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>To me it is more logical to assume that since Davis was making The Little Foxes, WB had ONE less Davis movie for the year. How much would that ONE additional movie had made for WB? According to Goldwyn's son, the Davis loan was also part of a large gambling debt that Jack Warner owed to Goldwyn. It was big, something like a quarter-million. There was also a matter of Warner needing Gary Cooper for Sergeant York, so that was part of the deal. Otherwise, the real York would not have approved the film - not without Cooper.

Stuart Heisler, whose TULSA is airing right now was an editor prior to becoming a director.

Christian Nyby A couple of Bond directors were editors - John Glen and Peter Hunt Gene Fowler, Jr

>I don't think I've ever seen BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S on TCM. It has aired previously in Nov 2009, Jan 2010, Feb 2010, April 2010, May 2010 and Dec 2010. There may have been others, but my list of schedules only goes back as far as Jan 2009. It did seem to be in heavy rotation for a few years.

>Personally, I enjoy That Touch of Mink, but I must agree I Love You, Alice B. Tolkas is one of the worst choices yet (if not the worst) for the Essentials. I'm not saying that THAT TOUCH OF MINK isn't enjoyable, but if I were listing films for someone who had never before seen a Cary Grant or Doris Day film, it certainly wouldn't be on the list.

Andy, I really think that it's time to retire the concept. There are films on the list which seem to run every month anyway - ON THE WATERFRONT and MY FAIR LADY for example. ALICE B. TOKLAS may be the worst choice for an Essential since they aired THAT TOUCH OF MINK.

Once again, half-way through, the image was adjusted.

That's what I'm getting. I had to hit the button on my TV remote to artificially expand it to fill my screen from side to side. This happened fairly recently during the airing of NOWHERE TO GO and about half-way through the film, the snafu was corrected.

You're right - just because TCM does not subscribe to the ratings for their own use does not mean that their share of the TV viewing pie isn't of interest to someone else.

OK, we'll stop all the Cary Grant in CAPTAIN BLOOD conjecture by having him cast as Byam in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY instead. He was hoping for that part, but Paramount wouldn't loan him out.

I have my cable set to TCM HD. The image has black bars all around, not just top and bottom. I find it amusing that this is occurring just after TCM aired the letterbox promo. I get the heebie jeebies thinking that I'll have to blow up the image, making the faces less clear, in order to fill my screen.

The hand-written viewing diaries add demographic info that would be missing were Nielsen to only rely on meters which just indicate that the set is on, not who is watching.

Didn't Victor McLaglen refer to John Wayne in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON as "Captain Darling?"

I can't say that I recall Bellaver being dressed that way in the film, but it's certainly of the same vintage. The New York Times obit references a photo copyright 1939 by William Stone, only the pic doesn't appear in the online page. I'm guessing that it's the same pic. Here's one from *Another Thin Man*: Here's another which is the youngest that I've seen of him, but the source isn't identified:

To post a photo here, first you need the link from a picture on the web - let's start with this, a link to a shot of the youthful Bellaver: http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/b/bd/Harry_Bellaver.jpg/400px-Harry_Bellaver.jpg To have it appear as an image. just put an exclamation point at both ends of the link and you'll get this:

Victor Jory and Donald Cook (Cagney's brother in THE PUBLIC ENEMY)

NO WAY OUT may feature Bellaver's best role in a movie as the lip-reading brother of Richard Widmark. Interesting that a cast mate in ANOTHER THIN MAN is Horace McMahon, Bellaver's co-star on NAKED CITY.

>4:3 photography would have given us the full image, such as with Gone With The Wind. and The Wizard of Oz. We would have lost half the image (the top and bottom) if The Wizard of Oz been filmed in Cinemascope. Or conversely, compare the 35mm and 70mm versions of THE BIG TRAIL and see what was lost. As this was a 1930 film, it shows that at least Walsh and Edeson knew a bit about composing for the wide screen process.

Nice post. There was another Vance adaptation, THE SCARAB MURDER CASE, made in Britain in 1936 and starring Wilfrid Hyde-White as Vance. It's lost to the ages apparently, not even William K. Everson in his book "The Detective in Film" could comment other than to say it was produced on the cheap.

I've "prayed" at the porcelain altar a few times, but I've never slept there.

>That is why toilets and husbands and wives were always shown sleeping in separate beds. You might want to rephrase that one. I've yet to see a toilet in bed alone or with a spouse.

Abbott came off a bit wimpier and besides, Moss had that voice that by itself could project an enemy from the room.

That's pretty much what I was inferring, but I wasn't sure if that's what you were implying. Since you aren't a politician, I figured it was better to just ask straight out. I'd have to agree with you. So far the best guest hosts for my money were Muller and David Edelstein - both of whom wrote their own material and not reading off a teleprompter. I'd have to say that seeing Broderick as host would never have had me thinking "Oh gee, this guy would be great in THE MUSIC MAN. So much energy and charisma, it leaps off the screen."

Seeing in the credits of GAMBIT that John Abbott and Arnold Moss are in the cast, I'm reminded of how I confused the two of them when I was but a young film fan. John Abbott Arnold Moss

>...and didn't during his initial time as host for that Noir series he did sound while presenting his opening and closing thoughts like he'd rather be anyplace ELSE than in front of that TCM set camera... I've read that several times and I'm admitting confusion. Maybe it's the "and didn't" and "he did" parts throwing it all off balance. I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm honestly admitting to confusion.