ALFREDO'S PAELLA: GOD GIVETH THE SHOULDER...

Friday, July 24, 2009

GOD GIVETH THE SHOULDER...

"I thought if I played an erudite, articulate person who was multifaceted and who was struggling between the maculine and the feminine sides of his/her nature that this was a great opportunity to do lots of amazing things as an actress. I was really attuned to the fact that I really needed to do something that showed that I had more ability than I was given credit for at that time -- that I wasn't just a body and a face."

--Racquel Welch recalling her role in MYRA BRECKENRIDGE.

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petlodJuly 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Perfect picture choice for this posting.
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Alfredo ZJuly 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Right...she was more than a body and a face, she was also underwear.
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Babette's Feast, Sullivan's Travels, Dodsworth, All About my Mother, All About Eve, Ma Vie en Rose, A Star is Born (1954), 84 Charring Cross Road, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brief Encounter, The Hours, Auntie Mame, Infamous, Hollywoodland, Fur, Vertigo, Rear Window, Portrait of Jennie, The Model and the Marriage Broker, Random, Harvest, The Mating Season, Radio Days, Another Woman, The Bycicle Thief, Umberto D, Blade Runner, The Devil Wears Prada, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, The Triplets of Belleville, Stevie, My Foolish Heart, The Tender Trap, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Awful Truth, Amarcord, I, Vitelloni, Variety Lights, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), Dinner at Eight, Beyond the Forest, Mr. Skeffington, The Pirate, Turtle Diary

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE STARS

MARY ASTOR - Like so many women of that era (and the era really covered a lot of ground, from the 30s through the 60s) could and did play any part with forthright assurance, style and damned good acting. From the shrewish Brigid O'Shaugnassy in THE MALTESE FALCON to the wordly and serene Edith Cortrigh in DODSWORTH to the Auntie Mame-like society manhunter in THE PALM BEACH STORY to the stark and truly terrifying Roberta Carter in RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE (Oscar nomination,) Astor, like Irene Dunne (soon to appear in these pages) could do it all and, as with Dunn, no matter what the part, a shinning intelligence came through.
VIVIEN LEIGH – A superb technician and a great beauty. The heartbreak in her eyes and her voice were there from the start and they only became more poignant as she aged. There may not be a more idiosyncratic match of star and role in anyone's career than Vivien Leigh's, who, deliberatly or not, became the spokeswoman for the fragile, shopworn angel, though still smoldering with longing and lust.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

GOD GIVETH THE SHOULDER...

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