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Do you get dizzy watching The Narrow Margin?

Now you make me wish for a mash-up of Sleeping Beauty and Equus.

Alfred Hitchcock's Murder! and Ginger Rogers in Black Widow both involve murder in the theater community, if memory serves. One of Fox's Michael Shayne movies from the early 1940s is a theater-set murder mystery, but I don't recall the title.

Nobody's mentioned Torch Song?

The Guardsman opens with a scene of Fontanne and Lunt doing the finale from Elizabeth the Queen, which was made into the movie The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

The President's Analyst.

Also inspired by a classic movie, but in a different way:

The title is inaccurate, but:

People stay for the ending of the film? I thought the only reason to watch the movie is for Bette Davis' nervous breakdown, which is worth a hearty laugh.

My first guess would have been How the West Was Won, which, as it turns out has Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Stewart, and as the narrator, Spencer Tracy.

You mean you didn't like Bette Davis in The Star?

Misswonderly: What I find even more irritating is when people say somebody "passed", without using "away". On the other hand, they could always kick the bucket like Jimmy Durante in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Perhaps you might enjoy this movie song, or maybe .

The only reason to watch Now, Voyager is for Bette Davis' nervous breakdown.

is where I first saw Patricia Neal.

You think Slim Summerville doesn't have sex appeal?

Raymond Massey and David Niven both died on July 29, 1983. They appeared in two films together, the 1937 version of The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter of Life and Death. Edited to Add: Luís Buñuel also died on July 29, 1983.

According to IMDb, Lassally was the cinematographer for The Bostonians, although that was from 1984. From the 70s, Lassally and James Ivory (turning 87 on Sunday, BTW) collaborated on Autobiography of a Princess, The Wild Party, and Savages. I'm guessing all of these are Merchant-Ivory productions, but I didn't look them up. Shakespeare -- Wallah is actually from 1965 with cinematography by Subrata Mitra, at least according to IMDb.

Recently, Oscar-winning cinematographer Walter Lassally (Zorba the Greek) attended the Cinematographers' Days Festival in Prague. The English Section of Radio Prague interviewed him, in a wide-ranging interview discussing working with the Kitchen Sink-era directors such as Czech-born Karel Riesz; his opinions on what makes a movie good; and the differences between making movies then and now. The article, which includes a transcript, is here; if you'd rather listen to the interview, you can download the MP3 directly here. The MP3 is about 4.9 MB and just under 11 minutes. Lassally looks pretty good for 88 years old!

No, I'm not making this up. In Göteborg, Sweden, the local opera company is putting on an opera version of the Alfred Hitchcock/Ingrid Bergman/Cary Grant classic Notorious: From Radio Sweden's English-language program:

Why can't people know more than one thing?

Having said my other two comments, this thread really comes across as an "OMG, they're not posting the way I think they should!" Most boards and comment sections have their own idiosyncratic cultures, but they usually work because the frequent posters all act like adults and deal with the wonky things, be they technical or cultural. The same goes for the TCM boards.

On other forums that are properly set up, the moderator can move or delete a thread that was started in the wrong sub-forum (whether by accident or an honest mistake), but leave an indication in the original sub-form with the link going to the proper sub-forum. Usually, such threads will have an arrow of sorts indicating that it goes to a different sub-forum. Of course, that requires setting the board up properly, and since AFAIK this one still doesn't allow for newest posts at the bottom, who knows when other problems will get fixed? At least it's not as bad as the old one with its unique markup code.

Spoken in a Charlton Heston voice, of course.

But definitely not as hot as Terry-Thomas. /ducking