mrroberts
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Hamradio, about your reference to James Buchanan, the 15th U S President. I should note that as a lifelong Pennsylvanian I only recently took a tour of the Buchanan home in Lancaster Pa. Like many people I have traveled great distances to see places while not seeing many sites right in my own backyard. Anyway the official line from the local historical site is similar to the wiki entry. Buchanan was very deeply affected by the death of his fiancee and could not get too romantically attached to another woman. So he stayed a bachelor. His close relationships with several male friends, including sharing residence with some, leads to the speculation of Buchanan's sexual tendencies. Nothing definite was ever established about that. So its all speculation.
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We all have long given up trying to figure out the story. Bogart's performance and the witty lines are what make this flick ( and the gals too, Dorothy Malone especially).
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Adlai Stevenson? Why not go back to William Jennings Bryan? Just how old do you think we are here Finance?
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Pick three or four Vic Morrow films and put them in the suggest a movie forum. Unlike some people who constantly whine and complain about the TCM programming decisions I do believe the programming people do make a sincere effort to give us viewers what we want. There certainly are issues of what films are available and when, and budgets constraints for programming exist too. You may not get a block of Vic Morrow films anytime soon but then again, who knows?
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Just to complicate matters further, you have to consider Rhonda Fleming. Personally, I will have to give this one a lot of thought.
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One of these days I'll learn how to post pics here. On the images page for Lana Turner on the first row she is a brunette holding an ice cream cone. That was one of several pictures I printed out for my WW2 vet friend, I must have printed about 9 or 10 photos for him.
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You guys read some of the remarks Bogart made about William Holden and Audrey Hepburn? The filming of *Sabrina* must have been a lot of "fun" for the cast, Bogart couldn't stand his costars and Holden and Hepburn had an affair.
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One of the reasons that Lana Turner looks so young is because she was so young. Only 16 years old when she did her first picture, and I don't think she was ever considered a "child" star. Only 19/20 and she's costarring as Clark Gable's leading lady. At the age of 25 she is doing her 25th film, *The Postman Always Rings Twice* playing a part that you might believe should be a woman in her thirties. You might say that Hollywood really aged her fast, usually the gals were around 20/21 before they started playing adult roles. I talk to a WW2 veteran on ocassion when I see him at a weekly flea market. He's a real old movie buff, so is his wife, they're both in their late eighties. When I asked him who I should look up on the net and print some pictures of he was quick to say, "Lana Turner". PS - the wife tells me that when she was 16 years old she delivered a package to a hotel room in New York and met Myrna Loy!
Edited by: mrroberts on Nov 21, 2011 2:51 PM
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Never thought about the 31 Days of Oscar deal. So anyone who had a birthday in February gets no birthday salute.
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Not to mention the scene at the bar with Lupe Velez and Stan And Ollie.
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Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep ? -- I better get my eyes rechecked.
Ingrid's daughters bare a very strong resemblance to their mom (and kids don't always look like their parent). I think Stephanie March (Law and Order SVU) has a slight resemblance to a young Meryl Streep. And as I mentioned on another thread, Vic Morrow definitely is a ringer for Ralph Meeker. -
Jane Wyman was in *Larceny, Inc* with Edward G Robinson
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Bullock, Angelica (the daffy mom) -- played by Alice Brady in *My Man Godfrey*
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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.
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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
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*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.
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You must have been reading my mind, I pulled my entry for a few seconds to make some corrections.
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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
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More fodder for the tabloid media industry. At least their economy keeps going strong. Unless someone confesses or some REAL important new evidence is discovered, let the poor woman rest. Same for Marliyn, Elvis, etc.
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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.
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I think that Jack Webb (Dragnet) should have the final say on this one.
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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.
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Wow, I see that *The Bowery* 1933 is scheduled on FMC on the 29th at 6am est. That is a very good movie (Raoul Walsh directed) but it has some VERY politically incorrect language in it. I saw that movie on tv as a young boy but it wasn't broadcast for a very long time. In the last year or so it has been out on a DVD ,which I bought, and I don't believe much if anything is edited out.
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misswonderly, does "Eva Saint Marie" live in "Sault St Marie" ? Shirley I jest.
Ingrid's daughters bare a very strong resemblance to their mom (and kids don't always look like their parent). I think Stephanie March (Law and Order SVU) has a slight resemblance to a young Meryl Streep. And as I mentioned on another thread, Vic Morrow definitely is a ringer for Ralph Meeker.
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