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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2024 17:57:04 GMT
Seven years ago this month, IMDB1 and the CFB went live (or whatever a website does) and it's been an awfully pleasant place to be, thanks to the creators/webmasters and, to paraphrase Norma Desmond, all those wonderful people out there in the cyberverse. I want to offer personal thanks to so many but, inevitably, some would get inadvertently neglected were I to mount what would surely be an ineffectual effort to name them. And honestly, everyone who contributes to the atmosphere here deserves the toast and the applause (and the candy hearts). My own contributions have lately been sporadic, but I check in every day and always find so much to enjoy. As well, I often see a movie that I'll recall was discussed here, and will use the search function to revisit old threads and reacquaint myself with what was said about it. And to my chagrin and embarrassment, I'll reread great posts and notice that I didn't give them the thumbs-up. It's pure absent-mindedness on my part, I assure everyone. The knowledgeable, cogent, incisive, humorous and poetic observations can kick my own thoughts into high gear and I just get distracted. So, by way of thoroughly inadequate apology and appreciation, here's a great big , happy anniversary and a valentine to our hosts and all who contribute to the hospitality. There are few - if any - online communities as nice, and none nicer.
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Post by politicidal1 on Feb 14, 2024 18:16:06 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 14, 2024 18:29:17 GMT
That’s a lovely post, Doghouse6, and thank you so much for being here and bringing your extensive knowledge and insight. To reverse another phrase of the immortal Miss Desmond’s, here on the Classic Film Board(s), we don’t need faces—we have dialogue!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2024 18:35:14 GMT
That’s a lovely post, Doghouse6 , and thank you so much for being here and bringing your extensive knowledge and insight. To reverse another phrase of the immortal Miss Desmond’s, here on the Classic Film Board(s), we don’t need faces—we have dialogue!Now, that's what I call a turn of phrase.
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Post by timshelboy on Feb 14, 2024 20:11:38 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2024 20:49:55 GMT
Something about the day brought out politicidal1's inner Capone. I can only hope it won't expand into a mass occurr ence.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2024 20:55:04 GMT
Can't go wrong with words straight from the Hart (Lorenz, that is), timshelboy. Or Kim Novak sitting in a satin one.
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Post by Pippen on Feb 14, 2024 21:32:32 GMT
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Post by Pippen on Feb 14, 2024 21:34:29 GMT
This olde timey bombshell was an inspiration for ^^^
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Post by Pippen on Feb 14, 2024 21:37:52 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on Feb 14, 2024 21:46:45 GMT
And what a splendid Seven Years it’s been, Doghouse6. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. (I really can’t believe it’s been 7 years.)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2024 22:12:01 GMT
This olde timey bombshell was an inspiration for ^^^ That sounds like (yes, prepare yourself) a safe Bette.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 14, 2024 22:23:15 GMT
And what a splendid Seven Years it’s been, Doghouse6 . Thank you for bringing this to our attention. (I really can’t believe it’s been 7 years.) Been itching to hear from you, jervistetch. I won't skirt the issue: yup, seven grate years of shootin' the breeze.
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 15, 2024 0:14:15 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Feb 15, 2024 1:00:06 GMT
Thanks for the song, Rufus-T. Foreigner was one of my late hubby's favorite groups. I've been having fun trying to ID the movies some of the clips are from: Virginia O'Brien in Till the Clouds Roll By, Bette Davis and Leslie Howard in Of Human Bondage, Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, Ronald Reagan, Olivia deHavilland and Errol Flynn in Santa Fe Trail, Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in A Star Is Born, Kirk Douglas and Laraine Day in My Dear Secretary, Gower Champion and Cyd Charisse in Till the Clouds Roll By and Spencer Tracy in Father's Little Dividend. Couldn't get the ones with Steve Cochran, James Stewart, David Niven, Lillian Gish, Martha Scott (maybe Our Town?), Kathryn Grayson, or whomever the couple in the last clip were. But it kept me busy!
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