"When We Were Young" is a documentary that features many of the classic stars from the silver screen. In this segment, we look at the career of Margaret O'Brien.
I COMPLETLY agree. She was such an amazing actress, such range and depth for a person s young. I love everything she ever did. I think perhaps Three Wise Fools though is my favorite movie of hers.
Contrast how Margaret O'Brien grew up with how, say, Lindsey Lohan did. Nothing more need be said. From a civilization's wondrous peak to its dreary decadence in just a few decades.
Meet me in St Louis was not a wonderful story for anybody very poor or people of color. I didn't see it tillI was an adult. I enjoyed it, but I kept hoping they might show some of the people of color who attended the world's Fair. Nope. Toot's Halloween scene was extraordinary and the music and dance were great, but for me the lack of black and brown and poorer folks was a downer. St. Louis was a very cosmopolitan place which is why they had the world's fair there.
This is the kind of comment that I believe actually has the opposite effect than intended. Meet me in St Louis is about a turn of the century middle class, yes, white family. It was made in the late years of the war - and actually that fact was very much on the minds of those who made it (listen to the real words of "Have yourself a merry little Christmas"). To expect the film to be "politically correct" for the time it was made and for when the story is set is unrealistic - on your part, and it would make the movie unrealistic. Movies now are lousy because there is more interested in forced "inclusion" than telling a good story according to what the story is. If you made a movie of something that happened to me as a child, as a suburban Philadelphia baby boomer, you would have the same complaints (not that it would be a very interesting movie). Your complaint is political, not artistic. And I think its way off the mark....
Margaret O"brien would have to be the best little actress ever...great clip
Marguerite is my favorite. I wish I can see all movies with her when she was a child.
mararet obrien my favorite actress
I COMPLETLY agree. She was such an amazing actress, such range and depth for a person s young. I love everything she ever did. I think perhaps Three Wise Fools though is my favorite movie of hers.
Our vines give tender grapes"
The best
" Our vines have tender grapes"
Great, great movie.
Boy, did she grow up to be a beautiful woman!!
Contrast how Margaret O'Brien grew up with how, say, Lindsey Lohan did. Nothing more need be said. From a civilization's wondrous peak to its dreary decadence in just a few decades.
Meet me in St Louis was not a wonderful story for anybody very poor or people of color. I didn't see it tillI was an adult. I enjoyed it, but I kept hoping they might show some of the people of color who attended the world's Fair. Nope. Toot's Halloween scene was extraordinary and the music and dance
were great, but for me the lack of black and brown and poorer folks was a downer. St. Louis was a very cosmopolitan place which is why they had the world's fair there.
This is the kind of comment that I believe actually has the opposite effect than intended. Meet me in St Louis is about a turn of the century middle class, yes, white family. It was made in the late years of the war - and actually that fact was very much on the minds of those who made it (listen to the real words of "Have yourself a merry little Christmas"). To expect the film to be "politically correct" for the time it was made and for when the story is set is unrealistic - on your part, and it would make the movie unrealistic.
Movies now are lousy because there is more interested in forced "inclusion" than telling a good story according to what the story is. If you made a movie of something that happened to me as a child, as a suburban Philadelphia baby boomer, you would have the same complaints (not that it would be a very interesting movie). Your complaint is political, not artistic. And I think its way off the mark....