CineSage_jr

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > > Trivia: Eric Braeden who played John Jacob Astor in "Titanic" is very well known by soap opera fans as the ruthless billionaire Victor Newman in "The Young and the Restless" (CBS) > > Of course, he was much more famous for his role as a German officer in the TV series "The Rat Patrol," although he was billed as Hans Gudegast. Hans Gudegast is the German Braeden's real name (Universal Studios prevailed upon him to change it when they cast him in the lead in 1969's COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT. At least they didn't go quite as far as MGM did, when, in the late 1940s they changed the name of Norwegian contract player Alf Kjelin to "Christopher Kent"), and how he was billed when he co-starred in The Rat Patrol in the mid-1960s. Braeden has, apparently, never quite forgiven the studio for doing this to him.

Two of the worse Best Picture Oscar winners ever? YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU and THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

I'd second the vote for Carole Lombard. Perhaps the screen's finest farcieuse, a woman of extraordinary talent and beauty, her untimely death compels one to speculate as to the heights her career may have reached had she gone on to other roles, even into middle age. Then there's the effect her death had on husband Clark Gable. His career declined gracefully enough into the 1950s, but the electric spirit and seemingly effortless, Devil-may-care insouciance that made others anoint him "King of Hollywood" seemed to have flown from his persona when she died. Lombard's death, in effect, hastened the demise of two careers, not one.

It's David Janssen (real name: David Meyer).

Now the big question: was the Showboat capable of firing harpoons at Whales and whales?

THE CONQUEROR was actually shot in the vicinity of St George, Utah, not Nevada.

It's called a "movie."

> {quote:title=ChipHeartsMovies wrote:}{quote} > *Love is a Many-Splendored Thing* is definitely the movie you're referring to --- she is part Caucasian, part Asian, and is a doctor. > > The hit song is the theme to the movie. > > It airs periodically on the Fox Movie Channel. Practically every third word issuing from Jones's character's mouth is "Eurasian." Enough, Jennifer! The film's already made its point about racial divides in its first fifteen minutes.

And what about TOO MUCH, TOO SOON, featuring Errol Flynn's wonderfu, late turn as his idol, John Barrymore? Then there's KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS...

Close enough; movie-watching makes strange bed fellows. More consequential was this bit of misinformation offered up by Bob Osborne during his closing remarks: that Peter Sellers ended up not playing bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong -- which would've been the actor's fourth role in the film -- because Stanley Kubrick "changed his mind." This is simply untrue. Sellers broke his ankle just prior to shooting the bomber sequences. While that might not have been much of a handicap playing President Muffley (seated at the conference table) and, of course, Dr Strangelove, himself (in a wheelchair), or even Grp. Capt. Mandrake, several shots on the plane (especially those involving Kong clambering atop and dislodging the H-bomb in the bomb bay) simply required more physicality than a man hobbling on one bad ankle could manage. Kubrick did what he had to do, re-conceived the character and cast Slim Pickens outy of necessity, not whim.

There have been three biographies to date (not including Charlotte Chandler's collection of anecdotes about the director, and Cameron Crowe's book of interviews with him): Billy Wilder in Hollywood, by Maurice Zolotow; Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder, by Kevin Lally; and On Sunset Boulevard, by Ed Sikov. The Zolotow book, published about thirty years ago, has always been somewhat questionable as to its accuracy, in part because it seems as though Wilder really didn't want to cooperate with the author. The Lally book is okay, but a tad superficial. As for Sikov's book, while one may not agee 100% with his conclusions (when does one agree with all of any biographer's conclusions?), it is immense, exhaustively researched, and full of terrific photos. The hardcover and paperback edition can be found inexpensively online, and I recommend it highly.

> {quote:title=mickety wrote:}{quote} > anyone know "if" or "when" TCM will go High Definition? I would really look forward to it. I've said it before: TCM won't switch to high-definition until there are enough HD film masters available for it to make economic sense for them. There are also the impact of HD telecasts on DVD and Blu-ray sales, since the studios are leery of consumers burning these films onto disc.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:} > It doesn't matter what you are talking about. This is my story. > > I'm watching "Sounder" right now, and half the picture is missing. 1/4 at the top and 1/4 at the bottom are just gone, missing from the film. We're all watching half a film, Just the middle horizontal portion. But we're missing a full 1/2 of the image. It doesn't matter if it was matted down in the camera, in the printer, or in the projector. I want to see the top and the bottom of what is in front of the camera, but it's not there, it's just not there. > > Houses have roofs, people have legs and feet. Wagons have wheels, the sky has clouds. But where are they in Sounder? They are gone, missing, matted out. > > In the orignal square Gone with the Wind, we can see the roofs the legs and feet, the wagon wheels, the clouds in the sky. They weren't cropped out of the film. Sounder looks like it was filmed through the horizontal crack between the boards of a train boxcar, with the camera inside the boxcar.{quote} Your story? No, it's the story of these films, and I'm not going to let you misrepresent them and the people who made them. As regards SOUNDER, or any other film shot in standard Academy Ratio and then cropped to widescreen dimensions, that's what the director and cinematographer wanted. You weren't meant to see all the extraneous stuff you're now pining for; whether it was cropped out during principal photography, or during post-production, is truly irrelevant: you're not going to get them, and you don't need to see them.

Sorry, the TCM server wasn't accepting submissions temporarily -- or so it seemed - so every time I clicked "Edit message" it apparently did store it someplace and then dumped it onto the board. Message was edited by: CineSage_jr

Sorry, the TCM server wasn't accepting submissions temporarily -- or so it seemed - so every time I clicked "Edit message" it apparently did store it someplace and then dumped it onto the board.

Sorry, the TCM server wasn't accepting submissions temporarily -- or so it seemed - so every time I clicked "Edit message" it apparently did store it someplace and then dumped it onto the board.

Sorry, the TCM server wasn't accepting submissions temporarily -- or so it seemed - so every time I clicked "Edit message" it apparently did store it someplace and then dumped it onto the board.

Sorry, the TCM server wasn't accepting submissions temporarily -- or so it seemed - so every time I clicked "Edit message" it apparently did store it someplace and then dumped it onto the board. Message was edited by: CineSage_jr

Sorry, the TCM server wasn't accepting submissions temporarily -- or so it seemed - so every time I clicked "Edit message" it apparently did store it someplace and then dumped it onto the board.

I know exactly what you're talking about; it's you who don't understand what I'm talking about.

They're actually General Winfield Scott's (Sydney Greenstreet) favorite dish: creamed Bermuda onions.

> {quote:title=harlowcutie11 wrote> {quote:title=harlowcutie11 wrote:} Kelly and Hepburn...had a lot more in common too. They both starred opposite much older leading men.{quote} Not just that, but a couple of them were the same older leading men: Cary Grant and Gary Cooper.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:} > I know it was true, because I was there. I saw several Cinemascope films on standard square theater screens in the 1950s.{quote} Yes, because they were projecting "adapted 'Scope" prints in which the full 2.55: 1 scope frame was printed down within the Academy Ratio frame.

Sorry, but what you say simply isn't true.

> {quote:title=dangeer32 wrote> PLEASE help me find this film! I thought it might have been "Scared to Death" with Bela Lugosi, but I watched it recently and that was not the film(it was a color film anyhow). I also bought "You'll Find Out" with Peter Lorre, Kay Kaiser, Bela Lugosi, and Boris Karloff - but alas, this one turned out NOT to be the film either. It was very similar to what I was trying to find, but it didn't have the exact moments that I was remembering. {quote} It's Kay Kyser.