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MERLE OBERON I searched for a topic thread about MERLE OBERON, found none, and saw bits of her films yesterday and thought she warrants a thread. Unfortunately, there is only one film of hers that I particularly like, it was on late last night and I only watched a few minutes. BERLIN EXPRESS (1948) ...I had forgotten all about (maybe because I think of it as a ROBERT RYAN (hero) or PAUL LUKAS (hero) film). I had not realized the film was directed by JACQUES TOURNEUR... WUTHERING HEIGHTS was of course the film on at 8pm est. My older sister's favorite film, needless to say I've seen that one enough (though it has some great moments, awesome cast). Her personal story is complicated and remarkable.

Folks, folks, look what I found!! Fluffy 1965 - YouTube

Citizen Kane (1941) 1984 (1956) The Thrill of it All (1963) (Happy Soap) Imitation of Life (1934) The Great Gatsby (1974) Faces Places (2017)

From Russia With Love (1963) An Affair To Remember (1957)

I'm not very familiar with most of her movies, but, last night, I watched "Wuthering Heights," for the third or fourth time, primarily for her performance -- although I appreciate David Niven and Olivier more each go around. I was surprised to hear Ben M. say that Olivier wanted his wife, Vivian Leigh, to play the part. Fortunately she was busy making GWTW. I can easily picture Vivian Leigh playing those moments when Catherine was feeling greedy for pretty dresses and fine living, but I can't imagine her bringing the dark intensity that Oberon gave us during those wonderful romantic speeches. "Nellie, I am Heathcliff!" I think she's fabulous, I'll keep watching for more of her films.

I'm a big fan of Merle Oberon but the TCM line-up for her day was missing many of my favorite films and my favorite, The Scarlett Pimpernel was the first film so it was on way too early for me on the west coast. Films I wish TCM had shown are: These Three That Uncertain Feeling The Lodger A Song to Remember

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World State Fair National Lampoon's European Vacation

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY — lots of show billboards, including the scene that shows Eddie Foy reading the billboard for George Washington Jr SABOTEUR — Priscilla Lane is a billboard model BACK TO THE FUTURE

Leave It to Beaver Beaver gets stuck on the top of a billboard Good Neighbor Sam (1964) Darling (1965)

Smith, Esther, played by Judy Garland in "Meet Me in St. Louis"

I'll also give credit to Sharon for welcoming and embracing the subsequent meetings and conventions, making many appearances. No acting awards but gold stars for being a team player.

I'll always be grateful to Ted Turner too, for his love of classic film, for starting TCM, and either having the wisdom to hire Robert Osborne or the wisdom to hire the person who hired Robert. Ted didn't own TCM after the first two years, but Robert set it up for success for the next 20 years afterwards.

Not sure what that means. Criterion's streaming service has a much broader selection of foreign titles than anything I've seen on TCM.

(1967)

Sunday August 29, 2021 Ingrid Bergman Summer Under the Stars on TCM intermezzo journey to italy autumn sonata dr. jekyll and mr. hyde saratoga trunk gaslight casablanca anastasia arch of triumph goodbye again stromboli walpurgis night

I've never seen No Down Payment but your description of Tony Randall in it sounds similar to his character in the episode "Hangover" on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Randall portrayed an alcoholic Madison Avenue ad man whose boozing naturally (in a TAHH episode) leads to a nasty end. Randall delivered a superb dramatic performance, ably and admirably abetted by his co-star in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? -- Jayne Mansfield. *********** I attended a taping of The Odd Couple during which Randall (as "Felix Unger") pedagogically illustrated to me (and the studio audience, and, I think, "Oscar Madison") why one should never assume. . . . because you make an @$$ of "u" and me.

That is so very true. I am convinced that the reason foreign movies are held in such high regard in America is that the only ones which are shown here are the best-of-the-best and have good reviews internationally before being considered for release here. I can assure you that there are a few notable exceptions but most comedies made in Belgium in the 1940s and early 1950s were uniformly bad. No one speaks of them because they quite properly died in obscurity.

Why did you marry Frank?

Cripes MAT. TB was just being facetious and teasing with you a little. And to both of you I'll just say... REMEMBER. This is a thread created to posthumously celebrate the birthday of MARTHA RAYE. NOT a discussion of whose movies will be watched by anyone 50 years from now, or who made movies at what studio that TCM can't get rights to show. So let's celebrate this way.... Sepiatone

Truett, John--Tom Drake in "Meet Me In St Louis"

Now be fair TB! Raye was at Paramount in the 1930s and early 40s. There was one way to see films - in a theater. Nobody would own copies of films until VHS recorders in the late 1970s. Raye's films are owned by Universal today and some are on DVD and some are not. None of Cruise's films are going to be lost. Now humanity could cease to exist due to global warming and then nobody will be showing Cruise's films 50 years from now, but I think that's the only way that happens.

Do you think stars today like Tom Cruise, say "it's a shame I make all my most important films at Paramount. TCM won't be airing them 50 years from now!"

two thousand one hundred seventy-seventh category Billboards SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI (2017)

I also think that having Grayson Hall summon you incessantly by screaming "Sarah! Sarah! Come to me Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! Appear to me! Sarah!" gives one the jitters.

Quite an under-rated western with a very good performance by Alex Cord is A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die (1968). The U.S. distributors heavily edited the 118 minute original down to about 100 minutes. It could be argued that this actually makes the movie better as 2 hours is a pretty long sit for a western - but either version is worth watching (it's that good). Apart from the fine job done by Cord (really a competent actor and who did his own stunts), the movie has both Robert Ryan and Arthur Kennedy providing excellent support.

2. Susan Lucci - All My Children - Erica Kane 6. Donna Mills - Knots Landing- Abby Cunningham Ewing Sumner ( my favorite nighttime soap) 7. MacDonald Carey - Days of Our Lives - Dr. Tom Horton ( watched it in those years) 10. Mia Farrow - Peyton Place - Allison MacKenzie ( watched it when originally on tv) 11. Ryan O'Neal - Peyton Place - Rodney Harrington 12. Deidre Hall - Days of Our Lives - Dr. Marleana Evans 16. Dorothy Malone - Peyton Place - Constance Mackenzie -

If TCM ever becomes what AMC became, I'll cancel my cable. That's not an empty vow.

...and opera, as I'm sure you know. I used to enjoy watching Tony Randall on talk shows (it was said during a Bob Costas interview that Tony piled up innumerable hours on talk shows, maybe even hold the record).. He would occasionally sing a few bars of opera. He once told Dick Cavett the story of how Mahler was conducting the Liebestod and following the sensuously (erotic?) famous crescendo underwent the "complete experience" right there on the podium. This got a big laugh and Dick Cavett yelled out, "Wow!"

Sunday, August 29 Ingrid Berman SUTS 6 p.m. Casablanca (1942).

There seems to be a bizarre blend of shallow, gossipy, People Magazine-y "information" regarding a star's personal life during the intros and outros, existing incongruously alongside TCM's increasingly requisite stern and earnest Me-Too wokeness. Johnny Belinda started out with Ben telling us that Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres were in the midst of an affair during production. Why do we need to know this? And for Merle Oberon today, viewers were subjected to Mankiewicz revealing that the actress' mother was 12 years old at the time of her birth, adding "and her father was of course a criminal".

I was just looking at a list of Tony's films. I didn't know he was in Woody Allen's EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK. He plays The Operator. My post would probably be deleted or censored if I included his dialogue in the movie. (Dargo, I know you're laughing right now and thinking "What is Bronxie making all this fuss about 'keeping it clean'?")

Love Affair (1939)

Republican?

Olmstead, Barbara, played by Shirley Temple in "Honeymoon"

All correct. Thanks Peebs, since cinemaman has answered the rest it's his thread

THE LETTER (1940)

....... TB beat me

I think noir has become a marketing buzzword, but I don't think it started out that way, did it? I suppose Darwell was just at the mercy of her contract, part of the studio system assembly line to keep (studio-owned) theaters booked. There's a line from the song "Movies Were Movies" from the relatively unknown Jerry Herman musical Mack & Mabel, about Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett, that goes something like "No one pretended that what we were doing was art..." The song is sung by the Mack Sennett character in the musical. The song and musical were about the silent era of Hollywood, but I think it applies to much of Hollywood's history. Some of it is art, but a lot of it is just stuff to entertain and/or make money.

A very grounded, down-to-earth man as well and not caught up in the Hollywood/celebrity status cult (too much) and kept his private life private. He married his high school girlfriend from Tulsa and they stayed married until her death, and married a second time at age 75, and had two children by the second marriage. I always enjoyed his Tonight Show appearances, and apparently he was a guest more often than anyone else (105 appearances).

4. Esso

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l worked with Tony Randall a few times. I mentioned to him how much I liked 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, and that it wasn't shown that often. He was an erudite man and a great actor, with an appreciation for classical theater. He lived in the Beresford, up on 81st Street/Central Park West. The Beresford

Nanook of the North (1922) The Little Mermaid (1989) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)

God I love Angelique!

Well, either one is a better choice than KRIS KRISTOFFERSON playing The Ringo Kid in that '86 made-for-TV fiasco. Sepiatone

THE SHEIK (1921)

On Svengoolie tomorrow, August 28, 2021: Only five months after showing this film (March 27, 2021), Sven is screening it again. Maybe it's because yesterday was National Dog Day.

If I Was To Choose my favourite Randall Feature it would be 7 Faces of Dr Lao. Easily. With that said ive always liked all his work. Happy Birthday Barbara Eden.