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"Desire Me" (1947, No Director Credited)   Message List  
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Re: "Desire Me" (1947, No Director Credited)



--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "michal.oleszczyk82" <michal.oleszczyk@...>
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> Sadly, I have no way of watching DESIRE ME, but I wanted to ask if any of
a_film_by'ers had a chance to see it? If so, whose hand is most visible in it:
Cukor's...? LeRoy's...? Conway's...?
>
> I would love to read any recollections of this unattainable non-auteur (?)
curiosity item -- if the happy few are willing to share them.


This turned up on TCM many years back. It contains several Cukorian themes and
motifs. TCM also screened a trailer which included many shots from scenes that
are no longer in the actual film (I assume the trailer was assembled exclusively
from material shot by Cukor, prior to the LeRoy/Conway reshoots).




Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:36 pm

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Sadly, I have no way of watching DESIRE ME, but I wanted to ask if any of a_film_by'ers had a chance to see it? If so, whose hand is most visible in it:...
michal.oleszczyk82
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Nov 12, 2009
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... This turned up on TCM many years back. It contains several Cukorian themes and motifs. TCM also screened a trailer which included many shots from scenes...
thebradstevens
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Nov 25, 2009
3:38 pm

I still haven't seen "Desire Me" but this exchange was interesting to me because, coincidentally, I took an opportunity to rewatch "Macao" this week after not...
lukethedealer12
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Nov 29, 2009
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This is a fascinating post, Blake. Viewing MACAO over a year ago, I also experienced dissatisfaction over its unevennes but agree with you over Brad Dexter's...
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Nov 29, 2009
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... "...I want to say that I think Howard Hughes' treatment of von Sternberg on both this film and "Jet Pilot," made just before it but not finished and...
tharpa2002
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Nov 29, 2009
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"It sometimes seems that critics don't want to talk about these films that much, and I wonder if it's because they are afraid they might guess wrong on a scene...
thebradstevens
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Nov 29, 2009
6:08 pm

Another fascinating example is THE AMAZING MRS HOLLIDAY. According to Deanna Durbin, approximately two-thirds of the film as we now have it was directed by...
thebradstevens
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Nov 29, 2009
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... And I can believe this after I finally saw it a few years ago. Interestingly, the places I had read up on it had seemed to insist that Renoir actually...
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Nov 29, 2009
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Several years ago, I tried to get an interview with the late Kerwin Mathews without success to ask him about these issues. Since he (and others) are no longer...
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Nov 30, 2009
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Though my sense is much as with you and Brad, I doubt it divides quite that neatly. Here's what I can tell you from one of the participants of the film,...
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Nov 30, 2009
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That was a fascinating post for me to read, since I watched MACAO not so long ago, as well. I'm not familiar with Ray's work to the extent that would allow me...
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