I always enjoy Una O'Connor's presence in films because she reminds me of some of my older Irish relatives. #WitnessForTheProsecution #TCMParty #30DaysOfOscar
Tyrone Power's formidable black eyebrows are doing silent battle with all these white wigs in #WitnessForTheProsecution. #TCMParty #30DaysOfOscar
I've got to start using "the monocle test" in certain work situations... #WitnessForTheProsecution #TCMParty #30DaysOfOscar
That's quite an entrance by the great Marlene...
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Charles Laughton just redefining the term "droll" in his delivery of all of his great lines in #WitnessForTheProsecution. #TCMParty #30DaysOfOscar
Cinematographer Russell Harlan
A still from the film Gun Crazy
Very clever subjective shot there of Sir Wilfred's view as he rides up the stairs, by Billy Wilder and the king of subjective camera, cinematographer Russell Harlan, who also shot the groundbreaking subjective bank robbery sequence in #GunCrazy #WitnessForTheProsecution #TCMParty #30DaysOfOscar
OK, nobody told me Una O'Connor was in this! Is there a hysterical Irish maid part? #WitnessForTheProsecution #TCMParty #30DaysOfOscar
I'm not sure I've ever seen #WitnessForTheProsecution all the way through in one sitting (or it was so long ago that I can't recall) so I am here on jury duty for the #TCMParty. #30DaysOfOscar
It's not just me, Esther *is* incredibly annoying, right?
#BenHur #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
Sam Jaffe is almost unrecognizable as the Grand Duke Peter/Tsar Peter III opposite Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great in Josef von Sternberg's #TheScarletEmpress
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#BenHur #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
"It's magnificent, and from a man I've never met!"
"You're wrong, Messala..."
"We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well and live."
#BenHur #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
WINTER SUNRISE by Maxfield Parrish
"It looks like a sunrise by Maxfield Parrish."
#TopHat #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
Friendly reminder that by the time Ginger Rogers finished shooting the "Cheek to Cheek" sequence, her shoes were full of blood
#TopHat #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
THE iconic shot from #CatBallou
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"The first time I ask you to do one little thing for me, like rob one little train...!"
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βHe did it! He missed the barn.β
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"You're talking to my daughter, so watch your damn language!"
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How Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye slipped in a joke that wasn't scripted
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"He never played me false until he killed me"
#TrueGrit #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
That's Dennis Hooper as the ill-fated Moon
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"Baby Sister, I was born game and intend to go out that way."
#TrueGrit #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
Hey, there's Hank Worden as the undertaker! You may remember him as Mose Harper in #TheSearchers or the world's slowest room service waiter in #TwinPeaks
#30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
The three categories of cameo in #AroundTheWorldIn80Days, ranked from best to worst:
1. Here is some plot and/or exposition
2. Meta Humor by way of the performer's screen persona and/or personal history
3. Hey, it's whatsisname!
#30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
"I'm all right, but look what they've done to my coat!"
I read somewhere that Buster Keaton's train conductor was originally supposed to die in the Indian attack
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"Now don't miss, boys, and damage the woodwork. The company's liable to take it out of my salary."
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Buster Keaton my beloved!π
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"Mr. Fogg, why must you be so...so British?"
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"It's not often one needs an elephant in a hurry."
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#AroundTheWorldIn80Days #30DaysOfOscar #TCMParty
"For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing singlehandedly a half a ton of angry pot roast."βTom Lehrer, "In Old Mexico"
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