Double Switch

Having seen EJ in person back in the day and having known him since his very first album, I don't plan to see a biopic about him. His music was the background of my life for decades and I'm glad for him he's still standing.

Since Levant was famous for playing Gershwin's music, I tend to believe he said it first. But who knows.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, by "top," I mean to imply some legacy of quality left behind, whether in a modest degree of quality over a high number of films, or an overwhelming degree of quality over a few films. Top, to me, meant only the ones that most readily came to mind. I liked Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, but, once again, as a Hitchcock advocate. To my knowledge, they did only two together. But Notorious definitely qualifies as a keeper.

Edgy MD wrote: Is there a keeper from the Kurt Russell/Goldie Hawn ouvre? Not really but there were three so that makes it a thing. "Keeper" was not among the qualifiers, was it? Has no one mentioned Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward?

Frayed Knot wrote: I haven't seen many DD films either, although I'm not sure that NOT watching them constitutes a sheltered childhood. In fact, one could argue that it's kind of the opposite. There's an old joke concerning Doris and the studio-created chaste image that served her for many roles and many years. I can't remember now to whom it was first attributed, but whoever it was claimed that; 'I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin'. Supposedly Oscar Levant said that, which sounds exactly like something he'd have said. Similar to the jibe toward George Gershwin and his long-time love, Kay Swift, whom he never married before he died: "Ah, look! Here comes George Gershwin with the future Miss Kay Swift." OK, a "sheltered childhood" means, in my case, we didn't have movie options for a lot of my childhood but when we did, it was movies my mother wanted to see. She was not a DD fan. She was not into chick flicks. She tended toward movies such as Mister Roberts, Trapeze, The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming; Auntie Mame, stuff like that. So that shelter meant if I was to see a movie, mom wanted to see it and took us kids along. We had no nearby theatre to trot off to. Sometimes I speak circumspectly.

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn before she teamed up with Spencer Tracy. My favorite is The Philadelphia Story. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner

As an ardent Hitchcock aficionado, I must go with the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much even if after a while Que Será Será crawls all over my last nerve. The scene where Bernard Herrmann conducts Storm Clouds Contata stands out. Reggie Nalder, spooky as ever. The other caveat is that I don't believe I saw any of the other movies listed. Mine was a sheltered childhood, no further explanation necessary.