mrroberts

Mel's (and Buck Henry's) *Get Smart* tv show was a direct lift of *The Man From UNCLE* . And Barbara Feldon was on an episode of UNCLE'S first season. By the way, I know Mel pushed the envelope a little far at times but I still love his films.

V. X. , referring to your comment in the "who you would like to lookalike" thread, I remember a high school teacher who resembled Ralph Meeker ( I would think of "Bugs" Moran from The St Valentine's Day Massacre). I have a cousin who in his younger days looked a lot like Vince Edwards. In college I had a professor who looked a lot like Carl Yastremski .

Annette was a brave lady with a lot of class. She certainly was an inspiration as to how one should deal with adversity. Condolences to her family and friends, I 'm sure she had many.

TCM has been showing a number of Fox films lately and I did a search for the film. Not on the TCM schedule for the forseeable future. Then I checked Fox Movie Channel. I don't know how far into the future their search feature goes but it doesn't show up there either. Just keep checking the TCM and FMC schedules periodically, it should certainly show up on FMC sometime this summer. Or just track down a dvd, TCM has it for sale.

Fred, I have been doing a little experimenting. Apparently the "search" function has been worked on. You can now do a search using your user name, specifying some topic (like actor's name) and use "all" for the time frame. This can access back to any time apparently. Not like getting all of the postings in one shot, but its still a big help, thanks for your assist.

Thanks for the response F.C.D. , but I believe you miss understand my question. At one time I could click on my username at the top right, then click on "control panel" , then you will see recent posting that you yourself made. But you could also access ALL of your previous posts from the last 30 days, last 90 days, or all time. For example, what was the very first posting that I ever made here? Or the tenth, etc. It would be like reviewing your own diary, and you could click on that posting to see what replys were made to that post. When these boards were down for a time and overhauled (there were a lot of technical problems at that time, remember) the function I am talking about now was never reinstated or it isn't made clear as to how one might do it.

A long time ago we could access a "history" of all of the previous messages that we posted on the boards. Is that feature ever going to be made available again. Right now I can only access recent messages posted in the last few days?

The all time funniest tickling scene in movies is Stan Laurel in *Way Out West* . When the woman corners Stan in the bedroom and wrestles away the property deed from Stan .

Happy Soap has me squeaky clean, just like Doris said it would. Just be careful to not use too much of the stuff, it really makes the suds.

Dargo2 , How about Barbara Billingsley as a cross between Marjorie Lord and Gene Tierney?

To honor Doris on her birthday tonight I will take a bubble bath using Happy Soap. Happy birthday Doris, my best to you and all of your furry friends.

Marjorie Lord and Barbara Billingsley, wish I could post pictures here to compare. They actually were in a movie together called " The Argyle Secrets" , anyone ever seen that one? And apparently Barbara was considered for "Make Room For Daddy" before Marjorie got the part. Got to find that "argyle" movie.

Marjorie Lord also resembles Beaver's mom, Barbara Billingsley. Edited by: mrroberts on Apr 2, 2013 1:43 PM

I know many here would hate seeing a new film on TCM but the Ron Howard film *Cinderella Man* would deserve a future airing, only question is how old must it be to qualify?

I have always thought that *The Hunter* was a rather good film, lots of great stunts, certain amount of humor, McQueen playing a character fitting for his age, etc. I don't know why it gets such a low grade from the critics, but who cares what the experts think. Hard to believe Steve died so soon after making the film.

Eugene Pallette was also great in *My Man Godfrey* when he played the beleaguered father of the wacky Bullock family.

Marvin Kaplan and Arnold Stang are immortalized for their roles in *Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* as the gas station owners Irwin and Ray, who get to "play" with Johnny Winters. And Arnold was the voice of Top Cat. Both guys were in a ton of tv shows over the years. Edited by: mrroberts on Mar 30, 2013 9:34 PM Edited by: mrroberts on Mar 30, 2013 9:35 PM

More like Carson's tie to DeCordova was through Benny's show. Freddie DeCordova has a long list of producer/director credits , early on in b movies like "Bedtime For Bonzo" (Carson would always remind us of that one) , then on to tv shows like Benny, Burns and Allen, others. Interestingly he also worked with the Smothers Brothers shows as well.

For those who may not know this, the boat fire at the beginning of *Manhattan Melodrama* was based on a real life tragedy, the 1904 fire on the excursion boat General Slocum in the East River. Over 1000 people died, New York's worst tragedy until 9/11/2001

Fredbaetz mentioned *The Bowery* 1933 as a movie to be shown more often on TCM. I clearly remember seeing that film on TV in the 1960's, probably more than once. Then for many years that movie "disappeared" , undoubtably because of the very politically incorrect language used frequently in it. Only a few years ago it became available on DVD and I promptly bought it. Raoul Walsh directed it so it is an action packed well paced film and I still find it very interesting to watch. My question (maybe one of our senior posters can reply here) is , was the language of the film heavily edited down for tv viewing back then (the 60's) ? I was too young to remember such details. The current DVD seems to be unedited, or lets say just what the film was when originally shown in the theatres. Edited by: mrroberts on Mar 26, 2013 4:01 PM

You may get the mob scene from one of the Frankenstein films.

Can't someone just clone Johnny Carson?

We probably should be starting a Harry (Henry) Morgan thread. Anyone remember his role in *The Big Clock* (the Ray Milland / Charles Laughton film)? Harry costarred with James Stewart in a bunch of films, always as Stewart's buddy I believe. Harry was the town Sheriff in John Wayne's *The Shootist* . Harry was a principle character in several TV series (he may hold the record there). Harry (born in Detroit) played one of the best comedic southern Sheriff characters in George C Scott's *The Flim-Flam Man* . Edited by: mrroberts on Mar 25, 2013 7:24 PM

Harry Morgan (who I can see several times daily on reruns of Dragnet and MASH) is the whaler who gets seriously injured when they are chasing a whale. Later in the film poor Harry gets hurt again and dies, what a run of bad luck

What I would call a "sleeper" film, a relatively unknown or unappreciated film that deserves more screenings. I have enjoyed watching this one for years, the few times it gets aired. Fine cast (nobody is mentioning Henry (Harry) Morgan) , Lionel Barrymore in one of his last great performances, a very good kid performance by Dean Stockwell , and as Mr Osborne mentioned, a very important film for the great Richard Widmark who gets to show he can play something other then a "psycho" and do it well.