Judy looks great and she really shows her acting chops. She brings out the the butch in Bogarde, and he is incredible and believable as her husband. But then Dirk is very underrated as an actor, as is the now-forgotten Aline MacMahon. The full-length version can be seen on YouTube, but it's all out of focus....Any thoughts on this flick? Judy really does seem to have her shit together in this one

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September 7, 2023 7:53 AM

I think I remember reading by the end of filming, Bogarde referred to Judy at "Thing."

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September 3, 2023 10:36 PM

She is fantastic in this particular movie.

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September 3, 2023 11:53 PM

Bogarde should have said, "Poetry In Motion."

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September 4, 2023 12:36 AM

The film is a Garland masterpiece. Her acting was so shatteringly real. She and Dirk Bogarde had incredible chemistry. I wish Judy would’ve done more dramas. She was perfect.

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September 4, 2023 2:00 AM

This was before she lost the weight for her TV show.

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September 4, 2023 2:35 AM

Jenny, you're a sell out.

I'm ALWAYS a sell out

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September 4, 2023 2:39 AM

I always imagined that if MGM and Judy had ever agreed to be able to work together again, this would’ve been what her musical-film return to the studio would’ve been like. Visually beautiful film, too.

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September 4, 2023 2:39 AM

It's well known that singers can be brilliant actors - well, not Tony Bennet, but Judy proves it. As did Liza in Cockoo and that telephone scene

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September 4, 2023 5:18 AM

I bet they approached Larry for the husband role. Anyone know who else was in contention? Bet Peter Finch was considered

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September 4, 2023 5:21 AM

I thought Judy looked great in the film.

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September 4, 2023 5:26 AM

She Could Go On Setting On the Toilet For Hours After She Died……..

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September 4, 2023 5:30 AM

Charlize Theron's favorite film.

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September 4, 2023 9:46 AM

David Donne: They are waiting.

Jenny Bowman: I don't care if they're fasting!

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September 4, 2023 9:48 AM

David Donne: Just hang on to that, will you, hang on to it.

Jenny Bowman: Well I've hung on to every bit of rubbish there is to hang on to in life. And I've thrown all the good bits away.

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September 4, 2023 9:49 AM

The scene between Garland and Bogarde (quoted in R13 and R14) is a cinema classic, rightfully so.

It's one take, rewritten and then largely improvised by the stars.

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September 4, 2023 10:15 AM

[quote]by the end of filming, Bogarde referred to Judy as "Thing."

Not even "Miss Thing"?

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September 4, 2023 11:35 AM

I'm sure Judy was exhausting as usual, but D.B. was a brittle and sour man.

He hadn't hit his "bitter old queen" stage yet but he was getting there.

But to be fair, Judy wore everybody out. Even her closest friends.

Whatever their differences, the film and their performances are excellent.

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September 4, 2023 11:58 AM

[quote] The scene between Garland and Bogarde (quoted in R13 and R14) is a cinema classic,

R13:

[quote] Charlize Theron's favorite film

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September 4, 2023 12:10 PM

Judy really didn’t look great after In the Good Old Summertime in 1949. Something happened to her appearance after her 1949 shock treatments etc . Happily she was able to deliver great performances afterwards , but it was definitely independent of her appearance .

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September 4, 2023 1:17 PM

The movie is a blatant exploitation of Garland’s real life. I always thought this was a concert film and Luft or somebody wrote the story so the concert footage could be used. I remember Bogarde’s character standing in the wings watching Garland perform.

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September 5, 2023 10:53 AM

It’s fun to watch the sort of parade of her life (a much cleaner version) because she was such a towering talent. But it verges on camp and is tinged by the obvious toll Judy’s addictions took on her. She doesn’t yet have the wasted chronically ill body of a few years later, but she looks at least 60 (real age about 40) and like she hasn’t slept in days. Her voice, magnificent as ever, is also that of a much older woman still able to crank them out.

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September 5, 2023 12:28 PM

[quote]Anyone know who else was in contention?

Lucy. But her boyfriend talked her out of it.

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September 5, 2023 12:33 PM

I hear there's a remake in the wings: I Could Go On Pinging

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September 6, 2023 1:23 AM

I wish Judy had lived long enough to record The Pina Coloda song.

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September 6, 2023 1:45 AM

Mr. Dirt Bogart said Mama was The Thing!

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September 6, 2023 2:58 AM

No he said they called her It. Look at the interview at R21.

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September 6, 2023 2:59 AM

I don't think Judy looks sixty for heaven's sake, though she certainly does look every minute of forty which was her age when filming this movie.

I saw director Ronald Neame interviewed and he said people were always asking him about the outtakes or unused footage and he replied, "There wasn't any! None! I used every frame we shot."

Judy was her troubled self and twice during production stopped showing up and once flew back to LA from London, until her crooked agents Fields & Begelman warned her she'd be sued, so she went back and finished the film, more or less. Neame also added that while Judy was chronically late she was never unprepared, or less than serious about the work.

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September 6, 2023 3:58 AM