Kim Novak & Fred MacMurray are a "Pushover" for each other! 1954

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Novak seems more animated in this film compared to the somnambulist she became.

Fred was so fuckable back then.

This was Kim's first movie. She'd never acted before. Her strengths and weaknesses are on full display, even here...

You know who's fuckable? Philip fucking Carey! So handsome, hot, and charismatic. Known later as Asa Buchanan on "One Life to Live." Also, note how many scenes of Kim are silent because she had virtually no acting experience.

In those first few scenes Kim Novak seems like a Catherine O'Hara SCTV skit.

OP, I like this movie. It's a good, underrated noir

There are a few actors in Hollywood I never got why they were ever popular. They couldn't act for shit, and they were not good looking by any standard. Fred MacMurray is one and so was Glenn Ford. I'd throw Dana Andrews in with them t oo. Ugh.

You can throw Dana to me instead.

[quote]There are a few actors in Hollywood I never got why they were ever popular. They couldn't act for shit, and they were not good looking by any standard.

Fred McMurray had the required look.

I like Dana Andrews, too

[quote]and even her final big movie, The Legend of Lylah Clare.

The Mirror Crack'd would like to have a word with you, Rick.

Hi, typically Fred MacMurray is a snooze to me, I only like him when he plays bad guys. Glenn Ford is a yawn, too... the Kevin Costner of his generation. But Dana Andrews? I thought he was intense... and hot!

I don't ever want Glenn Ford to be in a Datalounge thread again. I hate him. He gets on my very last fucking nerve.

Thank you R14. You and I have similar taste. The only movie I ever enjoyed Fred MacMurray in was Double Indemnity. He played an asshole.

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[quote]Thank you [R14]. You and I have similar taste. The only movie I ever enjoyed Fred MacMurray in was Double Indemnity. He played an asshole.

What about "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Apartment"?

Dana Andrews was tip-top in every single movie he did. And a dreamboat.

You guys! Dana Andrews looked like the Pharmacist at the local drug store. Waiting for Jane Powell to show up.

something wrong with the local druggist?

Love is the drug I want Dreamboat Dana to prescribe.

"Pushover" is a pretty racy movie for '54... though the thought of Fred getting frisky makes me throw up in my mouth...

Fred wasn’t too shabby.

R5. I remember Philip Carey from an episode of All in the Family where he played Archie's drinking buddy who turned out to be gay. Great episode.

Kim Novak hated the heavy lipstick and elaborate makeup the studio put on her, and for the first days of filming removed much of it in private. She knew that once the look for the character was established they’d have to keep going with whatever style had made it on film.

The alterations initially went undetected and her plan was successful.

r22=Tina Cole

I wondered about Kim's makeup, because it changes as the movie goes along. The early make up was hard and artificial.