Comments on: TCM Pick O’ The Day: Saturday, January 10th

By: Dinner At Eight

Dinner At Eight — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:25:45 +0000

[...] Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » TCM Pick O’ The Day: Saturday … (bighollywood.breitbart.com) – January 10, 2009Sure the industry struggled, but it survived, and today’s pick, Dinner At Eight is an excellent example as to why. The rich weren’t scapegoated. They were brought to earth and humanized with all their… more Dinner at Eight blog posts … [...]

By: wfpc.net

wfpc.net — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:09:39 +0000

It’s Harlow night on TCM Saturday. Read more about it at http://wfpc.net/dinner_at_eight_.html

By: Terry McGinnis

Terry McGinnis — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:41:11 +0000

Dinner at Eight is a great movie, but Netflix does it a great disservice by calling it a comedy. (At least, it was so classified when it popped up as a recommendation for me.) It’s got funny lines, to be sure, but it’s got some serious and dark moments too.

Still, very much worth watching. Jean Harlow totally steals the show.

By: Thom E

Thom E — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:34:46 +0000

Marie Dressler was one of MGMs biggest starts in the very early 30’s. The studio insisted that she be in the movie and it made George Cukor nuts. Years later he confessed to thinking she was terrible as they were filming, and not nearly on a par with the other actors. He admitted telling Thalberg she was ruining the movie. He said it was only after he saw the movie that he realized she knew exactly what she was doing and was stunned that he didn’t realize it.

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:11:14 +0000

Ack, we’re not ten minutes in and I’m ready to wring fluttery Billie’s neck. They better get Dressler in here PDQ.

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:38:54 +0000

Elaine, it took the Almighty to make something as wonderful as TCM come from a guy like Ted Turner.

By: Thom E

Thom E — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:39:03 +0000

Back in 1984 I wrote and directed a movie called NIGHT OF THE COMET (about two valley girls at the end of the world, if you don’t remember). People heaped praise upon me for the snappy patter and two self-reliant babes who could be funny, sexy, tough, vulnerable, smart, dumb, all in one character. Every bit of that stuff was taken from Ginger Rogers and Jean Harlow movies, movies I grew up with (on TV)

Fav Jean Harlow line — From Red Dust — She to Gable: “Turn around and slip me the works.”

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:04:21 +0000

I adore TCM, but I thank Ted Turner, not the Almighty. I leave that to the folks at CBN.

By: spiro

spiro — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:45:00 +0000

My wife and I recently joined Netflix and haved started watching more B&W movies.
What has surprised me the most, is not just the clever dialogue (puts modern movies to shame), but the accurate portrayal of real-life drama. Relationships, issues at work, even emotional and psychological problems (just watch ANY Jimmy Stewart movie) are all dealt with in a very convincing, emotionally evocative, and adult manner.
Before recently, I had imagined all B&W movies were cheesepuffs, chock full of hammy performances and corny “dance offs” between 2 skinny guys in high-waisted pants to “get the girl.”
Now, I’m of the opinion that movies from the 40’s and 50’s are much more edgy than modern fare. Not in the vulgar Quentin Tarantino sense that we think of now, but in an even more RAW sense of edginess – older movies truly exposed real human emotion, both the ups and downs. You just don’t get that anymore. Now you get contrived situations, stereotypes, and caricatures, hyperbole.

By: Koop

Koop — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:44:14 +0000

I absolutely LOOOVE “Dinner At Eight”. Great cast, great comedy! (love the last bit of dialog with Dressler and Harlow). I’m also looking forward to the rarely shown “Bombshell”.

It’s great to see that there are still people out there that appreciate the classics.