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Thanks to Robert Young day. It's Love Again (1936) may not be her best, but Jessie Matthews is always a delight to watch. A bubbly screen personality, melodious voice, and dancing chops combine to make a mesmerizing presence. One of the few movie stars in my constellation that can make any movie worth watching, and this is one of them. One note. Her dancing suffered something from the British choreographers she worked with. They were, let us say, a measure deficient in the snap and polish you get in Hollywood. It would be nice to see what she could have done with Hermes Pan.

My mom's as religious as they come but she had no problem watching DARK SHADOWS, she just saw it as harmless entertainment. Of course there were a lot of folks who were protesting the show because they felt it promoted 'devil worshipping'. A bunch of hogwash I'd say. The religious fanatics out there also had a beef with BEWITCHED around this time because they saw it as glorifying witchcraft (you know, 'the devil's tool').

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) To Have and Have Not (1944) Key Largo (1948) Separate Tables (1958) The Innocents (1961) Belle de Jour (1967) Shaft (1971) Walkabout (1971) Dirty Dancing (1987) Sister Act (1992) Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Winter's Bone (2010) It Follows (2014)

King Kong April in Paris Holiday Inn

The Maltese Falcon 1941 The Artist 2011

"Oh PRINCE of DARKNESS, I CALL UPON AND SUMMON THEE, deliver us, your worthy servants, A MESSAGE from YOUR REALM IN HELL!!!!!!- "WE interrupt DARK SHADOWS with AN ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT... PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON is about to deliver an address from THE OVAL OFFICE...."

I like her in all things but I love her very much in: Jewel Robbery (1932). One of my favorite of all time exchanges in any movie is when she is so perfectly offended: Robber: The last place anybody would think of looking for me is in your bedroom. Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: Oh, so you expect to stay here until morning? Robber: I'm forced to. Tomorrow the chase starts all over again. I must have a peaceful night. Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: A peaceful night ... in my bedroom?

Liza Minnelli also recorded a version of the song "Come Saturday Morning." It was the title track of her second studio album for A&M. Liza's recording includes some of her dialogue from The Sterile Cuckoo.

The Flintstones ( John Goodman Elizabeth Perkins Rosie O'Donnell) Rocky and Bullwinkle ( Rene Russo Robert De Niro Jason Alexander)

A Prairie Home Companion (2006) -- based on the radio program of same name; Kevin Kline as Guy Noir, [et al] Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) would become TV show Alice (1976-1985) -- Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt, Diane Ladd as Flo, Valerie Curtin as Vera, Vic Tayback as Mel The Aldrich Family radio program was source for a slew of Aldrich films -- Jackie Cooper then Jimmy Lydon as Henry Aldrich The Life of Riley (1949) -- William Bendix as Chester A. Riley -- was a radio program and a TV series (and a comic book)

Man those sneakers are THE WORST for your feet. Zero support. I stopped wearing those by time I was 25.

Indeed! A bona fide blonde bombshell! Baffling to me why Lara Parker did not blossom into a Major Star and why her acting career was, arguably, lackluster. According to the Internet Movie Database, Parker retired from acting and became a high school and college English teacher (!). Man, if I'd had Parker for a teacher, I'd have flunked her class just to take it again. And again. And again . . . .

Though Dark Shadows was, alas, gone by then, Watergate pre-empted the soaps for much too long. Speaking of Roger Davis as Dirk, he occasioned one of those great remarks that defines Dark Shadows. I happened to miss an episode and asked a friend what had happened. She said, "It was great today! Dirk bit three people!"

He was apparently very misogynistic as well. I read Joan Bennett wrote unflattering things about him in her bio, and if you **** off Mama Joan, you’re dead to me... His first wife was Jaclyn Smith and apparently he tried to get her a job on the show but she had a very thick Texas accent Apparently quite a few of the actresses in the show threatened to quit when attempts were made to pair them romantically with him Right now I’m at the part in the 1897 storyline where he is playing the caretaker Dirk who was entranced by Laura and then turned into a vampire by Barnabas and he is clearly on something...Uppers, downers, Dexys, peyote, regular unleaded – I don’t know maybe all of the above. But he is OBVIOUSLY HIGH AS A KITE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

This from a Sam Hall written piece included in one of Kathryn's books: "Dark Shadows certainly had the most attractive, the most talented, and often most neurotic, assembled company outside of a Hollywood studio. Among the neurotic was the too-handsome, too-intellectual actor, who arrived at work one day, went directly to the producer's office and sat in a waste basket refusing to move--a bad LSD trip." He doesn't name names....I wonder?

Also was reasonably successful for its brandname, albeit not THE biggest hit of summer '77. And, thanks to Jack Lemmon, probably the best of the trilogy, for those who feel a pang of sentiment seeing 70's 747 travel still being depicted as a jet-set luxury... 😔 Airport '75, however, is still TOO campy to be taken seriously, not just for Charlton Heston--or for not being able to watch Helen Reddy & Linda Blair without thinking of "Airplane"--but for Carol Burnett's parody that substituted Nora Desmond for Gloria Swanson:

Well, they do, problem is they don't STAY dead!

Incredibly attractive and a pretty good actress. Could have moved on to movies or had the primetime success of David Selby and Kate Jackson I would imagine. Only movie I saw her in was a prostitute in Jack Lemmon's "Save The Tiger", and she was good!

angelique really knew how to handle Barnabas. the allure of her beauty was matched by her seeming relentless evil but we all knew she loved him. her character was a portrait in evil, jealousy and yet a courage never giving up on the man she loved. hooray to angelique for her courage, steadfastness and grim determination.

The New Centurions (1972) A veteran street cop (George C Scott) shows the ropes to his rookie partner (Stacy Keach). A gritty look at police work, based on a book by ex policeman Joseph Wambaugh.

DAYTIME TV SUMMARIES, 1969: ANOTHER WORLD: Come sit with Ada for a cup of coffee at the kitchen table as she tells you about her problems with her wild child daughter Rachel. PEYTON PLACE- The town is scandalized when rumors that Allison once flashed an ankle to the Innkeeper emerge. DARK SHADOWS- ALL HAIL THE DARK LORD!!!!! Crack open your copies of the Necronomicon and get the goat‘s blood ready. By The light of the black candles Of BA’AL, today we will raise THE HORNED ONE from his palace in HELL (Close captioning for the hearing impaired.)

l did not know who she was until last night i recorded it because it was rare showing. what a surprise! A great dancer and tap dancer! A beautiful woman .A quite alluring costume for 1936! I read she was strongly considered for the A Damsel in Distress film they selected the non-dancing Joan Fontaine studio politics for sure she would have been terrific with Astaire

Good guess, NoShear! Yep. Super spy-ie stuff! Saltzman enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force shortly after the start of WWII, but his service there was short. He then joined the U.S. Office of Strategic Service where he was part of the Psychological Warfare Bureau. When Saltzman's daughter needed access to some of her father's records in the early 2000's, a simple request quickly became a protracted bureaucratic process. The heavily redacted documents she received required personal sign-off from then Secretary of State, Colin Powell, indicating that Saltzman's activities were still of a sensitive nature. Some researchers believe Fleming and Saltzman did not know each other during the war, while others believe they most certainly did. At any rate, it was this shared experience that made Fleming entrust Bond to Saltzman. Your turn, NoShear.

Oh my god! He got poked in the eye! Please stop! I can't breathe! Why don't they make movies like that anymore? But seriously folks ... While I didn't laugh at Aristophanes (probably because I don't know as much about life in ancient Greece as you do), Cervantes got me good several times in Don Quixote. I don't say no humor holds up, but it is an interesting question as to what holds up and why. The unexpected is often part of the reason. It was Keaton's secret. He'd set up an expectation of "A" happening, and the zap 'em with "B." Henny Youngman's jokes depended on that. ("I take my wife everywhere. She finds her way back.") Both Keaton and Youngman can still make me laugh, provided I haven't seen or heard them in a while. More recently the jokes in Dumb and Dumber were based on so called switches like that, a term I heard Bob Einstein ("Super Dave Osborn) use to describe a style, or form, of joke writing. The fact that we hear people laugh at something that has been around for a while and say, "It never gets old!" implies there are jokes that DO get old, (pies in the face were apparently once a real scream) even if, as is the case with the Stooges and me, they might retain a nostalgic charm, as in the "Niagara Falls' bit.

@AllHallowsDay: May I recommend the 1972 movie DEATH BED: The Bed That Eats. It wasn't fully completed for decades after it was made . . . but it was filmed at an estate in Michigan, I believe. DEATH BED: The Bed That Eats! Mmm . . . good human cracker! An' crunchy, too!

The Dead (1987) -- (Not arguably, this was John Huston's best film! What a way to go.) Next: Subtle political points

The White Buffalo 1977

I am not missWonderful [sic] hardly , nor Drago [sic], nor have seen any kittens ... ... but how about a brief Cause for Alarm redux . Simply, I like the way Loretta says, "Resigned?" She is so haggard at this point, she knows not what. Look at the way she escapes the room and throws herself against the wall. This scene with the loquacious aunt is my fave of the whole movie. No biggie, just a quick look back ... https://youtu.be/yNanUBPrSW0

4. The Prisoner of Zenda was adapted several other times including: In 1922 with Lewis Stone, 1952 with Stewart Granger, and 1979 with Peter Sellers.

Maureen O'Hara was indeed a beautiful lady and a fine actress. She starred in so many good movies. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was one of them. "The Parent Trap" (1961) was certainly another, and it's been one of my favorite films. Other favorites of mine include the lesser-known "Never To Love" - a remake of "Bill of Divorcement" with O'Hara in the Katharine Hepburn role, "Against All Flags", "Fire Over Africa (Malaga)", the original "Miracle on 34th Street" (it was a terrific treat when TCM aired it a year ago during her Summer Under the Stars day), and last but not least "Only The Lonely". I wish TCM would air "Only the Lonely". I'm surprised that TCM has never aired it, not even during her Star of the Month salutes nor during her Summer Under the Stars days either. It also features Anthony Quinn. Most importantly, it's one of her very best films, and it's her final film. It was the perfect swan song for her to star in.

King of Hearts (1966)

Don't Look Now (1973)

By the time you were 25, what was the rush. Reminds me of a Woody Allen joke. “There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."

Bewitched ( Nicole Kidman Will Farrell Shirley MacLaine Michael Caine ) I Spy ( Eddie Murphy Owen Wilson Famke Janssen ) Starsky and Hutch ( Owen Wilson Ben Stiller) Maverick ( Mel Gibson Jodie Foster James Garner)

A couple blocks west of the Chaplin Studios (was A&M Records, now Jim Henson Company) on La Brea, there's a group of small bungalows where Chaplin and other stars lived while working at the studios. They are known as The Chaplin Cottages 1328 N. Formosa Ave. For a while I lived between the two locations and at that time there were 4 or 5 more cottages that were smaller and considerably more dilapidated. They didn't survive but this group has been refurbished and available for rent. One of them is listed on AirBNB. Chaplin built a couple more, The Charlie Hotel at 819 N. Sweetzer Ave. and the Normandie Towers at 7219 Hampton Ave. The list of names who lived and partied at these locations reads like an early Hollywood who's who. More info; https://patch.com/california/westhollywood/charlie-chaplin-s-courtyard-cottages-leave-their-mark-west-hollywood https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9363080?source_impression_id=p3_1629151230_X5BUX2NwtEKYSKK%2B&guests=1&adults=1

Home of Alfred Hitchcock "Hello ladies and gentlemen. Here we are, with a perfectly normal looking house in a perfectly normal looking part of the country. You wouldn't suspect that a murder has been committed here, would you? Now I . . ." "Alfred! Get in here! Your supper's getting cold!"

I'm not a huge fan either. I liked him in Virginia Woolf, Spy and Iguana well enough - but not much else. I find him pretty boring - even when he's deliberately aggravating as in Look Back in Anger.

I watched Lightning Strikes Twice (1951), last night on MOVIES-TV Sunday night noir. More of a drama than a noir, this Ruth Roman \ Richard Todd film also cast the crazy good at being crazy Mercedes McCambridge. SPOILER ALERT: The film has Darryl Hickman as Mercedes younger brother. This guy appears to have issue with his relatives. If it isn't a sister-in-law in Leave Her to Heaven its his own sister in Lightning Strikes Twice!

The Swarm (2020) France/Dir: Just Philippot - Uneven blend of family drama and nature-gone-wrong horror, with a widow (Suliane Brahim) struggling to support her two children by running a farm breeding locusts to be used for food. As she begins to give up hope of ever making a profit, she discovers that the locusts thrive when fed blood, and the more the better, setting in motion an escalating series of horrific events. The performances by Brahim as the mother and Marie Narbonne as her rebellious teenage daughter are good, and the film is well shot. However, the story seems reluctant to go full-tilt horror or embrace the absurdities of its premise, so the end result is a bit underwhelming. (6/10)

For the longest time I put off watching CITIZEN KANE, wondering whether or not it lives up to its hype as a classic. I finally realized I needed to see what all the fuss was about and sat down and watched it one day, and I was AMAZED by it. I found it deserved its well-regarded reputation and only wished I had gotten around to have seen it much sooner. But better late than never.

The Game (1997) Next: A Perfect Murder (1998) -- two with Michael Douglas from the '90's

THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963) last night on TBS I think starting at 3am it ran until 4:15am but I conked out at about 3:45... I've seen it before, it's dreadfully dull... yet, I have become interested in the "estate" it was filmed at (fascinating... with a BRICK pool...?) but most of all I hadn't realized I had been looking at MARIE WINDSOR the first time or two I'd seen this fascinating BORE.

Capitolfest, Saturday, August 14 The Pursuit of Happiness (Paramount, 1934): A last-minute addition to the schedule, and a pleasant surprise. The Last Card (Metro, 1921): The sort of far-fetched melodrama that given silent drama a bad name. So This Is Eden (Hoover Company, 1927): A proto-infomercial/soap opera, in which a vacuum cleaner salesman saves the day. The River Pirate (Fox, 1928): A well-made crime drama, but I can't be bothered to write more about it. Her Wedding Night (Paramount, 1930): Another highlight of Capitolfest. Duck Soup (Roach/Pathe, 1927): Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy aren't quite yet Laurel & Hardy, comedy powerhouse, but it's within sight. Wandering Fires (Arrow, 1925) John Barrymore Technicolor Test for Hamlet (1933): Barrymore looks too old to modern audiences, who are accustomed to philosophy grad student Hamlets. But if he had made this film he probably would have shaped 20th-century audiences' ideas of what the character should be.

6. George Cukor directed a few scenes for Cromwell, one scene was with Madeleine Carroll

Call of the Wild (1935)

Lynn, Betty

I like learning the "whatever happened to ..." information about people. You just happened to have found yourself with a group that included sadder ends than most. The director, I discovered, lived to be 92! So that's something positive.

Klaatu--Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still

Cause it was a bit boring.

There was another thread about him, right? I think I posted on it. I don't watch TCM a lot during baseball season, so I hadn't noticed the absence of a TCM Remembers spot for Beatty. If this is the case, it is indeed a critical oversight.