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Lori | @

Hi Lu. Thank you for your welcome and kind words. I forgot to say in my first message that I am very grateful for this website and I am so glad I found it. It is really great to find other John Garfield fans. I just saw "He Ran All The Way" and his acting in it was "top notch", of course. Made me sad though realizing this was his final film. Anyways, thanks again for the welcome, and yes, I am a new Lori.

13 January 2012 - Damascus, Oregon

Hi, Lori, my name is Lu. There is or was a Lori that posted on this website. I suppose that you are a different Lori? Anyway, WELCOME ABOARD, so to speak. When I read your postings, I felt I just had to post something.

Welcome to the John Garfield Website. It is so WONDERFUL to have you. I just read your posting, especially the last one, and I want to say, I was truly touched by it. You said all the things that all John Garfield fans feel in their hearts. And I am sure he is looking down from Heaven and smiling and when his daughter, Julie reads this, I am sure she will be touched as well.

I know eactly where you are coming from. Even though TCM plays his movies every now and then, I suppose they think that we should be at least grateful for that. You never see them advertise any of his movies on TCM or show his picture. They advertise other actors and their films but never his. And as for the box set, I again am not surprised.

As I mentioned in one of my earlier postings, I am so glad that there is this website because it makes me feel better that at least we have this.

Maybe somewhere down the road, things will change and he will indeed be recognized FINALLY. Again, welcome aboard. I discovered him back in the '60's and he made quite an impression on me.

13 January 2012 - Bergen County, NJ

Lori | @

Hello. It’s me again, Lori.
I apologize for these rather long messages, but I thought I would copy the message here that I left for Mr. Garfield on the Find a Grave website. Hopefully with this note, you all will realize I am a true John Garfield fan.
Thank you.

Mr. Garfield, Did you know?
Did you know while you were here on this earth, that there would be generation after generation of movie fans who would discover you through the films you left us? Did you know there would be people of today, the year 2012, who are still be discussing your amazing actor talents? Did you know that today you would have numerous fans that are true, faithful and so thankful that you did what you were supposed to do, while you walked on this earth? You became an actor and in doing so you shared your beautiful God given talents with the world. Did you know that when you refused name, names and were persecuted during that horrible time, that you would win the respect and admiration for the courage you showed of millions of fair minded people? Did you know that many today can not believe that such a real man really existed? Did you know that because of your unbelievable talent countless of us can escape from the hard reality of this world, if only for a few hours, because of you and your films? Did you know that when you left this world at the young age of 39, people more than 60 years after that sad day, still weep bitter tears of the performances you might have amazed us with had you stayed longer? Mr. Garfield, do you know now, that you are still loved and remembered, and you will never be forgotten. It will not happen and the real “star” recognition that you so justly deserve will come.

God bless you Mr. Garfield, may you rest in true peace and happiness.
I am genuinely grateful to you and for the beautiful acting art that was John Garfield.

Lori

13 January 2012 - Damascus, Oregon

Lori | @

Hello! My name is Lori and I am hoping I may join your group. I am a fairly new John Garfield aficionado. I have been a classic movie fan for most of my life, and knew who John Garfield was, but never saw him in any of his really well know films. Then one rainy day, about a month ago I noticed that “The Postman Always Rings Twice” was on TV and since I had never seen it, I thought I give it a look. Well I was completely “blown away” by JG acting in the film. So that did it, I was hooked! Since then I have read his biography by Robert Nott, and found a video store in my area that carries classic movies to rent, and it has a whole section of just JG films. I have not seen all his films yet, but I am getting there. Just recently saw, “The Fallen Sparrow” and of course just loved him in it. It is really sad that JG is not better remembered. Every other actor during the 30’s and 40’s has a “box set” of their films, but no box set of John Garfield’s films and I believe that is just so wrong! Thanks for reading this.
Lori

13 January 2012 - Damascus, Oregon

Hi, everybody, this is Lu. I guess everybody is busy, the last posting was from Barbara on December 26.

I, too, have been busy taking care of my husband since he suffered a slight stroke almost 2 years ago. He is recuperating very nicely. And also taking care of doing household chores and running errands.

As I stated before, I use the internet to see if any John Garfield movies are on TCM and visit this website every day to see if there are any new postings.

Happy New Year, everybody.

I also wanted to take the opportunity to wish Julie Garfield a happy birthday today. I hope she sees this and it would be nice if she posted something. Wouldn't it be WONDERFUL to hear from John Garfield's daughter. I remember this is her birthday because this is my cousin's birthday as well and it was very nice to find out that they share the same birthday.

10 January 2012 - Bergen County, NJ

Barbara | @

I hope everyone had a very happy holiday! It's so nice to see you online again, Karen!

26 December 2011 - New York

John

Merry Chritmas to all. Also, a belated Happy Festivus..........Wishing all a prosperous 2012........

Demand TCM show mores 30s and 40s films and ditch the post 1960 junk..........

25 December 2011 - ny

Karen

Happy Holidays to all of my JG friends
and a very happy healthy New Year 2012!

24 December 2011 - PA

Gary | @

John, thanks for the info. I think I'll wait a little longer before buying any Archive DVDs, since even $15 each is too high for my budget these days.

15 December 2011 - USA

John

Gary, those Warner Archive DVDS are burned discs. Discs that are DVD-R, I think. They are not commercially pressed so probably won't last as long as the commercial ones.

Picture quality is good but you can easily burn Garfield films from TV for your own personal use. The Panasonic recorders are best for this. But buy a recorder fast, the suits in this country are trying to make them disappear and make people either use DVR cable boxes or burn from online sources for fees.

You can also find these Warner movies at Oldies.com for like 15 dollars each. Still a very stiff price for a burned disc if you ask me.

12 December 2011 - ny

Gary | @

Has anyone bought any of the Garfield DVDs from the Warner Archive collection? I'm curious as to their picture and sound quality. Until they go way down in price, I'm not going to even consider buying any.

11 December 2011 - USA

Barbara | @

I just noticed that Air Force will be on tonight at 2am, which I guess is actually Thursday December 8!

7 December 2011 - New York

Dennis | @

I agree...Garfield would have played a great private detective...lets not forget he was a stage trained actor....and the studio system limited him in roles...he wanted to do some comedy...and ther types of roles except tough guy, gangster chip on your shoulder characters...e played them great...but the studios limited his talent...especially Warner...Leonard maltin wrote this about John garfield in a review for the film East Of The River...'Its a shame that a talent as John Garfield was he was always put into somany cliche films'...and that sums it up...I think John Garfield was a gifted , talented actor and I never tire of watching him because he made it look so easy...but now as i am older I get upset to think what Hollywood did to him and his career!!

5 December 2011 - Hamburg NY

Gary | @

Recently I watched Bob Hope's MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, in which Alan Ladd played a private eye (a cameo role) for, surprisingly, the only time in his film career. Some people would probably assume that John Garfield played a p.i. at least once, but he never did. I've read that he was considered for the "Philip Marlowe" role in MURDER, MY SWEET, and Mitchum's character in OUT OF THE PAST. Apparently he turned down "PAST", but I don't know what happened with "MURDER". The closest JG came to a private eye character was in THE FALLEN SPARROW at RKO, which is probably why that studio felt he'd be a good fit for "Marlowe". Too bad it didn't happen; a classic private eye movie would've definitely added to Garfield's name-recognition nowadays.

4 December 2011 - USA

Dennis | @

Hello again...yes Barb I am still performing and December is extremely busy...please check out the website...join in on my quizzes...just sign in and become a member...glad you got to catch East Of The River LU...I alwasy look for Garfield movies...hope all is well with everyone!!!

24 November 2011 - Hamburg NY

Hi, this is Lu again. I just wanted to take a moment to thank Dennis for alerting me to the fact that East Of The River was on last week.

Because John Garfield's movies haven't been on too much on TCM, I haven't much bothered to look on the TCM website lately because I have been busy with other things.

So, I took the opportunity to tape it again on another VCR because as I mentioned in a previous posting, I haven't had a chance to figure out how to get the VCR to work on the other one so I decided to buy a couple of DVDs until I can get the one downstairs fixed.

23 November 2011 - Bergen County, NJ

Barbara | @

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone! Sorry to hear about your troubles, Lu! Thanks for the info about Perc Westmore. I didn't realize he was married to Rosemary Lane. Remember her with JG in Blackwell's Island? Garfield was so young and cocky in that. Sometimes in my own head I feel like there was 3 different Garfield's, pre Fallen Sparrow, then the middle years with Postman and Pride of the Marines, and then the last phase when he was more cynical and world weary such as in Force of Evil and Breaking Point!.....Hi Denis, how is everything, I was just going to check out your website! Are you still doing your show?

23 November 2011 - New York

Dennis | @

I totally agree Barb...Breaking point is so much beter than To Have And Have Not...no comparison as far as I am concerned....Garfield is just fantastic in this movie...and hemingways said this version was so much better than the original...hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!! bye for now

22 November 2011 - Hamburg NY

Hi, this is Lu. I wasn't going to write anything today because things have been VERY hectic here. I walked into my garage the other day and noticed a leak dripping on the ground from our heating system and when the man came to fix it, he noticed also that my holding tank for water was leaking so I was bailing out water every hour and a half, plus clearing my garage somewhat so he could work and then installing a new holding tank. But when I saw that there were postings again, I decided I had to write something.

Yes, I agree it is WONDERFUL to see new postings again although I haven't posted anything for a while myself.

I also read that Perc Westmore was also married to Rosemary Lane (Priscila & Lola's sister) and that Gloria Dickson was an alcholic (looking at her in They Made Me A Criminal), it's hard to believe and yes, I read also that she was killed when her house caught fire.

22 November 2011 - Bergen County, NJ

Barbara | @

Thanks, John! I really liked Breaking Point. I thought Garfield was great in it, as was the rest of the cast. The story was much closer to the Hemingway book. I just watched To Have and Have Not last week once again for the 100th time, very entertaining, but not much resemblence to the original story. I love the dialoug, especially when Dolores Moran faints and Bogart is carrying her, and Bacall says "trying to guess her weight Steve!.....Maybe when Robert Osbourne returns to TCM, he'll start showing better selections!

22 November 2011 - New York

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