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I Just Saw This Film On Turner Classic Movies...


...and I LOVED every minute of it!!! I thought I saw every Jimmy Cagney movie that there is, but somehow I got through 61 years (my age) without ever coming across this one. Until today. "The Bride Came C.O.D." is every inch the "screwball comedy" that "Bringing up Baby" was, a few years earlier. I howled with laughter ALL through this movie!! Do yourself a favor, and check THIS ONE out!!!

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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I'm watching it now and I agree.

If you ever want to see two other (among many) great James Cagney films, please see The Roaring Twenties and Angels With Dirty Faces.

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Been there, DONE that! Check out Billy Wilder's, "One, Two, Three," in which Cagney plays, a Coca-Cola bottling executive in West Berlin, Germany, during the Cold War. One of the funniest films I EVER saw!!

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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Hey, great minds must think alike! "One, Two, Three" was on KQED (the San Francisco PBS channel) last Saturday night and again Sunday morning.

You're right, it was hilarious. I hadn't seen the movie in years.

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"Hey, great minds must think alike!"

WHAT great minds were at work in Hollywood, fifty, sixty and even seventy years ago, that the powers-to-be ONLY teamed Jimmy Cagney with Bette Davis, ONCE??!! I thought the two had ENORMOUS chemistry together in "The Bride Came C.O.D."
As I was watching it (and having the time of my life!), I couldn't help thinking that Modern Hollywood could do a LOT worse, IF they remade the movie with a couple of the young stars, of today, with a HUGE update of course!! Yeah, "The Bride Came C.O.D." WAS quite dated, of course, but the basic premise is there. What are YOUR thoughts??

"You can't HANDLE the truth!" Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men."

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OK, we're going to diverge on this one. I'm biased against Hollywood remakes. They're never up to the original and most bomb badly. The only exception I can remember was Peter Jackson's King Kong. That's because it was virtually a total hommage to the original, including the use of Max Steiner's over-the-top music, and isn't updated.

So I can't think who could successfully replace James Cagney and Bette Davis. I've heard recently that someone is re-doing Mildred Pierce. I think that's a mistake, too.

I remember a book entitled Four Fabulous Faces came out while Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were still alive. They were two of the "Faces". (The other two were Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.) That sort of glamour is gone and never can be repeated nor recaptured.

As a Baby Boomer, I'm just grateful that so many titles from Hollywood's golden age are available. Yet so many titles aren't. It took me 25 years before I was finally able to locate a copy of Frank Borzage's No Greater Glory.

Great thread! Thanks!

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