PrinceSaliano

BACHELOR DADDY (1941) HIT THE ROAD (1941) HOLD THAT GHOST (1941) BURMA CONVOY (1941) THE WOLF MAN (1941) NORTH TO THE KLONDIKE (1942) THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942) EAGLE SQUADRON (1942) SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR (1942) THE GREAT IMPERSONATION (1942) KEEP 'EM SLUGGING (1943) CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943) ALL BY MYSELF (1943) HERS TO HOLD (1943) CRAZY HOUSE (1943) YOU'RE A LUCKY FELLOW, MR. SMITH (1943) SON OF DRACULA (1943) THE MAD GHOUL (1943) HIS BUTLER'S SISTER (1943) LADIES COURAGEOUS (1944) WEIRD WOMAN (1944) FOLLOW THE BOYS (1944) PARDON MY RHYTHM (1944) JUNGLE WOMAN (1944) THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE (1944) PEARL OF DEATH (1944) BOWERY TO BROADWAY (1944) THE FROZEN GHOST (1945) Free Evelyn from the vaults!

She didn't make any horror films...although she did appear (briefly) in the comedy THE INVISIBLE WOMAN and the Poe-inspired mystery THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET.

BOSS OF BULLION CITY (1940) THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (1940) LUCKY DEVILS (1941) RAIDERS OF THE DESERT (1941) MOONLIGHT IN HAWAII (1941) SOUTH OF TAHITI (1941) BOMBAY CLIPPER (1942) MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET (1942) ARABIAN NIGHTS (1942) WHITE SAVAGE (1943) ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES (1944) FOLLOW THE BOYS (1944) COBRA WOMAN (1944) GYPSY WILDCAT (1944) BOWERY TO BROADWAY (1944) SUDAN (1945) TANGIER (1946) THE EXILE (1947) PIRATES OF MONTEREY (1947) Free Maria from the vaults!

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Cripes.

Perhaps TCM can obtain the old commercials for Arthur Treacher's Fisn'n Chips and run them as well. Gee, won't that be fun?

Well, this is fine since TCM has shown all those numerous Universal and Paramount pre-Codes and reran them a half-dozen times. Oh, wait......

I am completely opposed to this. We have films shut away in vaults (many for decades) and this is supposed to be good news? I would also like to point out the most interesting period of The Tonight Show (the first 10 years at least, 1962-72) no longer exists, as those tapes were "wiped"...taped over as a cost-saving measure.

WE AMERICANS (1928) THE LAST WARNING (1929) SCANDAL (1929) CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS (1930) KING OF JAZZ (1930) RESURRECTION (1931) SEED (1931) FRANKENSTEIN (1931) BACK STREET (1932) ONLY YESTERDAY (1933) BELOVED (1934) AS GOOD AS MARRIED (1937) SINNERS IN PARADISE (1938) BETWEEN US GIRLS (1942) Raid the Universal vaults!

Everyone knows the first one... ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) EAST IS WEST (1930) MANY A SLIP (1931) IRON MAN (1931) UP FOR MURDER (1931) THE SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAM (1931) HEAVEN ON EARTH (1931) THE IMPATIENT MAIDEN (1932) THE COHENS & THE KELLYS IN HOLLYWOOD (1932) NIGHT WORLD (1932) OKAY, AMERICA! (1932) DON'T BET ON BLONDES (1933) CROSS COUNTRY CRUISE (1934) LET'S BE RITZY (1934) THE DARK MIRROR (1946) Raid the Universal vaults!

Six ultra-rarities (though I've seen two)... KING FOR A NIGHT (1933) LET'S TALK IT OVER (1934) GIFT OF GAB (1934) EMBARRASSING MOMENTS (1934) I'VE BEEN AROUND (1934) PRINCESS O'HARA (1935) Raid the Universal vaults!

A Helen Twelvetrees film will be shown tomorrow. Helen was a pre-Code star who is inexplicably ignored by TCM.

Lotsa rarities here... THE COHENS & THE KELLYS IN HOLLYWOOD (1932) THE ALL-AMERICAN (1932) THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) AIR MAIL (1932) LAUGHTER IN HELL (1933) PRIVATE JONES (1933) THE KISS BEFORE THE MIRROR (1933) SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM (1933) THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) BELOVED (1934) I LIKE IT THAT WAY (1934) I'LL TELL THE WORLD (1934) THE LOVE CAPTIVE (1934) GIFT OF GAB (1934) THE GIRL ON THE FRONT PAGE (1936) GIRL OVERBOARD (1937) SHE WROTE THE BOOK (1946) MASS APPEAL (1984) Free Gloria from the vaults!

Somebody at TCM deserves a Gold Star for programming an Albert S. Rogell Birthday Fest. He or she is the one who will bring Universals to TCM.

> {quote:title=Jezebel38 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote} > > > They have been running a Universal Film Festival, and the Deanna Durbin tribute is just part of that lineup. > > What other Universal favorites are getting the spotlight? > They are showing films chronologically - James Whale and Margaret Sullavan were some highlights of previous screenings: > http://www.stanfordtheatre.org/calendars/Universal%20Part%201.html All these and many, many more should be on TCM...MADAME SPY (Fay Wray), CHEATING CHEATERS (Fay Wray), THE COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO (Fay Wray), PRIVATE JONES (Lee Tracy), I LIKE IT THAT WAY (Gloria Stuart), THE LOVE CAPTIVE (Gloria Stuart), THE GREAT IMPERSONATION (Edmund Lowe), HALF A SINNER (Joel McCrea), NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS (Alan Mowbray), SHE GETS HER MAN (ZaSu Pitts), AFFAIRS OF A GENTLEMAN (Paul Lukas), ONE EXCITING ADVENTURE (Binnie Barnes), CHINATOWN SQUAD (Lyle Talbot), DESTINATION UNKNOWN (Ralph Bellamy), AFRAID TO TALK (Eric Linden), SCANDAL FOR SALE (Charles Bickford), et al.

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}TCM featured Thelma Todd recently (2011?) for Summer Under The Stars. It was a scramble to switch disks all day to record it for later viewing, but I did it. > > Is there anything featuring her as Star of the Month that can add to 24 hours of Thelma? Although usually associated with Hal Roach Studios, Thelma made many films, appearing at every studio from MGM to Liberty and Monogram. There is no problem filling 24 hours...even without her famous 2-reel comedies.

> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}I'd love to see a lot more Universals, but Hugh Herbert, not so much. Having seen about a dozen or so of the ones they've shown on TCM, it's hard to think of a bigger one trick pony. I loved him in the first few, but after that it was like watching an endless loop of the same film. I realize he's basically a comic actor, but he doesn't have the pure comic talent of a Fields or an Oliver Hardy, and he's not even close to having the higher comic skills of a Grant or a Hepburn, or a Lee Tracy for that matter. He's just kind of stuck there in a dated schtick, doing that goofy laugh like a nervous tic. I think you may have missed my point. This is only marginally about Hugh Herbert. It IS about tons of long-unseen, long-unavailable Universal titles. I've post similar threads re Gloria Stuart, Evelyn Ankers, Chester Morris, Maria Montez, Olsen & Johnson and other Universal-related actors.

There's no bigger champion of rare Universals than I. But the silence from TCM is deafening.

Hopefully there are people paying attention who have the ability to make it happen.

Comedic actor Hugh Herbert was under contract to Universal and appeared in fourteen films during 1939-1942. Would love for these to show up on TCM... THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR (1939) LITTLE ACCIDENT (1939) La CONGA NIGHTS (1940) PRIVATE AFFAIRS (1940) A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN (1940) SLIGHTLY TEMPTED (1940) MEET THE CHUMP (1941) THE BLACK CAT (1941) HELLO, SUCKER (1941) BADLANDS OF DAKOTA (1941) HELLZAPOPPIN' (1941) DON'T GET PERSONAL (1942) YOU'RE TELLING ME (1942) THERE'S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE (1942-film debut of Elizabeth Taylor) Hugh also appeared in TOP OF THE TOWN (1937) and ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (1948) at Universal. Woo hoo!

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote} > > The late Gloria Stuart was under contract to Universal and made a number of MIA pictures, PRIVATE JONES, I LIKE IT THAT WAY and THE LOVE CAPTIVE among them. > I featured her in the WANTED thread earlier this year. A lot of her pictures are not played on TCM and are not available to home video consumers. Yes. There's more to movie watching than Andy Hardy, the Thin Man, North by Northwest, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Shop Around the Corner, Elvis Presley and war movies.

Thelma deserves it...as do her fans. www.imdb.com/name/nm0865298/

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}The vast majority of Universal's Carl Laemmle-era talkies are MIA and have been for decades. Fay Wray starred in three 1934 releases (MADAME SPY, THE COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO, CHEATING CHEATERS) and they probably haven't been seen in 78 years. The late Gloria Stuart was under contract to Universal and made a number of MIA pictures, PRIVATE JONES, I LIKE IT THAT WAY and THE LOVE CAPTIVE among them.

I'd like to see THE CAT CREEPS (1930) before I croak.

The vast majority of Universal's Carl Laemmle-era talkies are MIA and have been for decades. Fay Wray starred in three 1934 releases (MADAME SPY, THE COUNTESS OF MONTE CRISTO, CHEATING CHEATERS) and they probably haven't been seen in 78 years.