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Reply #60 posted 12/13/09 9:12am

Harlepolis

Girl4both said:

Harlepolis said:

My girl

I watched every single bit of those movies and I love 'em all,,,esp Ninotchka and the Women.

Do you know that Jack Warner cited Bette Davis as the 1st choice to play Scarlett O'Hara? hmmm

But considering that she played Jezebel the year before opposite Henry Fonda, she thought the story was similar and didn't want to basically redo the same performance. As much as I ADORE Ms.Davis, I wouldn't change a thing from Vivien Leigh's performance(nor Olivia de Havilland's love

).

Lemme add a film to your list(from the same year)...

Starring Wendy Hiller & Leslie Howard cool

This looks good. What is it about?

I'm sorry, I didn't see this reply smile

This bold 1938 production of George Bernard Shaw's famous play about a linguist who turns a Cockney flower peddler into a princess was codirected by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version) and star Leslie Howard, who brings a calculated coldness to the character of Henry Higgins. There's no My Fair Lady sugarcoating here: Higgins is a brute using language as a weapon of class war and patriarchal subjugation of women. He's a likable brute, mind you, but a bully nonetheless, and his molding of poor Eliza (Wendy Hiller) into a Cinderella story is not a pretty sight. Everyone in the cast is in perfect accord with this production's take on Shaw's tale, and while this Pygmalion is a fairly radical enterprise, it is also very funny and handsomely realized. Hiller and Howard have never been better, and the rest of the cast, including Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland, and Jean Cadell, can't be improved upon. Edited by David Lean, who eventually directed Brief Encounter and Lawrence of Arabia.

But mainly, any movie from the "Criterion Collection" is worth your money(even if they're sometimes a tad bit costly lurking