JackBurley

Patty McCormack is definitely alive and well. They screened The Bad Seed in San Francisco a few years ago with the charming Miss McCormack in attendance. I was lucky enough to be there and it was great to hear her reminisce about this movie. She's still working, mainly in television...

"I don't know if we have any children now who would be as good as Patty McCormick was - she was really amazing. Maybe Dakota Fanning?" Patty McCormack was perfect as Rhoda Penmark. Though Dakota Fanning has the acting chops for the role, what made Rhoda Penmark so frightening was the juxtaposition of her evil core with her perfect facade. Reese Witherspoon could have played it ten years ago. Now I think we'd have to hire an unknown...

Mr. English is right, BKeatonfan: Many silent movies are available on DVD now. But September is a swell month for silents. Certainly TCM can keep you busy: September 3: The Passions of Joan of Arc 4: Beyond the Rocks 5: Phantom of the Opera 10: Seven Years Bad Luck 15: A myriad of silents will be shown this day featuring Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and more! 17: Sunrise 18: A Swedish documentary on Greta Garbo's silents will be screened. 24: Norma Shearer in Lady of the Night 25: The Freshman 27: Captain Salvation and Seven Keys to Baldpate

For the uninitiated, that's from Funny Face with Fred Astaire as "Dick" and Audrey Hepburn as "Jo"...

"Cagney was madly in love with Priscilla in 'The Roaring Twenties'!" And didn't he love Rosemary in The Oklahoma Kid?

I don't think Leota Lane ever made a picture with the others, did she? So that leaves Rosemary, Lola with your aforementioned Priscilla. (Does anyone know why the release date for Arsenic and Old Lace was delayed two years?) When I think of Priscilla, I think of Hitchcock's Saboteur, as she took the role that was said to be originally intended for Barbara Stanwyck.

I consider Fiddler on the Roof a musical; and a fine one, at that...

The "clipboard" is a MicroSoft term for the temporary holding "place" where information is kept when you copy it. So when you copy text, it goes to the "clipboard" and when you paste text, you're pasting information from the "clipboard"...

You're a brave woman, Lynn! Suggesting this in the TCM message board where threads pop up monthly with predictions of the demise of this great station. And so many of the predictions snag references to the old AMC and how they started producing their own shows while screening fewer classic films... I've got your back.

As I write this Hit the Deck is playing on TCM in celebration of Jane Powell Day as one of the "Stars Under a Summer Night". It's a bit of a treat: wide screen, some unusual casting (how many musicals feature Jane Darwell, Alan King, J. Carroll Naish?), great tunes, expert dancing (Ann Miller, Russ Tamblyn), joyous singing (Kay Armen, Tony Martin, Vic Damone, besides Jane herself).

Die B?chse der Pandora to Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

"Howard McNear played 'Floyd, the Barber'! Walter Baldwin was in 'The Best Years of Our Lives',..." Actually, we were both correct, ken. Walter Baldwin was the original "Floyd the Barber", but only did one episode. Then Howard McNear took over...

Yes, I don't paste it into Word. I just copy it [to the clipboard]. Just hit Control-C. Then if the message doesn't work, I go back to the posting window and paste it back in...

"thanks ... i'll check 'em out." And how are you doing on your "homework assignment"? Have you seen The Awful Truth, Philadelphia Story, The Major and the Minor, Some Like It Hot or Dogfight yet?

I visited Hearst Castle yesterday while on a road trip of the California coast. It was a heady experience to walk the same corridors as Marion Davies. I saw her bedroom and imagined what life would have been like for her there. There was an exhibition featuring some of her story (and I bought her memoires in the giftshop -- have any of you read them?), and I was surprised at some of the errors or missed information. For example, there was a photo of Miss Davies and Polly Moran on the set of Show People with a caption that read, "Marion Davies and unknown". The caption of a group shot misidentified Myrna Loy as Marion Davies. Maybe I should apply for a job there?

Boys' Town?

"'It's A Most Unusual Day'. I believe the songwriter was Jimmy Van Heusen (not sure)..." That's definitely the song, ch; but it was written by Harold Adamson (lyrics) and Jimmy McHugh (music)...

Just to clarify, when you say Cool World, are you referring to the Ralph Bakshi animated feature or the mondo movie from 1964?

The Narrow Margin < Marie Windsor > Freaky Friday Freaky Friday < Marc McClure > Superman Superman < Gene Hackman > Narrow Margin

"I like him especially in 'Mildred Pierce'. He was good at being vindictive that movie." For a vindictive Jack Carson, check out Cukor's A Star is Born. He kicks Norman Maine while he's down, and it's hard to watch.

Her wheelchair co-stars Glenn Ford? Oh wait, I see... That's Interrupted Melody about the Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence. I'd like to see this one (here I go to the "Suggest a Movie" page again). And Walter Baldwin is in it ("Floyd the Barber"!).

Yes, you did very well. And now I expect to see lots of Garbo and Lamarr suggestions...

And for those who would like to suggest such a day on the "Suggest a Movie" page, her birthday is November 21. So we're under the gun for the November schedule: http://www.tcm.com/suggestamovie/index/#suggestions

Please meet me at the "Suggest a Movie" page, where I submit Eleanor Powell movies every day...

"...I would have liked to add something with the plight of American/Japanese but couldn't think of anything altho I've seen a couple..." If you can stretch your rules a bit to include television movies you could take Farewell to Manzanar, and excellent tv movie from 1976...