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The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Anthony Adverse 1936 Marie Antoinette 1938 The Man in Grey 1943 The Wicked Lady 1945 At Sword's Point 1952 Mary , Queen of Scots 1971 Barry Lyndon 1975 The Duelists 1977

The Quiet Man (1952) The Goodbye Girl (1977)

https://deadline.com/2021/04/tcm-documentary-search-orson-welles-the-magnificent-ambersons-1234732933/?fbclid=IwAR0cCXoiHcFlYKKhHWwWVTIzolNh0leIYBVxakdPfTcHD4rF0GI5YzCrfj8 The gist of this article is that filmmaker, Joshua Grossberg, has been trying to locate Orson Welles' original 1942 cut of The Magnificent Ambersons for the past 25 years. Along the way, he's also filming his attempts to find this lost footage that will ultimately be edited and cut together to create a cohesive documentary. TCM is going to assist Grossberg with finishing the search and ultimately, the documentary, titled The Search for the Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons." Last year, Grossberg was planning on taking a research trip to Brazil to follow up on numerous leads that he's gotten regarding an additional print of the film that was sent to Welles in Brazil while he was working on a project. Unfortunately, COVID got in the way and Grossberg has yet to make the journey. TCM is going to sponsor Grossberg's trip to Brazil and in the off-chance that one of these leads pans out and the lost print is found. Providing that it's in decent shape, TCM is going to pay for the restoration, with hopes of airing the completed version in conjunction with the finished documentary in July 2022. This is so exciting. I really hope that Grossberg's leads are solid and that there really is a completed print of The Magnificent Ambersons in existence. In 1942, RKO chopped out 43 minutes (43 minutes!!!) of footage. It'd be interesting to see what Welles' actual vision of the film was.

It's always exciting for film fans to speculate (and, yes, fantasize) about lost footage of famous films being re-discovered somewhere. Rather famously, after James Mason purchased Buster Keaton's old home he discovered an editing film vault in which Buster had worked on his films (which the comedian forgot about), drilled open the lock and discovered some Keaton film treasures, including a superior print of The General, along with Parlor Bedroom and Bath. We should be grateful to Mason because others had owned the same house without making this discovery, Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich among them.

Jon Hall, for those interested, committed suicide because he had inoperable cancer. I can understand why some would regard the circumstances of his death as tragic. It's the same as Pedro Armendariz. In his case, however, Armendariz insisted upon completing his final film role (in From Russia With Love) so his family would benefit from his income after his death. Armendariz knew he was dying as he played his role as Kerim Bey ("Mine has been a particularly fascinating life," he ironically tells one captured SMASH agent on that fateful train ride in his next to last scene in the film). Not only that, the actor was also in great pain (apparently he can be seen limping as he walks) from the disease that would lead him to his suicide, but he kept going through the pain for the sake of his family. This Mexican actor had CLASS!!! His death due to cancer is among that of a large cast that perished from the disease that had been on the Utah film set of The Conqueror in 1956, filmed near a Nevada nuclear testing site. Of 220 people on that set, 91 would develop cancer, with 46 of them dying as a result from the disease over the following two and a half decades.

On Our Merry Way/How the West Was Won/The Cheyenne Social Club Next: Bob Hope & Paulette Goddard

J. Edward Bromberg is to me a sad and tragic figure. I grew up watching him in every conceivable type of film (the Chan and Moto films, lots of westerns, horror movies) in every conceivable type of role. He was particularly adept at playing diverse ethnic characters (Germans, Mexicans, Arabs) and authoritative doctors. His performance as Dr. Lazlo (sort of a low-key, educated Van Helsing type) in SON OF DRACULA, caused me to wish that Universal had spun off that character to appear in other films. He comes off as the strongest among those attempting to destroy Dracula, certainly more driven and knowledgeable than Robert Paige and Frank Craven. I had watched MARK OF ZORRO as a kid, and I loved it. Watching it as an adult, it is still great but the performance that stands out to me is Bromberg's as the alcalde. Tyrone Power is like a supporting actor in their scenes together! And Bromberg even blows Basil Rathbone off the screen (not an easy task). To me, Bromberg is the most memorable actor in the movie. Sadly, Mr Bromberg was outed as a Communist in the HUAC frenzy. Blacklisted and unable to work in film, this busy actor's career ground to a halt and he passed away at just 47 years old, in 1951.

I've always thought of TCM's Friday nights "Underground" series as pretty much what it sounds you're asking for here, Dave.

Thats Sad. Perhaps painfully, blatantly obvious but sitting thru a film in a cinema/theatre is Special,. _ I was lucky enough to sit thru a "Live" Screening of .. what i would Call a Comedic Classic/ ,Masterpiece.. - Sherlock Jr. - Complete With A(n) InHouse Live (Miniature) Orchestra... It was Amazing And Exquisite. (Though im not Nearly, Thatold.. lol

I did some counting last night. Harvey Weinstein's Oscar follies began with Miramax in 1988, then moved to the Weinstein Company in 2005 before his final oscar foray in 2016. I counted how many nominated performances were in films produced or picked up by him after they were filmed. I counted exactly 100. (He retained an executive producer credit on The Lord of the Rings series which was originally to be handled by Miramax, and he had no ties to the post Weisnstein Miramax films The Queen, No Country for Old men, Doubt, and There Will Be Blood). 25 of these performances won the Oscar. I went through each race to see without manipulation, how many of these 100 performances I would have voted for based on the nominees. i counted 17, less that the number the Academy went with. What I think, even setting aside all the sexual abuse and everything else, is that Weinstein greatly harmed the movie industry artistically as well. There are some films he distributed that were great films, Pelle the Conqueror, My Left Foot, sex lies and videotape, Mr and Mrs Bridge, Passion Fish, The Piano, The English Patient, Marvin's Room, Jackie Brown, Shakespeare in Love, In the Bedroom, and Chicago. But like a carnival barker, he often oversold his wares. Good Will Hunting was just a foul mouthed movie of the week. Cold Mountain and The Aviator were overblown. The Cider House Rules and Chocolat were dreadful. Il Postino was the epitome of forgettable. Carol was a cure for insomnia. Others too were not good. And the truth is very few of them felt like independent films, regardless of what was said, indeed English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, and Chicago, his three BP winners in the Miramax years, were all originally supposed to be major studio releases, put in turnaround for different reasons. He ended up cheating the truly independent companies like Sony Pictures Classics and Fine Line Features out of the recognition for their films that they deserved, and he gave the majors free rein to only focus on dreary blockbusters. Morso than anyone else, I find him responsible for the wreck the movie industry has been facing in recent years.

All Apologies if the term “flyover state” comes off as elitist (which it probably does.) (If it means anything to you, I live in North Carolina and our official state film is SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT. All citizens are actually required by the state constitution to watch it at least once a year And you can’t get your drivers license unless you quote at least three lines from it.)

The Music Box (1932) - Laurel and Hardy, a piano and lots of steps. Next: Falsely accused of rape.

A few more Cinerama videos to provide the history and significance of this Hollywood landmark -

Bird (1988) next-- a second chance

Technically, it's the Arclight/Pacific chain that's going under, just like Regal and AMC. They just own the Cinerama Dome as their most visible holding. Still, the Dome is the kind of theater that can get last-minute celebrity nostalgia-charity rescue campaigns, which Regal and AMC never will. Such a campaign would be a BIG step in helping the Downtown Local Indepently-Programmed Theater crush the Overbuilt 90's Cineplex Chain, as we were hoping would happen by the end of the Lockdown. May not be in time to save the Alamo theaters, though. 🙁

The old Warner theater had been damaged by the Red Line construction and the Northridge earthquake. Coincidentally, it had been a Cinerama venue at one time too. It was also part of the Pacific Theatres chain. Most recently the building was being used by a church, but AFAIK, it's been unused for 7 or 8 years now.

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Trooper Hook (1957) Next: Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey

Ruth Roman

Edison, Tannie -- played by Virginia Weidler in YOUNG TOM EDISON (1940)

UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT (1974)..LET'S DO IT AGAIN (1975)...A PIECE OF THE ACTION (1977) Next: June Haver & Charlotte Greenwood

Sunset Blvd/Submarine Command/Force of Arms Next: Bill Cosby & Sidney Poitier

Lost Horizon (1973) Doctor Doolittle (1967) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) The Yellow Submarine (1968)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Forum 1966

ANYTHING GOES (1956) Next: James Stewart, Joan Crawford and Lew Ayres

Seriously though I’m still laughing in re: MARCIA H. HARD-ON. I’m still going to be chuckling to myself in the line at the grocery store or at work about it a week from now and someone is gonna be like “what’s so funny?” and I’m gonna be like “trust me you DONT wanna know...”

Norma Desmond: How much will it be? I warn you, don't give me a fancy price just because I'm rich!

Marcia Gay Harden was really good in Used People in 1992 (alongside a dream of a cast: Shirley MacLaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, and Sylvia Sidney), playing a woman who has taken to dressing as celebrities to cope after the loss of her baby. As Marilyn Monroe....Barbra Streisand... Anne Bancroft.... and my personal favorite, as Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde.... while she works as a bank teller.

Speaking of which until now, I don't believe anyone has mentioned William Holden, perhaps because, despite his decades of drinking, the actor appears to have been a functioning alcoholic, whose film career continued to prosper off and on for years. Right up until his final film Holden was giving professional accounts of himself on screen. Just look at his brilliant delivery of Paddy Chayefsky dialogue in Network, five years before his death. for example. Still, with Holden, you could see the ravaging of his features, which began as soon as the late '50s (shortly after, ironically, one of the real highlights of his career, Bridge on the River Kwai) and the circumstances of his death in 1981 (banging his head on the side of a table while drinking alone and bleeding to death) is truly a tragic (and senseless) way for any man to die. Flynn, on the other hand, became a sorry spectacle with his career going down the toilet as a result of his lack of dependability with his boozing. Errol did experience a brief "comeback" playing alcoholics on screen (even with Oscar buzz surrounding one of his performances) but it became another form of typecasting and Hollywood soon lost interest in him again when his second and third boozy film portrayals were in films that died at the box office. To his credit, though, Flynn is very good (even touching) in The Sun Also Rises and Too Much Too Soon. (A side note: Flynn died two months before the release of his autobiography, My Wicked Wicked Ways, which, ironically, would have been his one touch of real success in years that he didn't live to see, poor guy. It would have picked up his spirits, if only for a brief period of time. Even then, though, Errol needed a ghost writer, Earl Conrad, to do much of the work for him because he lacked the concentration and discipline to pull the book together). Holden and Flynn, who had known each other superficially (Holden's wife, Brenda Marshall, twice had been a Flynn leading lady during Errol's prime years as a star), almost made one film together, The Roots of Heaven in 1958. Due to contractual negotiations, however, Holden dropped out of the project and was replaced by Trevor Howard. This resulted in Flynn getting top billing in the last "A" film of his career, despite the fact he clearly had a supporting role in it. While Howard was excellent in that film, it would have been interesting to see Holden share the screen with Flynn that one time just a year before Errol's death. S.O.B., Holden's last film appearance. His features are ravaged but his professionalism was still with him right to the end. Has anyone heard of Holden losing out on film roles because of his alcoholism? I haven't.

That would be devastating (for the AMPAS.) Also, I’ll just come out and say it- Between the left-leaning** slate of films and all the minority nominees, I’m pretty sure we can count the flyover and Southern states out of the viewership even more so than usual. ...or maybe JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH was more popular in Mississippi than I’m thinking....? **(And whether or not this clarifies anything, I’m a rabid left-winger myself, But, Hell, even I get tired of all the back-patting and sanctimony.)

When I read this I thought you were proposing that their program of screening films in theaters should be expanded to drive-ins. An interesting proposal. But now I'm reading this to mean packing in a cartoon, coming attractions, age restriction graphics, etc to a double feature similar to Tarantino's Grindhouse. I like it!

Of course! Surrey with the fringe on top 🎶

THE PEOPLE AGAINST O'HARA (1951)

Murphy Brown next: Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Laura Prepon

the awards have never been exactly "above board"- going all the way back to LOUIS B MAYER pulling strings to get BROADWAY MELODY a Best Picture Oscar and Mary Pickford buying herself a statue for COQUETTE (her worst performance), and then of course there's the 1950's where politics really shaped the outcome and some ridculous winners emerged as a result (ie THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH) But there is just something extra ugly about how MIRAMAX came in to the game and changed it- for the even worse than it already was.

Black Widow (1954) Next: Forever Female (1953) more with Ginger Rogers in the 1950's

Cecil Kellaway

Flash - played by Stepin Fetchit in 36 Hours to Kill

I Dream Too Much 1935 The Big Street 1942 Your Mine and Ours 1968 next: Henry Fonda and James Stewart

10 (1979)

Monkeys, Go Home! (1967) Next: The Last Hard Men (1976) more directed by Andrew McLaglen

DETECTIVE STORY (1951)

I can cut loose every now and then.

KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1953)

WHITE CARGO (1942)

I adore Marcia Gay. I worked with her once, she was lovely, and so talented. And yes, the year she won Best Supporting Actress for P ollock, Ellen Burstyn should have won Best Actress for Requiem for a Dream. I think Marcia Gay should also have won the Supporting Actress Oscar a few years later, for her heartbreaking work in Mystic River. Two of her competitors that year were two of my least favorite actresses of all time: Holly Hunter and Renee Zellweger (who won).

ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (1951)