JackBurley
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Have you tried Mrs. Mike (the movie that I mentioned below)? The baby is coming in the movie, and they're living in the frontier...
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You mentioned the outtake of Kathryn Grayson singing "I've Told Every Little Star"; her escort in this scene is Johnny Johnston. He joins her for a rendition of "The Song is You". He married Miss Grayson in 1947.
It was great to see these missing scenes. I only wish they'd also included the footage of Lena Horne singing "Bill".
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Thurl Ravenscroft! I'm a big fan of Mr. Ravenscroft. Yes, he was Tony the Tiger; and he sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". He also did a lot of work for Disney, and can be heard at the "Pirates of the Carribbean", "Enchanted Tiki Room" and "Haunted Mansion" attractions. He was a member of the Sportsmen Quartet that sings in the MGM musical For Me and My Gal and was one of the cat voices in Disney's [/i]The Aristocats[/i]. He had a long career and was a wonderful guy.
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I think you mean The Search, bc...
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Here's my 12 months:
Irene Dunne
Claudette Colbert
Judy Garland
Sophia Loren
Meryl Streep
Marlene Dietrich
Norma Shearer
Joan Crawford
Sidney Poitier
Cary Grant
Marcello Mastroianni
Gregory Peck
With a week devoted to the each of the following:
Eleanor Powell
Marie Dressler
Nicholas Brothers
Giulietta Masina
Ann Sothern
Joan Greenwood
Deanna Durbin
Zarah Leander
Marjorie Main
Miriam Hopkins
Sylvia Sidney
Jane Powell
Valentino
Eve Arden
Joan Blondell
And some days devoted to:
Edith Evans
Paul Robeson
Maria Montez
Elisabeth Bergner
I'd also like to see an opera week, devoted to movies featuring:
Grace Moore, Geraldine Farrar, Lily Pons, Rise Stevens, etc.
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The unusual color scheme of Minnelli's Yolanda and the Thief is both odd and arresting. The juxtaposition of golden yellows and browns (see the "Coffee Time" number), were so of that time, yet rarely seen on film. Much more subtle than the garish visual feasts of the 25th Century Fox musicals or Selznick's lurid palette for Duel in the Sun. A favorite movie for color is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The ruby red of Misses Russell's and Monroe's "Little Rock" dresses is so saturated and rich; and in the "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" number, the startling, shocking pink of Marilyn Monroe's dress against the crimson background... well on paper it doesn't sound as if it would work -- but it does.
http://www.suetuthill.com/marilyn_gentlemen_prefer_blondes.jpg
I also appreciate the palette of the Powell/Pressburger films. The colors of Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes really set the tone and mood that is both telling and unique.
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Parent Trap?
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And I'll dive in with Mary Poppins.
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Ah shoot, I assumed you'd meant the original Jose Ferrer biopic of Toulouse-Lautrec, which featured a great score (plus Zsa Zsa Gabor!).
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Aw shucks, that's before my time (I've only had TCM for the past month). Thanks for your reply, romantic. It's nice to know they gave tribute to Berkeley's work, but I'm sorry to hear it was so recent as I imagine it will be some time before they would show those movies again.
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Ms. Rand died in 1982. Her book The Fountainhead was made into a movie with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. She also wrote We the People and Anthem.
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When the lunch was over, do you think Lassie asked for a doggie bag?
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Some of my favorite soundtracks:
Adolph Deutsch - The Apartment (wish this were on cd)
Philip Glass - Mishima
Philip Glass - The Hours
Bernard Herrmann - On Dangerous Ground
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Adventures of Robin Hood
Andre Previn - Irma La Douce
Alfred Newman - Song of Bernadette
Alex North - Streetcar Named Desire
Max Steiner - Since You Went Away
Nino Rota - Fellini's Amarcord
Nino Rota - Le Notti Bianche
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When I was a kid I would beg my parents to let me stay up past my bedtime because I wanted to watch some classic movie. I felt desperately deprived because I'd never seen Garbo nor My Man Godfrey. Invariably, when they'd say no to my plea to watch Casablanca or Citizen Kane, I'd reason with "but it's a classic!". Surely, then they'd understand and allow me to see these treasures. But no, they were unmoved. They'd roll their eyes and claim that I declared all movies "classics". But they are, I'd reply with as little guile as possible.
In retrospect, I realize that any movie made before I was born was "old" to me. And that alone gave it credence in my young mind. But to my parents, these movies were relatively new. I marvel that I was two when Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life was released. To me, it was a "classic old movie"; to my parents it was something that they saw at the Senator Theatre only a few years back. Singing in the Rain was released only 5 years before I was born -- yet I watched it as if it came from an entirely different time. I didn't realize that the woman televised on the "Judy Garland Show" was the same person as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
So now I wonder if some child begged me to stay up and see Gosford Park, would I understand his/her perception that this is an old classic. Or would I think, "Gosford Park? I just saw that in the theatre a few years ago. Go to bed!"
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Have you seen the neo-screwball comedy What's Up Doc?? It features Love Story star, Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand and was release two years after after the wild success of the tragic love story. Toward the end of WUD, Miss Streisand's character looks deep into Mr. O'Neal's eyes and utters, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." He returns her gaze and says, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
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Are you saying that your daughter's name is "Veronika"?
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I would buy a Sonja Henie set the second it's released (yes, even the one with Don Ameche)...
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How funny; I never noticed they were sitting in alphabetical order. But wait, how did Lassie end up between Edward Arnold and Mary Astor? Shouldn't the canine be next to Mario Lanza? Or did Lassie have a last name and he's holding out on us? Speak, Lassie, speak!
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I think that Jack Elam was the king of slimy characters. Wall-eyed, unshaven and unkempt; I always got the feeling that he relished playing the bad guy. I bet he was a great guy in person.
Michael T. Weiss was wonderfully slimy in Freeway as he kicks off this great update of "Little Red Riding Hood".
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Could it have been Marlene Dietrich in Golden Earrings? She plays a "gypsy" in this 1947 romance, and wore a black wig in it. I don't remember if there was a dance number or not...
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Ah yes, this is the lunch given in honor of the 25th Anniversary of MGM. You can see this on Side A of the disk of supplemental material that comes with the 4-disk set of That's Entertainment. The panning shot was used in That's Entertainment, but this added disk shows more -- including George Murphy announcing many of the stars as they enter.
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Hi HP, I think you're mixing up a couple of musicals. As you noted, there is Vincent Minnelli's The Pirate and there is the movie version of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance which featured Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury; but the song "Gesticulate" is from another Minnelli movie: Kismet. In it, Howard Keel sings:
"Dear hand, deft hand,
clever and facile extremity.
A companion to me from my birth.
Sweet hand, swift hand,
spinner of fable and fantasy.
Faithful friend of my art,
would they rend us apart,
leaving no finger nor fist there,
but just a hint of a wrist there.
Where then my spirit with my mercurial charm,
am I fated to sit with elbow and arm,
and no digits to top them off -- if they lop them off!"
This song features "patter" sections that could be reminiscent of Gilbert and Sullivan. The music is by the Russian composer Borodin, and the themes such as the Polovtsian Dances and Prince Igor were wrested from their origins and thrown into a Mesopotamian adventure wherein the character Hajj must stand trial for theft.
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I was thrilled to see it on TCM a year or two ago. I owned the vinyl soundtrack and then the cd (which I believe is now out-of-print), so it was great to place the visuals with the sound. For instance, I was surprised to discover that one of the songs Jane Powell sings, is delivered to an robotic penguin! Why not go to the "suggest a movie" page and let 'em have it?
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Ms. Harlow said "I also like that in most of the musicals Busby Berkeley choreographed, most of the same actors are in all of them, from the stars (Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler...) to the supporting actors (Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, etc.). It's like a big family."
There certainly was a period where Mr. Berkeley worked with the ensembles of Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Frank McHugh, etc. But these were relegated to a seven-year period at Warner Bros. in the 1930's. Keep in mind that he moved on to direct many different talented people at different studios up until Jumbo (released in 1962). Carmen Miranda, Judy & Mickey, Betty Hutton, Doris Day, and many more were directed by this difficult genius.
I'd like to see a month devoted to him. Since I'm fairly new here, can anyone tell me if TCM has done a tribute to Busby Berkeley?
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He would've done a great job on Wait Until Dark. Actually, The Bad Seed seems to be up his alley. The villain hidden by her veil of seeming innocence in the guise of the "perfect little girl". Do you know why he passed on these, Mr.Wright?