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BELL BOOK.AND CANTOR
Starring Kim Novak and Tor Johnson (in a role originally conceived for Al Jolson), in this adaptation of the Broadway hit, as a witch and a rabbi who fall in love. The families of each are aghast at the turn of events, as she wants to become mortal, and he no longer wants to conduct temple, wear the traditional vestments, or sing the sacred songs. All is resolved satisfactorily by the final denouement, with Tor breaking into song and dance for the closing number. With Jack Lemmon for comic relief.
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Nancy Carroll will be the featured star at the 2015 Capitolfest in Rome, New York. It runs from
Friday August 7 thru Sunday August 9. This year will be the first year that I'll be able to go so I'm
quite excited. Some of her films they are showing are extremely rare. I'm especially looking forward to
seeing "Illusion" , "The Shopworn Angel" and "Follow Thru". I wish they would have also offered
"Close Harmony" but you can't have everything.
Great. Now if only TCM can get some of her mostly Paramount titles from her years of success, in ordert to do a fitting tribute to the most deserving Carroll, be it SUTM next year or whatever.
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Thanks for all of these responses. There is not much (that I can find, anyway) on the web on Robert Young except in broad detail. Can't find out whether MGM refused to re-up his contract or he left on his own. I would suspect MGM might have been willing to re-up but at less money so he left to test the freelance market. It seems as though decent roles dried up for him by the end of the 1940's so he moved to radio, then TV where he had a great "second" career.
Lydecker
It seems that Young may have been unhappy at MGM, as he was a second string star there. He must've had more opportunities at the studio during the war years, as most of their top male stars were absent. He should have gotten better parts after H.M. PULLMAN, ESQ. But he possibly was not happy that the roles and/or films were't better.
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Tuesday, 6/30:
3:30 am: THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963).................. 4:45 am: THE BROKEN LAND (1962)....................6 am: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)...................7:20 am: THE I DON'T CARE GIRL (1953).....................8:40 am: IT HAPPENED IN FLATBUSH (1942).................1:30 amz: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953).............
Wednesday, 7/1:
4 am: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)...................6 am: INFERNO (1953).........................7:25 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939)....................8:45 am: CALL OF THE WILD (1935)...................10:10 am: THE IRON CURTAIN (1948)..........................11:40 am: NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY (1951)...........................1:20 pm: CIRCLE OF DECEPTION (1961)............. .
Thursday, 7/2:
3 am: CALL OF THE WILD (1935)......................4:30 am: SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES (1939).........................6 am: THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946)..........................7:45 am: PIN UP GIRL (1944)........................9:15 am: WABASH AVENUE (1950).......................11 am: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953)......................12:30 pm: SURF PARTY (1964)....................1:40 pm: WILD ON THE BEACH (1965)................
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Mr.R., after reading this post of yours here it got me wondering who Hathaway originally had in mind for the Tommy Udo role other than Widmark, and so after doing a little investigation at the IMDb website, it seems the director originally had another performer in mind who also had yet to make any films, a particular Harlem New York born and bred boogie woogie piano player and singer by the name of Harry "The Hipster" Gibson here...
And here's Harry's Wikipage bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gibson
(...I think we can see why Hathaway might have thought Harry's wild style might have worked in the role too)
Wow! Had that happened, we might not be here on this thread. KISS OF DEATH was a one-shot only, I believe, and Widmark got signed long term only after showing his stuff in it. He might've instead gotten some other film.debut, and not been memorable enough, or there might have not been an opportunity to be so, and never offered that contract.
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Arturo, has anyone ever searched TORbarella? I would think scads of searches would result from such a provocative movie. I agree a screen cap or even actual footage (yike!) of our leading man so scantily clad might be rather scary---no terrifying---but curiosity value would be paramount. It might even qualify as snuff. It might even seize the record for most consecutive times being #1 on the daily lists. But I think best if you could confirm that the movie was never made. We must think of the children.
Well, it did make the database search list (but you got.the title a littke wrong) along with other titles that elicited interest in this month's spotlight on **** girls.
1. HOW TOR MARRY A MILLIONTORE
2. PIN UP TOR
3. TORTORELLA
4. TORAPEZE
5. SPRINGTIME IN THE TORKIES
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7. TOR ON A HOT TIN ROOF
8. WILL SUCCESS SPOIL TOR HUNTOR
9. TORBRA WOMAN
10. TOR WAS NEVER LOVELIER
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There are many different movies that I like the hair styles. But probably one of the ones I like best is Weekend At The Waldorf.
Walter Pidgeon and Ginger Rogers meet each other, and Van Johnson and Lana Turner meet each other. Two couples/two seperate substories. Well actually even more substories than that. But I'll focus pictures from these two.
Here are a couple shots from the movie.
Walter Pidgeon "borrowing Ginger's cigarette lighter. The gold cord thingy that Ginger is wearing across the front of her dress adds to her look here. I can't explain it because I am not a fashion guy, but I really like it.
This one's great, it happens toward the end of the movie, when each of them happen to rush past each other. Pidgeon is rushing to catch a plane and Turner is rushing to find Van Johnson before he leaves. They both notice each other and say "hey". I thought that was kind of funny.
Lana Turner looks great with that little hat. In the movie she has some really great close-ups.
Here are some production stills, not found in the movie
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I never cared for some.of the more extreme uplifted (or whatever they are called) hair dos of the war years (Ginger's here is a tame version). I understand about the war, women working in factories, etc. as a reason for their popularity, but not.my favorite look. But it does spell 40s nostalgia like nobody's business.
Otoh, Lana here demonstrates.my point about how well she looked with short hair. Another I forgot to mention that lost appeal with shorter hair was Veronica Lake, with that iconic peek a boo hairstyle; and which it was availed upon her to pull it back, sweep it up, etc. so that her fans would do the same, for the reasons mentioned above.
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I wonder if Vidal Sassoon was a big Louise Brooks fan when he was a kid?
Yep Speedy, I agree. You wouldn't happen to be thinking of Claudette Colbert and Jane Wyman here TOO, would ya?!
Absolutely.
Gonna slightly disagree with ya here Speedy, and while I too always thought Marlo's flip was overdone, I always thought MTM's flip looked pretty good on her in those earlier Dick Van Dyke Show episodes. And while I have a feeling you're gonna disagree on this, I always thought MTM's hairstyle she sported during the last season of that show here was very attractive on her especially...
I agree about MTM Dargo, especially when I remember her in an episode where she wore black tights and.........uh, oh yeah, nice inward flip hairdo.
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It seems that a recent retrospective on the Hal Roach Studios has brought some of their films into the lists.
1. TORPER
2. TORNABOUT
3. THE HOUSEKEEPER'S DAUGHTOR
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5. TORPER RETORNS
6. TORRILY WE LIVE
7. CAPTAIN TORY
8. TORPER TAKES A TORIP
9. A TORUMP.AT.OXFORD
10. TOR MILLION B.C.
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Dargo,.while.I.agree with you about Ava, I'm wondering dude, did you ever check her out from the neck down lol?Yeah, I'd say I pretty much agree with ya here, Christine.
In fact, I always especially liked the hair on THIS young starlet of the 1940s in particular...
(...along of course with those perfectly arched eyebrows, that nose, those cheekbones, that jawline, those full lips AND that sexy little cleft in her chin)
Actually, Ava is one of those women who looked just as sexy with the short.50s.cuts, as they did with long hair. Others that fit this category imo are Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner (especially in the 40s), Elizabeth Taylor and Gloria DeHaven. And I actually think that Rita Hayworth.looks great as.that Topaz Blonde for Orson's film, very sleek and refined, but she looked much better with her glorious red mane.
Other women that lost something when they went with shorter cuts in the late 40s and the 50s (which I've mentioned here before), include Ann Sheridan, Linda Darnell, Jane Greer, Lauren Bacall and Jane Russell.
In the non-sex symbol category, I think Joan Crawford's.short cuts from the late 40s on actually work to convey the ball-busting characters she often portrayed, giving her an even harder edge.
Edit. Among European stars, Brigitte Bardot long only, but Italian actresses like Gina snd Sophia, short or long works equally well. Which reminds me of that I Love Lucy episode, where they're in Rome, and Ethel tells Fred that none of the Italian actresses in a magazine "are all that much. Not one of them has got her hair combed". To which Fred replies, "Honey bunch, if the rest of you looked like that, I wouldn't care if you were bald".
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I don't understand why Some Like It TORrid hasn't been searched (or has it, alas I haven't perused some of the daily results lately as I am a grossly irresponsible human being.) I'm not particularly a TORny Curtis fan but I am of course an avid TORilyn Monroe fan ... I like Jack Lemmon okay, but he has such a boring name.
How about Tor E. Brown or Torge Raft?
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Wow, DGF, I thought you would be so thrilled that you'd be writing at least a paragraph...
LOL. With everything DGF has had to say on the several threads with this topic, it probably adds up to a paragraph.
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Tor Johnson wasn't just the big star of expensive, crowd-pleasing blockbusters, but in his days as a freelancer, on occasion he would actively seek out edgier, indie, and in general smaller scope films, to balance out the big ticket items. Possibly in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling in anticipation of marriage equality, some of these titles have popped into the Top Ten.
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2. THE CHRISTINE TORGENSON STORY
3. TOR'S CERTAIN SUMMER
4. FORTUNE AND TOR'S EYES
5. PHILATORPHIA
6. LA CAGE AUX TOR
7. THE ADVENTURES OF TORSCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
8. MAMBO ITORLIANO
9. TORBACK MOUNTAIN
1O. TOR WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING JULIE NEWTOR
Well, it seems that a revised list has been issued, with the glitch fixed that kept the No. 1 title from appearing. It seems that the system could not properly read the Tilde over the N, for the letter Ñ.
So it appears that the No. 1 most searched title is the 1980s Mexican movie DOÑA HERLINDA Y S U S TOR HIJOS.
Edit. apparently the Spanish pronoun S U S is asterisked out. Huh!?
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Tor Johnson wasn't just the big star of expensive, crowd-pleasing blockbusters, but in his days as a freelancer, on occasion he would actively seek out edgier, indie, and in general smaller scope films, to balance out the big ticket items. Possibly in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling in anticipation of marriage equality, some of these titles have popped into the Top Ten.
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2. THE CHRISTINE TORGENSON STORY
3. TOR'S CERTAIN SUMMER
4. FORTUNE AND TOR'S EYES
5. PHILATORPHIA
6. LA CAGE AUX TOR
7. THE ADVENTURES OF TORSCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
8. MAMBO ITORLIANO
9. TORBACK MOUNTAIN
1O. TOR WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING JULIE NEWTOR
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Hey Arturo, since you pay attention to FXM, do you recall ever having seen Just Imagine (1930) listed there? It is one that I would like to get from TV. As I understand, it was the earliest Sci-Fi with sound in the US. It is so old that the title cards say "The William Fox Company"
As far as I can recall, I don't remember that title being shown. Of course, I didn't always have FMC, getting it when I first subscribed to DirecTv about 15 years ago. Prior to that, I don't know what they might have shown.
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On FMC (all times eastern):
Friday, 6/26:
4 am: HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949)...............6 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)....................8:30 am: THE GIFT OF LOVE (1958)..............10:15 am: HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949)...............12 pm: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952).....................1:20 pm: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)...........
Saturday, 6/27:
3:30 am: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947).................6 am: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950)...................7:40 am: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952).......................9 am: THE SECRET OF THE PURPLE REEF (1960)........................10:30 am: THE SWEET RIDE (1968)..........................12:30 pm: SURF PARTY (1964)......................1:40 pm: WILD ON THE BEACH (1965)....................
Sunday, 6/28:
3 am: THE SWEET RIDE (1968).....................4:51 am: SURF PARTY (1964).........................6 am: WILD ON THE BEACH (1965)....................7:20 am: WABASH AVENUE (1950)....................9 am: THE I DON'T CARE GIRL (1953)........................10:20 am: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953).......................11:45: **** GIRL (1944).........................1:10 pm: IN LOVE.AND WAR (1958)..................
Monday, 6/29:
4 am: IN LOVE AND WAR (1958)....................6 am: DO YOU LOVE ME (1946).....................7:40 am: DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)..............9 am: TAMPICO (1944)......................10:30 am: I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941)........................12 pm: THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1963)...............
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Get em Tommy Udo.
No matter.how many times I've seem it, this scene retains its chilling quality.
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Lenore Aubert who played Dr. Sandra Mornay in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). The perfect exotic glam foil for Lou. Hilarious that she was attracted to him because of his brain.
Aubert had a certain Hedy Lamarr quality about her. Unfortunately she was never really able to break through in Hollywood and retired not long after her two A&C movies.
Lenore Aubert had a decent.role in a good nostalgic biographical musical, I WONDER WHO'S KISSING HER NOW. She is one of the three women singers involved.with a songwriter played Mark Stevens; the others are Martha Stewart and June Haver. Aubert plays the European semi-classical singer.
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Don't know if it's been mentioned, but a child actor who gave some very good performances was Billy Gray, later Bud in Father Knows Best. He was quite good in two 1951 films for 20th Century Fox, the well-known sci-fi THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, also with Patricia Neal, Michael Rennie, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe and Frances Bavier; and a truly extraordinary performance in a true rarity, the little-known comedy-drama THE GUY WHO CAME BACK, starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Joan Bennett, Don Defore.and Zero Mostel.
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Too bad TCM couldn't have shown two early Susan Hayward films from Paramount that brought great attention to her beginnings at stardom :
An excellent b-film with Albert Dekker, AMONG THE LIVING
THE FOREST RANGERS with Fred Mac Murray and Paulette Goddard.
By the way, the song I'VE GOT SPURS THAT JINGLE,JANGLE, JINGLE comes from this film.
I mentioned.in another thread that it's a shame that so few of Susan's Paramount films are being shown; I believe it's only two. AMONG THE LIVING would have been great. Besides Susan, Frances Farmer also stars in it; it may have been her last.at Paramount. In little over a year later, Farmer's tragic last run-in with the law would begin.
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For fans of the silly: the one must-see is "She" (1965)--I saw the 1935 version with Helen Gahagan on an old VHS tape. It was a howlingly funny Non-PC adventure played deadly straight by the actors--if the 1965 version is half as funny, it will be worth watching.
Rest of Wed. nights lineup is "camp" of varying quality, until 4:00 a.m., when "10" comes on.
I remember seeing the sequel, THE VENGEANCE OF SHE, as.a.tot in theaters. Ursula Andress was not in it, and I 't remember the name of the beauty who played "She". Both it and the SHE remake were on TCM about a year ago.
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I'm looking forward to hearing Sally talk about her grandfather W.C.
Maybe she'll also reveal a juicy tidbit or two about great aunt Totie, maybe even set the world straight on the rumor that Totie eloped with Tor Johnson, when they were each betrothed to others, and it took all of the talents of Tor's studio's publicity department to squash the story before it became an all out scandal. To this day, only a few insiders know the full story, and they ain't telling.....maybe Sally will!
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I guess Movies Channel is like FMC in the frequency they show some films, except FMC has no commercials. DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK will be shown again on Fox this Friday, along with a couple of other, more classically noir films, conicidentally at the same time as some of this genre on TCM.MOVIES-TV feature noir films each Saturday night. Typically 3 films. The Dark Corner is shown a lot. That is one thing about the station. They show the same movies often. Very often. E.g. The Dark Corner will be shown 5 -6 times in a month.
But of course if one misses something they want to see, all they have to do is wait and the odds are high it will be on again in a week or two.
The Dark Corner is a very good film. Note the censorship in the last scene at the gallery.
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Ah, maybe that explains some of the well-documented animosity betwixt the two whilst filming WHERE LOVE HAS GONE.
PS- everytime I hear WHERE LOVE HAS GONE mentioned, (this is the film, of course, in which Bette Davis plays Susan Hayward's MOTHER) I am reminded of this gem of a line regarding a similar casting challenge in the behind-the-scenes-of-a-soap-opera comedy Soapdish:
ROSE (HEAD WRITER)
"And now, apparently, Celeste is
Montana's MOTHER??!! So: when exactly did she give
birth to her? When she was, what: five? Six? Seven?!! WHEN?!"
Yes that.was a factor. It probably didn't help that Hayward was top billed in WLHG, and she pulled rank when they disagreed; the producers sided with Susan.
Btw, the role of Margo Channing was originally thought of by Joe Mankiewicz for Hayward; he wrote Darryl Zanuck a.memo stating, "Superb role for Susan Hayward". But as the script unfolded, he realized the character would have to have to be for an older actress than Susan, who was then in her early 30s.
Tor's Top.Ten Titles Searched Today
in General Discussions
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Shirley Temple must be SOTM, and this is reflected in the latest chart, as her long and fruitful collaborations with Tor Johnson create much interest.
1. LITTLE MISS TORKER
2. SINCE TOR WENT AWAY
3. TWEE TORLLIE TORINKIE
4. THAT HAGEN TOR
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6. POOR LITTLE RICH TOR
7. TORAWAY
8. CURLY TOR
9. STAND UP AND TOR
10. ADVENTURE IN BALTITORE
10. SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTORS