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And here I thought the Angela Lansbury reference was to The Manchurian Candidate!

Don't forget the "Furious Spasms" poster. And Broderick Crawford not remembering the oldmovies he made. (Although the script does have him being asked about people he didn't make movies with in real life.)

I'm reminded of an old Jeopardy! episode I saw several years ago. The category was LATIN ACTRESSES, and the clue in the bottom box was, "Born Marguerite Cansino, she danced with Fred Astaire in You Were Never Lovelier" One of the contestants rings in and responds: "Who was Carmen Miranda?" OK, so it's not a bad guess, since Carmen Miranda was Latin, appeared in a bunch of musicals, and was around at the same time more or less as Fred Astaire. But they never worked together. I'm trying to imagine the sort of number that would have the two of them together. I'd guess it would have to have been tailored more to Carmen's talents with Fred adapting. Somehow, though, I get the feeling that he would have had a blast.

I'm surprised there are humans who like bagpipes. When I was a kid, we had a toy poodle that would howl at harmonica playing. It was a sight (or maybe sound?) to behold.

Nitpick: the 1933 movie is The Silver Cord, if anybody is doing a computer search of schedules. (My schedules only go back to July, 2007.) I was going to say that yes, it did air, but then I realized the movie I was thinking of was The Silver Horde, which is a completely different Joel McCrea movie. (That one has aired four times since July, 2007.) Sorry I can't help you.

Will Mary Tyler Moore's character ever be able to reconcile with her son (Timothy Hutton) after the end of Ordinary People?

Why did you take Bright House at their word when other people still had closed captioning?

Joyzelle basically dances around Elissa Landi in an attempt to lure Landi away from Christianity and to Roman paganism. Joyzelle was also the Martian queen in Just Imagine, which has an interesting Martian dance sequence.

Joyzelle and Elissa Landi in The Sign of the Cross.

You forgot to mention the miles upon miles of drapery. (I gotta find the thread I started on Torch Song some time back and post the link.) Edit: This should be the link.

Yes; Lloyd Nolan is usually interesting to watch whatever he's in.

I love those Fox docudramas. Gotta love the stentorian voice of Reed Hadley. Did you figure out who or what Christopher was?

Your post reminds me of Nude Nuns With Big Guns (which I haven't actually seen).

It's always happy hour somewhere. BTW, this is one of the problems I had with the "Sunny Side of Life" intro that they used to use before films in the mornings. It always seemed inappropriate before something like The Lost Weekend or Psycho.

Isn't Act of Violence another of MGM's noirs? It's got the other Van (Heflin) and is an excellent movie.

I prefer the zombie version: "The hills are undead, with the sound of music...."

She's known as Lillian Best Foods west of the Rockies.

"Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." --Mary McCarthy (Kevin's sister) on Lillian Hellman

I've heard of Schtonk, but not Tonk. Oh, you meant Cracker Tonk, but the autocensor went haywire.

IMDb doesn't quite Mae West as using it in I'm No Angel, although it's certainly likely IMDb doesn't have all the juicy Mae West quotes listed. (For I'm No Angel, they do list "When I'm good, I'm very very good... but when I'm bad, I'm better" and "It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men".) IMDb also doesn't list it among the quotes from Monkey Business.

An IMDb search reveals that Mae West used the "Goodness had nothing to do with it" quote in Night After Night (1932), which BTW doesn't have Cary Grant in the cast. Read some of the other quotes.

Hot Saturday. Nancy Carroll plays a small-town girl who goes with her boyfriend (Edward Woods) and the rest of the towns unmarried 20-somethings to a party at playboy Cary Grant's lake house before going to the night spot on the other side of the lake. At the night spot, the boyfriend tries to paw her too much, so she escapes and seeks refuge with Cary. When Grant's chauffeur takes her home in the wee hours of the morning, she's spotted, and gossip ensues. Randolph Scott plays an old family friend, a geologist doing research into where to drill for oil. There's an underwear fight near the beginning, a shocking clothesline scene, and a really shocking ending.

Night Nurse. Barbara Stanwyck plays a nurse who befriends a gangster when she illicitly treats his gunshot wound, and then winds up working in a house as a nurse for two little girls, where she eventually concludes that the people are deliberately starving the girls to death to get the girls' trust fund, and keeping Mom in the dark by having her perpetually drunk downstairs! The milk bath scene is interesting, and the ending is shocking.

Sun Valley Serenade. John Payne plays the pianist/arranger for a big band led by Glenn Miller and managed by Milton Berle. They pick up singer Lynn Bari enabling them to get a big contract in Sun Valley, ID, at which point, a past publicity stunt comes back to bite them in the tuchus. They offered to sponsor a war refugee, thinking taking care of a baby would be publicity, and now the refugee arrives... in the form a of fully grown-up Sonja Henie. For Henie, it's love at first sight with Payne, and she vows to break up Payne's relationship with Bari. (And we're supposed to sympathize with her!) There's some good scenery of Sun Valley, at least the best they could do in black-and-white, and some absolutely horrid rear-projection. With Glenn Miller around, you know the music is going to be top-notch; the movie introduced the Oscar-nominated "Chattanooga Choo-Choo". That number also offers a scene for a young Dorothy Dandrige and the Nicholas Brothers, with obvious points where editors in southern states could cut it out. For the story, the movie gets a 5/10; for the music, a 10/10.

I'm reminded of this song from my teenage years: Look for the Rope-style cuts.