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Much of the daytime schedule on March 31 will be devoted to four overripe, deliciously over-the-top melodramas. I'm not sure how the TCM schedule describes them. I haven't seen Go Naked in the World (love the title and will have to tape it), but I have seen Claudelle Inglish, Two Weeks in Another Town, and Youngblood Hawke. Vincente Minnelli directed a number of fine films, and Two Weeks in Another Town is definitely not one of them. So many talented people, so much campy melodrama. Claire Trevor carries on as if she were Betty Field in Seven Women, and just when I was hoping she would have one more chance to chew the scenery, she got it, she got it! Speaking of Minnelli, The Cobweb would have made a great double feature. But if you're only having one over-the-top melodrama on March 31, let me urgently recommend the white trash masterpiece Claudelle Inglish. If I said "Constance Ford dressing up like her daughter to seduce Claude Akins," some of you would know this was your kind of movie. Enjoy!

This definitely goes on the calendar. Thanks for the heads-up. You will not be disappointed in Go Naked in the World. Anthony Franciosa falls in love with call girl Gina Lollobrigida, who is in the little black book of his father and every other hot shot in town. Poor Gina has to suffer in the end though, because the Production Code wasn't quite dead yet. It's been a while since Youngblood Hawke's been around so I'm really looking forward to seeing it again. You're right about Minnelli; when he went off the rails it was spectacular. I'd add his Home From the Hill to The Cobweb as campy melodrama.

Pick Yourself Up, A Fine Romance, The Way You Look Tonight, Never Gonna Dance - Fred and Ginger - Swing Time ( doesn't get much better than this) The word Honey in the title or lyrics in a movie song

"You Made Me Feel So Young" originally from THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, but now mostly remembered as A Frank Sinatra Song next Another song by Mack Gordon

“YER VOICE! YOU PROMISED ME YER VOICE, REMEMBUH?!?!?!” also just thank GOD that PAUL WILLIAMS’ “love scene” with JESSICA HARPER was just them laying side by side fully clothed on a bed. ETA: I can never get too mad at a film with dialogue like: “Some MANIAC KILLED BEEF TONIGHT and now you want me to go out there and SING?!?”

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That's awesome, TopBilled! How pretend is real, huh? 😅 I wonder if Dargo is thinking of Phantom of the Backlot. Phantom had wrote about being a kid REAL close to the 40 Acres backlot and going through a fence to roam around the Hogan's Heroes set after dark if I remember right. Talk about going through a fence from Culver City directly into Nazi Germany! 😛 I would have went through the fence and froze right where I was. Again, not only being where Bob Crane, Werner Kemplerer, John Banner and the rest of the celebrities walked and stood, BUT....all of a sudden, being in Nazi Germany where Colonel Hogan, LeBeau, Kinch and everyone else pulled their tricks to outwit Klink. That would've been unbelievable!

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Nicola Pagett, Egyptian-born British actress, born June 15, 1945; died March 3, 2021. TV and film credits include Upstairs, Downstairs, THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP (1970) with Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn, and ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS (1969) with Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/mar/04/nicola-pagett-obituary

To answer the question "What are you watching this month?" I have to admit that my wife and I haven't planned out our viewing schedule quite as completely as TopBilled. That said, we do have certain movies we watch in the first half of almost every March -- those with some kind of Irish theme. Neither of us is Irish or inclined to otherwise celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but we usually have fun watching at least some of these in March: The Irish In Us (1935) (James Cagney, Olivia DeHavilland, Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, Mary Gordon) Three Cheers for the Irish (1940) (Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Priscilla Lane, Virginia Grey) The Quiet Man (1952) (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond) The Luck of the Irish (1948) (Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil Kellaway, Lee J. Cobb, Jayne Meadows) The Rising of the Moon (1957) (Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran, several other outstanding Irish actors; narrated by Tyrone Power) The Informer (1935) (Victor McLaglen, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor) Top o' the Morning (1949) (Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth, Barry Fitzgerald, Hume Cronyn) Odd Man Out (1947) (James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) I See A Dark Stranger (1946) (Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard) Little Nellie Kelly (1940) (Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, George Murphy) So far this month, before starting on the Irish-themed movies, we've watched Daughters Courageous (a non-sequel reunion of the Four Daughters cast, but not quite as charming), because I was in the mood for a big-studio entertainment, and Romance on the High Seas, which we wanted to see in full after catching several minutes of it on TCM the other night. We'll probably also watch the subsequent Doris Day/Jack Carson re-teamings, My Dream Is Yours and It's a Great Feeling because we like both Day and Carson a great deal. (My wife pointed out that Romance is itself a re-teaming of Carson and Don DeFore from The Male Animal, another of our favorites.) Later in the month, when it will, I hope, start to feel more like spring, we'll likely watch Four Daughters (which starts and ends in spring), as well as its sequels Four Wives and Four Mothers -- a delightful trio of movies with an outstanding cast: Claude Rains; the Lane Sisters (Priscilla, Lola, Rosemary) plus Gale Page as the four daughters; Jeffrey Lynn; Frank McHugh; May Robson; Dick Foran; Eddie Albert (in Wives and Mothers); and last, but definitely not least, John Garfield in Daughters, with a brief appearance in Wives. And I'm sure we'll squeeze in some other movies among these planned ones. I guess it's obvious that we let the time of year influence which movies we watch. (You should see our list of Christmas movies, which we start on around Nov. 1.)

The Story of Three Loves (1953) Nashville (1975) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

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Unger, Felix ; played by Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple

Having never been to California, I haven't visited the movie studios or locations there, although I would if I ever do visit the state. I live in the Washington, DC, area, however, so I occasionally notice a familiar movie location in the city -- usually from All The President's Men. But this topic reminds me of a sort-of "secondhand" experience of visiting a Hollywood studio. Back in the late 60s, my dad worked for a large grocery store chain and had to go to L.A. to oversee the filming of a TV commercial for the company. The commercial happened to be filming at the studio where the TV shows Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies were produced. A studio person gave the small group of grocery-store folks an informal tour that included the Clampetts' swimming pool from The Beverly Hillbillies and one of the Green Acres sets, where they happened to be filming the show at the time. My dad remembered for years seeing the latter show's cast performing one of their typically zany scenes, although, not surprisingly, he wasn't able to identify which episode it was from. Now, whenever I see an episode of Green Acres, which I occasionally enjoy watching, I always wonder if my dad was standing behind the camera, watching that particular scene being filmed. Remembering all that suggests some broader related questions: Has anyone here ever watched a movie or TV show being filmed? Or have you ever appeared on-screen, as an extra or in a role? If so, what's it like to see yourself on-screen? The closest I ever came was appearing in a local TV show, "Juvenile Court," in Cincinnati, where I grew up. Each episode had two courtroom scenes, featuring a judge trying and sentencing a juvenile delinquent, with the delinquent being asked to explain how he or she got in trouble. (To clarify: I wasn't actually a juvenile delinquent; I just played one on TV.) The moral of the story, delivered by the judge, was always, "Don't let this happen to you." I only saw my episode once, which was probably the only time it was broadcast, and believe me, once was enough. Suffice it to say, this was not the beginning of an acting career for me.

YOUNG AT HEART (1954) Next: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Joanne Woodward

Midnight Lace (1960) Next: Doris Day, Gig Young, Alan Hale, Jr.

Blithe Spirit (1945) next- Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds

The Astonished Heart (1950) Next: Rex Harrison, Margaret Rutherford, Constance Cummings

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)

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Sounds very cool. There was another poster for a brief amount of time who grew up around these areas back in the 1970s. He posted photos he had taken and blogged on here on some of his adventures as a kid sneaking onto the grounds while those studios were still active, but then it seemed his posts dropped off. Maybe they got him.

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Barbary Coast Next: Charles Farrell, Bert Lahr & Bill Robinson

Thanks for the reminder Kingrat. I watch Claudelle Inglish whenever it's shown. LOL it is the best "white trash masterpiece"

Samson was played by Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah 1949

Gosford Park 2001 next: Edward G Robinson, Joel McCrea and Miriam Hopkins

I’m not a resident of Hollywood, but have been able to visit on several occasions. When I’ve gone, I always made it a point to visit places that have significance in film/television history. I love to stand where the stars once stood, although many of the spots bear little or no resemblance to the way they looked “back then”. Doesn’t matter, though. I let my imagination take me where it needs to! Over the years, I’ve visited the house in Glendale where Mildred Pierce gets her start, baking pies for the neighbors. The house used for the exteriors in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, in Hancock Park, was another I visited. I read recently that the property was up fore sale, available for the first time in 50 years. Can you imagine living there? Another destination I remember being a bit more of a drive was the cul de sac that stood in for Sea View Circle, in television’s long-running Knots Landing. In addition to my “location scouting”, I have enjoyed seeing the various studios, as Yanceycravat mentioned in his post. Thinking of the stars who worked on those lots is magical. I remember seeing plaques on the various soundstages at Warner Brothers, indicating which films had been shot in each building. Los Angeles has many beautiful cemeteries, as well, and with a little research, you can visit the final resting places of many of your favorite stars, pay your respects, and say “thanks” for all the great entertainment.

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LP: Thank you once again for doing the wonderful SOTM Now Playing Guides. I love them and hope you will continue to do them. (I've saved the images of all the ones you have done for my SOTMs and now have a great collection.) I had a blast coming up with the ideas for the Challenge and I am totally thrilled with the 7(!!) super schedules. I never cease to be amazed at the fun and creative ways all of you approach each TCM Challenge. You could/should all be full-time TCM Programmers! Lydecker

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When my teenaged self first made Doris in June of 1973 (picture below), it was only months after she had modeled a bikini during the 5th season of her series. IN-person, it was obvious the figure displayed had not been trick photography!! I am wearing two buttons. One reads "I Love Dogs" and the other reads "I Love cats". Doris had given them to me during our breakfast. They were from Actors and Others for Animals. When I sent Doris a copy of this photo she announced that it would thereafter be referred to as "The Headlight Shot". I guessed it was due to the two yellow buttons on my jacket. However, when I showed the picture to my dad, he exclaimed, "That woman sure has a set of headlights on her..." I never asked Doris to clarify but...

Shane Next: Eve Arden, Tony Martin & Jackie Cooper

The Public Enemy 1931

And a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE THANK YOU to the Great Waldo Lydecker Thank you for running such a fun challenge!

I caught part of this recently on the Fox Movie Channel during its retro offhours. I thought that Swan was intended to be a mashup of Capote and Andy Warhol, and to be all the more dangerous BECAUSE he's such a baby face, but the results.... The total work is a flop, but the sort of beautiful, ambitious flop that I respect. Bonus: The sequence where Winslow breaks out of prison and into the record company is a homage to slapstick comedy--with suitable musical accompaniment.

Night Life of New York (1925)

Style (also love My Kind Of Town too of course, honestly all the songs are great <3) next: a song later made popular by one of the rat pack.

THERE'S THAT WOMAN AGAIN

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Bud was James Anderson Jr.

VICTORIA THE GREAT (1937)

NEW MEXICO 1951

Thursday March 4, 2021 Heartwarming on TCM music for millions