Not the AC/DC singer.
Passages
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The Curious Sofa
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domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Re: Passages
She held on a long time. One of the OG Hollywood Catholics and yes, she gave the single best bratty daughter perf in film history in Mildred Pierce
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Feego
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Re: Passages
It’s interesting that in the novel Mildred Pierce, her character has ambitions of being an opera singer. Had they kept that in the film, Blyth still would have been ideal casting because she actually was a trained opera singer, showing off her chops in several musicals later.
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Matt
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:58 pm
Re: Passages
Some of Blyth's line deliveries ring in my head like they're on Memorex tape.
"My mother... a waitress," like she's spitting the last word out.
"With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls."
"You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing."
And, of course, the slap heard round the world.
I really like her in Our Very Own, which is a very strange movie that veers from almost sitcom-like comedy with a young Natalie Wood annoying the hell out of TV delivery man Farley Granger, to the high camp drama of Ann Dvorak chewing the scenery as the mother who gave Blyth up for adoption.
"My mother... a waitress," like she's spitting the last word out.
"With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls."
"You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing."
And, of course, the slap heard round the world.
I really like her in Our Very Own, which is a very strange movie that veers from almost sitcom-like comedy with a young Natalie Wood annoying the hell out of TV delivery man Farley Granger, to the high camp drama of Ann Dvorak chewing the scenery as the mother who gave Blyth up for adoption.