Arturo
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From the TCM Website:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
THE BLUE BIRD
Two children journey to find the mythical bluebird of happiness.
Cast: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Eddie Collins, Gale Sondergaard
Director: Walter Lang
1940
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
LET'S MAKE IT LEGAL
After twenty years of marriage Miriam (Claudette Colbert) is fed up with Hugh's (MacDonald Carey) gambling and foolishness and their divorce is imminent, but when her rich old flame shows up, Hugh attempts to win her love back.
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Robert Wagner, Marilyn Monroe
Director: Richard Sale
1951
9 am EST, 6 AM PST:
WE'RE NOT MARRIED
Due to a technical glitch, five couples discover that they are not legally married.
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Ginger Rogers, Mitzi Gaynor, James Gleason, Paul Stewart, Eve Arden, Fred Allen, Eddie Bracken, Zsa zsa Gabor, David Wayne, Walter Brennan, Jane Darwell, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern
Director: Edmund Goulding
1952
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Encore Westerns:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8:
8:35 am REPEATED 9:50 pm:
OKLAHOMA:
Big Budget version of the Rogers & Hammerstein musical. with
Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones and a large cast.
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*I'm not sure if it was the case then, but for years a film had to play in both LA and NYC by December 31 in order to qualify for the Oscars given out for that year.*
I believe that they did have to play in both cities for ONE WEEK to qualify.
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From the FMC Website:
Sunday, October 6:
6:00 am est, 3 AM PST:
RIO CONCHOS
Wild West adventure of a power struggle between a sadistic Indian-killer (Richard Boone), a Mexican bandit (Tony Franciosa), an Army captain (Stuart Whitman) and a demented Confederate general (Edmund O'Brien) who all fight for a shipment of arms.
Cast: Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Jim Brown, Wende Wagner, James Brown, Jerry Goldsmith
Director: Gordon Douglas
1964
7:45 am EST, 4:45 AM PST:
HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN
A fictionalized portrait of Ernest Hemingway's youth, based on his semi-autobiographical short stories.
Cast: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, Dan Dailey, Arthur Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Newman, Susan Strasberg, Whit Bissell, Jessica Tandy, Simon Oakland, Sharon Tate, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Waxman, Eli Wallach
Director: Martin Ritt
1962
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ginnyfan wrote:
Parent's Magazine named Virginia the Outstanding Juvenile Star for 1940. Mickey Rooney, the 1939 winner, presented the award to her on the set of one of his movies.
MGM had to have shot footage of this presentation for publicity purposes. I wonder if it survives and, if so, where?
*I don't know for sure of course, but I think it would be more likely they'd have shot publicity stills of the event, rather than film footage.*
*BUT - whatever, I hope we find it some day!*
Seems like this is the sort of event where they would have filmed it, for incorporation into one of the newsreels they did.
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*Allan Dwan: over 130 feature films from 1914 to 1961 (most were low-budget, though he did occasionally get to do a medium-budget picture).*
And on at least one occasion, he did a big budget epic: 1938's SUEZ, with Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, and Power's soon to be bride, Annabella, who he met on the set of SUEZ.
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Tom, thanks for another heartfelt and informative reprt on a great figure from classic Hollywood, on a par with others you did for Raoul Walsh and Errol Flynn. Like Walsh, Curtiz was one of the all-time great directors to have come out of Hollywood, with a long and varied career. But just one oversight....
*It was a studio known for its melodramas and costume adventures, and that was Michael Curtiz.*
You're forgetting their gangster films/crime melodramas that helped codify the studio's image and required the male stars they groomed.
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Thank you Addison. Actually, I have to revisit the song, as I think I left out a few lines from the first stanza.
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*while 6 years younger sister Joan started off in the mid 30s*
This is incorrect. Joan started in leading roles in movies in 1929 as the ingenue in BULLDOG DRUMMOND (earlier she had done a few bits goingback to 1915).
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From the FMC website:
5:30 am EST, 2:30 AM PS:
FOX LEGACY: THE TYRONE POWER STORY
Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, introduces landmark 20th Century Fox films and provides insight about how these notable films were created.
Cast: Tom Rothman
2010
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
THE BLACK SWAN
A pirate (Tyrone Power) on the Spanish Main finds time to woo a beautiful maiden (O'Hara) between pillaging galleons, engaging swordplay and ending the career of Redbeard (Sanders).
Cast: Tyrone Power, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Anthony Quinn, Fortunio Bonanova
Director: Henry King
1942
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Can we include George Sanders who committed suicide, stating he was bored with life?
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I don't really remember how the next lines went, but here goes....
Her name was Rita, Rita Cansino
Agua Caliente was where she danced
Rumored father was her romance
She was young and determined
So with movies she took a chance
At Fox Studios, not yet with Zanuck
She was the hottest dancer north of Tijuana
Yeah, Fox studios, Sheehan not Zanuck
Her dancing with passion, hoping it becomes fashion
At Fox Studios....on the soundstage
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I bought and read this awhile back, around the time TCM's monthly highlights was promoting it. I found it well written, but I don't remember if there was anything specifically new in it (I have since read a dozen or more books on the classic movie era, and my memory isn't what it once was. I will skim through it this weekend, and see it there is anything worth sharing.
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From the Fox Movie Channel Website:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
FOLLOW THE SUN
Golf champion Ben Hogan (Ford) fights to walk again after an accident.
*Cast:* Anne Baxter, Glenn Ford, Larry Keating, Sam Snead
*Director:* Sidney Lanfield
1951
7:35 am EST, 4:35 PST:
VIVA ZAPATA
A biographical account of Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican peasant who became president after rallying his people against a dictator.
*Cast:* Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
*Director:* Elia Kazan
1952
9:30 am EST, 6:30 AM PST:
ANASTASIA
Ingrid Bergman delivers an Academy Award winning performance as the troubled Anastasia, an amnesia victim who claims to be the rightful heir of Czar Nicholas.'
*Cast:* Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt
*Director:* Anatole Litvak
1956
11:20 am EST, 8:20 AM SPT:
CHE!
Fidel Castro (Jack Palance) overtakes the Bastista regime with the assistance of Argentine doctor Che Guevera (Omar Sharif).
*Cast:* Robert Loggia, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Woody Strod
*Director:* Richard Fleischer
1969
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE
Detective Michael Shayne (Nolan) poses as the husband of millionaire's daughter (Weaver) to smoke out the man who is trying to kill them.
*Cast:* Henry Wilcoxon, Helene Reynolds, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver
*Director:* Herbert I. Leeds
1942
8:30 am EST, 5:30 AM PST:
THE FLIM-FLAM MAN
A crafty Southern con man (Scott) convinces a young army deserter (Sarrazin) to join his capers, but begins to have second thoughts on his lifestyle when he falls for a young girl (Lyon).
*Cast:* George c. Scott, Slim Pickens, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morga
*Director:* Irvin Kershner
1967
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5:
4:45 AM EST, 1:45 AM PST:
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE
Detective Michael Shayne (Nolan) poses as the husband of millionaire's daughter (Weaver) to smoke out the man who is trying to kill them.
*Cast:* Henry Wilcoxon, Helene Reynolds, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver
*Director:* Herbert I. Leeds
1942
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I see the error on the Directv guide. What they do is list THE SHOW OFF as being about 3 hours long, instead of 77 minutes. The TCM monthly guide shows THE MURDER MAN showing in-between THE SHOW OFF and WHIPSHAW.
*So, I would say this is a Directv problem*
I've noticed that Directv has done this several times in the last month or so, when a movies seems to be in an impossibly long time slot. Cross-checking with the TCM Monthly schedule usually clears it up, as there is inevitably another movie afterwards that Directv doesn't list.
Edited by: Arturo on Oct 1, 2012 7:48 PM -
*sp- she was billed as Rita CANSINO (and she was quite high in the billing too.)*
I believe she was still billed as Margarita Cansino then, with only her middle name Carmen missing from her given name.
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*The only film in his career that I know of which Raoul Walsh would later partially remake was Objective Burma!*
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that two of his early 40s back to back hits at Warners he later remade back to back (or close to it) in the late 40s:
HIGH SIERRA - COLORADO TERRITORY
THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE - ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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While I enjoy Walsh's immensely fertile stay WB, there is so much more when it comes to his movies than just this period, roughly encompassed by the 40s, before and after. Suffice to say right now that an enjoyable early 30s film he directed, and starring Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett, Fox films' ME AND MY GAL, will kick off this month's star tribute tonight on TCM at 8 pm EST, 5 pm PST.
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With the rejoiner that I don't normally comment on relatively recent movies on the TCM boards, I will mention one poltical satire from the 30s I really enjoy: THANKS A MILLION. Probably Dick Powell's best early role IMHO, plus Ann Dvorak and Fred Allen. Great fun, and it would be nice if FMC would show it this season, or at least lease it to TCM.
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Well if I could hve a house just like one of those in the movies, one of those huge homes on New York's Park Avenue, so often featured in 1930s movies (as escapism for depression audiences I guess) like MY MAN GODFREY, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, HOLIDAY (1938), etc. Especially the last, with its two-story columns and indoor elevator and upstairs (3rd floor?) living rooms....wowee....
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From the FMC Website:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 29:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
MY WIFE'S BEST FRIEND
After a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all kinds of ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.
*Cast:* Anne Baxter, Macdonald Carey, Catherine Mcleod, Max Showalter
*Director:* Richard Sale
1952
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
A ROYAL SCANDAL
Russia's Catherine the Great falls in love with a handsome young army officer who is really a revolutionary plotting her downfall.
*Cast:* Anne Baxter, Charles Coburn, Vincent Price, Tallulah Bankhead, William Eythe
*Director:* Otto Preminger
1945
9:05 am EST, 6:05 AM PST:
THE MUDLARK
Offbeat drama of reclusive Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne and her encounter with a "mudlark" (Andrew Ray), an English steet child who breaks into Windsor Castle just to catch a glimpse of her.
*Cast:* Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Finlay Currie, Andrew Ray
*Director:* Jean Negulesco
1950
11:00 am EST, 8 AM PST:
ANASTASIA
Ingrid Bergman delivers an Academy Award winning performance as the troubled Anastasia, an amnesia victim who claims to be the rightful heir of Czar Nicholas.
*Cast:* Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hun
*Director:* Anatole Litvak
1956
SUNDAY, SEPT. 30:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
PIN-UP GIRL
In order to be closer to a sailor (Harvey) she met at a USO canteen, a secretary (Grable) pretends to be a Broadway star.
*Cast:* Betty Grable, Eugene Pallette, Marcel Dalio, Martha Raye, John Harvey, Joe e. Brown
*Director:* H. Bruce Humberstone
1944
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
GOLDEN GIRL
Western biography of Lotta Crabtree (Gaynor), who after the Civil War was determined to become a musical star.
*Cast:* Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Una Merkel, Dennis Day, James Barton
*Director:* Lloyd Bacon
9:25 am EST, 6:25 PST:
LOVE ME TENDER
Elvis Presley makes his film debut in this western drama that takes place in Texas after the Civil War and follows three confederate soldier brothers
*Cast:* Elvis Presley, Debra Paget, Richard Egan, Robert Middleton, Mildred Dunnock, William Campbell
1956
MONDAY, OCT. 1:
4:40 am EST, 1:40 AM PST:
JITTERBUGS
Laurel and Hardy don a variety of identities to help a young girl who has been swindled by a pair of crooks.
*Cast:* Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fowley, Vivian Blaine, Lee Patrick, Stan Laurel
*Director:* Malcolm St. Clair
1943
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
BLUE, WHITE AND PERFECT. Shayne tries to quit sleuthing for his fianc�s sake, but soon ends up investigating stolen diamonds.
*Cast:* Lloyd Nolan, Mary beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves
*Director:* Herbert I. Leeds
1941
9:00 am EST, 6 AM PST:
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
A jealous woman (Gene Tierney) will stop at nothing to keep the man (Cornel Wilde) she loves.
*Cast:* Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Jeanne Crain
*Director:* John M. Stahl
1945
11:00 am EST, 8 AM PST:
KISS OF DEATH
A small-time crook who turns state's evidence (Victor Mature) is tormented by a psychopathic accomplice (Richard Widmark) in this powerful film noir shot entirely in New York City. Notable as Widmark's film debut and Best Supporting Actor nomination.
*Cast:* Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Karl Malden, Mildred Dunnock, Millard Mitchell, Taylor Holmes
*Director:* Henry Hathaway
1947
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*I really enjoy the between-the-films featurette that TCM shows on occasion which uses an alternate scene from Showboat where Ava does Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man in her real voice (which- again- wasn't used for that film either)*
*I recall her being really terrific.*
Wow, I'd like to see that featurette, better yet, record it. Ava was REALLY upset that for the release print of SHOW BOAT they dubbed in another voice over hers, supposedly to match Kathryn Grayson's more operattish vocals. She felt she had really tried as Julie, and stated something to the effect of, "That's Metro; they'll louse you up every time".
Being dubbed in this was the main reason Ava turned down LOVE ME OR LEAVE a few years later. She didn't want to go through that again.... "They have me mouthing the words like I was in a goldfish bowl!" she supposedly screamed. Later, when she and George Cukor saw a screening of LMOLM (he had also turned it down), they agreed that that they made a mistake in refusing to do it.
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Sorry about the late notice....
MOREMAX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26;
3:00 AM:
THE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958): Steamy goings-on in the deep South, with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Burl Ives. Anthony Franciosa. MOST LIKELY IN PAN AND SCAN.
5:00 AM:
THE TALL MEN (1955): Epic western with Clark Gable and Robert Ryan vying for Jane Russell, also with Cameron Mitchell. MAY BE SHOWN IN PAN & SCAN.
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Sorry about the late notice...
MoreMax, Wednesday, September 26:
3:00 AM:
THE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958): Steamy goings-on in the deep South, with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Burl Ives. Anthony Franciosa. MOST LIKELY IN PAN AND SCAN.
5:00 AM:
THE TALL MEN (1955): Epic western with Clark Gable and Robert Ryan vying for Jane Russell, also with Cameron Mitchell. MAY BE SHOWN IN PAN & SCAN.
Movies starting with the name "Johnny"
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*Stargazing, You mention why was the name "Johnny" such a popular trend? Could it be because the name seems to roll of your tongue more easily.....'Franky O'Clock' or 'Johnny O'Clock'?, "Franky Angel' or 'Johnny Angel'?*
Then there's FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (not sure whice names are -Y or -IE)