JackBurley

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"What (aside from this forum) would be the best venues in which to promote/spread the word about a classic film festival?" How about this one? http://www.classicfilmguide.com/

"Jesus are you related to CineSage Jr?" Though they might share some traits, I don't think Jesus is related to Mr. Sage... Shades of The DaVinci Code...

Is everyone aware of the "Suggest a Movie" page on TCM? http://www.tcm.com/suggestamovie/index/

"Alas, he left his theatrical talents behind him and moved on to medicine, becoming a radiologist." A most appropriate choice of employment, it seems. Both acting and radiology require looking within...

We really should start a new thread and move all of these posts to the newly created Laurette Taylor thread. For now I have another addition, and that is to say that there were a few versions of Peg of My Heart. The 1922 version -- directed by King Vidor -- starred Laurette Taylor. Eleven years later, Marion Davies did her version of it. I wonder if Katharine Hepburn ever considered playing fair Peg? Would the role have been an appropriate for Miss Hepburn? (That was round-about, but I knew I could get this thread back on topic somehow!)

"...And on a personal note, my brother, Tim, based his award winning high school performance as Mrs. Stevenson in "Sorry, Wrong Number" on a recording he had heard once of Agnes' version on the "Suspense" radio program..." How very curious, Ms. Lenox. Did Tim "Lenox" go to an all-boys school? It sounds very open-minded. Did he wear a lace bed jacket?

Midnight < Mary Astor > The Hurricane The Hurricane < Thomas Mitchell > High Noon

"Does anyone know if Richard Dix got nominated for this film for an Oscar? If I remember correctly the film did win an oscar." The film received numerous Oscar nominations; and Richard Dix' nomination for Best Actor was among them. Cimarron won the Best Picture Award. It was the only RKO-produced movie to win this accolade. Other Cimarron winners were Max Ree's Art Direction; and Howard Brooks' Best Adapted Screenplay. Irene Dunne (Best Actress), Edward Cronjager (Cinematography), and Wesley Ruggles (Director) were also nominated.

MaxMania wrote in the Jack Carson thread: "My favorite Jack Carson film (and one that hasn't been mentioned here yet) is also the ultimate Jack Carson film - IT'S A GREAT FEELING, in which Jack Carson plays...Jack Carson. Aside from all the fascinating subtext about lies and deception...Aside from the many entertaining cameos from WB stars...What I find most interesting about this film is just how game Carson is to poke fun at himself ('Everybody knows I'm a liar!'), and, by extension, all Hollywood stars." I read this today, after seeing Jack of Diamonds on TCM; a movie that features Zsa Zsa Gabor, Caroll Baker and Lili Palmer playing themselves. Can we chronicle a list of movies wherein actors play themselves? Of course, now none other come to mind; but I'm betting y'all can name them...

You have an excellent memory, Ms. Annabelle! Here's the post wherein Larry mentioned Ms. Flynn: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7805612

"Six hits and a miss confused me. The orchestra, in its musical arrangement and presentation, as well as female hair styles in ballroom/dance sequences seemed right out of the 1936-1937 era. When the short cut to the vocal group of six men and one woman the musical arrangement, singing style, and hair styles were certainly more consistent with 1942. Is it possible that the main part of this short was clipped from a 1936-1937 movie, or at least a cut from a movie of that era, and the singing group was spliced in to make this short?" How interesting! You prompted me to watch it again (the short subject Six Hits and a Miss is featured on the The Man Who Came to Dinner DVD), and you're right that there's a disparity between the dancer's shots and the musician's shots. They were definitely filmed at a different time and location. The orchestra and singers ("Six Hits and a Miss" is the name of the vocal group) are shot on a darker soundstage with black mirrored floors. The dancers are in a brightly stage with white floors. The female dancers are wearing dresses with halter tops and the skirts are cut on the bias -- it's very 1930's. But the musical arrangements are so 1940's. Did you notice that this was directed by Jean Negulesco (who also made Johnny Belinda and How To Marry a Millionaire)? I've been trying gain more information about this short over in the Short Subjects Forum. Now you've just added to the allure: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7824848

Have you made these suggestions on the "Suggest a Movie" page? Let's do it: http://www.tcm.com/suggestamovie/index/

Yes, that's definitely the group's name. They sang in a bunch of musicals for Twentieth Century-Fox and MGM. They're in Babes on Broadway and the "I Got Rhythm" number in Girl Crazy among other flicks. I was hoping to discover the individual names of the vocalists. The second question was derived from the opening credits of the short which acknowledges "Ruby Keeler and Paul Draper for their contributions", but it doesn't state what the contributions were. IMDB says that Miss Keeler is one of the featured dancers, but I believe this is incorrect; at least the dancer doesn't look like Miss Keeler.

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Thanks MGMWBRKO! I recently watched Six Hits and a Miss (it's included on The Man Who Came to Dinner DVD) short. Does anyone know the names of the singers in this group? Does anyone know Ruby Keeler's affiliation with this short?

Congratulations TMS! [To assist in keeping the size of this thread at bay, I'll delete my now repetitious image.]

"1) What is the MINIMUM number of films that needs to be shown to call an event a film "festival"?" The San Francisco Silent Film Festival started as a one-day affair. I think they started with three movies. This annual event started several years ago. Last month's festival took up three days and many movies (I listed them in the Silents Forum). "2) Would you travel to see such a festival? If so, how far?" I'd travel for a festival. How far? That depends on the destination and the films being offered. If the movies are something I feel that I can see here at some point, I probably wouldn't go far. If, however, the screening also involves a personal appearance of someone involved with the movie -- then that ups the chances that I'll be there. When San Francisco's Castro Theatre showed Mildred Pierce last month with Ann Blyth in attendance, over fifty people flew in from all over the United States.

[With apologies to Miss Hepburn] I don't think it's been pointed out that the Miss Taylor's screen test for was David O. Selznick's movie The Young in Heart. Another stage actress, Minnie Dupree ended up in the role of Miss Fortune. Laurette Taylor made a few silent films; I wonder if they exist today?

And the name of this beautiful Rodgers and Hammerstein song is Something Good...

I noticed it for the first time last night (during Richard Dix Day), and thought how my old art school compatriots would have had a field day deconstructing how that image was composed; i.e., cutting off the head of the bathing beauty... At the time that I saw it, I assumed it was Sue Lyon (1962's Lolita). But I see that Mrs. Lindley noted the figure is a brunette. So now I'm stumped too. At any rate, it's nice to know what Mr. L. was talking about.

Hey Vallo, hate to contradict you, but it's really Mad Love. In this movie Mr. Lorre's character gets ahold of a wax statue of Frances Drake's Yvonne Orlac. Toward the end of the movie, Yvonne is pretending to be the statue. She inadvertently moves and when the mad Dr. Gogol (Lorre) sees this, he's reminded of Pygmalion and the statue of Galatea; thinking he has brought her to life.

This is Mad Love... There's an entire thread devoted to this movie in the Horror Forum: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=73102&tstart=0

"Who ever seen Citizen Kane?!" I have! "Doesn't the actress who played Susan sound a lot Like Judy Holiday I know it wasn't her; but her voice reminded me of Judy." I can see how you'd hear a similarity in the voices of Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane and Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. They were both character voices, I assume. I've never seen Dorothy Comingore in anything else, so am unsure of what her regular timbre was. Miss Holliday's was warmer than Billie Dawn's; the strident tones of earlier Billie was to emphasize her lack of education. Also reminiscent of Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain ("Round tones!"). "What was the film she was in with Jack Lemmon?" It's a delightful film called It Should Happen to You, and one with a theme that works today. At least, I assume that's the movie you're thinking of. They were also both in Pffft!. "Wasn't she in 'Adam's Rib' also?" Yes, she was; in the small but pivotal role of Doris Attinger. She was brilliant; I miss her and wish that cancer hadn't taken her from us so soon.