mrroberts
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The Billy Bishop museum is his boyhood home in Owen Sound, Ontario. ( I have family who live near there. ) No aircraft, just the home and a lot of exhibits inside. Some info about the Cagney movie and Bishop's involvement in it.
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Two full pages and no "stop calling me Shirley jokes" yet?
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Being a Canadian you have to watch for WW1 flying ace Billy Bishop in this film. I've been to the Bishop museum, its really interesting. --- I tend to believe the storyline here is made to order for the star of the picture.
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*Picnic* had a lot of very good performances, Arthur O'Connell and Susan Strasberg were both excellent as well. About Mr Holden, my favorite film of his is *Bridges At Toko Ri* . Its an excellent "war" film, very realistic, great action scenes , and Holden's performance as the lead character is Oscar worthy. Very good supporting cast in this as well. Grace Kelly's presence in this is a bit of a stretch to the storyline, but we have to think about the box office don't we? This film doesn't glamorize or demonize war (or the political issues involved here) it just deals with this one, very human character and how his life is impacted by the stress of combat. And as a final note, in real life William Holden had a brother who was killed in WW2.
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I would like to think that the on going enthusiasm for Joel McCrea on these boards helped put him over the top. At any given time there are a number of candidates for the future SOTMs. We may have put McCrea on the fast track. Picture the TCM programmers fearing the villagers storming the gates (like a Frankenstein movie). They had to act, or else
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Finance, I too am getting tired at all of this Joel McCrea stuff. Next thing you know, people are going to start a campaign to make him a SOTM or something.
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I believe Stewart, Wayne , and Fonda were all good friends for many years. Stewart had many, many friends and I'm sure they all grieved at the loss of his son. I admire them for looking past political differences and just dealing with their personal relationships. So please, lets not get into this stuff (political) here. Its been debated to death anyway.
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Yeah, he was the only good thing in that "Psycho" movie ( Marty, don't go up the stairs! )
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I guess there several different approaches to gathering statistics for determining who were the biggest box office draws. Example, I've always had the impression that Abbott and Costello (40's) and Martin and Lewis (50's) were huge box office . They made several pictures each year and did the kind of films that kids went to see multiple times (like Titanic in the 90's). Middle age and older adults would go see their favorites maybe twice but that's all. So the numbers can be looked at in several ways. No Chaplin? Cagney or Robinson in the early 30's? Myrna Loy instead of Vivien Leigh? etc.
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This is something I'd like to share, from the Henry Fonda bio book. When making the film *The Cheyenne Social Club* James Stewart had his long time costar "Pie" (the horse Stewart rode in movies for many years) brought to the film shoot. But Pie was old and the high altitude was tough on him. That horse was very dear to Stewart, he never owned the horse but it was always available to him to use in the movies. And then real tragedy happened. Stewart's one son was killed in Vietnam (1970). This news came during the film production. As a gesture to his old friend , Henry Fonda secretly did a beautiful sketching and watercolor of the horse Pie. You can imagine how grateful Stewart was for that gift. And just days later the horse died. Stewart and Fonda were truly the best of friends.
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I heard real estate is cheaper in the Aleutians, therefore you don't need a job and have more movie viewing time.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K-xyLObRLs , The Guess Who from 1970, "969 - The Oldest Man"
Edited by: mrroberts on Aug 27, 2013 6:42 PM
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A thousand thanks for that Chain Gang link to Mr Dobbs. Don't mean to hijack this Glenda Farrell thread but that clip was my introduction to Noel Francis and I have been hooked ever since. I've seen plenty of Noel Francis scenes since this, and she can play a nice "girl next door" too. But most of her roles were precode and she played many roles like "Linda".
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The other solution is to move way out west (like the far end of the Aleutian Islands) where the good movies are on in prime time.
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I envision a second TCM channel dedicated to June Allyson films and cohosted by Drew Barrymore and Finance.
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FredCDobbs and I have to start a campaign for a Noel Francis day (even better a whole month) on TCM!
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My favorite 3 Dog Night song is "Eli's Coming" , I like those keyboard songs.
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Talk about straying from the original topic. -- I hope Dick Van Dyke had full insurance coverage on the car (what if Laura forgot to mail in the check) "OH, ROB"
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*I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang* is truly a classic film. But keep an eye out for "Linda" , played by Noel Francis
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If there is a Heaven, and assuming that most people will go there (only the REAL baddies go to the other place) what will all of the whiners and complainers do in Heaven? They will be miserable. Sounds like a good Twlight Zone or Night Gallery episode.
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Robert Ryan was another one of those "nice guys in real life" who was so good at playing bad guys, like Richard Widmark, Dan Duryea, Jack Palance, Ernie Borgnine, etc, etc. One of my favorite Ryan bad guys is the sadistic "master of arms" he played in *Billy Budd* . He should get a month long tribute sometime soon (right after Mr Widmark.)
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Arturo, correction, Jean Peters was in "The Last Leaf" segment with Anne Baxter. The *O HENRY's FULL HOUSE* had 5 short separate stories, Jeanne Crain was in the last segment only.
Edited by: mrroberts on Aug 26, 2013 1:01 AM
Edited by: mrroberts on Aug 26, 2013 1:01 AM
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I never thought to try that (search only from the home page). I almost always go right to the message board so even though the search function at the top looks the same it doesn't link to the search subject. Thanks for the tip, can't wait until the reconstruction project gets finished, of course I don't know why anything had to change from before, everything seemed to work just fine, oh well?
Hattie McDaniel Part Deux
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I suggest that people do a little research on actor James Edwards and his contributions to enabling black actors to break out of the stereotypical roles they had to play in films.