I lived in Kenya during the 1960's and was lucky to meet William Holden at the Mount Kenya Safari Club which he owned. An absolute gentleman and easy to talk with, provided he was sober.
And why has Thornton Wilder been so ignored as a writer over the past few decades? He was huge in the '40s. Gore Vidal had a theory. It concerns a scandal he was in.
One of MY Favorites!My house was built in 1940!My Grandfather Flew B17s in WW2!He was a boy on a Farm and had a Collie wake him every morning to Milk the Cows!As I look at the World today with ALL its gadgets and What Not I think We're Missing something and LIFE seems to BE LESS than IT Should BE!Wish the KIDS today watched this IN SCHOOL!
This movie always makes me cry. Life goes so fast! I'm almost 50, kids grown, and I'm on my 2nd marriage and unhappy for the simple reason I want my past back. I want at least my first marriage to start all over again and I want my kids young again. Raising my kids was Def a time I didn't stop to really look at my kids and my husband.........sure wish I did :(((
I feel exactly the same! I want my first marriage back and my kids little. I want to do it all over and take in every second! Btw……I’m on my 2nd marriage too and his name is Micheal Santiago!! Isn’t that weird??
Had never seem this movie before. Such a wholesome way of life,how it was meant to be. The values,structure,respect, marriage, faith,commitment and the list goes on and on,just beautiful!
Well apparently MAGA isn't just a campaign phrase. I grew up in the 60's and 70's in a small semi rural Jersey Shore town. The only times we locked our doors was when no one would be at home. Times have changed 👎.
This great movie, was mentioned in a doc about the Hitchcock movie,''Shadow of a doubt''.Another great movie. Thank you for sharing. There's something cozy and comforting about these old movies, like going back in time, for a while. I prefer these to today's movies.
After everyone leaves the final stage of a funeral from burying a loved one. The conversations with other friends/family from their tombs about days gone by. Then visiting one's life over again from the other side. What really is important in life is realized. A wholesome, tender-hearted movie and wake-up call during this 2020 pandemic.
Such a modern and ancient play; the whole of life is there. Important Science? Babies born, raising children...? What's changed. A very young Holden here Fay Bainter famous already from broadway and radio...such talent on the scene...recognize the uncle from "It's a Wonderful Life?" A lot here to digest, and it isn't as simple as you would first think. Tom Mitchel Beula Bondi- this cast is gold.... remember , someday never comes.
Vonnegut said something like this was his favorite play in the world. It's all there from the dawn of civilization until now. Different faces, places, but all the same thing in the end. Thorton Wilder... a writer's writer. Vonnegut said he wished he had written Our Town. Too bad they changed the ending...the real play has a sadder ending...read it!
Thanks so much for the upload. Remember doing this in high school. Brilliantly original creation by Wilder. The "looking in from above" setup manages to really put the whole life in a capsule. Everyone changes over time, but Holden was almost unrecognizable from his Stalag 17 and River Kwai days. I wouldn't have noticed him if the title hadn't mentioned his name. His growling voice also wasn't here. Perhaps the drinking contributed to that. In any case, he was one of the truly greatest actors ever.
My dear GOD was a sad movie. Thornton Wilder must have been a very unhappy man. I thank the LORD I know JESUS and I have living hope of being in Heaven with HIM and all the children of LIGHT. I thank HIM for 74 years of life and the best is yet to come!
For insight into Thornton Wilder: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/man-of-letters-5 "Around this time, he suffered a severe emotional crisis-a love affair that went devastatingly wrong when the person he fell in love with rebuffed him. “I loved with all the exaggeration one can imagine,” he wrote to a close friend, “but I was not only not loved so in return. I was laughed at.” Wilder never named the person he was in love with, but it’s clear that it was a man. (His interest in women was unshakably nonsexual.) His homosexuality-his sexuality-was kept a dark secret. Young men appear and disappear in his life: a handsome young actor who, as Niven puts it, “told Thornton he had loved being with him ‘that night,’ more than he could know”; a boy from an “imposing New York family” he encountered in Naples in 1920-thinking he was a soldier, he reports to his family, “I ran back and spoke to him, inviting him to have an ice cream with me.” They then spent several days together, exploring Pompeii............. These three early novels, all carefully crafted and meticulously written, made Thornton Wilder a big name and, incidentally, made him a pile of money. (He quickly built a house for his family in Connecticut, referred to as “the House ‘The Bridge’ built.”) But they also brought down on him the most vicious attack his work ever received, a long snarl of disdain in The New Republic from Michael Gold, the author of the inflammatory “Jews Without Money,” who called him the “Emily Post of culture.” Accusing him of ignoring the conditions of American society and of writing as the “poet of the genteel bourgeoisie,” Gold challenged him to write a book about contemporary America. Wilder’s next novel, “Heaven’s My Destination,” was in part an answer to that challenge."
I love that last act! The narrator is kind of a cool way to get in your exposition. I just didn't care for the middle of the movie, which is, unfortunately, about 70% of the entire film. But overall, it's good. Nominated for Best Picture Oscar, but didn't win is a perfect way to describe how I feel, honestly. It lost to Rebecca, which is overall a much better movie. However, my personal favorite movie of 1940 is a tie between "Fantasia" & "His Girl Friday" because they're entertaining.
In real life, after seeing the drunk music director in this, William Holden followed in his footsteps. He drank himself to death, as did Monty Clift, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lon Cheney Jr. A deadly era before the days of rehab,
I generally let these things slide, but you have oversimplified the deaths of every person you mentioned. Alcoholism most certainly contributed to their deaths, but there were drug addictions, physical and mental health issues that had as much to do with their deaths and their alcoholism. I am amazed you think rehab saves very many people in the end, alcohol may have fallen out of favor as the method, but long, now drug induced, suicides are still all too common.
Thank you for the upload of this classic. It always makes me cry. :)
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Hopefully some younger person from our current era will love this story with all its innocence and yet with all its timelessness .
I lived in Kenya during the 1960's and was lucky to meet William Holden at the Mount Kenya Safari Club which he owned. An absolute gentleman and easy to talk with, provided he was sober.
Yeah, the booze killed him. I liked him best in "Sunset Blvd.'
Thanks for the info. Nice to know an actor you like is also a nice Person ✌️
Movies like this make a person feel that there is still good in mankind. I loved every minute of it.
And why has Thornton Wilder been so ignored as a writer over the past few decades? He was huge in the '40s.
Gore Vidal had a theory. It concerns a scandal he was in.
YAY! Thank you
Unfortunately, there not much good in Thornton Wilder; the movie has a happy ending, but in the play she DIES! Eh-yuh.
One of MY Favorites!My house was built in 1940!My Grandfather Flew B17s in WW2!He was a boy on a Farm and had a Collie wake him every morning to Milk the Cows!As I look at the World today with ALL its gadgets and What Not I think We're Missing something and LIFE seems to BE LESS than IT Should BE!Wish the KIDS today watched this IN SCHOOL!
This movie always makes me cry. Life goes so fast! I'm almost 50, kids grown, and I'm on my 2nd marriage and unhappy for the simple reason I want my past back. I want at least my first marriage to start all over again and I want my kids young again. Raising my kids was Def a time I didn't stop to really look at my kids and my husband.........sure wish I did :(((
Dosent everybody want that
Agree
@@JT-gk8rc that’s very good advice. You should have a column!😊
I feel exactly the same! I want my first marriage back and my kids little. I want to do it all over and take in every second! Btw……I’m on my 2nd marriage too and his name is Micheal Santiago!! Isn’t that weird??
These older movies give me hope as I remember the values and standards we all used to live with.
Had never seem this movie before.
Such a wholesome way of life,how it was meant to be.
The values,structure,respect, marriage, faith,commitment and the list goes on and on,just beautiful!
Well apparently MAGA isn't just a campaign phrase. I grew up in the 60's and 70's in a small semi rural Jersey Shore town. The only times we locked our doors was when no one would be at home. Times have changed 👎.
Sure wish more people thought like you! Only Morals & a Clean Spirit can help this Country ❤
This great movie, was mentioned in a doc about the Hitchcock movie,''Shadow of a doubt''.Another great movie. Thank you for sharing. There's something cozy and comforting about these old movies, like going back in time, for a while. I prefer these to today's movies.
Thank you for allowing us another glance at the very handsome & talented William Holden 🎀😇He was so fabulous in Picnic with Kim Novak 🎁🐳🦄🦋
After everyone leaves the final stage of a funeral from burying a loved one. The conversations with other friends/family from their tombs about days gone by. Then visiting one's life over again from the other side. What really is important in life is realized. A wholesome, tender-hearted movie and wake-up call during this 2020 pandemic.
What a beautiful, heart-breaking film. Martha Scott is transcendent in Act 3. Probably the best transfer, too, great sound. Thanks.
If life was only like that again.. ... nothing much more to say
Love the Father/son chat about the chores so brilliant
Such a modern and ancient play; the whole of life is there. Important Science? Babies born, raising children...? What's changed. A very young Holden here Fay Bainter famous already from broadway and radio...such talent on the scene...recognize the uncle from "It's a Wonderful Life?" A lot here to digest, and it isn't as simple as you would first think. Tom Mitchel Beula Bondi- this cast is gold.... remember , someday never comes.
Our Class in High School did this play. I watch it every year. So touching for a kid from small town Ohio.
Vonnegut said something like this was his favorite play in the world. It's all there from the dawn of civilization until now. Different faces, places, but all the same thing in the end. Thorton Wilder... a writer's writer. Vonnegut said he wished he had written Our Town. Too bad they changed the ending...the real play has a sadder ending...read it!
I don't know if my Dad-born1917-ever saw the movie, but I know it was his favorite modern play.
Beautiful old movie. One of my Favorites!! Thanks for the video!!❤
Thanks so much for the upload. Remember doing this in high school. Brilliantly original creation by Wilder. The "looking in from above" setup manages to really put the whole life in a capsule.
Everyone changes over time, but Holden was almost unrecognizable from his Stalag 17 and River Kwai days. I wouldn't have noticed him if the title hadn't mentioned his name. His growling voice also wasn't here. Perhaps the drinking contributed to that. In any case, he was one of the truly greatest actors ever.
Such a lesson!!! Take life in and appreciate it each day and those you love!
What a gem. Thanks for sharing.
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Love it
It seems like Beulah Bondi was in about 100 movies as the mother, she was already 43 for her first movie when the talkies began in 1929
she was a terrific actress, her skill often overlooked i think
I Love her!! She’s one of the Best character actors of the time!✌️
My dear GOD was a sad movie. Thornton Wilder must have been a very unhappy man. I thank the LORD I know JESUS and I have living hope of being in Heaven with HIM and all the children of LIGHT. I thank HIM for 74 years of life and the best is yet to come!
Their view of the after life reminds me of Hell where the damned eternally regret their previous life, must be terrible.
Everybody counts. We’re all in this together.
Wow music by Aaron Copland! I didn't know he did soundtracks!
Charles Trowbridge played in this movie. Our family name included name Trowbridge.
Hate the fact that they changed the ending.
For insight into Thornton Wilder: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/man-of-letters-5
"Around this time, he suffered a severe emotional crisis-a love affair that went devastatingly wrong when the person he fell in love with rebuffed him. “I loved with all the exaggeration one can imagine,” he wrote to a close friend, “but I was not only not loved so in return. I was laughed at.” Wilder never named the person he was in love with, but it’s clear that it was a man. (His interest in women was unshakably nonsexual.) His homosexuality-his sexuality-was kept a dark secret. Young men appear and disappear in his life: a handsome young actor who, as Niven puts it, “told Thornton he had loved being with him ‘that night,’ more than he could know”; a boy from an “imposing New York family” he encountered in Naples in 1920-thinking he was a soldier, he reports to his family, “I ran back and spoke to him, inviting him to have an ice cream with me.” They then spent several days together, exploring Pompeii............. These three early novels, all carefully crafted and meticulously written, made Thornton Wilder a big name and, incidentally, made him a pile of money. (He quickly built a house for his family in Connecticut, referred to as “the House ‘The Bridge’ built.”) But they also brought down on him the most vicious attack his work ever received, a long snarl of disdain in The New Republic from Michael Gold, the author of the inflammatory “Jews Without Money,” who called him the “Emily Post of culture.” Accusing him of ignoring the conditions of American society and of writing as the “poet of the genteel bourgeoisie,” Gold challenged him to write a book about contemporary America. Wilder’s next novel, “Heaven’s My Destination,” was in part an answer to that challenge."
Many thanks for the link, as the article is revelatory!
I love that last act! The narrator is kind of a cool way to get in your exposition. I just didn't care for the middle of the movie, which is, unfortunately, about 70% of the entire film. But overall, it's good. Nominated for Best Picture Oscar, but didn't win is a perfect way to describe how I feel, honestly. It lost to Rebecca, which is overall a much better movie. However, my personal favorite movie of 1940 is a tie between "Fantasia" & "His Girl Friday" because they're entertaining.
te amo bill holden
It was so funny having older actors portraying teenagers. One can see they were over 25...
In real life, after seeing the drunk music director in this, William Holden followed in his footsteps. He drank himself to death, as did Monty Clift, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lon Cheney Jr. A deadly era before the days of rehab,
I generally let these things slide, but you have oversimplified the deaths of every person you mentioned. Alcoholism most certainly contributed to their deaths, but there were drug addictions, physical and mental health issues that had as much to do with their deaths and their alcoholism. I am amazed you think rehab saves very many people in the end, alcohol may have fallen out of favor as the method, but long, now drug induced, suicides are still all too common.
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Don't feel uncomfortable. What you are watching is what life meant long ago. This is what our spirit is about.