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Susan Hayward was an outstanding actress who won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her riveting portrayal as murderess, Barbara Graham. In the 1958 drama, I Want To Live. (1958) She should have won multiple Oscars as well for other performances. Including I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) & Smash Up, Story of a Woman (1947). She is one of my favorite classic actresses from the Golden Age and would love to view some her memorable films during the daylong Summer marathon, Summer Under the Stars.. She outshines in just about every role she starred in. Died too soon but left a lasting impression upon the Silver Screen with her memorable acting skills. Starring opposite some of the top leading men of that era. Including, The Flying Seabees with John Wayne, My Foolish Heart with Dana Andrews, Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck, With A Song in My Heart, Woman Obsessed with Stephen Boyd, David & Bathsheba with Gregory Peck, Demetrios & The Gladiators, with Victor Mature, the President's Lady with Charleton Heston, Untamed with Richard Egan, Ada with Dean Martin.

What do you mean Bela Lugosi didn't appear in any of those films, Dargo?

I've always had fond memories of Disney's ADVENTURES OF BULLWHIP GRIFFIN (1967), which I first saw when it was new. As the title suggests, it's a humorous adventure story about an orphaned young woman and her younger brother who leave their Boston home and head to California during the 1848 Gold Rush, accompanied by their butler, played by Roddy McDowall. Roddy's co-stars here were Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, and Richard Haydn, and they were supported by some very good character actors -- John Qualen, Parley Baer, Hermione Baddeley, Cecil Kellaway, Dub Taylor, and Mike Mazurki. (The book on which the movie was based, By The Great Horn Spoon!, was re-issued at the time with the movie's title, and I enjoyed it, too.) I saw the movie again a few years ago, and it was still pretty entertaining. I think my loving this movie as a youngster is why I enjoyed Roddy Mcdowell's performances so much later on, when I saw him in much more well-known movies.

Re:....former manager claims in book Which is called hearsay .

Here are mine in chronological order, what are yours? 1. How Green Was My Valley (1941) great film of Welsh coal miners. Roddy gives one of the greatest child performances as the sensitive lad. My favorite scene is his harrowing first day of school. 2. Lassie Come Home (1943) the best of the Lassie movies, he has many touching moments as he has to face life without his beloved collie. 3. Midnight Lace (1960) a very good thriller about a stalker terrorizing Doris Day. Roddy is now grown up and takes on a creepy suspect role. 4. That Darn Cat (1965) a great Disney comedy, Roddy plays a rich jerk who is dating Dorothy Provine and he wants to blast the title cat with a shotgun. 5. Planet Of The Apes (1968) Roddy gets one of his greatest roles as the intellectual chimp who is fascinated by talking human Charlton Heston. 6. Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) the best of the Apes sequels, his ape character goes back in time with wife Kim Hunter and discovers life in the 1970s. 7. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) the greatest of all disaster films, he has a small role as a Scottish busboy, but has a great death scene. 8. The Legend Of Hell House (1973) very scary horror story, he gives a fine performance as the physical medium dealing with a very angry ghost. 9. Class Of 1984 (1982) a tough exploitation film about punk rock kids causing mayhem in a high school. Roddy has the best scene in the movie as a teacher, fed up with his nasty students, pulls a gun and tells them now they are going to learn, or else... 10, Dead Of Winter (1987) An underrated thriller with Mary Steenburgen as an actress held hostage in a creepy mansion. Roddy has one his most menacing villain roles as one of the kidnappers.

Mainly because it isn't a crime drama. It's been a few years since I've seen it last so sure there's probably some elements i'm missing but from what i do recall, other than some seedy locations, it doesn't really check the boxes for me. i realize there's no strict definition for noir, and i'm not really bothered if people think it is or isn't a noir film, but i am kind of surprised how serious some are taking it. 🙂

I beg all of you to change the subject from 1966 Oldsmobile Toronados before a certain little fuzzy returns and has time free to peruse this forum. He has owned three of them and has a minimum of one-hundred-and-sixty-three "interesting" stories about each. We might have to suffer also his theories of the design elements they share with the Jaguar XK-E and how a love child between the two would be the most excellent automobile in the world.

Marilyn Monroe Next: I Hear You Knocking, On Treasure Island, Ivory Tower

Quigley's Annual Poll of the Top Ten Box-Office Champions is based on on an annual survey of motion picture exhibitors. In its day, it was considered "the bible" of a star's box office draw. Bing Crosby first appeared on the List in 1934 at #7 among both male and female actors. His next appearance was at #4 in 1937. He slipped to #7 in 1940. He rebounded back to #4 in 1943. Then for five consecutive years from 1944 through 1948, Bing Crosby was #1 on Quigley's Poll, winning an Oscar for Going My Way and an Oscar nod for The Bells of St. Mary's. In 1949, Bing was #2 behind #1 Bob Hope. In 1950, Bing was #3 behind #1 John Wayne and #2 Bob Hope. In 1951, Bing was listed at #5...in 1952 at #4... in 1953 at #5... and in 1954, his final year on the List, Crosby was #8. Not a bad run!

She was great. Funny and heartbreaking at the same time.

I'm guessing he wasn't WONDER WARTHOG, who used to tool around in his late '60's Toronado in reverse with his head out the window looking towards the rear end of the car. And talk about "Badge engineering", I remember when I worked at the Clark St. Detroit CADILLAC plant, in '72 they had to hold up production of the Eldorado( which was assembled in a plant across the street from where I was working at the time) while waiting for a shipment of chassis' from the Olds Toronado plant to tide them over until their regular shipment finally arrived. Working any job at Eldorado was considered a plum job. one needed much seniority and lips fastened tightly to a foreman's "seat" to get a transfer. Sepiatone

Deliverance (1972)

I was given this book and at first found it a macabre choice for a gift. It turned out to be a fascinating look at Marilyn's life, focusing on her last week & few days leaving you to form your own opinion. But I also know you can persuade people in any direction depending on what you say/leave out.

So many films on your list look interesting, but the only one I've seen is Trade Winds as well. Tay Garnett specialized in films that take place on shipboard in exotic locales: One Way Passage, Seven Sinners, Trade Winds, Slave Ship, China Seas, Destination Unknown, I'd like to see a festival of them.

I thank you very much for that recommendation! I have just now watched it. I found several elements in it to be quite surprising. It is a much more developed movie than many of its era. I loved Ann Sothern!

My husband and I watched Brokeback Mountain on Showtime last night. We hadn't seen it in a few years, and in light of the recent discussions here I was struck by what a Hardyesque film it is, with uneducated characters living in a rural landscape which is all they know. Hardy is a master at writing stories of love which are, in spite of everything, big enough to be felt as tragedy, and Brokeback is Hardyesque in that way. Class differences are less marked in the United States than in Hardy's England, but Brokeback is also very much a film about class.

She wasn't fifty foot?

Anne Baxter

Awwww. . . . With the lady driving, I'm not noticing anything else.

Blue Gardenia

Judy Holliday does "a little modeling on the side" at the Bonjour Tristesse Brassiere Company in Bells are Ringing (1960)!

I'm still not sure why it's given to grade-school students, aside from it having an "easy", ie. uncontroversial plot. It even got a kids-TV Wishbone episode: In my middle-school English-lit experience, however, I had to sympathize with the Peanuts strip where Linus's book report on Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome consists of "Being a kid, I am unable to understand the issues experienced by anyone in this story." ("Sometimes, you have to tell it like it is.")

She had enough booze and pills to kill a horse and no one looking after her to keep her from abusing them. If anyone wanted her dead all they had to do was let her be and wait for it to happen.

Good point, James, and one that got me wondering why I've felt Cyd was never that good as a dramatic actress. I think this might have all originally stemmed from when I was a teenager, and before ever watching any of her earlier dance work in classic musicals. I remember first noticing her when she'd guest on some television drama series during the '60s, '70s, '80s and later, and after she had pretty much wound down her dancing career. I remember thinking to myself the first I saw her in one of those old series, "WOW! Who IS this gorgeous and glamorous 'older' woman I'm looking at here? BOY, is SHE ever HOT!" But then later when I'd see her again in another show, she always seemed to be playing a character which was pretty much the same as the last...pretty much the "gorgeous and glamorous" type who's always perfectly made-up and wardrobed, and during her life when she looked like this... And so I suppose this was when I must have made up my mind that Cyd's range when it comes to acting was probably pretty limited. (...make any sense at all???)

It's been a popular theory for years involving RFK as a suspect. I'd be more curious to know what Joe DiMaggio thought. Personally I don't believe it. Yes the Kennedy brothers used and abused women and killed one in an accident, but to straight up murder Monroe I don't buy. They were playboys not murderers. Monroe was sadly in a bad place in her final days.

GETZ/GILBERTO

DAVY CROCKETT was "born on a mountain top in Tennessee" THE HUNGER GAMES -- Katniss' home, District 12, is in Appalachia MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES -- Eric Rudolph hides out and is hunted down in Nantahala Nat'l Forest (in Appalachia ) WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (I think...)

Making Love

Caine, Michael

1969 - Sweet Charity Next: Marilyn Monroe has a thing for saxophone players.

Zeta-Jones, Catherine

Or she was prepared to use it on Ryan if he tried to shoot Heflin......or as leverage.

Did either one of you at any time during the film turn to the other and say “aye wish aye could quit yew.”?? (I LOVE that line!!)

Mitzi Gaynor next: Easy To Love Over the Rainbow Ragtime Cowboy Joe

O'Neil, Phil--Don Ameche in Moon Over Miami

No idea what 2457 and 2460 are, since I can't identify the actors. (I would guess The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond for 2460, but the clothing style looks wrong.) The others are Loose Ankles, The Tenderfoot, Angel on My Shoulder, The Beast With Five Fingers, 5 Fingers, Belles on Their Toes, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and Footloose. I've only seen three of them. :-(

Three Violent People 1956

Ireland, John

So, kind'a like that old joke: "Be wary of any female surgeon who never questioned their mother when she told her, 'The way to a man's heart is through his stomach'. " (...so, kind'a like that?)

. . and this poor little car hardly ever gets noticed.

Das Boot (1981)

1944: ONCE UPON A TIME Next: Vivien Leigh takes a cruise.

I agree with you, Sepiatone. And she could dance in a variety of styles. When she was on the screen, she had my full attention. In fact, she was so good that I can honestly say that I don't have one particular favorite.

If I'm reading this correctly, the last syllable of Hitchcock's movie starts with a "W". The only one that I can think of is "North By Northwest". That means that the product name starts with "West" and you said the next word starts with a "U". It must be Western Union. Oh, look what I found:

Tommy Kirk in "Old Yeller" (1957)

I also love BILLY CHAPIN

It's probably Spectrum. DirecTV lists movie years.