anybody ever notice the extra sparkle between then near the end of the
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Long, Hot Summer
mariahfan-1 — 16 years ago(April 08, 2009 07:51 PM)
film I did from the first time I seen it again after I purchased the DVD a couple of months ago and I'd always wondered what it was but I think it's pretty obvious now it's that she was in the earliest stages of pregnancy with their first child though not yet fully visible to the naked eye if your a fan you can clearly see the slight pertrution of a baby bump just starting and his growing tenderness towards her and the unborn child she's carrying
as is also clearly shown in the first moving picture of their wedding in this tribute video from youtube though in it she's further along in the pregnancy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RevqQITTpr8
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kennethpitchford — 16 years ago(September 12, 2009 05:54 PM)
I honestly don't see what the mystery is here. Most marriages encapsulate people who can't work with each other and yet still live together somehow, even in this age of a 50% divorce rate. All the Varners are mismatched, but project a glint of sexuality toward each other, particularly Jody and Eula, in spite of everything. In the case of Ben and Clara, it's more than a glint, although he has to "tame" her first before they can really get going. But that's a standard plot device: those who end up in love must start out truly disliking each other. It still works, at least till the movie ends. What happens in the scenes beyond the ending will, fortunately, never be seen. But the interplay between Newman and Woodward is charming, with the tinge of expectant motherhood clearly shining in Joanne's eyes. Franciosa has never played a bumbling nerve-wracked damn-fool antihero better. But Remick will get away from her typecast character later on (as in The Contest - is that the name of it? ) Well, here's where they all began, figuratively speaking, except for Welles who has to squeeze substance out of an unchallenging part.
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mariahfan-1 — 16 years ago(September 13, 2009 06:08 AM)
I wasn't trying to be a wisearse in my opening post I was pointing out the obvious for those that aren't as apt to notice those small little details which by the way is how Joanne got the part to begin with Eva Marie Saint was supposed to have played Clara but was pregnant with her daughter Laurette before production started so she lost the part and there was an open casting call to fill the role and Joanne happened to be the actress the director and producers chose to fill the part and personally I think she did it flawlessly especially toward the later part of filming being newly pregnant and having to work in the opresive southern heat which all the cast members interviewed for the AMC backstory featurette do complain about the heat though she's a native daughter of the south so it probably didn't bother her as much as it did the other stars
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butaneggbert — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 09:24 PM)
It's a nice thought, but movies are usually filmed out of sequence. What happened "toward the end" on the screen has not much to do with what happened toward the end of the filming.
I'd attribute a growing spark between the two over the course of the story to very good acting by both - because of course that's what's supposed to be happening between Clara and Ben.