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Last night I watched TOUCH OF CLASS '73 for George Segal's SUTS day. This was a weird little comedy that I wanted to turn off once discovering it centered around adultery, not a funny subject to me. But the star performances of both principles absolutely sucked me in so I went with it. The story has several twists & turns, but you basically know how it's going to go. Segal is his typical charming self but oh Glenda Jackson-WOW! She has the same sharp featured gamine quality of Marsha Mason with a British accent. You can't take your eyes off her, such a natural performance. The biggest issue I had remaining on "comedic" level was the plot hole realization Jackson's 2 kids, dog, pets disappeared halfway through the movie. Unless I dozed off when their long absence was explained (it happens) One of my biggest LOL howls came seeing supporting actor Paul Sorvino on vacation wearing seersucker shorts, black knee socks & white loafers- a wardrobe describing the charactor hilariously. The movie had a satisfying ending, I'm glad I stuck with it. My Mother saw this movie on a date and when they returned the date kept saying how much my Mother (who was 43 at the time) resembled Glenda Jackson and I saw the similarities too. Jackson had retired from acting to serve in Parliament & she still looks great. Segal is a favorite in this household and it was great seeing him shine in a well written movie.

ELMER GANTRY (1960) Next: spiritual

Tallman, William

All the President's Men Next: Interracial relationships (doesn't have to be romantic)

Apache (1954) Fort Apache (1948) Apache Rose (1947) Apache Woman (1955)

This post isn't about something I watched, but something I'm listening to. Sirius XM has a pop-up channel that is rebroadcasting Lucille Ball's radio interview show from the mid-60s. I knew about this series, and had listened to a couple of episodes a few years ago. Apparently they will be playing all 240 episodes. Each episode is only 10 minutes long. Ball interviews her guests, most of whom are on several consecutive episodes, in a conversational style. Most guests are celebrities or connected with show business in some way, but occasionally there is a guest that is not connected with the business. Most have some project, show or film to push, but not always. Most of the interviews thus far deal more in their family life. In just an hour, I learned a few things I had not known, such as Cesar Romero having the nickname "Butch" (revealed on her interview with Ann Sothern), and that Robert Culp wrote the first few episodes of I Spy, but stopped for lack of time after they started filming, and that Eve Arden was in the process of writing a book about her family life that never made it to print (portions may have appeared in her 80s autobiography, though). It's a very casual show, most supposedly done from her house in Beverly Hills (occasionally I can hear ice clinking in glasses), and it's interesting to hear them talk about their then-current projects. I only wish they'd run them in sequential order.

I love this awesomely talented actress. Among the many movies I watch again and again starring Myrna Loy is Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. As the cool, calm Muriel Blandings she is the perfect counter to her excitable husband played by Cary Grant. In one way or another and to a lesser extent, most of us have experienced similar problems as the Blandings had sinking their money into a "dream house". This film is always funny. Recently, "The Best Years of Our Lives" was aired and that film is phenomenal. Loy is wonderful as the empathetic wife of returning WWII veteran Fredric March. Even when not speaking, Loy conveys what this character is thinking/feeling. Her portrayal helps you appreciate the strength it takes family members to support veterans returning from war.

Goldfinger was smuggling gold, Blofeld was doing that to diamonds. In fact, the earlier planning stages Gert Frobe was going to be brought back to play Goldfinger's twin brother. Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton was brought back to direct Diamonds Are Forever. They had Shirley Bassey sing the theme song Diamonds Are Forever, as she did for Goldfinger . The producers wanted to create the feel of Goldfinger and transport it to Diamonds Are Forever. The last films had a drop off in the box office. Goldfinger had an nuclear bomb set to destroy Fort Knox thus the economy . Blofeld wanted to use satellites with energy beams to extort the world. I hope this is what you are looking for. Thanks

Watched Mulholland Falls again to see if it was as good as I remember. It was. What I had forgotten was how good Dave Grusin's score is. It's got this haunting, hook similar to Farewell My Lovely. or Chinatown. Then I watched A Man Called Adam with Sammy Davis Jr. I thought what the hell, and DVR'd it earlier and this turned out to be one of those TCM surprises. The opening credits animation is genius and would make Saul Bass proud. It was created by John & Faith Hubley who went on to do many shorts for Sesame Street. I can't find the opening anywhere, but it's worth finding the movie for the credits alone. The movie is being labeled "Jazz Noir", ok why not. Plenty of jazz greats in the movie, the music is fantastic if you like brass. Mel Tormé plays himself and sings one. Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Nat Adderly (dubbing cornet for Sammy Davis Jr.), Vinny Golia, Paul Smoker, Adam Lane and Phil Haynes. Frank Sinatra Jr is in it too. Which is weird, but he doesn't ruin the movie although I kept waiting for him to. Also in the movie Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Lola Falana, Peter Lawford, Ja'net Dubois and Johnny Brown ( yep, Rerun from Good Times). I was fairly smashed when I saw this and I plan on watching it again soon. If I don't edit, I didn't change my mind. https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82552/a-man-called-adam/#overview

I have heard that the best reason for believing in an afterlife is so that you can say: "I told you so" to non-believers if you are right but they can not say it to you if they are right.

Excuse the interruption : just wanted to comment, the above clue is thematically very interesting. This might be worthy as a thread WHO WOULD YOU CAST... (but it won't be me who initiates it...be my guest) Two cents. Back to the fun, carry on!

Tangerine is a song written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.[1] Schertzinger was a director and wrote the song for his last film The Fleet is In (1941) This is a fine film with Dorthey Lamour, William Holden and introducing Betty Hutton. Schertzinger also wrote the song I Remember You for the film.

I hate autocorrect as well.

Flagg, Fannie

No, it’s Hoe. Fo sho. i know. edit- I looked it up, apparently either is acceptable, but I think since the word that is being abridged has an "e" on the end, adding the "e" to the two letters to make it three seems more grammatically accurate.

The Pawnbroker 1964

Bach, Catherine

THE I DON'T CARE GIRL (1953)

Geraldine Fitzgerald

6. Edith Evans was in The Chalk Garden 1964 in the role as Mrs. St . Maugham and she performed the same role on stage.

Nancy Coleman

Raymond Massey

Norma Rae Next: A Smooth Talker

Broken Arrow 1950 Battle At Apache Pass 1952 Arrowhead 1953 Duel at Diablo 1966 Chato's Land 1972

THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) Next: lots of people deal with a natural disaster

TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) Next: lots of politicians

I dunno. Maybe because all the actresses in that movie might had previously taken voice lessons from June Foray? (...just a guess here, of course)

Silvers, Phil

Reed, Robert

O'Hara, Maureen

He was the main character and did a remarkable job in my opinion. Really showcased his dramatic abilities showing he wasn't just a comedic song and dance man. Just wish other filmmakers would have noticed that too. It's a drama in the same vein as A Star is Born and Lost Weekend sorta kinda but unique enough to merit it's own discussion. It's harsh at times, starkly so. And at times it's tender, sad, angry and sweetly humorous. It's just a damn good movie. I watched this a while back when they showed it during their Cicely Tyson tribute. I wish I'd paid better attention to the schedule so I could have watched it again. If you're a fan of Sammy Davis Jr, Cicely Tyson, jazz or have an interest in the evolution of black cinema I would highly recommend watching this.

Windmills Of Your Mind - Noel Harrison ( Rex's son) - The Thomas Crown Affair ( the original one) song in an Abbott and Costello movie

I know, if there were, at least 2/3 of us would be barred from posting here. ps- WILL YOU SLACKERS AT TCM EVER GET THE FIRTUTUDE TO SHOW “HOT SPELL”? What do you animals have against Shirley Booth?!?!?!

I know this was a typo, but it has given me the most hilarious visual of the makers of “Mulholland falls” rolling up to Dave Grusin as he worked the corner of Santa Monica and Sweetzer Boulevards, rolling down the window, and holding out a $50 bill whilst asking “what will this get us?” ”incidentals and some mood music, but for $150, I can write an opening title score that’ll blow your mind baby.”

Sunday, August 8/9 Esther Williams SUTS 2 a.m. The Hoodlum Saint (1946). With William Powell.

I find it disappointing that they will not tackle the modern variant: "How much wind would a windbreaker break if a windbreaker could break wind." I suspect a commercial based on that would quickly go viral.

The Bad and the Beautiful Next: Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne & Johnny Mack Brown

Skyfall and Spectre?

Thanks, NoShear. Readership of Fleming's works really saw a marked increase when which President included which novel on his list of favorite books?

Saturday August 7, 2021 Abbott & Costello Summer Under the Stars on TCM africa screams ’49 jack and the beanstalk ’52 bud abbott and lou costello in hollywood ’45 rio rita ’42 lost in a harem ’41 ride ‘em cowboy ’42 the time of their lives '46 buck privates ’41 bud abbott and lou costello meet frankenstein ’48 abbott and costello meet the invisible man ’55 abbott and costello meet dr. jekyll and mr. hyde ’53 abbott and costello meet captain kidd ’52 mgm’s big parade of comedy ’64

I love the song Check to Check and was glad to see the song got some attention after Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett recorded it. Here is a version from Mundell Lowe; I took a few lessons from him. Very nice man.

Notorious 1946

Claude Rains

[Shall we say _______?] (i.e. "pistols at dawn") "Well, we can say it. I don't know what it means, but we can say it." Sometimes I will re-pose a person's question in the correct form, just so I can answer that way. Woody Allen - Love and Death

J Lee Thompson Richard Lester Guy Hamilton

(Emphasis added.) I don't disagree with most of what you say. The concept of "collective guilt" is problematic. But in response to your last paragraph, I think it's worth noting that the living experience of slavery -- and its concrete after-effects -- isn't quite so long ago. When I was born in the late 1950s, there were still at least a few people living who were born into slavery. There were also many children and grandchildren of formerly enslaved people living in our world then, which continues today. The effects of slavery on our society as a whole -- and especially on those people who had direct connections to slavery -- didn't simply disappear when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation or when the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery, was added to the Constitution right after the Civil War. Former slaves and their descendants in the southern US lived through a Jim Crow era that began immediately after the Civil War and stretched into the 1960s. Laws effectively stopped them from voting and prohibited them from living in the same neighborhoods and going to the same schools with white people, among other things. Several states had laws prohibiting interracial marriage into the 1960s. In the northern US, there were fewer Jim Crow laws, but discrimination was still rampant. Things like restrictive covenants kept white homeowners from selling their houses to black people. De facto segregation made many neighborhoods and schools either all white or all black. I experienced this myself -- I didn't live near or go to school with a single black person until I left the northern city I grew up in and went off to a more integrated college. This kind of segregation and discrimination began immediately after slavery was abolished, to keep the races separate and to maintain one race's control over the other. The situation didn't start to get better until the 1960s, and that process of improvement is still ongoing. I agree that it's problematic to hold someone personally responsible for things that happened long before they were born. But I do think we have a responsibility as a society to correct the lasting effects of slavery. We all benefit from improving our society.

Alexander's Ragtime Band and In Old Chicago Next: Madge Evans, Edith Fellows & Donald Meek

Love Before Breakfast (1936)