clore
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The bus is more likely to come from the earlier Hitchcock film, I can't recall a bus in THE WRONG MAN.
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Another self-directed remake is Leo McCarey's AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER which was a remake of LOVE AFFAIR.
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The Dorsey Brothers as themselves in THE FABULOUS DORSEYS. Actors they weren't.
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Just an FYI.
One shot of the late night intro, the one with the Ford sedan turning the lights off is from THE WRONG MAN.
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For "I remade it myself" there's also
Raoul Walsh:
High Sierra / Colorado Territory
Objective Burma / Distant Drums
Strawberry Blonde / One Sunday Afternoon
John Ford:
Judge Priest / The Sun Shines Bright plus two versions of "Three Godfathers" (one in 1919 titled "Marked Men").
Frank Wisbar: The 1946 "Strangler of the Swamp" and the German original titled "F?hrmann Maria."
Frank Capra: Broadway Bill / Riding High
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I wonder if - given that he is the subject of a TCM short - he will be included in the year-end necrology. While the wife identifies herself, if it was indeed the older gentleman who says "nothing goes out of print here" in the short who is Mr. Brandt, it's never mentioned.
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Composer-songwriter Eddie Brandt dies at 88
Owned noted L.A. memorabilia store
By Variety Staff
Composer, songwriter and noted Los Angeles movie/TV memorabilia store owner Eddie Brandt died Feb. 20 in North Hollywood of colon cancer. He was 88.
Born in Chicago, Brandt taught himself to play the piano and started his first band, Eddie Brandt and the Hollywood Hicks, during service in the Navy in WWII. He composed music with Spike Jones, Spade Cooley, Eddie Cantor and George Motola in the 1940s, producing hit songs including "Heaven Knows," "None but the Lonely Heart," "There's No Place Like Hawaii," "I'm Drowning My Sorrows," "The Tears in Your Eyes," "High School Romance," "Shortnin' Bread Rock" and "Rock and Roll Wedding."
During the 1950s Eddie wrote for TV's "The Colgate Comedy Hour" and "The Spike Jones Show."
He was also a cartoonist, working with Bob Clampett in the '60s. He penned a couple of episodes of "Beany and Cecil," composed the music for them and even provided additional voices. He contributed to the writing of several cartoons at Hanna-Barbera. Among his credits were "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles," "Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor" and "Cattanooga Cats."
But he was ultimately known most, at least in the Los Angeles area, for his store, Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee Video in North Hollywood, which Brandt and his wife, Claire, opened in 1967. He started collecting movie memorabilia as a child during the Depression, and the store offered stills, lobby cards, posters and, later, videos, including many out of print and some that Brandt recorded himself.
A 1991 article in the L.A. Times Calendar section noted that Disney's Imagineers rented from the store so often that they had a corporate account.
In addition to his wife, Brandt is survived by two sons and four daughters.
Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com
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The sked has THE EASY WAY and ROOM FOR ONE MORE listed back-to-back on June 6th. They are the same movie, THE EASY WAY is the later TV retitling of the title as there was a TV series based on the same material.
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I can't remember the last time that I saw HOME BEFORE DARK on anyone's schedule.
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Hathaway gets the Hugh Herbert Award for too many "woo hoo" announcements.
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I've seen that attributed to numerous others, but usually with an extra "get me"
Who is Mary Astor
Get Me Mary Astor
Get me a Mary Astor type
Get me a young Mary Astor
Who is Mary Astor
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I've been looking also and can't find one. The person who reported it is a frequent visitor to the store and got the info from someone who is a staff member.
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It's being reported on another (reliable) website that Eddie Brandt, founder of the "Saturday Matinee" video store in North Hollywood and the subject of a "TCM Fanatic" short passed away last Sunday, cause unreported.
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>>However, I do think Montalban should have played Ramon Miguel Vargas in ?Touch of Evil?.
I think he was busy playing a kabuki player in SAYONARA at the time.
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Thanks for that hlywdkjk, I'll take the test once I consume some java. Although I tend to wake early (it's 5:45am now), I'm not really a morning person. I like to ease into my day. I was never one to wake, wash and rush breakfast in 30 minutes before leaving for work. I'd wake up at 530am just to laze through my routine until I left at 8am. I think that starting my day with a sense of control set my mind up better for the stress that was to come once I stepped onto public transportation to start the work day.
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>>About the original post, maybe this creepy little troll that gets under one's skin caused babydiapers to snap.
What is Don Knotts doing without his shirt on?
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>>I was also going to congratulate you on your fine memory, but I forgot to do it.
You made my day - and not for the complimentary part either.
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Ben Mankiewicz and the young George C. Scott
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Well, she doesn't look like Marjorie Main to me.
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You are probably right about ESPN, I know I catch them in errors when it comes to thoroughbred racing.
I refuse to see the movie about my favorite horse SECRETARIAT for all ot the liberties that they took with actual events, such as changing the name of the winner of the Wood Memorial.
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>>Congratulations on your high memory test scores. Most of us are not as lucky to have your ability at any age.
Thank you, both of you who congratulated me.
It's not all that it's cracked up to me - a good memory that is. There's been a lot of pain and sorrow in my life that I wish that I could forget and it all has a lot to do with why I'm happiest escaping into films. Most films anyway as some do tend to be memory triggers, I just take comfort in that much of the time what is recalled is something pleasant.
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>>I doubt I will be able to recall as much about film and film history as he does when I'm his age.
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>>How about you?
I'll have to bow out of such comparisons as a recent IQ test had me at age 60 passing the memorization part with the highest score (perfect) and fastest time. Most of the others in the tested group were less than half my age.
I don't know why so many seem to equate pointing out errors with hating the man, or not having any respect. It's quite the opposite. Just as his handlers have him showing up all dapper and elegant, they owe it to him, and he owes it to himself, to make sure that the data is of equal caliber. Why aren't they as mindful of his advancing age as his apologists and doing the extra that makes the difference between appearing to be the expert claimed or being an idol with feet of clay?
I wonder if when the time comes, and his replacement begins to slip up, will people be as forgiving? Or will the collective memories become clouded and will people say "Robert never made so many errors?"
Loyalty is an admirable trait, but not always when it is blind. I may be critical, but only because i don't want Osborne and the channel rest on its laurels. As my sixth grade teacher used to have on the blackboard for the whole term:
Good, better, best
Never let it rest
Until your good is better
And your better, best
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That night of John Payne films a few weeks ago was just the kind of thing that has me watching for eight straight hours.
Worst Portrayal of Athlete, Musician:
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Muhammad Ali as himself in THE GREATEST is something to be seen - or preferably not seen. Terrible film.
Evel Knievel starred as himself in VIVA KNIEVEL and that film made THE GREATEST look like a classic.