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2 of the Thirteen Women early Hitchcock talkie, Murder! (1930) Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

Under the Big Top (1938) Circus Girl (1937) Swing High (1930)

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

You do know you can either--- Put in a disc or a tape( if you still have and can play those) or... Choose one of the other 200+ channels availed to you. Then you can avoid all the Lucy or Kate films you want. I like both Kate and Lucy ("LOVE" Lucy, actually ) And anything Lucy did early on( won't get into the late career MAME) but not all of Kate's roles. But that's more or less the way it is with just about every actor and actress. I still feel it's too bad the studio suits were so short-sighted as far as Lucy was concerned. She(to me) was way more talented and beautiful than they gave her credit for. Sepiatone

At the Circus (1939) - Harpo Marx

Kate & Lucy were life-long friends. They both appeared in STAGE DOOR (1937) and WITHOUT LOVE (1945). Lucy's granddaughter was named after her-- Katharine Luckinbill, daughter of Lucie Arnaz & Laurence Luckinbill.

note- I say this as someone with no musical talent whatsoever... But scoring movies is a tricky enough business, REscoring them (or adding a score or music where it has been absent or for copyright issues) is really, to paraphrase MARTIN SCORCESE in that old TCM LETTERBOX PROMO "essentially REDIRECTING a movie." you can really change the whole tone with music, and if it doesn't "fit" with the action/dialogue, it's really noticeable. ...and in the case of a composer rescoring a film where everyone involved is dead and has no say-so, you're giving someone a looooooooooooooot of license with other people's work in a way that makes me squeemish.

ALWAYS Keep The Gun Pointed In A Safe Direction ALWAYS Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Ready To Shoot ALWAYS Keep The Gun Unloaded Until Ready To Use These THREE (NRA) Rules are what save lives. Alec Baldwin should have KNOWN this. It is well known that Alec Baldwin is an Anti-Gun Person. He has a RIGHT to his opinion in this country. HOWEVER, NO MATTER WHAT, If you are handling a Firearm then YOU are RESPONSIBLE for what comes out of it. There is NO EXCUSE when handling Firearms. For example: If I was defending myself with a Firearm no matter how 'In the Right' I was, then I am still RESPONSIBLE for each and every bullet that comes out of it. I could have cameras recording and many people witnessing me defend myself and I fired the weapon and one or more of the bullets missed the person attacking me and then I hit an innocent bystander then 'I' am RESPONSIBLE. If I killed an innocent bystander then 'I' could be charged for manslaughter. I do not care what is being said in the news about Hot & Cold guns. Or who handed over said firearm to whomever. The RESPONSIBLITY always falls to the person holding the weapon. No matter what. Alec Baldwin did NOT check the firearm and Alec Baldwin Pulled the Trigger. I hope he mans up and takes RESPONSIBILITY for his own actions and doesn't try to weasel out of this.

Cleopatra from Freaks (1933) The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934) Big Top Bunny (1951) Circus World (1964)

I am also a collector of vintage hats! In fact, I am actually wearing one today. My office allowed us to wear Halloween costumes today and since I don't have a Halloween costume, I wore my 1940's outfit that I usually wear to swing/jazz concerts. It was an excuse to wear it, after all. Were it socially acceptable, I would dress in 1930's - 1940's fashion every day, to be sure. I love hats, though. Nowadays I wear a wide brim wool fedora-esque hat quite often. Back in college, I used to wear my vintage hats to my classes and just around. For some reason I stopped doing so, but perhaps I should return to the practice. Someday I want to wear my straw skimmer out somewhere, as that's my favorite piece in my collection.

Trapeze, 1956 Burt Lancaster Tony Curtis Gina Lollobrigida

Here is my "Universal" edition, with scenes restored from the 1925 cut:

I like how they ended the documentary with the names of the people whom Laemmle helped flee to North America.

I must correct myself - TCM is using the 'Alloy Orchestra' track. (I thought that since it is so heavy on keyboards it must be the 'theatre organ' track. Thanks MCOH for the info.) Use of the Alloy Orchestra track is confirmed by a YT clip of the unmasking scene from the Kino blu-ray, which matches the WatchTCM audio: (The unmasking scene is around the 38 minute mark on WatchTCM if you want to compare.)

Lorna - I'm no music aficionado, but out of curiosity I played some of Phantom on Watch TCM, including where Carlotta sings and the chandelier drops. The score is no Carl Davis creation, but it changes mood with the film and definitely does not sound like a Casio demo. There were two scores for this film. Could it be that Watch TCM has the score they did not broadcast last night? When you have time you might look at it on Watch TCM and see if the score is different from what you heard. This sounds like it could be the Alloy Orchestra.

"You Forgot the Colour Film" Sorry to dog you with another gray response today, SweetSue:

Moulin Rouge

Yes!! I'll be cheering you on. You've got this🙌

That is awesome! I have a lot of respect for people like you who freely express themselves. People nowadays are doing great work by being themselves without concern of what others think. Personally, I feel I am lagging behind in that area. Slowly I am trying to overcome my unhelpful negative programming about needing to look "normal" and not draw attention to myself. I appreciate your encouragement. I've been meaning to redo my wardrobe for a while. Maybe it is finally time. As soon as I can go clothes shopping again, I'm going to go hunting in vintage shops.

Wings of Desire (1987)

Dressing vintage isn't even a costume for me anymore it's just part of who I am lol. I highly recommend wearing what you want, I've stopped caring about what's socially acceptable. In high school I wore 20s-40s outfits with cloche hats and everything and while there were people who gave me weird or mean looks, a lot of the feedback I got was positive! (thank god) Now it's just a matter of what era I'm feeling cause one day I'll leave the house dressed like its the 20s/30s and the next like its the 60s/70s, just depends on the mood😂 So yeah, I'm a big advocate for just saying screw it and wear whatever you want!

TCM has only shown the myriad versions of the Eastman House print, which was a silent version of the talkie reissue. The most recent airing ran 79 minutes at 24fps. BTW - here's my Phantom tribute page: http://www.chelsearialtostudios.com/phantom/phantom.htm

Batman Forever

I remember not wanting to see The Godfather because of the scene with John Marley and the horse's head. Several noir films can cause nightmares (like The Boston Strangler or the one about the lipstick killer (Barrymore's son played the killer) The Bone Collector is quite scary. As for TV, To Serve Man (it is a cookbook!) scares me

The Monster (1925) -- Lon Chaney The Monster Walks (1932) -- it was a dark and stormy night..... The Human Monster [The Dark Eyes of London] (1939) -- Bela Lugosi Bride of the Monster (1955) -- Bela Lugosi The Monolith Monsters (1957) Man Made Monster (1941) The Monster Maker (1944) -- look out, a virus! Monster a Go-Go (1965) -- it's awful, but in a good way Monster-In-Law (2005) Little Monsters (1989)

Sometimes restorations of silent films feature new scores, which is generally a shame, although it may allow for a new copyright. I had been looking forward to watching Piccadilly (1929), but the new score was so awful I couldn't watch it. On the other hand, the Carmine Coppola score for Abel Gance's Napoleon is brilliant, an amalgam of classics and new scoring. I prefer it to the Carl Davis version. (I don't think Gance particularly liked the original score, by Arthur Honegger.)

Here are the TCM premieres for November, as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database. Notes: - The dates shown are based on a programming day starting at 6 am ET and running past midnight. - Shorts and cartoons are listed separately. Feature Films Nov 5 - Taking Tiger Mountain (1983) Nov 6 - Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) Nov 6 - Blondie in Society (1941) Nov 6 - Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) Nov 7 - Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) Nov 7 - Sword of the Beast (1965) Nov 10 - Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939) Nov 13 - One False Move (1991) Nov 14 - The Baker's Wife (1938) Nov 16 - Listen to a Stranger (1973) (doc.) Nov 16 - Flavio (1961) (doc.) Nov 19 - King of Cool (2020) (doc.) (also shown on 20th and 26th) Nov 19 - The Loveless (1982) Nov 21 - The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Nov 23 - The Man in Grey (1943) Nov 23 - Leadbelly (1976) Nov 23 - Solomon Northrup's Odyssey (1984) Nov 23 - Gordon Parks: Moments Without Proper Names (1988) (doc.) Nov 24 - Where the Lilies Bloom (1974) Nov 26 - Lust in the Dust (1984) Shorts Nov 13 - That Goes Double (1932) Cartoons Nov 6 - MGM: Scat Cats (1957) Nov 6 - Popeye: Popeye's Premiere (1949) Nov 13 - Popeye: Lumberjack and Jill (1949) Nov 20 - Popeye: Hot Air Aces (1949) Thanks as always to MCOH!

When we purchased our 1st HD television set in 2004 there were very few High Definition shows on the air back then. The Masters was one of those very few. It was just drop dead gorgeous to view this back then. My wife and I researched the best HD television for the money in 2004. We settled on the Sony KV-34HS510 34", 201 lb, CRT television set. It was the 2nd best TV that Sony produced. The 'Best One' was the Sony KV-34XBR910 34", 199lb, CRT. Both TV sets had Subwoofers and sounded as good as a Sound Bar. My KV-34HS510 gave us many years of wonderful viewing and I sold it last November so we could 'upgrade' to a QLED. This was so we could get more features like APPS (Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc). We went for a year withOUT TCM because Comcast did that bit where we had to add the Sports Package to continue with TCM. I finally went down to a Comcast store to add the package and to get TCM and I found out we needed more modern equipment. So I purchased a Top of the Line Samsung QLED. Anyways, watching the Masters in HD is wonderful. Back in 2004 it was like Night & Day from 480i to true High Definition. All sorts of Friends & Family were coming over to our home to 'see' what HD looked like outside of a store and to see it as it looks in a home. It was funny how many people would say how BIG our screen was then. 34 inches. For the last few years my kids and friends would keep telling me to get a new TV set since our Sony 34" was so small now. LOL I miss the 'Older Days' when Pat Summerall and Ken Venturi would announce the Masters. It always was broadcast (and still is today) after the NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament.

I had missed this on the schedule-noticed that morning! Quickly set the DVR, can't wait to see it. Documentaries can be hit-or-miss. I loathe any reenactments and screen time wasted on talking heads gushing about "influencing me". If Antonia likes it, I'm betting it's great-after all-Laemmle's story is an amazing one, reference the ending tagline of the trailer. Love the photo of the crew at the 5:56 mark in Antonia's video. Who was the kid? And what's written under the gallows? I'm guessing some glib sign for disruptive employees. Thanks for bringing this up, hope TCM duly promoted it. PS loved your Hay's Code video-keep up the great work.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

1937

Bette Davis had a lot of expenses (supporting relatives etc) her fee was a minimum of $100000, $200000 for a bigger part or production. For 1976 it was a good payday for her.

Tom, thank you for the great write-up, both of the pleasant STAR DUST, and of my favorite actress, Linda Darnell’s life and career. It is indeed ironic that she watched this semi-autobiographical film only hours before her fatal accident. Even as she was watching the film, she was actually hopeful of a career resurgence, as the director of the yet to be released BLACK SPURS had contacted Linda and informed her that producers were interested in her, and there were some offers for other films. Unfortunately this was not to be. Just one correction to this information. Linda Darnell was only 41 when she died; she was born in 1923. Since starting her career in 1939 at the age of 15 playing romantic leads, in HOTEL FOR WOMEN and DAYTIME WIFE, the latter with Tyrone Power, the studio decided to add a couple of years to her age, making her 17, and having been born in 1921. While this was soon corrected, the 1921 date persisted and persists in some biographical sketches.

I was showing off.

FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)

The Caddy 1953

Speaking of your preceding drop of the Yardbirds and this song, SweetSue, "I'm Not in Love"'s supporting songwriter and multi-instrumentalist - Graham Gouldman - had once given the appearance of being a 6th member of the Yardbirds: He composed most of the British band's best non-blues numbers.

It might even...well, we did warn you! 😁

Yes, but isn't the scientist the real monster???? (Deep!)

I prefer the more humorous episodes, although there are few of them. Interesting how many were set in Florida, particularly during the final two years. I made a list at one time.

...The Three Faces of Eve 1957 Directed and Written by Nunnally Johnson Starring Joanne Woodward, Lee J. Cobb, David Wayne 1 hr. 31 min. Synopsis: A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. "Honey, there's a lot of things you never seen me do before. That's no sign I don't do 'em." Woodward won the Oscar for her role as Eve in this groundbreaking film. 8/10 Full movie

Ah, Mort Sahl........ Paved the way for all sharp witted topical humorists who also weren't afraid to lampoon the politics of the day and popular culture. He will be missed. Sepiatone

ON THE BEACH (1959)

It's impossible for me to view Star Dust (1940), an innocuous Hollywood fantasy, without thinking of the real life tragedy which befell its star after viewing this film on television a quarter of a century after its release. I watched the film for the first time this evening. A standard story of Hollywood wish fulfillment, it was the third film starring a very young Linda Darnell as one of three people going to the film capital (the other two John Payne and Mary Healy), dealing with the standard hopes and emotional heart aches in her desire to become a star. Roland Young is really the film's main character, arguably, as a former silent film star now in the business of trying to recruit new talent for the film capital, in this case a fictional film studio. It's a fairly inconsequential. predictable affair, with a happy ending in which Darnell becomes a hit and is signing her signature in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the dream of every would be star. The Hoagy Carmichael standard, "Stardust" plays on the film's soundtrack. Life imitating art. Here is an image of Darnell signing her signature at Grauman's in real life. Darnell would have a tumultuous and often disappointing film career, as well as personal life. She had a series of innocent ingenue roles at the beginning of her career before hitting a career drought when Fox studio mogul Darryl F. Zanuck lost interest in her after she refused his sexual advances. Starting with Summer Storm and, in particular, Fallen Angel in the mid 40s, however, she had a successful image change by playing hardened temptresses, gaining particularly good reviews in 1949 with A Letter to Three Wives (along with talk of an Oscar nomination which was not realized). Her '50s career would be a disappointment, though, with film work in Italy as well as America, but no real successes, as she increasingly drank and started to experience weight issues. In 1965 she would be cast in her first film in eight years, a modest B western produced by A. C. Lyles, Black Spurs. It had yet to be released when, on April 9, as Linda stayed at the Glenview, Illinois home of her former secretary and daughter, she and the secretary caught a television broadcast of Star Dust that evening. According to the secretary, they giggled all through it. The two talked for a while after the film ended before retiring to bed. A while later they would smell smoke and the fire department would be called to the blaze at the home. The secretary and her daughter both managed to escape but firemen found Linda lying by a burning living room sofa. Darnell would be transferred to the burn unit at Chicago's Cook County Hospital with burns over 80% of her body. She was pronounced dead the morning of April 10. Careless smoking would be blamed for the fire. Both Darnell and the secretary were smokers. I find it a little eerie that in her final hours Linda Darnell, whose film career in 1965 was at a real low point, would be watching a 25-year-old film of hers in which she played a young ingenue hoping to become a film star. Star Dust's Hollywood happy ending made it all the more ironically tragic what was about to befall the beautiful actress later that same evening. Close to the final words spoken in Star Dust are those of Sid Grauman to Darnell saying, "And may your success, like the imprints you just made, last forever." I wonder how a 43 year old actress, hearing those words on television 25 years later as she scrambled for roles in movies and smoked her final cigarettes, reacted when she heard those words.

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In regards to movies about "Cinderella" don't forget the 1977 adult-oriented version of CINDERELLA starring Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith, Kirk Scott, Brett Smiley and Sy Richardson. It's a comedy that's rated [R] or 'Unrated' depending on which version you get hold of. One version is dirty; the other is dirtier. Notable '70s tackiness not likely you'd see in 2021: Black male actor SY RICHARDSON plays "The Fairy Godmother" and queens out royally; instead of turning pumpkins in to a carriage for Cindy he gathers up watermelons. Yes, friends, it's that kind of movie. 🍉🍉 But, hey, if you're tired of watching bland "Cinderella" movies then check this version out. Directed by actor Michael Pataki. The late Cheryl Smith plays it straight as "Cinderella" while everyone else seems to camping and/or hamming it up.

THE HINDENBURG (1975)

What! No Beer? (1933) Next: vegetables