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My name is Mark and I was named after his character on The Rifleman. I met him once at 1one of the autograph collector shows. He signed a photograph for my mother and mentioned how touched he was to have someone named after his character! What a wonderful man he was.

This thread is for anyone who is a fan of his. He was a child actor in the 50s and 60s. Probably best known for his role of Mark McCain in The Rifleman, 1958 through 1963. He also was a gifted singer and later in his career had an orchestra which played music from the 20s and 30s. I still can't believe he's gone, I loved him so much. I hope others will share memories etc. about Johnny. We love you, Johnny!

Glen was about 8 months pregnant the year she was up for Fatal Attraction. That was a memorable year because that was the year they moved the ceremony to the Shrine auditorium for the first time since the 40s. The limo drivers were unprepared and there was a big traffic jam. The nominees became impatient, and started making mad dashes for the Shrine. Close, 8 months pregnant, was leaping over fenders in her evening gown.

I can't really see it, Herman. Rick has been wounded by life, to be sure, thus his hard shell of cynicism. And at the end of the film he is self sacrificing when it comes to his love life. That makes him rather noble (though he would scoff at the word) but hardly tragic. Rick is a tough, independent guy and he will persevere. I'm not saying his future, uncertain as it is, will be a happy one. Who knows what lies ahead. The main person at the end of Casablanca for whom I feel sorry is Sam, left behind by Rick after years of companionship. I mean, would you want to be suddenly stuck working for Ferrari?

Combine the names of any two actors and/or actresses to get an unexpected or silly result. For example: Julie Andrews + Paul Dooley = Julie Dooley For purposes of this game, same-sex marriages in which one person arbitrarily takes the other's last name are also encouraged, e.g.: Clara Bow + Theda Bara = Clara Bara The name-taking can also ignore historical convention, e.g. an actor can take an actress's last name: Roland Young + Mary Boland = Roland Boland Also, the result doesn't have to rhyme--it can just have a new meaning of its own, e.g.: Sara Gilbert + Christopher Lee = Sara Lee Extra brownie points if the two actors and/or actresses ever made a film together (and you can name it). Have fun! :-)

I just ran across the youthful photo of Harold Lloyd below, and my mind immediately but unexpectedly flashed to...Ryan Reynolds. Do any other classic-era actors or actresses strike you as having uncannily similar-looking contemporary counterparts? They don't have to be especially well-known actors.

Well, McDormand was originally supposed to be in some upcoming film playing a Canadian Mennonite (similar to Amish, but they use electricity) woman, but she bowed out of it. Maybe Glenn Close can play it instead.....

Here's something that's fun, the 10 longest and 10 shortest Oscar nominated performances in each acting category by percentage of the movie's runtime. Leading Actor Longest 1. James Whitmore (Give 'em Hell, Harry!) - 96.52% 2. Spencer Tracy (Father of the Bride) - 87.84% 3. Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate) - 87.65% 4. Stuart Whitman (The Mark) - 87.51% 5. Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) - 87.15% 6. Art Carney (Harry and Tonto) - 87.13% 7. Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) - 86.85% 8. Gregory Peck (Gentleman's Agreement) - 86.80% 9. Louis Calhern (The Magnificent Yankee) - 86.36% 10. James Franco (127 Hours) - 85.90% Shortest 1. Spencer Tracy (San Francisco) - 12.99% 2. Walter Huston (The Devil and Daniel Webster) - 19.50% 3. Trevor Howard (Sons and Lovers) - 19.71% 4. Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) - 21.00% 5. Marlon Brando (Julius Caesar) - 21.60% 6. James Dean (Giant) - 21.92% 7. Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg) - 21.95% 8. Humphrey Bogart (The Caine Mutiny) - 22.79% 9. Marlon Brando (The Godfather) - 22.91% 10. David Niven (Separate Tables) - 23.67% Leading Actress Longest 1. Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) - 91.20% 2. Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) - 88.99% 3. Reese Witherspoon (Wild) - 88.13% 4. Meryl Streep (Postcards from the Edge) - 86.90% 5. Liv Ullmann (Face to Face) - 86.74% 6. Jennifer Jones (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing) - 86.19% 7. Bette Davis (The Star) - 86.18% 8. Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman) - 85.92% 9. Katharine Hepburn (Summertime) - 85.58% 10. Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle) - 85.29% Shortest 1. Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) - 16.96% 2. Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity) - 17.42% 3. Simone Signoret (Ship of Fools) - 18.12% 4. Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) - 19.20% 5. Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld) - 19.27% 6. Eleanor Parker (Detective Story) - 19.53% 7. Patricia Neal (Hud) - 19.58% 8. Nicole Kidman (The Hours) - 20.49% 9. Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller) - 20.71% 10. Geraldine Page (Interiors) - 22.34% Supporting Actor Longest 1. Richard Burton (My Cousin Rachel) - 85.33% 2. Gene Hackman (I Never Sang for My Father) - 74.04% 3. Charles Coburn (The Devil and Miss Jones) - 73.14% 4. Randy Quaid (The Last Detail) - 68.03% 5. John Ireland (All the King's Men) - 66.83% 6. Don Murray (Bus Stop) - 64.51% 7. Ethan Hawke (Training Day) - 61.05% 8. Roland Young (Topper) - 59.89% 9. Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses) - 58.59% 10. Jeff Bridges (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) - 57.74% Shortest 1. John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment) - 4.91% 2. Ned Beatty (Network) - 4.95% 3. Basil Rathbone (Romeo and Juliet) - 5.04% 4. John Gielgud (Becket) - 5.48% 5. Maximilian Schell (Julia) - 5.81% 6. John Marley (Love Story) - 6.04% 7. Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) - 6.19% 8. Lee Strasberg (The Godfather Part II) - 6.39% 9. Alan Alda (The Aviator) - 6.40% 10. Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born [2018]) - 6.45% Supporting Actress Longest 1. Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon) - 65.49% 2. Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker) - 61.67% 3. Rooney Mara (Carol) - 59.67% 4. Celeste Holm (Come to the Stable) - 58.77% 5. Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal) - 56.24% 6. Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) - 54.76% 7. Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) - 49.88% 8. Lilia Skala (Lilies of the Field) - 49.62% 9. Emma Stone (The Favourite) - 48.03% 10. Julia Roberts (August: Osage County) - 46.55% Shortest 1. Hermione Baddeley (Room at the Top) - 1.98% 2. Ethel Barrymore (The Paradine Case) - 3.38% 3. Jane Alexander (All the President's Men) - 3.73% 4. Ruby Dee (American Gangster) - 3.93% 5. Beatrice Straight (Network) - 4.15% 6. Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy) - 4.70% 7. Maureen Stapleton (Reds) - 4.74% 8. Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love) - 4.75% 9. Claire Trevor (Dead End) - 4.76% 10. Holly Hunter (The Firm) - 4.79%

Sad news. Good night JOHNNY! We all loved you!

I grew up watching The Rifleman. Lucas McCain had a tendency to be an over protect father and his sermons to Mark about "life lessons" could be a little tiresome, at times. However, Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford worked well together as actors, which was vital in selling the show. Johnny Crawford always showed a heart felt sincerity in his portrayal of young Mark that I found affecting. RIP Johnny Crawford

42nd STREET -- "Matrimony is baloney She'll be wanting Alimony In a year or so Still they're gonna shuffle Shuffle off to Buffalo When she knows as much as we know She'll be on her way to Reno While he still has dough She'll give him the shuffle When they're back from Buffalo "

The Bad and the Beautiful

Arena (1953)

THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE (1953) Next: Bette Davis, George Brent and Mary Astor

My biggest grievance with Casablanca, one of my top ten films with some of the smartest dialogue of the movies, is that Ugarte was knocked off too soon (Peter Lorre is simply too much fun to watch as a weasel). But, no, that does not make Ugarte a tragic figure. One of my favourite lines in the film: Thank you, oh thank you, to the Epstein brothers for their cleverness with words (along with the delivery of those words by some of the best acting pros in the business at the time).

Edmund Gwenn + Gwen Verdon = Gwen Gwenn Edmund Gwenn + Glenn Close = Glenn Gwenn Fred Gwynne + Gwen Verdon = Gwen Gwynne Fred Gwynne + Gwyneth Paltrow = Gwyneth Gwynne

I had never seen THE SNAKE PIT until last week when I picked up a very nice 16mm print. I thought it was very good and deserved its reputation. However, I was surprised that Fox, who had pioneered docudrama productions, littered the supporting cast with name players as patients at the asylum. In contrast with Warners' CAGED, in which the prison inmates were played by mostly unknown actresses, SNAKE PIT had almost every non-glamorous (or formerly glamorous) actress in Hollywood. Ruth Donnelly, Isabel Jewell, Victoria "Mrs. Jack Oakie" Horne, Celeste Holm, Lee Patrick, Beulah Bondi, Ann Doran, Jacqueline de Wit, Queenie Smith, etc. What a casting call! And it was somewhat distracting. I bet audiences were nudging their companions ans whispering "oh, I remember her!" or "say, isn't that....?" throughout auditoriums. The most effective performance may have been by newcomer Betsy Blair. I must also confess I was expecting a "Harder They Fall" ending, whereby deHavilland, who plays a writer, is released from the asylum and goes home, takes out her typewriter and begins to write "...The....Snake...Pit". Nope. She and her husband just got on a bus.

OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959) Next: Constance Towers, John Wayne and William Holden

Thank you, Tom. I was just about to post a reply to Herman in regard to this issue that would've been worded very similar to yours here. Bottom line, no, Rick Blaine is NOT a "tragic figure" in my book, either. And, I think he would've ended up quite alright by 1945. He was one smart cookie ya know, and despite being as Renault once called him, "a rank sentimentalist". (...and re Sam...at least he didn't end up like Ugarte did)

Criss Cross 1949

Treasure Island 1934

More hunchbacks (played by Jane Adams and Dwight Frye) House of Dracula (1945) Frankensein (1931)

THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (1931)

Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)

Yvonne De Carlo

In Waikiki ("Navy Blues") Next: Sung in an exotic setting

Ah, we think alike! I was going to post that Blaine was a tragic character. I even had a silly post-storyline; Blaine gets captured trying to flee Casablanca using phony transit papers and is shot trying to escape.

Peterson, Ella, played by Judy Holliday in "The Bells Are Ringing"

I need to be in the right mood for silent films so I wish TCM On Demand would show Metropolis or Joan Of Arc so I can watch them when ready. I have avoided To Be Or Not To Be since I am so used to Benny's TV persona of the fussy tightwad so I was not sure I could accept him in a different movie role. Wild Strawberries is one I want to see the most, I have been a big fan of Bergman especially The Seventh Seal and Fanny And Alexander. This 1957 film just never seems to show up on TCM or in revival theaters.

"If You Fee Like Singing, Sing" with lyrics by Mack Gordon and music by Harry Warren from Summer Stock. I love that movie!

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Next: Civil War vet Tom Hanks travels the country reading the news

Who could forget that? LOL.

And she said to get away from neighbors too. That was a tip off, they wouldn't be good neighbors on this show. LOL.

I'd forgotten about Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves. I saw that on tv and she was great. A movie one doesn't forget........(even if it was probably edited)

I always liked watching Mark McEwen on the CBS Morning Show. His ebullient personality really came across on the screen. I thought the world would be a better place with more people like him around.

The scriptwriters, Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, who wrote for "The Andy Griffith Show," knew who they were writing for and must have had each actor's strength in mind.

In case you don't know, they aired for two hours every Saturday evening on MeTV. Probably in your area, wherever you may be.

1957 Man of a Thousand Faces next: Kevin Costner builds a baseball field.

He was also one of the original Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club.

O'Mara, Kate

If you're in the US, see if your library subscribes to Kanopy (kanopy.com). If yes, you will be able to stream Wild Strawberries and many of the other films mentioned in this thread. The Criterion Channel may not be cheap ($90/year), but it's worth it to me.

I'd be interested in a rematch with Gable and Leigh...but later, when they had managed distance from their first pairing.

Claudette Colbert Next: D.M.

Jason, Rick

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Getting ahead of myself here perhaps, but don't miss Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951). Same for So This Is Paris (1926). The last time I saw either of them they were faded scratchy VHS quality which means that somebody somewhere has cleaned them up. I just checked and So This Is Paris is still on the schedule. It was actually made by WB, but I can't believe this is a Warner Bros. restoration in the age of AT&T when they could just use the money involved to stuff a few more dollars into the pockets of their overpaid executives.

You needn't be so modest. I rate an actress' beauty by my internal response (a personal scale, I know). Miss Grahame equals or exceeds any of the standard beauties.

Paris When It Sizzles (1964) An innocent young typist is morally, romantically and cinematographically corrupted by a wanton alcoholic screenwriter. It is easy to have high hopes for a movie written by George Axelrod, directed by Richard Quine and starring William Holden and the always-charming Audrey Hepburn. It is very easy also for pseudo-intellectuals and stiffs to howl because it is not a simple-minded romance and does not live up fully to its potential. The framework is a screenwriter and temp falling in love while attempting to create an entire movie script within two days because he has squandered both all the time allotted and all the advance which he was paid. Interspersed throughout are fantasies of the scenes he is writing. I like it! It is hokey. It is absurd. It pokes fun at a wide variety of movie-making tropes. The major flaw is that it is uneven. A few of the fantasy scenes are superb. Most are fine. One is spectacularly bad. The pacing of the developing romance between screenwriter and temp staggers and lurches rather than simply grows. A significant flaw also is that William Holden is genetically and idealistically incapable of comedy. He lacks all sense of timing and possesses the je ne sais quoi of a dead frog. I believe that anyone who can simply let go and accept it for what it is will enjoy it. I believe also those who sit in judgement on movies will see only the flaws and grouse. 7.4/9.2 It is available for viewing on: PlutoTV.

Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott