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It proves that they do not have access to many Paramount films, since the bulk of his career was at that studio. True, but as long as they're going to have to pay the parent company to run CITIZEN KANE, they could have gone for one of the six or seven films that he made for Warners as a star. Especially HELL ON FRISCO BAY which has a nice supporting cast and for which his Jaguar Productions hired Frank Tuttle, the man who directed THIS GUN FOR HIRE which started it all for him as a star. I'd love to see that one in widescreen someday.

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote} > That happens a lot in these tribute days. The performer only has to appear in the movie (even if a cameo!) LOL. I will never forget when CITIZEN KANE kicked off Alan Ladd's SUTS day.

Aline MacMahon Bela Lugosi Dana Andrews Jeff Chandler John Payne Randolph Scott Gene Tierney Louis Hayward And especially the previously mentioned Warren William

That was great, thanks Fred.

Silly me, I should have just taken the easy route and gone to Google rather than to my book shelf. Here's the page, you'll see that the author goes into two Steve Allen appearances with a little more detail: http://books.google.com/books?id=SMb1DpW1_YgC&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=errolflynnsid+caesar&source=bl&ots=Ldpe8GtFE5&sig=2CWB3fx3MX55hMMek_KfOXyTdYk&hl=en&ei=gJzVTsmZC4Xs0gHh_4HpAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=errol%20flynn%20sid%20caesar&f=false

The Thomas McNulty book on Flynn makes a very brief claim that in 1957 Flynn "appeared with Sid Caesar, Milton Berle and Martha Raye as well as several other game shows." If that's true, then it would have to be CAESAR'S HOUR and not YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS which folded in 1953.

Technically, the one on letterboxing only really applies to people with older 4x3 televisions...not 16x9 HDTV screens. Just yesterday I finally swapped my cable boxes for HDTV boxes and did some channel surfing while adding favorite channels to the list. I chanced across a film on HBO, I believe that it was the new OCEAN'S ELEVEN and even on my 16x9 screen, it was "letterboxed" as there were black bands on the top and bottom of the screen since it was filmed at a 2.35:1 ratio.

I'd be remiss if I said that my recollections can't be faulty, but I can't recall this one showing up in the last seven years. I use that figure as I've been out of the job market that long and pay much closer attention to the schedule. Sylvia Sidney is a personal favorite among 30s actresses and I like Raft enough to have seen just about all of his films. I've only seen MR. ACE once in my life and that was on one of the NYC indie stations back in the mid-70s, probably WNEW. In fact, I haven't seen any one of the three Sidney/Raft pairings since that time.

That was "A Great Lady Gives an Interview" with Turner doing a number done by Judy Garland in ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. Turner's version was done for a TV show, I'm fairly certain it was on Ed Sullivan, and you can spot Steve Forrest and Richard Anderson among the males if I recall properly.

Not exactly movie stars, but that same Fall saw James Franciscus, David Janssen, Dean Jones, Robert Conrad and Dick Van Dyke return to TV. Only Van Dyke saw a renewal. New on the block was George Kennedy - his show also died.

Way back in 1971, James Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Quinn, Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor, James Stewart, Tony Curtis (and Roger Moore) and Rock Hudson all had brand-new prime time series. The only one to get renewed for the following season was Rock Hudson.

I knew about Evans playing Tony Wendice on stage, he even did it for TV in the late 50s. That version also had John Williams and Anthony Dawson from the stage and film version. I have a very vague recollection of his MACBETH on TV. My sister had to watch it for a school assignment.

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote} > The British actor/manager/producer *Maurice Evans* was instrumental in making *Andy Griffith* famous. Evans produced the play No Time for Sergeant on Broadway, which ran for a couple of years and made Griffith a star. Griffith had played the role on the U.S. Steel Hour, but it was the expanded stage version, which led to Griffith recreating the role on film, that made him a star. > Wow, I wasn't aware of that connection, thanks for the info.

My local TV station WSAZ (NBC) airs "The Andy Griffith Show" Monday-Friday at 12:30pm after the local news. Now that's staying power. That's the Charleston-Huntington TV market, isn't it? I was a programming consultant to WVAH-TV for several years, from before they turned on the signal. While they initially claimed in ads that the call letters stood for West Virginia, Almost Heaven, the last two letters actually referred to the owner's initials, his name was Al Holtz. Back in those days, ANDY GRIFFITH ran either at 7 or 730pm and was pulling audience shares in the mid to upper 30s.

On Thursday AM, SyFy will be airing the other Joseph Schildkraut TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Trade-Ins." This is the one where he goes in to a rejuvenation clinic and comes out as Virgil (Edson Stroll) from McHALE'S NAVY. One of my favorite Schildkraut roles is as Fouquet in the 1939 THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. He's also impressive in the film THE CHEATERS as a Barrymore-esque actor down on his luck who is taken in by a nutty family at Christmas.

Robert Young is in the unique position of having both a successful sitcom and a successful drama. Others in that club include Carroll O'Connor, Jack Klugman and Andy Griffith. Griffith would also be a candidate for crossing over from starring roles in films to TV. Robert Stack had some experience in that also as did James Garner. David Janssen also.

Really strange that Gatester posted this same message about these two movie repeats just this morning, and you joined today and this happens to be your first post about the same subject... What's even stranger than that is why is gatester also posting as BillyBrown? You know, the only person ever to see staking scenes in HORROR OF DRACULA that were never filmed.

Were I to go to my gay friends and say there's an out-of-control gay guy on another board, the first thing I'd be asked is "How do you define out-of-control?" And just how would I define that? I guess it would be something such as "he's ogling photos of Skelton Knaggs." "What's wrong with Googling Skelton Knaggs?" "I said ogling, not Googling." One of my friends over on the IMDb has a thing for James Ellison, so when this photo popped up in a thread around here, I sent him the link. I think he was out-of-control for a few minutes. That's James Ellison, Lee Bowman, John Payne, Richard Denning and James Craig. The gal is Louise Campbell.

I have to give the award to David Edelstein as the best pinch hitter. He had the knowledge and enthusiasm necessary and he did appear to be enjoying himself.

There is an incident cited in the Bob Thomas bio of Harry Cohn... Cohn is being told that he has to dismiss John Howard Lawson, one of the Hollywood Ten. Cohn didn't like being told to do this. He insisted that "No, I'm not going to do this. I've got ******* ****** on the lot, and he's a fairy!" The implication was that being gay was worse than being accused of being a Commie. So, now just put yourself in Rock Hudson's place in 1950's America. Even San Francisco was not that gay friendly then, so it's not one of those those things that he "could of" (sic) done.

While it fell within her week of tenure, the showing of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS was too late at night for her to have provided the intro. That would have been interesting as I've heard her husband Tom Hanks claim that it is his favorite movie.

Leigh definitely looks like Simmons. Simmons looks something like A. Hepburn. And Millie Perkins looks like a cross between Simmons and Hepburn:

Don't do that. You have your rights, stay here and insist on them. In the meantime, let me suggest a site where you'll not be hassled. You'll find the board to be gay-centric although they even allow a straight such as I to converse. It's the home of SCARLET STREET magazine and you can find it here. They do require a membership approval, but that takes only a day at the most. http://scarletstreet.yuku.com/directory#.Ts-vlvKwBkz But don't let my recommendation have you thinking that for one minute that I'm thinking "don't go away mad, just go away."

All you need to do to make a vintage color film look modern is wear either a pair of amber or blue sunglasses. In the case of war movies, substitute a green pair.

This free sex, do your own thing since the 1960's has caused huge problems to society regarding unrestricted, mostly out of wedlock sex. How many unloved, unwanted children has been brought into the world by child-minded irresponsible people? That may be so, but gays really don't contribute to that problem. As the son of a multiple bigamist, a man who had five wives that I know of with no divorces and at least one child per marriage, I do know where you're coming from. That he was the son of a man who did the same thing, I'm happy to say that at age eight I made a vow that it would not be repeated, no child of mine was ever going to cry himself to sleep wondering whether daddy was ever going to come home. On his deathbed, he asked for me to come visit him, for my siblings and I as well as all of those children he left behind, I was quite glad to ignore that request. His sister called me back to say that he was disappointed that I should hold a grudge and not think of him in his time of need. I responded that this was his own legacy that he brought upon himself - the not thinking of others in time of need. She thoroughly understood, but that as he asked her to call me, she felt that she had to do it.