The night moves

Red Dust is on TCM.  I made myself a pina colada… wrong.  I thought it was as simple as dumping a can of coconut milk in a blender with some canned pineapple and Gosling rum.  Nope.  It tastes watery… somehow. Mary Astor had such a delicate beauty.  She really hardened up by the time she starred in the Maltese Falcon.  No matter how lovely Mary Astor was– I still have a hard time believing Clark Gable would choose her over Jean Harlow.  Mogambo is on after this… it’s the 50’s remake of Red Dust… starring Clark Gable.  Yeah, he reprised his role. Things haven’t changed much… just like Sean Connery starring in movies in his 70’s, Gable kept going and going too.  One of my favorite actresses was in Mogambo– Ava Gardner.  She had an otherworldly beauty.  My favorite movie of hers will always be The Angel Wore Red in which she co-starred with Dirk Bogarde.  Oddly enough, my favorite Dirk Bogarde movie isn’t The Angel Wore Red… it’s The Servant, no wait, it’s The Night Porter, no wait, it’s Death in Venice, no wait… I guess I have a lot of favorite Dirk Bogarde movies.  In the Angel Wore Red, Ava plays a Cabaret girl in love with a priest.  A wanted priest. Just to clue you in, Cabaret Girl was code word for prostitute.  Oddly enough, I figured that one out when I was 15.   What is it with Hollywood and priests?  They always cast homosexuals to play sexy priests.  Dirk Bogarde, Richard Chamberlain… The ellipses show that I just made an extremely broad generalization since I can’t come up with any more homosexual actors who played sexy priests.  Can you?

7 thoughts on “The night moves”

  1. B. Davis

    I always thought that Pat Priest was sorta sexy.
    Does that count?

    FWIW — After the filming of the movie “Boy’s Town”
    was completed, Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney practically had to beg Louis Mayer to release it for
    distribution. “Not enough sex in it” pontificated
    (pun intended) the imperious, Catholic-wary studio chief. “The public won’t be interested.” But the wiener Mayer relented, and the movie became a classic. Spencer Tracy, the priest, went on to win the Best Actor award. I know Spencer wasn’t a flamer…just thought you might like the trivia.

  3. Donna Post author

    YES! I CONFESS! Alfred Hithcock directed it!

    http://media.photobucket.com/image/Montgomery%20Clift%20priest/drleomarvin/Montgomery_Clift_in_I_Confess1.jpg

    In this movie, Monty hears a murder confession but cannot break the seal of confession to investigators. He then becomes a suspect.

    The real question is… Was Monty playing a SEXY priest? The priest character wasn’t dating any woman or doing anything wrong– in fact he was doing everything right! But because the priest was played by Monty Clift– and Monty Clift was gay AND sexy– I am going to award it 9 points out of 10.

  4. Donna Post author

    B. Davis– When I read your post last night it made no sense to me– the Pat Priest part… I kept thinking, “Marilyn? How does Marilyn from the Munsters figure into this?” Only now did it just click– Pat Priest… Priest.. PRIEST! HAHAHAHA! 🙂 Slow on the uptake, huh?

    And loved the trivia– Thank you!

  5. Audra

    You gotta put ice in it, or better use frozen pinapple. Also coconut milk isn’t that coconutty. For more coconut flavor you have to use the cream of coconut, or coconut extract might work too.

  6. B. Davis

    Donna, a famous person once said that “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

    Pat Priest wasn’t a priest at all. Haha! In fact, she belonged to a (fictitiously) monstrous family. How inconsistent! What a big mind I have!

  7. Donna Post author

    Although I didn’t state it, I did put ice in it– but apparently not enough since it wasn’t at all slushy. I agree that the coconut cream would have been better– and probably thicker. I didn’t even consider the coconut extract! I had no idea pineapples came frozen– all I have ever bought were the cubes in cans.

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