cascabel

talkietime----Just before I hit REPLY I saw your original (2:20 pm) post (8 paragraphs plus PS plus EDIT notice), then your second (4:23 pm) post (3 paragraphs), then my 4:43 pm post, and finally your 6:27 pm post ending in "High Drama, indeed!" However, the thread lists your last post as being at 6:54 pm. I have yet to discern a pattern to the disappearances, hope this post doesn't dislodge one or more of yours. My apologies, if that happens. It now feels like an electrical storm. Maybe we should all seek shelter until it's over. Good luck, sir.

Hi, talkietime. Posting, so you can post. I feel (a very little!) like a Norwegian resistance fighter. Please get Churchill on the radio, if you can.

*The Desperate Hours* (1955) with Humphrey Bogart and Frederic March. I don't think throwing softballs to amateurs like me is going to revive the trivia section. Keep trying to challenge the professionals, and the rest of us might stop by to watch and occasionally attempt to play. IMHO. It's fun to watch you experts--and you know who you are--either answer promptly with a wealth of additional information or else struggle a bit with a question, disputing the finer points of the answer (sometimes for days on end). Amateurs play for their own amusement, but professionals put on a wonderful show we can all enjoy. Message was edited by: cascabel

Bette Davis in *The Letter* James Gleason or Jack Warden?

It may look like there are a lot of westerns on TCM when a couple are shown on the same day. Out of curiosity I did a quick count, using the list at the back of "Now Playing". This month TCM is showing about 25 westerns. This is out of about 400 movies. I could be off on the numbers, but my guess is that it's not a western-heavy schedule. I sympathize. It's never fun to look at the schedule and realize you don't like much that's on it. Overall though, TCM does a pretty good job of keeping it varied.

Thanks, FrankGrimes. And I'll try to say this only once: This thread has reminded me of all the times I've gone to the suggestion page eager to make a request only to find that someone had recently asked for the same movie. Or someone will quickly second my request. It makes me wonder if there's something to the notion of a hive-mind. If people (yes, in all their laughable, deplorable messiness) working together on the suggestion page can occasionally get these movies broadcast--as some of you attest--that's great. More power to the hive.

And now I apologize for all the repeats. Lo siento. Message was edited by: cascabel

Fedya---Thank you for reminding me about the Nancy Drew movies and that *3:10 To Yuma* is a Columbia Pictures movie. I ought to have remembered that. I was just thinking of how often people have requested that movie lately. FrankGrimes--Thank you. I appreciate that. It's so easy to be misread here.

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I apologize if I didn't make it clear that I'm not at all interested in censorship or heavy oversight of the suggestion page. I, too, enjoy some of the nonsense there or find it easy enough to ignore. And, realistically, I expect that directing people to the database and reminding them that old movies can be fun will be as effective as TCM's spelling instructions are now. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be done--for form's sake, if nothing else. As I tried to explain before, I'm more concerned about updates to the TCM movie database. Until I learned to do research first on IMDb, I was constantly voting on this site for the DVD release of movies already on DVD. And how often do we discuss in these forums why certain movies aren't broadcast on TCM? I'd like to be able to click on the database and see the broadcast rights history of a movie. Any database that isn't constantly updated is of limited use.

This isn't exactly what you're asking for, just an aside. I've never had a request granted, alas; but I figure if TCM has the movies I want, the station will eventually show them. I'm more interested in suggestions for the suggestion page, how to make it more useful and efficient. I've noticed that people often ask for movies that were just shown. (The suggestion for Bedknobs And Broomsticks probably went up before the movie was over.) And people request too many recent movies (from the '60s to last year). Or they ask for movies and stars already in the schedule, or for movies that TCM can't show. And, of course, the jokesters out there are always requesting movies that don't exist, making provoking political statements or squabbling with other posters. All of this clogs up the site, which has to make it difficult for TCM to see the legitimate requests. I'm not interested in any censorship disguised as oversight. That's distasteful, and, besides, it doesn't work. You can't stop people from being foolish or mischievous, but there are some things TCM could do that might make the suggestion page better. Respectfully submitted suggestions for TCM: 1. Update the TCM movie database. We need the latest information. Tell us if a movie actually is available on DVD, if that DVD is being offered for sale by TCM, and, most importantly, if TCM has the broadcast rights to this movie. Continue to tell us when in the upcoming weeks a movie is scheduled. This is a great feature of the database right now (if only people would take advantage of it). In addition, you might tell people when (in the past year? six months?) a movie was last shown on TCM. 2. Direct people from the suggestion page to the updated database. Include something like this in the instructions: Before posting your suggestion, please look it up in the database. The movie you want may already be scheduled or may not be available to TCM. 3. Remind people that TCM is about OLDER classic movies. 4. Anticipate that when a remake of a classic like *3:10 To Yuma* is released, people will be interested in the original. Put it in your schedule before you get those multiple requests. Message was edited by: cascabel

You're welcome. Happy Fay Wray Day!

TCM showed this splendid movie September 3rd--12 days ago.

There's a lovely website devoted to her: The Fay Wray Pages http://www.shillpages.com/faywray/fwmain.shtml

Hi. That's really nice to know. I think Ben Mankiewicz has been fun to have around on TCM weekends.....And I hope you felt as glamorous as Lana Turner while you were having lunch.

Thank you for continuing to try, Bartlett. A very merry un-birthday to you!

I'm sorry. I have no idea why the name of George S. Kauffman is crossed out in my post. Or why the asterisks only work occasionally. Hope to get the hang of this formatting someday.

Challengers---Thank you all so much. I really enjoyed reading your schedules. To mention some of my favorite things--- ChipHeartsMovies: Anna May Wong--*Kurotokage*--a Dorothy Arzner documentary! How soon can you get started on that?--so many pink collar movies from the '30s!--the emphasis on caregivers--the drag theme--Tennessee Williams--"Forever Young: Child Stars"--"Not An Overnight Sensation"--appreciate the neat frequency listing at end of notes--war and anti-war movies Fedya: deliciously sly schedule, from the pre-codes in the morning to the menacing ants to weird causes of death--then wholesome Joel McCrea and Frances Dee as SOTM--Welcome, tourists, to New Mexico! *Ace In the Hole* and *Them!*--Michael Curtiz--Una O'Connor, Charles Boyer, Pepe--*Echenme al gato*--"Movies About Photography"--"Saturday Morning Bio-pics" movieman1957: "Sunday Morning Musicals"--*Seven Days In May*--Thelma Ritter!--Michael Curtiz--Basil Rathbone, Gregory Peck, Alan Hale--"A Gentleman's Gentleman"---George S. Kauffman--"Vox Humana"! Would love to see/hear this feature every month. Oh, the possibilities! James Mason to Walter Brennan, Joan Greenwood to Ruth Gordon! filmlover: Ellis Island!--showcasing screenwriters! Rod Serling! *Seven Days In May*--the funnies--missing films--Norma Shearer--Toshiro Mifune--Buddy Ebsen--"A Film Career In A Day"--the 100th birthday of Bette Davis combined with the disability theme! I can hear Miss Davis laughing now. benwhowell: cats!--C.T.Dreyer's *Michael*--John Huston and Shirley Clarke--Patsy Kelly and Franklin Pangborn--Kieslowski--*Repulsion*--"Everyday People"--"Let's Misbehave" (And on Fridays, too! TCM often seems to slow down on that day for some reason.)--love the song titles and colors and cool scenario hlywdkjk: "Men of Few Words"--married co-stars--Ernst Lubitsch--Ned Sparks--"Memoirs of a Movie" (*Ed Wood*!)--"Film At Eleven" (But, please, not Nancy Grace. How about Samantha Bee from "The Daily Show"?)--"Not On Home Video" (*Green Mansions* is not a very true adaptation of the novel, but does show Audrey Hepburn in an offbeat role for her.)--"Portraits Of A Lady"--Happy to see *Myra Breckinridge* in the schedule. This silly movie does no harm to Vidal's great novel and is so much fun for people who love old movies.--P.S. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to respond to my earlier post. sugarpuss: Thank you for a most educational and entertaining thread. My choice is ChipHeartsMovies. Excellent job! Lets see that Arzner documentary.

Hi. Many people seem to be having this problem, and it is discussed on other threads. You probably need to adjust your Control Panel settings. Clear instructions on how to do this are given by FrankGrimes about three messages down in this thread: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=113611&tstart=45

That's a beautiful movie. *Random Harvest* (1942) with Ronald Colman, Greer Garson. http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=2716

Hi. I'm sorry. I don't understand. How can you post on this forum, if you're not using a computer, logged on, and able to see your control panel? I want to help. Have you tried contacting TCM? "Contact Us" is at the bottom of whatever computer screen you're using.

I would love to see this movie. I thought it was controversial because Joan Crawford's character gets away with murder. Can you tell us any more about it?

Hi. First click on your CONTROL PANEL, then YOUR WATCHES. Mark NO on the thread watches, and that should stop the emails. Hope this helps, and I hope you enjoy your stay here.