#edmund o'brien

[filmnoirfoundation]

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[vintage-every-day]

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 (1952) Crusading D.A. Edmund O'Brien pairs with jaded reporter William Holden to bring down a kingpin who's grip covers all of L.A.

[movieassholes]

When you get the know-how and a few bucks in your pocket, you can buy anything, or anybody. Especially if you got 'em at the point of a gun.

Emmett Myers - The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

THE KILLERS Robert Siodmak USA, 1946

[schlock-luster-video]

On April 29, 1953, The Hitch-Hiker debuted in Italy.

[deadpresidents]

I dunno if you saw the history channel documentary about jfk that was recently aired but I thought it was funny that conan o'brien was one of the commentators and it said he was on the board of directors of the jfk library!

I haven't watched it yet, but I plan to. I'll pretty much watch any documentary that Peter Coyote narrates. When I am reading books, the voice I hear in my head is his.

Conan is a legit Presidential history nerd. I heard that a long time ago directly from a comedian that I knew who did his old show on NBC. He used to have a General Eisenhower coffee mug on his desk on TV for years. And several years before historian and biographer Edmund Morris passed away, Conan did a GREAT interview with him where they talked a lot about Presidents. I don't know if he's a big enough Presidential history nerd that he follows my blog (I mean...I'm pretty sure my blog gets you more Presidential history street cred than being on the board of the JFK Library), but he's welcome to come chat with me about Franklin Pierce and LBJ anytime.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Devil Bat 1940

[cinevisto32]

El bígamo (1953)

[lucidloving]

Sing Shong, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint // Black Box // R.M. Rilke, "The Guardian Angel" // George Seferis, "The Return of the Exile" (trans. Edmund Keeley) // Studio Dragon, Because This Is My First Life // John Banville, The Sea // Aeschylus, Agamemnon (trans. Herbert W. Smyth) // Anne Carson, "The Anthropology of Water" // Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life // @toupou39 on tw // Jennifer S. Cheng, "So We Must Meet Apart" // Madeline Miller, Circe // @chuunicalesimp // Richard Siken // Neil Gaiman // Richard Siken, "The Torn-Up Road" // Jamie Varon, "Does The Universe Fight For Souls To Be Together?" // Jennifer S. Cheng, "So We Must Meet Apart" // Sing Shong, UMI & Sleepy-C, Omniscient Reader (Webtoon) // Frank Bidart, "Guilty of Dust" // Lasah – Taixu // Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds // see 1 // André De Shields & Hadestown Original Broadway Company – Road To Hell (Reprise) // @toiriot on tw // Unlike Pluto – We're Screwed // @moonbends // m.h // Euripides, Herakles (trans. Anne Carson) // Unlike Pluto – We're Screwed // Google search results // @toiriot on tw // see 1 // Chxrlotte – Come With Me // @roach-works // Lasah – Taixu // Sing Shong, UMI & Sleepy-C, Omniscient Reader (Webtoon) // Chxrlotte – Come With Me // Frank Bidart, "Guilty of Dust" // @dsssctd_ion on tw // Hans Christian Andersen, "The Snail and the Rosebush" // Will Stetson – Writing on the Wall // Michael Kinnucan, "The Gods Show Up" // Richard Siken, "Planet of Love" // Sufjan Stevens – Futile Devices // Warren Zevon – Keep Me in Your Heart // Katie Maria // @SION_428 on tw // see 1 // Pablo Neruda, 20 Love Sonnets and a Song of Despair // Mitski – My Love Mine All Mine // Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 // Sing Shong, UMI & Sleepy-C, Omniscient Reader (Webtoon) // Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (via @jomeimei421) // see 1 // @soracities // Black Box // see 1

[atlasdoe]

THE HOGWARTS CLASS OF 1978

for the month of October I'm going to post about one character from the class of 1978 each day and include some cannon facts and headcanons about them. There's 28 characters in total so i'm in need of a masterlist (that's this post)

AVERY, Edmund

BLACK, Sirius

BURBAGE, Charity

CARPENTER, Adrian

CATCHLOVE, Greta

DIGGORY, Amos

EVANS, Lily

FIELDWAKE, Loretta

GLEAVES, Olivia

HILLICKER, Iola

JONES, Hestia

LOCKHEART, Gilderoy

LUPIN, Remus

MACDONALD, Mary

MCKINNON, Marlene

MEADOWES, Dorcas

MULCIBER, Bruce

O'BRIEN, Wren

PETTIGREW, Peter

POTTER, James

ROSIER, Evan

SHACKLEBOLT, Kingsley

SNAPE, Severus

STEBBINS, Alexander

TOOTS, Tilden

TRELAWNEY, Sybill

VANCE, Emmeline

WILKES, Juliette

i'm going to add the links as the days go on :)

[tvrningout-a]

i'm thinking about rin and how?? innocent some of her romantic desires are compared to how her " o'brien" persona acts. like she wants to hold someone's hand and be held and be taken care of, but she's incapable of asking for such things and possibly!! isn't entirely aware that's what she wants. rin is so deeply immersed in the person she's pretended to be for years that it's become hard to separate herself from o'brien. that woman is a flirt and knows how to charm the pants off of just about anyone, but rin? rin wants something more than a physical, surface-level relationship. she wants her heart to flutter and to feel safe with someone. she wants someone to truly want her and not the character she plays.

prior to the mess with sunna and king edmund and the free army, i don't think rin is capable of a healthy relationship without a lot of work. she's too dedicated to being " o'brien, " too adamant about burying rin willowind. but becoming the lightwielder forces rin to acknowledge her true identity, especially when her clan is targeted by edmund, forcing her to confront her past after she saves them. this means she's forced to face old trauma and the feelings she's buried for all this time. she's forced to be rin rather than o'brien, which is :' ) really, really hard for her. but it's really good for her, too, bc her companions' opinions of her do not change like she fears they will.

she's still their annoying, silver-tongued, too-clever leader. she's still their friend, no matter her origin and failings. does she still act like " o'brien? " yes, but it feels much less like a character and more like rin. her edges soften and her lips become much less prone to lying about herself. the jokes and playfulness feel less like a crutch and more like a part of who she is. i don't know if i'm explaining this right? but everything about rin starts to feel more natural rather than carefully crafted for each person she interacts with.

all that to say!! only after being forced to embrace who she really is, is rin capable of understanding what she really wants from others, what she wants for herself. she's fun to ship, but once again :' ) she's gonna take some work :' )

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"A GANGSTER HIRES A DOWN-AND-OUT PRESE AGENT TO MAKE HIS AIR-HEADED GIRLFRIEND A SINGING STAR."

PIC(S) INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Mega spotlight on the DVD menus to "The Girl Can't Help It" on the Criterion Collection, the 1956 American musical comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield, Edmund O'Brien, Julie London, & Tom Ewell, and directed, produced, and co-written by Frank Tashlin. It was released on Criterion as Spine #1120 in early 2022.

Source: https://dvdmoviemenus.com/dvd/005346.

[dairy2007]

Here's a list of some iconic American musical dancing films from 1930 to 1950, including their male and female leads:

1930s

* 42nd Street (1933): Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

* Flying Down to Rio (1933): Dolores Del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

* Top Hat (1935): Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

* Swing Time (1936): Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

* Shall We Dance? (1937): Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

* The Gold Diggers of 1937 (1937): Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

* Roberta (1935): Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire

* Follow the Fleet (1936): Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

* The Gay Divorcee (1934): Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

* Swing Time (1936): Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

1940s

* Babes on Broadway (1941): Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney

* Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien

* Ziegfeld Follies (1946): Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer

* Easter Parade (1948): Judy Garland, Fred Astaire

* On the Town (1949): Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett

* Kiss Me Kate (1953): Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel

* Singin' in the Rain (1952): Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor

* Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): Jane Powell, Howard Keel

* The Band Wagon (1953): Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse

* Funny Face (1957): Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire

1950s

* Let's Dance (1950): Betty Hutton, Fred Astaire

* Royal Wedding (1951): Fred Astaire, Jane Powell

* Hans Christian Andersen (1952): Danny Kaye, Farley Granger

* The Belle of New York (1952): Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen

* Give a Girl a Break (1953): Marge and Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds

* Deep in My Heart (1954): José Ferrer, Jane Powell

* It's Always Fair Weather (1955): Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey

* Brigadoon (1954): Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson

* The Student Prince (1954): Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom

* Kismet (1955): Howard Keel, Ann Blyth

Please note that this is just a small selection of the many great musical dancing films from this era. There are many other wonderful films that deserve to be mentioned, but these are some of the most iconic and beloved.

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

THE BIGAMIST Ida Lupino USA, 1953

[wahwealth]

Edmund O'Brien | Pamela Britton | "D O A" (1949) | Film Noir | Movie C;assics

D.O.A. is a 1949 US. film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, starring Edmond O'Brien and Pamela Britton. It is considered a classic of the genre. A fatally poisoned man tries to find out who has poisoned him and why. The opening sequence features Frank Bigelow walking down the long hallway of a police station to report his own murder. You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

[alex99achapterthree]

Inner Space Ladies !

The film version of Fantastic Voyage (Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence., Edmund O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell and Raquel Welch as "Cora". Twentieth Century Fox, 1966) came out when I was in 7th grade.

A noted scientist tries to defect to the west but is injured in an auto accident. A crew and a nuclear submarine are MINIATURIZED to the size of a human cell and injected into him to perform surgery from the inside and save his life.

I had seen the feature in (I think) LIFE magazine and had read the novelization by Isaac Asimov of the screenplay. Of course, when it came to the Manos Theater in my little town, there I was in the center, about 5 rows back. I was looking forward to the cool special effects (all practical and optical, no CGI back then) of them shrinking a sub and people swimming around in the bloodstream and, being a normal, healthy early-teen boy, of course I was looking forward to seeing HER..

Raquel Welch as "Cora Peterson". She had many adventures during the voyage, and at one point THIS happened...

I swear, my 13-year-old self nearly dropped dead right there in my seat.

I saw it several times while it was in town (and of course it is in my movie collection today) but nothing beat that first time.