bansi4
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Clue # 6 Suicide
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I'll stretch Clue # 5 to Vaudeville buddies.
Mongo
I'll check back in the morning.
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A-OK feaito. Goodnight.
Clue # 5 Buddies
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Good guess but no cigar.
Clue # 4 Naive sister
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Unfortunately not either.
Clue # 3 Schemer
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Not yet.
Clue # 2 Graduation dress
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Not to worry cinemetal since we range in all ages covering all era's of filmmaking. I believe I'm the old **** of the group or not far from it. We have those raging from their teens and into their seventies which covers a mass knowledge of the movies.
We are ALL film buffs and we love motion pictures and it's grand movie stars.
Just read some of the many topics and you'll feel right at home on these boards which are the best in town.
Any town U.S.A.
Just sit back, relax, enjoy and welcome aboard.
Mongo
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Well...I'll chance my turn now and hope someone is lurking about.
Clue # 1 Dreary coal town
Mongo
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My daughter just LOVES the movie "American Beauty" and when I finally watched it I said "What the hell...".
Mongo
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"Annie Get Your Gun"?
Mongo
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Sorry stigal, it is indeed the animation clip that is being discussed where the guy sings a song on the soundtrack.
Mongo
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This is just an idea and I don't want members to be offended by this post.
Why don't we include a few new topics here on the Trivia thread titled "conferences and "disputes" whereas we don't interrupt the actual subject of Trivia which this is all about. Today I actually forgot the question that coffeedan posted due to the conference inbetween the eventual guesses.
Who knows? The new topics could be popular.
Mongo
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It's apparent that we are not the only fans of Miriam Hopkins since prestigeous director William Wyler used her in five of his films which she fared in very well.
He also was fond of Bette Davis as an actress and they had an affair after hours.
Hollywood was just grand in those days.
Mongo
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I believe that is the intro that we are discssing Stigal.
Mongo
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Born this day December 2nd:
Oscar nominated actress Julie Harris is 78. Appeared in "The Member of the Wedding" and "East of Eden" with James Dean. Also a wonderful stage actress she had a stroke in 2001.
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Supporting actor Leo Gordon (78) 1922-2000. Big, burly actor usually playing brutes. In "Hondo" with Wayne, "Riot in Cell Block 11", "Soldier of Fortune" with Gable, "Baby Face Nelson" etc.
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Character actor Ray Walston (86) 1914-2001. Was in "South Pacific", "Damn Yankees", "The Apartment", The Sting". Also TVs "My Favorite Martian" and "Picket Fences".
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Supporting actor/co-star Donald Woods (91) 1906-1998.
On screen from the 1930s in "A Tale of Two Cities", "Watch on the Rhine" as Davis' brother, "Roughly Speaking" with Roz Russell. Also as the stranger in the Christmas short "Star in the Night" which will air on TCM.
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Lead/co-star Warren William (53) 1894-1948. He was suave and usually played cads. In "Lady for a Day", "Imitation of Life" with Colbert, "Madame X", "Lillian Russell" with Alice Faye, "The Wolf Man" with Chaney.
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Mongo
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"West Side Story"?
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"East of Eden"?
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I happen to think that Grace Kelly is not only glamourous
but also talented. She was outstanding as a plain Jane in "The Country Girl" for which she won an Oscar. Also her supporting role in "Mogambo" was very good.
Actually she would appear in a handful of fims before she retired including "High Society", "Dial M for Murder", "Rear Window" (a favorite), "Green Fire" among others hardly enough to judge her full potential.
Mongo
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Addition:
Just can't forget the dynamic Bette Midler who is 58 today. Oscar nominee for "The Rose" and "For the Boys".
Also puts on an outrageous stage show and belts out hit songs.
Mongo
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Born this day December 1st:
Actor, writer, director Woody Allen is 68. Talented guy wrote for TV shows of the 1950s. Was in Oscar winner "Annie Hall", "Hannah and her Sisters". Narrated the wonderful and nostalgic "Radio Days". Was married to Louise Lasser of TVs Mary Hartman. He and Mia Farrow were lovers before the poop hit the fan.
*********************************************************Superior supporting actress Allyn Ann McLerie is 77. Was Katy Brown in "Calamity Jane" with Doris Day, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" "The Cowboys" with Wayne, "The Way We Were", "Jeremiah Johnson" with Redford. Was in the mini series "The Thorn Birds" as the housekeeper. Is retired now.
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Supporting actor Paul Picerni is 81 today. On screen since the 1940s he was in "Breakthrough", "House of Wax", "To Hell and Back", "Miracle in the Rain" with Wyman. Also on the TV show "The Untouchables".
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Posthumous:
Supporting actor Dick Shawn (63) 1923-1987. Funnyman who was in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "The Producers", "Love at First Bite" etc.
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Supporting actor William Tracy (49) 1917-1967. He was in "The Shop Around the Corner" as Pepi, "Tobacco Road" as the idiot Dude, "Strike Up the Band" with Mickey & Judy.
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Actress of stage, screen and TV Mary Martin (76) 1913-1990. In films "Birth of the Blues", "Kiss the Boys Goodbye". On Broadway in "South Pacific", "The Sound of Music" and TVs "Peter Pan". Son is Larry Hagman.
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Supporting actress Etta McDaniel (55) 1890-1946. In "Green Pastures", "Stella Dallas", "Son of Dracula", "Incendiary Blonde" with Betty Hutton. Played mostly maids and cooks. Sister of Hattie McDaniel.
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Mongo
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Sorry, after I reread the question I realized it is another of TCMs fine intros prior to the start of the movie.
I would say it takes place in the 1930s or 1940s and I believe you can use your imagination. is she dressing? Or Undressing? Is she going to take a nap? Or is she getting ready for a date? Perhaps she is having company soon? What do you think?
In any event it is a wonderful intro with a great soundtrack that has been discussed on the boards in the past.
Mongo
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gnfoshay your question has been asked many times on the boards. From what I understand the scene with the people in the tenement windows while a train passes by is from the movie "Somebody Up There Likes Me" with Paul Newman.
Mongo
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Did anyone list "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"? That film always pulls at the heartstrings and tearducts.
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By the way classicsfan the gentle giant was named John Coffey ("just like coffee but spelled differently"). He was superior and I myself shed tears for this man.
Mongo
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Stella you hit the jackpot! Congratulations!
Mongo
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It's been fun and I'll be back next weekend. Coffeedan will be here for sure in the AM for abother week of his superior trivia.
Mongo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Born this day December 3rd:
Since there are no major "star" birthdays this day I'll list those actors seldom mentioned and those experts behind the scenes.
Oscar nominated film editor Dede Allen is 78. She edited "Reds", Dog Day Afternoon", "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Hustler"
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Posthumous:
Supporting actor Mickey Simpson (71) 1913-1985. Was the bigoted Sarge in "Giant". He and Rock Hudson had a great fist fight while the jukebox blasted.
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Oscar winning composer Nino Rota (67) 1911-1979. He composed the haunting music of "The Godfather" films.
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Screen writer Virginia Kellogg (73) 1907-1981. Wrote screen stories to "Caged" and "White Heat" both Oscar nominated.
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Writer /director Paul Bern (42) 1889-1932. Made mostly silents for MGM. Married Jean Harlow and two months later he was dead. Although ruled a suicide there is speculation he was murdered.
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Mongo