Day 02- Film that got you interested in Old Hollywood

You can read the whole story in "Hitchcock or how I became a classic movie lover".

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Day 01- Four films you’d pick as the TCM Guest Programmer

This survey was created by Jessie.

I'm gonna cheat a little bit here. If I'd be the Guest Programmer for Latin American TCM, I'd pick movies that I really want to see, but I can't just because I can't find Spanish subtitles for them. The four I'm thinking right now are:

1.- Virtue (1932): I've heard it's a good pre-code drama, starring Carole Lombard. Since "In name only" is one of my favorite movies from her, I'd like to see her playing another dramatic role.

2.- Thirteen women (1932): Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in the same movie.

3.- Joy of living (1938): Mostly because my friend Rena uploaded this tribute and presented me this ridiculously  lovely song:

4.- Romance in Manhattan (1935): Ginger Rogers in love with a Czech immigrant. It seems like an interesting movie.

I know, what a brief post.
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Day 01- Four films you’d pick as the TCM Guest Programmer

Day 02- Film that got you interested in Old Hollywood

Day 03- Favorite Actor

Day 04- Favorite Actress

Day 05- Actor or Actress you think is underrated

Day 06- Favorite movie from your favorite Actor

Day 07- Favorite movie from your favorite Actress

Day 08- Favorite Old Hollywood couple

Day 09- Old Hollywood stars you wish had worked together

Day 10- Favorite movie

Day 11- Team Bette or Team Joan

Day 12- Favorite Barrymore

Day 13- Classic movie you just couldn’t get into

Day 14- A legend everyone appreciates, but you can’t personally stand

Day 15- An Actor or Actress you’ve been meaning to give a chance, but haven’t gotten around to it yet

Day 16- Favorite director

Day 17- Favorite line from a film

Day 18- Actor or Actress who should have won an Oscar

Day 19- Who’d you like to party it up with in the afterlife

Day 20- Favorite Silent film star

Day 21- Old Hollywood couple you’d watch a sex tape of

Day 22- If you could go back in time and trade places with an Old Hollywood star, who would it be

Day 23- A film you think is underrated

Day 24- Favorite film from Hollywood’s greatest year, 1939

Day 25- Which character from a film do you fantasize about being

Day 26- Which unsolved scandal would you most like the answer to

Day 27- Who’s death hit you the hardest and why

Day 28- A movie you never expected yourself to enjoy

Day 29- Who’s private lifestyle shocked you the most

Day 30- Which 5 Old Hollywood stars would you invite to dinner

 

Crazy Survey/Encuesta loca

Spanish is my first language and I live in Chile (which was hinted like one of the most remote places to go filming...which it is), but I'm so answering this survey created by Millie and Kate...because, yeah, I'm asthmatic :)  

Which actors do you always (or did you always) mix-up? (For example: Millie's tendency to confuse William Powell and Clark Gable when she was a thirteen, er, four year-old? Yes, I am talking in the third person.)

Charles Laughton and Charles Coburn.  

Gidget or Beach Party?

Mmmm....I haven't seen any of them. Should I?

Favorite Movie Outfit?

Anything Audrey wore before the 70's, anything Grace or Ingrid wore in Hitch's films. But if I actually had to put the outfit on, I would go with Audrey's classic trench coat + skinny black pants + ballet flats.

If you could be ANY character in ANY movie...who would you choose?

Nora Charles in the Thin Man Series, Marie 'Slim' Browning in "To have and have not" & Hildy Johnson in "His Girl Friday".

If you could marry ANY character in ANY movie...who would you choose? (Excluding any Dana Andrews' characters. Seriously. ;-D)

Any Dana Andrews's characters.

Just kiddin'.

Who's Dana Andrews?

Kiddin' again.

Well, I'd chose almost any character played by Gary Cooper, like Mr. Deeds, John Doe, or Robert Jordan...I even wouldn't mind following him through the desert like Dietrich did in "Morocco"...

But, if this survey has no problems with bigamy, I'd marry Errol Flyn's Robin Hood, or his Captain Blood (I'd be Lady Marian or a pirate's wife, how cool is that?).

If you could live in ANY movie...which would you choose?

Wow, live in a movie? I'd go for "Sunset Boulevard", "The Grapes of Wrath", "On the waterfront". Or maybe "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Ahhh, such happy people and joyful surroundings.

No, really...

I'd like to live in "High Society" (but ♪ do you want to be a millionaire? I don't ♪) because the settings were kind of relaxing (?)....


...and also in "Camille" (ah, that lovely countryside + Robert Taylor).

"Pollyana"'s town was kind of cool, and at the end all the neighbours were adorable.

I'd never have thought that would be my final answer.

Black & White movies you wish were in Technicolor, or vice-versa?

I wish Carole Lombard's movies were in Technicolor. And "Camille" too.

Favorite Movie Soundtrack?

I love Henry Mancini's soundtracks for Audrey's movies (B@t, Two for the road & Charade. Wait until dark music is too...dark for me).

I also like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" soundtrack by Burt Bacharach...

and the one from "Singin' in the rain" & "The sound of music" .....

and the lovely music from "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort"...so happy...

And I can't leave out John Barry's soundtrack for "Out of Africa", "Robin and Marian", "Dancing with wolves" and 007 movies.

(SORRY reader)

I'm embeding what a think is the less known soundtrack of my list...

Favorite Movie Dance Sequence?

I have 3.

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off with Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire (from "Shall we dance"). Really cool. And I love the song.

This one with Fred and Rita Hayworth from "You'll never get rich". So natural.

And Basal Metabolism with Audrey (from "Funny Face)...

Coolest Movie Star? (Cough, cough, BOBBY DARIN, cough, cough)

Errol Flynn.

Sophia or Gina (Oh, how Kate enjoys replaying Gina's sad defeat OVER AND OVER!)

I've never seen Gina...on anything, so I have to say Sophia Loren.

"Isn't It Romantic" in most Billy Wilder films, or "Red River" in most John Ford films?

"Isn't it Romantic".

If you could re-cast ANY role in ANY movie, what would it be?

I would recast Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Fred Astaire in "Love in the afternoon", "Sabrina" and "Funny face"...and cast younger versions of themselves :)

Favorite movie character with your first name?

Clara Varner (Joan Woodward in "The Long, Hot Summer").

One movie that should NEVER be remade? (under THE THREAT OF A SLOW, PAINFUL DEATH!)

The ones that have a very personal vision/technique from their director. Movies by Manckiewicz, Wilder, Hitch, etc.

Actor or Actress who you would love to be best friends with?

Carole Lombard. Or Cary Grant. Or Audrey Hepburn. Or William Powell. Or Myrna Loy.

Are you an Oscar or a Felix?

I'm a Felix.

Actor/Actress you originally hated and now love?

As Eliza Doolittle would say,  I'm a good girl, I am, so I don't hate people.

Actor/Actress you originally loved and now don't like?

Same as above.

(Edit: But I found Bing Crosby extremely boring the first time I saw him...and now... there's something more extreme than extremely?)

Favorite performance that was looked over by Oscar? (Not to be confused with the aforementioned Oscar of Felix fame.)

Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke", "Hud", "The Hustler" and "Cat on a hot tin roof". I mean, c'mon, he was great.

Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie?

I just have seen "Bewitched", so Bewitched it is.

Hannibal Heyes or Kid Curry? (Hint for those who don't know who they are: pick Kid Curry.)

Kid Curry looks nicer in Google Images :)

Favorite Style Icon: Fred Astaire or Cary Grant?

Cary Grant.

Single most favorite movie scene EVER?

Impossible to answer. I mean ONE scene?
A have a lot of favorite scenes, from this one...

...to this one...(SPOILER...yeah, for aliens)

And all in between. And around. And before. And after. You get the idea.

Movie you really "should" see, but have subconsciously been avoiding for who knows what reason?

"The maltese falcon". Really.

Movie quote you find yourself most often repeating in real life?

This one is not a greaaaat quote, but each time I have keys on my hands I make them sound and  I say "the British are coming!" (yeah, in English)...like Holly Golightly.

50's Westerns or 60's Spies? (I can't even answer this myself...but you have to! MWAHAHAHA!)

Sean Connery's 007 v/s John Wayne's "The Searchers"??

Really??

MWWAHAHAHA, I'm so not gonna answer :)

Favorite splashy, colorful, obnoxious 50's musical?

Does "Calamity Jane" work like an answer here?

Favorite film setting (example: Rome, Paris, Seattle, Siberia, Chile, Sahara Desert, etc)

I'm from Chile :)

And the only famous foreign  movie that was filmed here was "Quantum of Solace". But in the movie Chile's locations are supposed to be Bolivia.

So obviously the major of the northern city Sierra Gorda had to enter to the set, while Craig was filming a scene, and stop everything. Ah, that crazy major.

So, to answer the question, I'd say Ireland  in "The quiet man"...

....or Austria in the next movie...

If you could own the entire wardrobe of any film, which would it be?

The one from "The Sound of Music"...

...because I love curtain-made clothes.

Carol Burnette or Lucille Ball?

Have you seen Carol's Gone with the wind? Hilarious.

But I choose Lucille Ball because "I love Lucy".

Favorite Voice. Ever. Period?

Cary Grant. But, if I had to borrow one voice for myself (like Ursula in the "Little Mermaid")....

....I'd pick Liz Hurley's, even when she doesn't belong to classic cinema :)

Favorite movie that takes place in your home-state?

Home-state? LOL (see favorite film setting answer). But "Gringuito" is a good Chilean movie filmed in Santiago, our capital, which is near to my city :)

Which actors would you want for relatives? (Mother, Father, Grandma, Crazy Aunt, annoying cousin, older brother, etc...)

What a weird question :)

Mom: Deborah Kerr.

Dad: William Powell.

Sister: Shirley Temple or Debbie Reynolds.

Crazy Aunt: Shirley Maclaine or Rosalind Russell.

Uncle: Groucho Marx

Older Brothers: Burt Lancaster (like at the begining of "The Unforgiven". If you see it, you'll understand).

Grandpa: Charles Coburn.

Grandma: Lilian Gish (remember her in "The night of the hunter?)

Well this took me a whole day, but who cares?