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| It is Angela Lansbury day on TCM | |
| Posted by: bobby2 08:34 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| almost over but just a heads up | |
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| "Henry, Sweet Henry"'s source material (2nd) on TCM today. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:10 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
| In reply to: It is Angela Lansbury day on TCM - bobby2 08:34 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| As a child on the cusp of adolescence, I remember being riveted to the film. The two girls' autonomy and unusual independence. The NYC locales. The odd adult world they penetrated. The musical created from the novel and film was an oddity, an attempt to pull a more traditional coming of age tale from a story that has much darker nooks and crannies. It's about adultery and children's boundaries. The film doesn't sustain a tone, other than via the haunting Elmer Bernstein score. Peter Sellers is in another movie, mostly, a farce, though his one scene with Lansbury (apparently a lot of improv, according to TCM) is stand alone for the responses he pulls from the steely, inscrutable Angela. The Bob Merrill musical, the score for which I have on CD, is one that has a cult following. I've never warmed to it, but I remain in the middle. I can listen. Of course, it's now legendary, the focus issue: Alice Playten, in a role not even in the film, walked away with the whole show. Today I thought: this might make a really powerful show, honoring those dangerous places the film touches upon and leaves rather quickly. If anyone saw the B'way production (I only saw the act one tag on Ed Sullivan), weigh in. The movie is unique, period but ahead of its time in many ways, despite its cloying ending. |
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| re: "Henry, Sweet Henry"'s source material (2nd) on TCM today. | |
| Posted by: schauspieler 01:33 am EDT 08/20/17 | |
| In reply to: "Henry, Sweet Henry"'s source material (2nd) on TCM today. - Delvino 09:10 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| I adore this movie. No matter how many times I see it it makes me laugh throughout. The two kids are fantastic and I love Sellers` ridiculous paranoia and deluded narcissism. The score is wonderful as is the faux modern concerto, actually not that far removed from some things I've heard in concert halls, minus the steam whistle. The time capsule locations of course are a big part of the movie's appeal. And the screenplay by Nora Johnson based on her novel (with help from her veteran screenwriter father Nunnally) is a revelation, showing us the mad world of 60's pre-teen girls as only a woman could. | |
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| re: "Alice Playten, in a role not even in the film" | |
| Posted by: Dale 10:50 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
| In reply to: "Henry, Sweet Henry"'s source material (2nd) on TCM today. - Delvino 09:10 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| Jane Buchanan played Kafritz in the movie... she just didn't start a collection. | |
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| re: It is Angela Lansbury day on TCM | |
| Posted by: drummergirl 08:52 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
| In reply to: It is Angela Lansbury day on TCM - bobby2 08:34 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| Watching The Manchurian Candidate now. Released 55 years ago and still - perhaps more, in this particular moment - striking. | |
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| re: It is Angela Lansbury day on TCM /....with George Sanders in Bel Ami | |
| Posted by: bmc 01:28 am EDT 08/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: It is Angela Lansbury day on TCM - drummergirl 08:52 pm EDT 08/19/17 | |
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| The film is a drama, George is (surprise) a heel, but at the beginning of film, He and Miss Lansbury do a slightly goofy danse in a French louche(low-down) tavern. | |
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