mrroberts

TCM does a lot of these "informal" birthday tributes to people, starting around 6AM est and running a block of 4 or 5 movies . In the case of Ralph Meeker they actually came up with 8 movies total. Unfortunately during the day there is no host to offer any little commentary or intro to these films. I would agree that Vic Morrow is worthy of a "day", but I see that his birthday is also Valentine's Day. That might work against Vic, he never became associated with "romantic" type roles or movies. Still he could get a little tribute, some evening start off at 8 with a Morrow film (with an RO intro) and follow up with 2 or 3 more films . To intro each movie Robert Osborne could highlight some details about Vic Morrow's life and career. Unfortunately most people only know the story of his tragic death but there certainly are more interesting bits of info about Vic Morrow's life.

Audrey Dalton certainly was very attractive and is a lookalike for one of my favorites, Jean Peters. Ironic that Jean gave up her career and Audrey's just never quite got the big break for hers. I guess costarring with Tim Holt in *The Monster That Challenged The World* didn't help much

*F-Troop* often gets knocked as a stupid show, like so many other sitcoms of the 60's. As a kid I really enjoyed those shows. They were just mindless fun, entertaining shows. Its a shame there can't be a few shows like that on TV today for kids (and adults). At least we have reruns.

You must have been reading my mind, I pulled my entry for a few seconds to make some corrections.

Tonight TCM is airing *A Man Called Peter* 1955 , starring Richard Todd as Peter Marshall, a man who becomes a chaplain to the U S Senate. Jean Peters plays the wife and gives a fine performance showing just how well she was progressing as an actress. Unfortunately this would be her last film (except for a few small roles on tv many years later). She quit acting before she turned 30 because she married Howard Hughes and he forbid her from working. Jean started acting at the age of 20 with a memorable performance in Tyrone Power's *Captain From Castile* in 1947. I have always liked Jean a lot, she certainly was attractive but I also thought her to be a talented and competent actress too. I can't help but wonder what her future would have been if she had kept acting, maybe her best performances were the ones to come. -- Interesting, Carole Lombard's real name was Jane Peters. She used her real name briefly and then changed it to Carol Lombard. If Carole had kept her own name then Jean Peters probably would have had to be given a different acting name when starting her career. Edited by: mrroberts on Nov 18, 2011 1:02 PM

I still think this is spliting hairs, is there any "screwball comedy" that doesn't have elements of satire in it? Even The Three Stooges shorts have satire in them. The whole 30's era satirizes the state of the economy and the wealthy and powerful in society.

I think that Jack Webb (Dragnet) should have the final say on this one.

Hopefully someone will be showing the A&E documentary on the Titanic made in 1994. It was excellent, narrated by David McCallum who also was in the great 1958 film *A Night To Remember* , he played wireless operator Harold Bride. If TCM does a night of Titanic films (especially *A Night To Remember* ) it would really be great if David McCallum could be on as guest to Robert Osborne. He woud have insight to the movie and he certainly is very knowledgable about the actual event.

I am having trouble making the distinction between "screwball" and "satire". Maybe I just look at things in a broader way but I would almost use the two terms interchangably. *My Man Godfrey* is one of my very favorite films. It certainly has satire in the way it depicts the wealthy upper class, how in the world do these people deserve or earn their way to all of that wealth? Both Godfrey and Cornelia are con artists of a sort, but Godfrey is a "good" con artist while the spoiled sister Cornelia is just "evil". The whole premise of the story at the beginning is very cynical, the hard division of class in society and how the wealthy party goers are willing to exploit the "forgotten man" just for their own amusement. Some of the screwball comedy is just pratfalls, people doing crazy things, etc. I guess a pure satire doesn't need those qualities, but they almost always do. There's a lot of comedy in *Nothing Sacred* ; the small Vermont town characters, Carole the small town girl in the big city, the constant "fighting" between March and his boss, the very wacky romance between the two lead characters (to prove how much I love you I'm going to slug you), etc. -- So in conclusion I would call both films by both terms.

I have always thought that Ralph Meeker and Vic Morrow could have been brothers. Referring the names together I see others also see the resemblance.

I was eagerly waiting to see the "restored" *Nothing Sacred* tonight. As others have said, it certainly looks improved but I was still a little disappointed. Maybe my expectations are too high. Some of you are much more knowledgable than I about the technical issues here. I guess restored isn't the proper term to use if the original prints are lost. So it is up to modern technology and the people involved to take whats available and enhance it to the best possible level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0ogBZ9xuE

Nigel Bruce was in *The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes* with Ida Lupino

Cutler, Polly -- Jean Peters in *Niagara* -- (Bullitt's first name was Frank)

Alex Trebek? What about Art Fleming? --- Ralph Meeker has been on FMC lately in *The St Valentine's Day Massacre* , he played "Bugs" Moran. And lets not forget his part in *The Naked Spur* with Jimmy Stewart and Robert Ryan. Edited by: mrroberts on Nov 16, 2011 4:39 PM

Arnold, Kay -- Barbara Stanwyck in *Ladies Of Leisure*

I was just doing a little digging back in the past with a forum search. Search for CAROLE LOMBARD and date range set to ALL. The second entry listed and dated April 6th, 2007 gets you into the 10 page thread for Carole, there are a lot of nice photos posted and some good comments. This was a thread I had tried to revive a while back but it then got locked out because it was too dated. We can go still back and see the entries however.

I actually liked Bob Newhart's second show , *Newhart* , more than the first (which was still very good IMO) . The third show he did , *Bob* , was also very good but it never caught on and was only on a short time. We sure could use a "Newhart" type show on tv today.

EugeniaH, you are hereby designated the official Carole picture poster for this thread, if and when you run out of Barbara pictures.

Since Carole Lombard's part of the "Battle of the Blondes" month at TCM is almost here (Wednesday night, *Nothing Sacred* and *To Be Or Not To Be* ) , I wanted to bump this thread back up to the top, at least temporarily. Take that Barbara Stanwyck . Really looking forward to finally seeing a decent print of *Nothing Sacred* . I wish that *My Man Godfrey* was the second film, that is most definitely my very favorite Carole film. Dare I say that I put that film just a tad above Barbara's *The Lady Eve* on my favorites list. But "Godfrey" will be coming up again in December so its a minor omission. By the way Carole does get my vote for the "blondes" month. Edited by: mrroberts on Nov 15, 2011 12:22 AM

Pulver, Ensign Frank Thurlowe -- Jack Lemmon in *Mister Roberts*

Edward G Robinson was in *Smart Money* with Noel Francis

"Teddy" is asking Bette if she'd like to go on an ocean cruise on the "Oregon"

Does anyone else see "Miles Archer" and "Teddy Brewster (Roosevelt)" in this picture?