JackBurley
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Debbie Reynolds had an older brother. There was a TV series called Ponderosa on the cable station PAX in 2001 for which 20 episodes were shot. But I don't think the two ever "met". William Reynolds was a make-up man. He worked on Goodbye Charlie (uncredited) as well as Harlow and some others...
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The featurette The Sunshine Boys was shown August 14 at 3:49am (EST). Sorry, I don't know if it's available. With regards to its being reaired, you might want to ask in the Shorts Forum:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/forum.jspa?forumID=277
There's a specific thread therein, that discusses upcoming shorts. MGMWBRKO keeps us updated on the shorts schedule every week or so.
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7826261?
I would imagine they would only show this short in conjunction with a broadcast of The Sunshine Boys, and this movie is not scheduled for anytime in the next three months...
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Lana Turner's marriage list sounds like a roll call. All ended in divorce, except the first time with Mr. Crane, which was annulled:
Artie Shaw (13 February 1940 - 12 September 1940)
Stephen Crane (17 July 1942 - 4 February 1943)
Stephen Crane (14 March 1943 - 21 August 1944)
Henry J. Topping, Jr. (26 April 1948 - 12 December 1952)
Lex Barker (8 September 1953 - 22 July 1957)
Fred May (27 November 1960 - 15 October 1962)
Robert Eaton (22 June 1965 - 1 April 1969)
Ronald Dante (9 May 1969 - 26 January 1972)
I love that the Sweater Girl's first name means "wool"! It's a shame that a woman who gave happiness to the masses, had such a difficult time finding it for herself.
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I just received confirmation from the producer of the event. It's going to be on Sunday, November 19 and Mary Badham is going to be there. He's also trying to find underwriters to sponsor a free matinee screening for kids (which I think is a swell idea!).
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"I saw part of The Buccaneer with Frederic March '37 I think and it was enjoyable. They show a dog in one sceen and I think it's Toto from the Wizard of Oz."
You're so right, Ms. Belle. Terry was the Cairn Terrier who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz, and she was also featured in The Buccaneer. She was in a lot of movies in the 1930's and early 1940's. Watch for her fight scene in The Women.
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Counterpoint was originally made and distributed by Universal Pictures...
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One of the nice things about San Francisco is that you can be in costume and go unnoticed! This is a City of eccentrics; don't let your attire hold you back.
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For shocking visuals, check out Josef von Sternberg's Scarlett Empress. It's filled with depraved imagery including the props (clocks that feature torture scenes when it strikes the hour); sets (staircases featuring bared, tortured caryatids); as well as a cast of hundreds of stripped and bound damsels and a chorus line of beheaded gentlemen. Truly bizarre. While Sam Jaffe's insane Peter tortures everyone, Marlene Dietrich is making love to the entire army. John Lodge's knowing leers at her are more obscene than any act they could have performed. This movie that could not have been released a year later...
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"I liked Lauren Bacall's San Francisco apartment in Dark Passage."
This magnificent example of Art Deco architecture is still there, on Telegraph Hill, just nestled under Coit Tower on the Filbert Steps. This is the Malloch Apartment Building, and visitors to the City can see this four-story beauty at 1360 Montgomery Street. For years, one of the residents had a lifesize photo cut-out of Bogie that was placed in the window, as if he still lived there.
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I don't think Adam Had Four Sons was a remake, nor that it was remade. It was based on a book by Charles Bonner though. It was lovely to see such a young Ingrid Bergman (only her second American role). June Lockhart and Susan Hayward were also fairly new to the screen. But I think I most appreciated seeing Fay Wray so far away from the palms of the hirsuit King Kong. She was all grace and beauty in this maternal role. I want to start paying more attention to her career in the 1940's and beyond...
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"Does anyone else like the tag team approach to hosting The Essentials? I hope that TCM might continue to seek out two individuals to host again in the future."
I truly appreciate the "tag team" approach. I enjoy hearing different perspectives of the films. There are many ways to watch a movie, and to hear different viewpoints is interesting even [perhaps especially!) when I don't agree with them.
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There's a rumor, that they're going to revive To Kill a Mockingbird on the big screen in San Francisco and that Mary Badham ("Scout") will be in attendance... If you're in the area in November, you might want to check it out.
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Yes, Adam Beach was in the television presentation Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story. Though he was in Smoke Signals in 1998, he made his splash in 2002 in Windtalkers with Nicholas Cage and Mark Ruffalo. This was the movie about the great help of the Navajos during WWII, who used their native language as "code" for the U.S. Marines.
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"There's a whole thread about Ma and Pa Kettle somewhere you might want to check out, I can't think right now where you'd find it. I'm sure someone on here knows where to direct you."
There's this one, Mr. Ranger:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=5946252
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It's definitely British, and it's definitely Brief Encounter. TCM has an entire Forum devoted to it. Please come visit it:
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For those wanting to know more about the Abend decision, here's further explanation (thanks to Snarfie):
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7824518?
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Direct TV in the bay area went out. The fates must have been disgusted with Hester...
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I believe she was saying, "until now she hadn't seen it". She saw it when they screened it as an Essential. That said, it is surprising that she'd never seen it before now...
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My top ten wish list:
Tovarich (I second Mr. Therapy's motion!)
Yolanda and the Thief
Susan and God
High Wide and Handsome
Living in a Big Way
Listen Darling
All That Heaven Allows
Min and Bill
Roma, Citt? Aperta
Hangover Square
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You're so right, vitaphony. The antics of Harpo are hysterical, but then he plays his harp and it's so heartbreakingly intimate and sweet. Lovely moments on film. But I suppose those are "dramatic moments", not "dramatic roles".
I'll offer Cary Grant in None But the Lonely Heart.
And if I may turn the tables, I recently discovered Old Aquaintance and was surprised that the normally dramatic Bette Davis was so adept at comedy. I've never seen The Bride Came C.O.D., and look forward to the discovery. I understand she plays comedy very well in that one too.
Bill Murray played serious in The Razor's Edge, but I never saw this version...
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I often attend current movies. So conversations often begin with people asking me what I've seen lately and "how was it?". To which I often respond, "Do you want to know if I thought it was good, or if I liked it?".
For example, I remember the weekend that I saw both Kiss Me, **** and In the Company of Men. The former was a terrible movie that I enjoyed; the later was an excellent movie that I hated. Valley of the Dolls is laughably bad, but I love it. I thought Pirates of the Caribbean was a terrible movie with a great performance by Johnny Depp. So I just keep the two categories: 1) was it good? 2) did you like it?
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a filmmaker; but the editing process was so overwhelming to me, I couldn't muster the strength to pursue it. How do they know then when to cut? How long a shot should last? How much time between each angle? Mindboggling.
Usually I decry the threads that seem to obsess about how terrible today's movies are, as compared to those of the "golden age". But I'll admit, I keep waiting for a return to some of the editing styles of the the classic era. "Neo-classical editing"? An example was Gladiator, which pieced together so many images in such quick succession as to become abstract and lacking in any suspense. I wished that Ridley Scott and [editor] Pietro Scalia had studied the chariot race of Ben-Hur. [i wonder who edited that? John D. Dunning? Ralph E. Winters? William Wyler? A combination?] I understand there was a 263-to-1 cutting ratio for this sequence; but the arc of the scene, the way pieces are cut together so as to build to such tension and suspense was impeccable.
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"I think Imatation Of Life was rather close to Lana Turner's own life (except for the murder) the charictor was all about her career and so was Lana Turner, plus she didn't know when to stop acting."
...Or lack of murder [in the movie]. Ms. Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, has discussed this in the past. How eerie it was that her mother's character in this movie paralleled their own situation. She has said that some of the dialogue between Sandra Dee and Lana Turner could have come directly from their own homelife...
Rio Grande Cut!
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Seems to happen fairly often; at least we've seen similar posts in the past. You might want to add some "insurance time" before and after your DVR recordings...