a close friend of Alexander Woolcott, the original for "Sheridan Whiteside". Both were members of the Algonquin Round Table of wits, which included George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, who wrote "The Man Who Came To Dinner".

Thanks for this Mayerling!

Yeah I knew the background to the movie, but I wasn't aware that Clifton Webb was in a radio version, I will certainly check it out.

Thanks for the heads up!

[DJA]

He used to live near the Camberwell Footy Ground,a block from Finsbury Way.

Hilarious guy.

Drank at the same pub in Richmond in the 1960s.

[GUT]

Doubt Barry Humphries would remember me.

He and Geoffrey Rush reside in my old suburb.

Jan Sardi wrote the screenplay that Geoff won his Academy Award with.

Met Barry I few times back when I was managing a hotel, a very very smart man.

[Mayerling]

"The Man Who Came to Dinner" is one of my favourite films, and surely one of the funniest ever made.

I attach a link of Jimmy Durante singing to Monty.
I am sure that his laughter at the Schnozz's antics is genuine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWAN4D3WEE

Thanks for the site - I happen to like "The Man Who Came to Dinner" too. There is a radio show of it with Clifton Webb as Whiteside, and he does well in the part, though Monty Wooley made it his own. Interestingly, while he is with Maggie looking over the get well messages one has been added - Whiteside gets a telegram hoping he gets well from Lynn Belvedere. The radio version is also on You Tube.

If you are not aware of it "Banjo" is based on "Harpo Marx" who was a close friend of Alexander Woolcott, the original for "Sheridan Whiteside". Both were members of the Algonquin Round Table of wits, which included George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, who wrote "The Man Who Came To Dinner".

[DJA]

Doubt Barry Humphries would remember me.

He and Geoffrey Rush reside in my old suburb.

Jan Sardi wrote the screenplay that Geoff won his Academy Award with.

[GUT]

We thrive on that.

Also a nation of Ripperologists.....

Ripper mate!
Gotta go for a slash!

Stretch mate sounds like you might need to syphin the python or let the on eyed trouser snake out for a bit of a run.

[barnflatwyngarde]

It's been over a month, so I propose this topic for our next bunch of films. It seems suggested to me by recent events and a personality on this board:

Movies with a Know-it-all, self-satisfied, or pretentious character in them:

[Sometimes the character may actually be one who is genuinely a genius and the hero. More frequently it's a self-deluded phony]

1) Clifton Webb as "Lynn Belvedere" in "Sitting Pretty", "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College", and "Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell"
2) Monty Wooley as "Sheridan Whiteside" in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
3) Robert Morley as "Andrew Undershaft" in "Major Barbara"
4) Leslie Howard as "Professor Henry Higgins" in "Pygmalion"
a) Honorable mention: Esme Percy as "Zoltan Karpathy" in "Pygmalion"
5) Rex Harrison as "Professor Henry Higgins" in "My Fair Lady"
a) Honorable mention: Theodore Bikel as "Zoltan Karpathy" in "My Fair Lady". [R.I.P. Mr. Bikel. I was fortunate to see you twice in your one man show.]
7) Fred MacMurray in "The Absent Minded Professor" and "Son of Flubber"
6) Sig Ruman as "Colonel Erhardt" in "To Be or Not To Be"

Please add any you can think of.

"The Man Who Came to Dinner" is one of my favourite films, and surely one of the funniest ever made.

I attach a link of Jimmy Durante singing to Monty.
I am sure that his laughter at the Schnozz's antics is genuine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWAN4D3WEE

[DJA]

"Bugg...d if I know"

My cockatoo joins in conversations and adds that when there is a lull.

He has people rolling on the ground laughing at times.

So much so,that they max out the required brain chemicals and become unable to laugh for a while.

[DJA]

^ Which other nationalities had a problem, Gut? There might have been a bit of a language difficulty!

We thrive on that.

Also a nation of Ripperologists.....

Ripper mate!
Gotta go for a slash!

[Robert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x60mBgCP2Ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTKNOEs33s

[GUT]

^ Which other nationalities had a problem, Gut? There might have been a bit of a language difficulty!

Language I can understand and saw a few funny ones that resulted from that.

But certain some Yanks (well they were the main ones that missed some of the humour) have had their funny taken out.

Though one dear was thrilled to hear a certain Aussie say "Bugg...d if I know" so said bloke let go with a few "Strewths" and "Bl00.. Rippers" and other such terms, I think it made her cruise.

[Rosella]

^ Which other nationalities had a problem, Gut? There might have been a bit of a language difficulty!

[GUT]

Not at all.

Edit. We Aussies have a sense of humour.

You know that from experience.

Kindly accept my apology.

Boy some other nationalities have a problem with our sense of humour, became apparent on our cruise.

[GUT]

He was OK in the late 1960s Kings Cross production of "Hair".

Thought "The Castle" was over rated.

Not a fan.

Thanks,I'll keep clear of that one.

Edit. JB HiFi in Oz has Ripper Street 1 & 2 on DVD for $23.98 until Sunday.

I thought the Castle was a good laugh and a lot of quotes have passed into everyday language.