Bill_McCrary

Hi, has anyone ever seen the uncut "Melody for Two" with Donald O'Connor's dance with his brother? I know I have some older showings on VHS somewhere in the stacks. If one is longer than 60 minutes the dance may be there. Where in the movie is that dance supposed to take place? Or have you only heard/read it's supposed to be there somewhere? Bill

On Wednesday Jan. 10th evening I cought the end of a hilarious B&W film, most likely a short, featuring a Crazy robot with a big flat head. I don't know how you saw it (tape, DVD, whatever) on Jan 10th, but it must have been 11/23, 9:41pm/6:41p - The Tin Man 1935-19m-Thelma Todd Currently the relevant link is (I guess the pages will change soon): http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=83254&start=195&tstart=0 It was posted on 11/10/06.

Somebody could get the link but I haven't quite mastered it yet. Sorry. When you open the page to read it, go to the browser - right click, see the word "copy," left-click on that. In the "reply" box, right-click, see "paste," and left-click on that. The post will be there then. I generally space down a couple of lines first before pasting. Then I can go back and put my message on top of the link.

So I started taping and dubbing the tapes to DVD. That works fine, but now I'm behind on my dubbing. I'm running up to three weeks behind. I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of all the commercials in NBC's "It's a Wonderful Life". I think that might take me a full day of dubbing, stopping, starting again, etc. The only real solution (besides going straight to computer, which I can't do - yet) is a hard-drive DVD; that way you can get rid of those IAWL commercials in, maybe, 20 minutes, put it to DVD (be sure you record at a speed/rate that will fit onto a DVD, but if you goof, you can break it into two parts!) with no loss of quality as in the dubbing. ALL my network stuff (mostly BBC/America and SNL) I do that way now, though I had gotten very good at doing it with tape. It's a lot better than going to RW or -RAM and then still having to dub. Bill

Sigh... (And that's my first one, but .... the good Lord knows.... ) Give it up, folks, please, and just agree to disagree without coming back at each other. Do you realize just how much it tears up some of us to see this stuff going on? Well, it does. The rest of us say what we think; we find information for folk; we don't EVER express any opinion over someone's lack of intelligence OR their right to express their opinions. We DO offer (as gently as possible) advice to people who are making their first posts, when they do things like post their e-mail addresses or give their mailing addresses -- and we tell them how to correct it, not ever assuming they knew how to do something just because they found their way to the board. It's maddening when someone types 40 lines without a single upper-case letter starting a sentence (and yet, they know how, because they did capitalize a proper name) - and no paragraphs - but..... we can read it or decide it's too hard to. Some people appear to be very young; older people appear to be posting about movies they know/knew nothing about till this moment, which means they say things that "everybody" knows already - but THEY didn't, so cut some slack..... As I said one other place, the hardest thing of all is NOT to say anything when someone is bugging you. I've waited it out for weeks/months, and now I've finally snapped. But I haven't called anyone anything; I really don't need to. The posters have done so at length, already - and have never accomplished a thing by doing so - not even feeling better about themselves, obviously, because they come right back to it. And it's only a handful of the same people, over and over, no matter which threads they go to. Again, give it a rest, folks, PLEASE. Bill

It would have helped to know if it was a creaky-old movie, or just old, or possibly a more modern one. This is the main page for his movies, etc., on IMDB. Maybe you can figure it out from what is there: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002143/

I appeared in more than 100 television programs, usually in comfortable, familiar settings. In the movies, I appeared as a cowboy and, on one occasion, a sailor. One of my biggest successes was inspired by an experience I had on a New York theater stage. Dan White?

Tonight or Never?

I don't think the otherwise talented Scotty Beckett did his own singing in THE JOLSON STORY. I can't recall the name of the performer who did, but I think it was something like "Rudy Wissler." Good thinking - from the "Classic Images" article link that was given a couple of days ago, on voice doubling (the most comprehensive I've EVER seen): Rudy Wissler: The Jolson Story (Columbia, 1946) Scotty Beckett -- and that's his only credit. Guess the inevitable happened shortly thereafter! Bill

Scotty {*********@alltel.net} I've put this on some other places where you posted, too - hoping you'll see one - PLEASE don't show your e-mail address in the open on the forums. There are many good reasons not to; trust us on this. You can PM people and give them your address when you decide it's the right thing to do; or they can PM you, without you having to use your e-mail, until you decide you trust them. Bill

"*********@alltel.net" Please don't post e-mail addresses on the threads. There are many reasons why it's not a good idea. Ask people to PM you - or PM them and then tell them in the thread that you have done that. (Some people don't routinely check their messages.) So, please click on the little symbol to the upper right of your post and revise/edit it to get rid of the address.

Clue # 8. A visit to the zoo. The Cat People?

The comedy series were all theatrical presentations. No television was involved. Mary Kornman..... She was in the early "Little Rascals" (silent era) with Mickey Daniels (freckled and outrageous laugh), and then returned (as a young adult) in the "Boy Friends" series and also in a couple of sound "Little Rascals" ones - she and Mickey took the kids to the amusement park in one.

The childhood incident in question affected his eyes. As his popularity slowly grew, he went from being reprehensible baddie to lovable baddie. Jack Elam! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/bio

I was a pretty blonde and made my name as the leading lady in a popular comedy series. I spent 5 years with that series and was the love interest of mainly the same guy throughout those five years. Four years after leaving that series, I starred in another comedy series alongside that same cinematic love interest. Well, now, if we want to kinda turn that one on its head - Vivian Vance, who played Ethel Mertz in FOUR series, at least the way IMDB counts them..... But I kinda think that's not who you had in mind.

I hold the distinction of being one of the very first, if not the first, female practitioners of a profession in my home state. Hitchcock's first American film was what clinched it. You could have dragged this out, without that. Florence Bates! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060904/

Your turn, Bill. Make us sweat, this time. Go ahead and sweat - it just turned cold over on this coast, after a long warm spell. I swear I'll come up with that "doozie" one of these days. Somebody else, batter up! Bill

"Please, Sir, I want some more...." Waiting for the newest batch (my "fix"). I hope everything's ok there with you, MGMWBRKO! Bill

This was my post in the "tearjerker" thread recently: The most recent one to work on me was this afternoon's "Goodbye, Mr Chips," the Peter O'Toole/Petula Clark musical. I remember hearing nothing but terrible things about it when it was new. I've got the LP but don't think I've ever played it. Never watched it before. HAVE watched the Donat classic. Hey - I was impressed. PC sings, for sure; PO is at least as good as Lee Marvin (!) in that regard, or close to Rex Harrison (more to the point). By the final scenes I was really into it, and prepared for the same ending as the Donat - and just as happy for what I was watching, instead. I like this ending, too ( - - and some of you thought I was going to give a spoiler, I'll bet). Cried as much because of the change (in a good way) as for him in general. Long movie, but then I'm used to opera! And it looks gorgeous. Bill

I believe that's from Only the Growing Nose and was spoken by Jimmy Durante. Jack, BeHAVE yourself!!!! Bill

Has anyone here watched her in Mexicali Rose (1929)? Got a fairly decent copy (DVD-R) from a fellow at the most recent film festival I went to. I checked to make sure it plays ok, but not really watched it yet. I guess you're saying you have it, too?

I still don't have a way of making copies of my dvd-r's, my computer has no dvd drive. That is how you make copies, right? I haven't finished reading the thread, so maybe someone has already responded, but yes....... Wal-Mart (for one) has HP and Sony DVD drives for computers at $70 or less. These newest ones will do double-layer (which I haven't tried yet), RAM, everything (+ and -). If your machine already has a DVD-ROM that's even better, since you can read and record at the same time, but the newest ones are so fast (up to 16X) that it's no real problem to use one drive to read and then copy from the hard drive back to a DVD. All that's if you have a home-made DVD (not a commercial one - most won't copy without doing stuff we shouldn't) and want a copy. And definitely have separate players (cheap as $30 now) and recorders (under $100, not with hard-disc, though; but you get what you pay for, mostly) -- if one breaks, the other's still useful. And, at $30, disposable! And, another good thing about the hard-drive recorders - if you MUST get something from AMC (or other commercial-playing channels, like BBC/America), then at least you can edit out the commercials before they get to disc!

When I was a kid, my family was so poor we had to live in our van. I worked as a janitor for a while. Bingo - Jim Carrey! http://www.imdb.com/Bio?Carrey,+Jim

Leo Carrillo Hume Cronyn Lorne Greene N.B.: Please note, the connection that these three gentlemen share is NOT unique. Is it that they all did "live" TV dramas? (Or appeared in a particular live drama series?)

His sidekick was a Mexican named "Chito", a snappy dresser with a running gag about skirt-chasing. Richard Martin, who played "Chito": Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamante Rafferty http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552955/