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...best known for her Oscar-nominated role as the wisecracking photographer sent with reporter Jimmy Stewart to cover the high-society wedding of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Hired by MGM in 1937, reportedly as a threat to keep stars Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer in line, she appeared in more than 40 films, including Northwest Passage, opposite Spencer Tracy, and as athlete Jordan Baker in the 1949 remake of The Great Gatsby...
...Allan W. Shearer the course’s current head TF, acknowledges that “this is actually the first film class for many people,” but that Mitchell’s unique perspective has the potential to enlighten both newbies and buffs...
...were made at Paramount - where he co-starred with Tallulah Bankhead in George Cukor?s first solo directorial feature, ?Tarnished Lady? - and MGM, where he got third billing (above Robert Young, Maureen O?Sullivan and other stars-to-be) playing the calf-like husband who can?t keep Norma Shearer from Clark Gable in the adaptation of O?Neill?s ?Strange Interlude...
...through school and now have more disposable income than our grandchildren. Pop culture has made us vain enough to think we?re still young; medical science has convinced us we?re never going to die. We rent loads of movies, know how to operate a computer and (as Harry Shearer pointed out in an excellent New York Times article) are more likely to pay for our CDs than download them. So we?re not about to retire to our front-porch rockers...
...need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt and his honchos to expose greed, chicanery and general weaseliness. (Recall the superb ?Saturday Night Live? sketch, in November 1984, when Shearer as Wallace quizzed the slimy-squirmy manufacturer of defective Whoopee cushions Nathan Thurm, played by Martin Short...