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Post by Scott on Jul 27, 2020 6:54:18 GMT
Olivia de Havilland has died at age 104 in Paris. Played Melanie in Gone with the Wind. She and Mickey Kuhn, 87, the child actor who played her son, were the last two surviving members of the credited cast of the movie.
She spent most of her life in a bitter feud with her sister, Joan Fontaine, apparently because Joan was the first to win an Oscar and got married before Olivia did. When their mother died, Olivia initially didn't invite Joan to the funeral.
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Post by Scott on Jul 29, 2020 4:48:43 GMT
I used to quote Olivia de Havilland now and then. When my sister would start complaining about someone she didn't like, talking about how terrible they were, I would tell her,"He/She's just high-spirited."
I ran it into the ground and had to stop doing it, though.
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Post by mamabear on Jul 31, 2020 6:03:43 GMT
104...that's how old my great-great grandpa lived to be. I never met him, but I heard the stories.
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Post by JD on Aug 2, 2020 23:08:52 GMT
Amazing to live to that age.
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Post by Scott on Aug 4, 2020 22:32:08 GMT
She was in her 70's in her last movie. She could have kept working another 20 years.
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Post by mamabear on Aug 6, 2020 2:32:30 GMT
She was in her 70's in her last movie. She could have kept working another 20 years. Kinda like Betty white lol. |
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Post by Scott on Aug 7, 2020 3:58:06 GMT
I guess she did kind of go into decline. Was in Lady in a Cage in the '60's---played a disabled woman with a cage-like elevator in her house. The thing breaks down and she's trapped inside. She can only watch helplessly as beatniks and juvenile delinquents invade her home, drink her liquor and wreck the place.
I think I saw Gone with the Wind at a drive-in when I was about five, but I slept through it. My earliest coherent memory of her was in the made-for-TV movie The Screaming Woman. A man thinks he's murdered his wife and buries her. Turns out she's still alive and is down there screaming. Olivia de Havilland hears her but she just got out of a mental hospital so no one believes her and her arthritis is such that she can't dig her up herself.
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Post by mamabear on Aug 25, 2020 20:36:52 GMT
Huh. Sounds like an interesting movie, actually. I'll have to see if I can find it anywhere!
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Post by Scott on Aug 29, 2020 6:05:20 GMT
I think Lady in a Cage is fairly easy to find on streaming video. But it was seventeen years before I saw The Screaming Woman again and that was in Boston. They may show different movies on TV in the East because I saw a couple on TV, that and Bunny O'Hare, that I had seen as a child. I had been haunted by them for years. They were movies that I had a surprisingly clear memory of but they didn't make any sense when I thought about them.
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Post by mamabear on Aug 31, 2020 3:02:36 GMT
I'd never thought about the possibility of different regions showing different movies on TV. I suppose that could be.
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Post by Scott on Sept 26, 2020 4:31:49 GMT
It seems like I heard somewhere that they did. But that was a vague childhood memory.
I also heard they used to dub TV commercials into different regional accents.
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Post by mamabear on Oct 16, 2020 22:36:26 GMT
It seems like I heard somewhere that they did. But that was a vague childhood memory. I also heard they used to dub TV commercials into different regional accents. Huh. Never heard of that either! Seems like it would be weird to hear that if that particular ad clearly took place in a different region than the accent with which they spoke. 🤷♀️ |
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Post by Scott on Oct 16, 2020 23:32:21 GMT
They used to show a German TV commercial on American TV. It was clearly dubbed. A kid in lederhosen walks into a shop asking for a specific brand of candy.
I saw someone long, long ago, probably on The Tonight Show, talking about a commercial he saw in the South. It was identical to the one shown in the rest of country, but they had Southern accents.
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Post by mamabear on Oct 28, 2020 4:19:23 GMT
How strange. I don't watch cable these days, though. Not worth the outrageous prices. So I guess I don't know much about commercials anymore.
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Post by Scott on Oct 28, 2020 13:31:13 GMT
It would have been very early '70's that I saw that on the Tonight Show. I doubt commercials change for regional accents now. I used to have a video of Jim Varney's TV commercials which I assume were made in the South----I don't know if they for any national brands.
And here's the German commercial. Most of it was voice-over. There's just the kid's line that anything like synchronized sound.
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Post by mamabear on Nov 1, 2020 16:04:42 GMT
It is rather odd to see! Kinda reminds me of watching an old Godzilla movie lol.
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