Bill_McCrary
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It's fun to hear the sayings of the times, like "I think you're swell," and "that's a humdinger!"
There're plenty of us - at least in my "neck of the woods" - who still talk like that!
Bill
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What did you think about the ditch digging sequence?
I know I had not seen the movie before tonight, but the ditch-digging seemed like yesterday to me - where? And then I remembered - within the past year or so TCM showed The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor, so that MUST have featured the scene. Wow!
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why would I want to scare myself silly?
Well, not as a regular diet, of course. And I'd rather be watching a musical or a comedy or a mystery or .... But, as I posted somewhere a day or so ago, when I saw Alien and Exorcist at their original screenings they both really "got" to me - with Alien in particular vividly etched somewhere deep in my psyche now - and I'd go back to them, knowing exactly what they were going to do to me. And, knowing those, I'd watch films of the same genre and be very upset if they didn't "deliver the goods."
One TCM showed a couple of years ago, I missed much of: Theatre of Blood, with Vincent Price. What I saw intrigued me enough that I located the laserdisc on eBay. Strange movie, but certainly worth it.
When I was little, I remember seeing a preview (probably of one of the U-I Price movies, or Cushing/Lee, or similar) in the theater. Scared the bejeezus out of me because I couldn't (and just can, now) stand skeletons - I had to hide behind the seat and watch through my fingers. Do you think that meant I didn't go to the movie when it came - heck, no! What's a little fright in your life!?
But, again, as I've said several times - if there's something coming along that you know isn't your "thing," then do something else till it's over. I just pity those who don't expose themselves to "good" music - and that includes beach music as well as classical and semi-classical (read: operetta) - for example; bored to tears by movies because of their (no real) plots, whereas for musiclovers the whole point is songs interrupted by a (necessary?) story we have no trouble ignoring.
Thank Goodness, there is plenty on TCM for all of us.
Bill
Message was edited by: Bill - because I first said DVD, instead of laserdisc. Don't THINK it's on DVD yet.
Bill_McCrary
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You need to ask your question on the "General" thread at the TOP of the forum. This thread is for problems with the website.
Bill
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Not B/W, though, but the (usual for musicals, especially Grable) brilliant Technicolor.
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Desk Set, but it wasn't originally in color, its a black and white.
No, don't know where you got that from, but it's widescreen, brilliant color, and (I think) stereo sound, to boot.
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OK, Bill. Note that I said "I'm there," not "I can solve them." A little nudge, please?
I guess you noticed/realized by now - it was Dan's challenge, not mine (I haven't put one up on the sites yet). I'm about as lost as anyone on this one, and Dan's deleted his comments.
Help!
Bill
Or are we supposed to give up and start a fresh one (or did it move to another thread - I haven't checked them yet today)?
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I got all these books at the time they were first were published .
Like you, I got most of mine from Publishers Central, way back (the '70s?), and filled in a gap or two fairly recently at one of the film shows I attend each year. They are truly "something," and regular use of them will strengthen both mental and other muscles!
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"Every Day's a Holiday" is a West rarity which I'd like to see again.
I first saw it from a tv print (but apparently complete, since it's short) over 20 years ago, from a UHF station a friend in a neighboring town received on his cable (we didn't). For almost 20 years it was my "must find" movie - loved it that much, and mine was so spliced and faded. Finally tracked it down on eBay two years ago; rapture, now seeing the official MCA issue. It was as good as I had thought, and no small part is due to Louis Armstrong! Now, I've finally got her whole output (either on VHS or laserdisc). With the new arrangements, maybe others will be exposed to its charms on TCM!
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I've GOT to stop posting so late... Took a quick glance and never saw the first part of the sentence (from IMDB)!
Reeves never reconnected with his biological father, who is now in prison on charges of cocaine possession....
On with the search.
Bill
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Rhondo Hatton..... Who he??
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You mean the colorized Greed slide show?
As I recall it, the only color(ing) was every time there was GOLD. And it was claimed that the original film was hand tinted for those scenes and that an attempt was being made to restore that as well as some of the length. But I haven't watched it in over a year, so...
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Can anyone identify the uncredited actor who played Stephen Foster in Memories and Melodies
Somebody will probably know and post it. I thought I had seen it on one of the other posts in the past two days, but it didn't come up with a search just now.
IMDB lists three (all uncredited) but not Foster:
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Please don't post your e-mail address in the open. Ask people to PM (Private-Message) you, then check those from time to time.
You can change/edit your post by clicking on the little symbol that appears to the top right of your message (it doesn't show on anybody else's); once the box opens, you change highlight anything you want and then delete that part or change it (just like in Word). There are many reasons not to show your address....
If you want to address the TCM folk in particular (not just other posters) there are various places on the home page either to e-mail them or to suggest-a-movie.
This is mostly just for us to talk to each other.
Bill
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...those people are home all day and they see the good movies that are shown in the morning - because that is where all the good movies are stuck. Those of us who work only see what is on after 5, and that is where you will see most of the 50's and 60's movies,...
Before I retired I would sometimes have as many as three VCRs programmed to catch what I knew was coming up. I like it better now that I can edit on the fly, but I seldom missed anything that was conceivably worthwhile in the "working" days, either. Plus, I seldom actually watch (except at night) stuff while it's showing, anyway. I time shift it all (often recording similar things together) and watch later. Maybe years later, in some cases! And with TiVo and hard-drive recorders, who CARES now when something is showing?
Bill
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I notice the sound of the opening where the orchestra is playing music get corrupted towards the end.
Are you talking about the movie that started at noon - where the sound broke up a little while the credits were still showing? Film in poor condition does that! I'm sure it's all they had to work with.
This is NOT the place for this type question - this is for people who are having problems using the website/forums. "Information" or "General" in the top portion would probably be better places to ask.
Bill
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The only example I can think of that might fit your criteria is Buddy Clark's dubbing of William Holden in Father Was a Bachelor?
Right. It was shown yesterday morning. I hadn't bothered to IMDB-it, so didn't realize it was in production WAY before Sunset Boulevard. That explains a LOT!
Buddy died in early 1949, in a plane crash - travelling between the two coasts for radio shows (and movies, I guess) in NYC and Hollywood; two years after Grace Moore died on tour in Stockholm in a plane that never quite got airborne.
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the legendary, and seldom seen, slightly disreputable Murder at the Vanities(1934)?
I may (or may not) have gotten it to VHS years ago; but recently I made a swap with someone and it was one of the very good DVDs he sent me. WOW! The leering at the girls' bottoms (as they ascend a backstage ladder), a main production number titled "Marihuana!" And it goes on......
I got the laserdisc box of about 8 Jolson movies (MGM and WB) years ago, plus Hallelujah, I'm a Bum on VHS two years ago on eBay. Finally got every one of the Mae West movies, in one form or another (not tv copies, except for Myra) about two years ago. Now, I can't find "Sextette"; it's here, I just can't find it purloined in everything. I've had a spot just the right length waiting on my MB disc, ready to boost and sharpen it (is there a really good copy anywhere?) - but the tape is MIA. Drat!
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March usually sucks because of all the same Oscar films....
Except that now it's February and the first 3 (two in leap year!) days of March, since the Oscars are earlier than they used to be.
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Now Mr. flub, please tell us about Lisa Kirk. She created the role of Bianca in Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate on Broadway. What's her connection to the movie version of Gypsy?
I know I'm not Mr Flub, but.... Didn't Lisa do large portions of Rosalind Russell's singing in at least one version of Gypsy? AMC (the late, great, lamented one...) showed the "alternate" version a couple of times, with either all or most of RR singing her own role. There was something about "Little Lamb," too; Natalie recorded it, but did Marni get into the actual (usual) soundtrack? That's been close to 10 years ago, and I'm relying on memory only.
India Adams, anyone?
Joan Crawford in Torch Song - story in whichever volume of "That's Entertainment."
And now - my own, fueled by discussion in another thread. And unusual, to say the least. What deceased singer dubbed for an actor who achieved superstardom, for just a minute or so, in a movie (shown very recently) made the same year as one of his biggest hits but little known today (I never heard of it till now). I was listening and, not really expecting the actor to sing, started getting goosepimples at the voice. Who IS that? I know the voice almost as well as my own (probably 50 or so records - mostly 78s), but.... Just as it hit me, it must have hit the person who beat me to the post.
Quite an accomplishment, getting a dead man to dub for you! (And not in an opera film)
Bill
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The Stork Club?
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Relax - things run in cycles. Final three days of Oscars, then a fine schedule, lots of detective series films (continuing a beginning in January), musicals, horror, a little for everybody....
Famous lines from movies
in Games and Trivia
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did it move to another thread ?
OK, Dan has commented in "My Favorite Trivia" that he's deleted this question since it wasn't in the right post. He sounds as if he might be getting ready to continue it there (though it's a TV question).