JackBurley

I want to live in your world, Mr. Sage...

I've only been on the boards since April, but I don't think I've seen one of the months since then go by without someone asking the name of a song on a TCM promo. The good news is this means the answers are all right here on the board. Try using the search feature. I don't know which song you're curious about, but you could try searching for "september promo" or something like that. The best thing about this, is all the tangents and discoveries a search like this can bring. Enjoy the ride!

Warner Bros. made a C-movie called That's the Ticket in 1940... Perhaps this was the first movie to pick up on the popular phrase?

Here's the link to your thread: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/message.jspa?messageID=7864070#7864070 At the top of the thread is a "button" entitled, "Watch this Thread". If you click on that, it will send you an e-mail whenever someone responds to it. Also, when you look at the list of threads, there will be a little icon that looks like a pair of binoculars next to the threads you are watching; so it's easier to find them. I found your's by clicking on your handle. This brings up the list of your threads. So you can do that too. Enjoy!

George Raft was a dancer in nightclubs and on Broadway before he went to Hollywood. He played a dancer in Bolero with Carole Lombard...

Thank you for that information, Mr. Sage. I feel like Dorothy; the answer was in my own backyard all this time... I too have a copy on DVD, but I suspect it might be a pirate copy* and the guilt that I feel is burning a hole into the DVD shelf. I long to have the "real" thing; and have long hoped it would be a lustrous Criterion Collection edition, with a rich transfer and generous extras. The one that I have features an interview with Jack Cardiff, which is great (but would be nicer if I could rid myself of the suspicion). When Columbia gets its act together I'll be buying a copy as soon as it hits the stands... ___________ * A well-intentioned friend gave it to me, and I'm afraid I repaid him with a stern lecture about copyright laws and support of the arts.

Sounds like Moonstruck to me... TCM played it a couple of months ago to the cheers and jeers of many.

Argh, how I love this movie. It's the Powell/Pressbuger Matter of Life and Death (released in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven). I've seen it on the big screen a few times; and audiences are amazed by it. Why isn't it on DVD in the U.S.? It's criminal! They have it in Europe. I contacted The Criterion Collection people about this years ago (since they released so many other Powell/Pressburger films), but they gave me the brush-off. I've written a number of mavens to see if they know what's holding up the works, but no seems to know. This is tops on my list of "What DVD are you waiting for?"...

Virginia Weidler was the kid sister in The Philadelphia Story (as well as "Little Mary" in The Women, among many other film roles). Ms. S. is correct that Jane Withers was "Josephine, the Plumber" as well as the mean tormentor of Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes. As to the orphan story... golly, that description fits so many... Margaret O'Brien in Journey for Margaret?

Thanks for pointing that out! I've long wanted to see the Irene Dunne/Paul Robeson version of Show Boat; and this is one is playing at a decent hour and on my day off. I'm thrilled. It's also nestled within a great morning schedule, beginning with a couple curiosities: Road Show with Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis; All-American Co-Ed Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, and Harry Langdon. Then James Whale's Show Boat; which is followed by The Band Wagon, Broadway Melody Of 1936 (Thank you TCM!); and 42nd Street. Guess I won't be leaving the house that morning...

As Mr. McCrary mentioned, your wish is TCM's command. Here's a link to the latest schedule: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7862396 The schedules are posted in the Shorts Forum.

Looks as if Gene Kelly will be the Star of the Month for March 2007. Monday/Tuesday, March 5-6 will feature: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer For Me And My Gal Du Barry Was A Lady Summer Stock Thousands Cheer Words And Music Invitation To The Dance Les Girls Monday/Tuesday, March 12/13: Singin' In The Rain On the Town It's Always Fair Weather Cover Girl Take Me Out to the Ball Game Anchors Aweigh Private Screenings: Stanley Donen Monday, March 19 The Pirate An American in Paris Brigadoon Ziegfeld Follies Monday/Tuesday, March 26-27 The Three Musketeers Inherit The Wind 40 Carats The Devil Makes Three Black Hand Pilot #5 The Cross Of Lorraine

It was definitely made this year and premiered only a few weeks ago. A good life, good lighting and a drop Oil of Olay does wonders...

"He was well rounded if nothing else. The odd films in that list, 'Life With Father', 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and even 'White Christmas' would seem to have come from somone else next to the rest of the list." This is precisely why he isn't as well known today. His body of work is the antithesis of auteur theory. This formal view of movies became popular in the 1950's, and its theory was a staple of film classes from the 1960's on. Directors that are most appreciated are those whose oeuvre exhibits a personal point of view. Hitchcock, Truffaut, Kurosawa, Minnelli, etc. were/are studied as they developed a style that was recognizable and developed. Directors like Curtiz, Sam Wood, William Van Dyke, Vincent Sherman -- though they made good pictures -- were considered "studio directors" who directed what they were told to by the studio heads. They did the "job", while the others "made art". Not everyone agrees, of course. Some consider this attitude as a symptom of film snobbery and elitistist thinking. Film critic Pauline Kael argued that movies were a collaborative art and a film might be as much the point of view of the screenwriter as the director, for example. The common denominator of Curtiz' films is that they were well made. Hitchcock's were well made, but share a common theme (be it the questioning of the innocence; the charm of evil; etc.). At any rate, this is one of the reasons why Michael Curtiz is greeted with "who?" while Hitchcock is greeted with "Ah!" [and "Eeek!"].

Joshua Logan was famously on medication for years. He suffered from manic/depressive illness, which today we call "bi-polar disorder". In his autobiography, Joshua Logan: My Up-and-Down, In-and-Out Life he discusses his time being committed to an institution and how he found some balance with lithium carbonate. I read the book when it was first published; unfortunately my lagging memory isn't functioning regarding the period when he made Paint Your Wagon...

Perhaps the webmaster would consider placing it under the "Announcements" section on the Board's homepage?

I thought she looked a little young to be William Bendix... I love that she got the special billing "And presenting..."

[Where's that "sticky"?]

Oh my gosh; what a great find Ms. Cutter! Thank you for sharing that. Wouldn't it be great if TCM could show this entire episode?

Last night, TCM played the Danny Kaye movie The Kid From Brooklyn. The movie opens with his character -- a milkman -- making his deliveries to various NY apartment buildings. For efficiency, rather than descending each set of stairs and taking the sidewalk to each building, he'd scamper across the windowsills and slide down the bannisters from the apartment's stoop. Seeing this scene reminded me of this thread...

My favorite aspect of Jean Arthur's beauty was the crushed-velvet quality of her voice. Too bad they couldn't put a sound-chip in the Now Playing cover, so that each time we open it we'd hear her voice...

I looked forward to Bob Dorian's introductions (as I do Robert Osborn's now), but found Nick Clooney to be cloying. I haven't turned the television to AMC in years. I wonder if they even have introductions and recaps now...

Something isn't adding up here... The database doesn't show a WWII film called The Long Ride. Do you remember who was in it? Or what month it played?

You didn't mention how many you can tape. If I were to pick two, it'd be Suzy and To Catch a Thief. Suzy is featured in That's Entertainment!, and it's long been my goal to catch every movie that's clipped in this musical series. To Catch a Thief is Hitchcock at his most glamorous. Grace Kelly is sexy and alluring as Frances Stevens; Mr. Grant makes a cunning ex-cat burglar, retired on the French Riviera; and Jessie Royce Landis is Frances' droll mother. It's colorful, includes the birth of the now cliche kiss-with-fireworks, and you'll want to watch for Hitch, who's riding on the bus...

When I lived in Manhattan, I was very near the Angelika; but alas, I'm now 3,000 miles away in "Jack Burley's" hometown of San Francisco... And this made me ponder: if I were still living in Manhattan, what would I have chosen for my handle? Maybe "**** Gallagher"...