Bill_McCrary
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....contributing to the downfall of American ?
Well, in the spirit of things tonight (apparently) - I'll bite: "American what"?
that Fritz Land film - new name for Germany?
Don't stomp back, please. I just finally decided I'm entitled to one of these per every so many weeks.......
Bill
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I'll take Jane Powell any day over Deanna
Well, she WAS 14 years old when she made this one, with a phenomenally developed voice for that age - AND technology had made giant strides by the time Jane went to MGM. AND if the audiences of the time hadn't taken DD to their hearts, JP (and KG) might never have gotten inside the studio gates. If you've never seen "Can't Help Singing," then you haven't seen what she was really to become. As well, in an entirely different way (dramatically), "Christmas Holiday."
Only one year later, "One Hundred Men and a Girl," she (and technology) had made great improvement all around. If Universal could get Leopold Stokowski to co-star with her (granted, he loved publicity!), that was a pretty good stamp of approval on her teenaged efforts.
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What are you addressing this to me for?
Fred, I think some people have forgotten to reply to the actual person who wrote what they're quoting; they're replying to the thread, instead of to a particular post. I do that sometimes, but only if I'm making a general comment. And I always (well, almost) quote the post to which I'm responding. It just makes for a lot easier reading.
Bill
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I appreciate programmers who understand high art and culture and appeal to that distinguished and educated viewer. Now, all they have to do to make my viewing complete is to air" Curse of the Slime People", and other lost teasures of the same ilk.
Well, actually, as long as they show it (and its ilk-mates (?)) underground-only, so we know where to find it, I'm sure there are those of us - who usually watch quite different fare - who might put our brains into neutral for a time amd wait to be properly horrified. Of course, we'll more likely be IMproperly horrified, but there can be fun had that way, too! (And, yes, of course I recognized the "irony" - we used to call it something else. Thanks, anyway.)
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Spring is Here. I want those 68 minutes of my life back
There are those of us that revel in creakiness. There is a fascination in some things beyond beauty......
Bill
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they used to air among others both SUNDAY IN NEW YORK (1964), and CAT BALOU (1965), at least once every other month!
SINY, certainly, yes; I waited YEARS to see Cat Ballou - and then I think they showed it maybe three times (maybe just two). There was quite a big deal two (three) years ago about its receiving its premiere TCM outing. I made triple-sure I didn't miss it that night (and then glad to see they were showing it again later in the month or so).
Cat Ballou, Draw, Blazing Saddles - yesssss!!!!
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co-hostess Molly Haskell can barely contain her utter disdain for this GREAT film.
Yes, it was the same scene last time it was on Essentials.
I really haven't compared (by recording), but I just assumed that when the films were shown again that the original show was simply rebroadcast. Do they actually do a "second sitting" when one of the essentials is re-shown? Anybody checked on that?
Bill
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W.R. Burnett
Do you mean "Smiley"?
aka "George 'Smiley' Burnette"
aka "Lester 'Smiley' Burnette"
aka "Lester 'Smiley' Burnett"
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...as the ice storm enveloped the house.
Brrr... It's been a little chilly here for several days (meaning low 30's to the 50's), but back to "not-really-normal" at least till Monday - 78 for the daytime high, to the 50's at night. But I'm sure ours is coming. We did get down to 17 (once only) back in early December, which was a record for the date. Christmas was around 70. I haven't been following the weather except right here. Hope it's not headed our way.
Bill
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Betty Ross Clarke as Andy Hardy's "Aunt Milly"
My goodness - I had totally forgotten that Sara Haden wasn't always Aunt Milly. Betty either was filling in, or else she bolted!
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If you've never seen GM with Kathryn Grayson in "The Desert Song," you've missed something. TCM has shown it in the (fairly distant) past; start lobbying for it. Apparently it is the only one (all three WB are in color, too, starting with 1929 - and apparently the color still exists for that one, on the TCM site description) still allowed to be shown. The others were put on the shelf when it came out. I have a copy of the 1943 one, but I've never seen the early one. And there's a short, "The Red Shadow," that is a 15-minute (or so) version.
But Gordon is "really something." And Kathryn, and others in it.
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Ma I made it...to the top of the world
Well, did anybody OTHER than James Cagney (in "White Heat") say it?
Bill
If that's right, don't wait for me to post one - anyone, go right ahead.
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Thanks.
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Stage magician and sometime actor John Calvert made three Falcon films in 1947-48 for an independent company. DEVIL'S CARGO,APPOINTMENT WITH MURDER and SEARCH FOR DANGER.
I've posted a little somewhere else a few months ago, but at least as of about a year ago John Calvert is still doing film shows, magic acts, etc. He was in Charlotte in July of 2005, performed (with his beautiful Asian partner of about 40 years) a 45-minute act. Looks 70-75 but was 94 the week after, when he went to London to receive an award from the magicians' society there as the world's most famous magician (or similar). Was still driving himself all around the country in his Winnebago-style home. Had come from, I think, San Diego by way of Texas in the previous two weeks. Amazing man, and so friendly. Had the staff running to keep up with him!
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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
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If you will do a "Search all threads" for the past several months, you will find various comments about this movie, much discussion about no official letterboxed version, the quality of the one that's in the stores ($5 or so at Wal-Mart, I think I read). I did not search just now, but am remembering those posts.
TCM (somebody correct me if I'm wildly off-base here) has an arrangement with Movies Unlimited. MU has an amazing range of videos available, but also an amazing range of quality. Not saying this one is, but many of their under-$10 ones are Alpha Video, some of which are fine, others..... If you're going to order Alpha, go straight to their site. I'm not sure I should publish that link here, but go to your PMs and I'll send it there. They have all sorts of special deals on shipping, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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?
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Tonight or Never?
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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
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One of my former in-laws has been a TV star for decades, and is in a hit show right now.
Well, I've been back searching after my headache died down - this is a ROUGH one, and I've probably made it harder than it is - but....
I may have found the in-law, at least: Robert Vaughan??
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001816/