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Elel, I can see how *The Opposite Sex* might be easier for modern audiences than *The Women* -- it's in color, for starters, which is a big deal to many younger viewers -- but do watch *The Women* again. It's so witty and sharp. Truly a great, great film.
And I haven't seen *The First Wives Club* since it was in the theatre, but I enjoyed it then, and I'll take your recommendation and rent it, even without the bonus of a friend's tragic breakup. Unless one of my friends calls with really bad news.
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Ashley, welcome to the boards.
For me, I was lucky to grow up in the Atlanta area, one of the first parts of the country to get cable. Ted Turner (as in Turner Classic Movies) owned the biggest local channel that went cable, and he showed non-stop classic movies on WTCG-TV (which became WTBS).
I always was exposed to and loved the classics, but I had the early advantage of week-long Bette Davis marathons on TCG...and a grandmother who was a movie fan, and whose favorite star was Bette Davis, and who could tell me that *Now, Voyager* and *Dark Victory* were movies I HAD to see (because she loved them from the time she saw them in the theatre).
I'm so happy you're discovering the same movies we all also love! You'll find these boards a great source of friendship and also of information.
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Probably the 70's specifically should be taken off the table...surely no one is really unhappy to see *The Godfather* or *Taxi Driver* on TCM, or *Chinatown, Network, Cabaret* , et. al.
I admittedly don't want to see most very recent films on TCM, even "modern classics" like *Saving Private Ryan* -- solely because there are many, many TV outlets to see these films. And there is only this single channel that will show me rare Kay Francis movies (and Myrna Loy, and Robert Ryan, and Joan Blondell, and Glenda Farrell...you get the idea). Movies that aren't available ANYWHERE else, that might show up every ten years or so _if we are lucky_ in a special screening in New York or L.A., that would never show on the big screen in 99% of the country, and that certainly aren't coming to TBS or Lifetime. That were never released on DVD or video, and won't be anytime soon (meaning never). While *Saving Private Ryan* can be snagged on sale for $5.99 on DVD over at Best Buy everywhere.
I appreciate and enjoy new movies that are good (though it seems in the past few years most of those haven't been made in the US, with notable exceptions like Sidney Lumet's *Before the Devil Knows You're Dead* ). And I understand TCM's need to program the way it does. I just selfishly want TCM to program these Kay Francis things I couldn't possibly see otherwise.
_While at the same time programming *The Philadelphia Story, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Double Indemnity, Casablanca* , and of course my beloved *Meet Me in St. Louis* over and over._ These are the movies that are easy introductions to the old classics for new vintage classic movie fans. I am thrilled that *Yankee Doodle Dandy* has played a couple of times this month --- another great example of this type of movie. There IS a young audience for classic movies --- I am online pals with some TCM board regulars who are still in high school --- and pretty much the only exposure they have to most of these movies, even *Casablanca* and *The Philadelphia Story* , is TCM.
If you don't show the younger kids the gateway classics, and show them repeatedly to catch their attention, they may never find out that They Love Ray Milland. And that, my friends, would be a tragedy.
And what with all the rare Robert Benchley shorts we need to have, and the necessary screenings of *Bringing Up Baby* to lure in the first-time fans, I just don't want to give up valuable air time to movies that I can see anywhere. Even if they are really, really good.
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Also 70's:
Taxi Driver
Cabaret
Badlands
Chinatown
Manhattan
New York, New York
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
All That Jazz
Annie Hall
Eraserhead
Dawn of the Dead
Interiors
Days of Heaven
Deliverance
Paper Moon
Three Women
Blazing Saddles
You really can go on and on, and I'm good with seeing these films anytime. 1970, as someone pointed out, is 38 years ago.
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Singin' in the Rain - Debbie Reynolds
Tammy and the Bachelor - Walter Brennan/Debbie Reynolds
Kentucky - Walter Brennan
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Elel, welcome to the boards.
Just fyi, when you want to make something boldface, use an asterisk immediately before and after it (no spaces between). DON'T use * followed by the word bold followed by * or you see it spelled out that way, as in your thread title.
Boldfacing also doesn't work in the titles of the threads, only the messages in the thread.
It is a little confusing in the way the Plain Text guide shows it, and hoestly Plain Text is my nemesis.
Again, welcome!
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You never disappoint, scsu.
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And while I have absolutely zero interest in pursuing a career as a drag queen, if I change my mind you can address your fan mail to Marlena DeTrick.
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An off-off Broadway play called *Frequency Hopping* ran last year in NYC about this:
http://www.hourglassgroup.org/frequency.html
It was indeed Hedy.
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drednm, I feel your pain, I never even have the courage to try to post photos, the process is too complicated.
It's raining in New York right now and I just brought my kitty Kimba home from the vet five blocks away --- and as our dear Mrs. Slocombe might have said ... my p**** is soaking wet.
RIP, Mollie.
(It really is raining and Kimba really went to the vet, TCM Moderator!)
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If you enjoyed *King of Kings* you will also enjoy (the silent) *Ben-Hur* .
It's certainly a different experience, but I personally enjoy the different acting style required for silents. Not to get all "they had faces then" on you all, but the charisma exhibited by some of the top silent stars --- who had to grab you WITHOUT being able to speak --- is unrivaled. Some seem a little ludicrous today --- Theda Bara, for instance --- but look at the Gish gals, Lon Chaney, Swanson, Pickford ... astonishing talent.
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Capuchin, you have many fans, one who voted for you, some who may have not voted at all, and some who may have voted for worthy competitors. And one who was a non-voting moderator who won't tip his hand beyond saying how great a job you all did.
I cannot imagine what fun tasks CineMaven will throw at all of us in a few weeks with Challenge #14, but we all wait with bated breath to see how you respond...cuz you're a formidable challenger!
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That poster is phenomenal.
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Mollie Sugden, star of the wonderful British TV series *Are You Being Served?* has died at age 86.
Sugden found early TV success with comedy series Hugh and I in 1962 and in Coronation Street as the gossiping Nellie Harvey. But it was The Liver Birds in the late 1960s and early 1970s that enabled her to make her first real impact, as Nerys Hughes' snobbish mother Mrs Hutchinson. And then in 1972 came Are You Being Served? and the role she became best known for - the blue-rinsed Betty Slocombe, with her affectation of middle-class gentility and her outrageous use of the double-entendre. Sugden went on to have her own slot on consumer programme That's Life and even found new fame in the US where re-runs of Are You Being Served? transformed both Sugden and co-star John Inman into cult figures in the early 1990s.
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Generally spelled Bettie (and spelled Bettie by the lady herself), but as is often the case with folks in the ... uh ... entertainment industry designed for an adult audience ... the producers and marketers don't always care so much about spelling.
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Hmm, Countess, My mailbox is more than 50% empty, so it must be the eternal gremlins that technically haunt this thread blocking your PMs, but you are most welcome. I hope you are enjoying a frothy cold New York egg cream as we speak!
A couple of entrants didn't send me their addresses to claim their bottles of U-Bet, please do so right away if you'd like your chocolate syrup prizes!
You'll no doubt need a boost of sugar-propelled energy once the champion CineMaven unveils the next Challenge in few weeks!
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Sisiggy, welcome to the boards, and hopefully in the time since you caught that Gloria Swanson silent you've gotten to see *Sunset Boulevard* (a talkie) --- that would certainly erase any questions about her talent. But you're right, her silent work is AMAZING.
I actually think Gloria's appearance on *The Beverly Hillbillies* was a lovely tribute to her career. Virtually everyone worships her on the episode, and she is really gracious to her hillbilly fans. The producers of the show periodically used classic Hollywood folks in their assorted sitcoms --- the Hillbillies also met Hedda Hopper (in an episode about preserving Hollywood history), and Richard Arlen and Charles "Buddy" Rogers (stars of *Wings* ) actually appeared on *Petticoat Junction* as themselves -- again, in a VERY respectful way.
And don't forget that those *Beverly Hillbillies* producers also had their eyes on FUTURE talents: they cast an unknown Sharon Tate in a recurring role as Janet Woods...and the pilot for the series features our own Robert Osborne!
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While I realize that silent movies as a genre may not be to everyone's taste, give me *The Unknown, The Crowd, Broken Blossoms, Show People* --- or a hundred other silent titles --- ANY day at any hour.
I promise you that you could show *Metropolis* or *Nosferatu* to a group of college students anywhere in the country and they'd love them.
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Others:
Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf (10/10/63)
Orson Welles and Yul Brynner (10/11/85)
Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. (5/16/90)
Federico Fellini and River Phoenix (10/31/93)
Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, AND Billy Wilder (3/27/02)
Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman (7/30/07)
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She actually did some television in the 50's, and appeared off-Broadway in several plays.
And there were those film loops done by Irving Klaw. (Whose studio and store, by the way, were located less than a block away from my apartment!)
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There are many different types of nightclubs in films from that period.
Noir movies will often have gangster-connected dives and speakeasy-type places. Check out *Dead Reckoning* to see Lizabeth Scott as a cabaret singer in a mob-connected joint.
The glittering sophisticated New York supper clubs are probably best represented in some of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals. These are those beautiful, impossibly expansive places, often designed white-on-white --- stunningly beautiful, but also completely impossible to have in real life. I work in the industry, and the upkeep would be impossible --- if your project needs to be realistically viable, keep that in mind!
You might want to check out a couple of more recent Woody Allen films that pay homage to the era you are interested in. *The Purple Rose of Cairo* , in particular, is set in the Depression and features a movie-within-the-movie set in a nightclub (it's my personal favorite Allen film --- maybe one of my all-time top ten). There's also a period nightclub scene in *Radio Days* . And there's a Marx Brothers-inspired scene in a Paris nightclub in *Everyone Says I Love You* that is inspired solidly by 1930's design. I really recommend checking these out --- Woody Allen is obsessed with that era, and the detail in the design is gorgeous.
Other classic movies that include nightclub scenes that spring to mind:
*Easter Parade* - Uncomfortable meeting among Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, and Ann Miller in a NYC club
*The Awful Truth* - A terrificly funny bad-taste nightclub act embarrasses Cary Grant -- and is recreated later in the movie by Irene Dunne
*Andy Hardy Meets Debutante* - Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland go clubbing in Manhattan
*The Stork Club* - Betty Hutton
*Copacabana* - Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, and Gloria Jean!
*Incendiary Blonde* - story of famous nightclub hostess Texas Guinan
*Night After Night* - George Raft and Mae West run a speakeasy
*Lying Lips* - Oscar Micheaux film about a nightclub singer who is framed for murder. If you are unfamiliar with Michaeux, he was a pioneering African-American filmmaker. You can see this movie free online at
http://www.archive.org/details/lying_lips_ipod
*I'll Name the Murderer* - a nightclub singer is killed
*The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer* - Cary Grant gets into a nightclub brawl
Other than the Woody Allen films I mentioned, more recent films that feature nightclubs of that period include *Cabaret* (Berlin nightclub), *Victor/Victoria* (assorted Parisian venues), *The Cotton Club* (Harlem hotspot), *The Way We Were* (a scene set in El Morocco), and *Chicago* (Chicago speakeasies).
I actually know a lot about the nightclub history of New York, feel free to PM me if you want to know anything specific, I'll try to help you if I can.
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Gale Storm, star of 1950's TV series *My Little Margie* , passed away today.
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I was lucky to see a revival of *The Tingler* at Film Forum in NYC --- and was in a seat that "tingled." What fun!
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ugaarte -- if you have an indentation at the beginning of a line for some reason, sections of your copy will disappear. And lately in another thread emoticons (smiley faces) have been creating havoc.
On topic, I defy anyone to watch *Eat Drink Man Woman* and not immediately head for the best Chinese restaurant in town.
Also --- the aspic in *Dinner at Eight* is pretty important!
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scsu, please move to New York immediately and please come to all of my dinner parties. Don't worry, I serve mushrooms.