#barbara o'neil

[reality-detective]

Part 2 | Barbara O'Neill on Cancer.

[pretty-little-fools]

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Tower of London (1939) - Trade ad

[oscar-nominee-tournament]

Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

SONDRA LOCKE (1944-2018)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1968 for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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BARBARA O'NEIL (1910-1980)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1940 for All This, and Heaven Too

[oasisr]

I think that Celiac Disease is a great example of why people prefer to self-diagnose and treat themselves.

Doctors test for Celiac Disease by having a person intentionally eat gluten for three weeks. This is Hell for someone who can't properly digest gluten. It makes the person feel bloated, gassy and sluggish.

In severe cases, it causes nausea, vomiting and brain fog.

Imagine intentionally inducing these symptoms in a patient to see if their body can't handle gluten. This is sick. This is the opposite of healing.

So, many of us are deciding to cut out bread and processed foods on our own. We see that we feel a ton better, have more energy, and our stomachs aren't sticking out for no apparent reason anymore.

I can't tell you how frustrating it is to walk 10,000 steps a day and eat 1,500 to 2,000 calories on average, yet see no results in my body or my weight.

My stomach was hard and inflated no matter what I would do. Finally, I am eating mostly Paleo/Carnivore now, and my stomach feels so much better. It isn't hard to the touch. I couldn't even suck in my stomach. I felt full all the time.

So, the moral of the story is. We are responsible for our health. We have to know our bodies and find ways to heal ourselves. We can no longer trust doctors in this country.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

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Angel Face (1952) Otto Preminger

July 2nd 2023

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VIVIEN LEIGH as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind GWTW, with CLARK GABLE & Barbara O'Neil; 1939.

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Angel Face (1952, Otto Preminger)

5/31/23

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Secret Beyond the Door (1947) dir. Fritz Lang

[byneddiedingo]

Barbara O'Neil and Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937) Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main, George Walcott, Ann Shoemaker, Tim Holt. Screenplay: Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, based on a novel by Olive Higgins Prouty and its dramatization by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Gertrude Purcell. Cinematography: Rudolph Maté. Art direction: Richard Day. Film editing: Sherman Todd. Costume design: Omar Kiam. Music: Alfred Newman. I'm bothered by an inconsistency in the title character of King Vidor's Stella Dallas. When Stella's estranged husband, Stephen (John Boles), shows up unexpectedly at Christmastime bearing gifts for her and their daughter, Laurel (Anne Shirley), Stella makes a determined effort to look "respectable": She rummages through her closet, rejecting all the flowery, overtrimmed dresses she usually favors, and chooses a black dress, removing most of its trimmings, and even goes so far as to wipe off the lipstick she has just applied. But later, when she takes Laurel to a snooty resort, she's a blowsy horror again, swaggering vulgarly through the amused upperclass crowd -- and thereby precipitating the final separation between her and Laurel. What happened to the self-aware Stella who knew how to present herself as a suitable mate for Stephen Dallas? But the thing about this inconsistency, and other little melodramatic clichés that infest the film, is that it doesn't matter: Stella Dallas triumphs because Barbara Stanwyck believes in her and because King Vidor knows how to manipulate our responses to the characters. Stella's appearance at the resort is played as simultaneously comic -- who doesn't laugh at the way she's dressed, swanning around with a white fox fur? -- and tragic -- Stella's insistence on being herself is her fatal flaw. Similarly, when her friend Ed Munn shows up drunk, wagging around a large turkey he has brought for Stella and Laurel's Christmas and stuffing it head, feet, and all into the oven, the scene is hilarious -- Alan Hale is wonderful here -- until it isn't, until we realize the damage it is going to do to Stella and her daughter. And the celebrated final scene, of Stella watching Laurel's wedding through the window, is beautifully performed by Stanwyck, chewing on her handkerchief, and magisterially staged by Vidor. Tears are flowing in the audience as Stella strides across the street, but she's beaming, having accomplished her chief goal: to see Laurel happy. Critiques of the movie's treatment of maternal self-sacrifice, or of marriage as the consummation of a woman's happiness, are many and cogent. But let's just take a moment to reflect on the skill with which these ideas and attitudes, retrograde as we may find them, have been presented on film.

[reality-detective]

I think I posted this before, but just in case I didn't, Barbara O'Neill on using "Celtic Salt" to repair high blood pressure. 🤔

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Run Like a Thief - NBC - September 5, 1954

A presentation of "Philco Television Playhouse" Season 6 Episode 25

Drama

Running Time: 60 minutes

Director Jeffrey Hayden

Stars:

Kurt Kasznar as Alexander Ingles

Gusti Huber as Della Ingles

James Dean as Robbie Warren

Barbara O'Neil as Madame Pollard

Ward Costello as Investigator Robert Wheelock

Eugene Wood as Henry Howard

Ellen Southbrook as Elizabeth Howard

Joseph Leon as Charles (Maitre D)

Arnold Walton as Busboy

James Congdon as Busboy in Training (uncredited)

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[havendance]

Anyway, my proposal for a run on Detective Comics where I write a series of one-shot stories showcasing all of the various supporting cast Batman has accumulated with stories, including, but not limited to:

Batman invites Nightwing to Gotham to help him solve a murder. The murder is very straightforward and they dance around the real reason Bruce invited him, until at the end, he finally admits in a constipated Bruce way that it's the anniversary of him adopting Dick and he wanted to spend time with him.

Huntress and Robin (Tim Drake) team up to investigate Killer Croc. It turns out he's turning over a new leaf in the sewers near the Marina. Huntress is dubious, but Robin convinces her to give him a chance, though she says she'll be watching him. We re-canonize Joker: Last Laugh.

Damian and Duke team up to take on a street-racing operation--a mission that naturally requires them to do some high adrenaline racing together.

The Riddler gets on social media with a plot that involves lots of puzzles and clues all over Gotham. Oracle taps into old members of "We are Robin" to take it down.

Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) and Batman end up on the same missing persons case. With the pressure on to find the missing child, they snipe at each other as tensions rise. In the end, after saving the kid, Bruce sort of kind of apologizes in a Bruce way and expresses some measure of respect for her.

Jason teams up with Ghostmaker to take on, idk, one of the Clayfaces. Does Gotham still have one of those? I haven't read any comics ghostmaker's in yet, but from I've heard it sounds like they'd have an interesting dynamic. Jason gets flashbacks to digging his way out of his grave.

Luke Fox recruites Harper Row (She does engineering stuff right? I also need to read comics she has a significant role in.) They take some new tech for a joyride and go bother the Penguin.

Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) and Azrael team up to take down Mad Hatter. He probably has some elaborate Alice in Wonderland theming going on that neither of them get. (I think neither of them should have read it.)

Batwoman and Catwoman team up to steal back some Kane family heirlooms, possibly from Jacob Kane (What's his and Kate's relationship looking like anyway?), possibly from someone else.

Gotham Girl and somebody. Me advancing my Cass & Claire agenda Possibly Oracle trying to rehabilitate her in that controlling yet well-intentioned way she has sometimes? Someday, I will get to being more up to date on what Claire's status quo in current comics is.

A handful of representatives from Gotham's various crime families get together in the backroom of a bar somewhere. They play poker and exchange stories of being busted by the various bat-affiliated vigilantes in which they are very scary and almost inhuman. It ends with Batgirl (Cass) busting in and beating them up.

Helena Bertinelli takes a gig as a substitute teacher at Gotham Academy. She teams up with Maps & other supporting cast when Mr Freeze takes the school hostage while trying to escape the police.

[fantastic-nonsense]

"Kate Kane's costume exists because Paul Dini wanted to dunk Barbara Gordon in a Lazarus Pit in the 90s but shelved it because Denny O'Neil told him to knock it off and leave her alone" is the kind of story you hear three shots in and think is a joke, but no. it actually happened