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I've seen and enjoyed many of the New Wave Australian movies when they were released. I'm looking forward to recording a few of New Wave Bulldog Drummond films later this evening, which I haven't seen.

Husband and wife met while working on a play which later became a film. Husband was of monumental importance in the theater and film world, winning one Oscar for his work on a film that also won a Best Picture Oscar. Wife was nominated for an Oscar, as was her second husband, who was nominated for a film that won a Best Picture Oscar. Name husband and wife, wife's second husband, and the films referred to.

Here's one I've been yearning to use in various threads recently, particularly in Off-Topic: 😀 Song mentioning a desert or a mountain range

6. Won the 1949 Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for House of Strangers.

"The Little Things that We Used to Do" -- Denis Quilley as a Vera Lynn - type in Privates on Parade (1983) (The stage production of Privates on Parade is one of the best things I've ever seen in the theater. The movie, however, is disappointing, partly because John Cleese is awful in the part played on stage brilliantly by Nigel Hawthorne. However, a great feature of the film is that it captures Denis Quilley's performance.) Next: More drag

So sorry to hear this. RIP. What a career. My favorite Dean Stockwell role is as John Humperdink Stover in The Happy Years (1950). A thoroughly joyous movie. I sure wish TCM would show this MGM movie.

Ernest Cossart (who btw was the brother of composer Gustav Holst) was in Kings Row with Charles Coburn.

Much as we love the Empire State Building, I think many native New Yorkers like myself reserve our special architectural love for the Chrysler Building. Young Man with a Horn (1950) Q (1982)

"Racing with the Clock" -- The Pajama Game (1957) Next: A song about a job

"The Country's in the Very Best of Hands” -- sung by Peter Palmer and Stubby Kaye in Li'l Abner (1959) Next: Another optimistic political song

3. Lived for many years on West End Avenue, on the Upper West Side of New York City.

On Svengoolie tomorrow, November 6, 2021:

Kent Smith had a lengthy and highly respected career in the theater, playing the classics as well as modern plays. In addition to Shaw's Candida with Katherine Cornell and Mildred Natwick, he played in Saint Joan with Siobhan McKenna; as Bolingbroke in Richard II (Maurice Evans was Richard); he originated the role of Rudd Kendall (played onscreen by Gig Young) in the Broadway premiere of Old Acquaintance with Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood; and in countless other productions. https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kent-smith-60413

Basil Rathbone was in Confession with Kay Francis.

Larceny, Inc. (1942) Next: Another movie in which luggage figures prominently

Don't forget Molly and Me. (And of course The Day of the Locust is one film that cries out to be shown on TCM, even if it is Paramount!)

The Old Dark House (1932) (Well, it was the first that came to mind.) Next: Election night celebration

The drifting camera doesn't bother me. As I've said, I rarely watch the intros/outros. But perhaps someone can answer this question for me: Are the speakers scripted, or are they assigned films due to their expertise, hence the comments are totally their own? Forgive my ignorance, you'd think I'd know this by now. Maybe it's a combo? I'm just wondering, in my rather harsh assessment of Ms. Malone (see above), was she assigned those two horror films because she has a special expertise/interest, or was she just assigned them and then given a script?

I think my favorite opening song from a horror film may be "Hey, You!" sung by Ann Codee as Tante Berthe at the opening of The Mummy's Curse (1944).

I think The Invisible Ray is a fine film. Perhaps in terms of the Karloff/Lugosi pairings The Black Cat is better, but The Invisible Ray is an excellent, important movie, perhaps one of the first about the ethics of atomic energy. As the brilliant Violent Kemble Cooper (Mother Rukh) says to her Boris Karloff (Janos Rukh) at the end: "My son, you have broken the first rule of science."

Don't you think Spider Baby should have won the Best Song Oscar? "Talk to the Animals" won that year Certainly the Spider Baby theme song is superior!

Ward Bond was in Drums Along the Mohawk with Eddie Collins.

I also have the VCI DVD of City of the Dead. It's a great film. Venetia Stevenson who played Nan is the daughter of Anna Lee and Robert Stevenson (director of Mary Poppins). I love Valentine Dyall -- I saw him on stage as Dr. Rance in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw many years ago. He was hilarious! Patricia Jessel is terrific as Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs. Newless. She later played Domina in the film of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.