DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '03 II => Topic started by: Raineypark on July 23, 2003, 05:37:07 PM
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...bears a really freaky resemblance to Charlie Chan.
You don't suppose it was the look they were going for, do you..... [hdscrt]
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He actually reminds me of a sleazy, down-at-heels, faded-pimp version of Don Ameche. but I'm sure I am the only one here who remembers the divine Don Ameche.
Gothick
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Don't worry, dear....you're not the only one.
But really ::).....Don Ameche was MUCH better looking!!!
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He actually reminds me of a sleazy, down-at-heels, faded-pimp version of Don Ameche. but I'm sure I am the only one here who remembers the divine Don Ameche.
No, you're not 8) I have Midnight on tape and have seen it many, many times now :)
Luciaphil
(who also loves Mary Astor)
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He actually reminds me of a sleazy, down-at-heels, faded-pimp version of Don Ameche. but I'm sure I am the only one here who remembers the divine Don Ameche.
Nope, I remember him too. In fact, I caught a bio of him on the Biography Channel just a couple weeks ago.
Bette
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WE are all a bunch of old movie buffs here. My mother had a mad crush on Don Ameche ;D. I also saw the biography on him a few weeks back.
Tim Stokes kind of reminded me of the GodFather. Don't see the Ameche thing.
Everyone sees different things in different ways.
Birdie
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Mr. Stokes reminds me of Sandor, without the tan,hair, eye brows and accent... :P
Sarah's [ghost]
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but I'm sure I am the only one here who remembers the divine Don Ameche.
I certainly remember Don Ameche. What I remember most was when I was a kid I asked my father who invented the telephone and he said Don Ameche. I didn't understand until I saw the Alexander Graham Bell story starring Don Ameche. It was sort of an inside joke he had. It was something he always said.
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Cute story Anubis,
That biography mentioned that because of the movie where Don ameche starred as Alexander Gram Bell, phones were often refered to as Ameche's. I never heard it refered to as that. What this has to do with DS I don't really know. Amazing how these small bits of info. get stuck in our brain.
Birdie
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Hey gang,
Speaking of old movies, with that moustache and that really lousy dye job, Timothy Stokes reminds me of Herbert Marshall, the distinguished British actor who played Somerset Maugham in the film version of Maugham's novel, "The Razor's Edge."
I believe that Mr. Marshall was also in "The Letter" with Bette Davis.
Don Ameche also appeared in "Trading Places." I remember that my father, a big Don Ameche fan, was disheartened to hear the distinguished Mr. Ameche utter the "happy" four-letter word in that film. I guess it's a generational thing.
Bob the Bartender, President of the Lionel Atwill Fan Club.
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Bob....can I tell you something?
I don't know most of the people you mention ???
Duh,
Patti
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Speaking of old movies, with that moustache and that really lousy dye job, Timothy Stokes reminds me of Herbert Marshall, the distinguished British actor who played Somerset Maugham in the film version of Maugham's novel, "The Razor's Edge."
Bob,
I know who Herbert Marshall was, and PT Stokes reminds me of him too. A boozy, sleazy, creepy version of Herbert Marshall, but nonetheless...Perfect!
Cassandra Blair
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Speaking of old movies, with that moustache and that really lousy dye job, Timothy Stokes reminds me of Herbert Marshall, the distinguished British actor who played Somerset Maugham in the film version of Maugham's novel, "The Razor's Edge."
I believe that Mr. Marshall was also in "The Letter" with Bette Davis.
Herbert Marshall rocked! Heh. Seriously, I rather like him.
Luciaphil, Avid Movie Fan who once watched 5 George Brent films in a row ;D
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I remember all the people you are talking about, I can also remember, oh well, never mind. ^-^
Tanis
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Bob....can I tell you something?
I don't know most of the people you mention ???
Duh
Dear Patti,
Don't worry about it. Thirty years from now, when a person (of a "certain" age) waxes nostalgically about Ashton Kutcher, Clare Danes and the truly immortal Richard Grieco, some young twenty-something person will say, "Ashton who (or is that Ashton whom)?"
Bob the Bartender, who hopes that he looks as good as the immortal Charles Delaware Tate when (and if) he reaches C.D.T.'s ripe old age (and, also still has some residual "sweeps" on the top of his head to touch with his withered hands!).
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No offense to the thespian talents (which I'm afraid escape me) of Ashton K., but he's no Herbert Marshall. Herbert Marshall was indeed in the Letter and he also appeared withe Bette Davis in the Little Foxes. He gives a wonderful performance in each, more than holding his own with the formidable Davis.
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Hi Julian, ever see Trouble in Paradise? Herbert Marshall was divoon in that.
As for Ashton K., he's a frothy little sex kitten, that I wouldn't kick out of bed for eating crackers.
G.
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Don't worry, dear....you're not the only one.
But really ::).....Don Ameche was MUCH better looking!!!
Ditto!
Trading Places, Cocoon etc, etc, etc...
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And, let's not forget quite possibly Herbert Marshall's greatest role, that of the skeptical Montreal police inspector, who, cannot believe that Vincent Price's sister-in-law killed his own brother (actor David Hedison of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" fame ), because his brother had accidentally (not to mention allegedly) transformed into a six-foot half-man, half-fly monster during an ill-fated experiment in the cinematic sci-fi classic, "The Fly."
Who could possibly forget that final, chilling scene in which Herbert Marshall (along with Vincent Price) is looking down at a tiny fly with David Hedison's head on it, caught in a spider's web and about to be ingested by a hungry spider, and pleading in a very squeaky voice, "Help me! Help me!!"? (Of course, Mr. Marshall's character did the only proper thing and squished both the fly and the spider with a heavy rock.)
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I haven't seen Trouble in Paradise, but I'm putting it on my list of movies I want to see. From the IMDB I see it also has Miriam Hopkins who I also like.