Arturo
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I enjoy Day's 50s musicals, her 60s comedies not as much. My favorite films of hers from the 50s include two dramas at WB at the beginning of the decade: YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN and STORM WARNING, although she is not the main focus in either. Her best drama ever, and my favorite Day movie is LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, what a great perrmance of a great role. My next favorite of all is the musical PAJAMA GAME, one of the best adaptations of a 50s Broadway musical IMHO.
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sorry about the late post but was having computer trouble, tomorrow earlyon fmc.
at four forty five am est, one forty five am,pst...in the meantime darling. . . with jeanne crain in her first starring role. . . with zanuck allowing otto preminger back to direct a lowbudget entry . . . of course all would c,hange shortly with laura.
six am est, three am pst. . . how green was my valley. . . heartwarming john ford classic about welsh miners. . . with maureen ohara, walter pidgeon, donald crisp, anna lee, sara allgood and of course roddy mcdowell in his starmaking turn.
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Upcoming movies on premium channels:
MoreMax Sunday 5:25 AM EST, 2:25 AM EST:
DEADLINE USA (1952): drama with Humphrey Bogart as a newspaper editor and Etherl Barrymore as the paper's owner being pressured to kill that investigative story.
HBO Signature Sunday 6:15 AM EST, 3:15 AM PST:
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.
Encore Love Sunday 1:50 PM EST, 10:50 AM PST:
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957): Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr have a fateful rendezvous at the top of the Empire State Building. MOST LIKELY PAN AND SCAN
Encore Love Monday 2:30 AM EST, Sunday 11:30 PM PST:
OKLAHOMA (1955): Gordon MacRae and Shirley Joes in the Long running Broadway musical translated to the big screen, although not so big a screen as it's MOST LIKELY IN PAN AND SCAN.
MoreMax Monday 4 AM EST, 1 AM PST:
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (1944): Gregory Peck as a missionary priest in war-torn China, with Rosa Stradner as a stern nun he spars with.
Encore Love Monday 5:20 AM EST, 2:20 AM PST.
FROM THE TERRACE (1960): Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Myrna Loy star in this glossy soapy drama from a best selling novel. MOST LIKELY IN PAN AND SCAN.
HBO Signature Monday 7:55 AM EST, 4:55 AM PST,
13 RUE MADELEINE (1946): WW2 intrigue with spies in Nazi-occupied France. With James Cagney, Annabella and Rchard Conte.
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Tomorrow morning in the AM on FMC:
6 AM EST, 3 AM PST:
BANJO ON MY KNEE (1936): Life and love among river folk along the Mississippi. Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea in roles originally meant for Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda. Babs even sings and dances!
7;36 EST, 4:36 PST (honest!):
CLUNY BROWN (1946): Late period Lubitsch touch with plumber Jennifer Jones shocking upper and petty bourgeous Brits, With Charles Boyer, Helen Walker, Peter Lawford, and hilarious turns by Richard Haydn and especially Una O'Connor.
On Sunday morning on FMC:
6 AM EST, 3 AM PST:
HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943): More late period Lubisch. Don Ameche as a rogue recounting his life to the devil in Laird Cregar. With Gene Tierney as the love of his life, Marjorie Main andEugene Pallette as her parents that speak to each other by way of servants.
HEAVEN CAN WAIT:
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Sorry, I got confused. CALL NORTHSIDE 777 is not on tomorrow on FMC, but on Friday.
GARDEN OF EVIL(1954). This Cinemacope western has Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark helping Susan Hayward find her husband in México. This is showing tomorrow on FMC 11 AM EST, 8 AM PST. along with the previously mentioned RAMONA (6 AM EST, 3 AM PST).
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 is on Friday at 9 AM EST, 6 AM PST.
Also on FMC Friday morning:
BLACK SHEEP (1935); Drama aboard a cruise ship with Claire Trevor and Edmund Lowe. 6 AM EST, 3 AM PST.
CHAD HANNA (1940): Colorful (and in Technicolor) yarn about a traveling circus in 1840s upstate New York. With Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Dorothy Lamour. 7:30 AM EST, 4:30 AM PST.
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Tomorrow in the AM on Fox Movie Channel:
RAMONA (1936): 20th's first three-strip Technicolor feature, with the perennial chestnut of race and class in Mexican California. It works better if you can believe Don Ameche as Native American, and Loretta Young and Kent Taylor as Californios. Loretta looks beautiful though, with that complexion and despite the black wig.
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948): Reporter James Stewart solving a cold case murder. Also with Richard Conte and Colleen Gray, and the usual assorted characters to be found in a semi-documentary crime drama (if not quite a noir).
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Sometimes the HBO/Cinemax channels feature classic movies. I just started a thread on Hot Topics. T96his is what I posted:
On HBO Signature:
Early tomorrow morning - 3:50 AM (PACIFIC TIME) 6:50 AM (EASTERN)
REMEMBER THE DAY (1941) Excellent account of scoolteachers Claudette Colbert and John Payne early in the last century.
Early Friday morning - 3:00 AM (PACIFIC) 6:00 AM (EASTERN)
DREAMBOAT (1952) Clifton Webb as staid middle aged professor horrified to find his past coming to haunt him, namely his silent pictures when he was a matinee idol-"Dreamboat". Ginger Rogers as his long ago costar adds to the fun.
Both are highly recommended. Sorry about the late notice.
ometimes the HBO/Cinemax family of channels showcase classic films. I just started a thread on Hot Topics, This is what I posted:
Edited by: Arturo on Mar 28, 2012 12:30 AM
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On HBO Signature:
Early tomorrow morning - 3:50 AM (PACIFIC TIME) 6:50 AM (EASTERN)
REMEMBER THE DAY (1941) Excellent account of scoolteachers Claudette Colbert and John Payne early in the last century.
Early Friday morning - 3:00 AM (PACIFIC) 6:00 AM (EASTERN)
DREAMBOAT (1952) Clifton Webb as staid middle aged professor horrified to find his past coming to haunt him, namely his silent pictures when he was a matinee idol-"Dreamboat". Ginger Rogers as his long ago costar adds to the fun.
Both are highly recommended. Sorry about the late notice.
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I think THE SNAKE PIT would have been too harrowing, not to mention too close for comfort for her, and probably why she wasn't assigned to it. I think that once her troubles began in earnest, she wanted undemanding roles, where the intensity of her histrionics were not at too high a pitch. It was a loss for us, but as I told someone here awhile back, it was for her own mental well-being that she pulled back from her career.
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That's the one. I recorded it about a year or so ago, and I'm almost certain it was on FMC. Will check my recording to see if there's a station logo on it.
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LOVE NEST is on DVD, since Marilyn Monroe had a supporting role.
Can't remember the name of it, but a movie that Jane Withers costarred with Gene Autry and Marjorie Weaver has been on FMC a few times in the last couple of years.
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*Gene Tierney didn't have any meaty roles, with lots of dialogue, after NIGHT AND THE CITY?*
Actually, her very next role offered her a great part in another classic noir, WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS. After that she did musical-comedy (ON THE RIVIERA), romantic comedy (THE MATING SEASON-on loan to Paramount), westerns (THE SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE, WAY OF A GAUCHO-by way of Argentina), mother-love drama (CLOSE TO MY HEART-on loan to WB), costume drama (PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE-at MGM), cold war drama (NEVER LET ME GO-at MGM), British suspense (PERSONAL AFFAIR).
I'm doing this from memory, so I may have missed one or two. Some of those roles were meaty.
At this point (1953), she had an ill-fated affair with Rita Hayworth's ex-husband, Prince Aly Khan; the ending of this relationship once again left her in an emotionally fragile state. Darryl F. Zanuck once again offered her therapy in the form of undemanding supporting roles (with star billing natch) in the all-star casts of his widescreen endeavors (BLACK WIDOW, THE EGYPTIAN). After leading lady duties in THE LEFT HAND OF GOD, she was off the screen for a number of years, due mostly to the state of her mental health. She was unable to do several roles offered to her in the late 50s, and Zanuck once again got her back on-screen in the early 60s, this time in distinctly supporting parts with "special' billing.
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Let's not forget THE EGG AND I, which introduced the Kettles to America, and inspired Universal to create a new moneymaking series.
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*I answered my own question about Tierney's minimal presence in the film. According to Wikipedia, Dassin stated Zanuck requested Tierney be assigned to the project as her mental health was no good and he thought work would help her recuperate. (Kind of as I suspected.)*
*She was terrific in what little screen time she did have.*
I remember a retrospective of Tierney's career, where a blurb was called for each entry (if that), stating something along the lines of, "She went to London to film NIGHT AND THE CITY, and was rewarded with about twelve lines and half a song (dubbed)". She WAS great in what little screen time she had. You missed RO's intro, where he stated that Zanuck requested Dassin to have her written into the script. You also missed an early scene with Tierney and Widmark, and later Tierney and Hugh wassisname (the playwright from ALL ABOUT EVE-junior moment here folks). Probably Gene's longest scenes in the movie.
Yes, Gene's incipient mental health problems were beginning to manifest themselves in that she could not memorize too many lines of dialogue; therefore, she requested parts that were not too demanding. Later, in the mid 50s, she had several supporting roles (with star billing), in several of Fox' Cinemascope spectaculars. Zanuck continued offering her roles into the 60s, after institutionalization and suicide attempts.
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Afew years ago I saw a little curio on FMC called Slattery's Hurricane a 1949, a possible noir that is rarely discussed among us lovers of that dark genre. It also had Linda Darnell and, in one of her last films, Veronica Lake.
Cinemanut,
re: SLATTERY'S HURRICANE. This is a somewhat muddled melodrama; I wouldn't call it a noir. My favorite actress Linda Darnell is in it, but I she was not happy being cast in it, nor in filming it. She had just completed A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, and was hoping that Zanuck would cast her in something more challenging than SH. Furthermore, filming in Florida, she was separated by a continent from the man she was madly in love with, Joe Mankiewicz, who directed her in ALTTW. That said, SH is ok, but the script had to scrap Veronica Lake's drug addiction and make her seem mentally sick; it's not too clear what ails her. Darnell is at her most beautiful IMO, but I just don't buy how easily she is swept by Widmark's shady character into resuming their affair, ESPECIALLY since she is now married to John Russell. I just don't get Widmark's appeal to women, although I think he's a terrific actor able to convincingly play these slimebags, since he was reputedly a nice guy in person.
PS-Before FMC's recent overhaul, it would sometimes play NIGHT AND THE CITY's two versions back to back. I've seen the newer one, and while it's ok, I don't like the concept of updating and remaking of classics, so I uess I'm not the most impartial viewer.
Edited by: Arturo on Mar 25, 2012 9:17 PM
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What I find truly amazing is looking at the schedule below and seeing how films play for only three days and they are gone, some less than that. For example, "Private Number," which was the first run for this June 1936 release was only booked for three days, a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, not even Friday! When you think about the time spent in the studio putting such a film together, if you blinked it was gone. I guess this also shows how many films were being produced in 1936 (almost 600 films, according to Wikipedia).
Filmlover,
What was going on was that people went to the movies on weekday evenings as a habit; remember, there was no TV then. So with the high turnaround, a movie didn't play, and didn't need to play, on the weekend-people came out to see it after dinner, whatever the day of the week.
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Rosebette;
Just to clarify . . . I was responding to JonnyGeetar; his was the first paragraph on the post; the second paragraph is my reponse. For some reason my laptop isn't letting me bold or italicize, which is how I'd normally identify what I'm quoting. Sorry, I haven't read the book, but I did think that it had Gene sabotaging Anne's sobriety.
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I would definitely say that NOTHING HAPPENS in The Razor's Edge the novel(la)/overlong short story, but things do happen in the movie (although nowhere near enough to validate the 2 hour plus running time.) In fact, that's where the movie tends to go really wrong with the added subplot of Webb and Tierney's characters plotting to destroy Anne Baxter by turning her back into a lush. That does not happen in the book and it does not really click with me in the film- seems like a retread of something Waldo Lydecker and Tierney's character from Leave Her to Heaven would do...In fact, after her massive success in Heaven, Tierney was often given B****-goddess type roles of cold women who do awful things to get the man they want, as if Gene Freakin' Tierney had ANY trouble snagging a man ever
Actually, Webb's character has nothing to do wih trying to turn Anne Baxter back into a lush; it's all Tierney. He merely raves about the wine (or whatever it was they were drinking), and that's what gives Gene the idea. Clifton would have been opposed to this scheme had he known, since he despised Power and didn't want him and Tierney to reunite.
Edited by: Arturo on Mar 24, 2012 11:17 AM
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What an awesome movie with an amazing cast. Probably my all-time favorite noir. Except for the atypical London setting, this could show a novice to the subject what noir is all about, from the sets and cinematography to the femme fatale and the ultimate fate of the (anti)hero.
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Why would I want to do this? The original 3-D craze of the 50s lasted approximately a year or so beforeit fizzled. The main reason for this was because of the many tedious storylines and ridiculously contrived visuals flying at you. Why would I wish that BELOVED classics be filmed in this cumbersome process. I wouldn't.
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TCM did have a Fox film, In Old Chicago, originally scheduled for broadcast but cancelled it due to a tribute that they had to Elizabeth Taylor. In Old Chicago never did come on, which surprised me a bit.
FYI, IN OLD CHICAGO will be shown tomorrow morning on HBO Signature, at 8 AM Eastern, 5 AM Pacific, Sorry bout the latenotice, i just noticed it a few minutes ago.
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Sounds like 1950's NEVER A DULL MOMENT. Don't know if it's on DVD. Gigi Perreau is the other girl.
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I woke up this morning to Garbo . . . what an inspiration.
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*Why do you think so many Mexicans are fleeing Mexico and coming to the US? And there's nobody going the other way. I've never heard of a single one of them fleeing the US and going to live in Mexico.*
Actually, I personally know of quite a few, including family members. The US has great opportunity for moving ahead economically, educationally, etc. but some people refuse to put up with the recent wave of nativist xenophobia and the vilification, even criminalization of immigrants. Plus the downturn of the economy here has led record numbers to return to México. Many DON'T want to come, but see it as the only way of getting ahead. They don't want to leave their families, land and communities. If they are able to make a decent living at home, they have no reason to come, and they stay put.
If I become independently wealthy, or if not, when I retire, I plan to move to central México, to one of the small to mid-size colonial cities, turn a historic building into a hotel, and spend the rest of my days there. If I am young enough, I'd like to establish other small businesses there, pay decent wages, and thereby encourage more locals to not have to emigrate. So while I'll not be "fleeing' the US, I will go in the direction that you think nobody does.
UPCOMING CLASSIC 20TH CENTURY FOX FILMS
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Coming up Thursday morning, April 5th, on FMC:
6 AM EST, 3 AM PST:
THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT (1956): Gregory Peck torn between the ladder of his successful advertising job, or devoting time to family. Also starring Jennifer Jones and Fredric March.
9 AM EST, 6 AM PST:
HOUSE OF BAMBOO: Samuel Fuller's account of US (ex)soldiers in postwar Japan invlved in gang activity. Starring Robert Ryan, Robert Stack and Shirley Yamaguchi.