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Avanti!, 1972.. Billy Wilder film again, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.
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Avanti! marked the 5th of 7 collaborations between Jack Lemmon and director Billy Wilder, following Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), and The Fortune Cookie (1966). The Front Page (1974) followed, and their last film together was Buddy Buddy (1981).
Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills have a nude scene together, the first to appear in any Billy Wilder film. Mills later said, "If one must do a nude scene, Jack Lemmon is the perfect partner. I think he was more nervous than I, but he was acting funny to help me through it."
Although Billy Wilder had been impressed by Juliet Mills' performance in the West End play ''Five Finger Exercise'' it was the actress's sister Hayley Mills who Wilder first considered for ''Avanti!'' , Juliet Mills being interviewed by Wilder after he'd been advised by Hayley Mills' agent that the latter was "skinny as a pole". Although not overweight Juliet Mills had somewhat of a heft that could be maximized to suit Wilder's conception of the female lead in ''Avanti!'' Wilder would recall giving Juliet Mills the film's script and that she called him back saying: "I want the role: I'll gain twenty pounds: give me eight weeks" - Wilder adding that: "She ate night and day [to] become very chubby and [ultimately] gave a superb performance [in ''Avanti'!']."
Great dialogue from the Italian cabin crew when about to land... " please fasten your cigarettes and extinguish
your seatbelts"
- Carlo Carlucci : In Italy, the lunch hour is from one to four.
Wendell Armbruster : *Three hours* for lunch?
Carlo Carlucci : Mr. Armbruster. Here we do not rush to drugstore for chicken sandwich & Coca-Cola. Here, we take our time. We cook our pasta, we sprinkle our Parmigiano, we drink our wine, we make our love...
Wendell Armbruster : What do you do in the evening?
Carlo Carlucci : In the evening, we go home to our wives.
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How to Murder Your Wife, 1965... Directed by Richard Quine.
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During a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Jack Lemmon told this story. Prior to starting the film, the husband of co-star Virna Lisi made her promise that she would not be talked into doing a nude scene in her first American film. She assured him that she would not, signed the contract and traveled to Hollywood. While filming the "revelation" scene, where Lemmon awakens to discover in horror that he had gotten married at the bachelor party, she had to disrobe and lay in the bed nude but discreetly covered with a sheet. However, it was this day that her husband, an architect, arrived unannounced at the set to surprise his wife. When he walked into the scene, he became very upset. He focused his anger toward Lemmon who, realizing that discretion was the better part of valor, exited the set at full speed with Virna's husband in pursuit. Running past several sound stages on the MGM lot, he quickly found a garbage dumpster, jumped in and closed the cover. He waited there until security officers found him.
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The Fog, 1980... 4k remaster.
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Adrienne Barbeau patterned her voice after Alison Steele, who was a female disc jockey from the 1960s who was known as the Nightbird.
Jazz music was used for Stevie Wayne's radio station because the royalties were more affordable than royalties for rock music.
Although this was essentially a low budget independent movie, John Carpenter chose to shoot the movie in anamorphic widescreen Panavision. This decision gave the movie a grander feel for the viewer so this didn't seem like a low budget horror movie.
The lead ghost, Blake, was played by makeup specialist Rob Bottin. When Bottin asked for the job, John Carpenter asked him to "stand up". Bottin then expected Carpenter to say, "...and get out!" When Carpenter saw that Bottin was a very large man at 6' 5, which was needed for the character Blake, he was hired.
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Going light now with... Son of Paleface, 1952.. Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers(with Trigger)...
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Bob Hope offered the role of Mike to Maureen O'Hara but she turned it down. O'Hara loved the script but was going through an unhappy period in her marriage and felt that she would not be able to be funny in the film.
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Jane Russell's measurements were 38-24-36, and she stood 5 ft 7 in (97-61-91 cm and 1.7 m), making her more statuesque than most of her contemporaries. Her favorite co-star Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell". He joked, "Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands."Howard Hughes said, "There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Those are enough."
In 1940, Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul Howard Hughes, and made her motion-picture debut in The Outlaw (1943), a story about Billy the Kid that went to great lengths to showcase her voluptuous figure.
The movie was completed in 1941, but it was not released until 1943 in a limited release. Problems occurred with the censorship of the production code over the way her ample cleavage was displayed in promotion of the film.
When the movie was finally passed, it had a general release in 1946. During that time, Russell was kept busy doing publicity and became known nationally. Contrary to countless incorrect reports in the media since the release of The Outlaw, Russell did not wear the specially designed underwire bra that Howard Hughes had designed and made for her to wear during filming. According to Jane's 1985 autobiography, she said that the bra was so uncomfortable that she secretly discarded it and wore her own bra with the cups padded with tissue and the straps pulled up to elevate her breasts.
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another silly western, but british this time.. have to make do with Angela Douglas this time..:)Carry On Cowboy, 1965...
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Johnny Finger: I once talked peace with a Sioux, but you can't trust them. One moment it was peace on, the next it was peace off.
Big Heap: This is my squaw, Kitikata. I bought her for two buffalo skins.
Charlie: How.
Johnny Finger: Never mind how, where!
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Carry on crew gain with...
Carry on Don't Lose Your Head, 1967...
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The chateau used in the film at the end was Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury. Built for the Rothchild family it is the only genuine French chateau in England.
During the Good Friday 2016 early morning, 7am start, daytime broadcast, the UK's ITV 2 kept in the infamous "Count" dialogue lines during the Duc de Pommfrit talking to Desiree Dubarry scene, at about 46:14. The part where Joan Sims is in the garden with Charles Hawtrey where she says "my cousin, the count", which a mishearing implies shes saying "my cousin, the '[C' word]". You can hear a smirk from Charles Hawtrey then see Joan Sims about to kill herself laughing just before the camera cuts to the next scene. It was always there, but its plausible that it was probably originally left in to push the censor for the cut negotiations and it was left in for the original cinema releases. Primary ITV channel TV company ITV PLC now own the Rank Organisation films outright, would have several alternate broadcast edit versions pre-prepared, so this may have been an error in playing the wrong version. That particuar word Count, which in the scene can easily be mis-heard as the swearword, which rhymes with hunt, is considered the strongest swearword to broadcast in the UK, on a par with the "N word in the USA, so it is very rare to hear the actual word. The late evening showings of this Carry On film, leaves this scene intact too.
Dany Robin was the wife of Sidney James' agent. Sid stayed at their house one night when her husband was away, she was somewhat surprised to wake up to him attempting to get into bed with her. He tried it again later in the night.
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The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976.... some good, old fashioned western civil war shoot em up...
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970... remastered bluray.
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When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
One of the best ever pairings of Holmes/Watson... very entertaining.
