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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2015 20:45:15 GMT -5
Just watched The Pony Cart again. I can certainly see why Beulah Bondi won an Emmy for her portrayal of Martha Corrine.
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Post by willie on Jan 26, 2015 21:11:31 GMT -5
Beulah Bondi was one of the greatest of all times.
She is a legend that impacted the professionalism and talents of everyone on the mountain I'm sure.
What a gift it must have been to work with someone of her caliber.
They don't make em' like that anymore for sure.
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Post by jsc on Jan 27, 2015 18:48:15 GMT -5
Hi, all - haven't been on the forum for awhile, but I wander in every now and then. One thing I noticed the last time I watched "The Pony Cart" is that Richard Thomas looks up and WINKS as Beulah Bondi is walking off camera right after she tells him off at her old homestead site and they head back home. LOL - I never caught that until I got a bigger TV.
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Post by twinkle on Jan 30, 2015 17:57:17 GMT -5
Hi, all - haven't been on the forum for awhile, but I wander in every now and then. One thing I noticed the last time I watched "The Pony Cart" is that Richard Thomas looks up and WINKS as Beulah Bondi is walking off camera right after she tells him off at her old homestead site and they head back home. LOL - I never caught that until I got a bigger TV. Yes, that's at the end of the scene where she and JB are standing at the little graveyard and she makes JB promise not to tell the family about her heart problems if she returns home with him...it is like Richard Thomas is looking over at the director and saying 'great take'
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Post by Kathy Lee on Jan 30, 2015 21:06:09 GMT -5
Beulah Bondi was one of the greatest of all times.
She is a legend that impacted the professionalism and talents of everyone on the mountain I'm sure.
What a gift it must have been to work with someone of her caliber.
They don't make em' like that anymore for sure. She was my favorite and I wish they had done more episodes with the mountain Waltons. When she has to leave her cabin and talks about Henry and their wedding day she is amazing! "He had been to the barber that day and smelled of bay rum. Henry was a shy man with a women and he didn't carry me over the threshold like a groom does." You can feel her pain as she looks around her cabin for the last time. I think about those episodes every time we go hiking in Shenandoah. There are remnents of old homesteads everywhere. Graveyards also. Sad. But, it sure is pretty there and I am glad we can go and enjoy the area.
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Post by patriciaanne on Jan 31, 2015 7:28:34 GMT -5
Beulah Bondi was one of the greatest of all times.
She is a legend that impacted the professionalism and talents of everyone on the mountain I'm sure.
What a gift it must have been to work with someone of her caliber.
They don't make em' like that anymore for sure. She was my favorite and I wish they had done more episodes with the mountain Waltons. When she has to leave her cabin and talks about Henry and their wedding day she is amazing! "He had been to the barber that day and smelled of bay rum. Henry was a shy man with a women and he didn't carry me over the threshold like a groom does." You can feel her pain as she looks around her cabin for the last time. I think about those episodes every time we go hiking in Shenadoah. There are remnents of old homesteads everywhere. Graveyards also. Sad. But, it sure is pretty there and I am glad we can go and enjoy the area. It's very difficult for me to watch that episode. I can't think of anything more heartbreaking and maddening than the government taking your personal property away. Kathy, the place we went in Oct., where you told me to look for the graves of the two sisters--oh never mind....that was in TN, wasn't it? Was that Cades Cove? Or was it VA? sheeshh...it's all a blur now.
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Post by Kathy Lee on Jan 31, 2015 8:20:07 GMT -5
That was Cade's Cove in Tenn. Cade's Cove is so lovely. I think those people were resettled also. In Virginia, there are still hard feeling about the resettlement. At Big Meadows on Skyline Drive they recently opened a walk through museum about the history of the area. Years ago, the displaced people were depicted as backward, uneducated people at best and often as the barely human. There is a book "Hollow Folk" that does this. It is hard to find now. I would like to read it, for historical reason, but can't find the book.
The decendants of the displaced people wanted the true story told so there more accurate books and information available today. Decendants can still be buried in the old graveyards.
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