My top 20 leading ladies in American film uo to 1976. Love them without reservations. Here they are and why. Thread. 1/20 Besides her thousand obvious qualities, Carole didn’t adjust to the world, it was the world that adjusted to her.

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One movie a day for 365 days. 193/365. The Model and the Marriage Broker has a modern feel, it could have been done twenty years later. Thelma Ritter is an ageless performer and everything she does rings true. She's the well meaning broker, too bad the model is not Judy Holliday.

I know that Jerry Maguire can edge on the mushy side, yet it's a heck of a movie. A happy rewatch.

More Carole in feathers. (Too bad she didn't meet Astaire on screen - that would have been a headache).

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Rewatching High Society, which pales compared to The Philadelphia Story. On its own it’s like a cup of tea- harmless and enjoyable. Kelly is stunning, Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Cole Porter give a helpful hand. I could do without Crosby.

One movie a day for 365 days. 192/365. Fort Apache. Based on the massacre at Little Big Horn, where Custer led 260 men to their deaths, this is Ford's first western to question the responsibilities of white men. Fonda must have had a ball playing the pigheaded colonel.

Rewatching Arthur after a long time. I once enjoyed it, now I find both character and the way it's played very annoying. I think Dudley Moore is more interesting when he's a second banana. Gielgud and Minnelli are perfect as they are.

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One movie a day for 365 days. 191/365. Very little is firsthand in the Merrily We Live script: a butler who's not a butler, a madcap family with a scatterbrained mother, spoiled brats for children, a big mansion and all. Sounds familiar? Yet it's very funny. Plus, there's Connie.

One movie a day for 365 days. 190/365. Private Hell 36 stars Steve Cochran as the bad cop who falls for Ida Lupino as the femme fatale. An ugly turn follows. Is it possible to resist them? Add an ace director such as Don Siegel and you have a low-budget, highly explosive noir.

I love it when new assholes block me.

Here's to one of my favorite stars ever, John Gilbert, who was born on this date. If you're not acquainted with his work, I strongly recommend The Big Parade, Downstairs, The Merry Widow, Queen Christina, and Bardely the Magnificent. He just shines with talent and beauty.

The second face I see when I wake up every morning. A view from my bed.

The new Superman is unbelievably bad. I just left the theatre (I couldn’t stand more than 35/40 minutes). A feeling that film critics don’t have eyes gets stronger and stronger.

Watching the director's cut of Almost Famous for the first time. Long or short, like good scotch, it aged very well. There's an entrancing, hypnotic quality about it. Kate Hudson's performance is just brilliant, conveying every emotion with no effort. She reminds me of someone.

One movie a day for 365 days. 189/365. Three Comrades. There's so much beauty and truth in Margaret Sullavan's eyes and voice that her few screen credits always grab my guts. Give her ill-fated characters and keen dialogue, add a good director (like Borzage), and it's a win-win.

One movie a day for 365 days. 188/365. What I particularly like about Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon is the age gap between Cooper and Hepburn, and that she thinks she's a smart aleck and she isn't, and he thinks he's immune and he isn't. I have been there, it's all true.

Hello again. Thanks to everyone for your words.