Fedya
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You owe me a new one. :-)
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My grandfather went to school with MC Escher.... For him, the walk really was uphill both ways.
Regarding the January 1995 schedule, I see 1981's *Pennies From Heaven* is on the schedule. (Unless it was actually the 1936 Bing Crosby movie. I presume the L is for Letterbox, but the 1981 movie is a 108-minute film in a 105-minute time slot.)
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When was the first Private Screenings interview?
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I wonder who the hell would name their kid Van Nest Polglase.
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After they show *The Letter*, they can show *Z* and *M*. ;-)
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I use the Opera browser, which allows you to create custom key letters (or letter combinations) for searching specific sites. If I type "w gone with the wind" it will do a Wikipedia search for Gone With the Wind. I've also created an IMDb title search so that I can look up movie titles on IMDb by typing, say, "it gone with the wind" to look up that particular movie.
The actual search paramater that gets passed to IMDb is
If you want to do a name (on a person) search, you would replace tt with nm, such as
(Usually, I have several searches in my browser history, so when I want to do a new search, I type in imdb for the address and wait for the searches to show up, at which point I edit a previous name search.)
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I don't think George Raft could spell his name.
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[*Carmencita*|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-15jwb1ZTMA] has May Irwin beat by two years.
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I always figured he was lusting after *Mrs. Parkington*.
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> For example, I just ate a burger as breakfast.
Kind of like John Lund in *The Mating Season*. :-)
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> For example, a few weeks ago they aired two versions of the film "Backstreet" (1941 & 1961) and although I can't remember who the guest host was, I remember that he spoke so highly of both films in his intros that I watched both versions, and these were movies I had NOT planned to watch. In my objective opinion, both versions were Terrible. I'm not talking about a letter grade of A, B or C... these were D or F movies in my book.
Perhaps, but one of the points I was making in this thread is that there are movies that are still fun even if they're quite lousy, or just terribly overwrought. (I didn't see *Back Street* and don't know if it fits in that category.)
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> Why does the Broadway Baby plummet to her death?
I think the law of gravity has something to do with it. You don't expect her to stay their suspended in mid-air like Wile E. Coyote, not to fall until she looks down and sees there's nothing under her, do you?
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TCM aired [*Storm Center*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/] this morning. I haven't laughed this hard at a bad movie maybe since they showed *The Crowded Sky*, or maybe even *The Oscar*. Boy is it hilarious!
It really needs to be put on a double bill with *My Son John*, since both are incredibly ham-fisted and heavy handed in their political propagandizing, *My Son John* against the Red Menace and *Storm Center* against the McCarthyites.
Bette Davis plays a librarian who defends keeping a Communist propaganda book on the shelves on the grounds that intelligent people will be just as turned off by it as they would be by Mein Kampf. So far so good, but it turned out she was also a dupe who joined Communist front organizations during the war, so the city council wants her out. Apparently, this not only drives everybody to shun her, it drives a little kid who idolized her insane!
And then everybody turns on a dime for the ending. What a horrible mess, but one you'll be laughing at!
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> Has TCM shown films with partial nudity or questionable langauage in prime time, daytime, or early evening hours.?
Yes. There's a brief half-second of Jean Harlow sideboob in *Red-Headed Woman*, which has definitely shown at 8:00 PM ET.
The scene comes about 15 minutes in, when Una Merkel (I think it's her; it's the actress playing Harlow's roommate) is wearing Harlow's nightgown and she wants it back. In the cut between Merkel taking it off and Harlow putting it on, you can see the side of Harlow's left breast for several frames.
Never mind the sexual content in *Gold Diggers of 1933*.
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I really like Bob Clayton in *The Bellboy*, and think his performance shows the importance (and difficulty) of voice acting. I was a news reader for the college radio station when I was in college, and I know how difficult it is to have the right tone of voice even when reading words that are right there in front of you. As such, I have a great deal of respect for announcers and others in voiceover work (Clayton was the longtime announcer for Hugh Downs on Concentration, and did other game shows as well). Watch the steamer trunk scene, for example. Clayton spends the entire scene seated at a desk/table in the foreground, and we only see the back of his head. Visually, the scene is entirely about Jerry Lewis as he goes toe the back of the set to struggle with the trunk. Yet from Clayton's lines you can feel the total exasperation dripping from his voice. "Stanley, you never let me finish. If you had let me finish, you would have known I didn't want the trunk, but the hat box on top of the trunk." (I probably haven't quite quoted the line correctly.)
In fact, some of the TCM guest presenters have shown the difficulty of voice work. Donald Bogle this week, for example, has shown that he's clearly knowledgeable about the movies he's presenting. But boy does his delivery sound off, with pauses in all the wrong places and a very odd tone.
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> By the way, are you aware that SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is a United Artists film?
I thought the Hecht-Hill-Lancaster movies were distributed by UA. But did whatever was left over of MGM after they sold off the library to Ted Turner later acquire the broadcast rights to the H-H-L moies? I've seen quite a few UA-distributed movies (and British films) show up on TCM that have the latter-day MGM logo with the website URL on them, which implies to me that they're not real MGM movies, but that at some point MGM got the rights to them.
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Ack! A poster who shall remain nameless unless he or she wants to be named pointed out I made a mistake in my schedule:
> 2330 *The Magnificent Dope* (1942, Fox, 82 min) PREMIERE Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney, of course, is not in *The Magnificent Dope*. What I meant was:
2330 *Rings on Her Fingers* (1942, Fox, 86 min) PREMIERE (Gene Tierney).
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> The orgingal Platinum Blonde Jean Harlow is at the top of my list.
Of course, she was also the *Red-Headed Woman*. ;-)
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> (so where are the _male_ blondes?)
Men are blonds without the e; women are blondes. :-p It's kind of like men being divorc?s and not divorc?es (so you know which character *The Gay Divorc?e* is about).
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NOTES ON A SCHEDULE
This week's schedule asks the question, "What's in a name?" (Or, in some cases, what isn't in a name.) The question is obviously answered in a whole bunch of different ways. First up, on Sunday morning, we have a couple of movies with characters who can't remember their names or who can't be identified by the police. That's followed by a series of movies where we obviously know the names of the people right from the title. (I would like to have included *My Name is Julia Ross* here, but at only 65 minutes, I couldn't get it to time out properly.)
That's followed on Sunday night by a series of movies in living color -- every color of the rainbow. Well, not the trendy colors like loden or heather that you find in catalogs. They didn't have colors like that when they were making classic films. Come to think of it, they didn't have much color at all back then.
Lonesome Polecat said we could use classic TV in our schedule, so I decided to use it in a tangential way, by including a series of movies that have the titles of later TV shows, but in which the movie and TV show have nothing in common.
The movie *The Naked City* was more or less the inspiration for the later TV show of the same name, but there's precious little nudity in the movie. (Thankfully: we don't want to see Barry Fitzgerald naked.) There are only a couple of bedrooms in *Ten Thousand Bedrooms*, and no chariots in *Chariots of Fire*. (And the only fire is the Olympic flame.)
Some months back, I was watching a 1930s WB movie on TCM and noticed that the screenplay was written by "F. Hugh Herbert". I wondered if that was a mistake and it shouldn't have been Hugh Herbert, and wondered why I never knew that the character actor also wrote screenplays. It turns out, of course, that the two are completely different people. (At least, I think they are. Has anybody ever seen the two of them together?) Six movies for which F. Hugh Herbert wrote the screenplay have Hugh Herbert in the cast, and there's a seventh in which F. Hugh Herbert wrote "additional dialog". All seven of them neatly fit into the 10 hours of a TCM prime time lineup. F. Hugh Herbert also fits the part of the Challenge that requires a look at somebody behind the scenes.
Moving to Tuesday, we get four people who go by hyphenated names followed by four people who, like the aforementioned F. Hugh Herbert, generally got screen credit as their first initial followed by a middle name and a family name. That's followed on Tuesday night by people who went one better and used two initials followed by a family name. (Or three, in the case of IAL Diamond.)
Costume designers commonly received credit under one name: Adrian, Reni?, and Irene come to mind. But there were movies in which people doing other things also went by only one name. Alida Valli shows up in the credits to *The Third Man* only as Valli, while Frank De Vol shows up as "DeVol" sans space in some of his movies. This is also the day when we find out whether "Travilla" is a man, a woman, a company, or one of Austin Powers' fembots.
While there were some people who went under one name, there were others who went by three names. It seemed obvious to pair the two, although I probably should have found a way to include Van Nest Polglase (whom I was thinking of using in a different programming block as well).
That's followed by the Star of the Month. How could I come up with a Star of the Month under the general theme of "What's in a Name"? I decided to pick one whose name was the punchline to jokes. George Raft is an obvious one, with his name being parodied in the Warner Bros. animated short *The Coo-Coo Nut Grove* (or is it *Hollywood Steps Out* ?) If you've seen the shorts, you'll know what the joke is. Even if you haven't it should be obvious.
On Thursday morning we have some people where it's not quite clear which name is the first name and which is the last. I wanted to use Norman Lloyd's brother Nolan Lloyd, but time constraints prevented that. Thursday afternoon sees people with odd names where, as best I have been able to figure out, these names weren't given to the stars by the studio bosses. Murvyn Vye, in fact, is Murvyn Vye, Jr., so we know how he got that terrible name.
On Thursday night, we have six people who you can tell by looking at them whether they're men or women. But you can't necessarily tell it from their names in the credits. Two Jeans, two Genes, and two Lees.
I probably should have tried to include the classic TV salute with Friday's lineup, since those movie titles are ones you shouldn't confuse with the TV shows. But there were so many movie pairs with close but not matching titles that I could fill the whole morning and afternoon, while still omitting pairs (*The Young In Heart* followed by *Young At Heart*, for example).
The name Sch?rzinger isn't terribly common even in Germany. Some Sch?rzingers (such as my grandfather) emigrated to America, and thanks to that umlaut over the U, the name got transliterated upon arrival to America. There are Schirtzingers out there, as well as Scherzingers and Schuerzingers. And then there's Victor Schertzinger. I'm not 100% certain that we're distant cousins, but I do know that there are variant spellings who are distantly related to each other. So, we have four of his movies, if only because it took that many to get the night to time out properly.
The Friday night Underground movies aren't necessarily movies that have to be relegated to the overnight, but just obscure enough and with wacky enough titles that I'd like to see them programmed.
On Saturday, we have several people who went under two names, and are credited under the lesser-known name. (Victor Seastrom may be an exception; I think most people would recognize Harry Morgan from his days on Dragnet or as Col. Potter on MASH and not when he was going by "Henry".) That's followed by some characters who were known under two different names. Finally are a bunch of movies that have been known under two different names. I used the names you're less likely to recognize only to see how many of these movies you all actually recognize, starting with Billy Wilder's essential *The Big Carnival*. They are real pictures, and the production information listed is accurate, so you should be able to look them up if you don't recognize them.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
Don't you know my name?
0600 *Somewhere in the Night* (1946, Fox, 110 min) PREMIERE
0800 *Possessed* (1947, WB, 108 min)
1000 *Mr. Buddwing* (1966, MGM, 100 min)
1145 *Random Harvest* (1942, MGM, 126 min)
Oh yes, we know your name!
1400 *I Am Suzanne!* (1933, Fox, 98 min) PREMIERE
1545 *A Guy Named Joe* (1941, MGM, 122 min)
1800 *A Man Called Horse* (1970, National General, 110 min)
A night of movies in, as the titles imply, every color of the rainbow
2000 *Navy Blue and Gold* (1934, MGM, 94 min)
2145 *The Silver Cord* (1933, RKO, 74 min)
2315 *Ride the Pink Horse* (1947, 101 min, p/s)
0100 *The Red Mill* (1927, Cosmpoliatan, 74 min) Silent Sunday Night
0230 *The Blue Light* (1932, Leni Riefenstahl, 85 min) EXEMPT as TCM Import
0400 *The Corn is Green* (1945, WB, 115 min)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
A TCM salute to classic TV
0600 *Greed* (1924, MGM, 140 min)
0830 *Jeopardy* (1953, MGM, 69 min)
0945 *The Millionaire* (1931, WB, 80 min)
1115 *Taxi!* (1932, WB, 69 min)
1230 *Perfect Strangers* (1950, WB, 88 min, p/s)
The title is a metaphor. Don't take it so literally.
1400 *The Naked City* (1948, Mark Hellinger, 96 min)
1545 *Ten Thousand Bedrooms* (1957, MGM, 114 min)
1745 *Chariots of Fire* (1981, 124 min, p/s)
Hugh Herbert, meet F. Hugh Herbert
2000 *Colleen* (1936, WB, 89 min)
2145 *The Sin Ship* (1931, RKO, 65 min)
2300 *Hit Parade of 1941* (1940, Republic, 88 min) PREMIERE
0045 *Traveling Saleslady* (1935, WB, 65 min)
0200 *We're in the Money* (1935, WB, 66 min)
0315 *Men Are Such Fools* (1938, WB, 69 min)
0430 *Fashions of 1934* (1934, WB, 78 min)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Did you get that name when you got married? People with hyphenated names
0600 *Make Mine Mink* (1960, Rank, 100 min, p/s) (stars Terry-Thomas)
0745 *The Sea Hawk* (1940, WB, 127 min) (costumes by Orry-Kelly)
1000 *Viva Las Vegas* (1964, MGM, 85 min) (stars Ann-Margret)
1130 *Z* (1969, 127 min, p/s) (directed by Costa-Gavras)
Like Harry S Truman, the letter is my full name: people known by one initial and a middle name.
1345 *Dancing Co-Ed* (1939, MGM, 84 min) (directed by S. Sylvain Simon)
1515 *The Last Time I Saw Paris* (1954, MGM, 116 min) (based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
1715 *Polly of the Circus* (1932, MGM, 69 min) C. Aubrey Smith
1830 *The Man in the White Suit* (1951, Rank, 85 min, p/s) (J. Arthur Rank Organization)
If you thought the last programming block was bad, the next is twice as bad: People known by two or more initials
2000 *The Singing Kid* (1936, First National, 85 min) EY Harburg
2130 *A Song is Born* (1948, Goldwyn, 113 min, p/s) OZ Whitehead
2330 *On Dangerous Ground* (1952, RKO, 82 min) (screenplay by AI Bezzarides)
0100 *Two Guys From Milwaukee* (1946, WB, 96 min) IAL Diamond
0245 *Christmas in Connecticut* (1945, WB, 102 min) SZ Sakall
0430 *Pushover* (1954, Columbia, 88 min) EG Marshall
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Is that your first name or your last name?
0600 *The Third Man* (1949, London Films, 104 min, p/s) (Valli)
0745 *That Hagen Girl* (1947, WB, 83 min) (Costumes by Travilla)
0915 *Fort Apache* (1948, RKO, 125 min) (Movita plays the cook)
1130 *The Thrill of it All* (1963, Universal, 108 min, p/s) (music by DeVol)
The people above only have one name because the people below stole one of the names to give themselves three names
1330 *Dinner at Eight* (1933, MGM, 111 min) Louise Closser Hale
1530 *High School Confidential!* (1958, MGM, 85 min) John Drew Barrymore
1700 *Bluebeard's Eighth Wife* (1938, Paramount, 85 min, p/s) (Edward Everett Horton)
1830 *Remember?* (1939, MGM, 83 min) Laura Hope Crews
I've heard every variation on the one joke you can make about my name: Star of the Month George Raft NIGHT 4
2000 *Red Light* (1948, UA, 83 min, p/s)
2130 *Race Street* (1948, RKO, 79 min)
2300 *Each Dawn I Die* (1939, WB, 92 min)
0045 *They Drive By Night* (1940, WB, 95 min)
0230 *Scarface* (1932, UA, 92 min, p/s)
0415 *Manpower* (1941, WB, 104 min)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Which one is your first name and which one is your last name?
0600 *He Ran All the Way* (1951, UA, 77 min, p/s) Norman Lloyd
0730 *Illegal* (1955, WB, 88 min, p/s) DeForrest Kelly
0900 *The Scarlet Pimpernel* (1934, London Film, 97 min, p/s) Leslie Howard
1045 *Skyscraper Souls* (1932, MGM, 99 min) Warren William
1230 *The Keyhole* (1933, WB, 69 min) Kay Francis and George Brent
Is that your real name?
1345 *Young and Innocent* (1937, Gaumont, 80 min, p/s) Nova Pilbeam
1515 *Dead of Night* (1945, Ealing, 103 min, p/s) Esme Percy
1700 *Miranda* (1948, Sydney Box, 80 min, p/s) Glynis Johns
1830 *Voodo Island* (1957, UA, 76 min) PREMIERE Murvyn Vye
Are you a man or a woman?
2000 *Men in White* (1934, MGM, 74 min) Jean Hersholt
2130 *The Plainsman* (1936, Paramount, 113 min) PREMIERE Jean Arthur
2330 *The Magnificent Dope* (1942, Fox, 82 min) PREMIERE Gene Tierney
0100 *Blackmail* (1939, MGM, 81 min) Gene Lockhart
0230 *Detective Story* (1951, Paramount, 103 min, p/s) Lee Grant
0415 *The Best Man* (1964, UA, 102 min, p/s) Lee Tracy
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Movies with titles you shouldn't mix up
0600 *Cynara* (1932, Goldwyn, 75 min, p/s)
0730 *Sayonara* (1957, WB, 147 min, p/s)
1000 *Topaz* (1969, Universal, 143 min, p/s)
1230 *Topaze* (1933, RKO, 78 min)
1400 *Five Came Back* (1939, RKO, 75 min)
1530 *Three Came Home* (1950, Fox, 106 min, p/s)
1715 *The House on 56th Street* (1933, WB, 68 min)
1830 *The House on 92nd Street* (1945, Fox, 88 min)
With a name that obscure, he's got to be a distant cousin: a salute to director Victor Schertzinger
2000 *Something to Sing About* (1937, Grand National, 89 min) PREMIERE
2145 *Nothing But the Truth* (1929, Paramount, 78 min) PREMIERE
2315 *By Your Leave* (1934, RKO, 82 min)
0045 *The Fleet's In* (1942, Paramount, 93 min, p/s)
TCM Underground: Movies with titles so interesting they might just make me watch
0230 *Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?* (1969, Taralex, 107 min) EXEMPT
0430 *Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad* (1967, Seven Arts, 86 min) EXEMPT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Movies with people who changed their names
0600 *All My Sons* (1948, UI, 95 min, p/s) (Harry Morgan credited as Henry Morgan)
0745 *The Gay Sisters* (1942, WB, 110 min) (Gig Young credited as Byron Barr)
0945 *No More Ladies* (1935, MGM, 80 min) (Joan Fontaine credited as Joan Burfield)
1115 *The Wind* (1928, MGM, 79 min) (Director Victor Sj?str?m credited as Victor Seastrom)
Short: 1925 Studio Tour (1925, MGM, 32 min) (Joan Crawford appears as Lucille La Sueur)
Movies with characters who change their names
1315 *Foreign Correspondent* (1940, UA, 120 min) (Johnny Jones becomes Huntley Haverstock)
Short: The Wedding of Jack and Jill (1930, Vitaphone/WB, 8 min) (Judy Garland appears as Frances Gumm)
1530 *A Star is Born* (1954, WB, 176 min, p/s) (Esther Blodgett becomes Vickie Lester)
1830 *The Palm Beach Story* (1942, Paramount, 88 min, p/s) (Tom Jeffers gets called Capt. McGloo by his wife)
Stop me if you've seen this one before
2000 *The Big Carnival* (1951, Paramount, 111 min, p/s)
2200 *Build My Gallows High* (1947, RKO, 97 min)
2345 *All That Money Can Buy* (1941, RKO, 106 min)
0145 *Quatermass and the Pit* (1967, Hammer, 97 min, p/s)
0330 *Ring-a-Ding Rhythm* (1962, Columbia, 78 min, p/s)
0500 *Two Against the World* (1936, First National, 56 min)
Edited by: Fedya on Oct 29, 2011 7:58 AM
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> You couldn't tell, could you?
I guess you couldn't tell you weren't in the Support section of the forum. :-p
[i asked about this the other day|http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162267&tstart=0], and the claim is that it will get fixed by sometime next week. Unfortunately this is the internet so you can't see me rolling my eyes. The admins also claimed the tech folks didn't deliberately change anything, but they had to have changed something.
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It used to be that a poster's name would show up at the top left of a post, as though it were one td in an HTML table, and that td were vertically aligned to the top. The post itself would be in a second column to the right of that.
I log in today, and all of a sudden, the posters' names are vertically aligned to the center instead of the top.
There also seem to be a few other changes, such as the link to go back to the forum main page being some sort of images only. (For some reason, the stylesheet I'm using has problems TCM's images in the navigation area at the top.)
Did anybody else notice a change?
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I think my schedule is finished, but I have to double-check to make certain everything times out properly and that I haven't exceeded the number of premieres and other things like that.
Los "Angle"...es?
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> Maybe someone can confirm this. I believe the "correct" pronunciation of Boise (Idaho) is not "BOY-zee", but BOYSS-ee", with a hard "S" sound where Boyss rhymes with voice.
Rather like WC Fields' character in *The Bank Dick*, it's really spelled Bois? and pronounced "Bwah-ZAY".
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