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*Ginnyfan wrote:*
*I don't think you'd call either Ameche or Payne B list since they both got to work in Fox's bigger budget musical comedies.*
GF, at the minimum all of these actors were leading men. They all had long careers in movies, often as handsome foils for women stars. Of course being in Fox' biggger budget musical comedies may mean you're just the leading man in same, and possibly wasted if you actually have more to offer.
Ameche was by far the biggest movie star here. At the end of the 30s, and into the 40s, he was in the Top Twenty Boxoffice stars, per the exhibitors' polls. He had many strong roles, such as THE STORY OF ALEXANDE GRAHAM BELL, SWANEE RIVER, FOUR SONS. He probably does not rank higher now in people's perceptions, because he often lost the girl to Tyrone Power; this was 20th's version of MGM's Gable/Tracy type of two male stars competing fro the girl. In the 40s, he was good in the many musicals he was given, but of course, he was usually just doing leading man chores. The exception, as mentioned here, was THAT NIGHT IN RIO (itself a remake of 1935's FOLIES BERGERE). I believe that when his contrac was up at Fox in 1945, he chose to not re-sign, and established one of the first postwar personal production outfit. His career in films wound down in the late 40s, and he transitioned easily into TV in the 50s. But in the late 30s and throughoutthe 40s, he was a top ranked star.
John Payne probably was the next biggest star, at which he finally arrived in the early 40s, soon after he was signed to Fox. Another foil for the women musical stars, he started this role out in parts originally meant for Power with Ameche. The Ameche role usully went to Jack Oakie. The first of these was TIN PAN ALLEY. His biggest hit on his own was probably TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI. By 1943, he had joined the ranks of male stars joinig the service. After the war, his career at Fox never quite got back on track. Always popular, he continued to be cast in musicals, as well as comedies. For some reason, he wasn't given any roles in the noirish dramas Fox was then producing. Probably his most dramatic role then was in SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, a three hankie tearjerker. His contract was up in late 1947, and he chose not to re-sign. He carved out a decent career in medium budget dramas for the better part ofthe next two decades.
Robert Young was mostly a leading man, but did get some starring opportunities, usually in programmers. One of his bette-known starring parts was in THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME. He didn'f come close to being a top star, but his amiable presence ensured he was busy until he moved over to bigger success on the small screen.
Robert Cummings was another actor who was more leading man than star, and who later found more success in TV. So those that have been characterized as on the bland size here, seemed to do better on the smallscreen, than on the outsized movie screens. But movie careers lasting from the 3s to the 50s are nothing to sneer at.
So, to rank as proposed here (and I'm no good at absolutes), I'd say the following:
Ameche: A
Payne: A-
Young B+
Cummings B/B-
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K69...well I never said it looked all that great; in fact we were quite surprised at how poor it looked.
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Several weeks ago, I went three times to the Grauman's Chinese Theatre multiplex to see some of the movies playing in a Marilyn Monroe Film Festival. After one of the showings, for HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, when the movie finished, the dvd prompt buttons came out, My friend and I realized that they had projected the same manufactured dvd that I have in an MM boxset. A couple of days later, another friend and I did not see an evening screening of THE MISFITS, due to "projection problems" . . . don't know if they were using the same system as with the earlier movie.
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A rare showing of TWO FLAGS WEST will be on Fox Movie Channel this coming Monday, July 2, 2012 at 6:00 AM EST, and 3:00 AM PST, for those that might want to catch it.
This will be followed by SIEGE AT RED RIVER and SIERRA BARON.
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A rare showing of TWO FLAGS WEST will be on Fox Movie Channel this coming Monday, July 2, 2012 at 6:00 AM EST, and 3:00 AM PST, for those that might want to catch it.
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From the FMC Website:
Friday, June 29:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST
CHINA GIRL
While traveling in Burma, an adventurous cameraman (George Montgomery) falls for a beautiful Chinese girl (Gene Tierney) and they embark on a journey dodging spies.
*Cast:* Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Sig Ruman, Alan Baxter, Lynn Bari, Victor Mclaglen
*Director:* Henry Hathaway
1942
7:40 am EST, 4:40 AM PST:
DESERT FOX, THE
After his North African defeat, controversial officer Erwin Rommel (James Mason) returns to Germany and becomes involved with a traitorous plot.
*Cast:* James Mason, Everett Sloane, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler
*Director:* Henry Hathaway
1951
SATURDAY, JUNE 30:
4:55 am EST, 1:55 AM PST:
BORN TO BE BAD
When a benevolent wealthy couple adopts the son of a callous unwed mother, the mother connives to use the situation as her ticket to riches.
*Cast:* Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk, Marion Burns, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey, Russell Hopton, Harry Green
*Director:* Lowell Sherman
1934
8:00 am EST, 5 AM PST
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
A passionate but star-crossed romance develops between an American soldier and a Red Cross nurse during WWI. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
*Cast:* Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De sica, Oscar Homolka, Kurt Kaznar, Mercedes Mccambridge, Elaine Stritch, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hecht
*Director:* Charles Vidor
1957
SUNDAY, JULY 1:
4:45 am EST, 1:45 AM PST:
DAY MARS INVADED EARTH, THE
Martian invaders are in the process of making exact doubles of an entire town and then killing off the original models. Martians invade Earth, disguised as humans.
*Cast:* Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor
1962
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
LOVE NEST
A returning veteran (William Lundigan) and his wife (June Haver) buy an apartment building and complications result from the tenants including a voluptuous young woman (Marilyn Monroe) and a sneaky con man (Frank Fay).
*Cast:* Marilyn Monroe, June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Jack Parr
*Director:* Joseph Newman
1951
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, THE
A down-on-his-luck agent (Ewell) is hired to make a singer out of a tone-deaf moll (Mansfield).
*Cast:* Tom Ewell, Henry Jones, Jayne Mansfield, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Little richard, Julie London
*Director:* Frank Tashlin
1956
9:10 am EST, 6:10 AM PST:
BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA, THE
John Huston's romantic adventure tells the true story of Townsend Harris (Wayne), the first American consul of Japan, and his love affair with a geisha (Ando).
*Cast:* John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, So Yamamura, Norman Thomson
*Director:* John Huston
1958
11:00 am EST, 8 AM PST
AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, AN
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A man and a woman (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr) fall in love on an ocean voyage, part, and agree to meet six months later atop the Empire State Building in this haunting romance. Used years later, as a clever plot line in "Sleepless In Seattle".
*Cast:* Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Fortunio Bonanova, Hugo Friedhofer, Harry Warren
*Director:* Leo Mccarey
1957
MONDAY, JULY 2:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
TWO FLAGS WEST
The commander of a cavalry fort in the West during the Civil War is forced to accept a unit of Confederate prisoners who have volunteered to fight Indians under Union command as an alternative to rotting in POW camps.
*Cast:* Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde
*Director:* Robert Wise
1950
7:45 am EST, 4:45 AM PST:
SIEGE AT RED RIVER
A Confederate soldier enlists the North's help in order to retrieve a shipment of Gatling guns.
*Cast:* Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone
*Director:* Rudolph Mate
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9:25 am EST, 4:25 PST:
SIERRA BARON
A gunfighter hired to intimidate a rancher falls for the rancher's sister.
*Cast:* Brian Keith, Rita Gam, Rick Jason
*Director:* James B. Clark
1958
TUESDAY, JULY 3:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
AS YOUNG AS YOU FEELAfter being laid off due to his age, a man (Woolley) dyes his hair and poses as the president of the company in order to hire back his co-workers.
*Cast:* Marilyn Monroe, Jean Peters, Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne
*Director:* Harmon Jones
1951
THURSDAY, JULY 5:
6:00 am
THE CALL OF THE WILD
A loose adaptation of Jack London's Yukon adventure involving two con men, a woman, and a dog named Buck. Clark Gable is a tough guy looking for a gold mine who shows a gentle side as he crosses paths with Loretta Young and saves a sled dog.
*Cast:* Loretta Young, Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy, Katherine Demille, Sidney Toler
*Director:* William Wellman
1935
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
ANNE OF THE INDIES
A colorful, action-packed pirate adventure that tells the story of a girl (Jean Peters) who becomes a feared captain of the Spanish Main and a French officer (Louis Jourdan) who sets out to trap her.
*Cast:* Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan
*Director:* Jacques Tourneu
1951
9:00 am EST, 6 AM PST:
PRINCE OF FOXES
Filmed entirely on location in Italy, this Renaissance epic finds Tyrone Power as a good will ambassador at odds with his scheming land baron employer (Orson Welles).
*Cast:* Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Eduardo Ciannelli, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane, Katina Paxinou, Felix Aylmer
*Director:* Henry King
1949
11:00 am EST, 8 AM 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
Edited by: Arturo on Jun 27, 2012 8:33 PM
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While catching up on the Classic Film Criticism, I came across a discussion that made me think of starting this thread. There have been movies that have been released commercially under one title, then later under a different one. A good example of this is the 1951 comedy, YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW, which first came out as U.S.S. TEAKETTLE. Since it was doing poorly, 20th-Century Fox withdrew it from distribution, and shortly rereleased it as YIINN.
Sometimes movies would be given new titles when sold for TV broadcast, or when it had been remade, to differentiate it from the successor movie. An example of this, although for much more sinister reasons, and accompanying a heavy editing job, was 1943's wartime drama NORTH STAR. Upon it's release, it would receive a smear job, mainly by the Hearst chain, as Soviet propaganda, and of course later came under attack by HUAC. When the heavily edited version appeared on TV, it was under the title of ARMORED ATTACK.
Can anyone add other examples of these tactics? However, do not include titles that, for whatever myriad reasons, were changed when released in other (English-speaking) countries.
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I really enjoyed the film, especially the performances of top-billed Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins, considering I had already seen their work in the later noir-style thriller FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT. With this earlier effort, they are four years younger and *have yet to come into their own cinematically* (his Norman Bates was around the corner, and her Oscar for TWO WOMEN would occur shortly).
Topbilled, a minor quibble with your use of the word 'cinematically" in this context, in relation to Sofia Loren. Since cinematically has everything to do with visuals, I think a better word might be "histrionically", because IMHO she came into her own cinematically from the moment she can be recognized onscreen. At least by the time the non-italian speaking world were introduced to her, she was a visual feast for the eyes lol.
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Eleanor Parker is one of the essential stars of the 1940s and 50s IMHO. I love her in just about anything, from the grab-bag of assignments she was given at Warners in the 40s (culminating in CAGED of course), to the many big budget adventure films she did at MGM in the 50s.
Some of my absolute favorite performances of hers include DETECTIVE STORY and LIZZIE. Even in that maligned attempt at a screwball comedy revival, A MILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTY, has her positively glowing and desirable (even if the object of her affections is the underwhelming Fred MacMurray).
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HBO Signature
Thursday June 26, 5:10 AM EST, 2:10 AM PST:
ROXIE HART (1942):
Ginger Rogers, George Montgomery and Adolph Menjou in the first movie remake of that risqué 1920s stage satire of sensationalistic journalism, "Chicago". Enjoyable even without the songs.
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Snoods must've been around since at least the mid 19th century. Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara wore them; this is where their popularity in the early 1940s came from, I believe. Lana Turner wore them often whether filming or nightclubbing. Linda Darnell wore some supposedly homemade, handmade ones made of hemp (along with most of her fairly revealing wardrobe), while stranded on the ISLAND OF DESIRE, a 1952 movie that takes place during WW2.
Edited by: Arturo on Jun 25, 2012 8:43 PM
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Mitchum and Hayworth did work again in her last film in 1972 THE WRATH OF GOD a western that is shown from time to time on the ENCORE WESTERN CHANNEL.
Forgot about that one...guess i was just thinking about teamings during the classic period,,,,
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Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison: the sparring of minds and worldviews in the first version of the oft-told tale of ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM was quite enjoyable. Of course, Rex' first stint in Hollywood would forcibly end within a couple of years, and Dunne would retire from the screen within six.
Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison: probably one of the great unrequited love stories, THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, with both stars imparting just the right degree of chaste lovemaking, 40s style. They almost were costarred again (twice!), but Tierney turned down (or became pregnant or both) both THE FOXES OF HARROW and UNFAITHFULLY YOURS.
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Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn: They were great in THE AFRICAN QUEEN; and although Bogie's days were numbered, might've been another memorable pairing.
Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan: They even discussed doing another film, as their chemistry worked very well in one of the top hits of 1949, I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE
Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly were a great dance team in COVER GIRL, where some of the innovative Kelly choreography was first in evidence. What a great team they made.
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh: A match made in boxoffice heaven; if only a story as compelling, if not necessarily as epic, as GWTW could have brought them together.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman: Another reunion that fans longed for, as did WB. In the couple of years after CASABLANCA, several wartime melodramas were pencilled in for the pair, but none came to fruition.
Robert Mitchum and Linda Darnell: Mitchum worked well when partnered with "broads", as when he was teamed more than once with Jane Greer, Susan Hayward and Jane Russell. Darnell was a worthy partner of this ilk in SECOND CHANCE.
Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. Ditto . . . great chemistry in RIVER OF NO RETURN.
Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth. Ditto . . . great chemistry in FIRE DOWN BELOW.
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Let's see if can doctor my cutting and pasting from the FMC Website to make this more reader-friendly; I'll redo a couple of the upcoming days:
FRIDAY JUNE 22:
h5. 6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
h5. FOX LEGACY: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
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, Roddy Mcdowall, Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon, Anna Lee
*Director:* John Ford
h5. 1941
8:20 am EST, 5:20 AM PST:
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER \\A powerful drama about the lone survivor (Gary Merrill) of a plane crash who visits the families of several victims and tells them how their relatives had enriched his life. \\\*Cast:* Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Michael Rennie, Gary Merrill, Beatrice Straight, Keenan Wynn, Nunnally Johnson \\\*Director:* Jean Negulesco
1952
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10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST:
BACHELOR FLAT \\A college professor moves into his fiancee's apartment to get away from the female students who are pursuing him, but his plan to scare the girls away backfires when his fiancee's daughter arrives home incognito. \\\*Cast:* Terry-thomas, Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Celeste Holm, Howard Mcnear, John Williams \\\*Director:* Frank Tashlin
1962 \\\SATURDAY JUNE 23:
6:00 am EST, 3 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
8:00 am EST, 5 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
10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST
TWELVE HOURS TO KILL \\A young Greek national witnesses a murder and is ushered off into the relative "safety" of suburban obscurity by the police - unaware that he is being double-crossed by a crooked gendarme. \\\*Cast:* Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden, Grant Richards \\\*Director:* Edward L. Cahn \\1960 \\\SUNDAY, JUNE 24:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT \\A British reporter (Ray Millan) competes with an American reporter (Robert Cummings) for the story of a murdered political comenator and for the affections of his ice skater daughter (Sonja Henie). \\\*Cast:* Ray Milland, Sonja Henie, Robert Cummings, Leonid Kinsley, Maurice Moscovitch \\\*Director:* Irving Cummings
1939
7:30 am EST, 4:30 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
9:00 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, Louis Calhern, David Wayne, Walter Brennan, Jane Darwell, Paul Douglas \\\*Director:* Edmund Goulding
1952
MONDAY, JUNE 25: \\LATER PRESTON STURGES, AND RARE JOHN FORD DRAMA INCLUDED BELOW! \\
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND, THE \\Preston Sturges' comic farce about a Wild West female gunslinger (Grable) who accidentally shoots a judge and hides out as a schoolteacher in a small town. \\\*Cast:* Cesar Romero, Betty Grable, Rudy Vallee, Olga San juan, Sterling Holloway, Margaret Hamilton \\\*Director:* Preston Sturges
1949
7:20 am EST, 4:20 AM PST:
PILGRIMAGE \\A mother attempts to come to terms with the death of her son and the family he left behind. \\\*Cast:* Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Marian Nixon \\\*Director:* John Ford \\1933 \
Edited by: Arturo on Jun 21, 2012 6:55 PM
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*Grant and Power were also flexible screen personalty/actors who seemed quite comfortable in a number of different genres.*
Most of the major, and the not so major (or not considered such these days), stars from the era of the Hollywood studio system were expected to be versatile: besides those mentioned, the list of versatile action stars could include Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Warner Baxter, Gary Cooper, Joel McCrea, etc. Even Cagney and Bogart were assigned roles that ran the gamut of genres, although not always successfully.
*Grant, in my opinion, is brilliant as a comedy/action star in Gunga Din. But that is one film only, hardly comparing to the slew of adventures Flynn was in. Nor did Grant play in westerns, of course (that flexible, he wasn't). As for war dramas, he only made one (Destination Tokyo). Again, this hardly makes him serious competition for Flynn in the action genre.*
I think Flynn's versatility is exemplified by his success in numerous westerns. With his accent, it would seem that it wouldn't be an ideal fit, like Grant. However, after explaining the accent in the first one or two, none of the subsequent westerns with Flynn mentioned it.
*Power, while very good in swashbuckling adventures (his Zorro performance is a pure joy), made only two westerns and one war drama. In my opionion he's okay he those efforts, but hardly makes the impression that Flynn did in They Died With Their Boots On or Objective Burma.*
Broadly speaking, Power made more than two westerns:
JESSE JAMES
BRIGHAM YOUNG (-FRONTIERSMAN)
RAWHIDE
PONY SOLDIER
And, the action packed KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES and UNTAMED are westerns in all but location only.
And broadly speaking, he made more than one war drama:
A YANK IN THE R.A.F.
THIS ABOVE ALL
CRASH DIVE
AMERICAN GUERRILLA IN THE PHILLIPINES
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*I don't think he ever gave an Oscar-worthy performance.*
Well, I think he could very well have been nominated for THE SUN ALSO RISES, TOO MUCH TOO SOON or THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN. Earlier, I think he could gotten a nomination for GENTLEMAN JIM, if the studio hadn't been campaigning so hard for Cagney and Bogart that year. Or even on loan for THAT FORSYTHE WOMAN. But at least in the earlier films, his image, and a certain pending trial, kept him from consideration. In the later ones, it was just assumed he was playing himself.
I think one of the greatest tributes to his acting was paid to him, after the fact, by Bette Davis in one of her memoirs. During the filming of ELIZABETH AND ESSEX, she had been upset that he had been cast, having preferred Olivier. She thought that Flynn was all image and no substance. But, she stated that she saw the film many years later, and realized he was just right for the part, and that she had been wrong to denigrate his talent.
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*So glad TCM isn't showing Robin Hood and the Sea Hawk. They're instead showing his lesser known films. Ones I haven't seen TCM show before.*
Well, among the "lesser known films" showing are CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, DAWN PATROL, SANTA FE TRAIL and NORTHERN PURSUIT, all considered classics of their respective genres, and shown by TCM fairly frequently.
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RV, as a rule I only post the 20th Century Fox movies, from the classic Hollywood period, that I become aware of to be playing on other channels. I figure that viewers here have access to the TCM schedule, and can decide on what to watch or record, whether they know it's from that studio or not. Generally speaking though, TCM has been showing many more Fox films in the last 3-4 years than previously.
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*I'm glad you mentioned SEPARATE TABLES. Kerr was great, but I believe she was nominated. Rita Hayworth was also great (her best performnace ever, IMHO), and was NOT nominated.*
I agree that Rita should have been nominated along with Kerr. I also think Rita should have been nominated for the following year's THE STORY ON PAGE ONE, MY favorite for her best perfomance.
And how about Gloria Grahame for IN A LONELY PLACE, and Bogie for his best IMHO.
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Re: the post about Monroe and Crawford, if this happened in 1954, then that was after Crawford publicly censured MM for wearing a form fitting, low cut gown. She wore this to the 1953 Photoplay Awards show, where she won Female Personality of the Year (or somesuch title). I believe the show was in February 1953 or thereabouts.
And as someone mentioned, that if Marilyn did make up stories for her shrink, that she made this one up to sort of get back at Joan.
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oops . . . I thought I had posted the FMC schedule for a few days...guess not. Will try again . . . hope nobody missed out . . . but this morning were a some good dramas: WHERE THE SIDWALK ENDS, HOUSE OF STRANGERS and THE HUSTLER.
TUESDAY, JUNE19:
An all-star omnibus, and a couple of dramas about advertising:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
* h5. TALES OF MANHATTAN \ \ An all-star cast appears in a series of vignettes woven together to tell the story of a formal tailcoat that is passed to a collection of owners - always with a story of comedy, tragedy or love. W.C. Fields Extended version segment. \ \ \ *Cast:* Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward g. Robinson, Cesar Romero, Margaret Dumont, W.c. Fields, Victor Francen, Elsa Lanchester, Bill bojangles Robinson, Eddie rochester Anderson, Ethel Waters, Eugene Pallette, Thomas Mitchell, James Gleason, Gail Patrick, Roland Young, George Sanders \ \ \ *Director:* Julien Duvivier
* h5. 1942
=8:15 8:15 am EST, 5:15 am PST:MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT, THE
* Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, a Madison Avenue executive (Gregory Peck) on the fast track tries to further his career while not sacrificing his home life. The film explores the American suburban corporate culture emerging after WWII. \ \ \ *Cast:* Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan, Lee j. Cobb, Ann Harding, Keenan Wynn, Nunnally Johnson, Gigi Perreau, Gene Lockhart, Deforest Kelley
* h5. 1955
* h5. 11:00 am EST, 8 AM PST:
* h5. MADISON AVENUE \ \ The ruthless world of the advertising business is examined in this film about an executive (Dana Andrews) who sacrifices friends and the love of his girlfriend (Jeannie Crain) to gain power and influence. \ \ \ *Cast:* Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Eddie Albert, Eleanor Parker \ \ \ *Director:* H. Bruce Humberstone
** h5. 9:01 am EST, 6:01 AM PST
** h5. TENDER IS THE NIGHT \ \ An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story of a wealthy American (Jason Robards) living among the jet set in Europe between the wars. \ \ \ *Cast:* Jason jr. Robards, Jennifer Jones, Jill St. john, Tom Ewell, Joan Fontaine \ \ \ *Director:* Henry King
*** h5. 11:15 am EST, 8:15 AM PST:
*** h5. FLAMING STAR \ \ Elvis Presley turns in a notable dramatic performance as a half-breed son of a white settler (John McIntire) and a Kiowa woman (Dolores Del Rio) who must choose sides when racial tension erupt in frontier Texas. \ \ \ *Cast:* Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Dolores Del rio, Steve Forrest, John Mcintire \ \ \ *Director:* Don Siegel \ \ 1960 \ \ \ FRIDAY JUNE 22:
*** h5. 6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST: \
http://www.foxmoviechannel.com/showtimes.php?height=235&width=305&traffic=09FL031|Future Show Times
http://www.foxmoviechannel.com/showreminder.php?height=200&width=370&showid=311|Send Show Time Reminder*** h5. FOX LEGACY: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY \ \ 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, Roddy Mcdowall, Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon, Anna Lee \ \ \ *Director:* John Ford
*** h5. 1941
**** h5. 8:20 am EST, 5:20 PST:
**** h5. PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER \ \ A powerful drama about the lone survivor (Gary Merrill) of a plane crash who visits the families of several victims and tells them how their relatives had enriched his life. \ \ \ *Cast:* Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Michael Rennie, Gary Merrill, Beatrice Straight, Keenan Wynn, Nunnally Johnson \ \ \ *Director:* Jean Negulesco
**** h5. 1952
******* h5. 10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST:**** h5. BACHELOR FLAT \ \ A college professor moves into his fiancee's apartment to get away from the female students who are pursuing him, but his plan to scare the girls away backfires when his fiancee's daughter arrives home incognito. \ \ \ *Cast:* Terry-thomas, Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Celeste Holm, Howard Mcnear, John Williams \ \ \ *Director:* Frank Tashlin
**** h5. 1962 \ \ SATURDAY, JUNE 23:
**** TWO NOIR CLASSICS!***** h5. 6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
***** h5. 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
***** h5. 1945
********* h5. 8:00 am EST, 5 AM PST:***** h5. 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
***** h5. 1947
********* h5. 10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST***** h5. TWELVE HOURS TO KILL \ \ A young Greek national witnesses a murder and is ushered off into the relative "safety" of suburban obscurity by the police - unaware that he is being double-crossed by a crooked gendarme. \ \ \ *Cast:* Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden, Grant Richards \ \ \ *Director:* Edward L. Cahn
1960
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***** h5. 6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
***** h5. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT \ \ A British reporter (Ray Millan) competes with an American reporter (Robert Cummings) for the story of a murdered political comenator and for the affections of his ice skater daughter (Sonja Henie). \ \ \ *Cast:* Ray Milland, Sonja Henie, Robert Cummings, Leonid Kinsley, Maurice Moscovitch \ \ \ *Director:* Irving Cummings
***** h5. 1939
****** h5. 7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST****** h5. 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
****** h5. 1944
*********** h5. 9:00 am EST, 6 AM PST:****** h5. 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
****** h5. 1952
*** h5. 6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST*** h5. HELLO FRISCO, HELLO \ \ A Barbary Coast singer (Faye) and her entrepreneur husband try to strike it big in San Francisco. \ \ \ *Cast:* Alice Faye, John Payne, Fortunio Bonanova, Laird Cregar, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari \ \ \ *Director:* H. Bruce Humberstone
*** h5. 1943
***** h5. 7:45 am EST, 4:45 AM PST*** h5. BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND, THE \ \ Preston Sturges' comic farce about a Wild West female gunslinger (Grable) who accidentally shoots a judge and hides out as a schoolteacher in a small town. \ \ \ *Cast:* Cesar Romero, Betty Grable, Rudy Vallee, Olga San juan, Sterling Holloway, Margaret Hamilton \ \ \ *Director:* Preston Sturges
*** h5. 1949
***** h5. 9:15 am EST, 6:15 AM PST:*** h5. 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
*** h5. 1951
**** h5. 6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:** h5. BORN TO BE BAD \ \ When a benevolent wealthy couple adopts the son of a callous unwed mother, the mother connives to use the situation as her ticket to riches. \ \ \ *Cast:* Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk, Marion Burns, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey, Russell Hopton, Harry Green \ \ \ *Director:* Lowell Sherman
** h5. 1934
** h5. 7:05 am EST, 4:05 PST:** h5. SOUND AND THE FURY, THE \ \ William Faulkner's steamy drama of a young girl (Joanne Woodward) seeking independence in a strict Southern family with issues of alcoholism, illegitimacy and ****. \ \ \ *Cast:* Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters, Jack Warden, John Beal, Albert Dekker \ \ \ *Director:* Martin Ritt
** h5. 1959
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My dad died when I was seven years old, so didn't have much opportunity to observe the type of movies he liked. I do know that he LOVED "DAMN YANKEES' . . . because he was a baseball nut, and had played in a minor league team in Mexico; or maybe he just liked Gwen Verdon. Everytime DAMN YANKEES would show on The Million Dollar Movie (or whichever program would show the same movie every night for a week), we would see it every night ( I used to be afraid of the "devil" RAy Walston). Both my oldest brother and I own that movie because of this exposure to it. We also used to see nightly LAND THAT TIME FORGOT or a similar title, about dinosaurs, but that might;ve been for the benefit of us kids.
He used to jealous of my mom's idol, Mexican singer/actor Pedro Infante, and belittle his manhood.
Edited by: Arturo on Jun 16, 2012 1:52 PM
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There are so many that should have been nominated, at the least, and winning perhaps. Some of my overlooked favorites (hope they havent been mentioned yet):
Joan Grawford in both STRANGE CARGO and A WOMAN'S FACE. Both these films helped her maintain her renewed career momentum she achieved by playing the villain in THE WOMEN. However, by the early 40s, her stock had fallen with the MGM bigwigs, and she was appalled as she saw her hope-for queen of the lot position go to Greer Garson, once both Garbo and Shearer eased out of moviemaking. Garson got all the studio's big promotional push for Oscar, and the prood is in the pudding.
Gene Tierney in THE RAZOR'S EDGE. She is just as good as in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, and should have joined th list of nominees from that film. On the other hand, Ty Power's a-ha moment is poorly conveyed, probably because of the muddled writing in terms of the film's philosophy, so I don't think he was overlooked.
However, I think Tyrone Power should have been nominated for THIS ABOVE ALL and NIGHTMARE ALLEY. With the latter, at the least, studio head Zanuck didn't believe in the film, and the double whammy of hundreds of fan letters prostesting their idol's seedy character, and the films boxoffice failure, made sure no oscar campaign was put in place for a Power nomiation.
Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward and Richard Conte in HOUSE OF STRANGERS. All give excellent performances IMHO, in a taut melodrama that was curtailed in its showings (think the Giannini family of B of A applied pressure when they saw too many parallels with their rise in the banking world).
Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Paul Douglas and Thelma Ritter in A LETTER TO THREE WIVES. Standouts in a generally outstanding cast . . . the studio probably didn't know who to focus on and push, although Darnell, as the studio's contract star, seems the logical one, in which case whether to push her for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress would have been a concern.
Linda Darnell, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier in NO WAY OUT. Linda should have been nominated for Best Actress, although 1950 was one very competitive year in that category. Widmark plays his most chilling hood since achieving stardom, and Poitier is excellent in his film debut. Too bad it came out the same year as ALL ABOUT EVE, and the studio chose to focus on the other Mankiewicz release.
Loretta Young in CAUSE FOR ALARM. Probably her best performance IMHO, in a taut little thriller, which explains why it wasn't even considered.
Marilyn Monroe in BUS STOP and THE MISFITS. It is mystifying to me that she was not even nominated for BUS STOP. Butthe studio's head was probably turned by the coup of getting Ingrid Bergman for ANASTASIA that all their big bucks went into that campaign. And in THE MISFITS, Marilyn had the bad press and the Gable tragedy that probably kept her from even being considered.
"Sullivan's Travels" (1941)
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*This same thing happened again in 1982, having too many good movies being over shadowed by a great film. "ET The Extra-Terrestrial" took the award spotlight away from other good movies like "Bladerunner", "First Blood" and "Star Trek II".*
*I wish ET was released in 1983 that was a more duller year (quality wise) and give the other films a better chance at the awards.*
*"Citizen Kane" was the "ET" for 1941.*
Actually, CITIZEN KANE did not take "the award spotight from other good movies...". It was NOT the ET for 1941, Oscar-wise.