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Dean Stockwell, the gifted onetime child actor who became a solid and colorful adult performer, has died at the age of 85. TMZ reported that the "Quantum Leap" television star died "early Sunday morning at home, peacefully and of natural causes." He was one of three men to win the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival twice. The others: Marcello Mastroianni (1970, 1987) and Jack Lemmon (1979, 1982). Acting was a family business for Stockwell. His older brother (pictured below at the far left) was the actor Guy Stockwell (1933-2002). Their father Harry Stockwell (1901-1984) was an actor and singer who provided the voice of The Prince in Walt Disney's animated classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937). Dean Stockwell's first major feature film appearance was in "The Valley of Decision," the 1945 drama starring Gregory Peck, Greer Garson and Donald Crisp (pictured below with the young actor). In the 1945 musical/romantic comedy "Anchors Aweigh," Stockwell played a Navy-mad kid befriended by two sailors (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) on a four-day leave in Los Angeles. They also became acquainted with the boy's aunt (Kathryn Grayson), a promising singer hoping for a big break. Directed by George Sidney ("Annie Get Your Gun," "Bye Bye Birdie"), the film became the highest-grossing picture of the year, earning almost $5 million. It also received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Kelly). Stockwell played the young son of Peck's character in "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. The drama starred Peck as writer Philip Schuyler Green, a Gentile who posed as a Jew for a top-secret piece in a New York-based magazine. His undercover work gradually had repercussions for his personal life, particularly his budding relationship with a divorcée (Dorothy McGuire) and the self-esteem of his son. Directed by Elia Kazan, the film won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm). Stockwell starred in the 1948 message film "The Boy With Green Hair," which was directed by the soon-to-be blacklisted filmmaker Joseph Losey. The young actor played a World War II orphan who became the talk of his adopted American small town. And it was all because he woke up one morning with a full head of green hair. The movie's haunting theme song, "Nature Boy," became a signature tune for Nat King Cole. Based on the 1920s' Leopold-Loeb case in Chicago, the 1959 drama "Compulsion" starred Bradford Dillman and Stockwell as wealthy law students on trial for the murder of a schoolboy. Orson Welles played their defense attorney, modeled after Clarence Darrow. The three stars shared the Best Actor award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Richard Fleischer, the film was adapted from the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin and the 1957 play derived from it. Also starring in the picture: Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner and Richard Anderson. The 1960 drama "Sons and Lovers" starred Stockwell as the son of an English coal miner (Trevor Howard) and a domineering mother (Dame Wendy Hiller). For a time, the youth found a fulfilling relationship with a married woman (Mary Ure, pictured below with Stockwell). But it wasn't destined to last. Based on the 1913 novel by D.H. Lawrence, the movie was directed by the cinematographer-turned-filmmaker Jack Cardiff. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Howard), Best Supporting Actress (Ure), Best Adapted Screenplay (T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Freddie Francis) and Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Thomas N. Morahan and Lionel Couch). Francis won the first of his two Oscars for cinematography (the second was for "Glory" almost 30 years later). In "A Quality of Mercy," an unforgettable Season 3 episode of the "The Twilight Zone," Stockwell played a U.S. Army lieutenant prepared to attack Japanese soldiers holed up in a cave in the Philippines on August 6, 1945. Suddenly, he discovered that he had been transformed into a Japanese officer at Corregidor in 1942 on the verge of annihilating wounded American soldiers in a cave. The story, which was written by series creator Rod Serling (and based on an idea by "Have Gun – Will Travel" co-creator Sam Rolfe), originally was aired by CBS on December 29, 1961. Directed by Buzz Kulik, the episode also starred a pre-"Star Trek" Leonard Nimoy, Albert Salmi, Rayford Barnes, Dale Ishimoto and Jerry Fujikawa. Sidney Lumet directed Stockwell, Katharine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards in "A Long Day's Journey into Night" -- a 1962 screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The drama -- about the dysfunctional Tyrone family during a Connecticut summer in 1912-- earned Hepburn the ninth of her 12 Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She also won Best Actress honors at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. Stockwell, Richardson and Robards shared the Best Actor award at the annual event in France. Sir Patrick Stewart and Stockwell were among the many stars of David Lynch's 1984 screen version of the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel "Dune." Stockwell played the duplicitous (and ill-fated) Doctor Wellington Yueh, the physician for House Atreides. A big fan of Herbert's books, Stockwell lobbied Lynch in Mexico for the role -- only to be told it had been cast. Lynch later called Stockwell when the part became available. In German director Wim Wenders' "Paris, Texas" (1984), Harry Dean Stanton played a man who emerged from the Texas desert after years of wandering. He and his brother (Stockwell) headed for Los Angeles to search for the young son he hadn't seen in years. There, Stanton's character experienced a bittersweet reunion with his ex-wife (Nastassja Kinski), who also hadn't seen the boy in a while -- although she continued to provide for him financially. The drama -- which provided a rare leading role for Stanton, who died in 2017 -- won the Palme d'Or (or Golden Palm) at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. The tale of family reunion and redemption was based on the play by the actor-playwright Sam Shepard, who was credited with writing the movie's screenplay. L.M. "Kit" Carson, whose son Hunter played the son of Stanton and Kinski's characters, received an adaptation credit. In Lynch's controversial 1986 thriller "Blue Velvet," Stockwell made a brief appearance as Ben -- a pimp and drug dealer in league with the sadistic and psychopathic Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). At one point, Ben memorably lip-synched to a recording of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams." Stockwell once said he was doing a parody of Carol Burnett in the scene. Stockwell received his only Academy Award nomination -- a 1988 Best Supporting Actor nod -- for his performance in Jonathan Demme's comedy "Married to the Mob. He played crime boss Anthony "Tony the Tiger" Russo, who made the mistake of pursuing the widow (Michelle Pfeiffer) of a man he whacked. The comedy also starred Matthew Modine (as an undercover FBI agent who falls for the widow), Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt and Nancy Travis. From 1989 to 1993, Scott Bakula and Stockwell starred in the NBC sci-fi series "Quantum Leap," the story of a government-financed time-travel experiment gone awry. Bakula played the brilliant scientist Dr. Samuel Beckett who uncontrollably leaped into people who existed during his lifetime -- and changed their lives dramatically. Stockwell received four consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations as the pop culture-savvy Rear Admiral Al Calavicci, who maintained contact with Beckett in the form of a hologram. Beckett frequently had an impact on history. In the Season 3 episode "The Boogieman," he leaped into a horror writer in Maine in 1964 -- and lnfluenced a young assistant named Stevie King. There has been talk of a revival of the series. During the 2014-2015 television season, Stockwell made an appearance on an episode of Bakula's latest series -- the CBS crime drama "NCIS: New Orleans." Stockwell was an accomplished artist and designer who created the cover for his friend Neil Young's 1977 album "Stars and Bars." Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri R.I.P. Dean Stockwell, a great actor who never met a scene he couldn’t steal. 1:55 AM · Nov 9, 2021·Twitter for iPhone Alex Winter @Winter Dean Stockwell was one of the greatest actors of his generation. Less showboaty and affected than many of his more famous contemporaries, but often more nuanced and interesting. I wanted him badly for my Showbiz Kids doc but he politely refused, he was done with the camera. RIP 9:21 AM · Nov 9, 2021·Twitter for iPhone Kyle MacLachlan @Kyle_MacLachlan My first two films were with Dean Stockwell. In Dune, as Dr. Yeuh, and as Ben in Blue Velvet. He was an actor I looked up to, one of the elite, the very best of his generation of actors. I was lucky to have worked alongside him. Here’s to Dean, may he Rest in Peace. 2:29 PM · Nov 10, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

One of the last links to old Hollywood, sad to hear. Although when asked about Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, he said that he did not see movies at the time, and did not know who they were when he met them. They were just a couple guys he was working with. My favorites; Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) The Boy With Green Hair (1948) Compulsion (1959) Sons And Lovers (1960) Long Days Journey Into Night (1962) Blue Velvet (1986) Some not mentioned- The Dunwich Horror (1970) which gave him a chance to be villiainous The Player (1992) a memorable small role as a Hollywood wannabe who pitches an idea to hot shot movie producer Tim Robbins

So sorry to hear this. RIP. What a career. My favorite Dean Stockwell role is as John Humperdink Stover in The Happy Years (1950). A thoroughly joyous movie. I sure wish TCM would show this MGM movie.

Fine actor and as pointed out had a solid career in so many different phases over decades. E.g. He was in the 50s T.V. westerns as a young man - one was Wagon Train where he played the younger brother of Shelley Winters. Just one example of the over 100 roles for him. Russ Tamblyn had this to say: Dean. My oldest friend. A godfather-figure to my daughter, Amber. Brilliant artist. Loving dad. We met on the set of The Boy With Green Hair, stayed close til his last breath. Rest easy now, brother. Give Dennis a hug from me when you see him on the other side. (I assume Dennis is Dennis Hopper).

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Howard Hughes in Tucker! I'd forgotten about that.

HERE IS A PARTIAL FILMOGRAPHY FOR DEAN STOCKWELL (I LEFT OFF HIS LATER CREDITS SO IT WOULD NOT BE A SUPER LONG POST) EACH OF THESE IS A CLICKABLE LINK TO THE IMDB PAGE FOR IT: The Long Haul Mario 1988 Buying Time Detective Novak 1988 Smokescreen Michael Dattalico 1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream Howard Hughes 1988 Married to the Mob Tony 'The Tiger' Russo 1988 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) Elliot Easterbrook - Deadpan (1988) ... Elliot Easterbrook 1988 The Blue Iguana Detective Carl Strick 1987 Banzai Runner Billy Baxter 1987 The Time Guardian Boss 1987 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues (TV Movie) James McLaughlin 1987 Beverly Hills Cop II Chip Cain 1987 Gardens of Stone Homer Thomas 1987 Hunter (TV Series) Brother Hobarts - Bad Company (1987) ... Brother Hobarts 1986 Blue Velvet Ben 1985 Miami Vice (TV Series) Jack Gretsky - Bushido (1985) ... Jack Gretsky 1985 Papa Was a Preacher John 1985 Once Bitten Valet Attendant (uncredited) 1985 To Live and Die in L.A. Bob Grimes 1985 The Legend of Billie Jean Muldaur 1984 To Kill a Stranger John Carver 1984 Dune Doctor Wellington Yueh 1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) Greg Denver - The Sweet Scent of Death (1984) ... Greg Denver 1984 Paris, Texas Walt Henderson 1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) Dr. Griss - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Dr. Griss 1983 The A-Team (TV Series) Police Officer Collins - A Small and Deadly War (1983) ... Police Officer Collins 1982 Alsino and the Condor Frank 1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) James Francis - Hart's Desire (1982) ... James Francis 1982 Human Highway Otto Quartz 1982 Wrong Is Right Hacker 1981 Born to Be Sold (TV Movie) Marty Helick 1979 She Came to the Valley Pat Westall 1978 Greatest Heroes of the Bible (TV Series) Hissar - Daniel in the Lions' Den (1978) ... Hissar 1977 A Killing Affair (TV Movie) Kenneth Switzer 1977 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) Richard Ayres - No Way Out (1977) ... Richard Ayres 1976 One Away Pete Bass 1976 McCloud (TV Series) Pete Lancaster - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas... (1976) ... Pete Lancaster 1976 Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood Paul Lavell 1976 Tracks Mark 1973-1976 Police Story (TV Series) Bennett / Callan / Detective Giacino / ... - Eamon Kinsella Royce (1976) ... Bennett - The Return of Joe Forrester (1975) ... Callan - Love, Mabel (1974) ... Detective Giacino - Collision Course (1973) ... Ott 1975 Ellery Queen (TV Series) Cliff Waddell - The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument (1975) ... Cliff Waddell 1975 Cannon (TV Series) Tom Longman - The Hero (1975) ... Tom Longman 1975 Three for the Road (TV Series) Ethan Crawford - The Trail of Bigfoot (1975) ... Ethan Crawford 1975 Cop on the Beat (TV Movie) Det. Callan 1975 Joe Forrester (TV Series) Detective Callan - The Return of Joe Forrester (1975) ... Detective Callan 1972-1975 Columbo (TV Series) Lloyd Harrington / Eric Wagner - Troubled Waters (1975) ... Lloyd Harrington - The Most Crucial Game (1972) ... Eric Wagner 1973-1975 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) Charlie Blake / Paul Thomas / Paul Cullen - The Programming of Charlie Blake (1975) ... Charlie Blake - Legion of the Lost (1973) ... Paul Thomas / Paul Cullen 1974 Win, Place or Steal Billy 1974 The Pacific Connection Miguel 1974 Police Surgeon (TV Series) Counselor Paul Madden - Deadly Exchange (1974) ... Counselor Paul Madden 1973 The Werewolf of Washington Jack Whittier 1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) Jerry - Unseen Alibi (1973) ... Jerry 1973 Night Gallery (TV Series) Charlie Evans - Whisper (1973) ... Charlie Evans 1973 Mission: Impossible (TV Series) Gunnar Malstrom - The Pendulum (1973) ... Gunnar Malstrom 1968-1972 The F.B.I. (TV Series) Darryl Ryder / Michael Vincent Riley - End of a Nightmare (1972) ... Darryl Ryder - The Quarry (1968) ... Michael Vincent Riley 1972 The Loners Stein 1972 Adventures of Nick Carter (TV Movie) Freddy Duncan 1971 The Failing of Raymond (TV Movie) Raymond 1971 Paper Man (TV Movie) Avery Jensen 1971 Mannix (TV Series) Chris Townsend - A Step in Time (1971) ... Chris Townsend 1971 The Last Movie Billy the Kid 1970 The Dunwich Horror Wilbur Whateley 1969 Bonanza (TV Series) Matthew Rush - The Medal (1969) ... Matthew Rush 1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) The Man - Before Breakfast (1968) ... The Man 1968 Psych-Out Dave 1968 The Danny Thomas Hour (TV Series) Bruno - The Cage (1968) ... Bruno 1965 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) Dr. Rudy Devereux / Dr. Rudy Devereaux - A Pyrotechnic Display (1965) ... Dr. Rudy Devereux - Now the Mummy (1965) ... Dr. Rudy Devereaux - Enough La Boheme for Everybody (1965) ... Dr. Rudy Devereux - Some Doors Are Slamming (1965) ... Dr. Rudy Devereux - Life in the Dance Hall (1965) ... Dr. Rudy Devereux Show all 6 episodes 1965 Rapture Joseph 1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) Jay Boy Calhoun - Who Killed Lenore Wingfield? (1964) ... Jay Boy Calhoun 1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) Martin Rosetti - Their Own Executioners (1964) ... Martin Rosetti 1964 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) David Farnham - To Love Is to Live (1964) ... David Farnham 1963 The Defenders (TV Series) Arnold Foster - Climate of Evil (1963) ... Arnold Foster 1963 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) Harley Brydell - The Wrecker (1963) ... Harley Brydell 1963 Combat! (TV Series) Rob Lawson - High Named Today (1963) ... Rob Lawson 1961-1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) Gary Harper / Joe Geary - In Search of a Son (1962) ... Gary Harper - The Geetas Box (1961) ... Joe Geary 1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) David H. Kelsey / William Newmaster - Annabel (1962) ... David H. Kelsey / William Newmaster 1962 Long Day's Journey Into Night Edmund Tyrone 1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) Clay Bannon - A Place to Hide (1962) ... Clay Bannon 1961 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) Lt. Katell / Lt. Yamuri - A Quality of Mercy (1961) ... Lt. Katell / Lt. Yamuri 1961 Bus Stop (TV Series) Buzz Shelby - Afternoon of a Cowboy (1961) ... Buzz Shelby 1961 The Joke and the Valley (TV Movie) Davis Tucker 1957-1961 Wagon Train (TV Series) Will Santee / Rodney Lawrence / Juan Ortega / ... - The Will Santee Story (1961) ... Will Santee - The Rodney Lawrence Story (1959) ... Rodney Lawrence - The Juan Ortega Story (1958) ... Juan Ortega - The Ruth Owens Story (1957) ... Jimmy Drew 1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) Billy Weaver - The Landlady (1961) ... Billy Weaver 1961 Outlaws (TV Series) Billy Joe Minden - Assassin (1961) ... Billy Joe Minden 1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV Series) Johnny Perry - The Dance Man (1960) ... Johnny Perry 1960 Checkmate (TV Series) Roddy Stevenson - The Cyanide Touch (1960) ... Roddy Stevenson 1960 Sons and Lovers Paul Morel 1959 Buick-Electra Playhouse (TV Series) Nick Adams - The Killers (1959) ... Nick Adams 1959 Johnny Staccato (TV Series) Dave - the Slasher - Nature of the Night (1959) ... Dave - the Slasher 1959 Compulsion Judd Steiner 1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) Roy Riverlee - Made in Japan (1959) ... Roy Riverlee 1958-1959 General Electric Theater (TV Series) Clete Weber / Private First Class John Townsend - The Family Man (1959) ... Clete Weber - God Is My Judge (1958) ... Private First Class John Townsend 1958 Cimarron City (TV Series) Bud Tatum - Kid on a Calico Horse (1958) ... Bud Tatum 1957 Men of Annapolis (TV Series) Midshipman Johnny - Ship's Log (1957) ... Midshipman Johnny 1957 The Careless Years Jerry Vernon 1957 Climax! (TV Series) Les Marshall - Murder Is a Witch (1957) ... Les Marshall 1957 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Victim (1957) 1956 Gun for a Coward Hade Keough 1956 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Washington Incident (1956) 1956 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) Carl Mittelbach - Julie (1956) - Horsepower (1956) ... Carl Mittelbach - Class of '58 (1956) - Fight the Whole World (1956) 1956 Front Row Center (TV Series) David - Innocent Witness (1956) ... David 1951 Cattle Drive Chester Graham, Jr. 1950 Kim Kimball 'Kim' O'Hara Jr. 1950 The Happy Years John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover 1950 Stars in My Crown John Kenyon 1949 The Secret Garden Colin Craven 1949 Down to the Sea in Ships Jed Joy 1948 The Boy with Green Hair Peter 1948 Deep Waters Donny Mitchell 1947 Gentleman's Agreement Tommy Green 1947 Song of the Thin Man Nick Charles Jr. 1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge Andrew MacBean 1947 The Arnelo Affair Ricky Parkson 1947 A Really Important Person (Short) Billy Reilly 1947 The Mighty McGurk Nipper 1946 Home, Sweet Homicide Archie Carstairs 1946 The Green Years Robert Shannon (as a child) 1945 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood Dean (uncredited) 1945 Anchors Aweigh Donald Martin 1945 The Valley of Decision Paulie

It sure does look like TCM has acquired the rights to run the Blondie movies although as you say, they're taking their time getting to the later ones. They would be ideal for their Saturday morning series time slot (although that seems to be the same time as the "Movies" channel also runs them - but then, not everybody gets that channel...I don't). I am also very disappointed that the prints TCM has been showing are not the ones with the original Columbia titles & credits restored (that AMC had in the 1990s). I really HATE those fake 1960s King Features openings and awful song! But I had seen the Blondie movies on a few other local channels over the years before AMC picked them up and they were always the 1960s King Features prints so I was doubtful that we would ever see the original Columbia titles. So when I saw that the prints AMC was running had the real Columbia titles restored I made sure to get them all recorded. And I'm sure glad I did, since as we know, now we're back to seeing the fake openings again. I have to wonder what ever happened to those restored prints that AMC ran? If they are still available somebody really should inform TCM that those are the prints they should be running.

Pardon the tangentiality here, but Bill Forsyth (director of "Local Hero") has a director credit for at least one more movie that involves a bunny. This bunny sits atop a frozen novelty truck in the midst of a raging ice cream war throughout the streets of Glasgow. "Comfort and Joy" is the title, and the movie actually flirts a little with some noir-ish touches. Haven't seen it in a long, long time, but the adjective "quirky" doesn't begin to do justice to this little gem of a film. "Oh, Maddie. Oh, Maddie."

I'll say it before and I'll say it again, there's nuthin like a bad review from me to make people FLOCK TO SEE SOMETHING! (I'm like the BOSLEY CROWTHER of this site)

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Dean Stockwell had some very colourful anecdotes about his experience as a young child actor when working with Errol Flynn on KIM (1950). A warning in advance that some of the language used is a little raw. http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=6909

Madame Pompadour (1927) - Dorothy Gish Pandora's Box (1929) - Louise Brooks The Woman in the Window (1944) - Joan Bennett

Night of the Grizzly was awesome, thanks for the reminder! I love a good 'Grizzly-gone-nuts' or bears-on-revenge flick.

My favorite "Quantum Leap" moment was from the Season 2 episode "Honeymoon Express," in which Rear Admiral Al Calavicci (Stockwell) appeared before a Senate committee whose chairman intended to pull the plug on the time-travel project. As the chairman prepared to announce the committee's decision, he magically was replaced by a female chairman who said the $2.4 billion funding for Project Quantum Leap had been approved for another year. As it happened, the woman had been involved with Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) during one of his leaps to the past. Thanks to him, she was able to pass a bar exam, which set the stage for her political career.

They are still being shown Saturday mornings on the Movies! Network. I went through the whole series last year and wrote about each one on I Just Watched thread. Here are a few of the best ones: Blondie Meets The Boss (1939) Movies! Channel 7/10 Dagwood quits his job when Mr Dithers cancels his vacation. Blondie is then hired in his place. The second entry in the Blondie series and this is a very fast and funny one. There are many things going on which is just an excuse for farcical gags but it's OK because most are funny. In addition Blondie's sister Dot arrives with her boyfriend who are jitterbug dance champions. Dagwood goes fishing with his neighbor Marvin (Don Beddoe) who brings along a date for him and Dagwood. Blondie later finds a compromising but innocent photo of her husband with the girl. Baby Dumpling has some of the funniest lines. A hilarious scene has Dagwood accidentally becoming Dot's partner in a jitterbug contest. Blondie Takes A Vacation (1939) Movies! Channel 7/10 Blondie and Dagwood take Baby Dumpling and Daisy for a two week vacation at lakeview lodge. Another very good entry, the 3rd in the series. There are plenty of laughs but some sentiment and suspense too. It is also helped by two great character actors in supporting roles. Donald MacBride plays a mean grouch who gets in an altercation with the Bumsteads on a train. He later turns out to be the owner of the hotel they are staying at, he kicks them out. Donald Meek plays a lovable eccentric who turns out to be a pyromaniac. The Bumsteads then go to a rundown hotel owned by an old couple in dire straits. Blondie convinces Dagwood to help them and also find out MacBride is trying to take the business away. Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) Movies! Network 7/10 Blondie has a baby girl and Dagwood makes friends with a free loading playwright. A very funny entry #11 in the series, one of the best. The new baby girl is named Cookie and Baby Dumpling demands to be called by his real name Alexander. This one is also helped by the appearance of two scene stealing character players. Hans Conried is the playwright and he shows his use of voices and disguises. Mary Wickes plays a tough talking maid who is a aspiring actress. There is also a quick reference to the need for victory in the new war effort. And Daisy has a litter of puppies. Footlight Glamour (1943) Movies! TV Network 7/10 Mr Dithers orders Dagwood to take in a boarder who is the daughter of a client, she is an aspiring actress but her father wants to keep her away from show business. #14 in the Blondie series and this is one of the funniest. The daughter is played by Ann Savage, who would later be best known as the nasty femme fatale in Detour. She was an underrated actress and she shows great comic timing in this one. There are many WWII references in this one, with talk about points for groceries due to rationing. Dagwood even has to take meat out of one of his sandwiches since during the war there was "meatless Tuesdays". There is a scene where Savage gets to put on a play with parts for Dagwood, Blondie and Alexander. The scenes involving the play are hilarious as everything goes wrong.

"I am thinking today of that beautiful land I shall reach when the sun goeth down When through wonderful grace by my Saviour I stand Will there be any stars in my crown? Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown? When at evening the sun goeth down When I wake with the blest in those mansions of rest Will there be any stars in my crown?"

Thanks very much for that, JAKEEM-- great pictures of him over the years. Both he and brother Guy surfaced in episodes of "Mannix", very memorably. One of my favorite Mannix's has Joe jogging in a tony neighborhood by the ocean, when he sees the apparent assault and murder of a woman, only it turns out, she was killed months earlier. Did Mannix hallucinate? Her devastated husband (Dean Stockwell) who had suffered a nervous breakdown and hospitalization, returns to live in the house, monitored by his sister and an orderly, while Mannix probes the mystery. Dean was outstanding in a demanding role. Loved him in "Compulsion" too. RIP.

Also, this thread has nearly 800 views and almost 70 replies, so if anyone at TCM is watching, give Kent Smith that SUTS day! (And give Katharine Hepburn the month off, Lord knows she’s made enough appearances.)

THE BEST CHILD ACTOR OF ALL TIME. (Period.)

Wednesday, November 10/11 1:45 a.m. Malaya (1949). With Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortese. I still haven’t seen this one.

The Front Page 1931 The Final Edition 1932 Flaming Gold 1933 next: Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone

Cary Grant Next: Kay Francis, Robert Montgomery & George Raft

1937 - Rosalie 1939 - Balalaika 1947 - Northwest Outpost Next: Pat O'Brien & Mae Clarke

One Week (1920) Next: A movie you find funny that is not a comedy

Malnazidos . 2020. Directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera. Spain. Comedy Horror. I haven't seen this movie yet for a couple of reasons. For those who are not familiar with his work, Caldera makes movies that pay tribute to or are parodies of well-known movies. I am not a big fan of his, but he made three movies that I really like; they're my guilty pleasures, so to speak. Caldera's first movie is Spanish Movie. It's a parody that borrows heavily , about every 5 minutes, from dozens of horror movies. I thought it was over-saturated and not very funny. I kept watching only to spot the cameos of famous directors and actors in the movie. Then I saw Three Many Weddings, in which Bridget Jones goes to three weddings but no funeral. It's a harmless romantic comedy with a restroom scene that gave a bad aftertaste. Still, I kept trying. Ghost Graduation. The Breakfast Club + The Sixth Sense. A high school teacher can see the ghosts of 5 students who died during detention years ago. There's even a scene in which the ghosts dance all of a sudden. The ending reminded me a lot of In&Out. To my surprise, I liked, and I've watched a couple of times more. Then came two movies that have become favorites of mine. Each movie is based on two Spanish comic books that parodied spies and superheroes: Spy Time Superlopez Ruiz Caldera shows maturity as a director and writer with these two movies. He has perfected his style and finds the right tone to actually pay tribute the original sources while updating the material. The result is enjoyable, even hilarious at times. So, what about Malnazidos? It was released a year ago and i still haven't seen it. I've been avoiding it, to be honest. I'm not a fan of Zombie Horror to begin with, so I'm not going to get all the references that Ruiz Caldera is going to throw in the movie. But since Caldera has grown on me as a director, I know I'm going to watch it eventually.

If I could sing worth a darn, I would love to be in a doowop group. 😍The harmony in these groups is always so inspiring, and I love the matching suits. Everything is better with matching suits.

I'm only really affected at times if I am watching a particular actor or actress, aware of some sad or tragic circumstances that awaited them in the future. For example, I can be watching a John Garfield film and feel quite sad knowing the tragic circumstances of his being blacklisted and dying an early death. But I can't see myself refusing to watch a film because an actor/actress is in it who did something in their personal life of which I may disapprove.

LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (1962)

Well, I can't guarantee the bunny's safety, but there are no gruesome scenes of bunny boiling. I think Local Hero is available on Netflix. If you're a DVD-friendly person, you might find the DVD for sale on-line. However, it's not my intention to pressure you to see the film. It's not very noir, the only connection to noir is it features noir stalwart Burt Lancaster ( but his fabulously good-looking days are behind him in this one, although he still makes kind of a handsome old man.)

Burton's Batman was better than Batman 1943 starring Lewis Wilson. Which isn't a stretch.

The Devil (1972) Poland/Dir: Andrzej Zulawski - In war-torn 19th century Poland, a political prisoner (Leszek Teleszynski) is freed from captivity by the Devil (Wojciech Pszoniak). The latter then leads the former on a hallucinatory journey across the countryside, encountering various characters, all leading the prisoner into madness. Here's another one that's beloved by the arthouse crowd, but which did little for me. It was too long, too plotless, and none of the characters behaved in any sort of manner comparable with actual people. If one enjoys weirdness for weirdness sake, or obtuse political allegory, then they may enjoy this more than I did. (6/10)

Good thing I don't get this channel. I'd never turn off the TV!

The Breakfast Club 1985 St. Elmo's Fire 1985 Blue City 1986 next: Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey

Run Lola Run (1998) Extraction (2020) Atomic Blonde (2017)

Not much I can add to what people here have already said about 5 Steps to Danger. I agree with Lilypond, I was glad when it turned out that neither Sterling Hayden's character nor Ruth Roman's were villains, that both were basically innocent and decent people. Caught in a web of circumstances beyond their control ( very noir, that part.) I did enjoy the film, although, getting towards the last 10 minutes or so, I was thinking they should wrap it up soon - which they did. A couple of thoughts: How come the CIA guy put Ruth and Sterling ( but especially Ruth, it looked like) at such risk, letting the heinous Dr. Simmons try to kill them like that? Good thing he was such a bad shot, didn't even graze them ( Ruth's shoulder, maybe?) Also: Ok, Ruth's character was accused of killing some unknown man in San Francisco, that's why the police stop them, and even Sterling Hayden thinks she's guilty, at least at first. But what is that based on? Did the Commie spies murder the real Dr. Kissel and then frame Ruth? How did they frame her? The film doesn't give us any reason why the police are after her about this, and I guess it doesn't really matter, I just tend to think of stuff like that. I do very much like both Hayden and Roman, and also the characters they played in this film. At the end you go "aw", you sort of want them to just go fishing and stay in that little cabin and be happy.

Back in Circulation (1937) with Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien, who speaks his dialogue so fast he becomes almost unintelligible. This programmer is better than it has any right to be, kind of a feminist The Front Page. Blondell is tough, sexy, and strong. It's pretty clear that a woman (Adela Rogers St. John) wrote the story behind this one, because with only one exception (John Litel), the male characters are grasping, unscrupulous, wolfish, etc., etc. Some great scenes between Blondell and Margaret Lindsay, who also registers strongly as someone with a shaded past but an aura of virtue and honor. I found myself laughing out loud at the dialogue I could catch and recognizing that Pat O'Brien's amoral and opportunistic newspaperman is completely unworthy of Joan Blondell's reporter who has both toughness and heart. I think if the movie were made today, it would end with Joan's character screaming in the street as he usurps another headline, rather than the usual final clinch and implication that the two leads get hitched. I'm wondering if Howard Hawks saw this one and decided to do The Front Page as a male-female story afterwards.

Two Years Before the Mast should be shown on a double bill with Botany Bay since Alan Ladd stars in both.

I'm no expert on singing and vocal styles, so I'm basically talking through my hat, but at the time Marilyn had a short-term contract with Columbia which was not renewed, so she was in no position to call any shots. Bigger stars than she, singers and non-singers alike, routinely had vocals "sweetened" or replaced by professional singers the studios kept on tap, working without credit, so anonymously that it was many years before the practice and the singers involved became known. So I wouldn't necessarily trust IMDb to get it right. Marilyn was rightly known as a vocalist and even had a recording contract with MGM Records at one point, separate from her movie contract with Fox, a situation Fox moved to rectify by creating their own record label. (Just as a point of interest, it was the reason her vocals had to be replicated by Dolores Gray on the Decca soundtrack album for There's No Business Like Show Business, because Marilyn was contracted elsewhere.) There's a really interesting YouTube channel by Mark Milano called Lost Vocals, on which he shows the results of many years of tracking down from collectors and other sources the original vocal tracks which were altered or replaced for the final release, giving credit to the actual singers. He also collected some informative stories about how it all went down. In some cases only certain passages or phrases were replaced, in others the entire vocal. My big takeaway was that some of the vocalists who did the dubbing were so good at capturing both the speaking and singing styles of the actresses that it would be extremely difficult to detect the ruse if you weren't told. Which does make me wonder about the Ladies of the Chorus vocals. There's the trademark Marilyn trill and slightly stilted phrasing, but overall there's a polish which argues against the vocals being entirely Marilyn's, especially in the second number. As I said, the behind the scenes dubbing talent were expected to keep mum about it and, as Marilyn got more famous, there would likely have been more reason to cover up any help she may have had vocally. Until Marni Nixon broke away from the pack there was a wall of silence around the whole process, so there's still a lot we may never know about credit where credit is due. Was there any kind of consensus in the big FB debate or was it all over the place?

I would agree. But even why he just plays those underwhelming, joe average roles I like him.

In most cases, I'd rather not know. I don't want to pay attention to gossip. But let's say it's something that's incontrovertible, that is well-established as fact. It depends. For things like known little foibles, or an actor's vastly different political outlook, or something, that rarely, if ever, affects my enjoyment or evaluation of their performances. Of course, I may personally think "less well" of them for these reasons, but I can divorce that from recognition of sheer talent. An example for me, might be Barbra Streisand; while she may not be my personal cup of tea, I bow before her singing prowess. If it's something really vile, corrupt-- that tends to color my view enough to make the person not palatable to watch. I'm thinking of an actress who was troubled, very talented who, by all accounts, sexually abused her own stepson who was a minor. (Not using names since I don't want to sling mud if I don't know 100 %.) Something like that is a deal-breaker for me.

I like a Smith named Kent. His relative blandness is part of his charm, playing the dull straight arrow guy who every now and again goes off the rails, as he did in Nora Prentiss.

OFF THE RECORD (1939)

National Red Cross Pageant (1917)

I should have mentioned BEGGARS OF LIFE from 1928. A classic silent with Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen and Wallace Beery. Just to let anyone interested, it has been released on DVD a few years ago. By the way, AMONG THE LIVING is being released on Blu-Ray this month from Kino-Lorber.

Those were great. Thanks for posting.

"True Love" was the song my wife and I danced to at our wedding. But THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is hands down the topper.