Swithin
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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.
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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
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6. Won the 1949 Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for House of Strangers.
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"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
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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.
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Ernest Cossart (who btw was the brother of composer Gustav Holst) was in Kings Row with Charles Coburn.
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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)
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"Racing with the Clock" -- The Pajama Game (1957)
Next: A song about a job
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"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
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3. Lived for many years on West End Avenue, on the Upper West Side of New York City.
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, November 6, 2021:
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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
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Basil Rathbone was in Confession with Kay Francis.
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Larceny, Inc. (1942)
Next: Another movie in which luggage figures prominently
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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!)
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The Old Dark House (1932) (Well, it was the first that came to mind.)
Next: Election night celebration
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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?
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21 minutes ago, Shank Asu said:
I liked the opening song and title sequence (although the title is shown as Cannibal ****???). My favorite opening song for a horror film is Beware of the Blob by The Five Blobs for The Blob.
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).
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6 hours ago, nakano said:
The Invisible Ray 1936.Universal . Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi.Karloff is a scientist who discovered extremely powerful out of space signal many times more powerful than radium. He gradually becomes mad,Lugosi is another scientist trying to help but to no avail. Lugosi is not mad. Karloff is the star and it is not the best of the several Karloff Lugosi films.6.50/10 81 minutes
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."
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2 hours ago, Shank Asu said:
Spider Baby (1968) Hmmm, this was interesting. Not sure how to describe this film other than it was to be seen to be believed. Late starring role for horror legend Lon Chaney Jr and an early role for future horror icon Sid Haig. Rather creepy classic horror film. Recommend.
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!
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Ward Bond was in Drums Along the Mohawk with Eddie Collins.
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26 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
Last night when TCM scheduled "Horror Hotel" the print used was actually the THE CITY OF THE DEAD title. This makes a bit of difference in the footage you see.
HORROR HOTEL was the U.S. title and is missing over 90 seconds of footage as compared to the original UK version under the "City of the Dead" title.
You can read about the print differences on both Wikipedia and the IMDb. They are accurate. Having seen both versions of the movie I concur that the differences between prints are there.
Years ago I bought a VHS of "Horror Hotel" on Anchor Bay and watched it. I enjoyed the movie and later decided to read about it on the IMDb and Wikipedia both and noted the 'Alternate Version' mentioned on the IMDb -and- the 'Deleted Lines' section on Wikipedia which goes in to detail about what's missing from the "Horror Hotel" print.
I decided to go find and buy the video release of "City of the Living Dead" on the VCI label and see for myself. → There is definitely more dialogue at the beginning between Patricia Jessel and Valentine Dyall when "Elizabeth Selwyn" gets burned at the stake. I suspect the U.S. censors of the time were displeased with some of Elizabeth's curses at the villagers and her desire to work for Satan eternally so several lines were deleted from the U.S. 'cut' of the movie.
To sum up, the movie is not interchangeable with the titles. TCM aired the original British version last night under the CITY OF THE DEAD title which has about 2 minutes more footage than the movie does under the American 'HORROR HOTEL' title.
I enjoy watching CITY OF THE DEAD. I watched it again last night, too. Anyone wanna go to Whitewood on vacation?
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.
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New Wave Tuesdays
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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.