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You have to know The Honeymooners to appreciate this cartoon:

More Paramount silents. From skimming that Films of the 1920s list above, movies jumping out at me are "The Sheik", "Miss Lulu Bett", "Moran of the Lady Letty", "When Knighthood Was In Flower", "The Covered Wagon", "The Ten Commandments", "Sally of the Sawdust", "So's Your Old Man", "Stark Love", "Chang", "The Last Command", "The Docks of New York", "The Wedding March", and "The Four Feathers" (which apparently was the last silent film released by a major studio and which co-starred William Powell and Fay Wray).

Wonder Bar (1934) with Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez and Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert thrown in for comic relief. Jolson plays Al Wonder, the manager and headliner of a Parisian cabaret nightclub that hosts lots of intrigue and inter-connecting love and crime stories. Did Warners think that they might have a Grand Hotel (1932) on their hands. If so, what were they smoking? If this doesn't turn up on TCM it is little wonder why. One act has Cortez playing a gaucho and taking a bullwhip to the lovely Del Rio. As in other films the cabaret stage magically becomes the size of a football stadium for some numbers. And then there is the closing act where Al Jolson dons blackface and does a big Mammy, Pearly Gates number that not only has a huge stage with hundreds of black face extras but it keeps changing perspective and location as if we were transported to another land and not in a cabaret. Truly ****ed up which brings to mind the shot of the audience with jaws dropped in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1967). The scene below is also supposed to be part of the cabaret show! Al on his donkey going to the Pearly Gates. And this was "black people's" heaven which made clear that we are segregated in the afterlife. In this heaven pork chops dangled from the branches of trees. I really felt sorry for this "real" black talented tap dancer who magically appears out of a giant watermelon. Every other performer is in black face. It was interesting from a film history perspective but even stripped of its un-PC elements this still would have been a stinker.

Also the remake HIGH SOCIETY Grace Kelly is also rich in TO CATCH A THIEF

Bertinelli, Valerie

Sure. Matthau is usually an asset to any movie he shows up in. From "A Face In The Crowd"('57), and "Strangers When we Meet"( '60) to "Charade"('63) and even "Ensign Pulver"('64) Walt showed he was always much more than just a rubber faced comic relief character actor. Oh, and MAGOO===== I've always liked "Charlie Varrick" too. And the Lemmon/Matthau team also did a version of THE FRONT PAGE ('74) that was pretty good(I thought ) Funny story... In a Playboy interview with GEORGE BURNS, when Burns was enjoying his career rejuvenation had a lot of praise for Matthau in relation to their working together in THE SUNSHINE BOYS ('75) about how quickly and expertly Walt got into character. "He was supposed to play a guy 25-30 years older than he was, and he got perfectly into that character as soon as the make-up girl got done with his make-up job. I even had to help him into his chair!" Sepiatone

The Thin Man (and subsequent films) Libeled Lady (actually sometimes it is the father's money) The First Wives' Club (Goldie's actress character) What a Way to Go Overboard (original)

It Happened One Night (Claudette Colbert) The Thin Man series (Myrna Loy) B.F.'s Daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) Million Dollar Baby (May Robson) Reversal of Fortune (Glenn Close) Thoroughly Modern Millie (Carol Channing) Pal Joey (Rita Hayworth) Female (Ruth Chatterton) Platinum Blonde (Jean Harlow) A New Leaf (Elaine May)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

1944

Lane, Diane

I just watched The Fortune Cookie with Jack Lemon and Walter Mathu earlier. I tivoed it the other day. Their vary first movie they’d ever done together. It was so funny. Those two were so funny together. Weren’t they and they were also really great friends in real life too. Weren’t they and as I was watching it. I just remembered. There was actually a night of their films they did together on here a long time ago right and they were with Robert Osbourne right?

Gould, Harold

The Kremlin Letter 1970

CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY

I've been watching ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL on Masterpiece, so I also thought of Diana Rigg's memorable character

DeHaven, Gloria

Carter, Dixie

Vivien Leigh's character in THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (1961).

The message of Grumpier Old Men was that . . . MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN!

An American in Paris (Nina Foch)

Anyone besides me think Dennis The Menace is a great Walter Marthau movie loved that movie as a kid.

Tuesday, February 16/17 John Garfield SOTM 5:45 a.m. Tortilla Flat (1942). With Garfield, Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr. But the real stars are the character actors Frank Morgan, John Qualen, Akim Tamiroff and Allen Jenkins.

Broadway Melody of 1940

O'Brien, Joe - Robert Cummings in The Devil and Miss Jones

Run for Cover (1955)

Brenda Marshall

I haven't seen THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY or THE UPTURNED GLASS (1947) on your list, I've been working on watching Edna Sweetlove's list I started with the first two from the late 1930s surprised that James Mason was in one so early, I haven't checked but going by that Mason may be up there in being in the most Noir if you count Brit and American from 1939 I MET A MURDERER to CRY TERROR 1959 He made 7 Noir before coming to Hollywood. Then I think 3 American with another Brit Noir in between.

WHISPERING SMITH (1948)

Newton, Robert

No Other Woman (1933)

Robert Preston

Kathleen Harrison .......... My first foray........ Who was in: THE UNFAITHFUL 1947 TRAPPED 1949 QUEBEC 1951 SPARTACUS 1960 PANIC IN THE CITY 1968

The Werewolf and The Yeti (aka La Maldicion de la Bestia) (1975) w/ Paul Naschy, Mercedes Molina (as Grace Mills), Silvia Solar, Gil Vidal and Luis Induni. Directed by Miguel Iglesias (as M.I. Bonns). And written by Jacinto Molina. As with the previous collection, this one also ends with El Hombre Lobo. In this case we get the eighth (or maybe the seventh (it's a bit confusing)) movie with Paul Naschy as a werewolf named Waldemar Daninsky. Not that that matters because most of those movies have absolutely nothing in common with each other other than Paul Naschy as a werewolf named Waldemar Daninsky. And, since there is little that is new under the cinematic sun, this movie is definitely influenced by The Werewolf of London (1935), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) (plus the five Fu Manchu movies from the late 1960s starring Christopher Lee) and (what else!) The Abominable Snowman (1957). A British expedition to Asia. In this case in a search for the Yeti instead of the mariphasa lupine lumina (although a flower does come into play here as a cure for the werewolf (A cure? Yep, we are also in House of Dracula (1945) territory with this one.) or the tomb of Genghis Khan. And Daninsky just happens to be an anthropologist and psychologist (why?) who knows the Tibetans and can speak Nepalese so is an ideal recruit for this expedition. And who does that expedition have to deal with? Sekkar Khan (Induni) as a poor man's Fu Manchu (whose main henchmen is named Temujin). And Wandessa (Solar) as a poor woman's Fah Lo See. Who, of course, dabbles in a little torture of the flaying variety. Oddly, Daninsky does not become a werewolf due to the bite of another werewolf. Instead, he gets lost and finds shelter in a cave with two women who may be demons or may be vampires but are definitely cannibals. And Daninsky gets bitten by one of them while he is in the process of dispatching them. Although, since Daninsky is portrayed by Paul Naschy, they have a threesome first. But, if they were werewolves, there is no doubt that they were the least hairy werewolves of all time. And, also oddly, there are no innocent victims of Daninsky in this one. I'm not saying that all of his victims warranted capital punishment (and, in this case, cruel and unusual capital punishment), but it appears as if the filmmakers were going for as heroic a werewolf as possible. Oh, and speaking of influences, one of the members of the expedition is named Larry Talbot (Vidal)! 🤦‍♂️ As for the Yeti itself? Yes, one does appear. Once at the beginning of the movie. And once again near the end for an anticlimactic faceoff with the Werewolf. But, basically, just a MacGuffin. Probably why the title uses the word "and" rather than "vs.". The former is more honest. And, technically, due to the cure, this movie has a happy ending. The music swells and the credits roll as the lovers walk away heroically. Until the viewer remembers that they are lost in the Himalayas and that they are poorly dressed and that they have no provisions and no guides. So, I'm fairly confident that they froze to death! 😉 All in all, it is not a bad movie. But it does feel as if some subplots were randomly removed. How else to explain why the villainess is done in by a princess who first appears 68 minutes into the flick. And last appears 8 minutes later. Where's her movie?!? Random comments: 1.) This is the fifth of five movies in The Paul Naschy Collection II Blu-Ray set. 2.) And, of the eleven Naschy movies that I've watched (or rewatched) during this go around, I would rank this one 6th as follows: a) Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974) b) The Hunchback of the Morgue (1973) c) Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973) d) A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975) e) Night of the Werewolf (1981) f) The Werewolf and the Yeti g) Count Dracula's Great Love (1973) h) Human Beasts (1980) i) Exorcism (1975) j) Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) k) The Devil's Possessed (1974) 3.) Other English titles for this one includes Night of the Howling Beast and Hall of the Mountain King. 4.) And one of two movies that the second billed Mercedes Molina has in common with Paul Naschy; with the other being the previously seen Exorcism. 5.) And one of two movies that the third billed Silvia Solar has in common with Paul Naschy; with the other being the still unseen Crimson (1973). 6.) And one of seven movies that the fifth billed Luis Induni has in common with Paul Naschy; with the others being Ultimate Gunfighter (1967) (a spaghetti western with an uncredited Naschy), Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972), The Devil's Possessed, Kilma, Queen of the Jungle (1975) (a jungle adventure), Exorcism, and Secuestro (1976) (a crime drama).

MADE FOR EACH OTHER (1939)

Norwood, Madge --Bette Davis in The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

Gladys Glover (played by Judy Holliday)

THE NANNY (1965)

JUNGLE GIRL

MEET NERO WOLFE

If you grew up in the South, it's impossible to buy, say, Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones or Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night as Southerners. They're just actors playing parts. Maybe Curtis is from the South Bronx. The South did not have the same ethnic mix as cities like New York or Boston or Chicago. Ethnic slurs, as opposed to racial slurs, were unknown in the South prior to All in the Family. I remember being in Baltimore about 1967-68 when someone mentioned Polish jokes. "Polish jokes?" I asked. "Yeah, you know, Polish jokes." "What are Polish jokes?" At that time no one knew or cared what country in Europe their ancestors were from unless they were doing genealogy to belong to the DAR and the UDC. Gene Hackman, who grew up in Missouri, is another actor who looks Southern, which made him especially believable as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde.

Torch Song (1953)

Mom and Dad (1945)

MASSACRE RIVER

😱 In the words of the immortal Pierre Francois de la Briosque...

I would agree with you re. Lily Tomlin but would encourage you to give Art Carney more room. I am a retired veterinarian and HARRY AND TONTO was a bittersweet, engaging film. It's very, very...VERY...hard to get cats to do what you want. It's one the few great "films with a decent cat actor" in it. There was another decent cat actor in the Tom Hanks version of THE LADYKILLERS. Dogs? Yeah, you can get dogs to act. But cats? Very hard. So when you get a good cat performance, drink it in. In a little side note, in the late 70's Carney lived in Connecticut and I was fortunate to meet him and treat one of his pets (I forget if it was a dog or cat). It was very matter of fact. It was not an "Oh, gosh, I love your work" sort of thing. He is buried in Old Saybrook, CT....Carney...not the pet.

DANCING IN THE DARK (1949)

GREY OWL (1999)

This old Bronxite thanks you for that Bronxgirl! I guess I knew nine out of the eleven. I didn't know about the Tour de Bronx, or the dome/foundry. Btw we never referred to the Arthur Avenue/Mt. Carmel area as Little Italy. I know that section well, we just called it "Arthur Avenue."