mrroberts

In 2009, Ben Gazzara was the featured guest at an event at the James Stewart Museum in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The museum has coworkers from Stewart's films make appearances on occasion, sadly the number of "eligible" guests is shrinking all of the time. I've never been at the museum when they have such a guest, maybe Ernie Borgnine (who already was there) could appear a second time, that I would try to go see.

Last December I had bought a number of DVDs for holiday gifts, and a few for myself. One of MY dvds was *Fort Apache* . Just watched it a few nights ago, nothing else of interest was on , I really wanted to watch a movie, looked through my library and picked out this great film. One of those few films I can watch over and over again and always enjoy. Some night soon I will have to play my new dvd of *She Wore A Yellow Ribbon*

Like most people I started watching movies as a kid, usually watching tv with my father. As I grew older I saw more films, gained a greater appreciation for some of the "classics" , now with the internet and a site like this one I can really learn a lot about the films and the people who made them. For me its just a hobby, the films entertain me. I do presently know a lot more than the average person about the older movies, does that make me a "film buff" ? I guess, but just a "skilled amateur at best. I must say I know loads more about the "old" movies than the more current stuff.

Whitney Blake , age 76, passed away in 2002. Kim Novak is still with us, she will be 79 in a few weeks, she was treated for cancer recently, hopefully she is doing well. It would be great to have her interviewed by Robert Osborne or she could pick a night of movies.

Yes, Whitney Blake is (was) Meredith's mom. I was just doing a little reading up on Whitney (I do remember her as the mom on TV's *Hazel* and other tv appearances like The Man From UNCLE) and Whitney was several years older than Kim Novak. In the fifties Whitney had a little make over , including going blonde. It would appear that she was trying for that Kim Novak/ Marilyn Monroe look, like a lot of other actresses of the time. I believe she was a good actress, but maybe doing the Kim/Marilyn imitation wasn't a good idea, you then just looked like so many others. Better to try to be a little different from the crowd and stand out on your own.

I believe this was mentioned before, but I have just been watching some of the Jack Webb film *30* and Whitney Blake looks like and even acts like Kim Novak. They could have played twin sisters.

Lanceroten, you just saw your first Carole Lombard movie?? Stop whatever you're doing and rent/buy/steal a copy of *My Man Godfrey* , maybe my second favorite movie of all time (next to Mister Roberts) . And go visit the "Carole & Co." site presented by TCM poster/ member vp19.

Isn't filming a play the same as audio recording a live concert? I don't see a problem with TCM airing this "film", like any film if you like it fine, if you don't like it fine again. I think there's a lot of over reaction about this here.

I for one would have a tough time picking between *The Mark Of Zorro* and *The Adventures Of Robin Hood* , I think they are both excellent entertaining films. "Robin" benefits from the super big budget sets and color filming used but "Zorro" , while done on the cheap (relatively speaking) has lots of action and somehow seems grittier in tone (I'm glad it is in black and white). Both Flynn and Power are at the top of their game in these two films and Basil Rathbone is the common thread as the despicable villain. In fact I might say that Basil may be the best thing in both films, he gives the hero a worthy opponent. The duel in "Zorro" may be the best of all films, although the "Robin" duel gets most of the public attention.

In *My Favorite Year* Alan Swann uses that same quote (Niven's referring to Errol) when describing himself.

Alfred Hitchcock's *Rope* ; we get the messy murder over with right at the start (like Bette Davis' *The Letter* )

Many years ago my local cable company carried the PBS station out of Scranton (WVIA). I believe they tapped into the North Jersey /New York market as well. They would show a lot of great old movies well into the late hours, at a time when many stations signed off shortly after midnight. Again, I don't think many PBS stations in the country did this at the time. I guess they had easy, low cost access to a lot of the films in the old days.

This past Saturday night my local PBS station (Philadelphia/Wilmington, Del ) broadcast the James Cagney film *Shake Hands With The Devil* . While movies aren't a big part of the overall PBS scheduling they do show a few films at night during the week. I'm just wondering if many other PBS stations around the country do something similiar, broadcast an occasional classic film? How easy is it for them to get these films, do the stations do this independently or do they get access on a national group basis (and then show the films on their own local scheduling)? This is one of the very few alternative sources I have for viewing any classic films. (TCM, FMC, AMC are the other stations I can get via local cable).

If Bob is "misreading" his copy, someone should be trying to catch that and correct it. They aren't doing him any favors by letting the mistakes get through.

Clearly the people who research and write up the copy for these intros have to do a better job at verifying their work. I don't expect RO to know everything or spend his time proofreading everything. But these misstatements do make everyone at TCM look bad, and have the viewer questioning everything else that is said. Like most people I rely on Wiki and IMDb for the "facts" but I imagine there can be errors there too. Errol Flynn has several sites to refer to, one from a daughter and one from one of his wives. Its best to view all of the sites and draw your conclusions from there.

How about some limericks; "There once was a man named McCrea, etc, etc" Edited by: mrroberts on Jan 20, 2012 5:58 PM

If I ever do watch this movie again, I think I will turn off the color on my set. Maybe the movie will play better in black and white?

I can watch this film because I like the two stars (Joseph Cotten and Ingrid, who looks fabulous as always) but the storyline really drags along. It has some elements of Rebecca and Gaslight in it , you know there is some secret backstory that is haunting the characters but there's not much suspense build up and the ending just doesn't satisfy me very much. I guess we Americans need a little more action and fast pace, like North By Northwest

Maybe we can get TCM to substitute *Foreign Correspondent* for any future showings of *North By Northwest* (that could be a start) Edited by: mrroberts on Jan 20, 2012 1:34 AM

Its been a long, long time since I saw *Under Capricorn* on tv, maybe it was on TCM or even the "old" AMC. From what I can remember it was a decent film, maybe a little tedious, like some say about *Vertigo* . I do believe some of the low reviews of this film come from its comparison to other Hitchcock films. "Its a poor Hitchcock film, but still better than the average film" kind of thing. I have read that Hitch and Ingrid had some differences of opinion on some of her scenes, that may had led to a cooling of their working relationship, along with Ingrid's "scandal" of the time.

IMDb lists Paula at 5'10" (when in her bare feet probably) so she usually was a good head taller than other gals who were her costars. In the TCM promos for "Henry Orient" we see her and Angela Lansbury (who has to be close to 5'10" herself) cast with Peter Sellers, who was a rather short guy. Wonder how Peter felt about that?

I have that magazine cover picture hanging on a wall in my computer/stereo/ den room. Carole, Mrroberts salutes you.

Its 70 years today that Carole Lombard left us, she was just 33 years young at the time. What a terrible loss for us all. God bless you Carole, thanks for the memories you leave us.

I have great memories from my childhood (early 60's) of Halloween in my town, a parade during the afternoon, and in the early evening young kids assembled in the basement of the public school for a little party, some cartoons and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" on the "big" screen.

Keeping in mind the recent posting by the TCM administrator concerning getting too heavy into politics (unless it pertains directly to a film role or storyline) , and I completely agree with that stance. So with no political inference on my part I must say that Ronald Reagan was definitely a mediocre actor (group him with a number of other good looking manly types who couldn't act worth a darn) but could do supporting roles or go to tv and play sitcom dads. If Mr Reagan didn't switch careers and become a successful politican would anyone be reminiscing about his past film career? Remember now, I am only commenting on Reagan the actor here.