Chickens si, Jesters no.
Swan Lake Ending: The Swan and Siegried die and then they are DEAD., Don't need to see them going to heaven.
Saw Gelsey do it in her Swan, but Carbro has said that it was a technical malfunction.
I literally almost busted a gut when I saw "Unfaithfully Yours" the first time. I was just a kid watching TV at 1AM or so, and laughed so loud when Harrison was trying to fake a murder recording thay I woke up my parents.
The use of music is brilliant.
I'll add "Yojimbo" to the list.
My favorite movie romance was "One Touch of Venus".
Pretty silly movie, but Ava Gardner was my first "crush" at age 5 or 6. It was on Million Dollar Movie on Channel 9 in NYC. 3 times a day for 7 days if I remember correctly. I watched all of 'em.
Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat in "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre"
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges."
The Searchers
I just don't get it.
There are great movies I don't like (Suna no onna (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/ comes to mind), but The Searchers isn't one of those.
I'd go with Bette Davis as Hagar and Agnes Moorehead as Lizzie Borden's stepmother.
Jeff Chandler was great looking in a rugged way, but what a stiff.
Man from the House Opposite: Steve Cochran.
The rest of your casting for "Pillar" is great, FauxPas.
I've never liked it. Saw Flindt's "Triumph of Death". AWFUL!!! Might have been just as bad without the nudity, though.
I guess if someone choreographs an "Emperor's
New Clothes" it would work.
La Sylphide:
Sylph: Vivian Leigh
James: Leslie Howard
Gurn: Richard Todd
Effie: Jeanne Crain
Madge: Alec Guinness
I think Giulietta Masina would make a great Sylph, but I don't know enough about Italian Cinema to fill the other roles.
All of 'em.
"Grand Hotel" may not be all that romantic (as Old Fashioned points out) but it's great fun.
Joan Crawford is almost unrecognizable as a sweet, young stenographrer .
Jardin Aus Lilas
Please forgive me as I only remember the name of one character:
Caroline: Julie Harris
The Boy She Loves: Farley Granger
The Man She Must Marry: David Brian
The Woman from His Past: Joan Crawford
These are just wonderful. though when I first saw Makarova's full length "La Bayadere" I imagined Maria Montez doing both roles and Jon Hall as Solor. Your choices are better.
(actually now that I think of it, I imagined Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Turhan Bey in Bizet's opera "Pearl Fishers"