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No problem. I just don't know what to tell you. It could be anything from poor quality copies to transmission difficulties somewhere down the line. I haven't always been pleased with some of the fare on TCM On Demand. The last time "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" was available, it looked bland and almost colorless. And this was a film that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography of 1969! Then again, some other films -- like "Gone With the Wind" -- look just like new. My pet peeve is when the closed captioning is fragmented or unintelligible. I had that problem with the local PBS stations for years, but things have improved recently. I wish I could say the same about the captions for FOX shows that are on demand. My advice would be to just hang in there a while longer. You have to believe things will get better. P.S. As far as I know, the TCM On Demand movies are not available in HD yet.

Charlie Ruggles was in "Papa's Delicate Condition" (1962) with Jackie Gleason. Jackie Gleason was in "The Hustler" (1961) with Paul Newman. Next: Eddie Redmayne.

TCM On Demand for December 20, 2014 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Apartment (1960) -- Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White, Edie Adams. Billy Wilder's cautionary tale about the workplace won five Academy Awards, including three for the filmmaker himself -- Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (shared with longtime writing partner I.A.L. Diamond). The film also won Oscars for Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle) and Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell). Also nominated were Lemmon (Best Actor), MacLaine (Best Actress), Kruschen (Best Supporting Actor), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Joseph LaShelle) and Best Sound (Gordon Sawyer). In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the film No. 93 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When the AFI updated the list in 2007, the film rose 13 spots to No. 80. This was the last black-and-white film to win the Best Picture Oscar until Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" (1993), which features minimal color segments. The comedy/drama stars Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, whose rapid rise at a New York insurance company is tied to how often he's allowed members of the office hierarchy to use the key to his apartment for extramarital romantic trysts. MacLaine co-stars as Miss Kubelik, the elevator operator who wins Baxter's heart, although she is secretly involved with the company's powerful personnel director, Mr. Sheldrake (MacMurray). Jameson -- cast as a sexy blonde -- does a dead-on impersonation of Marilyn Monroe, whose erratic behavior exasperated Wilder during the making of his previous film, "Some Like It Hot" (1959). Wilder, Lemmon and MacLaine reunited three years later for the film comedy "Irma la Douce," which earned MacLaine another Best Actress nomination. The film's storyline was translated to Broadway in 1968 as the musical "Promises, Promises," which ran for 1,281 performances and won Tony Awards for Jerry Orbach (as Baxter) and Marian Mercer (as Margie MacDougall, played in the film by Holiday). The book was by Neil Simon and the music and lyrics were from the songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The choreographer was Michael Bennett, who would go on to work wonders with "A Chorus Line," the 1975 musical sensation that won nine Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Expires December 26, 2014. 2. The Glass Slipper (1955) -- Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester, Barry Jones, Amanda Blake, Lisa Daniels, Lurene Tuttle, Liliane Montevecchi. Uncredited: Walter Pidgeon (narrator), Bobby Diamond. Caron followed her 1953 Academy Award-nominated performance in "Lili" with this musical version of the tale of Cinderella. The picture was directed by Charles Walters, whose career as a filmmaker and choreographer has been saluted by Turner Classic Movies in its December 2014 editions of Friday Night Spotlight. The movie's screenplay was written by Helen Deutsch, who previously adapted "Lily" from a short story by Paul Gallico. She also wrote this film's libretto.The production numbers were created by Roland Petit, France's leading post-World War II choreographer. Petit, who was married to ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire ("Hans Christian Andersen"), was instrumental in Caron's development as a dancer during her teenage years. Caron plays Ella, a fanciful young girl living in a European principality. She is much maligned and mistreated by her stepmother (Lanchester) and stepsisters (Blake, Daniels) who force her to do their dirty work. As a result, Ella also is reviled by the townspeople because of her soiled appearance from working around cinders. But the young girl is a dreamer and believes a prophecy that she will live in a palace one day. In the following clip, Ella fantasizes about working on a special kitchen project with Prince Charles (Wilding), the principality's well-educated and much-admired heir: A few months after this film's release, Blake began appearing as Miss Kitty in the CBS Western series "Gunsmoke." She was a regular on the program until she decided to leave before the 1974-75 season, its final year on the air. Narrator Pidgeon later starred as the King (opposite Ginger Rogers as the Queen) in a 1965 CBS television production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella." The musical special, which featured an 18-year-old Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella, also starred Stuart Damon (Dr. Alan Quartermaine of "General Hospital") as the Prince, Celeste Holm as the Fairy Godmother, and Jo Van Fleet, Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick as Cinderella's family members. In the 2014 screen version of Stephen Sondheim's storybook musical "Into the Woods," Cinderella is played by Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine is her prince. Christine Baranski, Diane Lockhart in TV's "The Good Wife," co-stars as Cinderella's stepmother. Tammy Blanchard and Lucy Punch play stepsisters Florinda and Lucinda, respectively. Baranski recently made headlines when she compared Cinderella's family in the movie musical to the Kardashians. "They have a lot of money, the taste is over-the-top and they're ambitious and clawing and would have their own reality show if they could," Baranski said. "You'll feel who these people are in terms of contemporary culture. It was great fun to do." Disney's 2015 live-action "Cinderella," directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh ("Thor"), stars Lily James of TV's "Downton Abbey" as the title character. Richard Madden, who played Robb Stark on "Game of Thrones, co-stars as Prince Charming. Expires December 26, 2014.

Alice Pearce was in "Dear Heart" (1964) with Geraldine Page. Geraldine Page was in "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962) with Paul Newman. Next: Olga Kurylenko.

I happened to look at the original TCM afternoon schedule for today (Friday, December 18th), and "How to Murder Your Wife" was on the menu. What a coincidence that would have been!

Si, Señor! All four movies have scenes set in Cuba, which is very much in the news this week: 1. "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958) -- The title character played by Spencer Tracy is a Cuban fisherman. 2. "Topaz" (1969) -- Sir Alfred Hitchcock's final film of the 1960s is about international political intrigue during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. 3. "The Godfather Part II" (1974) -- Several segments of Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning sequel take place in Havana on the eve of Fidel Castro's overthrow of the government of Fulgencio Batista. 4. "A Few Good Men" (1992) -- The entire film revolves around a deadly incident involving Marines at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The movie scene that a lot of people have been talking about in the last couple of days is this one: Nice job, Señor Fred! It's your thread!

If Helen of Troy was "the face that launch'd a thousand ships," then Rice-Davies and Keeler were the women who sank a few.

Tonight's edition of CBS' "The Late Show with David Letterman" is Dave's last new episode before the holidays. That means it's the final chance to enjoy Letterman's annual TV Christmas traditions (he's calling it quits on May 20, 2015). Letterman's holiday episode is when actor-comedian-radio host Jay Thomas shows up to recount an unforgettable 1970s incident involving Clayton Moore, the star of TV's "The Lone Ranger." Then Thomas competes with the talk-show host in a football-throwing contest to see who can knock an oversized meatball from the top of a studio Christmas tree. But the best part is when the great Darlene Love shows up to sing her 1963 holiday classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," backed by bandleader Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra. She's been doing it on Letterman's late-night shows on NBC and CBS since 1986. As the following compilation shows, the segment has become a bigger and bigger production every year.

TCM On Demand for December 19, 2014 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) -- Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara, Steve Lawrence, Percy Rodrigues, Pat Hingle, James Shigeta, Robert Shaw, Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Barbara Ann Teer. This made-for-television movie, which put a 1960s Cold War spin on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," was written by Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone") and produced and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Ben's great uncle). As part of a recurring ABC series designed to promote the United Nations, the 90-minute program aired on network television only once -- on December 28, 1964. Thanks to the Xerox Corporation, which underwrote the overall U.N. project for $4 million, the telecast was without commercial interruption. Turner Classic Movies resurrected the program in December 2012 and has re-aired it every holiday season since. Hayden stars as Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist whose son Marley (Peter Fonda, mostly cut from the finished product) was killed on Christmas Eve 1944. As a result of his loss, Grudge's heart has hardened, turning him into an isolationist with no social conscience. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three spirits (Lawrence, Hingle and Shaw) who show him the importance of international understanding and cooperation. Sellers as The Imperial Me Sellers, who co-starred with Hayden in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," appears as The Imperial Me, an eccentric, isolationist leader of the post-apocalyptic future. Ekland, Sellers' wife at the time, appears in the segment with him. She can be seen knitting in the back of a meeting room. Despite his deleted scenes, you can still get glimpses of Fonda as a ghostly image, seated at a dining room table and on a wall portrait. The production's music was composed by Henry Mancini. The Hawaiian-born Shigeta, who appears as a doctor, died July 28, 2014 at the age of 85. Expires December 25, 2014. 2. A Christmas Carol (1938) -- Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry MacKay, Lynne Carver, Leo G. Carroll, Lionel Braham, Ann Rutherford, D'Arcy Corrigan, Ronald Sinclair. Uncredited: June Lockhart, Halliwell Hobbes, I. Stanford Jolley. Directed by Edwin L. Marin ("Maisie," "Miss Annie Rooney"), this version of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale was intended as a vehicle for Oscar-winner Lionel Barrymore, who frequently played Ebenezer Scrooge in radio productions. But Owen stepped in after Barrymore sustained a hip injury. Barrymore would go on to play the Scrooge-like Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). Director Marin had previously worked with Owen in a 1933 film version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet," in which the actor played Sherlock Holmes. June Lockhart, who as an adult starred in the television series "Lassie," "Lost in Space" and "Petticoat Junction," appears with her real-life parents. Gene and Kathleen Lockhart co-star in the production as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cratchit, respectively. Expires December 25, 2014. 3. Scrooge (1970) -- Albert Finney, Sir Alec Guinness, Dame Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, Michael Medwin, David Collings, Anton Rodgers, Suzanne Neve, Frances Cuka, Derek Francis, Gordon Jackson, Roy Kinnear, Mary Peach, Paddy Stone, Kay Walsh. This musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was spearheaded by Academy Award-winning songwriter Leslie Bricusse ("Talk to the Animals"), who adapted the screenplay and provided compositions for the music score. Directed by Ronald Neame ("The Poseidon Adventure"), the production received four Oscar nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright and Pamela Cornell), Best Costume Design (Margaret Furse), Best Original Song ("Thank You Very Much" by Bricusse) and Best Music, Original Song Score (Bricusse, Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer). The film's cinematography was by Oswald Morris, who died March 17, 2014 at the age of 98. He won a 1971 Academy Award for his work in "Fiddler on the Roof" and earned nominations for "Oliver!" (1968) and "The Wiz" (1978). Expires December 25, 2014.

Ray Danton was in "The Longest Day" (1962) with Red Buttons. Red Buttons was in "When Time Ran Out..." (1980) with Paul Newman. Next: Gretchen Mol. NOTE: Actually, you could have cut out a step on Lennon by connecting him to Norman Rossington, who played the Beatles' manager in "A Hard Day's Night." Rossington is in a couple of scenes with Sean Connery in "The Longest Day."

I never knew until now that she turned down the role of Barbarella because she did not want to become typecast. The role made Jane Fonda a worldwide sex symbol.

Then you meant "Thank God It's Friday" by Love & Kisses, not Donna Summer,

Here's an obit from Yahoo.com. She certainly was one of the most unforgettable European bombshells to appear in American movies. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/italian-actress-virna-lisi-dead-78-120604744.html#gTyzs50

TCM On Demand for December 18, 2014 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. City Lights (1931) -- Sir Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann. Uncredited actors include: Eddie Baker, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin. Chaplin headlined, wrote, produced, directed, edited and composed the musical score for this poignant tale about his Tramp character's unyielding affection for a blind flower girl (Cherrill). The mostly silent film is now considered one of the screen's stellar achievements. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the comedy No. 76 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film soared all the way up to No. 11. Cherrill, who had a short-lived career as an actress, was the first of Cary Grant's five wives. She and the actor were married in 1934 and divorced a year later. An unknown Jean Harlow was an extra in the restaurant scene, but her appearances were cut from the final version. Memorable scene: This film has many great moments to consider -- from the opening sequence at a statue unveiling to the unforgettable finale. But here's a vote for the meticulously choreographed boxing match, in which the Tramp tries to earn enough money to pay for a sight-restoring operation for his beloved flower girl. It was one of the highlights of the film clips package aired moments before Chaplin accepted an honorary Academy Award on April 10, 1972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jAXqeTsVjo This was one of three films selected by actor Jason Lee (of TV's "My Name Is Earl"), Turner Classic Movie's special guest programmer for December 2014. Expires December 24, 2014. 2. Paris, Texas (1984) -- Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson, Bernhard Wicki, Sam Berry, Claresie Mobley, Viva, Socorro Valdez, Edward Fayton, Justin Hogg, Tom Farrell, John Lurie, Jeni Vici, Sally Norvell, Sharon Menzel, The Mydolls. This drama by German director Wim Wenders ("Wings of Desire," "The Buena Vista Social Club") won the Palme d'Or (or Golden Palm), the most prestigious honor at the Cannes Film Festival. The tale of family reunion and redemption was based on the play by actor-playwright Sam Shepard, who is credited with writing the movie's screenplay. L.M. "Kit" Carson, who died October 20, 2014 at the age of 73, received an adaptation credit. The film stars Stanton -- a great character actor in a rare leading role -- as Travis Henderson, who emerges from the Texas desert after years of wandering. He hooks up with his brother Walt (Stockwell) and they head for Los Angeles to search for the young son (Hunter Carson) he hasn't seen in years. Travis also tries to track down his ex-wife Jane (played by the exquisite German-born Kinski), who hasn't seen their son a while although she has continued to support him financially. The bittersweet reunion of the exes is a highlight of the film. The late film critic Roger Ebert included the drama in his "Great Movies" list. He wrote: "The movie lacks any of the gimmicks used to pump up emotion and add story interest, because it doesn't need them: It is fascinated by the sadness of its own truth. The screenplay was written by Sam Shepard, that playwright of alienation and rage, and it reflects themes that repeat all through Wenders' career. He is attracted to the road movie, to American myth, to those who stand outside and witness suffering. Travis in 'Paris, Texas' is like Damiel, the guardian angel in 'Wings of Desire.' He loves and cares, he empathizes, but he cannot touch. He does not have that gift." Hunter Carson was the son of "Kit" Carson and actress Karen Black, who died on August 8, 2013 at the age of 74. She and her son co-starred in a 1986 remake of the classic 1953 sci-fi film "Invaders from Mars." The film's music score was composed by the multi-Grammy Award-winning musician Ry Cooder. In 2003, he was ranked eighth in a Rolling Stone survey of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." Expires December 24, 2014.

That's also close...for at least one of the movies involved. Let me ask this: How did you come up with your answer?

Did you mean Donna Summer's "Last Dance" from the movie "Thank God It's Friday"? It won the Academy Award for writer Paul Jabara for Best Original Song of 1979.

That's close...But as they say on "Jeopardy!": More specific information, please.

Thanks! Try this one: 1. "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958). 2. "Topaz" (1969). 3. "The Godfather Part II" (1974). 4. "A Few Good Men" (1992).

How about this one? 1. "Dark City" (1998). 2. "Requiem for a Dream" (2000). 3. "House of Sand and Fog" (2003).

Swimming pools?

TCM On Demand for December 17, 2014 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1957) -- Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Sir Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker, Alexander Knox, Virginia McKenna, Richard Harris, Ben Wright, Peter Illing, Terence de Marney, Ashley Cowan, Charles Davis. Uncredited: John Le Mesurier. Cooper and Heston teamed up for the first and only time in this drama based on the 1956 novel by British author Hammond Innes. Directed by Michael Anderson, Sr. ("Around the World in 80 Days," "Operation Crossbow"), the film revolves around a board of inquiry probe into the mysterious sinking of a merchant marine vessel. Sir Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct the project with Cooper attached to it, but the filmmaker backed off and wound up doing "North By Northwest" with Cary Grant instead. This was the penultimate film in Cooper's long career. He died of cancer on May 13, 1961 at the age of 60. Expires December 23, 2014.

Thanks for the math lesson! I'll bet Olivier felt like he was in his late 70s after working with Hoffman.

But sometimes different acting styles can clash, to the detriment of at least one of the actors. Willliam Goldman, the two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter who wrote the novel "Marathon Man" and the movie's adapted screenplay, once told the Manchester Guardian that he did not respect Hoffman's treatment of Olivier, who was in his late 70s during the filming. According to the piece, Hoffman, "who - in a reversal of their on-screen roles in 'Marathon Man' - subjected the ailing but gallant Laurence Olivier to considerable physical torment by forcing him to walk around and around for an hour rehearsing a scene, even though the ageing star's ankles were swelling." " 'Olivier wasn't going to give in,' Goldman recalls. Why? 'Because he was Oliver.' "

Yeah, but how would you feel if Spielberg wrote and performed all of the music in his films?

TCM On Demand for December 16, 2014 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Kiss Them for Me (1957) -- Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Suzy Parker, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden, Nathaniel Frey, Werner Klemperer, Jack Mullaney. Uncredited actors: Richard Deacon, Harry Carey, Jr., John Doucette, Kathleen Freeman, Nancy Kulp, Peter Leeds, Ray Montgomery, Frank Nelson, Maudie Prickett. This was the first of four collaborations between Grant, Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month for December 2014, and director Stanley Donen. They also worked together on "Indiscreet" (1958), "The Grass Is Greener" (1960) and "Charade" (1963). The military comedy was based on the 1945 Broadway hit by Luther Davis, derived from the 1944 novel "Shore Leave" by Frederic Wakeman Sr. The play's original cast included several future film stars -- Richard Widmark, Judy Holliday and Paul Ford -- as well as Daniel Petrie, an actor who would become an Emmy Award-winning director ("Eleanor and Franklin," "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years"). The film stars Grant, Walston and Blyden as Navy war heroes who are sent to San Francisco for a well-deserved four-day leave. They hatch a plan to host a wild party at their ritzy hotel, and try their best to ditch the Navy P.R. officer (Klemperer) assigned to them. Suzy Parker, who -- along with her sister Dorian Leigh -- was an early supermodel, made her film debut as the socialite who charms Grant's character. Parker's lines were dubbed by Deborah Kerr, Grant's co-star in another 1957 film, "An Affair to Remember" Mansfield's presence in the film inspired the British band Siouxsie and the Banshees to release the 1991 song titled "Kiss Them for Me." The song makes references to the sex symbol, who was killed in a June 1967 auto accident on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi, Mississippi. Mansfield's driver and her agent/boyfriend also were killed in the crash. Three of her children survived, including a 3 1/2-year-old Mariska Hargitay, now the Emmy Award-winning star of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Expires December 22, 2014. 2. Love Affair (1939) --Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn, Maurice Moscovitch. Uncredited actors: Joan Leslie, Gerald Mohr, Scotty Beckett, The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir. Leo McCarey's story about the jinxed romance between a French artist (Boyer) and an American woman (Dunne) received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Dunne) and Best Supporting Actress (Ouspenskaya). The production also received nominations for Best Writing, Original Story (McCarey and Mildred Cram), Best Art Direction (Van Nest Polglase, Alfred Herman) and Best Original Song ("Wishing" by Buddy G. DeSylva). McCarey remade the film almost 20 years later as "An Affair to Remember" (1957), with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the lead roles (Nora Ephron would borrow elements of this version for her 1993 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan hit "Sleepless in Seattle"). And, returning to the title "Love Affair," Warren Beatty and Annette Bening co-starred in a 1994 version opposite Katharine Hepburn in her final film role. Expires December 22, 2014. 3. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) -- Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Barbara Read, Elizabeth Risdon, Ralph Remley, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Ray Meyer, Maurice Moscovitch, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt, Dell Henderson, Louise Seidel, Paul Stanton, Gene Morgan. Director Leo McCarey's bleak portrait of Barkley and Lucy Cooper (Moore, Bondi), an elderly couple whose 50-year bond is threatened when they lose their home during the Depression. Although they have reared five children to adulthood, the prospects are dim that they will be able to stay together. McCarey, whose credits included "Going My Way" (1944) and "An Affair to Remember" (1957), won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Director, but it was for the Irene Dunne-Cary Grant comedy "The Awful Truth." McCarey always believed that he should have won the Oscar for this film. Expires December 22, 2014. 4. Noël Coward's 'Brief Encounter' (1945) -- Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg, Marjorie Mars, Margaret Barton. Uncredited: Alfie Bass. Directed by Sir David Lean before his epic films period, this British romantic drama was adapted for the screen by Coward from his 1936 play "Still Life." Johnson and Howard play two people -- married to others -- who become involved after they meet by chance at a railway station. After the film was released in the United States in 1946, Lean received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, while Johnson earned a Best Actress nod. It also received a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination (Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame). Expires December 22, 2014. 5. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) -- Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Sig Ruman, Victor Kilian, John Carroll, Don "Red" Barry, Noah Beery, Jr., Manuel Álvarez Maciste, Milisa Sierra, Lucio Villegas, Pat Flaherty, Pedro Regas, Pat West. Uncredited: Robert Sterling, Sammee Tong. Howard Hawks' drama about the courageous pilots of a South American air service earned Academy Award nominations for Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Joseph Walker) and Best Special Effects (Roy Davidson, photographic; Edwin C. Hahn, sound). Hayworth, Grant and Arthur Mitchell had a banner year with roles in this film, "Gone with the Wind," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and the Charles Laughton version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." But the movie for which he received the 1939 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor was "Stagecoach." Hayworth, who would become a great star in musicals during the 1940s, made her first big splash in a small dramatic role as Judy MacPherson. Expires December 22, 2014. 6. Penny Serenade (1941) -- Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney, Leonard Willey, Wallis Clark, Walter Soderling, Jane Biffle. Grant never won a competitive Academy Award during his long career, but this was one of the two films for which he received Best Actor nominations (the other was 1944's "None But the Lonely Heart"). He and Dunne play a married couple who struggle to provide the best of care for their adopted child. Grant and Dunne The movie was directed by George Stevens, who would go on to win Best Director Oscars for "A Place in the Sun" (1951) and "Giant" (1956). This was the last of three pictures in which Grant and Dunne were co-stars. They previously appeared together in the comedies "The Awful Truth" (1937) and "My Favorite Wife" (1940). Expires December 22, 2014.