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"I'm shocked that there's gambling going on at this establishment"?

Van Heflin in Johnny Eager. MGM brought all the glitz, as only they could, to the gangster genre, something the movie absolutely does not need. Heflin plays it like he's in a different movie; maybe he was thinking about Martha Ivers a few years down the road or something. Heflin walks away with the whole picture while everybody else is forgettable. Honorable mention goes to William Powell in The Thin Man.

I presume you mean My Son John? God what a dog of a movie -- it's one of those movies that's so unrelentingly awful that it's a hoot. Poor Robert Walker died in the middle of shooting, and Leo McCarey had to pad out the movie with muted shots of Walker from Strangers on a Train.

Carol Channing. She looked and sounded old even in her early 30s when she sang "A Corset Can Do a Lot for a Lady" from The First Traveling Saleslady: By the time she was in her 40s, she was terrifying:

There's an interesting cameo at the end of the 1942 version of My Sister Eileen, when three comic stars suddenly show up from under the floor.

I hate to say it, but this made me think of the ending of Mr. Sardonicus.

Perhaps, if you're lucky, Sidney Poitier will answer the phone.

I'm sorry you're Canadian.

As far as all-star cast movies go, I prefer Dinner at Eight and even Union Depot to Grand Hotel. My pick for tomorrow would be Foreign Correspondent, at midnight ET.

I've always really liked Hide-Out. And there are a couple of good scenes involving Mickey Rooney's rabbits, including the finale.

He was also out of the spotlight for a good 15 years after his Parkinson's diagnosis.

There are also a bunch of caricatures in The CooCoo Nut Grove and Hollywood Steps Out, the latter one containing a George Raft joke you can spot coming a mile away. Not to be confused with the 1985 film of the same title.

Not Duck Amuck?

Including Captain Kirk!

I think technically, Hope Emerson's character is the prison matron. The warden is played by Agnes Moorehead, who gets the movie's great closing line.

Everything you wanted to know about Technicolor, but were afraid to ask

Professor Plum, in the conservator, with Col. Mustard. /ducking

I don't think anybody's mentioned Peter Lorre in Mad Love yet. Much better than the Drew Barrymore version.

TikiKid has good sense.

It's too bad that the 1980 version of The Jazz Singer wasn't nominated for any Oscars so that TCM could pair it with the 1976 version of A Star is Born.

I thought (and Wikipedia agrees with me) that it was an attempt to keep photos of that Malibu home from being published that led to what is often called the "Streisand Effect".

A film from 1912 is in the public domain (I think the cutoff date is anything before 1923), so that version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shouldn't get taken down.

Reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat, the film that should have won Hitchcock the Best Director Oscar.

Not on the Poseidon, I hope.

Note that the French u is pronounced differently from the English u; it's closer to the German ü.