mrroberts
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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.
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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.
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Nigel Bruce was in *The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes* with Ida Lupino
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Cutler, Polly -- Jean Peters in *Niagara* -- (Bullitt's first name was Frank)
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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
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Arnold, Kay -- Barbara Stanwyck in *Ladies Of Leisure*
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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.
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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.
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Am I missing something here? Doesn't Rupert own or at least have controlling interest in both Fox (FMC) and DirecTV? So why would there be any "problems" having deals between the two?
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EugeniaH, you are hereby designated the official Carole picture poster for this thread, if and when you run out of Barbara pictures.
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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
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Pulver, Ensign Frank Thurlowe -- Jack Lemmon in *Mister Roberts*
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Edward G Robinson was in *Smart Money* with Noel Francis
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"Teddy" is asking Bette if she'd like to go on an ocean cruise on the "Oregon"
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Does anyone else see "Miles Archer" and "Teddy Brewster (Roosevelt)" in this picture?
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How about a night of *The Letter* films including the 1982 tv movie starring Lee Remick? Somehow I never saw that one and I am a BIG Lee Remick fan.
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From IMDb, William Powell was 6 ' , Melvyn Douglas was 6' 1". While William Powell was never heavy you might be thinking of some of his films from the late 30's and early 40's when he was having his time with cancer treatment and recovery. He was quite thin and drawn looking during that time. While I think Douglas was a fine actor he really couldn't carry a picture like William Powell or others. Douglas was kind of like Ralph Bellamy or Jack Carson, a really good supporting player. And as for William Powell, he was the best period (IMO) .
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Hallie is married to a rich lawyer/senator. He can buy her a new box, and a new hat too.
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One of my favorite film music scores is from *Gunfight At The O K Corral* , also one of my favorite movies.
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How about Joe L. Mackray? (better ask misswonderly about this one )
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Janet Lee? related to Bruce Lee?
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So Bette Midler pronounces her name right, right? How about Sean (Shawn?) Connery or Penn?
. 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.
Nothing Sacred - Screwball Comedy or Satire?
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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.