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Jupiter's Darling--Marge and Gower Champion do an entire dance routine with elephants Dames--eccentric millionaire Hugh Herbert liked to play with his little elephant figurines You Can't Cheat an Honest Man--W.C. Fields used one for showering

Zenobia (1939) Fantasia (1940) Dumbo (1941) Hannibal (1960)

Elephant Boy (1937) with Sabu Horton Hatches an Egg (1942) cartoon Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini. Song from Hatari (1962) Baby Elephant Walk - YouTube

Considering that the 1960 movie John Wayne directed and starred in was about this battle, isn't it ironic that the point of the above article (though actually an argument against it) was also very memorably and concisely included in another movie the guy starred in just a couple of years later...

Elephants (2018) Water for Elephants (2011) An Elephant's Journey (2017) The Elephant Man (1981) ??

I think the impression of her being hardened comes from the fact that she was always "acting". She could modulate, to give her credit, but there was always the feeling that it had all been worked out in her mind down to the last detail. I always get the same impression from Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. They obviously did their homework, but we don't watch movies just to grade someone's homework. Having seemingly dismissed them, I'll now say they're three of my favorite classic film actresses to watch. I watch them because their intense self-awareness demands that they always be in the moment, so you can see them work their way through their emotions in real time and watch them drag a damn scene across the finish line. You get to share the thrill of victory when they pull it off. But there are generally no particular grace notes to the performances, which is what creates an impression of hardness. Actually, I'd rather say "remoteness". Their fierce determination to be fully "on" at all costs actually drains the moment of its "reality". I'm being clinical, but I actually do have a lot of affection for Susan. I think Nip's right about a powerful femininity, like in Tulsa, where she was flirty but tough and got tougher as she outflanked the men in the oil business. Her can-do spirit often made her performance more memorable than the film itself, like White Witch Doctor. She was what studios loved, a star who could carry a movie.

Mädchen in Uniform (1931) Next: Isolation

Boogie Nights (1997): Heather Graham = Rollergirl Next: Boarding school

Susan Hayward was a fine actress but also, for me, a difficult person to ever warm towards. That's because of the hardness of the characters she played, particularly during her heyday, the '50s. And that hardness, I have always felt, was a reflection of the ambitious actress herself. I read an anecdote once of the time that she was filming The Garden of Evil on location in Mexico in 1953 or 54. At one point some of the cast members were sharing a drink at a small local bar in some rural spot where they were filming. Hayward then entered the place by herself, went to the bar where she consumed a drink then left the place. The point is that, even though this was a well known actress, not to mention an attractive woman, not a single male in the bar approached her. Everyone was leery of her (including fellow cast members) because of her tough independence (which you can say, in turn, helped her survive as long as she did in the film business). One of her Garden of Evil co-stars, Cameron Mitchell, was enamoured with her and made the mistake of coming onto Hayward during production and got his face scratched up for the effort. It does sound, admittedly, like perhaps Mitchell got a little too physical in his attempted come on. Ironically his character in the film did the same thing with her character with the same end result. I wonder if one incident inspired the other.

Do any of the characters croak in it?

A very timely review! - How to Steal a Million is scheduled to be shown on TCM this coming Sunday evening, June 13 at 8 pm ET.

How to Steal a Million (1966) A beautiful but slightly klutzy young lady enlists a tall, slim, brutal, mean, terrible man with deep blue eyes to help her steal a statue which belongs to her so that she will not have to go to America. I consider it one of the great shames of classic Hollywood that Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole appeared together only this once because they have great chemistry and are a truly beautiful couple. That Hugh Griffith is her father does make one wonder about genetics. Fernand Gravey as the director of the museum and Jacques Marin as the head guard of said museum were excellently cast. Moustache as a guard is quite fun. Charles Boyer has a minor role necessary for story purposes and he fills it professionally with no opportunity to become a grandiose caricature. Eli Wallach seems a bit of typecasting as he is supposed to be somewhat irritating. This is William Wyler at his height and John Williams provided a lively score. Even the automobiles in this movie are perfect! She drives a sassy little Autobianchi Bianchina Cabriolet while he has a stereotypical but quite lovely Jaguar E-Type 4.2. 9.9/10 I am sorry to say that I could find no streaming service which carries it free. We have the DVD but I purchased it on: Amazon Prime Video because we had earned video credits which were soon to expire and we had no other use for them.

Fantasia (1940) Dead of Night (1945) Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963) Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) History of the World, Part I (1981) Mystery Train (1989) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) O. Henry's Full House (1952) Tales of Manhattan (1942)

New York Stories (1989) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Creepshow (1982)

Does Cory Feldman count as a classic star? How about Joan Jett? The first indie I worked on, back when I was still a film school undergrad, I was her PA on set and stand-in. She was pretty intimidating (even for a punk like me) with her rough persona, but very nice.

More celebrities (almost classic era) that I recall serving at The Russian Tea Room... A few that I annoyed: Jennifer Grey came in on a date with Johnny Depp about 1990. Every food course or beverage she ordered was very minimal. A waiter's job is to upsell, which I tried to do but she rebuffed me every time, gradually becoming increasingly curt with me as the meal progressed. Johnny Depp seemed to be amused by this, but did not comment. When I tried to hand them the dessert menus, Ms. Grey told me (paraphrasing) "no, no we don't want dessert, like I didn't want soup, like I didn't want another glass of Champagne..." In a slow flat monotone, I said something like, "Strawberries Romanoff are refreshing and light..." Jennifer Grey: "Just two double espressos!" As I walked away from their table I heard her imitating me, speaking to Johnny Depp (she affected a deep monotonous voice): "Strawberries Romanoff yecch yecch blah blah blah". From that point on, I pretty much shut up. Johnny Depp continued to look amused, he was pretty cool. Don Johnson came in for lunch in the late 80's or early 90's. He arrived first, and I recall I had to remove place settings from the table, or add place settings. Or some task that caused us to be close up for a minute or so. At first he was smiling, eye contact, cordial, how are you, etc etc. I asked him how he was doing, etc. etc. He had a movie out at that time (I wish I could remember which one but I can't, I did not know if it was flopping) and I asked , "How's the new movie, Mr. Johnson?" His smile turned to an severely annoyed look... 'Just get me a Diet Coke." Arnold Shwarzenngger (spelled incorrectly, who cares) came to the restaurant a number of times and each time left his mark, with some bad interaction with staff or with another customer. In my case, I was serving his group dinner and there was heavy business discussion going on. At one point I was refilling wine glasses at his table. So I hold the bottle over each guest's wine glass and each guest nods or shakes their head or in some way tells you non-verbally what to do. Schwarzenwhatever actually shoved my arm away to prevent me from pouring wine. Some that I did not annoy: Sigourney Weaver had lunch one day with mega-agent Sam Cohn. Ms. Weaver wore an awesome-looking white dress. When she sat at the table the front part of the dress bunched forward and exposed a lot of her...... self (I could look right down to her belly button). During the lunch I had to prepare a dish at the table for Ms. Weaver... Rather than cover herself up, she looked me in the eye and chatted while I was rolling her blini, or whatever I was doing. Very a propos by her, I thought at the time. Smart lady. E.G. Marshall, I recall serving lunch one day. I happen to speak with a slight Brooklyn/NY accent. Mr. Marshall, as lunch is concluding asks me if I was from Minnesota (he liked my accent). It was a good joke, my accent is a anything but Minnesotan.

Octopussy (1983) Smokey and the Bandit II (1981)

OPERATION DUMBO DROP BABAR THE ELEPHANT Disney Silly Symphony character Elmer the Elephant THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN has elephant friends ALADDIN - Abu turns into an elephant JUNGLE BOOK

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) Next: Robert Morley, Joseph Schildkraut and Norma Shearer

It seems the problem most people have with the Hollywood Blacklist isn't that it existed, but that it was anti-communists doing the blacklisting Blacklist the "right" group of people and they'd be fine with it.

For Pete's Sake (1974) Next: rollerskating

THE BIRDS (1963) Next: lots of screen time for Barbra Streisand

Here's a review I wrote about 12 years ago for BLUE CHEER's first album : https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3DOO98JWX9CXW?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp 2nd album : https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3B9ONMGZ2OELU?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

The Commitments (1991) Next: Bird of prey

Telephone Operator (1937) next : fishing trip

Hell's Angels (1930) Next: Suzy (1936) -- another one with Jean Harlow

Iturbi, Jose

I think we see things mostly the same on this topic. I'm not so sure I can agree that TCM airs a lot of Fox films (but I'm a stat guy and a lot can be interpreted in many different ways). My gut tell me that less than 5% - 10% of the films TCM shows are from Fox, but that is just a wild guess. I say this since I assume 80% (or so) of the films shown are from what I call the Ted Turner library of films (which your call Time-Warner). That only leaves around 20 percent for Columbia, Fox, Republic (which TCM almost never features), early Paramount films, and Universal (where TCM will pony up for their horror classics, but not much else). Anyhow, I believe we have the same overall goal: TCM lease more films from studios outside of the Turner\Time-Warner library! Take care.

To jamesjazzguitar, you have a point there. Sound like a whole lot of corporate drama behind the scenes. At the same time, Disney acquiring Fox happened months ago, early this year. TCM is still airing a lot of Fox films. I can't see any decrease in the number of Fox films on TCM. This actually makes it even more shocking to think this would be the reason for an absence of films like "Love Me Tender". If Disney wanted to stop TCM from airing Fox films, they probably would have done so before now. TCM has always done well with negotiating films from other libraries. It would be a travesty for TCM to give up now. July does have a lot of Fox and non-United Artists and non-Time-Warner films scheduled on TCM. It's just Elvis Presley's films that seem to be getting the short end of the stick this time. With TCM having done better with their recent SOTM tributes to Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Charles Boyer, and Sidney Poitier - not just confining themselves to the Time-Warner and United Artists libraries but including them and also expanding beyond them, I simply thought that they would do the same for Elvis, that's all. To DougieB, the TCM database is at this link right here. https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm It looks as though they update it rather frequently.

I say again The Conqueror is underrated. the movie has heart and Duke ripping a dress right off of one of Hollywood's most beautiful stars. someone said susan hayward was not huggable and a bit abrasive. she was strong, cold but often times exuded a powerful femininity

32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD

Don't think I've seen the one mentioned yet that takes place over a Saturday night at the end of the summer of 1962 in Modesto, California... (...I can't believe that the first time I watched this one when it was released in '73, I felt it pertained a little more to people a half-generation before me, but now there's been almost three generations that have come after that time...tempus fugit, eh?!)

My wife and I keep lists of the many entertaining movies that take place during the summer or over the July 4th holiday. (We use these and other seasonal lists, e.g., Christmas, to suggest movies to watch when we don't have something more general in mind.) Our July 4th and summer lists (omitting movies that have already been mentioned): Ah, Wilderness! (July 4th) Houseboat (July 4th) Judge Hardy and Son (July 4th) Summer Holiday (July 4th) The Music Man (July 4th) Two Weeks with Love (July 4th) A Canterbury Tale A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy Andy Hardy's Double Life George Washington Slept Here Gold Diggers of 1935 Having Wonderful Time It Happened To Jane Key Largo Manhattan Laura Listen Darling Paper Moon State Fair Talk of the Town The Courtship of Andy Hardy The Devil and Miss Jones The More The Merrier The Odd Couple The Reivers The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming

If she was chosen would probably be a disappointing day as many of her films were done at Paramount and Fox and I doubt TCM would want to spend the extra money to air them. We'd probably get a lot of films they show a lot of: I'll Cry Tomorrow: I Want to LIve! etc. Not that there's anything wrong with them.

Elephant in AT THE CIRCUS Killer elephant in a circus episode of MONK Elephant ride in PASSAGE TO INDIA

THE PASSIONATE PLUMBER (1932) Next: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn and Eddie Albert

Well, other than the chorus I thought was kinda cool, never paid much attention to what was sung elsewhere in the first one, Forgot about McClean's line in the 2nd. And sadly overlooked #3. But Brando does get mention in that Joni tune. ("thrilling to the Brando-like things he said". ) Sepiatone

Newhart, Bob

Emma (1932) Tugboat Annie (1933) two with Marie Dressler

"Frogs" was a totally awesome movie! Haven't seen it in years. 👍🏻

This is actually very useful. Now I can see that Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey were in only one movie together, as well as Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt.

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Yea, I know we disagree on this topic. Political correctness has also existed since mankind began and formed political systems. Take your example of dogma: what side of the political spectrum was mainly the one pushing dogmatic ideals, and conformity to these ideals over the centuries? You know the answer but I guess you will continue to pretend you don't. I do agree that in the USA progressive (which I'm not, since I'm a libertarian) today are more dogmatic and trying to ensure conformity to their dogmatic ideals than conservatives. Maybe a lot more. That is because they have the political power to do so. I reject such thinking from both sides of the political spectrum. I.e. let people be what they want to be, and think what they wish to think, as long as they are not harming others. I would hope that is a concept most people would agree with but it appears the vast majority of people do not. Oh well, I just play more guitar and ignore them.

That's so cool! I come from a musical sorta family (my dad's a guitarist) so I've just grown up listening to all the oldies. I got into old Hollywood/ classic film when I was 16 in 2017, my mom turned on TCM and they were playing Harold Lloyd's Now Or Never from 1921 and I just fell in love and wanted to learn more and from there classic film got me into even older music and then I started collecting antiques and wanting to dress like all the old Hollywood ladies so I began collecting vintage, and history has been my passion ever since. My most recent collection I've started is antique/ vintage sheet music! I can't read it, but love the pictures lol. I can play some ukulele and can play around with guitar and keyboard, but I haven't quite committed myself to becoming a pro at it or anything. Trying to talk to my friends about my interests is crazy difficult because they're following the current music and movies and I'm over here just like "No I haven't heard the new Ariana Grande song" haha. Glad I've given you some hope! There are definitely some of us younger people out here who appreciate the art of times past!

It was probably this one, I saw it, it was pretty bad.

Boy that statement sure fits this household as well. MrTiki has subscribed to Netflix & HBOMax and I maybe watch one program a month between the two of them. And it's usually after searching for a specific title. Forget browsing, it only makes me depressed to see all the junk out there.

HOT SPELL (1958)