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Interesting how hard it is to tell John and Lionel Barrymore apart in some photos. I'm guessing Lionel Barrymore in: The Thirteenth Hour (1927) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018480/ ?? Barrymore (1927, 29???) http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3296549.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DViewImages%26k%3D2%26d%3DC06051C8BA2A5A2C9233D981429991C9A55A1E4F32AD3138&imgrefurl=http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx%3Fmid%3D3296549%26epmid%3D3%26partner%3DGoogle&h=594&w=411&sz=41&hl=en&start=23&um=1&tbnid=xd8e0k5__D9oXM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlionel%2Bbarrymore%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN CineSage jr---You don't happen to have a photo of John Barrymore in Mad Genius, do you? I've looked and looked for one because the descriptions I've read of the movie make me wonder. That Google image is supposed to be of Lionel, but it could be mislabeled. Message was edited by: cascabel

You're welcome. I'm still learning my way around here. I just discovered the EMBED THIS VIDEO feature (by moving cursor to the right of the screen) in the media room, but haven't been able to make it work to send a link for a single video. Using SEND A LINK results in the address for the whole media room index: Shortcut to: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/#player_area'>http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/#player_area which is almost the same as a simple copy of the address: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/ Could somebody please explain how to send a link to a particular video? Thank you.

I'm sorry. I forgot you wanted to know about the newsletters. When you log out you get a page called MEMBER SERVICES. Under PRODUCTS you'll see TCM NEWSLETTERS. Click that for an order form. (If you get the MEMBER SIGN-IN page, the newsletter info is on the right side.) I also forgot about the feedback page! You can get answers there as well. This website is stuffed full of goodies. http://www.tcm.com/TCMCFA/feedback.jsp Message was edited by: cascabel

FrankG--Why, thank you. That's very kind. (I've been told before that my tastes are too eclectic, but I can't figure out what's wrong with that.) Message was edited by: cascabel

Hi. For years I thought I was the only one who loved Cat People, Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, and The Leopard Man; so, it's been great fun reading other posters' takes on these movies. There's a Curse of the Cat People thread in the Film & Filmmakers forum, if you haven't seen it already. (BTW, I saw Lewton's odd comedy Please Believe Me for the first time earlier this week. Not in the same league with the best Lewton films, but Deborah Kerr and Peter Lawford were amusing, at least.)

Lisatake--Hello and welcome. You can also use the TCM database. Click on DB HOME at upper left of this page under the changing home logo. On the database page, at the search engine screen on the left, select TITLE from the drop menu, enter the title, click GO. At the next page, click on the brief description for Five Came Back (1939) and you'll get this page: http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=151 On the right side of that page you'll find the scheduling information. At the moment it reads: "Title is not currently scheduled." (I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie on TCM within the last year. Should be on next year's schedule.) It's fun to explore the database, entering a lot of different titles and names, reading the synopses and articles. You can get emails reminding you when certain movies will be playing by clicking the appropriate place on the right side of the schedule page. You have to be logged in to do this. (There was a board update last month and some people here had trouble with multiple emails from TCM, but I think that's not a problem anymore.) My apologies, if this isn't clear.

madeleine2322---That's so nice to read! Thank you.

Happy birthday, Mongo! Thank you for your wonderful contributions to these boards.

Loyalty, words of encouragement, manicures. The best monsters respond to simple respect and kindness. The others are as unrelenting as Mitchum's Preacher in The Night of the Hunter--or, um, those cabbage-headed saucer-men.

Hello. The photo of Henry Fonda was from this photo archive: http://www.mptv.net/

guppy--Hello. My family and I enjoy the media room very much. There's something for everyone. In addition to trailers, you can watch the featured film (currently Way Out West--1937), play movie clips, promos, featurettes and short subjects. (I recently watched Flying Padre--a Stanley Kubrick short from 1951 about a New Mexican priest/pilot.) You can scroll down to the lists of 177 video pages, or click BROWSE on the right and select by genre from the drop MENU, or type in a title (or name) in SEARCH. It's easy to add items to your playlist by clicking ADD at the bottom of each video description or to change what's playing by clicking PLAY. Hope this is of some help to you.

Hello. I'm guessing the movie you want is *Topper Returns* (1941): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034303/ or maybe it was--*Behold My Wife!* (1934) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026107/ I can't find a clip of Mr. Anderson in either movie, but here's one from *Star-Spangled Rhythm* (1942): "Sharp As A Tack"--Eddie "Rochester" Anderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLBBZh5X6c Other inspirations for Jackson's moonwalk: Bill Bailey--credited as the inventor--this is probably from Ed Sullivan's *Toast of the Town* (1948) Bob Fosse--"Snake in the Grass" from *The Little Prince* (1974) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8mJsgPj1iU

You're welcome. I wanted this game so badly when I was in grade-school, but my mother thought it was too ridiculous. What fun would it be, if it wasn't too ridiculous. Found it on YouTube! Mystery Date http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDK-xd7RgWg

It's a good play with two fine movie adaptations. Just a by-the-way: *The Children's Hour* was closely based on a true-life incident from 1810 in Edinburgh, Scotland. "(Dashiell) Hammett suggested that 'The Great Drumsheugh Case' would make a good scenario for a play - the true story of a scandal at a Scottish boarding school where a malicious pupil accused two teachers of having a lesbian affair." / from Continental Detective Agency--Dashiell Hammett: Life, Works and More http://www.transki.freeserve.co.uk/hellman.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=RNBOkuTfd1IC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=thegreatdrumsheugh+case&source=web&ots=is6I3PQu-6&sig=f9I-2Ooq4DBix3o1V8bcCGQlzoU#PPA32,M1

Was it "Too Marvelous For Words" (Mercer & Whiting)? http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=605

This might be the very last thing I forget: "Mystery Date/ Are you ready for your Mystery Date?/ Don't be late, it could be great./ Open the door for your/ Mystery Date."

"...why did she ever take the chance of playing the music?" It's a puzzler. I sometimes wonder if there's a rule in Hollywoodland stating that no Internal Affairs police officer can be shown in a completely favorable light. They have to be bumblers? redriver--About Alexander Hamilton: I'm still waiting for the long-promised movie based on Gore Vidal's *Burr*. That could be done as an politico-historical biopic film noir. Genre meshing is good.

CineSage jr---Thank you. That's good to know. Well, not quite. I hope TCM writers belong to some union or other--for their sake. Unions are good in principle and strikes are sometimes necessary. I understand that, as a result of the writers' strike in the 1980s, many television viewers abandoned network TV for cable stations. If there's another strike, I would expect TCM's viewership to go up. That's great--as long as it doesn't mean questionable changes in programming to keep those new people.

This has something to do with the compensation screenwriters want for their work which is shared on the Internet. The question is: What, if anything, will a strike mean to TCM? "Hollywood screenwriters to vote on strike Labor tensions in Hollywood heated up a notch this week as the union representing 12,000 screenwriters asked its members to authorize a strike if they fail to reach agreement on a new contract later this month." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21104874/from/ET/

*Fatalism and moral reasoning are two of the biggest drawing cards for me in noir. Now what's that other one? Hmmmm.* FrankGrimes----Ah, yes, THAT. Every movie on yesterday's schedule featured sexual longing, temptation and jealousy; the mingling of sex and violence; the struggle for power between people (Isn't that always sexual somehow?)--and this includes the very beautiful and reverent *King of Kings* and *Gandhi* (no surprise to those who actually attend church with all the other sinners). It seemed like programming genius to begin with *Lawman*, in which the three older men, each trying to come to terms with his past, continually explore the blurry line between criminal and law-enforcement violence. Then it all ended with *Becket*, where (IMHO) one of the points being argued is that intense friendship is not any nobler than intense sexual love, as foolish people assume when they compartmentalize their feelings. They both have the same source and are, ultimately, the same thing. It was such an exciting, exhausting schedule that I'm glad there wasn't anything on TCM today that I particularly wanted to see again. I can get some work done, catch up on the news. (I'm going by the online schedule. *Now Playing* has the day beginning with *The Asphalt Jungle* and ending with *Alexander Hamilton*, which I had to miss. BTW, I'm also glad most of these movies weren't the creations of modern filmmakers, who would have made nearly every scene too gory and explicit to watch.) *The Narrow Margin* was completely new to me, and I like it so much now. As an avid train-rider, I loved the setting--although I know it could have been even more confining, the passengers ought to have staggered a lot more (especially the women in heels), and there's never just one annoying kid running around underfoot on a train. I've always liked Marie Windsor, but have become a Charles McGraw fan all of a sudden

I had no idea that Mr. Osborne tapes more than 200 introductions and promos in about 2 days!! He always looks pleasant and gracious.

World Mental Health Day isn't until the 10th, but I had to take mine today. Today's entire scheduling seems to be a stylish combined college course in the psychology of fatalism and intermediate to advanced moral reasoning.

Hi. Since nobody's jumped in yet to tell you that the object in question is a skyscraper (upward view, a closer shot and darker than the similar one on the "coming up" screen), I'm starting to doubt my eyesight and assumptions. Maybe it's meant to be suggestive of several different things.

1. WHO: Barbara Stanwyck 2: WHY: Intelligent, courageous, completely likeable artist. 3: WHAT FAVORITE MOVIE: *The Lady Eve* 4: WHERE FIRST SEEN: On television--some Saturday afternoon in the '60s. 5: WHEN MADE: 1941 1. WHO: Ingrid Bergman 2. WHY: Gentle, brave, and warm. 3. WHAT FAVORITE MOVIE: *Casablanca* 4. WHERE FIRST SEEN: Oh, I'm sure I saw it on TV in the '60s, but I heard about it before that. It was my parents' movie, the first one they saw together when they were courting, shortly after it was released. 5. WHEN MADE: 1942 We can post more than one, right?

I wish I knew what was preventing you from accessing your WATCHES. I can get at mine (and the menu box for SEARCH) easily enough. I checked NO on the WATCH PREFERENCES earlier this month when people were having surplus email problems.