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Beach 38th Street – Edgemere , Rockaway Long Island, New York. The Photographs of Murray Cooper. And The Brown House Which Was My Families Home For Summer Guests

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The Valley of Decision is a 1945 American drama film directed by Tay Garnett. Stars Greer Garson and Gregory Peck.

How I love this film . Hope you enjoy my tribute .

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The Valley of Decision is a 1945 American drama film directed by Tay Garnett, adapted by Sonya Levien and John Meehan from Marcia Davenport‘s 1942 novel of the same name. Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1870s, it stars Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson) and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. This was Garson’s sixth nomination and her fifth consecutive, a record for most consecutive Best Actress nominations that still stands (tied with Bette Davis).

Plot

In 1873 Pittsburgh, Irish immigrant Mary Rafferty lives with her crippled father Pat and her sister Kate Shannon. Mary tells her father she was hired as a housemaid for steel mill owner William Scott. Pat disapproves of his daughter’s decision, as he became crippled while working for William’s mill.

On Mary’s first work day, William’s son Paul arrives home from London and is greeted by his mother Clarissa and his siblings, Ted, Constance and William Jr. Later that evening, the Scotts host a dinner where Mary becomes acquainted with Paul.

At the steel mill, Paul expresses interest in modernizing the furnace to produce finer steel. Paul’s friend Jim Brennan shows him a model of the furnace at Mary’s residence, but Pat forces him to leave. Angered at her father, Mary steps out and begins to fall in love with Paul.

One night, Constance attempts to sneak out and elope with Giles, the Earl of Moulton, but is prevented by Mary. Impressed with Mary’s loyalty, Clarissa invites her aboard a cruise to William Jr.’s wedding in Boston. There, Mary and Paul kiss on the decks.

After several months, Paul has failed to modernize the furnace and is losing sleep. Having fallen in love with Mary, Paul proposes, much to her concern due to their differing status. Mary gives the Scotts her notice and Constance tells her parents she has married the Earl of Moulton. With Clarissa’s permission, Mary accompanies them to England and bids farewell to her family, but not to Paul.

Two years later, Mary receives a letter from Paul – the steel mill workers are on strike, and Paul’s father is stricken with pneumonia. Knowing her feelings for Paul, Constance suggests that Mary reply to Paul’s letter, but Mary is unable to do so. Back in Pittsburgh, Paul is in a loveless relationship with Louise Kane. Clarissa tells her husband that Paul is in love with Mary; he then contacts Mary and asks her to return to Pittsburgh. When they return home, William gives Mary and Paul his blessing and they resume their romance.

Meanwhile, Paul learns that the strike, led by Jim, has turned violent. With matters left unresolved, William plans to recruit strikebreakers. The next morning, Mary visits Jim and arranges a reconciliation meeting between the strikers and the Scotts. At the meeting, William decides to recognize the union. However, violence breaks out when the strikebreakers arrive, and Pat and William are killed. Mary, filled with grief, decides she can never marry Paul.

Ten years pass; Paul marries Louise and they have a son. The now-elderly Clarissa decides to pass in her will her share of the business to Mary, trusting her to preserve the mills. Shortly after, Clarissa dies. At a meeting, Paul’s siblings vote to sell their shares, but Mary persuades Constance to keep hers. Paul decides to leave Louise and returns to Mary.

Cast

Casting

Actor John Hodiak, who was born in Pittsburgh, was cast in the lead role during pre-production in 1943.[3] However, Gregory Peck replaced him before shooting began. Additionally, actor Marshall Thompson replaced Hume Cronyn as Peck’s onscreen brother due to the height disparity between Peck and Cronyn.[4] Actor Dean Stockwell, who was eight years old during filming, made his cinema debut in The Valley of Decision.

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Man in an Orange Shirt is a two-part British television movie from the BBC. Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Morris, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen act in the lead roles, directed by Michael Samuels.

Hope you enjoy my tribute to this story all about love.

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Man in an Orange Shirt is a two-part British television movie from the BBC. It was produced by Kudos Film and Television and premiered on 31 July 2017 at BBC One. The film drama tells three love stories from two generations of a family, in the 1940s and in 2017.

Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Morris, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen act in the lead roles, directed by Michael Samuels. The script and idea come from the British best-selling-author Patrick Gale, whose family history is the autobiographical core of the plot. The film won 2018 International Emmy Award for Best TV Movie or Miniseries.

Plot

Man in an Orange Shirt features two separate yet interwoven stories:[2] Part 1 tells of the obstacles that Western society has put before the relationship of the two veterans, Michael and Thomas, in the immediate post-war period. Part 2 describes the trials and tribulations of 21st century partnerships, using the example of Michael’s grandson Adam. The stories are linked by Flora, as Michael’s grieving wife and Adam’s grandmother, whose unrequited love for Michael and conservative education results in a hateful response to Adam’s coming-out.

Part 1

In modern London, a grandmother looks at an old photo of her deceased husband and remembers the beginning of their relationship in the turmoil of World War II. In the 1940s, young Flora Talbot is a London teacher whose fiancé, Michael Berryman, is captain in the British Army, stationed in Italy. During a mission, Michael is reunited with an old schoolmate, Captain Thomas March, who is badly wounded in the attack. Michael is close as Thomas convalesces, and before Thomas returns to England, the men share a kiss. Thomas makes Michael promise to seek him out in London after the war. Immediately upon his return, Michael visits Thomas before he even tells Flora he is back. Michael and Thomas spend a perfect weekend away from the rest of the world in the old manor cottage once owned by Michael’s deceased parents. When their brief time together comes to an end, Michael tells a very upset Thomas of his intent to marry Flora. Thomas eventually agrees to be Michael’s best man, and presents the couple with a painting of the cottage as a wedding gift.

Shortly before the birth of their son, Robert James, Flora finds a box of old love letters from Thomas in her husband’s desk drawer. In a mixture of anger and fear over sexual laws, she burns the letters and confronts Michael, who is devastated by the loss of the letters. Flora begins birth contractions, and the midwife sends Michael out of the house. He wanders through the city and is tempted to cruise for sex in a public toilet. Instead, he takes flight, buys flowers and returns to Flora. After the birth of their child, the Berrymans never speak a word about the events again. Meanwhile, Thomas is arrested for cottaging, and sentenced to a full year in prison for gross indecency. Michael visits Thomas in prison, but Thomas refuses any further visits. Michael visits Thomas’s mother, who shows him a backroom of his many paintings. She notes an unfinished painting of a man in an orange shirt, but even with the face unpainted, she recognises Michael as the subject. Knowing the connection between the men, she suggests that Michael could move with Thomas to a family house in France. Michael writes a final letter to Thomas in which he reveals all his feelings, but decides not to mail it. Thomas is released from prison, but leaves with his friends, as Michael looks on. A few years later, Thomas meets briefly with Michael in the presence of Flora and young son Robert, but their mutual feelings remain unspoken.

Part 2

60 years later in 2017, widowed, elderly Flora’s only grandchild, Adam, is a veterinarian. He frequently looks for new men to hook up with using a mobile app. After Flora bequeaths Adam his grandfather’s old cottage, he hires architect Steve, who lives in an open relationship with the older Caspar. Despite Adam’s fear of intimacy, he embarks on a slow love affair with Steve, who eventually tells Caspar he is leaving him for Adam. As Flora learns about the relationship and thus Adam’s sexual orientation, the fear and rage that she had silenced against her husband breaks out.

When Adam and Steve find the cottage painting by Thomas during the clean-up, Flora reacts with mock ignorance, though it is inscribed to her and Michael with a wish that it someday hang in their home. In the picture frame, however, art connoisseur Caspar discovers another, hidden painting of Michael standing in the door of the cottage. This painting, the eponymous “Man in an Orange Shirt”, is a finished version of the study Michael saw at Thomas’s mother’s house. At the sight of the hidden painting, Flora collapses, but finally tells Adam the whole story. Touched, Adam shares this information with Steve, but the two are driven apart again when Steve discovers Adam has re-downloaded his online dating app. Distraught, Adam seeks out Flora, who gives him a small box with some old photos and the never-sent letter from Michael to Thomas, which she had found only after Michael’s death. Adam then shows Steve the letter, his feelings the same as his grandfather’s many years ago, and the two reconcile.

The narrative is based in part on the family history of British best-selling author Patrick Gale; it was his screenplay debut. He wrote the story over six years. Like Flora Berryman, Gale’s mother had found a stack of love letters from a male friend in her husband’s desk shortly after the end of World War II. She also destroyed the letters, for fear that he might be arrested, and out of disgust and ignorance, as she had learned to equate homosexuality with paedophilia.

Filming locations included the London Charterhouse, where Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Tulip Fever, Miss Austen Regrets and, since 2017, Taboo were also filmed. The wedding and department-store scenes in part one were partly filmed in Wandsworth town hall.

The drama was broadcast as the flagship of the BBC Gay Britannia season, a series of programs in 2017 commissioned to celebrate the fiftieth Anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967:[3] the 1967 Act which decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales.

On 13 August 2017, TVNZ broadcast both parts as a coherent feature film.[4] The US network PBS broadcast the two-piece in June 2018[3] as part of their anthology series Masterpiece.[5]

Cast

Main

Supporting (part 1)

Supporting (part 2)

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Just Friends (Dutch: Gewoon Vrienden) is a 2018 Dutch romantic comedy television film directed by Ellen Smit, starring Majd Mardo and Josha Stradowski.

Here is my tribute to this wonderul film. Show that love is love and we can find happiness.

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Just Friends (Dutch: Gewoon Vrienden) is a 2018 Dutch romantic comedy television film directed by Ellen Smit, starring Majd Mardo and Josha Stradowski.[1] The film was shown on opening night of the Perth International Queer Film Festival and won the Audience Award after showing at the MIX Milano International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.[2] It premiered on BNNVARA on 7 March 2018.[3]

Synopsis

Joris is a 21-year-old nouveau riche Dutch man trying to come to terms with loss of his father 10 years earlier. His strong-willed, conservative, Islamophobic and racist mother is no help. Simone is caught up in her own emotions over her philandering late husband. Meanwhile, Yad, a 26-year-old Syrian refugee whose family settled in the Netherlands is employed to do chores for Joris’ grandmother Ans. He has returned from Amsterdam after “Amsterdam was too fun. My studies too boring” to live with his family “temporarily”. Yad has his own issues with his traditional upbringing and his dream to be a surfing instructor. Running his own business goes against the expectation that he continue his studies in medicine.

Despite different ages, backgrounds, and lifestyles there is an instant spark between the two. Drawn together through music and sports, mainly surfing, their feelings for each other grow, and they become more than “just friends”.

Their mothers, Simone and Maryam, threaten to jeopardize their relationship. Due to the pressure Yad and Joris have a falling-out. Things turn better after; their mothers realize “you do not control love, love controls you”, Joris reconciles with the loss of his father, and Yad finds the courage to embrace what he loves.[4]

Cast

  • Majd Mardo as Yad
  • Josha Stradowski as Joris
    • Stan Gobel as young Joris
  • Jenny Arean as Ans
  • Tanja Jess as Simone
  • Melody Klaver as Moon
    • Renske Hettinga as young Moon
  • Mohamad Alahmad as Elias
  • Nazmiye Oral as Maryam
  • Elène Zuidmeer as Fientje
  • Roscoe Leijen as Gerlof
  • Sjoerd Dragtsma as Mitch
  • Younes Badrane as Trainer
  • Anne Prakke as Bart
  • Sonia Eijken as Lely
  • Malcolm Hugo Glenn as Erwin
  • Tessa du Mee as Crematory clerk
  • Justin Mooijer as Yad’s friend