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| The Fairbanks project; more reviews by the evil one | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 22 2009, 10:06 PM (813 Views) | |
| Frank Hale | Jul 31 2009, 05:32 PM Post #16 |
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Or of Mr. Gilbert’s”The Big Parade”? These are complained about regularly over on Nitrateville. There’s a nice shot in “The Private Life of Don Juan”, which came out recently in the Criterion Eclipse series. Mr. Fairbanks, approximately 51, puts his hand on a bannister handrail, approximately shoulder level, and vaults over it from a standing start. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Aug 1 2009, 07:09 AM Post #17 |
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Mouth Breather
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That wasn't when Gilbert cold-cocked Mayer: it was in a Men's room at a restaurant a couple years later and it's no myth. My copy of The Crowd is grey market; I got it from Hollywood Memories in El Lay before E bay caved to the lawyer boys. You can get in touch directly if you want. What am I reading, Frank? No Angel, a nonfictional account of an ATF agent who penetrated the Hell's Angels community by being an even worse creep than then are; Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida; The Comics, by Brian Walker (a big beautiful book on sale for $20 this month at Borders), and America Eats, a collection of hitherto-unissued WPA writings on food. |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| Frank Hale | Aug 2 2009, 12:50 PM Post #18 |
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“No Angel”??? Jeez, to hear you talk I thought you’d be finishing off the Loeb Library, Harvard Classics, Editions Pléiade, and Encyclopaedia Brittanica 11th Edition! Don’t worry, Paul, you’ve been so cranky lately, I think you’ll be around for another 50 years! (Just pulling your leg, Mr. Potter.) |
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 3 2009, 07:04 AM Post #19 |
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Interesting thread that I just now saw. Lady De Winter deserved everything she got, BTW. Will move that John Gilbert film up the list; have been watching a lot of Columbia screwball comedies and Charley Chase films, ya know. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Aug 3 2009, 07:22 PM Post #20 |
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Mouth Breather
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Fairbanks stayed in good shape, but died young anyway. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. You call this sweet reason cranky, Frank? The Grand Duchess could tell you about cranky. As for those books, been there, done that, didn't spring for the t-shirt 'cause I liked comics better. I'm proud of my Wonder Wart Hog T, but if I had a Socrates T, I'd hide it -- even if I do imitate him sometimes. |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| Pa Stark | Sep 6 2009, 11:24 AM Post #21 |
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George, do you live in or around San Francisco? I live on a tiny island in San Francisco Bay with my sons. |
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| CliffClaven | Sep 7 2009, 12:33 AM Post #22 |
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Always thought it amusing that Fairbanks Senior was the all-American boy, but Fairbanks Junior has made himself into a classic Englishman gentleman. In his prewar films, the younger Fairbanks tended to play British characters. After the war he eventually settled across the pond. He blends perfectly with the mostly English stars in Prisoner of Zenda, playing the definitive rascal against Raymond Massey's snarling villain. |
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