Swithin
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7am morphs into Tessie and Mazeppa's colleague.
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*You Can't Cheat an Honest Man* ?
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In NYC we have a nickname for Coronas -- it starts with a "p" has four letters and ends with an "s." Maybe we should be watching Juarez or Viva Villa today.
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The good news for me is that *Kidnapped* (1938) will be shown on Freddie Bartholomew day (August 18). I love that version of the film and haven't seen it in yonks!
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42nd Street ("For a little silver quarter we can have the pullman porter turn the lights down low...")
Next: fish-fry
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I threw out my VCR a while back. In the same fit of anti-antique rage, I threw out my audio cassette player. But recently I needed to look at a VHS tape, which I had. I went to a neighbor to do so. Is there a simple machine that transfers VHS tapes to DVDs? I know there are elaborate machines that can do that, I'm just looking for a simple, small device. I know there is a machine to transfer audio cassettes to MP3 files.
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O'Leary, Molly - Alice Brady - in In Old Chicago (1937)
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Mr. Kringelein -- Parley Baer in *Gypsy* (1962)
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A film lovers dream: I just noticed that *Celine and Julie Go Boating* opens Friday for a week at the Film Forum in NYC. I'm excited! Haven't seen the film in yonks and have very fond memories of it. It's a new 35mm print, all 193 minutes of it! I can't wait...
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Ripley's Game (with John Malkovitch) was shot in Venice/Veneto and features a Palladian villa. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow takes place in Naples, Milan, and Rome. Don't forget Death in Venice ! So many films to choose from!
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Bravo, Finance, you're up!
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Very early morning on a Canadian island.
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It looks like no one is going to get this, so I'll just reveal the answer. It's *Madame Sul-Te-Wan*, who played Tahama in King of the Zombies and is said to be the first African-American actor to sign a contract. Here is a tribute that someone posted on TCM:
http://fan.tcm.com/_Madame-Sul-Te-Wan-A-Persistent-Pioneer/blog/501318/66470.html
I think she gives a great performance as Tahama in King of the Zombies, a film which, btw, was nominated for an Oscar for best music score!
Thread open.
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*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*
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For "revealed," think an alternative name for the last book of the N.T.
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The pairing of *Caged* and *House of Women* on July 19 is fascinating and offers a lesson in Hollywood's change of style toward a serious subject. The former, made in 1950, is perhaps Hollywood's best women's prison movie, offering a bleak portrayal of innocence corrupted; the latter, made over a decade later, is more or less a fairy tale with a happy ending. I still say Eleanor Parker should have won the best actress Oscar for Caged, in a highly competitive year.
*Eleanor Parker* will be 90 on June 26, 2012. Will she be making an appearance on TCM, in person and/or with her films?
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That's what I thought. But if you ever find out that the dogs in The Killer Shrews didn't actually wear bits of carpet on their backs, don't tell me!
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I read once that in Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster, Bela Lugosi mistakenly says to Loretta King, "Don't be afraid of Lobo, he's as harmless as a kitchen." But I've listened to it and think he actually does say "kitten."
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Gotta go back to my Legacy discs and look at them all again. Apart from Frankenstein, Bride, and FMTWM, the others blur together. I remember the scenes but not the films they come from.
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I'm afraid I like them all. House of Dracula is the one with the hunchbacked nurse, isn't it? She's sad, but kind of sweet.
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Any sign of The Egyptian anywhere? I've been waiting for ages!
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Great song, brings back so many memories.
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A Centaur and a trio of his colleagues are revealed.
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Rod Steiger is blonde as Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One.
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Right you are, Franklin!