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THE GIFT OF LOVE has been showing fairly regularly on FMC, and most likely will again soon, but it's been awhile since they've shown SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.

Seems less of a clown than the Donald, and with a better hairstyle.

I don't think Dennis Morgan was quite big enough then (he was less than a year from hitting stardom), but I think he would have been perfect in the Robert Cummings role. I believe both Bette Davis and Ida Lupino coveted the role of Cassie, played by Betty Field. The studio discouraged then (especialy Davis), saying the role wasn't big enough for a star. Lupino would have been great, imho.

For those who have the Fox Movie Channel, there will be three Maureen O'Hara films in the next few days: Wednesday, 10/28 @ 6 am est, THE IMMORTAL SERGEANT (1943). O'Hara is the girl Henry Fonda left behind, and who he thinks about while.stationed overseas. Thursday, 10/29 @ 4:25 am est, FORBIDDEN STREET (1949). Costume drama with refined Maureen marrying poor artist Dana Andrews, one of two roles Andrews plays. Monday, 11/2 @ 7:30 am est, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941). The John Ford classic of a Welsh mining family, with Maureen the daughter in love with the reverend played by Walter Pidgeon.

On FMC (all times eastern): Tuesday, 10/27: 3.am: JOHN AND MARY (1969)...................................4:35 am: WAY DOWN EAST (1935).................................. 6 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVER (1959)..................................7:45 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957)....................................9:45 am: THE IRON CURTAIN (1948).......................................11:15 am: THE TERRORISTS (1975).....................................12:45 pm: THE KREMLIN LETTER (1970)................. Wednesday, 10/28: 3 am: THE TERRORISTS (1975)...................................4:30 am: THE SECRET.OF CONVICT.LAKE (1951)......................................6 am: THE IMMORTAL SERGEANT (1943)...................................7:35 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947).........................................10 am: SIERRA BARON (1958)......................................11:25 am: PRINCE OF FOXES (1949)........................................1:15 pm: KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES (1953).......... Thursday, 10/29: 3 am: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953)......................................4:25 am: FORBIDDEN STREET (1949).....................................6 am: MOLLY AND ME (1945).........................................7:20 am: SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES (1942).........................................9 am: THE SHOCKING MISS PILGRIM (1946)......................................10:30 am: THE BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND (1949)..................................11:50 am: CALL ME MISTER (1951).......................................1:30 pm: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953)................. 4:45 am: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (1945).................................... .6 am: LLOYDS OF LONDON (1936).......................................8 am: THE SHOCKING MISS PILGRIM (1946).......................................9:30 am: CRASH DIVE (1943).........................................11:20 am: IN LOVE AND WAR (1958).............

My favorite Jeff Chandler film is TWO FLAGS WEST, which, perhaps not surprisingly, as it features my favorite, Linda Darnell. Like BROKEN ARROW, it is a western he did at 20th Century Fox in 1950. Jeff plays an Army captain manning a fort out west during the Civil.War. He has an unhealthy obsession with Darnell, his widowed sister-in-law; he keeps her a near prisoner at the fort. His brooding portrayal leads to the climactic battle, after he kills a young Indian brave cold-bloodedly. Also featuring Cornel Wilde and Joseph Cotton, it is an exciting western. Chandler later.offered Linda Darnell in a western he was producing, 1957's DRANGO. She turned it down due to stage commitments.

It is sad that another Hollywood Golden Age great has left us. A true beauty, and always entertaining, whatever the role. She will be sorely missed. Too bad TCM couldn't've scheduled a few of her 20th Century Fox films, considering she was under contract there for most of the 40s (in tandem with RKO). Plus she has at least three of her iconic films from that studio, HOW.GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, and SITTING PRETTY. I guess TCM focused on what was easily available from the so-called "TCM Library".

While I love Jean Arthur, I feel Rita Hayworth has a.much better claim to."Columbia Lady". Jean starred there for approximately a decade, and she didn't film there exclusively, going on loan to the likes of Paramount and RKO. Rita was at Columbia for over 20 years, and was the studio's biggest star for most of the 40s and 50s. Harry Cohn also felt she was his prize star for most of this tenure.

1. NIGHT WITH THE IGUANA'S TAIL 2. ASTA AND ALL HIS BROTHERS WERE VALIANT 3. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY TO HOLD IT INTO NIGHT 4. MAN'S DINGO 5. 20,000 TREES UNDER WHICH TO P EE. 6. SNIFF THE BOYS GOODBYE 7. WITHERING BITES 8. THE FORBIDDEN STREET 9. SNOUT THERE IN THE NIGHT 10. THE GREATEST SHOWDOG ON EARTH

I had been planning a trip to Vallarta, to have started in a few days. Just now, a cousin who would've gone.called to enquire if I was in the patb of Hurricane Patricia. Thankfully, I will be going next week to Oaxaca for the Days of the Dead. However, I do worry for friends and family in Vallarta as well as in Guadalajara, also in the storm's path.

TCM has access to most of her WB titles, at least judging by the frequency some of these movies play. A decent tribute can be.fitted in, provided nothing rare gets bumped. Additionally, a bit of a wait would be beneficial, only if TCM can get some of the later and lesser known films.Joan.Leslie did.

On TCM (all times eastern): Friday, 10/23: 4 am: LLOYDS OF LONDON (1936).....................................6 am: MOLLY AND ME (1945)...................................7:20 am: FORBIDDEN STREET (1949)..................................9 am: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941).................................11 am: THE MUDLARK (1951).....................................12:40 pm: FOREVER AMBER (1947)............ Saturday, 10/24: 3:30 am: FOREVER AMBER (1947).................................6 am: BORN RECKLESS (1930)..................................7:20 am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950).................................9 am: GANG WAR (1958)................................10:15 am: YWELVE HOURS TO KILL (1960)..................................11:40 am: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973).................................... 1:20 PM: TROUBLE MAN (1972)............ Sunday, 10/25: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950).......................................6 am: TROUBLE MAN (1972)............................................7:45 am: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973)...........................................9:25 am: THE REWARD (1965)..........................................11 am: ,APTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947).......................................1:30 pm: ANNE OF THE INDIES (1951).............. Monday, 10/26: 4 am: THE REWARD (1965)................................6 am: THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1939)......................................7:15 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)....................................9:45 am: ANNE OF THE INDIES (1951)....................................11:15 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957)......................1:15 pm: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959).............

On TCM (all times eastern): Friday, 10/23: 4 am: LLOYDS OF LONDON (1936).....................................6 am: MOLLY AND ME (1945)...................................7:20 am: FORBIDDEN STREET (1949)..................................9 am: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941).................................11 am: THE MUDLARK (1951).....................................12:40 pm: FOREVER AMBER (1947)............ Saturday, 10/24: 3:30 am: FOREVER AMBER (1947).................................6 am: BORN RECKLESS (1930)..................................7:20 am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950).................................9 am: GANG WAR (1958)................................10:15 am: YWELVE HOURS TO KILL (1960)..................................11:40 am: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973).................................... 1:20 PM: TROUBLE MAN (1972)............ Sunday, 10/25: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950).......................................6 am: TROUBLE MAN (1972)............................................7:45 am: TOGETHER BROTHERS (1973)...........................................9:25 am: THE REWARD (1965)..........................................11 am: ,APTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947).......................................1:30 pm: ANNE OF THE INDIES (1951).............. Monday, 10/26: 4 am: THE REWARD (1965)................................6 am: THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1939)......................................7:15 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)....................................9:45 am: ANNE OF THE INDIES (1951)....................................11:15 am: ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957)......................1:15 pm: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959).............

1. THE LUCK OF THE IRISH SETTER 2. MONTY PYTHON'S THE LIFE OF ASTA 3. TORN AND PEE'D CURTAIN 4. SIR ASTA OF THE MOUNTIES 5. BLACKBEARD THE TERRIER 6. BORN TO BE BAD 7. RED DUSTY LICE 8. THE BARKERS OF WIMPOLE STREET 9. THE MUTTLARK 10. JOHNNY DINGO

On FMC (all.times eastern): Tuesday, 10/20: 4 am: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973)....................................6 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942)..................................7:15 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939)..................................8:35 am: THE SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE (1951)................................10 am: WHITE FEATHER (1955)...................................11:45 am: THE REWARD (1965)..................................1:20 pm: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973)................ Wednesday, 10/21: 3 am: APRIL LOVE (1957)..................................4:45 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942)..................................6 am: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (1945)....................................7:15 am: CALL ME MISTER (1951)..................................9 am: CALL ME MADAM (1953)......................................11 am: APRIL LOVE (1957)......................................12:45 pm: CAN CAN (1960)............... Thursday, 10/22: 4 am: CALL ME MADAM (1953).................................6 am: LLOYDS OF LONDON (1936)..................................8 am: THAT WONDERFUL URGE (1948)...................................9:25 am: YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME (1948)..................................11 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942).......................12:15 pm: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939)......................................1:35 pm: THE BLUE BIRD (1940)............

Originally, WB envisioned this as a biopic starring Doris Day and Ronald Reagan, to have been called THE WINNING TEAM. Then, after Doris turned it down, the studio retooled it as a vehicle for Asta, and decided to keep the biopic aspect, making it about Asta's early childhood as a suckling pup, and his interactions with his mother and littermates. Each had his favorite teat, and Asta clung to his until fully weaned. It gave him the tenacious qualities that would serve him well when maneuvering throught the cutthroat studio jungles.

By the end of the 1940s and into the 1950s, Tierney realized her incipient mental illness was causing her difficulties in memorizing her lines. She asked Zanuck to give her fairly undemanding roles, that wouldn't stress her too much. At first, it was mutually beneficial, as Tierney had a large following waiting to see her in her latest release. Later, as her condition worsened, in the mid 50s, and again in the early 60s, Zanuck did it more out of a sense of providing work therapy for her. I have a feeling that NIGHT AND THE CITY, at the beginning of Gene's troubles, owes her abbreviated role more to Zanuck's pruning shears more than for later reason. A few years later, films she did in 1954-55: BLACK WIDOW, THE EGYPTIAN and THE LEFT HAND OF GOD, had the rather brief roles, despite the star billing, due to her need for less difficult roles; she had just suffered a breakdown following the end of her intense relationship with Prince Aly Khan.

Despite my interest in seeing one of these showings with Tab Hunter, I'm not really a fan. I like some of the films he made, think he has a compelling story of hiding his true self to be successful, and is providing an increasingly rare example of a star from the Golden Age in person. But the real reason I wish to see him live, is to hopefully get an opportunity to ask questions about my favorite star, Linda Darnell. He made his film debut as her costar in 1952'a ISLAND OF DESIRE/SATURDAY ISLAND. She personally selected him for the role, or at least that is what he stated in his autobiography. So I'm like to see what he might say about this, and about her. I hope I make it and get my chance.

Asta was one of a kind Whether dancing on four legs or hind From the days when he'd "sic it" He'd soon write his own ticket He would thrill almost all but the blind.

She didn't know where she had contracted the disease. Some time later, a fan came up to her, and told her she had seen her before, breaking quarantine because she was her favorite star. Tierney in her autobiography said that, after that, she never cared if she was anybody's favorite anything.

1. ASTA IS BORN 2. OUR DANCING DOGGIES 3. TWO WEEKS MARKING IN ANOTHER TOWN 4. THE ROSE I CHEW 5. LAND OF THE FERALS 6. TRACKING THE CAT 7. MARKED WOMAN 8. THE DROP AROUND THE CORNER 9. TAKE ME OUT TO THE DOG RUN 10. THE WEANING TEAT

I have no idea if this will work, but yesterday having been Linda Darnell's birthday, I will attempt to post one or more pics. Sorry, Jake, for usurping your thread.

Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't seen this film in some 15 years or so. Ben Gazzarra has always been a favorite of mine.

John Kennedy and Gene Tierney dated around 1947, when she was estranged from.her first husband, designer Oleg Cassini. Kennedy told her he could never marry a divorced woman, he being a Catholic. Tierney's mental.problems first surfaced due to her daughter's severe mental retardation. Later, in 1953,.after an intense affair with Prince Aly Khan ended due to the Prince's father opposed to his son marrying another movie star (he was recently divorced by Rita Haworth), Tierney had perhaps the first of her breakdowns.

Joan Leslie worked in small roles in the second half of the 1930s under her own name Joan Brodel. When she was signed by Warner Brothers in 1940, they changed her name to Joan Leslie. She started getting choice roles there, and she became a star with the release of SERGEANT YORK. For a couple of years, she got some important roles, including a loanout to RKO with Fred Astaire in THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. But as the war was coming to an end, the studio seemed less interested in promoting here career at the same level. She ended up being another Warner player who took them to court, in her case to get out of her contract. She started freelancing in 1947, with the aforementioned REPEAT PERFORMANCE being the first. Her movie career wound down in the late 40s and early 50s. In 1952, she started filming at Republic; while the westerns she did there over the course of a couple of years were ok, it was a far cry from the prestigious films she got a decade earlier at WB. She made one last film, 1956's THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER, in a decidedly supporting role to Jane Russell, who did it when Marilyn Monroe had rejected it. By then, she was mostly doing TV, and gave up films to devote more time to her twin daughters. Later, she became a well-known clothing designer. It is sad to hear another classic era actor has gone, and hopefully TCM will schedule a suitable tribute for her.