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"Saboteur"?
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Born this day January 15th:
Former child star Margaret O'Brien is 67.
MGMs answer to Shirley Temple starred in "Journey for Margaret", "Madame Curie", "Lost Angel", "The Canterville Ghost" w/Charles Laughton, "Meet Me in St. Louis" (awarded special Oscar), "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes"(swell film), "Three Wise Fools", "Big City", "Little Women", "The Secret Garden", "Glory", "Heller in Pink Tights" w/Loren etc.
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Supporting actress Phyllis Coates is 77 today.
On screen since the 1940s in "My Foolish Heart", "My Blue Heaven", "Blues Busters" w/Bowery Boys, "Superman and the Mole Men", "Flat Top", "She's Back on Broadway" w/V. Mayo, "Girls in Prison", Chicago Confidential", "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" etc.
She was the original Lois Lane on TVs first season of "Superman" with George Reeves. Also played the wife in many Joe McDoakes shorts which are shown on TCM.
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Posthumous
Co-star/support Lloyd Bridges (85) 1913-1998.
In close to 200 films including bit parts and in "Sahara" w/Bogart, "The Heat's On" w/Mae West, "A Walk in the Sun", "Canyon Passage", "Unconquered" w/Cooper, "Home of the Brave" exceptional film, "Trapped" (starring role), "High Noon", "The Rainmaker" w/Hepburn, "The Goddess", "Airplane!", "Hot Shots!", "Meeting Daddy", his last.
Starred in TVs "Sea Hunt". He was married for 60 years.
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Character actress Marjorie Bennett (86) 1896-1982.
In "June Bride", "Limelight" w/Chaplin, "So Big", "Sabrina", "Young at Heart", "The Cobweb", "Autumn Leaves" w/Crawford, "Home Before Dark", "Career" good film, "The Rat Race", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
as Victor Buono's little mum she was delicious, "Mary Poppins", "My Fair Lady", "Charley Varrick" good flick, etc.
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Supporting actor Torin Thatcher (76) 1905-1981.
In "The Man Who Could Work Miracles", "Sabotage", "Night Train to Munich", "Saboteur", "Great Expectations", "The Fallen Idol", "The Crimson Pirate" w/Lancaster, "Houdini" w/Tony Curtis, "The Robe", "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing", "Witness for the Prosecution", "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", "Hawaii" etc.
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Mongo
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For your information supergirl "I Married Wyatt Earp" is a made for TV movie which are never shown on TCM.
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Sorry spencer I see thta you've listed Marcia Gay Harden for "Mystic River".
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Spencer the name of the other film that Patricia Clarkson is getting raves for is "Pieces of April".
Also Marcia Gay Harden and Kevin Bacon for "Mystic River". How about Alec Baldwin getting good buzz for his role in "The Cooler"?
Mongo
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Spencer your Oscar nomination predictions are reminiscent to the listings I read in "Entertainment Weekly" and some other magazines and mewspapers. Most of they seem to have it down pat all in a similar mold.
I was wondering about "The Station Agent" with Patricia Clarkson (who is also hot in another film in contention) and little man Peter Dinklage. Any chance of nominations?
Also the cast of "The Magdalene Sisters" a powerful film that got good notices?
In any event the Academy always comes up with some surprise nominations. We'll wait and see.
Mongo
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sorry.... "around here". Around her ain't bad either.
What the hell am I talking about?
I love "Dawn of the Dead"!
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"Dawn of the Dead"? Did I suddenly walk into the Twilight Zone around her?
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"Sitting Pretty"?
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Born this day January 14th:
Leading star Faye Dunaway is 63 today.
Appeared in "Hurry Sundown", "Bonnie and Clyde", "The Thomas Crown Affair", Little Big Man", "Chinatown", "The Towering Inferno", "Three Days of the Condor", "Network" (Oscar winner best actress), "The Eyes of Laura Mars", "The Champ", "Mommie Dearest" (outstanding performance), "Barfly", "Don Juan DeMarco" eyc.
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Former child actress Baby Sandy is 66.
aka Alexandra Lee Henville was in only about 7 full length films and was Universal's answer to Shirley Temple. She made a lot of money for the studio. In "Little Accident", "Sandy Is a Lady", "Sandy Gets Her Man", "Melody Lane" etc. She retired at 5 years old.
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Former child star Mary Ann Jackson is 81.
She was a member of "Our Gang" aka "The Little Rascals" in the 1920s and 1930s and appeared in 32 shorts. She was the little girl with the dutch-cut hairdo and freckles. Has been retired for years.
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Co-star/support Tom Tryon (65) 1926-1991.
In "Three Violent People" w/C. Heston, "The Unholy Wife", "I Married a Monster from Outer Space", "The Story of Ruth", "The Longest Day", "The Cardinal" (title role), "In Harm's Way" etc.
He was a best selling author with "The Other", "Harvest Home" etc.
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Co-star/support Guy Williams (65) 1924-1989.
In "Bonzo Goes to College", "Mississippi Gambler" w/T. Power, "Take Me to Town" w/Ann Sheridan, "I Was a Teenage Werewolf", "Sincerely Yours" w/Liberace etc.
Hit the heights on TV as Disney's "Zorro" and as Bill Robinson on "Lost in Space".
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Co-star /support Wanda McKay (80) 1916-1996.
Lovely petite blonde in mostly "B" filns, "The Way of All Flesh", "The Mad Doctor", "The Lady Eve" (bit part), "Virginia" w/S. Hayden, "Bowery at Midnight" w/Lugosi, "The Black Raven", "Voodoo Man", "Belle of the Yukon" w/Randolph Scott, "Jungle Goddess" w/George Reeves etc. She was the widow of Hoagy Carmichael.
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Supporting actor Harold Russell (88) 1914-2002.
His claim to fame is as double amputee Homer in "The Best Years of Our Lives" for which he won two Oscars.
An Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and an Oscar for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans.
While he was training paratroopers in the U.S. an explosive went off and he lost both hands. He mastered the hooks in place of his hands and became an inspiration for others with the same problems. In later years he fell on hard time and sold his best supporting actor Oscar for over $60,000.
Also in "Inside Moves" and underrated film and in "Dogtown".
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Supporting actor/vocalist Russ Columbo (26) 1908-1934.
He appeared in only about 7 films and becoming a romantic idol. He was hot n' heavy with Carole Lombard at the time of his death (accidental shooting). His rendition of "Prisoner of Love" was the cats meow.
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Superior lead/co-star William Bendix (58) 1906-1964.
In Woman of the Year", "Wake Island" (Oscar nominated), "The Glass Key", "China", "Lifeboat" outstanding performance, "The Hairy Ape", "A Bell for Adano", "The Dark Corner", "The Blue Dahlia", "The Babe Ruth Story", "Streets of Loredo", "Detective Story" excellent performance, "Macao" etc.
Was on "The Life of Riley" TV series.
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Mongo
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Born this day Jamuary 13th:
Former child star Billy Gray is 66 today.
In "To Each His Own", "Specter of the Rose" w/Judith Anderson available on VHS, "Fighting Father Dunne", "In a Lonely Place", "Mister 880", "On Moonlight Bay", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "By The Light of the Silvery Moon", "All I Desire" w/Stanwyck etc.
Played Bud on the TV series "Father Knows Best".
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Supporting actress Frances Sternhagen is 74.
In "Up the Down Staircase", "The Hospital", "Starting Over", "Misery as the feisty sheriff's wife, "Doc Hollywood", "Highway" etc. A great stage star was nominated for 6 Tony awards (won 1).
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Supporting actress Rosemary Murphy is 77.
Stern, brittle star in "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Ben" about rats, "You'll Like My Mother" a chiller, "Walking Tall", "40 Carats", "Julia", "The Attic", "The Hand", "For the Boys", "Message in a Bottle" etc.
Also a grand stage and TV actress.
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Supporting actress Osa Massen turns 88 today.
Blonde femme fatale in "Honeymoon in Bali" w/Fredric March, "A Woman's Face" when she gets slapped around by Crawford, "Iceland", "Background to Danger" w/George Raft, "Jack London", "The Master Race", "Tokyo Rose", "Deadline at Dawn", "Strange Journey" etc.
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Posthumous
Lead/co-star Gwen Verdon (75) 1925-2000.
Delightful screen and stage star in "The Farmer Takes a Wife", "Damn Yankees!", "Creepshow", "The Cotton Club", "Cocoon", "Cocoon: The Return", 'Marvin's Room", "Bruno" w/Shirley MacLaine etc.
Was married to Bob Fosse.
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Lead/co-star Robert Stack (84) 1919-2003.
Durable actor in "The Mortal Storm", "To Be or Not to Be" he adored Lombard, "A Date with Judy", "The Bullfighter and the Lady", "War Paint", "The High and the Mighty", "Written on the Wind" good role, Oscar nominee, "The Gift of Love", "The Caretakers" w/Crawford,
"Caddyshack II" etc.
A staple on TV as Eliot Ness in "The Untouchables" and the host of "Unsolved Mysteries".
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Lead/co-star Kay Francis (63) 1905-1968.
One of Hollywood's foremost leading ladies of the 1930s often playing fallen women and fashionable society types.
Especially good in "Street of Woman", "One Way Passage", "Trouble in Paradise", "Mary Stevens, M.D.", "Mandalay", "The White Angel", "My Bill", "In Name Only" outstanding performance, "Always in My Heart" etc.
Was eventually dethroned by Bette Davis. Married fivr times. Left bulk of estate to train dogs as seeing eyes.
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Mongo
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The musical revue that your thinking of alix is called "The Show of Shows" (1929) with Frank Fay hosting an all star cast.
Mongo
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Ahhhh yes moviejoe but don't forget that Stanwyck went out in grand style with her outstanding Emmy winning performance in "The Thorn Birds". She was just amazing.
Mongo
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"The Razor's Edge"?
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Lloyd Nolan's Rolled Stuffed Steak
Use round or flank steak about half an inch thick. For a two-pound steak, make the following stuffing:
2 tbls. bread crumbs
1 medium onion, minced
1/2 cup raisins chopped
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp thyme
2 tbls. dried celery leaves
melted butter
hot water or hot milk
Combine ingredients in order given, moistening to desired consistency with melted butter mixed with an equal amout of warm water or warm milk.
Spread stuffing on steak, roll loosely and fasten with skewers. Bake in moderate oven, basting occasionally.
Mongo
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Classicsfan, Louis B. Mayer wanted Luise Rainer to conform to and to be molded by Hollywood standards.However she was a non-conformist to MGMs glitz and glamour standards. She used to parade around Hollywood untidly dressed.
Mayer then put her in low budget films and declared if she didn't reform he would ruin her career.
She told him "You are 60 and I am 20. When I am 40, the age of a successful actress, you will be dead and I will live". Then she walked out of her MGM contract.
Of course only part of her statement proved true since she didn't become a successful actress.
She once said "Winning two Oscars for my second and third films was the worse thing that could happen".
She will remain immortal for her outstanding performance as Olan in "The Good Earth" which is coming to an end on TCM right now.
Mongo
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feaito the two films that were shown consecutively were "The Rains Came" and "The Rains of Ranchipur".
I just got the Fox Movie Channel this month after an increase in my cable bill. I guess it was a bonus for paying more money.
It's not a bad movie station and they also show Fox movies from the 1960s, '70s and '80s. They have clips and shorts from the vault ala TCM. I enjoyed some of the Betty Grable, Tyrone Power and Loretta Young movies.
Shown without commercial interruption there is a "mini" ad here and there. I would say that it is worth having.
Mongo
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Born this day January 12th:
Lead/co-star Luise Rainer is 94 today.
Double Oscar winner back-to-back for her performances in "The Great Ziegfeld" and "The Good Earth" (outstanding as Olan). Also in "The Emperor's Candlesticks", w/William Powell, "Big City" w/Spencer Tracy, "The Toy Wife" w/Melvin Douglas, "The Great Waltz", "Dramatic School" w/Paulette Goddard, "Hostages" w/Paul Lukas, "By Candlelight", "The Gambler" etc.
Louis B. Mayer just about banished her from Hollywood.
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Posthumous
Co-star/support Patsy Kelly (71) 1910-1981.
Outrageous comic actress from Brooklyn who teamed up with Thelma Todd in comedy shorts of the 1930s. Also in "Pigskin Parade", "Pick a Star", "Merrily We Live" w/Constance Bennett, "The Cowboy and the Lady" w/Gary Cooper, "Topper Returns", "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" w/Doris Day, "Rosemary's Baby", "Freaky Friday" etc.
She won a Tony Award for "No, No, Nanette" w/ Ruby Keeler on Broadway.
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Singing Cowboy star Tex Ritter (68) 1905-1974.
In many westerns of the 1930s and 1940s. Also a song writer with hits "Deck of Cards" and "Hillbilly Heaven",
sang the Oscar winning song "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin" in "High Noon". Father of the late John Ritter.
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Supporting actor Ray Teal (74) 1902-1976.
Essential gent in close to 240 films many of them bit parts. Best remembered for "The Best Years of Our Lives" as the man at the lunch counter who irritates Homer who then punches him through a glass display case.
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Mongo
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feaito its funny you mentioned those two Fox films since the Fox Movie Channel just showed both of them in a row.
Mongo
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feaito the movie is "The Women". Congratulations!
It was Mary Boland who spoke the line to Joan Fontaine.
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Time to clear out until next weekend. Get ready for Coffeedan the man and his trivia.
Mongo
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Evening Trivia:
Who says "My dear, you've got the Reno jumpie-wumpies!" and it which film.
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Stella your correct on both parts. Congratulations!
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Afternoon Trivia:
Who says "What a greedy girl you are. You want so much of everything" and in which movie of the 1940s.
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feaito you have the correct answer to daily trivia today.
Congratulations!
Trivia -- Week of January 12, 2004
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feaito you have the correct answer in today's daily trivia game. Congratulations!