clore
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Thank you.
There's another one of whom I keep forgetting to watch for as she's supposedly one of the orphanage people. The trouble is that the sequence is so spectacular that my attention isn't on the people.
Anyway, supposedly Grandma Walton, Ellen Corby is one of the staffers.
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Don't forget his gig as a drummer in *The Phantom Lady*. This is a guy who really gets off on his playing!
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Eddie G. and Joan Blondell must have had a few laughs over the failure to recreate 30's fashions and hairstyles. I have also wondered what the purpose of setting it in another period was as far as the story goes. It really just inflated the budget for props as far as I'm concerned.
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I remember watching LASSIE with Tommy Rettig on TV. His mom would go to the wall phone and crank the handle and say "Hello, Jenny..."
I've only seen that kind of phone in exhibits, but I do recall my grandmother's table phone. It was one of those with a receiver that seemed to weigh ten pounds and the dial was metal, not plastic. I believe that she was on a party line as a few times when I answered, I heard other people talking.
Goodness, I can't have been more than five years old, perhaps younger.
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Aww, thank you Audrey.
She's sleeping a lot these days and made mention that she was never so tired so often. My sister said "Mom, you've never been 92 before either, you have to expect to slow down somewhat."
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Was it STAGE DOOR that I saw recently and she was wearing what looked like a dunce cap? But you're right, she looked like something out of Sherwood Forest.
Last night watching MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, Robert Armstrong has a scene where he's driving a truck and being chased by police. To appear nonchalant, he pulls his hat brim down. It was a good thing he was only in front of a rear projection screen as otherwise he wouldn't be able to see a thing.
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I forget what it was that I saw lately, perhaps SITTING PRETTY, but there was a scene of a surburban husband coming home from work and being told that they're having the Walkers (or whomever) over for dinner and that he has to change for the occasion.
The guy is already in a suit and tie, and it's not the boss who is coming over, just some neighbors, so why aren't the clothes he has on already good enough?
But I do get a kick out of those films where we're supposed to have a working class woman who is sharing an apartment, yet she's decked out in the splendid creations of Edith Head or some other studio designer throughout the film.
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It was incredible how Arthur Treacher gained in fame as he became a senior citizen. His fish and chips was my favorite fast food and I miss our local outlet.
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Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott hooked up
Anthony Mann / James Stewart hooked up
Martin and Lewis split up
Frank Sinatra shot up
The Amazing Colossal Man really shot up
Dean Stockwell grew up
Cinemascope stretched out
3D reached out
Jayne Mansfield stuck out
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Very good sir, that made me laugh.
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Charles Lane was Homer Bedloe on PETTICOAT JUNCTION.
The truck driver was John Ford regular Jack Pennick.
William Schallert, who was also on DOBIE GILLIS as well as THE PATTY DUKE SHOW is a gas station attendent.
Supposedly Richard Farnsworth of THE GREY FOX is one of the cowboys in the beginning.
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No, just a goof thread based on something I read about 45 years ago. That was an article on all of the things that supposedly made 40s films better than 60s films. This was just the reverse, I was having some fun with things that make me chuckle when I watch films from that decade, but I was trying to do it from the perspective of someone who hadn't seen too many of them, or at least saw enough to make these observations.
The part about Alan Hale, Ward Bond and Barton Maclane is actually something that my mother said a long time ago when she walked in on me while I was watching THE MALTESE FALCON and she saw Bond and Maclane. It was something she thought of initially when she was seeing films of that decade when they were new. She loved Ward Bond though, used to watch WAGON TRAIN every week.
Mom will be 92 next Thursday, so Mom, this is for you!
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Yes, Eric Blore and also Edgar Norton although he was more prolific in the 30s.
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I admit that this guy has rubbed me the wrong way with his continued false proclamations and if the powers that be decide to delete the thread, I'm not going to blame them. I do hope though that he uses the link that I provided below to see that this was a "feud" that was dragged in here from another thread and which was based on an answer I had provided twice already in that thread.
But I have already taken a step that I've never taken here on the TCM boards - I've put the guy on ignore. He still has his right to post anything that he wants and I'll be exercising my rights in not having to read it.
But I thank you for your compliments and welcome your level-headedness.
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You must have every one of my 100 posts memorized.
Not that I want to, I just happen to have an excellent memory for things that I've read. It's better to remember things than to make them up.
In a sane world your 2000 posts is mass destruction of this board.
What would you know about a sane world?
2,285 posts over a 56 month period - that's 44 a month for me.
You have 105 posts in a six week period, that's equivalent to about 70 per month.
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I can only remember seeing one William S. Hart movie and that was HELL'S HINGES which was part of a special "Treasures from the American Film Archives" presentation at least five years ago.
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Dont get in a dither when you hear that zither
Not like you get when you see someone kissing on screen.
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I would not even count the Bowery Boys as movies.
Who cares what you would count as movies? They WERE released as feature films whether you like it or not.
Failed!
Just what I said about WB treating subscribers like turds....
That's probably just you being treated that way and the reason is obvious.
dum da dum da dum.....dum da dum da dum..
The right theme for you with that emphasis on dum dum.
And you're still avoiding the question of what is a "guhead?"
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you ducked the item about allied artists. what aa movies have been on tcm?
You really don't know how to read, do you? I've responded to that twice in that other thread already. Are you really that dumb or just acting?
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161132&tstart=0
In the meantime, what do you have to say about your idiotic statements that TCM never airs UA or Republic titles? Let me guess - zero, zilch, nada
Maybe you should check the schedules before you open your big mouth. You made the accusation about them not being aired, actually the burden of proof is upon the accuser.
By the way, you ducked the question in your 30's thread - what is a "guhead?"
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I read somewhere that toward the end, Sanders was quite frustrated over Conway's refusal to give up drinking. Not long after that, Conway was found in a Skid Row flop house. He ended up dying of cirrhosis.
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Thank you very much. I wanted to pick someone other than Arthur Treacher so I just took the name of the last butler that I've seen. Treacher was almost too obvious.
I had someone in mind originally for a perennial cab driver, then it slipped my mind. It wasn't Frank Faylen or Tom D'Andrea, but for some reason I had a senior moment and forgot who first came to mind.
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If mr. **** retentive wants to worry about spelling guhead wallow in it.
You don't read too well either. I said earlier that no one said anything about your spelling. Why are you so anally retentive on bad spelling?
What's a "guhead?"
Actually, I love your false proclamations and your inability to face up to being corrected. Now, what was that you said about TCM not airing UA, AA or Republic films and linking that to a conspiracy? Do you sit in a tinfoil hat while posting? Maybe it affects your TV reception.
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People drive funny - they sit there and shake the steering wheel, even if they are on a straight road.
Men never go to the bathroom. We all know when women say they are going to powder their nose what they are really going to do, but with all of the drinking going on in 40s films, no man uses a bathroom. Unless he's using the window to escape from the cops.
Ward Bond, Barton Maclane and Alan Hale are in everything. You can't escape them. Were there a lot of people that looked like those guys, is this why they are mandatory for so many 40s movies? My grandfather says that Ward Bond was in so many movies that if he used the men's room at the theater, Ward Bond was in there too.
Lazy people can't dial. They pick up a phone and say "Get me Bigelow 6 - 4999." Just once i'd like to hear someone say "get it yourself."
George Sanders can't decide which side he is on. He's fighting the Nazis in one movie and then is a Nazi in the next one. Then he's the Falcon and gets killed by a Nazi and his brother Tom Conway has to take his place.
Speaking of Tom Conway, how is it that he's Dr. Louis Judd in one movie and gets clawed to death, then he comes back a year later as the same character in *The Seventh Victim* helping a woman find her missing sister?
Were singing cowboys forgetful? Roy Rogers always played Roy Rogers, Gene Autry was always Gene Autry. That's not so bad, but in one movie they are living in an era with cars and telephones, then in the next movie they're in the old west. How did they know what year it was when they woke up?
Does every newsboy and bellboy have to look like Billy Benedict and every butler like Halliwell Hobbes?
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I'm wondering if you can point out some other films where the filters were as important to the look of the film as lighting and film stock.
Those annoying filters used in SOUTH PACIFIC.
Why I don't like 40s movies
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I was trying to be subtle, let's just say that Elisha was cookin'.