clore
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TCM likes politics so much, they will be showing THE GREAT DICTATOR twice tomorrow. First time at 3am, then again at 3pm.
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Was it Faye Dunaway?
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I sure will be glad once TCM airs BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK and THE DIRTY DOZEN on Saturday. Not only do I like those two films, but it will also mean that maybe some other titles will be promoted between movies. I barely see anything else getting the push these past few days.
Edited by: clore on Jan 28, 2011 4:21 AM
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Has someone been reading Darwin (the bathroom) porter or Bozo Hadleigh books?
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>>But I will critisize him.
And I will criticize your poor command of the English language. You can't type one sentence without making at least one mistake. Your cause needs a better spokesperson.
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There was serious talk of reuniting Wayne and Hepburn to do a film version of THE GIN GAME which was a hit on Broadway with Cronyn and Tandy and they repeated the roles on a Showtime presentation.
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>>Well, Jimmy Stewart was a Colonel in the Army Air Corps, Then played a Lt. Colonel in Strategic Air Command. Does that qualify?
It would come close enough since it was a pet project for Stewart. Anthony Mann didn't even want to do it, but did anyway as a favor to his star. But the thought of doing NIGHT PASSAGE just so James could play the accordion was the breaking point.
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Dietrich in NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY
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Thanks finance - and you've reminded me of Dean Martin in KISS ME STUPID, the awful Billy Wilder film.
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Some good suggestions in here, thanks to all.
John Barrymore from DINNER AT EIGHT and THE GREAT PROFILE are right on target. Likewise, Flynn as Barrymore has him with enough real-life parallels that this was one of those that I had in mind. Coming half-circle, Peter O'Toole as Flynn in MY FAVORITE YEAR has enough similarities to HIS own life that it adds an extra dimension, especially since we see clips of Peter from THE GREAT CATHERINE.
The Jean Harlow mention is another goodie and while Bogie plays a writer in IN A LONELY PLACE, the casting of Robert Warwick as the aging stage actor hits home as Warwick had befriended Bogart on the NYC stage some 25 years earlier.
I wasn't sure if John Wayne in THE SHOOTIST fits my own criteria, but he does play a man dying of cancer who goes out in a big way. Thinking of Wayne handing out the Best Picture Oscar in 1979 could be considered close enough as he was gone within weeks of that event.
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>>I'm not totally against remakes, it's just that if they remake this story, people will flock to theaters to see it, say how wonderful it is, and not even realize this was once a masterpiece in the 30's or 50's.
Nah - chances are that TCM will have a "coincidental" theme night of all previous versions, hopefully not the same print of the March version that they aired last time where he committed a certain impossible act twice.
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I'm thinking of films such as BROADWAY (1942) which altered the source material to change the lead character to George Raft as the story was close enough to his own. It's not exactly a bio, but in this case the situations were similar so the change was made to give some "realism" that wasn't really there.
Or Karloff in TARGETS playing an aging horror star and the same could be said of Vincent Price in MADHOUSE. I suppose Fred Astaire in THE BANDWAGON would count also. It might make for a decent night of a theme that would still manage some diversity in terms of genre.
I've got some others in mind, but to rattle them all off would limit discussion and I'm not the type to insist on the last word.
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>>. I think she appeared on the episode of Taxi when Jim takes Elaine to a society dinner and finds out he had taken piano lessons.
That was Fran Ryan. She had a good role in PALE RIDER.
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MAYOR OF HELL is on right now, it was remade as CRIME SCHOOL.
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I would love to see them get hold of the Fox film BLOOD MONEY. One raunchy pre-Code film.
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>>For his next project, maybe he can come up with a better Warren William SOTM rhyme.
If you ain't watchin' Warren
Your life must be borin'
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Thank you for bringing that to our attention.
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>>He obviously couldn't make the distinction between the stage and screen, and paid the price by quickly becoming obsolete.
63 sound films in 16 years, including one befofe the year of his death from multiple myeloma - that's hardly obsolete.
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Finance, that was Jay Adler.
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Add SPELLBOUND, MISTER BUDDWING, THE THIRD DAY, MIRAGE and STRANGE AWAKENING to the list of amnesia titles.
I am sure there are more, but I forget.
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Dennis O'Keefe and Alan Ladd
Randolph Scott and Buster Crabbe - they even played brothers
Robert Sterling and Richard Long
Young Dan Duryea and young Richard Widmark
Old Dan Duryea and old Robert Ryan
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>>And that gay French police captain ... jeez.
He must have been bi as he was trying to get some action with that refugee woman with the young, inexperienced husband.
Rick even described him as being "broad-minded."
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>>But you know when TCM shows that someday KEY LARGO remake, Johnny Rocco won't have that handy newspaper in the tub to hide his other stogie. And TCM will show THAT complete and uncut.
Uncut? That will depend on whether or not there was an extra procedure at birth.
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>>It looks like horseys are getting a major spotlight.
The first two legs of the Triple Crown are in May, so it's a timely theme.