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Lucille Ball as October Star of the Month. So they're sticking to a horror theme.

HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE AUNTIE MAME EASY LIVING (apartment in a hotel — I guess technically a hotel room but it’s a series of rooms meant to be lived in as an apartment) WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING — Peter’s swank apartment

Dial M for Murder (1954) The Seven Year Itch (1955) The Devil's Advocate (1997) In the Mood for Love (2008)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (look at George P.'s closet) The Thomas Crown Affair (with Steve McQueen) The Apartment (for me) The Owl and the Pussycat (George S.''s fiancee's residence - actually owned by her parents

Down With Love ever changing decor...Auntie Mame the apartment isn't much...but what a view!..Vertigo spacious, 2 story...Adam's Rib a little off the track...but what about the awful little apartment in Barefoot in the Park? Today, it's a single residence...and looks like this (it sold last year for over 18 million...)

The Awful Truth 1937 Day-Time Wife 1939 The Moon is Blue 1953 Pillow Talk 1959 The Courtship of Eddie's Father 1963 How to Murder Your Wife 1965 I Love You, Alice B Toklas 1968 Fatal Attraction 1987

There are a handful of actresses who are at the top. Along with the likes of Olivia de Havilland, and Giulietta Masina, I include Setsuko Hara. I first encountered her unknowingly in Tokyo Story (1953), where she plays the widow of the leading couple's son. I thought, what a lovely, touching performance, but remained unconscious of her as an actress. She burst-exploded-into my awareness in what turns out to be my favorite movie of hers, Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth (1946). She plays a talented, intelligent, yet proud, vain, and shallow girl who goes through many changes in character as she goes through World War II with family and friends. Kurosawa ends up portraying her something like a proletarian culture hero. But her best work undoubtedly was with Yasujiro Ozu. She plays in various movies women in different domestic situations. The best of these, to my thinking, is Late Spring (1949). In it she plays the devoted daughter of an aging widower, keeping house for him. Worried for her future, he urges her to marry. To convince her, he tells her he intends to remarry so she needn't feel obligated to remain home to take care of him. He completely misjudges her, it being a joy for her. In a performance that tears at the heart, Miss Hara portrays her feelings of uncomprehending betrayal, sacrifice, devotion, all under the calm surface of polite reserve required in Japanese society. Today is Setsuko Hara day.

So no one likes Redford's performance as reform-minded prison warden BRUBAKER (1980)? I thought he was pretty good as the warden fighting through a sea of human slime to make the jail a more civil place.

Frenzy (potato truck..) next--a lot of people crying

COME BLOW YOUR HORN

Great question! I delay watching a classic film that everyone else has seen so I can be sure to have a good viewing experience. In other words, no commercials or editing. Really good films are aired on AMC but they are so chopped up by so many annoying commercials that I avoid watching movies on this channel. I don't prefer watching movies on a computer either. My computer screen is not that big. The best possible situation is to see the classic movie at a theater where you are able to view the entire horizontal image, have good sound and the excitement of watching a film in the dark with an audience. Here in Chicago, there is a wonderful historic movie theater "The Music Box" which is a treasure because they play classic movies and even silent movies with live musical accompaniment. I saw the film "Vertigo" (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) again at The Music Box and it was like seeing a whole new movie. I'll try almost any genre of movie if it's really good with the exception of particularly violent horror films which I don't like.

Back to 1840: It really wasn't that bad a storyline. And I suspect it was designed to bring back the success of 1897 after the Leviathan dud. Viewers did like their supernatural shenanigans to be done in period costume! Plus, there were some good female roles: Virginia Vestoff, Kate Jackson, Kathy Cody.

It's Barbara Baxley's low-pitched voice that is so memorable. She did a ton of commercials over the years. Come to think of it, June Lockhart also has a very attractive voice. Baxley did more work on stage, though she picked up Warren Beatty (or vice versa) in All Fall Down and has a small part in Nashville.

Did Gerard drive Carolyn crazy by making her wear that knitted vest? And does what she's wearing under the vest almost match the curtains? Is this a "Miz Stoddard's portieres!" moment?

Sat., 8-21 (2 of my Hepburn favs.......& NOT aired often) 10:00 pm The Rainmaker (1956) 2h 1m | Drama | TV-G A fake rainmaker melts the heart of a Kansas spinster while trying to save the town's crop... Director Joseph Anthony Cast Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey Sun, August 22 12:15 am The Lion in Winter (1968) 2h 14m | Drama | TV-14 Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine celebrate Christmas together and battle for control of t... Director Anthony Harvey Cast Peter O'toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow

Powers, Lily -- played by Barbara Stanwyck in BABY FACE (1933)

"In Waikiki" -- Sung and danced by Ann Sheridan in Navy Blues (1941) Next: Sung on horseback

Dick Shawn

I don't know if this is true, but it's funny and harkens back to the days of so many soaps made in NYC: Anthony George, Grayson Hall and Nancy Barrett appear together in a "One Life To Live" scene and the writers were clever enough to have someone say "Haven't we met somewhere before?"

Mammy, played by Hattie McDaniel in "Gone with the Wind"

By the way, I saw The Boys in the Band off-Broadway with a replacement cast that included Don Briscoe as Donald (the intellectual one) and Christopher Bernau as Larry, the good-looking gotta-sleep-with-everyone guy. This was after Don Briscoe had started playing the werewolf and (I think) before Chris Bernau was cast as Philip Todd in the Leviathan story. Both were excellent, much better than the original actors in the play who were also in the movie version. I thought Frederick Crews was badly miscast as Donald, not conveying much in the way of intellect, and Keith Prentice wasn't in the same class as Bernau, who would go on to star in Guiding Light for a number of years. Prentice would be cast in the last Dark Shadows story.

Yes, Clint Ritchie. Great actor. David Canary also is featured in this film, around the time he started on Bonanza and years before he became a household name on All My Children.

two thousand one hundred sixty-ninth category A stylish apartment DESIGNING WOMAN (1957) LOVER COME BACK (1961) PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES (1964)

COLLINWOOD, 1897...Jesus Christ, it's STILL 1897... Summer is giving way to fall and my mind wanders as it does at this time of year. Time becomes meaningless, it dissolves, as though a tissue under a faucet. I'm on something of a sensory overload at the moment, and I'm having a hard time finding words. My fevered mind has been formulating all the meta-levels of stories and tales- not just within the series, but many of your wonderful stories about WATCHING THIS in the waning years of the 1960's and early ones of the 70's as the real life horrors of the world around you rendered those on the show quaint and compelling. the real DARK SHADOWS MOVIE should have been about the BEHIND THE SCENES MAKING OF THE SERIES, framed within the cultural impact it had on viewers- i can see scenes with a young man who leaves a Vietnam protest because it's almost 4:00 and he missed yesterday's episode and DIRK BIT THREE PEOPLE... ALSO PERIODIC SCENES of a little girl recapping Summer episodes for her Vacation Bible School classmates, and- of course- an opening scene of CHILDREN HAULING @SS HOME between 3:30 and 4:00 contrasted with COLLEGE KIDS, HOOKERS, HOP-HEADS and WHINOS who were JUST WAKING UP as the familiar THERAMIN STRAINS came across the tube. AND just as the different universes of the past and the present come into conflict on the fictional show, so too does THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION of THE ACTORS AND THE STORIES come into conflict with the ACTUAL DAY TO DAY BUSINESS of those making it- two entirely different worlds which exist, oddly enough, on the same planet.

skip to 3:20 in the video: (edit- I have no idea why the thumbnail for it makes it look like it doesn't play, it plays fine for me here)

On Svengoolie tomorrow, August 21, 2021:

Kudos to the wardrobe department. Nothing says crazy 49 year old cat lady spinster like the crocheted vest.

I finished reading "The Life and Death of Colin Clive" a few months ago. It was a very interesting bio that I'd strongly recommend to anyone who has any interest in Colin Clive. He was a tortured soul. His life was unhappy and he was a hopeless alcoholic. But he was brilliant in his roles as Captain Stanhope in "Journey's End" and as Dr. Frankenstein.

Thanks! I was looking at Spy Game (I think I remember when it came out) because it pairs Redford with Brad Pitt. If Redford ever makes another film, he should make one playing Brad Pitt's father.

I don't know if anyone's actually interested, but this is my Lucy collection. I am a big fan: Since this photo was taken, I've also acquired: Lured, Without Love, Meet the People, and Two Smart People. I also have a new book, Lucy Goes Home. Not pictured (because I didn't want to dig them out): My Hallmark I Love Lucy ornaments: "Lucy Gets Into Pictures," "LA at Last!," "Lucy is Enciente," and "Lucy Does a TV Commercial."

Have you seen Roger Livesey in one of his final wonderful roles, as the Duke of St. Bungay in 18 episodes of the miniseries The Pallisers? If not, you may enjoy this brief scene.

Intermezzo (1939)

Fleming, Rhonda

Continental Divide (1981)

"I'm an Ordinary Man" – Professor Higgins, My Fair Lady - brings a tear to the eye

Victoria Next: Constance, Joan and Richard

Auberjonois, Rene

Unless I've somehow overlooked their mention earlier, here's two more starring that other icon of the western genre, Gary Cooper, for consideration here. Both are excellent. (1940) Coop and Walter Brennan are terrific as the best of frenemies in this one. Coop's pentultimate western (1958) directed by Anthony Mann, and once again containing elements of a noir.

You didn't miss much! LOL. I saw it once, maybe last year.

What Price Hollywood? For Your Consideration Ed Wood Lady Killer (1933) Real Life

I didn't get that movie at all. It's one of those movies I'll give a second chance to when in the right mood. That's the film that made me love ROGER LIVESEY. I was already a fan of MICHAEL POWELL's films. Definitely give it another chance.

The Queen of Black Magic (1981) Indonesia/Dir: Liliek Sudjio - Supernatural revenge tale about a spurned woman (Suzzanna) who is accused of witchcraft by her fellow villagers. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger, she learns actual black magic spells in order to get vengeance against everyone. This was a major hit in its home country, and star Suzzanna achieved cult status. To a western viewer's eyes, the glimpses of Indonesian folk culture are fascinating, while the filmmaking is rather limited in technique and budget. It's entertaining, but also very goofy. It was remade in 2019. (6/10)

It's been done.

Everyone of the films mentioned are great and classics, I'dd add these great ones to the list The Searchers ( my fav) Red River The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid The Wild Bunch

The Big Country Next: Marilyn Maxwell

Pam Grier

Some of his movies get forgotten about, but are pretty good movies. The Hot Rock (1972) and Havana (1990) are good examples of that.

Try and find Spy Game for that double feature, but start with Three Days.

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) Italy/Dir: Massimo Dallamano - Giallo mystery set at an English girls' school. When students begin being murdered in gruesome ways, a philandering professor (Fabio Testi) becomes a suspect. He decides to look into the case to clear his name. Also with Karen Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbo, and Camille Keaton. The murders are exceptionally grisly, and the mystery a bit trickier than in the usual giallo, with a bit of social messaging in the solution. The cast is good, and the cinematography by Aristide Massaccesi looks nice. Massaccesi was also a noted director of many schlock films under the name Joe D'amato. The score by Ennio Morricone is excellent. Camille Keaton, who wordlessly plays the title character of Solange, later went on to star in the notorious I Spit on Your Grave. (7/10)