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| Just watched a very minor Bette Davis vehicle called The Girl From 10th Avenue. Most memorable aspect: Colin Clive playing an agreeable society souse. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:41 am |
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| Rod - Shane and I had an "obscure" moment ourselves last night. We went out to eat at a place with a pianist. She started playing "A Certain Smile," a hit for Johnny Mathis from a movie of the same name I just spent months tracking down. It's a women's film from the 50s starring Rossano Brazzi and Joan Fontaine (not bad, but a terrible ingenue) for which I've had the soundtrack for years (it was mom's). I sent Shane over with some tip money to thank her for playing the song, and she was surprised we even knew it. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:36 am |
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| Marilyn - I really liked your end-of-the-year meme - enough that if I put down the other distractions, I'm gonna swipe it. (With appropriate attributions, of course.) |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:28 am |
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Marilyn wrote: ....She started playing "A Certain Smile," a hit for Johnny Mathis from a movie of the same name.... |
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| Marilyn |
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Yambu - I AM a Mathis fan, so one of the best things about A Certain Smile for me was being able to see Johnny Mathis perform it in the film. He looks so YOUNG! I just wish the copy I got was of better quality, but I was extremely lucky to find it at all.
Thanks, L.W. I found out about Waller in the doc Cinerama Adventure, which doesn't seem to be available in home-viewing formats. It was my favorite film of the 2002 CIFF. |
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| billyweeds |
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A certain smile, a certain face
Can lead an unsuspecting heart
On a merry chase
A fleeting glance can say
So many lovely things
Suddenly you know why my heart sings
You love awhile and when love goes
You try to hide the tears inside
With a cheerful pose
But in the hush of night
Exactly like a bitter sweet refrain
Comes that certain smile
To haunt your heart again
Love that cheeseball song!!! |
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| Marilyn |
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| I'm with you all the way, Billy. The entire soundtrack by Sammy Fain and Alfred Newman is wonderful. |
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| Syd |
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yambu wrote: Marilyn wrote: ....She started playing "A Certain Smile," a hit for Johnny Mathis from a movie of the same name.... He had great material. Wild is the Wind and Twelfth of Never were good covers. But there was something metallic about his voice that I just didn't like.
Big Daddy did a cover of "With a Little Help from My Friends" as Johnny Mathis might have done it, as a slow torch song. Very slow. You want to slip the singer some caffeine. |
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| yambu |
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gromit wrote: ...The 1969 somewhat psychedelicized Smith cover of Baby It's You is great. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:53 pm |
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Marilyn wrote: Rod - Shane and I had an "obscure" moment ourselves last night. We went out to eat at a place with a pianist. She started playing "A Certain Smile," a hit for Johnny Mathis from a movie of the same name I just spent months tracking down. It's a women's film from the 50s starring Rossano Brazzi and Joan Fontaine (not bad, but a terrible ingenue) for which I've had the soundtrack for years (it was mom's). I sent Shane over with some tip money to thank her for playing the song, and she was surprised we even knew it.
Fontaine was a bit long in the tooth for ingenue roles in the '50's. |
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| billyweeds |
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mo_flixx wrote: Marilyn wrote: Rod - Shane and I had an "obscure" moment ourselves last night. We went out to eat at a place with a pianist. She started playing "A Certain Smile," a hit for Johnny Mathis from a movie of the same name I just spent months tracking down. It's a women's film from the 50s starring Rossano Brazzi and Joan Fontaine (not bad, but a terrible ingenue) for which I've had the soundtrack for years (it was mom's). I sent Shane over with some tip money to thank her for playing the song, and she was surprised we even knew it.
Fontaine was a bit long in the tooth for ingenue roles in the '50's.
I think Marilyn is referring to Christine Carrere who played the ingenue in A Certain Smile. Right, Marilyn?
Fontaine is a strange case. She was amazing in Rebecca but otherwise her career was very undistinguished, including her undeserved Oscar for Suspicion--interestingly, the only Oscar-winning performance ever directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Is that weird or what? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:48 pm |
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| Saw Mathis at the Copa in '58. He looked young there also. |
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| Ghulam |
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| Francois Sagan's novel A Certain Smile was a huge best seller in the 1950's, though not as big as her first novel Bonjour Tristesse. Thanks for bringing back the memories Marilyn. |
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| marantzo |
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| Whatever happened to her, is she still alive? |
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