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Carleton Carpenter, Debbie Reynolds’ Co-Star in ‘Two Weeks With Love,’ Dies at 95 Their recording of "Aba Daba Honeymoon" in the MGM musical proved to be a big hit, and he also starred on Broadway and opposite a lion in 'Fearless Fagan. .......... ".......After starring on Broadway opposite the likes of Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger and Hermione Gingold, the lanky Carpenter was signed by MGM, which quickly assigned him to Summer Stock (1950), starring Gene Kelly and Judy Garland. Garland caused so many delays and Carpenter was able to squeeze in work in Father of the Bride (1950), playing one of Elizabeth Taylor’s suitors, and Three Little Words (1950), in which he was first paired with Reynolds.......... The 6-foot-3 Carpenter then starred as Harley “Tumbleweeds” Williams in Sky Full of Moon opposite Jan Sterling — playwright William Inge claimed that movie was his inspiration for Bus Stop — and as the real-life soldier who brought his pet lion into the Army with him in Stanley Donen‘s Fearless Fagan, both released in 1952. Carpenter also appeared with Burt Lancaster in Vengeance Valley (1951), with Dorothy Gish in Robert Siodmak’s The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951), with Richard Widmark in Richard Brooks’ Take the High Ground! (1953) and with James Garner in Up Periscope (1959). .......

".........Though he only appears in a few scenes, the “black-market procurer” Brignon’s baleful presence hovers over the film like a malignant poltergeist. He buys and sells girls like he is playing the stock market, using his immense wealth for the depths of depravity. No matter how far Jenny has risen on her own merits, there will always be vampiric men like Brignon that will shadow her path. Quai des Orfèvres was instantly recognized as a major work, winning Clouzot the Best Director prize at the Venice Film Festival and earning praise from those who once blacklisted him." SEE article: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79725/quai-des-orfevres#articles-reviews?articleId=021547

see: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79725/quai-des-orfevres#articles-reviews?articleId=021547

Gregory Peck as 'Atticus Finch' -character you'd LOVE to meet your parents

Next: attractive FEMALE psycho....

Christian Bale in ‘American Psycho’ (2000)

JURASSIC PARK -bad movie version of a great play

/ early SAT. 1--29 UNDERGROUND.......... (times ET) https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1486503324081745920?s=20 3:30 am Babo 73 (1964) 57m | Comedy No Description available Director Robert Downey Cast Taylor Mead, Robert Downey, Robert Downey "Robert Downey Sr.’s first feature film, Babo 73, is a time capsule glimpse at an era of American filmmaking that put a subversive spin on all those Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland “Let’s put on a show” musicals. “We were just out having fun doing this because we could,” Downey told NPR in 2008. “Here we were, writers, and cameramen and stuff saying, ‘Hey, you’ve got a script, I’ve got a camera, let’s go do something.’ That’s all it was.” Babo 73 is really something. Cited as significant by undergroundfilmjournal.com, the film is, according to Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast Downey in Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), “the most outlandish film” Downey has made, quite a statement considering Downey made such iconoclastic features as Chafed Elbows (1966), Putney Swope (1969) and Greaser’s Palace (1972).......... SEE: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/492184/babo-73#articles-reviews?articleId=021544 4:30 am Chafed Elbows (1965) 1h 3m | Comedy No Description available Director Robert Downey Cast George Morgan, Elsie Downey, Lawrence Wolf "Roughly halfway through Robert Downey Sr.’s Chafed Elbows, Walter Dinsmore (George Morgan) comes across a man painting a white strip down the middle of an alley. “You have to draw the line somewhere,” the man explains. With Chafed Elbows, Downey confirmed with this second feature that he had no intention of drawing the line anywhere. Take the film’s opening joke. Walter is awakened in bed by his lover who compels him to leave. “He’ll be home any minute,” she urges. As he exits, she tells him, “I love you, Walter, more than anything else in the world.” Walter responds, “I love you, too, Mother.” So, as a disgruntled voice is heard to ask at film’s end, “What the hell kind of picture is this, man?” It’s a day in the life of Dinsmore’s annual “November breakdown,” as seen and heard through a mix of live action and still photographs (that Downey had developed at a drug store).............. ............l it was restored in 2008 by the New Anthology Film Archives. Martin Scorsese, on the Film Foundation’s board, told The New York Times that Downey’s formative films are “an essential part of that moment when a truly independent American cinema was born.” SEE: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70567/chafed-elbows#articles-reviews?articleId=021545

hhhhmmm..........thanks, guys.............was debating whether to watch

-kinda cute...........

"..........I wish that one day, for as long as feature-length animation is in cinemas, we could also have a selection of short animation shown. There are so many incredible short animated films that go unseen with beautiful images, stories, and sound. They also deserve to be seen on large screens alongside features in cinemas! So many animation filmmakers continue doing short animated films because they love this format of storytelling, not because they are aiming to do a feature later.......... .........."I wish there was a proper market for short films. Right now, the only way to watch shorts is through film festivals or certain screening events. Consequently, still general audiences are not familiar with shorts and don’t know how and where to watch them. If there is a market or even a streaming service for shorts, it’ll be amazing for both filmmakers and the audience......... "..........to make short films more accessible to the public, children and grown-ups alike, starting with animation festivals worldwide. It shouldn’t be just niche or fans events. And one last thing to the producers, broadcasters, distributors: stand together with your authors to help them making great things, and to promote their work. Cute cat videos on Youtube shouldn’t do more views than all these great shorts which are for the most part lost in the grid.......... ".........It would be really interesting if animated shorts were shown on streaming platforms like Netflix. To compensate for their short runtimes, they could be grouped into 60- to 90-minute programs, by shared theme or by release year. For example, “the best of Annecy 2021,” “the Oscar shortlist,” etc........ .........."I’d like everyone to have made an animated short in their life so they can understand the work and sacrifices involved! To answer your question more seriously: more distribution channels. In cinemas before features, on mainstream platforms, more slots in network schedules. More attention from the media, more money, more awareness training regarding cinema —......... ''..............In the era of Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc, I’d really love to see more big streaming platforms embrace short-form films. For the past years, there’s been an ever-growing hunger for feature movies and limited series (of course), but I feel shorts (both live action and animated) are still very much under-represented.......... https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/the-oscar-shortlist-interviews-how-to-improve-short-film-distribution-212421.html ====================================== -It'd be great if TCM could pick up on some of these............

late FRI., / early SAT. 1--29 UNDERGROUND.......... (times ET) https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1486503324081745920?s=20 3:30 am Babo 73 (1964) 57m | Comedy No Description available Director Robert Downey Cast Taylor Mead, Robert Downey, Robert Downey "Robert Downey Sr.’s first feature film, Babo 73, is a time capsule glimpse at an era of American filmmaking that put a subversive spin on all those Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland “Let’s put on a show” musicals. “We were just out having fun doing this because we could,” Downey told NPR in 2008. “Here we were, writers, and cameramen and stuff saying, ‘Hey, you’ve got a script, I’ve got a camera, let’s go do something.’ That’s all it was.” Babo 73 is really something. Cited as significant by undergroundfilmjournal.com, the film is, according to Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast Downey in Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), “the most outlandish film” Downey has made, quite a statement considering Downey made such iconoclastic features as Chafed Elbows (1966), Putney Swope (1969) and Greaser’s Palace (1972).......... SEE: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/492184/babo-73#articles-reviews?articleId=021544 4:30 am Chafed Elbows (1965) 1h 3m | Comedy No Description available Director Robert Downey Cast George Morgan, Elsie Downey, Lawrence Wolf "Roughly halfway through Robert Downey Sr.’s Chafed Elbows, Walter Dinsmore (George Morgan) comes across a man painting a white strip down the middle of an alley. “You have to draw the line somewhere,” the man explains. With Chafed Elbows, Downey confirmed with this second feature that he had no intention of drawing the line anywhere. Take the film’s opening joke. Walter is awakened in bed by his lover who compels him to leave. “He’ll be home any minute,” she urges. As he exits, she tells him, “I love you, Walter, more than anything else in the world.” Walter responds, “I love you, too, Mother.” So, as a disgruntled voice is heard to ask at film’s end, “What the hell kind of picture is this, man?” It’s a day in the life of Dinsmore’s annual “November breakdown,” as seen and heard through a mix of live action and still photographs (that Downey had developed at a drug store).............. ............l it was restored in 2008 by the New Anthology Film Archives. Martin Scorsese, on the Film Foundation’s board, told The New York Times that Downey’s formative films are “an essential part of that moment when a truly independent American cinema was born.” SEE: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70567/chafed-elbows#articles-reviews?articleId=021545

UNTOUCHABLES, THE

WESTWARD THE WOMEN

Adolphe Jean Menjou -played scary, but personally a nice guy

DADDY LONG LEGS - Ginger movie w/o Fred

W ED., 1-25 8:00 pm (ET) Hotel Rwanda (2004) 2h 1m | Adventure | TV-14 Ten years ago, as the country of Rwanda descended into madness, one man. made a promise to protect the family he loved--and ended up finding the courage to save over 1200 people... Director Terry George Cast Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo "..........Directed and cowritten by the politically alert filmmaker Terry George, the drama earned Academy Award nominations for stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo, who play main characters Paul and Tatiana Rusesabagina, and for the screenplay, which is based on actual events. The film also generated controversy, with some critics charging that it distorted and exaggerated the heroism of the real-life Paul Rusesabagina...... SEE: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/581095/hotel-rwanda#articles-reviews?articleId=021557

SEE : https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86054/over-exposed#articles-reviews?articleId=021546

SAT., 1-22 @12:00 am & SUN., @ 10 AM (ET) NOIR ALLEY.......... Over-Exposed (1956) 1h 20m | Drama No Description available Director Lewis Seiler Cast Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom "Shot over two weeks in October 1955, Over-Exposed was released in April 1956 by Columbia Pictures. A minor programmer, the film is nonetheless of interest for being one of the earliest feature films for actor Richard Crenna and the next-to-last picture for blonde bombshell Cleo Moore. As The New York Times put it in 2010, “Moore’s specialty was the working-class girl struggling to get by in a man’s world without compromising too much of her virtue.” Sure enough, her character of Lila Crane in Over-Exposed starts out by being arrested for soliciting drinks at a nightclub. The small-town girl then meets a photographer (Raymond Greenleaf) who shows her the ropes of his trade, and she determines to become a photographer herself. She sets off for New York and befriends a handsome reporter (Crenna) when she applies for a job at his news service. Gradually, she finds success but also gets mixed up with gangsters, leading to a dangerous denouement. Moore was a 1950s B-film sex symbol who was frustrated at being pigeonholed as such. According to Variety, she asked for a release from her Columbia contract after the studio forced her to do press for this film instead of accommodating other studios’ requests for loaning her out. Over-Exposed was thus her final Columbia film......... SEE : https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86054/over-exposed#articles-reviews?articleId=021546

maybe whole movie will be on WATCH TCM