JackBurley
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When I go to the September 15 page, I don't see a "To Be Deleted". I do notice that the genre icon is missing on many of the; and of those without the icon, there's no description to the short... Maybe it was that's what was to be deleted, and they have been now?
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You didn't make an **** of yourself, Mr. Road. At least you thought of something! I'm still working on this puzzle and have come up with nada, so far. I'm beginning to imagine Mr. Write giving us the entire correct order of the films and I still won't see the pattern. I'm guessing And Then There Were None will be the key; I haven't seen a musical link yet. Because there are twelve, I wondered if it had to do with calendar months or apostles (but then what would the next link be?!). I'm working on it...
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"Most Wooden"? Sorry, that award goes to Nelson Eddy, Channing Tatum and Dickie Jones.
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Sorry Lynn, you must be thinking of someone else. Michael Ritchie and Miss Feldon were never married. Oh, by the way, Barbara Feldman is a TV writer/producer; Barbara Feldon was Agent 99. But Mr. Ritchie married neither of them. By the way, he lived in the house that was once owned by Marilyn Monroe.
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Solid Gold Cadillac definitely a favorite, Mr. 1957; and it features such a colorful ending!
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Addendum: Jean Hagen was Judy Holliday's understudy on Broadway during the run of Born Yesterday. The role of Singin' in the Rain's Lina Lamont was written with Judy Holliday in mind. The screenplay was written by Comden and Green, who were great friends of Miss Holliday. They would later write Bells Are Ringing for her. Oh, and today is Dorothy Commingore's birthday!
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Yes, Divine Madness is available on DVD. It was directed by Michael Ritchie, the man who also brought us such disparate films as The Candidate, The Bad News Bears and the excellent and funny Smile...
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Yolanda and the Thief
Matter of Life and Death
Garden of the Moon
Gold Diggers of 1937
The Big Parade
Wuthering Heights
Rosalie
The Great Waltz
Girl Crazy
Tracks in the Snow
Living in a Big Way
Nothing Sacred
Tovarich
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You might want to check in on this thread for some responses:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7790162
Enjoy!
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I imagine you're thinking of Divine Madness, Bette Midler's 1980 concert film. Ah "Dolores DeLago, the Toast of Chicago"! Yup, it was strong.
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"And Matchpoint was surprisingly an enjoyable film for me. Killer ending."
"Killer ending." Well put, Mr. Ranger.
As for Slingblade, for me the most impressive performance was from John Ritter... Glad to see that someone else saw and appreciated Tsotsi. I listed that one too for this year:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7804893
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I'm puzzled, because I can find no evidence of a Cary Grant movie by either name. Are you sure it's not The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss? Does the box say what year it was released? Who else is in it?
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"'Did stewart ever really sing in films?"
He did, but not particularly well. His voice was in character, but he wasn't known as a vocalist. He sang "Easy To Love" to Eleanor Powell in Born to Dance. They dubbed Miss Powell's vocals with that of Marjorie Lane, but had Stewart perform his own vocals.
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The great virtuosi Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern both played themselves in this movie. Members of the Guarneri Quartet also played themselves: Arnold Steinhardt (violin), Michael Tree (viola). Country violinist Mark O'Connor played himself. Jazz/classical violinist Diane Monroe played herself. New York Philharmonic pianist Jonathan Feldman played himself. This movie was a great opportunity to see all of these talents. I saw this movie on the Upper West Side, just up the street from Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. 'Twas great to watch it, and then walk outside in the milieu where it all took place...
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet... I ran a search and didn't see it anyway... but Universal is releasing the "Screen Legend Collection" of Cary Grant on November 14. Film titles include:
Big Brown Eyes with Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon
Kiss and Make Up with Genvienve Tobin
Thirty Day Princess - sounds like an earlier version of Roman Holiday with Grant as the reporter and Sylvia Sidney as the Princess.
Wedding Present screwball with Joan Bennett
Wings in the Dark with Myra Loy
All early, and rarely shown flicks!
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I think Mr. Stewart enjoyed a wider fan base. Mr. Fonda was an excellent actor, but I'm not sure that his roles were as varied as Stewart's. Stewart excelled at more genres than Fonda, thus Fonda's fan base is restricted to those that only enjoy his particular type of pictures. Stewart has a number of pictures in so many categories: musicals, comedies, screwball comedies, drama, western, Hitchcock suspense, etc.
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"Brolin, especially, was really good, playing it so straight -- 'I know you are, but what am I?'"
Okay, the memory of that made me laugh aloud all over again. Thank you.
"And by the way, didn't Ball look gorgeous in 'Best Foot Forward?'"
No doubt about it, she was breathtaking in this picture. I believe her nickname on the lot was "Technicolor Tessie". I wonder what she thought about this role? If she like the way she was portraying herself in the picture. I can see how it might confuse the audience into thinking this is what Lucille Ball is really like. Who played this part in the original stage version? Sure the original wasn't about Lucille Ball.
"There was something with Virginia Weidler, where she and her friend were trying to get into someone's hotel room to get an autograph."
You're sure that you're not mixing this up with Best Foot Forward? Miss Weidler was in it, and there were some hi-jinx as she's sneaking into the dormitory to catch her beau...
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Costumes were reused over the years; so I would suppose it's possible that Jack Pickford wore it in a film (he made pictures until 1928), and it was was used again in 1938...
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Lucille Ball in Best Foot Forward was a great call. A meaty self-portrait, rather than a cameo.
I had to giggle at the memory of James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild playing themselves in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The show up as the actors in the movie-within-the-movie: a retelling of the Big Adventure with Brolin playing Pee Wee and Fairchild playing "Dottie" (Elizabeth Daily). But then, this was more of a cameo...
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Bette Midler puts on the most amazing shows. I have seen her numerous times; fantastic production values; sets, costumes. You get your money's worth at a Bette Midler concert.
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Thank you for this tribute to Ann Sothern. I love her. Always have. When I was a child I loved watching the reruns of her television shows "Private Secretary" and "Suzie". I'm not sure why she struck a chord with me a that young age, but I know that I love the timbre of her voice; and perhaps I found comfort in that.
I never knew that the Maisie series was originally intended for Jean Harlow. What a surprise. For one thing, Miss Sothern so perfectly embodied Maisie, it's difficult to picture anyone else in the role. But also, I assumed that Miss Harlow's star ascended too high as a glamour-girl to play Maisie, who was down-to-earth and charmingly lower class.
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With all due respect to the original poster, the Cheetah Girls hold little interest to anyone outside the demographic group for which it was intended. It's a Disney Channel movie for teenage girls, starring (among others) Raven (who was a teen star on the Disney Channel). These movies are about these girls trying to make a singing career.
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You go, Mr. Master!
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The movie versions of Carousel and Liliom begin in heaven, as we meet Billy/Liliom who is already in love. But he returns to earth to help those that he loves...
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