Swithin
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"Oh..You Never Know, Just Who You’re Gonna Meet, When Your Walking Down a Busy London Street." -- Dressed to Kill (1946)
Next: Another song from any Sherlock Holmes movie
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"Dis-Donc" by Marguerite Monnot from Irma la Douce (on B'way 1960/61; movie 1963). Song adapted to use without lyrics for the film.
Here's the song from the Broadway show. It's played over the credits in the film version.
Next: Another song with a French setting
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When I was in grade school, they showed us a movie about Yaws in North Africa. That was pretty scary!
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"Long Long Ago" -- Ah Wilderness! (1935)
Next: Sung in pajamas or nightgown
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Jack Carson was in Navy Blues (1941) with Jack Oakie.
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On Svengoolie tomorrow, October 30, 2021:
Excerpt from the Psychotronic Encyclopedia:
"Don't miss. It's the worst. The evil but beautiful Princess Marcuzan and her bald effeminate dwarf assistant Nadir arrive in Puerto Rico to kidnip women to use in repopulating their dying planet. Meanwhile Frank, an American astronaut who is actually an android, crash-lands near the aliens. He becomes Frankenstein, a crazed killer with only half a face. While wild go-going girls are kidnapped from a poolside party, scientists track down Frank, and a rock combo plays hits like "That's the way it's got to be." The rewired Frank battles the horrible alien mutant Mull and rescues the kidnapped Earth girls. Lots of rock music, stock footage, and laughs. Filmed in Puerto Rico. The actors are mostly New Yorkers. "
The only actor I've heard of is James Karen, who used to do the Pathmark Supermarket ads in New York.
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Mary Woronov
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5 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
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CRIPES LORNA---- You coulda squeezed your first posts into ONE and said all that was necessary.
SWITHIN---
I've long wondered if silents, made in many prints for national distribution, were delivered with designated scores for the pianists or organists in theaters t the time, or if those theater's musicians did their best at improvising. I suspect( or hope?) it was the former. and if it was, why not obtain those original scores for newly recording them for the restorations, or even recording orchestrated versions of the original scores? I could never understand why an entertainment channel like TCM, purportedly dedicated to "classic" film would commission new scores for the films. And by the way---
Sometime in the early '80's Gance's restored NAPOLEON went on a nationwide U.S.tour. In Detroit it was shown at the city's FORD AUDITORIUM, at the time the home to the Detroit symphony Orchestra. I saw it there with CARMINE COPPOLA conducting the Detroit orchestra of his score while the movie was being shown on three huge screens constructed specially for the movie's "triptych" scenes. It WAS a dazzling score. But some U.S. critics didn't like it.
Sepiatone
I saw the film at Radio City Music Hall, with Coppola conducting his score. It was magnificent, with the triptych screen at the end. Of course much of Coppola's score was adapted from Berlioz and many other composers, as well as French folk music. Carl Davis's score, which I heard when I saw the film in London on television, also featured a combination of his own music and the classics, though I have a slight preference for Coppola's version.
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Ratboy (1986)
Next: "Monster" wanting to change
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The Fox (1967) -- more Keir in the snow
Women in Love (1969) -- more D.H. Lawrence and snow
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Sometimes restorations of silent films feature new scores, which is generally a shame, although it may allow for a new copyright. I had been looking forward to watching Piccadilly (1929), but the new score was so awful I couldn't watch it.
On the other hand, the Carmine Coppola score for Abel Gance's Napoleon is brilliant, an amalgam of classics and new scoring. I prefer it to the Carl Davis version. (I don't think Gance particularly liked the original score, by Arthur Honegger.)
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On 8/3/2021 at 8:10 AM, -noiramour- said:
I have been having quite a ball, having a bit of a Ken Russell summer. He's such an original and his films are so visually stunning. The Devils - wow. I just saw it for the first time a few months ago. I have to admire any film that I can say is one of the most disturbing I have ever seen. One always gets his money's worth with Oliver Reed and how cool that Vanessa Redgrave would take a bold chance with this film. I watched Tommy (which I've seen many times) and also Lisztomania and The Devils in one week, and then I had to take a break from visual overstimulation.
I was just about to be annoyed that I had spent two hours on Lisztomania, and then the preposterous ending occurred, and all was forgiven with this viewer! Trying to review a Ken Russell film is sort of beside the point. Either you're in the mood for the ride or not.
The Devils is indeed an outrageous film. I haven't seen it since it came out, but that one scene of Vanessa's -- wow!
I love Women in Love and some of the others, although a few of the more campy films don't quite reach the heights of campiness that I think he's going for.
One of my favorite Ken Russell films is The Lair of the White Worm, (1988) with Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe, and Peter Capaldi.
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12 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:
(And) I Am IMMEDIATELY Jealous in the Most Amicable and Professional of Ways.
If memory serves (save for conducting some research upon this), Madam Fabray "had".. a(n Unfortunately) rather Nasty and Sucky (Apologies) Accident Occur.. ... .im wanting to say in .. the seventies perhaps ?.. If Indeed this, Sounds Familiar, did You Know Madam Fabray During.. this particular time period ?
*Your Post of This Clip (Thank You🍻🥂) subsequently reminds me of Her LOVELY (& Rather Hysterical) Guest Appearance on WML
No, not the 70s. I worked with Nanette much later.
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34 minutes ago, Janet0312 said:
What is with the Japanese films? Why do they show so many and who watched them?
I think it's wonderful that TCM showed those Japanese films, as opposed to the usual Ran, Rashamon, etc., that are readily available. The films that were shown are rarities. Also the Argentinian films of the other day. This kind of programming enhances TCM's output, makes it richer, and underscores TCM's uniqueness, in my opinion.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Next: A movie that cheers you up
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Paul Porcasi
Next: Sensitive
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I worked with Nanette once and had a couple of nice phone calls with her, when our project was completed. Lovely, talented woman!
Here's a clip of Nanette on the Ed Sullivan show, singing two songs from her rich Broadway career. These two songs are from Love Life and High Button Shoes.
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15 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT is not that great.
I didn't like The Devil Rides Out the first time I saw it, but it grew on me, and I liked it better the second time around. Not a great film, but one of those interesting cults- in-rural-England movies that I enjoy. The film has Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in a small role (she became a "Dame" at the age of 100)! She was nearly 80 when she made the film. In earlier days, she was Juliet to John Gielgud's Romeo on stage in London in 1924 and Lady Macbeth to Gielgud's Macbeth in 1942. She also premiered the role of Mary Tyrone in London, in 1958.
It was nice to see a venerable lady playing a cult member, in old age. She lived to 101.
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in The Devil Rides Out
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"Ben Bolt" -- played over the opening and closing credits and sung by Marian Marsh in Svengali (1931)
Next: Song from a movie directed by Archie Mayo
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Jayne Mansfield was in Too Hot to Handle with Leo Genn.
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18 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
It's more Christmas movies, I think, in the afternoon. Wasn't part of The Man Who Came to Dinner partially set at Christmas? I know there's an ice skating scene.
Yes, The Man Who Came to Dinner is definitely a Christmas movie.
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Regarding House of Frankenstein, it's a good film. Interesting story, well acted by a cast of real pros, and well shot. Some of the shots are quite arty! J. Carrol Naish as Daniel the hunchback is particularly good. (The hunchback in House of Dracula is Jane Adams).
All these hunchbacks made me realize that I don't see hunchbacks around town any more. I used to see them occasionally, when I was younger. A neighbor of mine had a joke, which he oft repeated: "Lend me five bucks until my friend the hunchback straightens up." (Sorry.)
Where have all the hunchbacks gone?
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My mother used to watch an early 1950s sitcom called Meet Millie, which starred Elena Verdugo. I have vague memories of it. Transitioned from radio.
Florence Halop, Marvin Kaplan, Elena Verdugo in Meet Millie, "A gay new comedy about the life and loves of a secretary in Manhattan."
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Eugene Pallette was in The Lady Eve with Eric Blore.
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Alicia Malone, Tiny Ooops
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I tend not to watch the intros/outros, but I watched part of Alicia Malone's comments related to Night of the Demon and Horror Hotel last night. I've never watched her comments before, and I'm afraid I wasn't impressed. She spouted the usual cliches about showing the monster in the former movie. Even if you've never heard those remarks, there are so many more interesting comments that can be made about that great film, and about Horror Hotel as well. Both movies lend themselves to discussions of folklore, mood, and technique. Very disappointing, but happy to see the films shown.