Fedya
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Eugene Pallette in 1915:
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Angela Lansbury was only about two years older than Laurence Harvey, despite playing his mother in *The Manchurian Candidate*.
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In *Leave Her to Heaven*, Jeanne Crain's green thumb earns her the nickname "The Gal With the Hoe", which serves as an important plot point when Cornel Wilde dedicates his new novel "To the Gal With the Hoe". (That's the dedication, not the name of the novel.)
Victory Gardens ought to show up in a bunch of World War II movies, but I can't think of any offhand.
I don't know that the trees Geraldine Page plants in *What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice* count as a garden. :-)
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*Our Vines Have Tender Grapes* is only a metaphorical title, and has nothing to do with wine-making. Robinson plays a Norwegian immigrant farmer in Wisconsin during World War II married to Agnes Moorehead and raisnig daughter Margaret O'Brien. It's a good movie, even if does have Margaret O'Brien in the cast.
It's not a movie, but the long-running prime-time soap *Falcon Crest* (starring Jane Wyman) was about a winery.
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If curtains were good enough for Scarlett O'Hara, they're good enough for the posters here. :-)
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According to Wikipedia, the music was written by Harry Warren. So, going to IMDb and looking up Warren's credits, since they list which of his songs are used in each movie, "I Had the Craziest Dream" shows up in:
*Sphere* (1998)
*Picture Perfect* (1997)
*Prelude to a Kiss* (1992)
*The Laughing Policeman* (1973)
*Peyton Place* (1957)
*Kiss Them For Me* (1957)
*D-Day the Sixth of June* (1956)
*The Bottom of the Bottle* (1956)
*Half Angel* (1951)
*American Guerrilla in the Philippines* (1950)
*Jitterbugs* (1943)
*Time to Kill* (1942)
*Springtime in the Rockies* (1942)
(I omitted TV shows from the list)
If the OP saw it on TCM recently, it would have to be *Peyton Place* which I think showed up on Mothers' Day this past Sunday.
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> I read the whole post and was not impressed. It's as simple as that. Why do I care? Because nothing I am concerned about was answered.
They were answered; it's just that you don't like the answers. So your reaction to that seems to be, "That can't be true because it's not what I believe!"
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There are different rules regarding simply rerunning movies/TV shows in full, and using clips from them in derivative works, but I don't know the full details.
An acquaintance on another board who likes the 80s prime-time soaps pointed out a few years back that when a reunion show was done for Knots Landing, actress Constance McCashin didn't want clips of her used, so the producers had to [blur out her image|http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-157890.html].
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And pay rights fees?
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[According to IMDb|http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0618603/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1], only a [TV movie|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0777213/reference] was made.
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I'd say it's George Macready in *Gilda* who had the phallic "friend" -- that walking-stick with the knife that comes out one end.
And he and Glenn Ford's character had an interesting relationship.
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True, but the rising tide makes it more urgent that they get the husband out from under the pier.
Kind of like how on the old TV show *CHiPs* they would get the trapped accident victim out of the car just before the car blew up into a fireball. :-)
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Nitpick: I believe in the movie version, the husband is trapped under an abandoned pier, with the tide coming in.
The family has gone for a vacation in Baja California, and stay in a cottage on the beach with the pier there. Actually, there are several movies from around that time with crime coming to Americans in Baja California. *The Hitch-Hiker* is another one that comes to mind.
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[bBC obituary|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22459886]
Forbes started as an actor in the late 1940s, although he's probably much better remembered as a director. Forbes' directorial credits inclde *The L-Shaped Room*, *King Rat*, and *The Stepford Wives*, for a pretty varied selection of movies. Forbes also wrote the screenplay to *The League of Gentlemen*, in which he was one of the many stars playing cashiered British Army officers who try to rob a bank, and nearly get away with it if it weren't for that meddling kid.
Forbes is survived by his wife of 58 years, actress Nanette Newman.
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Errol Flynn played the murder victim in *The Case of the Curious Bride* (1935), although we only see him at the end, getting bumped off as Perry Mason explains whodunit.
Future $6 Million Man Lee Majors gets axed to death by Joan Crawford at the beginning of *Strait-Jacket*.
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> So, how do you feel about "letterboxing" NOW, Fred?
I bet he gets the heebie jeebies thinking about it. :-)
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There are also two newsrooms: the one at the newspaper, and the room in the prison where the reporters from various papers gather to report on the upcoming execution.
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> I did like the day back in December 2011 when they had a full day of rarities that had been restored - "The Valiant", "The Trespasser", and a bunch of other seldom seen films.
Was that the day that included *One-Third of the Nation* ? What a hoot of a movie, including a scene of a building talking to a ~12-year-old Sidney Lumet. Seriously.
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I always think of Charles Boyer myself.
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> Otherwise why would he, Chaplin, mess with his original work?
Hubris?
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> Thankfully TCM already knows what it's doing and does it supremely well.
You should re-post this comment the next time TCM runs *Some Like It Hot*. ;-)
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They didn't honor Allan Dwan, either.
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What so glorious about using sporting events to inculcate phony patriotism?
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> I of course was speakin' for many of us "Boomers" around here
As somebody born after the Boomers, I have a tendency to get irritated with the idea that the Boomers' cultural touchstones ought to be cultural touchstones for all of us. And I say this as somebody who is of course a fan of old movies. I don't have any particular issue with movies from the 1950s and 1960s, which can be just as enjoyable or lousy as films from other decades. (Well, I have a problem with the pointless zooms that started to show up sometime in the 1960s, but that's a different story.) But latter-day stuff set in that era I tend to find tedious. (I have a feeling I'm one of the few here who doesn't care for Mad Men, for example.)
And can we finally retire the {insert expletive here} -gate suffix for scandals while we're at it?
Back to Eden? Movies and GARDENS
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> Same with the hot house gardens that were mentioned earlier. Both those scenes are uncomfortable for the audience.
Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick destroy her father's hothouse (I think it's a hothouse, isn't it?) in *The Days of Wine and Roses*.