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The ironic thing, in light of Linda's death in a fire, is that she got singed during filming, not just in AATKOS, but also in two other films. First, in HANGOVER SQUARE, where her strangled body is tossed onto the bonfire by deranged Laird Cregar during Guy Hawkes Day. Later,.during the filming of FOREVER AMBER, when husband Richard Haydn tries to have her burn during the London Fire. Due to these experiences, Linda had a lifelong fear of fire.

Asta's film.legacy continues to be researched. 1. THE ASTY HEART 2. FREE, WHITE.AND.21 IN HUMAN YEARS 3. HUSH HUSH SWEET ASTA 4. ASTA WEDNESDAY 5. THE DOGHOUSE ON THE HILL 6. CUR OF THE DEMON 7. ASTA AND THE ANDERSONS 8. HOW GREEN WAS MY DOGRUN 9. THE LITTER'S COLONEL 10. ASTA AND THE KING OF SIAM

ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM will be on TCM later today, at 8 pm est, 5 pm.pst.

Since I've seen it a few times before, I skipped watching it this time, but DVR'd it. The Pope won out in real time viewing.

On FMC (all times eastern): Sunday, 9/27: 4.am: CINDERELLA.LIBERTY.............................6 am: BOBBIKINS (1959)..............................7:30 am: JOHN AND MARY (1969)...............................9:05 am: THE SWEET RIDE (1968)................................11 am: MADISON AVENUE (1962)..............................12:35 pm: FROM.THE TERRACE (1960)...................... MONDAY, 9/28: 4.am: THE SWEET.RIDE (1968)...........................6 am: LLOYD'S OF LONDON (1936).............................8 am: ISLAND.IN THE SKY (1938).....................9:15 am: MADISON AVENUE (1962).............................10:50 am: FROM THE TERRACE (1960)...............................1:15 pm: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)................. Tuesday, 9/29: 4 am: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)............................6 am: FORBIDDEN. STREET (1949)............................7:35 am: TAILSPIN (1939)..........................9:05 am: DREAMBOAT (1952)............................10:30 am: BOBBIKINS (1959)............................12 pm: PIN UP GIRL (1944).......................1:25 pm: WABASH AVENUE (1950).................. Wednesday, 9/30: 4 am: THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958)...............................6 am: MOLLY AND ME (1945)............................7:20 am: DREAMBOAT (1952)............................... 8:45 am: BOBBIKINS (1959)..................................10:15 am: PIN UP GIRL (1944)............................11:40 am: WABASH AVENUE (1950)...............................1:15 pm: THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958)....................

If Asta is chosen SOTM, maybe TCM can do one of those mini documentaries on the Star, or when someone recalls Star that.inspired him or her. Would make a great supplement to his movies.

Btw, I've yet to watch the tv dramas. Were they able.to fit in the announced.time slots?

Stephan, thanks for the above info. I've been a quandry since I upgraded DIRECT TV to HD, and got a free DVR recorder. Unfortunately, I cannot transfer anything from thw dvr to disc, or record.directly onto my dvd recorder. I constantly have to delete movies I'd like to have to make room for other ones. I may look into the feasibilty of this info. Thanks again.

It's been quite a few years since I saw it until the end, and I guess.I never saw or noticed it before.

The most searched titles of the last.24 hours: 1. 20,000 LICKS UNDER HIS SEAT 2. IN HEAT ALL THE NIGHT 3. MY MAN'S BEST FRIEND 4. BRINGING UP BAD BOY 5. ALL THIS HAS ASTA CHEWED 6. SNOWY WHITE AND BLACK AND THE THREE STOOGES 7. CANINE DESIRE 8. THE MARK OF ASTA 9. BELL, DROOL.AND PAVLOV 10. BURY YOUR PEE WITH SOME FROM ME

There's just a line or two of dialogue......a boy and a girl, ages 14 and 15, both away at boarding school. Susan tells Julie soon afrer she arrives, and I think there are.framed.photos in the living room.

Not for lack of availability......FIVE FINGERS has been on FMC all week, usually paired with one or more film with James.Mason, and will.probably be on again a number of times.in the near future.

Thanks Tom, as always a great write-up by you. What an amazing story and a great experience. Also great to hear that the audience was truly respectful of Kim Novak, and glad to know she has not been shied away from personal appearances. Good to see most comments here were also of an appreciative nature, without any negativity being brought up.

While.Susan wasn't frumpy, James Mason most certainly was. But I don't think frumpiness was a criteria, just a long-married couple, with a new babe inspiring the 16 year itch. I always thought that more expert.comedy players would've made the difference. Say, Cary Grant and Colbert, although she was no longer doing films. Or maybe Deborah Kerr (now she Could play frumpy), or Linda Darnell, who was a little young (around 36), but who was looking a little frumpy and could play comedy. Or even Doris Day, but she was now in her v irgin phase, and probably would not have wanted to play the mother of two teenagers.

Actually, TCM.has just started.to choose Fox stars as SOTM: Shirley Temple a few months ago, Susan Hayward (who was at Fox in the 1950s, her most popular period) this month. Many others could be selected: Marilyn, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, have all be suggested, and of couse, Linda Darnell; there are plenty more. With TCM playing more 20th Century Fox films, it seems.these SOTMs are more feasible. Some here will say there is a hierarchy, that so and so cannot be chosen until.X,Y and Z have gotten honored first. Or that the star.can only hope for a Summer Under the Stars tribute. But if the films are sufficent and available to program four nights, then there is no reason why it can't happen. Especially if the alternative is another repeat of someone previously honored, who most.likely has films in constant play on TCM, all year every year. Monroe would be a great choice, and long overdue.

The most recent results: 1. FOREVER ASTA 2. OF MUTTS AND MEN 3. LOVE FINDS ASTA HARDY 4. THE HUMPSTERS 5. RAWHIDE CHEWS 6. JOHNNY ASTALLO 7. TARZAN FINDS A MASCOT 8. COME BACK LITTLE ASTA 9. HOW TO STEAL A.MILKBONE 10. WORMBATH OF THE YEAR

Other films tonight as part of the last night of Susan Hayward's SOTM (wow, really?!), which don't seem to have been mentioned here include BACK STREET, STOLEN HOURS and THE HONEY POT. BACK STREET ks the old chestnut, done for a third time. This time, the Hayward character is much more successful, and is abke to afford a jet-set lifestyle. This is another of Ross Hunter's productions from the late 50s.and early 60s, giving old style glamour and old time.glamorous.movie stars, often in a remake of a women's melodrama. STOLEN HOURS is a remake of Bette Davis' classic DARK VICTORY, and Hayward.daring to do it is one of the reasons that there was animosity awhile later.on the set of WHERE LOVE IS GONE. THE HONEY POT is late,.but not great Joseph Mankiewicz. Susan is in one of three revolving stories, filmed in Italy. Her beloved husband died while she was filming, which is how she remembered the film. The fact that a substantial portion was cut, when it was finally released,.probabluly contributed to this feeling.

I got to the showing about 5 minutes late, and so missed most of Ben's comments. PSYCHO was great on the big screen, with the print quite good. It's been years since I've actually SAT down to watch it; usually I catch a portion of it when I stumble across it, invariably on TCM. I had been wanting to see it all the wY through, ever since the Hitchcock movie a few years back. Seeing it from the beginning made you focus on the first portion of the movie, and the motivations of the Janet Leigh character, and the importance of that to later events. I also noticed the richness of the Bernard Hermann score, and its similarity to others he did for Hitchcock. Prior to this, I could only recall the famous sound synchronized to the stabbings in the shower. Other details were also more obvious, and I never caught Perkins' last view in jail, with the skeletal face of his mother fleetingly superimposed on his. Chilling. My friends.all enjoyed the film on the big screen. Some were more familiar with the story than others. Most noticed the sexual politics invovled, and one stated reading an article that Hitch had wanted Bates to be a repressed homosexual, but had to tone that down due to the climate of the times. With modern sensibilities, we kind of got that.angle. The audience was.appreciative, and varied from some in their teens and twenties, up to middle age. The place was about half full.

On my way to see PSYCHO, although running a little late. I forgot I had my annual.physical today, and at 4:20 pm. So now I'm on public transportation from the Kaiser in Hollywood, to the San Gabriel Valley, where I'm supposed to.meet some.friends.to.see.the movie.

That.I'm not. I don't have VOTD on dvd, but I know have seen (a part of) it not too long ago. There is nowhere else I would have seen it.

I like THE COMEDIANS alot. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guiness and Peter Ustinov.in a tale of the corrupt Duvalier regime in Haiti. Quite long but compelling imo. I wonder why it was bumped from the schedule. THE MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND is an ok sex comedy, with Susan Hayward and James Mason as married professors, who suddenly have a houseguest from Sweden, free love believer Julie Newmar. Problems arise when she lets.Mason know.she wants him to father her child. As I said, this is an ok comedy, due to the rather dated views of 60s sex comedies,.with all the leering involved.. Additionally, neither Mason or Hayward are very adept at comedy; I've mentioned before that Susan got a review.along.the lines of "Her lightest touch can stun a horse". But Newmar is a feast for the eyes of.course.

Is VALLEY OF THE DOLLS Really a TCM premiere? Seems.I have seen it on the station before in the not too distant past, unless I'm confusing this with FMC.

That's a given, although I will have to search out the video to refresh my memory of what they wore.

Good programming.selection.overall, tho it appears.that.Joan did a lot of growing up between BIG BROWN EYES and WEDDING PRESENT, considering they were released.months apart in 1936 lol.

Let's do this, immediately, if she has never received the honor.