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Mother (2017) Next: Vitamins

Loretta Young was in Clive of India with Montagu Love.

Dean Stockwell was in The Happy Years with Leon Ames.

(All Mine to Give has a great score by Max Steiner, but I don't think any of the themes are particularly named. Steiner did give the lovely theme a Scottish flavour, since that's where the family came from.) "She Moved Through the Fair" -- Michael Collins (1996) Next: Sung while eating or drinking

You can find him in The Bowery (1933) on YouTube. It's a great, snappy (20th Century Fox) Raoul Walsh film of gay 1890s New York. Raft does a little bit of dancing early in the film, as he enters a saloon the name of which must not be mentioned. But you will never, ever find this movie on TCM. (The opening shot will tell you why)! You can see Raft dancing into the club at around the 14:10 point, then dancing briefly with Pert Kelton. I think the film is public domain, so I post the link here.

How about a turkey? "Everybody's Doing It" (Doing what? Turkey Trot!) -- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) Next: Favorite Alice Faye number

Too Hot too Handle (1938) is a hilarious comedy that deals effectively and cynically with fake news. Clark Gable and Walter Pidgeon work for rival newsreel companies competing for audience. Gable is sent to cover the war in China. He can't find it, so he stages a battle scene, in one of the funniest scenes ever. Here's a quote about the film from Wikipedia: "Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model aircraft with his cameraman José Estanza. Outraged when he finds out, Chris' main competitor, Atlas Newsreel's Bill Dennis decides to do the same, having his aviator friend Alma Harding fly in "serum" for an imaginary cholera outbreak. Chris finds out and swoops in to film her landing. José, however, drives too close to the aircraft, causing it to crash and burst into flames. Chris rescues Alma, but when he starts to go back for the serum, she has to confess that it is a fake."

On Svengoolie tomorrow, May 29, 2021: I always confuse this title with The Man with Nine Lives, the movie in which Karloff plays a mad doctor specializing in "frozen therapy," who is thawed out at the beginning of the film. And I always confuse The Man with Nine Lives with The Man They Could Not Hang and Before I Hang. But The Frozen Ghost is not a Karloff film, it's one of the Lon Chaney Jr. "Inner Sanctum" films.

Benet, Dr. Felix -- played by Bela Lugosi in The Invisible Ray (1936)

Jane Wyatt was in Great Expectations (1934) with Rafaela Ottiano.

Anthony Adverse (1936) Next: Frilly costume (men's)

"Stardust" -- The Long Day Closes (1992) Next: Your least favorite Shirley Temple number

Haven't seen it. But it's a British film, shot mostly in England. I don't understand the green card comment; but at any rate, since they were mostly Brits making a film in the UK, I don't think Willy Nilly needed to hand them out.

Number of pages wouldn't necessarily be a guide as to completeness or differences between editions, since type/font size would affect the pagination, and that could vary from edition to edition.

I like The Great Garrick very much. Amusing story, excellent performances. As I recall I particularly enjoyed Melville Cooper's performance.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/4/6/in-the-wolfes-den-pbtbhomas-clayton/

It's not just the work that is racist, it was evidently the author as well! Like H.L. Mencken, Wolfe was racist and anti-Semitic.

I've tried to get into the works of Thomas Wolfe (like Look Homeward, Angel) but have found his work to be a big bore. A few years ago, I saw an adaptation in London (transfer from Chichester) of Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons. It wasn't that she died before finishing it; she just abandoned it, earlier in her career. The play was wonderful, funny and wise. Needing 42 actors it will never come to Broadway! https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/nov/08/the-watsons-review-minerva-chichester-jane-austen-laura-wade

I loved reading Dostoevsky in my youth. The Idiot was my favorite. A few years later, when I was assigned Dostoevsky's novels in college, I thought "What's this?!!!" My problem was that, as a youth, I had read and enjoyed the Constance Garnett translations. My college teachers were using more modern translations which did not appeal to me as much. I recently read that some writer/professor said that Constance Garnett's translations were "excruciatingly Victorianish." I don't care, they will always be Dostoevsky to me.

9. She appeared in one of the eponymous roles in the very enjoyable late 1960s sitcom The Mothers-in-Law. (Kaye ballard was her co-star.)

The cover is a painting by the aged Goya, from his "Black Paintings" series of 1819-1823, which was the heyday of Gothic literature. (Another Gothic novel we had to read for the course was Frankenstein, written in 1818.) Goya's images suit the mood of the novels. "Two Old Men Eating Soup" "Saturn Devouring His Son"

Natalie Schafer was in Molly and Me with Queenie Leonard.

More based on 18th century English novels: Robinson Crusoe (1954) Tom Jones (1963)

I had to read Northanger Abbey as part of a Gothic literature class. In that context, as a sendup of the real Gothic novels, it's sort of fun. It makes a nice change when you read it after coping with Otranto, Udolpho, Melmoth, Vathek, and The Monk (all of which I loved, particularly Melmoth).