A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Man Godfrey -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Randy_M]

it is said that Gene Tierney was encouraged to start smoking when she entered films to lower her voice. She ended up dying from emphysema.

 

[PMF]

Nun’s Story has more problems.

Lost cause or currently too cost-prohibitive to cure?

 

[Robert Harris]

Lost cause or currently too cost-prohibitive to cure?

Never a lost cause.

 

[Garysb]

as for smoking in classic films, ever think it was just the studios making that accommodation for a star that smoked, so that they didn't need a break in the shooting of a film.

Well Judy Garland smoked at the time she made the "The Wizard of Oz" . Dorothy didn't but supposedly they put a secret pocket in her pinafore to hold her cigarettes.

 

[bugsy-pal]

It’s not a matter of “a decent HD transfer,” as there is nothing to properly transfer in full quality.

Longish film at 11,000 + feet, and in need of help. Expensive, but agree that it needs to be saved. Some decent talent involved.

Thanks - that's sort of what I expected, sadly.

 

[verneaux]

Glad this is coming for those that want it. Given it's PD status, it was a long shot for restoration and release. But I recall watching this a while back after reading years of praise for the film about what a great, hilarious film it is, and being disappointed. A similar thing happened with Some Like It Hot. I guess classic comedy is just not my thing.

I recently attended a screening of the restored Twentieth Century at a college campus. You could have heard crickets. It might have been the misogynistic slant of the story or maybe the audience was expecting fart jokes.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

How sad about Judy Garland already smoking at that age. But then ... wasn't she really34 when she made that movie?

 

[TJPC]

How sad about Judy Garland already smoking at that age. But then ... wasn't she really34 when she made that movie?

16 or 17

 

[Dick]

Comedy is the most subjective of all film genres due to the uniqueness of our own sense of humor.

True, comedy would seem to be the most personal of genres. But, again, it's personal. I enjoy most comedy sub-genres (physical slapstick, purely verbal comedy (such as MY MAN GODFREY, with its very sophisticated characters and dialog), satire, farce, etc.) as long as (in my opinion) the specific titles are beautifully-crafted and well-written/acted/directed; yet even among those, there is a wide and completely subjective spread of opinion. It's not just comedy that sees this diversity. Horror films comprise another very subjective genre. I find slasher movies dull and offensive, and loud sonic "jump scares" piss me off, while slow-build, leave-things-to-the-imagination movies have a much better chance of sticking with me. Thrillers to me need to be largely character and dialog-driven, while big explosions and car chases have long-since ceased to impress me. I want to feel invested in the characters, and action alone does not provide that for me. Etc.

There isn't a movie in my collection of over 3000 Blu-rays and another 1500 DVD's (including even those so-bad-they're-very-entertaining sci-fi bombs) that I wouldn't expect to come back to in my future (which makes it hard to sell off parts of my collection when finances demand)...if I was to live another thirty years and not add another film to my shelves during that time .

 

[Johnny Angell]

True, comedy would seem to be the most personal of genres.

What's that saying..."Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

 

[Robert Crawford]

What's that saying..."Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

Can you imagine being in front of a large audience of people telling jokes and nobody is laughing at your jokes That has to be one lonely position.

 

[PMF]

Can you imagine being in front of a large audience of people telling jokes and nobody is laughing at your jokes That has to be one lonely position.

I know its happened to me with some of my posts.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I know its happened to me with some of my posts.

More often than you know.

 

[Malcolm R]

Can you imagine being in front of a large audience of people telling jokes and nobody is laughing at your jokes That has to be one lonely position.

What's the opposite, when people laugh at the things you say but you're not really joking?

 

[TJPC]

We saw a broadway musical called “A Day in Hollywood, A Night in Ukraine” in New York City. People were literally rolling in the aisles and the place rocked with laughter. Six months later the show came to Toronto. We went again to a matinee filled with little old blue haired lady.

Crickets and dead silence! You could see the sweet on the foreheads of the actors. At intermission about 1/3 of the audience left.

 

[ScottHM]

We saw a broadway musical called “A Day in Hollywood, A Night in Ukraine” in New York City. People were literally rolling in the aisles and the place rocked with laughter. Six months later the show came to Toronto. We went again to a matinee filled with little old blue haired lady.

Crickets and dead silence! You could see the sweet on the foreheads of the actors. At intermission about 1/3 of the audience left.

You didn't find it funny the second time?

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[AnthonyClarke]

16 or 17

16 or 17 a day? I suppose that's not too bad for a 34-year-old.
Whatever her age, she still looked great in that movie. Though she looked her absolute best in 'For Me and My Gal' and 'The Harvey Girls' .. and I suppose 'Meet Me in St Louis' (although she was already 50 when she made that one).

 

[TJPC]

She didn’t even live to 50!

 

[Big Gay Andy]

My favorite 1930s screwball comedy is 1939's Midnight with Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Mary Astor and John Barrymore. One of the most hilariously funny movies ever made.

Some Like It Hot, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and What's Up, Doc? are definitely amongst the great screwball comedies, as are the Bette Midler comedies Ruthless People and Big Business and the British comedy Blame It on the Bellboy which just came out on Blu-ray.

 

[Matt Hough]

We saw a broadway musical called “A Day in Hollywood, A Night in Ukraine” in New York City. People were literally rolling in the aisles and the place rocked with laughter. Six months later the show came to Toronto. We went again to a matinee filled with little old blue haired lady.

Crickets and dead silence! You could see the sweet on the foreheads of the actors. At intermission about 1/3 of the audience left.

If they left at intermission, they missed that marvelous Marx Bros.-inspired romp, the best part of the evening apart from "Famous Feet" in the first act.