JackBurley

"...I saw a good western with Rock Hudson where he played the life and times of John Wesley Hardin. How come all the experts on movie web sites have never heard of it?" Because they haven't seen Raoul Walsh's The Lawless Breed wherein Rock Hudson plays John Wesley Hardin. Lee Van Cleef, Hugh O'Brien, Julie Adams, and John McIntire are also featured in this 1953 western...

That was easier than I expected. I'd forgotten that Louis Jourdan was in Minnelli's Madame Bovary. My, he was young and handsome in that film. I'm not familiar with Forever and a Day, so will look into that now. Your turn, wm!

To me, Erik Rhodes is always Alberto Beddini from another Astaire/Rogers flick: Top Hat. He's passionate, tempestuous and amusing. "Never again will I allow women to wear my dresses!" Alberto Beddini

That's a swell idea drdoolittle, but the TCM schedule's set through October. You might want to suggest this next spring so that TCM can bring this great idea to our televisions next summer. See ya at the beach! P.S. I think it would be delightful to start this theme day with some Mack Sennett bathing beauties!

Ms. Lindley, When looking at your Inbox list, note that there are boxes to the right of each message. If you click on the box, it will "check" it. Then click on the "delete" key at the bottom right of the list. That will delete your unwanted messages. Remember, that you might have your mailbox set up to save Sent messages too. So every once in a while you might want to go in there and delete any unwanted messages too. This will ensure that your mailbox doesn't get too full (which would inhibit the system from delivering any new messages to you). Hope this helps until TCMWebAdministrator arrives...

Go to "Your Control Panel" (just to the upper right of this message). There, scroll towards the bottom of the page and you'll see the section about "watch"ing threads. You can change your settings there. You might already have many threads that are being watched (meaning they'll automatically send you an e-mail to inform you of when they're updated). You can tell which ones, because a little set of binoculars are seen next to the thread title in the forums. When you're in a thread you'll note there's a "stop watching"/"watch this thread" toggle at the top...

Louise Fazenda to Louis Jourdan

One of my most vivid memories of The Mike Douglass Show was the week that he had Ginger Rogers as his co-host. Even as a child I was a classic movie fan, and raced home from school each day so that I could see Miss Rogers on that show. It was not all fun and games; she was sometimes somber and sometimes brittle. I remember her talking about the battle over her dress in Top Hat. This was the first time that I'd heard about how Mr. Astaire hated that dress and the way it molted its feathers as they danced. She discussed the hard work of endless rehearsals to get their dances to the sublime perfection that we witness today. She also went off on a tirade against leftist writers. She wasn't happy about some of the story lines. I believe Once Upon a Honeymoon was one of the movies that she didn't like in retrospect...

"My favorite had to be Tom Snyder." To this day, I miss Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show. His one-on-one conversations were so interesting to watch. I believe he lives here in the Bay Area now, happily retired in Marin County...

Carmen Miranda < Nancy Goes to Rio > Barry Sullivan Barry Sullivan < The Bad and the Beautiful > Gilbert Roland Gilbert Roland < That Lady > Paul Scofield

I have a couple favorites from both ends of the spectrum: Eileen Heckert in The Bad Seed as the desperate and heartbroken Hortense Daigle, mother of a murdered child. She has two monologues in this film and always receives an ovation when it plays in a movie house. Una O'Connor is such a joy to see as a comic foil. She wasn't given much to do, but she shines in juxtaposition to the horrors of Bride of Frankenstein and lends such sass to the romantic Adventures of Robin Hood. For a secondary duo, I'd like to nominate Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey for their work in Brief Encounter. Their romantic sparring in the train station is a charming counterplot to the main romance that's happening between Laura Jesson and the doctor...

Sporadic TCM poster, Michelle, is working on a Frank Morgan bio: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7804492 I'd love to read or see a documentary on the life of Edna Mae Oliver!

"Prince Charmings' part? Singing, or dialogue too?" Mike Douglas "only" did the singing voice of Prince Charming. William Phipps was the speaking voice. What a nice gift for his daughters and their children and grandchildren though...

"Speaking of Oscar ties, the story goes that in 1932 when Fredric March won best actor for 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' he was one vote ahead of Wallace Beery for 'The Champ', yet the Academy decided to call it a tie, giving the Oscar to both actors." I've always been curious about the actual counts these winners receive. T'would be great to take those guys from Price-Waterhouse out for a little drink sometime...

Volume 1 Now Voyager The Star Mr. Skeffington Dark Victory The Letter Volume 2 Old Acquaintance Jezebel Marked Woman What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The Man Who Came to Dinner Stardust (TCM documentary)

Apparently I wasn't clear in my writing either. I'm sorry if I slighted anyone on this board. I certainly don't consider myself an authority, and never imagined that anyone else did either. I'm constantly humbled by the movie knowledge on this board and consider myself a neophyte next to so many here. Nothing that I say can "prove someone else wrong". I can bring evidence in from other sources, but I'm no source on my own... I know some Academy members though and am aware that there is a lot of campaigning around the Oscars; and I'm betting that some old timers do band together in their votes. What I was questioning was the goal to have two people tie (a la Streisand and Hepburn). I don't think there was a campaign to have them tie. I doubt that members called each other to say "I'll vote for Hepburn if you'll vote for Streisand so we can have a tie". To have a campaign of this order work would be a miracle. And the miracle was that there was a tie at all...

Consider the stereotype broken. Carole Lombard, Lucille Ball are two very obvious examples of funny, beautiful women. Then please add Norma Shearer (Idiot's Delight!), Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn and Irene Dunne to the list.

Indeed, it's the one and same Penny Singleton. Good call, doolittle!

Where's my Time Machine when I need it?

"I wish they had played 'Gentleman's Agreement' today, or is that going to be on Greg Peck's day?" Alas, Gregory Peck's day was last Friday and they didn't play it then either. I believe Gentleman's Agreement belongs to Twentieth Century Fox, so you might catch it over at the Fox Movie Channel.

"Years ago, in San Francisco, some guy bought a lot of props from the old MGM sale, and he opened a big warehouse store for a few months." Was that Kerwin Matthews' store? He starred in a number of pictures (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Devil at 4 O'Clock, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver...) and had a Hollywood memorabilia store in San Francisco for some years...

Mr.Write trumped wordmaster's ace. Your deal, MWLA...

Glad you found out. Now we can all see what you're referring to:

"...it's difficult to tell about the kids today - the movies they are in are so insipid - who knows what they could really do with something of depth." Last night I saw Little Miss Sunshine and Abigail Breslin did a formidable job as Olive. She was very natural; "a real kid" surrounded by several automatons in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant. There was a lot of Rhoda Penmark potential in those automatons...

Zero Mostel made the role his own; one of the great performances of 1960's Broadway. However, Topol had a better singing voice and did a great job in the movie...