#thelma bates

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Does anyone remember Hex? It was so good, yet so short. First time I ever saw Michael Fassbender.

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Characters I would like to add to Lesbian/Himbo: Thelma Bates and Leon Taylor (Hex 2004-2005) Ashley Collins and Wolfe Burke (Nurses, 2020-2021)

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All About Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

December 29th 2022

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All About Eve

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950

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A Letter to Three Wives

As Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern, the title characters in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949, Criterion Channel), drive off after a charity outing to prepare for the country club’s first dance of the season, an extra sweeps the deck of the boat where they’ve just been exercising their largesse. It’s one of the many comments on class I found in this viewing of one of my favorite Hollywood films. The letter’s sender, Addie Ross (eloquently voiced by Celeste Holm), is the epitome of class, a threat to country bumpkin Crain, upwardly mobile radio writer Sothern and nouveau riche Darnell. Her notification that she’s just run off with one of their husbands inspires a trio of flashbacks in which each woman reflects on the central crisis in her marriage. There’s a good deal of sentiment in the film, but when Darnell, the beauty from the wrong side of the tracks, talks about wanting to be in a silver-framed portrait in her own opulent home, that sentiment feels earned. There’s also a lot of wit in Sothern’s cowtowing to her boss (Florence Bates at her most overbearing, which is her most delightful) and Darnell’s contentious courtship with department store magnate Paul Douglas. Crain’s story is the weakest of the three, but it’s still pretty good, and when she becomes consumed with anger and bitterness near the end, she stops relying on cuteness and delivers a real performance. The rest of the ensemble is peerless, with Kirk Douglas proving he could handle light comedy as Sothern’s husband, Thelma Ritter stealing scenes as her part-time maid and Connie Gilchrist as Darnell’s mother. Bingo!

[thenightling]

Queer Horror

It's pride month so here is a (NOT complete) list of horror icons real and fictional who are of the LGBTQAI+ community. Writers / directors / Actors Oscar Wilde Clive Barker Caitlin R. Kiernan William Joseph Martin James Whale (director of Frankenstein) Ernest Thesiger (Doctor Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein) Anthony Perkins Vincent Price David Geffen (producer of Interview with the vampire movie and Beetlejuice) Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows) Louis Edmonds (Dark Shadows) Ed Wood Elvira (Casandra Peterson) Amanda Beares (Fright Night, 1985) Merritt Butrick (Fright Night Part 2) Roddy McDowall (Hell House, Fright Night, Fright Night: Part 2, and Carmilla) _________________________ Characters Mephisto (Faust, 1922) Countess Zeleska (Dracula's Daughter) Carmilla (The Vampire Lovers, 1970 and all film adapations of Carmilla) Louis, Lestat, Daniel Malloy, Armand (Interview with the vampire movie and show and The Vampire Chronicles book series) Claudia, Madeleine, Nicolas (Interview with the vampire TV series) Jerry Dandridge, Billy Cole, Peter Vincent, Evil Ed, and possibly Amy (Fright Night, original 1985 version) Regine and Belle (Fright Night part 2, 1988) Miriam Blaylock (The Hunger movie and novel by Whitley Streiber, along with its sequels) Marius (Queen of the damned movie and novels) Glen / Glenda (Seed of Chucky) Dracula (Marvel comics, Dario Argento's Dracula, Steven Moffat's Dracula, Frank Wildhorn's Dracula The musical) Alucard, Striga, Morana, (Castlevania) The Corinthian, Hal Carter, Wanda, Judy, Donna (Foxglove), Hazel, Alexander Burgess, Paul McGuire, Cluracaun, Mazikeen, Lucifer, Loki, Desire, Johanna Constantine, John Constantine, Rachel, Chantel, Zelda, Aristaeus the Satyr, Jim / Peggy, (Neil Gaiman's The Sandman) Echo, Ruin, Heather After (From Sandman spin-off comics) April Spink and Miriam Forcible (Coraline) Angela and Sera (Marvel comics) Sam Black Crow (American Gods) EVERYONE! - Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles EVERYONE! - Lost Girl (TV series)

Snow White (Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman) Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, and Basil Hallward (The Picture of Dorian Gray) Captain Shaekespeare (Stardust) Loki (all incarantions) John Constantine (All versions) Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens) Renfield (Original Dracula novel, speculated by scholars) Mephistopheles, Faust, and Satan - Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Faust by Goethe. Carmilla and Laura (All versions of Carmilla) Eli and Oskar (Let the Right One In) Lily and The mermaid Queen (She-Creature, 2001 version) Radu (Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula) Lexington (Disney's Gargoyles, not canon until the comics) Dorothy and Ruby AAK Red (Once Upon a Tme) Tara and Willow (Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series) Lorne (Angel) Ethan, Dorian Gray, Angelique, and Professor Lyle (Penny Dreadful) Thelma Bates (Hex) Joe (Midnight Texas) Skully (Scary Godmother) Mitch (ParaNorman) Henry Fitzroy (Blood Ties) Thomas Jerome Newton (The Man who fell to Earth) Any Clive Barker character NOT confirmed to be straight is presumed LGBTQAI+. There are many, many more but my fingers are starting to ache and these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

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Bette Davis and Thelma Ritter in All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on a story by Mary Orr. Cinematography: Milton R. Krasner. Art direction: George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Alfred Newman. 

Talk, talk, talk. Ever since the movies learned to do it, it has been the glory -- and sometimes the bane -- of the medium. We cherish some films because they do it so well: the films of Preston Sturges, Howard Hawks, and Quentin Tarantino, for example, would be nothing without their characters' abundantly gifted gab. Hardly a year goes by without someone compiling a list of the "greatest movie quotes of all time." And invariably the lists include such lines as "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" or "You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point." Those are spoken by, respectively, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) and Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) in All About Eve, one of the movies' choicest collections of talk. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the best screenplay Oscar for the second consecutive year -- he won the previous year for A Letter to Three Wives -- and in both cases he received the directing Oscar as well. Would we admire Mankiewicz's lines as much if they had not been delivered by Davis and Sanders, along with such essential performers as Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, and, in a small but stellar part, Marilyn Monroe? It could be said that Mankiewicz's dialogue tends to upend All About Eve: The glorious wisecracks and one-liners are what we remember about it, more than its satiric look at the Broadway theater or its portrait of the ambitious Eve Harrington. We also remember the film as the continental divide in Davis's career, the moment in which she ceased to be a leading lady and became the paradigmatic Older Actress, relegated more and more to character roles and campy films like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962). All About Eve, in which Margo turns 40 -- Davis was 42 -- and ever so reluctantly hands over the reins to Eve -- Anne Baxter was 27 -- is a kind of capitulation, an unfortunate acceptance that a female actor's career has passed its peak, when in fact all that is needed is writers and directors and producers who are willing to find material that demonstrates the ways in which life goes on for women as much as for men.

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Good People Doing Good Things -- Rescuers

Good People Doing Good Things — Rescuers

Today’s good people are everyday people who just happened to be in the right place at the right time … and jumped in to help someone with a disability, likely saving that person’s life. Jake Manna was installing solar panels in Buttermilk Bay in Plymouth, Massachusetts, when he heard that a 5-year-old girl with autism was missing in the neighborhood. Though he was unfamiliar with the area, Manna…

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, January 17, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Sunday, Jan. 23 at 8:00 p.m. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1948) A small-town seductress notifies her three best friends that she has run off with one of their husbands.

Friday, Jan. 28 at 6:15 p.m. HOUSE OF WAX (1953) A scarred sculptor re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.

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Thelma Ritter e Florence Bates en Carta a tres esposas (Dir. Joseph Mankiewicz, 1949)

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Thelma Ritter-Florence Bates “Carta a tres esposas” (A letter to three wives) 1949, de Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

December 10th 2023

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Happy Birthday To Gorgeous British Actress Jemima Rooper

(Born 24th October 1981)

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2019) - #30: All About Eve (1950) - dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

When I noticed that TCM on Demand was offering All About Eve recently, I realized that I hadn’t seen the film in its entirety since whenever I borrowed it on VHS from a local library, probably fifteen or so years ago. So what better time than now to revisit one of the all-time most iconic backstage dramas, remembered as both a Best Picture Oscar winner and also as the film that holds the record for the single film with the most nominations for actresses (four)?

The most memorable scenes and lines from Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s classic tale of Broadway ambition and backstabbing are easy to recall, but what I didn’t remember was that Bette Davis’s performance as Margo Channing was not nearly as campy as the legend I’d built up in my mind. Certainly the character is not as deluded as Davis’s reclusive ex-actress in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Davis’s Margo is often right to question the intentions of her protégée Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), whose climb to the top of theatrical royalty is fraught with deceit and phony smiles. I’m surprised by how many recent reviews I have seen that dismiss Baxter’s performance in favor of Davis. True, Margo is the main character with whom we sympathize, but Eve is a more complex and difficult role. Each actress did a marvelous job in a different, demanding part. However stagy the film seems at times, the pair of leading ladies are never less than great.

Also worthy of mention, of course, are the other two Oscar nominees, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter, as Karen Richards (one of Margo’s dearest friends) and Birdie Coonan (Margo’s no-nonsense wardrobe woman/secretary/housekeeper), respectively. (Annoyingly, however, Ritter disappears from the second half of the film as the melodrama intensifies.) It’s true that the one performance in All About Eve that actually won a coveted gold statue is George Sanders, deemed the Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of sharp-tongued theater critic Addison DeWitt, and certainly the other men (namely Gary Merrill and Hugh Marlowe) in the film are important to the plot as well, but there is no doubt that the women are the central focus. Even Marilyn Monroe, featured in an early showcase as a not-too-bright aspiring actress, outshines her male companions in her few scenes. And then there’s Barbara Bates as high school student Phoebe, the Eve-in-training who is clearly next in line to claw her way into stardom; the film’s final shot, showing her practicing an award acceptance in Eve’s three-way mirror, is haunting given that in real life, Bates’ career never quite took off and she committed suicide in 1969.

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BBB 2020: Anitta muda de opinião e revela para quem vai sua torcida

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Here are the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards

Best Picture:

“Ford v Ferrari” “The Irishman” “Jojo Rabbit” “Joker” “Little Women” “Marriage Story” “1917” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” “Parasite”

Lead Actor:

Antonio Banderas “Pain and Glory” Leonardo DiCaprio “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Adam Driver “Marriage Story” Joaquin Phoenix “Joker” Jonathan Pryce “The Two Popes”

Lead Actress:

Cynthia Erivo “Harriet” Scarlett Johansson “Marriage Story” Saoirse Ronan “Little Women” Charlize Theron “Bombshell” Renee Zellweger “Judy”

Supporting Actor:

Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes” Al Pacino, “The Irishman” Joe Pesci, “The Irishman” Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Supporting Actress:

Kathy Bates, “Richard Jewell” Laura Dern, “Marriage Story” Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit” Florence Pugh, “Little Women” Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

Director:

Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman” Todd Phillips, “Joker” Sam Mendes, “1917” Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”

Animated Feature:

“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” Dean DeBlois “I Lost My Body” Jeremy Clapin “Klaus” Sergio Pablos “Missing Link” Chris Butler “Toy Story 4”  Josh Cooley

Animated Short:

“Dcera,” Daria Kashcheeva “Hair Love,” Matthew A. Cherry “Kitbull,” Rosana Sullivan “Memorable,” Bruno Collet “Sister,” Siqi Song

Adapted Screenplay:

“The Irishman,” Steven Zaillian “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi “Joker,” Todd Phillips, Scott Silver “Little Women,” Greta Gerwig “The Two Popes,” Anthony McCarten

Original Screenplay:

“Knives Out,” Rian Johnson “Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach “1917,” Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino “Parasite,” Bong Joon-ho, Jin Won Han

Cinematography:

“The Irishman,” Rodrigo Prieto “Joker,” Lawrence Sher “The Lighthouse,” Jarin Blaschke “1917,” Roger Deakins “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Robert Richardson

Best Documentary Feature:

“American Factory,” Julia Rieichert, Steven Bognar “The Cave,” Feras Fayyad “The Edge of Democracy,” Petra Costa “For Sama,” Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts “Honeyland,” Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov

Best Documentary Short Subject:

“In the Absence,” Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone,” Carol Dysinger “Life Overtakes Me,” Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas “St. Louis Superman,” Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan “Walk Run Cha-Cha,” Laura Nix

Best Live Action Short Film:

“Brotherhood,” Meryam Joobeur “Nefta Football Club,” Yves Piat “The Neighbors’ Window,” Marshall Curry “Saria,” Bryan Buckley “A Sister,” Delphine Girard

Best International Feature Film:

“Corpus Christi,” Jan Komasa “Honeyland,” Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov “Les Miserables,” Ladj Ly “Pain and Glory,” Pedro Almodovar “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho

Film Editing:

“Ford v Ferrari,” Michael McCusker, Andrew Buckland “The Irishman,” Thelma Schoonmaker “Jojo Rabbit,” Tom Eagles “Joker,” Jeff Groth “Parasite,” Jinmo Yang

Sound Editing:

“Ford v Ferrari,” Don Sylvester “Joker,” Alan Robert Murray “1917,” Oliver Tarney, Rachel Tate “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Wylie Stateman “Star Wars: The Rise of SkyWalker,” Matthew Wood, David Acord

Sound Mixing:

“Ad Astra” “Ford v Ferrari” “Joker” “1917” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Production Design:

“The Irishman,” Bob Shaw and Regina Graves “Jojo Rabbit,” Ra Vincent and Nora Sopkova “1917,” Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh “Parasite,” Lee Ha-Jun and Cho Won Woo, Han Ga Ram, and Cho Hee

Original Score:

“Joker,” Hildur Guðnadóttir “Little Women,” Alexandre Desplat “Marriage Story,” Randy Newman “1917,” Thomas Newman “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” John Williams*“The King,” Nicholas Britell

Original Song:

“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” “Toy Story 4” “I’m Gonna Love Me Again,” “Rocketman” “I’m Standing With You,” “Breakthrough” “Into the Unknown,” “Frozen 2” “Stand Up,” “Harriet”

Makeup and Hair:

“Bombshell” “Joker” “Judy” “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” “1917”

Costume Design:

”The Irishman,” Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson “Jojo Rabbit,” Mayes C. Rubeo “Joker,” Mark Bridges “Little Women,” Jacqueline Durran “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Arianne Phillips

Visual Effects:

“Avengers Endgame” “The Irishman” “1917” “The Lion King” “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”