Arturo

On FMC (all times eastern): Friday, 10/16: 4 am: WHITE FEATHER (1955)....................................6 am: DAYTIME WIFE (1939).....................................7:15 am: MOLLY AND ME (1945)........................8:45 am: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)....................................11 am: FROM THE TERRACE (1960).............................................1:25 pm: MADISON AVENUE (1962)......................... Saturday, 10/17: 3:30 am: FROM THE TERRACE (1960).........................................6 am: HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949).....................................8 am: PRINCE OF FOXES (1949)......................................10 am: A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1957).........................................12:45 pm: MODESTY BLAISE (1966).................... Sunday, 10/18: 4 am: HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949)...........................................6 am: PRINCE OF FOXES (1949)...........................................8 am: A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1957)...........................................10:45 am: MODESTY BLAISE (1966)...........................................1 pm: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)............... Monday, 10/19: 4 am: HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS (1959)..........................................6 am: WAY DOWN EAST (1935)....................................CALL OF THE WILD (1935)............................................8:50 am: SUSANAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939).......................................10:15 am: THE SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE (1951)...............................................11:40 am: WHITE FEATHER (1955)......................................1:25 pm: THE REWARD (1965)..........

On FMC (all times eastern): Tuesday, 10/13: 3:30 am: HOW TO STEAL A.MILLION (1966)..................................6 am: THREE CAME HOME (1950)..................................8 am: THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1939)................................9:15 am: THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946)...............................11 am: SEVEN THIEVES (1960).....................12:45 pm: HOW.TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)................. . Wednesday, 10/14: 3 am: SEVEN THIEVES (1960)...............................4:45 am: ON THE SUNNY SIDE (1942)..............................6 am: THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946)..................................7:35 am: THE BLUE BIRD (1940)................................9 am: BLUE DENIM (1959).................................10:40 am: THE BLUE ANGEL (1959)..................................12:30 pm: FOREVER AMBER (1947).............. Thursday, 10/15: 4 am: THE PURPLE HEART (1944)................................6 am: THE BLUE ANGEL (1959)................................8 am: BLACK SHEEP =1935).................9:35 am: THE PURPLE HEART (1944)...................................11:15 am: WHITE FEATHER (1955)..............................1 pm: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941).............

Doris made.an exception with Asta. She was miffed that his contract gave him more perks, as well as equal billing. It brought out the diva in Dodo.

Ooh la la is right. There was a new dimension with the bare gums in your deep throat.recreations,.I'm guessing.

I did. When I was around 13 or 14 I tried to imitate my somewhat older cousins with a disco look. This meant a retro 1940s look.and a pencil thin mustache. So my peach fuzz on my upper lip amused my uncles, who along with my dad, had that type of stache when I was really small. I also enhanced the look with my sister's eyeliner.

When I first tried smoking cigarettes, around 16 years of age, I had already been smoking pot for about three years. I tried inhaling the smoke deep into my lungs, like with marijuana, and ended up couphing them out. After a few attempts, I realized I didn't like it and gave up. Which was a good thing with my addictive personality. A few years later,.outside of nightclubs or at parties, I tried to look cool by trying to light two cigarettes at once, a la Paul Henreid, giving one to whichever girl was with me. The effectiveness of the gesture varied with my state of inebriation.

So your ex refused to play secret.government.informant, giving.information to a couple of Washington Post reporters, re. the unfolding Watergate scandal? What a drop. No wonder she became your ex.

My oldest brother jumped off the second story balcony where we lived in Tijuana, thinking he was Superman, with one of my diapers tied to his neck as the cape. He broke one leg only.

Not as catchy as "Gable's Back and Garson's Got Him".

It's the Lubitsch Touch touched by the Production Code.

1. THE LAVENDER HILL.MUTT 2. THE DEVIL IS A SQUIRREL 3. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA'S WOLF 4. STRANGERS WHEN WE SNIFF 5. HERE COMES A GROOM 6. ASTA AND DELILAH 7. WHERE THE P OOP ON THE SIDEWALK ENDS 8. MONGRELS BECOME ELECTRA 9. THE FOXES ARE HARRIED 10. DISTEMPER TRAP

Back in the day, Asta's relationships with Ava and Liz,.and.several others, was the subject of a cover story on that dirt rag Confidential Magazine. It was titled "Asta and the MGM Cuties". Despite the truths it dealt with, Asta had his lawyers sue, and helped to successfully put that rag.out of business. Asta made some comments about a phyrric victory, acknowledging the diminishing power of the studios in the 1950s, saying that in the past the studio would have had these stories squashed.

The final straw for Fox was when Marilyn, who was supposed to be sick, flew off to New York, and sang "Happy Birthday" for President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden.

I just saw the TCM news bit on TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL. It's a documentary based on his recent bio of the same name. I also checked out the website. This documentary will be showing all over the country and in Canada; it seems to be staggered. Tab will be at a few of the showings. Unfortunately, the first showing in the LA area, where he will be in person, is on October 30, the same day I will be flying to Mexico. It will still be playing in the LA area when I get back, including two showings where he will be there: 11/12 in Palm Springs, and 11/19 in Santa Barbara. Hopefully, I get to attend one if these showings.

Linda.Darnell will be seen today on TCM, in John Ford's classic western MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946). It will on at 3:30 pm est, 12:30 pm pst. Linda plays the fiery mixed breed Chihuahua, clashing with Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday (Henry Fonda and Victor Mature, respectively) in old Tombstone. Also featuring newcomer.Cathy Downs as the titular Clementine, as well as many stalwarts of the Ford stock company. A great.cast in an outstanding film imho. Also upcoming are two more films with Linda, but on FMC. First.is her blockbuster FOREVER.AMBER (1947), her biggest title, if not able to live up to the expectations of the racy bestseller. On 10/14 @ 12:30 pm.est, 9:30 am pst. Also on 10/23 @ 12:40 pm est, 9:40 am pst. Then, DAYTIME.WIFE (1939), on 10/16 @ 6 am est, 3.am.pst, in which Darnell costars.with Tyrone Power for the first of four times, playing his wife in this enjoyable screwball comedy. She was not even 16 when she filmed this. NOTE: Asta MAY be featured, at least.that's what memory tells me, but in a publicity still on ebay with Linda and the pooch it appears to be another dog.

On FMC (all times eastern): Saturday, 10/10: 3:30 am: WILD ON THE BEACH (1965)......................................4:50 am: SURF PARTY (1964).....................................6 am: LLOYD'S OF LONDON (1936).................................8 am: THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (1944)................................10:30 am: THE SWEET RIDE (1968)...........................12:30 pm: SURF PARTY (1964).....................................1:40 pm: WILD ON THE BEACH (1965)....................... Sunday, 10/11: 3:30 am: KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (1944)................................6 am: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (1945)...................................7:15 am: THIS IS MY AFFAIR (1937)...................................10:45 am: THE REWARD (1965)...................................12:20 pm: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950).................... Monday, 10/12: 3 am: THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS (1958).................................13 6 am: 13 FIGHTING MEN (1960).................................7:15 am: TWELVE HOURS TO KILL (1960)...................................8:40 am: FIVE FINGERS (1952).................................................10:30 am: THREE CAME HOME (1950).................................12:20 pm: THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS (1958).....................

This is true. However, Asta had earlier starred in a version of the same gunfight, in 1938's FRONTIER MASCOT. Later, John Ford adapted this story in the masterly MY DOGGIE CLEMENTINE; a role.for Asta was written especially for him.

Probably because of the time.limit of that program. Asta has so.many wild adventures that the producers focused on some of his more scandalous stories. A couple of his biographers did mention it, but strangely enough, Asta did not in his racy bestselling autobiography, "'Scuse Me While I **** This Guy".

Thanks both of you for the answers. Maybe they can do something similar here in LA, perhaps at the next TCM Film.Festival.

Well, they are not competing threads, as they have different intents. One.is trying to get.TCM to.select Asta for their monthly star.tributes, the other is reflective of interest.in his movies.as.they make the Top Ten.most.searched titles,.basically due to the interest this thread has.engendered in him. Complementary.threads is more.accurate.

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but yesterday I overheard.a.part of the monthly News segment (or whatever its called) on TCM. It.mentioned Tab Hunter's biography "Tab Hunter Confidential". From.what.I heard, it sounds like.maybe a.documentary based on his story, especially since the book,.both hardback and soft cover, came out a few years ago. Can anyone shed light on this?

John Hodiak was never a Fox contract player, although he starred there more than once in the mid 40s. He was under contract at MGM then, and was loaned to 20th. Hitchcock saw a test of Canada Lee, and liked Hodiak, who was in the test. Hodiak was borrowed by Fox for LIFEBOAT, and borrowed him twice more in rapid succession, SUNDAY DINNER FOR A SOLDIER, where he met future wife Anne Baxter, and A BELL FOR ADANO, with Gene Tierney; this film made him a star. He was one of a number of leading men that got a toehold on stardom during WW2 due to many male stars being away at war. Unfortunately for him, he was doing second leads shortly after the war ended, as returning stars bumped him from his incipient stardom.

The thing is, Asta's money making abilities had his studio cater to his whims and tantrums. It was worth the thrashed sofas, chewed furniture, and soiled carpets, whether on the set, in his dressing room bungalow, or the mogul's office.

Obviously, the perfectly legitimate term for a female dog cannot be used to describe a female dog.

Is "Two-Faced Woman" the number where Joan Crawford performs in black-face?