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GONE WITH THE WIND MEET ME IN ST LOUIS THE GREAT WALTZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1C5-vznVks EMMA SENSE AND SENSIBILITY LADY AND THE TRAMP ARISTOCATS

Some more from Lupe Velez:

Josephine Hull had some fun hats in HARVEY

Read this recently and the "voice" of the author is definitely Cagney's. You can just hear him as you read.

Geraldine Next: Gorcey, Genn and the lion

Flashcards. We need them now more than ever. Salem was actually my brand for the one year I smoked as a high school senior. What bliss it was to kick open the ground floor school door and light up that menthol coffin nail. Ahhhhh, heaven. I'm glad that edible marijuana goodies are now available. One can get high without holding that awful smoke in one's lungs.

I think Margaret Wycherly's finest performance was as Mother York in Sergeant York, and I think her bonnet would enhance any Easter parade.

Paths of Glory (1957) Next: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Brenda de Banzie.

The Jupiter 8 Reactor Mach II built by car customizer Gene Winfield It appeared on the television programs: Bewitched, Batman and Star Trek. It appeared with different paint in: The Psycho Lover (1970).

Upperworld Next: Robert Young, Fay Bainter & Hattie McDaniel

42nd Street Ann Lowell (to a fellow chorus girl): It must have been hard on your mother not having any children.

Double Dynamite

Bandwagon Next: Girl-Next-Door Type

O'Day, Kitty, played by Jean Parker in "Detective Kitty O'Day"

Sometimes a good wisecrack goes mostly unnoticed by some because none of the majors are delivering them. Like in KING KONG, in the later scenes showing people going into and already in the theater where Kong is going to be shown, there's a quick scene in which one lady asks another about what's going to be shown. The other lady says, "I hear it's supposed to be some big gorilla." Just then, some hulking mug, clumsily moving through the row of seats and apparently stepping on the one lady's foot, causes the lady to remark, "Gee, ain't we got enough of them in New York?" Sepiatone

Newton next: Bujold, Page and Tobin

I love this hat Celia Johnson wore in BRIEF ENCOUNTER ...and this one is cute, too

Hey look, rolling a cigarette is a lost art and it needs to be preserved. Just like cursive handwriting.

"Desire under the Elms" Next: William Holden Richard Widmark Patrick O'Neal

Cox Next: Isaac, Robert, Thandie

The last time I renewed my driver's license I had to sing Carolina in the Morning.........backwards and then hand roll a Winston and a Salem. These folks ain't kidding around.

Lee Aaker child star ( Rusty) from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Dies At 77

Morrow, Jan was played by Doris Day in Pillow Talk 1959

I'm not that familiar with Dame Judi's movies. I've only seen a few of them. But having seen her on stage at least ten times, I think she is a fine stage actress. And from what I've heard, a decent, down-to-earth human being, a Quaker, in fact. She played Sally Bowles in the London original production of Cabaret (which I did not see).

Kingship, Dory, played by Joanne Woodward in "A Kiss Before Dying"

No Way Out (1950), The Long Ships (1964) and The Bedford Incident (1965) Next: John Wayne and Claire Trevor

skipping x YUKON VENGEANCE

KILL THE UMPIRE

CINDERELLA and all other Cinderella versions such as SLIPPER AND THE ROSE THE BAND WAGON (they take a carriage ride before and after this dance) PHILADELPHIA STORY

My favorite movie sombreros -- THE THREE AMIGOS

Brenda Starr, Reporter 1945

1937

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

I always liked this one, especially Dolores Gray's song "Thanks A Lot But No Thanks". It has a very funny line "I've got a guy who's Clifton Webb and Marlon Brando combined!" I thought that was a strange combination.

We can add one more child star. Lee Aaker died of a stroke on April 1, 2021, in Mesa, AZ, alone and unclaimed, listed as "indigent and decedent." Lee Aaker starred as Rusty in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from 1954--59 on TV. He was discovered by director Fred Zinnemann in 1951 who cast him in the Oscar winning short Benjy. Then Fred gave him a small part in his 1952 western High Noon. In fact before he was 10, Aaker was cast in 9 films in 1952 including the Best Pic Oscar winner The Greatest Show on Earth, Hans Christian Anderson with Danny Kaye, O. Henry's Full House and The Atomic City with Gene Barry. The following year in 1953 he appeared in Jeopardy with Barbara Stanwyck, Mister Scoutmaster with Clifton Webb, Arena with Gig Young, and 1954's Destry with Audie Murphy. In 1963, he was uncredited in Bye, Bye Birdie. Former child actor Paul Peterson, who is an advocate for former youth performers, is trying to organize a burial service for his friend. "As an Air Force veteran, he is entitled to burial benefits. I am working on that. God knows when a sparrow falls."

The Good Die Young 1954 The Ceremony 1963 Escape To the Sun 1972 next: Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier

Richard Rush, Writer and Director of 'The Stunt Man,' Dies at 91 https://variety.com/2021/film/news/richard-rush-dead-stunt-man-1234949534/

Vivacious Lady (1938) Helen: Now are you going to mind your own business, or must I really give you a piece of my mind? Francey: Oh, I couldn't take the last piece.

THE GLASS KEY (1942)...THE BLUE DAHLIA (1946)...SAIGON (1948) Next: Gloria Grahame & Robert Mitchum

Friday April 16, 2021 Canvas on TCM lust for life

Fight Club (1999) Next: Central Park

Well when you said sexy I just automatically thought of Diana Dors. But there were so many people on there that my eye immately went to the side where she was standing. The other sexy lady on there, of course, was Mae West.

Tuesday April 13 8pm King of Jazz (1930)

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.

Aside from Flynn's book, one of my other favorite celebrity autobiographies is Desi Arnaz' A Book. It is funny, honest, and very interesting. Desi's riches to rags to riches tale is fascinating. I just watched Desi's appearance on Johnny Carson (available on You Tube) where he's promoting his book. Desi said that everything he wrote is completely true, saying that if you're not going to tell the truth, what's the point in writing the book? If you read his book, you'll learn that much of Desi's success came from a series of accidents and happening to be in the right place at the right time. Even very early on in his career, like when he had to open a Miami club gig with a band consisting of random musicians and instruments (none of whom were familiar with Cuban music), he showed business acumen and turned it around and managed to help introduce the Conga to the US. Unfortunately, it seems that Desi's book only ever received one printing in 1976. His book is very hard to find. I have a copy that I got in a Salem bookstore probably over 20-25 years ago, when I was in middle school, and got my parents to buy it for me for $5. Totally worth it. It literally is the only copy that I have ever seen in person. Fortunately, A Book is available on Audible, and they actually found a narrator who has an accent similar to Desi's to read the book. It was very well done.

I'm a little surprised that nobody has mentioned Errol Flynn's My Wicked Wicked Ways, a vastly entertaining autobiography even if Flynn had a ghost writer putting it together (splendidly capturing Flynn's witty conversational style, according to friends) and the accuracy of which, particularly his early pre-Hollywood years, is often highly suspect. The book is alternately funny and introspective, with Flynn often a surprisingly harsh critic of himself, particularly his film accomplishments. When ghost writer Earl Conrad interviewed Errol for months on his Jamaican estate it was the closest that Flynn had ever been to being psychoanalyzed and, after he lost his initial suspicions about Conrad, he opened up surprisingly to him about his insecurities and frustrations with the direction of his life. He acknowledged that alcohol was a slow form of suicide, had no fear of death despite his lifetime philosophy of living life to the fullest. Part of his activities even seemed to be to deliberately flirt with death with dangerous activities to see if he could beat it. Flynn was a fascinatingly enigmatic personality and he acknowledged his contradictory nature in his book, saying friends often didn't understand him because of it. By the way, My Wicked Wicked Ways was first published in December, 1959 with new paperback copies of it available today, making it, I believe, the longest selling autobiography by any actor.