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Cool! She was really an amazing talent that I think went unnoticed & for granted until the GGs. I spotted her in an early film lampooned by MST3K, she looked about 18-20. Like Bettie White (and Dick Clark) Rue McClanhan NEVER AGED, she was always beautiful & a wonderfully talented charactor actress. I loved her as the "swinger" in an All In The Family episode - Edith naively answered a "lonely couple looking for friendship" ad in a magazine!

I met one of Rue's ex-husbands while we were both waiting on our cars to be serviced. All 3 of us went to the same high school, and that's how the conversation got started. When I found out what year he graduated, I asked if he knew Rue. That's when he said he dated her when they were in school and that he and Rue married around the time that The Golden Girls started. He was husband number 5 (Tom Keel).

Every Star Wars movie.....

I liked The Glass Key much better last night. Either the story was familiar enough or I could just roll with the rhythms of the film and go where it wanted to go. Snappy direction by Stuart Heisler. Great opening that just plunges us into the action and keeps right on going. Did anyone else notice the spitting motif, either on the floor or Brian Donlevy spitting out toothpaste (very clever idea to set that scene between Alan Ladd and Donlevy in the bathroom with Donlevy brushing his teeth). I used to think Alan Ladd was a very wooden actor, but I have come to like him. He can command the screen without having to do stuff. He takes in what's happening around him but doesn't let us know what he's thinking. He's believably attractive to women. Veronica Lake, Frances Gifford (the beautiful dark-haired nurse), and Margaret Hayes as the publisher's wife all go gaga over him, and he lights up all the sadistic and homoerotic fireworks in the thuggish Jeff (William Bendix). The scenes with Bendix are fantastic. Ladd is seductive in his big scene with Nick Varna (Joseph Calleia), too. Notice how Ladd holds his cigarette, for instance. This scene shows how someone can use his sexual charm to draw out an opponent. Eddie Muller mentioned how much other actors disliked working with Veronica Lake, but she has the charisma that all the top movie stars have. She was perfect for working with Alan Ladd because she was even shorter than he was. In The Glass Key, however, Ladd is often in shots that emphasize how much smaller he is than most of the other men. He's short but deadly. Eddie noted how violent this film was for its time.

It’s been quite a few years now, Maybe even as many as 10, but TCM once upon a time invited their own employees to come and host a movie and I remember one lady selected THE LAST OF SHEILA, Which I watched, and yes it is very memorable. and unusual And kind of a landmark example of introducing sexuality into a mystery film. It’s kind of like CABARET and DEATH ON THE NILE had a night of passionate, highly unusual love-making and this is their offspring.

I recorded it. I've seen it several times on TCM and saw it when it was released....I liked it, but there wasnt much mystery as to who the killer was...I thought Raquel Welch was perfectly cast as a no talent actress...Dyan Cannon steals the show as a Sue Mengers type agent. What I didnt like was the POOR sound. A lot of the dialogue and in jokes are too hard to hear.

Here are some songs, nominated or not, I think should have won: 1937: "They Can't Take That Away from Me" from Shall We Dance 1944: "The Trolley Song" from Meet Me in St. Louis (Or "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" not nominated from same movie) 1954: "The Man That Got Away" from A Star is Born 1960: "The Second Time Around" from High Time 1964: "A Hard Day's Night" from same (not nominated) 1967: "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale 1977: "Nobody Does It Better" from The Spy Who Loved Me 1980: "On the Road Again" from Honeysuckle Rose

The TOILET FLUSH AS CHARACTER VOICE was later perfected by MAMA'S FAMILY, which I personally consider to be one of the zeniths of the TV sitcom medium, ergo PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO ANY OPINIONS I EVER HAVE TO OFFER ABOUT TV SITCOMS AS I REALIZE THIS ABSOLUTELY DISQUALIFIES ME FROM ever being taken seriously PS- I can't help it though, I LOVE MAMA'S FAMILY.

The L-Shaped Room (1962)

patty mccormack was so much nicer with shatner in the explosive generation.

Johnny Guitar

Bergman felt so too:

INTO THE WOODS (2014)

I love Sandy Dennis. She was a wonderful, versatile actress. My favorite performance of hers is Up the Down Staircase (1967), but I enjoy everything I see her in. Dean Stockwell doesn't get the credit he deserves. For his child performances, I like The Green Years (1946) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947). However, he really shines when he becomes an adult. I think he is excellent in Compusion (1959) and Sons and Lovers (1960). I wish he had done more films in the 1960s because he was talented. Fortunately, he did have a career revival in the 1980s. I'll also note I have not seen, but would like to watch Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) at some point in the future. Here's a fun fact: Dean Stockwell is one of three actors to receive multiple Best Actor awards from the Cannes Film Festival. He shared the Best Actor award with Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles (one of his best performances) for Compulsion (1959) and shared with Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson for Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962).

Brother Orchid (1940)

Paid to Dance (1937)

The Glass Key, like Hustons' The Maltese Falcon, are seminal and important in that, based on films like Stranger on the Third Floor, and the influence of Fritz Lang and others, both were remakes that remained more faithful to the book and ushered in what would be labeled years later as noir. These two remakes made studio producers understand that with a change in an film's attitude and vibe, they could turn such novels, some that were previously done before, into box-office gold (as well as making major stars if everything clicked).

Alternative ending made people happy but in this case doesn't cure being a PSYCHOPATH!

Usher

John Leguizamo was in "Revenge" with Anthony Quinn, who was in "Ride, Vaquero" with Ava Gardner, who was in "Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" with Newman. Next: Ross Alexander (By the way, Peebs, that was a real challenge.)

Yes, the rules were arcane, and they changed from time to time. For a time, each studio got to nominate one song, which meant that, for instance, only one song from Meet Me in St. Louis could be nominated. The Inside Oscar books usually include for each year songs that weren't nominated. I can't vouch for their accuracy, but it's a start. They do mention songs from the Beatles' movies, so we could assume that these songs were eligible. Songwriters like the Beatles, Neil Diamond, and the Bee Gees who had big careers outside of Hollywood were often snubbed in favor of insiders.

Sure, Peebs. Maybe this will help. The actress in question made movies at RKO during the early part of her career.

Haha. And thank god for that. Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux (initials BED, phone number 555-EASY) is a national treasure.

Yet another characteristic of the era, the striving for realism, often in the form of dark ironies. Did you see the tv special "Eunice?" It played as much like a stage drama as broad comedy. Ken Barry I found to be very impressive, and much different than the Vinton he became on the sitcom, which disappointed me and probably soured me on it. But many people agree with you. I'm not sure "Mama's Family" has ever been off the air since it went into syndication.

My favorite 1948 film not nominated was The Naked City. Wily old police lieutenant Barry Fitzgerald and young partner Don Taylor investigate the murder of a model in real NYC locations

Paul Muni

King Creole is my favorite Ellis film as well. First rate cast with Matthau, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jagger, and Vic Morrow, as directed by Michael Crutiz.

FRISCO JENNY 1932

JUAREZ 1939

We have a winner!

Always amused by Bendix's hair control problem.

Brian Aherne

I rented Clambake literally just because of a classic Cheers joke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl_biKw3C0I ), because I confused it with a legendarily crazy scene from "It Happened At the World's Fair" (darn, that one's not free on Prime yet), and because I've actually gotten to LIKE Color Elvis on PlutoTV's Paramount Classics channel-- Viva Las Vegas is still the tops, but Roustabout ain't bad either. 😄 A lot of Elvis Jailhouse-Rock fans who wanted the smoldering Hip-ster just couldn't deal with Color Elvis having grown up--Even John Lennon reportedly said "Drugs didn't kill Elvis, the Army 'killed' Elvis." But mainstream-corny as it is, Elvis had a great sense of humor about going along with it, and you want to know a nice easygoing but two-fisted car/boat repair guy like this in real life. Clambake and World's Fair, though, tried to put Elvis in the never-grown-up-adult role of being good around kids (also so studios could put in the cute money kids), and while Elvis singing an outrageously plagiarized knockoff of "High Hopes" on a playground might make Las Vegas Comeback-concert fans cringe, it's still...well....cute. (I haven't watched Spinout yet, since it was the representative Elvis musical to show up on the Medveds "50 Worst Films", and the reviews I've read seem to concur.)

McCarthy, Kevin

Gangsters, crooked pols, cops, wise crackin' dames, on the dull side dames, thugs, newspaper tycoons, hangers on, fancy Dans, just slightly crooked pols, waiters, trophy wife, dumb DAs, all well done and entertaining, but at the end of the day kind of meh. Maybe the gay subtext of Bendix (hey I just realized there's a gs pun there) and Ladd and their hours in the rubber ball room is actually what makes this here flick a seminal one.

Our third precode star is GLORIA STUART She had the bejeezus scared out of her by Karloff in THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932). She befriended THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933). She caused trouble with Eddie Cantor in ROMAN SCANDALS (1933). And she was one of THE GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 who dug her way into Dick Powell's heart.

Louise, Tina

Maybe THE FOOLS on the hill is why.

CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)

ROSELAND (1977)

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST (1948)

Harper, Valerie

PRET-A-PORTER (1994)

Max Schreck from Nosferatu, without and with makeup