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On the Waterfront (1954) The Pajama Game (1957) Blue Collar (1978) Silkwood (1983) The Killing Floor (1984) Hoffa (1992) Bread and Roses (2000) Made in Dagenham (2010)

Joe DiMaggio's mother? Who died in 1951? Talk about long distance!

Reds (1981) The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) F.I.S.T. (1978)

Movies where we sing about unionization and strikes— NEWSIES PAJAMA GAME BOUND FOR GLORY

To answer this question I am recasting the female leads of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) as Tiffany Case: the stunning, electric Pam Grier as Plenty O'Toole: the exotic and alluring Lainie Kazan next: Who would you cast as James Bond if your film was made in the 1950's?

George C Scott and Stanley Kubrick playing chess on the set of Dr Strangelove

Abraham Lincoln (1930) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) How the West Was Won (1962)

Spring Reunion (1957)

Union Depot (1932)

Norma Rae (1979)

Last night I finished IF IT'S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE BELGUIM '69. The movie is just comedy fluff sort of in the same vein as Mad Mad World-kind of slapstick & silly with the thinnest of plot mostly held together by great performances of charactor actors/comedians. The 99 minute movie is about a tour bus of Americans traveling through Europe guided by a cheeky British playboy who has a girl in every stop of the tour. These lovelies are only seen briefly and add a bit of comedy just by being a distraction-these cameos include Joan Collins, Anita Ekberg, Virna Lisi, etc-ALL looking fabulous wearing incredible fashions of the day. The story revolves around Suzanne Pleshette's European tour to mull over marriage, the only non comedic charactor being pursued by the playboy tour guide played by Ian McShane ( still actively working) I've always thought Pleshette was beautiful, but she's never looked as great as she does in this film-her various 60's hair-dos & costuming are just adorable, topping off with that smoky voice. There's a subplot of a teen girl on the tour who meets up with an American boy and their wild youth costuming is also fabulous. The principle tour group includes hilarious Peggy Cass, Mildred Natwick (whom I mistakenly thought was British) Norman Fell, Marty Ingalls and Michael Constantine. There were several others I recognized, but simply forgotten through time like Aubrey Morris, Reva Rose & Sandy Baron. While I generally like Marty Ingalls, his charactor was annoyingly obnoxious as a girl chaser. And most of the "running jokes" like the couple separated from the wife getting on the wrong bus were forgettable. Mike Constantine's charactor kept referring to "being there during the war" and his scene reconnecting with his love Gina was actually very heartfelt & sweet. This movie is a visual feast between the 60's costuming & the exotic scenery, but mostly it's a simple lighthearted fluff. There were several scenes employing rapid fire cut edits supposedly for comedic value but just came across as **** & horrifying. This movie hasn't aged well, but I found enough to enjoy it OK. (the "adult" sticker on the poster means it's from Canada)

My husband was one of the ballistic experts involved in the Warren Commission. His opinion was Oswald never could have fired the fatal shot.

The Great Escape 1963

MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)

Gilda Radner

LOL Neither the"like" or "sad" were appropriate your post covered a lot of ground. Peggy Cass was cute, funny and had a really funny voice. And who doesn't like saying her funny name? Bette Midler has taken Cass' type. I thought Marty was a cool guy, I love his kooky relationship with serene opposite Shirley Jones. So sad he's gone. There was no shortage of close ups with beautiful lighting on her in this movie. The opening of the film (Tuesday/Belguim) made me LOL: a montage of vaccines, needles, people getting shots in their arms....for what? to travel overseas? Really? I was so glad that was illustrated as being the norm for decades. Why are people freaking out NOW about having to get vaccines & show proof for travel? Aren't you GLAD there have always been restrictions to keep deadly viruses from spreading?

"maw" and "mean" "mein" come to mind too. Don't know what ****was supposed to be. Sepiatone

Did you see Chaz P. in the L&O Organized Crime Unit as the villains father? He is also in The Usual Suspects (which I can't watch because of Kevin Spacey). I saw A Bronx Tale and it was a pretty good movie. A Stranger Among Us wasn't bad (but she had a good director). I always confuse Mulholland Falls with Mulholland Drive (which put Naomi Watts on the path to stardom). Mullholland drive made me squeamish and in need of a shower. But then, when Twin Peaks was on TV, after several seasons, it seems to have lost its way.

You seem to have some sort of voice fetish. You must run up quite a bill from calling all those 900 numbers, eh? One study by a major network news department in the late '60's arrived at the same conclusion when they tried recreating the assassination from the same window at the book depository and with the same rifle used by a marine marksman with a higher ranking than Oswald( who fellow marines at the time claimed couldn't hit his foot using a scope). and it was found that neither the marine or the rifle was capable of getting off three shots at the same speed and accuracy that Oswald was claimed to have done. One thing I question is why, in the mid '90's, was there such a surge in the insistence on claiming and proving Oswald was the lone assassin when people in general quit really caring or even thinking about the assassination. ABC even had a technician who claimed he used a computer to prove Oswald was the lone assassin, but my daughter(a computer tech too) said it wouldn't be hard to have a computer prove that ELMER FUDD was the lone Kennedy assassin. Sepiatone

C. Aubrey Smith Next: CRASH LANDING (2005)

I wondered if it'd be OK to look for "something good" in the intended spelling rather than the given mis-spelling. I decided it was probably a trick to see how well we followed directions and went with the mis-spelled version.

In his book "The Films Of The Sixties" Douglas Brode says 1960s cinema got started with this one: La Dolce Vita (1960)

And being the half-Polish super-nerd that I am, you've inspired me to take a crack at "Mankiewicz" myself (relevant words in bold): ace, aim, Amen, amine, anew, anime, cake, cam, came, can, cane, caw, cinema, ice, iceman, ink, kin, kiwi, mace, main, maize, make, man, mane, men, mew, mic, mice, mince, mine, mini, mink, name, neck, new, nice, nick, wake, wan, wane, ****, weak, wick, win, wince, wine, wink, wiz, wizen 🙂

You left out the famous 1964 film "A Shot In the Dark" with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau who believes an extremely guilty looking murder suspect is innocent. Also (1941) A Shot In the Dark - "Homicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders." You said there were several movies similar to the 1935 film, but I find these two different enough to list them separately.

OMG, I forgot all about DUNSTON CHECKS IN. Also, if I may kindly offer a correction, the title is actually TWO MUCH, not TOO MUCH. (apparently the makers missed no chance to be stupid.)

Yeah, those are all good ones to ask too Vautrin, but I think I'd first ask why the expression isn't "Heels over Head" and when the other way around is pretty much the normal everyday and non-excited state of being for most people, and THEN I'd ask all those other questions of St. Peter. (...or once again, of that other guy down there)

He went into the online home decor business and word is he's making a pretty good living at it, Sepia. Sure, while surfin' the net, don't tell me you've never come across..ahem...."Ken's Wahl Art .com"?! (...btw, didn't ya always love those old Peabody and Sherman cartoons as a kid?...guess you can tell I always did anyway, can't ya)

I like your comments here. However, not to be argumentative, but Frank Sinatra was so much more than "a thespian who could carry a tune". That's an understatement ! Sinatra is often regarded as the best singer of the 20th century, certainly a contender for best popular singer ( as opposed to opera and other classical style singing....) He is on a level far removed from actors like Dennis Morgan ( and even Howard Keel.) And his acting skills played into his recordings. He does so much more than "carry a tune", he sounds as though he lives the songs he sings, maybe that's where the acting comes in, he makes every song a little drama ( or comedy, or love story, whatever the lyrics require.) Plus, not only did he have a great voice , and not only did he use it to powerful dramatic effect in his music, but many other singers and musicians have commented on his phrasing, which was inventive and unique. In fact, Miles Davis admired Frank Sinatra's phrasing so much, he imitated it in his own playing. Sorry, I didn't mean to jump on you like that, I'm sure you were just observing that Sinatra was a good actor who was also a singer. I guess I was just saying, it's more the other way around, he was a great singer who was also a good actor. EDIT: I posted the above before I saw Laffite's post, which basically says the same thing but is less verbose.

BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (1965)

The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)

That she had much drugs in her is an argument for murder. She was so plied with drugs that she would have died before she could even get that much in her body. So she got some help with that. She had threatened to cry havoc on the Kennedy's. It would be a mistake to think they murdered her. More likely that somewhat did it on their behalf, possibly without any consent from the Kennedys (a nod and a wink?).. Political operative or some such who did it simply because it was in the best interest of the Kennedy's. I am not one for conspiracy theory. I never believe in them. Except here.

White Feather, 1955 Next: Robert Wagner

A number of years after her death, a remodel of the house revealed a pretty substantial network of wiring, suggesting the house had been bugged on at least a couple of separate occasions. Exactly who was listening and what they heard is unknown. But the idea that tapes exist (existed) isn't a ridiculous one to entertain. It's probably the only way the whole thing could be put to rest. There was activity at the house well before the police arrived, specifically her psychiatrist, physician and the ubiquitous housekeeper who was busily running the washer and dryer. Whether they were simply doing light rearrangements out of respect for their client or were doing something akin to a coverup is the subject of speculation. I followed all of the twists and turns for years (same with the Kennedy assassination.) until so many shaky theories started to muddy the waters that it became pretty pointless. There was a Kennedy book which claimed to "prove" that a Secret Service guy in the motorcade somehow managed to fire the fatal shot, the kind of easily dismissible theory which has the effect of throwing all theories into question, which may have been the intent. The same with some of the writing about Marilyn's death, especially the supermarket tabloid stuff in the 70's and 80's. I'm resigned to dying without ever knowing what really happened, so I just focus on what she was able to achieve in her lifetime.

According to the moviecollectoroh.com database, "Hatari" has been shown 16 times on TCM, but the last airing came in February, 2007.

STAR OF MIDNIGHT THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS THROW A SADDLE ON A STAR THE NORTH STAR STAR PACKER LONE STAR

I'm fine with labeling Roberts THE session guitarist of his era. He also founded the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood. I saw Roberts live many times in West Hollywood jazz clubs. It was a common joke among jazz musicians and jazz fans that Roberts would let-his-hair-down in these clubs; I.e. really let loose with his jazz chops since his-day-job was playing a lot of commercial, corny, session music. Roberts was signed by Capital and made a lot of pop-jazz albums. I call these pop-jazz since the songs were mostly pop songs and ran < 3-4 minutes. Later in his career Roberts put out an album called The Real Howard Roberts; This was straight ahead jazz like the type I saw him play in those clubs. Roberts was a top notch jazz guitarist but he was also a business man which is rare for jazz musicians.

Whether it's good or not is subjective but I found this in Mankewitz. zit, Mike, Zeta, ink, Make, intake, inmate, maize, Minke, anime, mink, wink, wake, weak, Twain, tweak, There's gotta be more but this is pretty good.

Yes, but DO "two wrongs make a right", Vautrin??? (...and now of course, this is where YOU say, "No, but three rights do make a left")

The radio program i listened to last night said that Joe DiMaggio's mother was on the phone with Marilyn when attackers came into her house and that she knows the truth of who it was but was too afraid to speak out. I tend to question most things i hear on this program.

Caprice (1967) Odd pairing of Richard Harris & Doris Day

A Patch of Blue (1965)

Pinocchio--When You Wish Upon a Star opening of It's A Wonderful Life--'stars' are talking about George...little star Clarence zips in swirling stars above character- universal cartoon language for head injury and at MGM:

PETER PAN — “Second star to the right and straight on til morning”

Wall-E (2008) A Beautiful Mind (2001) stargazing Stars in My Crown (1950) Star! (1968)

From August 4-6, 1921, the feature at the Poli was What’s a Wife Worth? starring Casson Ferguson as Bruce Morrison, Ruth Renick as Jane Penfield, and Virginia Caldwell as Rose Kendall. The film was released in March of 1921 at six reels, and is presumed lost. Plot: Bruce Morrison, the son of a wealthy man, quarrels with his father. His father has conspired with Jane Penfield, a society woman, to marry his son. But Bruce then marries Rose Kendall, a village girl. With his father gravely ill, Bruce does not tell him about the marriage. So Bruce hides his bride in the house, all the while holding lavish parties. When Jane’s brother Murray learns that Bruce is married, he receives money to keep quiet. But Murray fills Rose’s head with lies about Bruce, which causes her to run away. Bruce abandons hope of finding her. In order to please his father, he gets a divorce on grounds of desertion, and marries Jane. This leads to an unhappy marriage. Bruce wishes to start a family. But Jane is more interested in her dog than in bearing a child. Jane eventually has a child, but shows no emotion when it dies. The marriage begins to crumble. Meanwhile, Rose has gone to work, and has a child. She cannot care for it, and she gives it up to a wealthy couple, not knowing it is Bruce and Jane. Bruce’s father is deceived into thinking this child is Jane’s. But Rose’s maternal love forces her to claim her child, and Bruce and Rose are brought face to face. The two are then reconciled. Wid’s Daily was negative on the film, writing “there isn’t enough material to the story to make so long a picture … as it is constant repetition of the same sort of events loses through over work.” Motion Picture News remarked that “the picture is pitched in a morbid key with nary a balancing note of humor or contrast.” Still, there is evidence that filmgoers enjoyed the movie. J. E. Stocker, of the Myrtle Theatre in Detroit, wrote “the critics were not very enthusiastic about this picture, but my patrons had a different story to tell. I never heard more sincere praise of a picture than on this one. I ran it for two days to above average business.” A. E. Johnson, of the Orpheum Theatre in Waycross, GA, added “one of the best pictures yet. Pleased our audience 100 per cent. We want more like it.” When the film played at the Schade Theatre in Sandusky, Ohio, owner George Schade used a large cutout on his canopy. The clever advertisement contrasts the two wives. At left is Virginia Caldwell (Jane Penfield) holding a dog, and at right is Ruth Renick (Rose Kendall) holding her child: The lead act on the Poli’s bill was the pairing of Claire Whitney and Robert Emmett Keane in the vaudeville show “The Gossipy Sex.” Whitney, already an established screen actress, married Keane in 1921. This was her second marriage, after a disastrous first marriage to John Sunderland. Sunderland had claimed to be a Belgian aviator, but in reality, already had a wife and family. He was eventually deported as an “undesirable.” Whitney’s marriage to Keane, who would later do character parts in films, was successful, and lasted until her death in 1969. In a 1923 interview, Whitney discussed the secret of her happy marriage, remarking “We just figured out the little things that go to wreck a home and we avoid them. The first cloud in the average happy home gathers over the breakfast table when hubby hides behind his paper, ignores wifey’s plea for a little pin money, and then growls about the coffee. So we just decided never to have breakfast together. … And then we found that most stage couples come to a parting of the ways in their dressing rooms – over some petty remarks made on the way off stage. Acts will go wrong at times. Every actor and actress has his off days. So we just decided that we would not speak to each other for five minutes after the curtain goes down on our act.” Whitney’s photo at the IMDb is highly unflattering, showing her late in her acting career, and hiding her beauty. I much prefer the photo below:

Wednesday, August 4 Louis Armstrong SUTS 8 p.m. Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong (1989). Repeated at 2 a.m.

Yea, what got me this time was the transition from "witch" to "human". Her overall screen persona was a good fit for a cold, can't cry, can't fall in love, "witch". In the scenes where she does fall in love, cries, and thus loses her powers and is now "human", the transition was real to me and touching. Hey, it worked on the Steward character (he loved her and no love potion was involved), and it worked on me as well.

"And Her Mother Came Too"-- Gosford Park--Ivor Novello Next: Song from a French movie-- (This time not the great Michel Legrand.)

I have to chide you here. As you surely know he was a singer before he was a thespian. In fact, he is not by rights a thespian. He is a singer who crossed over into movies. To say that Frank Sinatra could carry a tune is the understatement of the century. I don't know how old you are but Frank Sinatra is considered King of Pop in the middle of the last century.