Fedya
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I never knew how adept Swanson was at comedy. I don't think I've laughed so hard at a movie since *Storm Center* was on several weeks back.
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Sorry that I only saw this after two weeks, but any chance it could be [*Sunday Dinner for a Soldier*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037326/]?
There's a woman falling in love with a soldier, and an abandoned beach resort, and the soldier has to go off at the end but signs over his allotment checks to her.
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The tree that Nonny and company climb up in *The Poseidon Adventure*.
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I was thinking either *Ice Follies of 1939* like another poster mentioned, or perhaps *You Can't Take It With You*, since I'm pretty certain Stewart and Jean Arthur meet in Central Park in that movie. The snow in many of these promos looks digitally added. (I'm thinking of the one that uses the "Pettin' in the Park" number from *Gold Diggers of 1933* that aired in Christmases past.)
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I don't think it would have happened until they realized he became a Jesus freak in addition to his cortisone addiction.
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You were right about *The Little Giant*. I couldn't believe there was a direct reference to cocaine!
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Beulah Bondi was never married.
Rin Tin Tin was never married either as far as I know. ;-)
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Lou Gehrig briefly appears in *Speedy*, just behind the hood of the taxi in one of the scenes with Babe Ruth.
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Or, I suppose it's good that some folks changed their names when they got to Hollywood. (I presume you recognize our birthday boy in the photo above. :-) )
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Speaking of Borgnine, he was miscast in the role of an Amish farmer in *Violent Saturday*.
I thank thee.
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> I was surprised that Susan Hayward played the Helen/Em role as it was very unflattering to this person and, hey, would she want somebody else doing that to her?
Don't forget that Susan Hayward had played a very unflattering singer role (that being Mrs. Bing Crosby) 20 years earlier in *Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman*.
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> A great program and not available on DVD at this time.
I can only imagine the issues of getting clearances for all those clips for the purposes of selling a DVD of the documentary. :-(
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How could you all forget [*The Passions of Carol*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127090/]? ;-)
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As for movies I'm thrilled to see on the schedule, I'd include *Girl Missing* (Glenda Farrell has one of the great pre-Code lines in this one) on the 6th and *Carve Her Name With Pride* (too-little seen British movie about a real WWII incident) on the 14th.
I could do without the doe-eyed look at Ireland on the 17th, but at least *I See a Dark Stranger* is on the schedule. I hope that sometime in the future TCM can get the rights to *The Man Who Never Was* from Fox.
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> TCM just wants you to know that the final schedule has not been officially released, so they don't want to hear complaints if they do change something.
Do you think that will stop people? ;-)
I wouldn't mind seeing the programmer be devious and replace *North by Northwest* with *Some Like it Hot*, if it weren't for the fact that the latter is already on the schedule as one of the Essentials.
Edited by: Fedya on Dec 3, 2011 9:46 PM
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> and I have to 'Zoom' the screen, because the letters are small and hard on my eyes, ending with a headache ...
Can't you set your browser to use a larger font size by default?
Also, I know with Opera (and probably nowadays with Firefox and IE) you can use different custom CSS (style sheets) for different websites, although this does require going through a bunch of HTML and CSS code to see what's controlling the size.
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> Secondly, is there anybody more self-involved or narcissistic than a movie star?
Yes: politicians. ;-)
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I think you'll love *The Firemen's Ball* -- it's a riot.
My father was in the volunteer fire department when I was a kid, and a good portion of the movie reminds me of growing up in a small town where everybody knows everybody else.
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> It was a little like watching White Christmas and hearing someone call Bing Crosby an A****ole.
Supposedly, Bing was an a****ole to his children.
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That would be *Member of the Wedding*, with 26-year-old Julie Harris playing the 12-year-old girl, and Brandon de Wilde playing her young friend.
I hated it, and wanted Ethel Waters (playing the maid) to strangle the Julie Harris character.
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Except of course for our Canadian readers, who for some bizarre reason think Thanksgiving should be celebrated in October. ;-)
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> Alex Trebek? What about Art Fleming?
You can see Fleming in *A Hatful of Rain*, which I think has been showing up on FMC recently.
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Don't miss this if you can!
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I saw it a previous time it aired.
It's not a movie for cat fanciers.
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I'm sorry, but that link you gave is a complete, utter failure.
The Disqus comments are a severe memory hog on every single site where I've encoutered Disqus, but far worse, the pictures wouldn't load no matter what I tried. I even tried right-clicking to get the URL of individual photos, and opening them up in a new tab, but that didn't work.
Complete failure, and monstrously irritating.