JackBurley
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That's definitely The Major and the Minor; one of the sexiest and funniest comedies around (thanks to Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder)...
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"Tyrone Power in 'Captain from Castile' ... but I can't remember the blonde girl."
Might it have been Barbara Lawrence?
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"They have been mentioned before but I have to add 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' for it's message. The other is 'Them', That sound was in my head for weeks afterward, and I think that's when I started to dislike crickets.
Crickets? I wonder if you intended to mention The Beginning of the End, the 1957 Sci-Fi wherein giant grasshoppers take over? Them! preceded this one by a few years, but it involved giant ants that took over. I can hear the pitch meeting at AB-PT Pictures: "It'll be just like Them! but better -- it'll have locusts!"
You are so right: The Day the Earth Stood Still is a terrific picture. Patricia Neal, Billy Grey, the stalwart Michael Rennie, and that hunk of steel, Gort! Though it is such a reflection of its time, I think it still works today. And Bernard Herrmann's score is a knock-out!
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Thanks for the erratum, Ayres! I thought it came from something that was pre-American In Paris. I'm impressed that you remembered about the post! 'Twas good of you to update us.
This further proves the point that there are so many Gene Kelly movies out there that are not played. I love The Pirate, Singin' in the Rain, the aforementioned An American In Paris, Summer Stock, Cover Girl, For Me and My Gal, but it's only been this last year that I've seen Take Me Out to the Ballgame and I've never had the opportunity to see:
Seagulls Over Sorrento
The Devil Makes Three
It's a Big Country
Living in a Big Way
The Cross of Lorraine
Thousands Cheer
Du Barry Was a Lady
Pilot #5
That's a lot of Kelly for me to be missing. Now I'm wishing Mr. Kelley were one of the featured players for this month's Summer Under the Stars!
Thanks again!
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filmlover, I suspect you are a treasure. What a bittersweet sight. Bittersweet, because I see all that I've missed by not getting TCM sooner. These look like great resources; too bad we can only get them back to 2002.
Garbo, filmlover told us about this yesterday; that we can buy these:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/message.jspa?messageID=7823445#7823445
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Susan Kohner is alive and well. An acquaintance of mine was producing a revival of Imitation of Life and was in negotiations with Ms. Kohner regarding a personal appearance. This event didn't happen (it was going to be last month), but she was well.
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Warner Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment has announced they'll be releasing a bunch of triple-feature discs on November 7; all priced at $14.98. Included are:
Colt 45/Tall Man Riding/Forth Worth
Harum Scarum/Speedway/The Trouble with Girls
Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie
National Velvet/The Story of Sea Biscuit/Black Beauty
Objective Burma!/Never So Few/Go For Broke
The Telegraph Trail/Somewhere in Sonora/The Man from Monterey
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"...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...
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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!
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Here's a link to help veepee find the upcoming shorts thread:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=83254&tstart=0
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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
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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!
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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...
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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...
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Louise Fazenda to Louis Jourdan
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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...
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"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...
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Carmen Miranda < Nancy Goes to Rio > Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan < The Bad and the Beautiful > Gilbert Roland
Gilbert Roland < That Lady > Paul Scofield
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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...
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"I agree, there is something about Joans beauty that is striking! I look into those beautiful eyes with those perfectly arched brows and it is breathtaking. The role she played in Humoresque was great with all her beauty shining thru."
I recently watched Dancing Lady, a 1933 Joan Crawford vehicle and was fascinated by her. Like a train wreck, some of this movie is pretty awful, but I couldn't take my eyes off her. She had a freakish beauty about her; everything is bigger than life, her eyes are as big as lanterns. Usually the most difficult thing for me to wrap my little brain around is that she was only 5'5"! But in Dancing Lady one can get a sense of this. I wonder if the great Adrian was still trying to figure out how to best dress her (though he'd certainly dressed her well in Grand Hotel and gave her the famous Letty Lynton dress before Dancing Lady), as the porportions of some of her ensembles sometimes lend her a squat look. Those broad shoulders... she's a little dancing monolith. The close-ups? I wanted to freeze frame every one of them. It's the same sense that I have when I see Garbo or Dietrich; I can't imagine seeing someone like that on the street -- in "real life".
Joan Crawford's beauty became more "natural" in the 1940's. Susan and God, Humoresque and others portray a more gracious beauty. I'd love to know how she came to the decisions regarding her harder look in the 1950's when she tossed her tweezers aside and exaggerated her lips. She is fascinating.
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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!
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"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...
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"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...
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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)
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"What do you think of the 'remakes', all starring Steve Martin."
They're remakes in name only...