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Myrna Loy is such a _great_ choice! I just watched the Myrna Loy special (narrated by Kathleen Turner) and she was just such a great leading lady! :x

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > A knowledgeable friend of mine calls this one of the very best movies ever made. I like telling this story. It's not something I hear very often. And if your friend's nose doesn't start to grow when saying that, you know your friend really means it.

Trailer for *Silverado* http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=220601 Trailer for *Barbarosa* http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=220671

For anyone who may be interested in the original thread on *The Iron Horse*, it can be found here: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=108474

Unless I'm mistaken about someone, I believe it's at least 6 people from the TCM boards.

Did anyone else watch *The Big Heat* this morning? B-)

> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote} > What a cool poster! I'm sure the movie did not match this outrageous sexy vision. Truth be told, joe, I can't imagine any movie that would quite live up to that poster.

O'Hara, Carreen - Ann Rutherford in *Gone with the Wind*

*Big Heat, The*

Donna Reed

Michael, We should do as filmlover suggests, but let me just add that if you are considering upgrading to blu-ray anytime in the near future (1-2 years) you might want to hold on and wait until you can upgrade to the *Godfather* blu-ray set. The difference is totally amazing and you'll be glad you did.

About Eddy Duchin... *Musical style* Playing what later came to be called "sweet" music rather than jazz, Duchin's success opened a new gate for similarly styled, piano-playing sweet bandleaders such as Henry King, Joe Reichman, Nat Brandwynne, Dick Gasparre, Little Jack Little, and particularly Carmen Cavallaro (who acknowledged Duchin's influence) to compete with the large jazz bands for radio time and record sales. Duchin had no formal music training -- which was said to frustrate his musicians at times -- but he developed a style rooted in classical music that some believe the forerunner of Liberace's ornate, gaudy approach. Still, there were understatements in Duchin's music that were beyond Liberace's self-conscious glitz. By no means was Duchin a perfect pianist, but he was easy to listen to without being rote or entirely predictable. He was a pleasing stage presence whose favourite technique was to play his piano cross-handed, using only one finger on the lower hand, and he was respectful to his audiences and to his classical influences. *Notoriety* Duchin's 1938 release of the Louis Armstrong song "Ol' Man Mose" (Brunswick Records 8155) with vocal by Patricia Norman caused a minor scandal at the time with the lyric "bucket" being heard as "**** it." Some listeners analyze the recording and conclude that there is no vulgarism uttered, while others are convinced that Norman does use the f-word. The "scandalous" lyrics caused the record to zoom to #2 on the Billboard charts, resulting in sales of 170,000 copies when sales of 20,000 were considered a blockbuster. The song was banned after its release in Great Britain. The notorious number can be heard on a British novelty CD, "Beat the Band to the Bar." *Legacy* Columbia Pictures, having enjoyed success with musical biographies, mounted a feature film based on the bandleader's life. The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) is a fictionalized tearjerker, with Tyrone Power in the title role. The film did well in theaters, and was well enough known to be referenced in one of Columbia's Three Stooges shorts: the Stooges' spaceship is about to crash when Joe Besser yelps, "I don't want to die! I can't die! I haven't seen The Eddy Duchin Story yet!" An anthology of some of Duchin's best recordings, Dancing with Duchin, was released in 2002. Perhaps Duchin's strongest legacy, however, is his only child. Peter Duchin (b. 1937), was the product of his first marriage (to Marjorie Oelrichs) and 14 years old when his father died, but the boy began a musical education with his father and eventually studied formally at Yale. In time, he became an orchestra-leading pianist in his own right, as well as the author of a series of mystery novels, a presence in high society (into which his mother had been born), and a frequent entertainer (as well as musical director for U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration) at the White House and on television. In his 1996 memoir Ghost of a Chance, Peter Duchin wrote about the wholesale fictionalization in The Eddy Duchin Story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Duchin *Eddy Duchin Orchestra - Lovely To Look At (1935)*

Coming up this Sunday, Jan. 25, at 8am ET: *Show Boat* (1951) Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River." Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown Dir: George Sidney C-108 mins, TV-G

Frank Sinatra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38 That is easily the best scene in the whole movie, which, by the way, I've loved since the first time I watched it (before I had any notion of what a "mockumentary" was). It's a really great film - hope it will be out on blu-ray soon. B-) Hilarious! I don't even think I'd ever watch that one before. I love Beaker - and the Swedish Chef, and Animal of course. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxTpsIVzzo Always a great video. I can never get tired of listening to the Beatles. :x Another great song I might have never discovered were it not for this thread. Groovy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gzTn6f5a0s&feature=related Another great Muppets video - and one I didn't remember having ever watched. Steve Martin is hilarious! Cornel Wilde is great in this one! B-) Had no idea Steve Martin could play so well... And this was on the Letterman show?!? :0 Very classy. Very classy, indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP7AJiQM2RI I loved SM doing King Tut!!! He's just the best!!! :x So glad someone posted it. Hilarious! Bette sure seemed to have a sense of humour. I definitely want to watch *Baby Jane* again now. I never watched that show, but it still manages to bring back memories... ehm, from the 70s, I think. I found a couple of really groovy videos on the other site, they're quite cool, imho: Jefferson Airplane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7-JQiKhTxM The Grateful Dead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72QNW4nuVE Keep the cool tunes coming!! B-)

Angie, that is a wonderful list - I only wish I'd seen as many Coop movies as you have. Of the ones that I have seen, I really liked many of the ones you mentioned: Frances Fuller in *One Sunday Afternoon*, Jean Arthur in *Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* and Barbara Stanwyck in *Ball of Fire*. Also very fond, of course, of Merle Oberon in *The Cowboy and the Lady* and Audrey Hepburn in *Love in the Afternoon*. Terrific choices - I can't wait to see the other ones you mentioned!!

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > And will you be looking for A Little Romance with a French Bogart lover?) > That is one of the loveliest movies ever! Laurence Olivier was so charming in that one, and Broderick Crawford was his best sly self! I love that movie. :x

> {quote:title=ILoveRayMilland wrote:}{quote} > I would love to see "Dial M For Murder" or "To Catch A Thief". I'd like to see *Dial M for Murder*, too - especially if they showed it in 3-D B-)

Catherine Deneuve was in *Les Parapluies de Cherbourg* with _Nino Castelnuovo_

Debbie Reynolds :x

Kenyon, Daisy - Joan Crawford in *Daisy Kenyon*

*Zorba the Greek*

Mariangela Melato was in *Face of a Spy* with _Francisco Rabal_

Lucino Visconti directed *L'Innocente* with _Giancarlo Giannini_