JackBurley
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Pearl White (the Perils of Pauline gal) made serials in the 19teens. Some were self-titled: Pearl's Admirers, Pearl as a Detective, Pearl and the Tramp, etc.; she also did some with the character named "Elaine": The Exploits of Elaine, The New Exploits of Elaine were both made in 1915...
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I believe one of them is Richard Rogers' "Lover", which is from Paramount's Jeanette MacDonald vehicle, Love Me Tonight...
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Sorry for the delay; I was on a little "Classic Movie Tour"...
Well done, wordmaster! Your route from Moore to McCormack was better than the example I had in mind. Please wordmaster, feel free to offer a query...
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Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer featured Harry Warren, himself; Gladys Brittain and Margie Hines; and the dancers Marguerite and LeRoy. For the schedule of upcoming shorts, keep an eye on this thread:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7817912
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I think the last one with any punch was seeing Judy Davis in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows... Another biopic with punch was A Beautiful Mind, also from 2001.
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This Forum is far to mercurial to give a location of a thread. Let's give her a link. This one should help:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7817411
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Sadly, much of it is public record. Franchot Tone was married to Barbara Payton in 1951; they divorced in seven weeks later and she returned to Tom Neal. Hospital records from Sept. 13, 1951 show that Tone was badly beaten; he was in a coma and required plastic surgery to repair his broken jaw, etc. Neal's story is worse: he was later imprisoned for murdering his wife Gale Bennett. Dreadful, tragic story.
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P.S. I think that Nat King Cole was very handsome, with a smile that could act as a beacon. Maybe not at the Tyrone Power-level of Taye Diggs, but Taye can sing and act. He'd be swell in the part! And he can look goofy (or Mickey) when he wants:
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Doris Day introduced the song in The Man Who Knew Too Much, and she also sang it in The Glass Bottom Boat.
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As if Madame Curie, Eddie Duchan, or Queen Christina were attractive? This is Hollywood, Bill! Here's Queen Christina, let me know if you see any resemblance to Garbo:
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Grace Moore to Patricia McCormack
No television; no uncredited; no delete scenes.
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When we were kids, I had a pal who could perform a great imitation of a theremin. When we'd sit at the dinner table, I'd "draw" the lines with the dinner fork on the table linens as my pal would make the sounds of the theremin. Then we'd explode with laughter and pretend we didn't see the disapproving looks of the adults. My parents must have been so bewildered; I was reenacting Hitchcock movies while other kids were experimenting with drugs...
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I just tried looking into this and discovered all sorts of things I'd never known. I wasn't aware that Franchot Tone was seriously injured in a brawl with Tom Neal over the affections of Barbara Payton. Apparently a new book is being published about Ms. Payton this year:
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What a timely question! I'm about to embark on a road trip and am to bring the cds. I collect soundtracks (and say my nightly prayers that soundtracks of The Apartment, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights will one day be released), and just added a couple to the stack for this three day trip. Today, we'll be going to San Juan Batista: better known as the mission where Kim Novak falls from the [non-existent] tower in Vertigo. So this soundtrack will be played as we approach there. On Tuesday, I'll be at Hearst Castle in San Simeon; William Randolph Hearst's venerable estate -- so I'm bringing along my Citizen Kane disk to remind us of Xanadu...
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I've heard Ben Mankiewicz give "back-handed compliments" or let it be known, in a chiding way, that he doesn't care for aspects of a film...
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"Nat "King" Cole! What a voice. Yes a very good movie idea, but who would play the lead?"
Taye Diggs
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'Twas clear from the beginning, Mr. Dan. Just giving you a nudge, that's all...
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Isn't it one of the Gold Digger movies?
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August 30 is Joan Blondell's birthday. Gee, I wish they'd devoted that day to her. I love Sidney Poitier; but couldn't they have given the 27th to him?
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Two great ideas, though I have to admit I was disappointed to hear about Ms. Hutton's role in the life of Nat King Cole. I guess I idolize him, and hate to hear anything torrid. I think of him as a "father figure", and so I don't want to hear anything torrid. But there was certainly enough in his life to portray. That'd be swell. I also love Sam Cooke's music, but don't know that much about his life; so would be very interested in a biopic. And he's not a father figure to me, so it can be as torrid as you'd like.
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"Pure incest? I don't see it that way."
You're right: there was nothing pure about it...
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La Belle et la Bete
Ladri di Biciclette
La Notte Bianche
Les Enfants du Paradis
Amarcord
Wild Strawberries
8 1/2
Cinema Paradiso
Ju Dou
La Dolce Vita
I'm ashamed that I still haven't see anything by Andrei Tarkovsky; and after seeing Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter on TCM, I want to see more of his work. I love the works of Yimou Zhang. I still have some voids to fill in Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre (another shameful fact [i allow myself to be so vulnerable with y'all]: I've never seen Rashomon).
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Anyone remember her cameo in the Judy Holliday flick It Should Happen To You? In the movie, Gladys Glover (played by Miss Holliday) has gained some celebrity and is now appearing on television panel shows. She's on a panel similar to the "What's My Line?" show, and one of the other panelists is none other than Constance Bennett. She plays herself (perfect casting!) and represents the glamour and wit that was all part of being featured on these shows.
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Eric Blore < Fancy Pants > Bruce Cabot
Bruce Cabot < Cat Ballou > Lee Marvin
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