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Its all about 'star power" the only constant of the past 80+ years. http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5025.html

For being 77, she is still beautiful. Now thats what you call a "Golden Girl"! Lol.

It looks like its stiff competition between studios for the biggest stars during the 1940's. MGM at least didn't lose Greer Garson. 1942 was called "The Year of the Greer". The death of Thalberg seems to be a bigger lost than any one star and MGM couldn't find a proper "replacememt" Their downfall, like some members here have pointed out in the past was caused by mismanagement. Here is a nice site that explains the problems of MGM Studios. http://www.filmbug.com/dictionary/studios/mgm.php

Early this afternoon I was trying to reply to the Marilyn Monroe thread and whenever I tried to , I keep getting the "Page not Found". I made several attempts by Refreshing, going back, closing the browser and disconnecting the modem and reconnecting, NOTHING got through! When I finally gave up, TikiSoo's last reply on that thread was the last post I saw and I turned off the computer. When I got back on around 11:15pm to my SHOCK every attempt I previously made *got posted!!* Does anyone knows why this happened? I know from now on *do not make a second attempt* to post a message after seeing "Page not Found". I apologize for the multiple postings on that thread even though I didn't see any posting I tried to make at that time.

Sorry for the multiple postings, I don't know what happened. Will explain on a different thread. Message was edited by: hamradio

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I bet good money Lee Strasburg's Studio is on many a collectors most hated list! At least some poor person are happy

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Fedya wrote << Somebody could wear these under the dress Joan Crawford wore in Strait-Jacket, which also came up for auction recently. (No, I'm not that somebody.) >> What did the strait jacket went for?

georgiegirl wrote: << It was a shame Marjorie Main got the shaft. She's a fine actress. Just look at her performance in Dead End as Bogie's mother. >> I found that scene very disturbing. The way she greeted her son, calling him a *dog* and telling him just *die* is something no mother should ever do. Couldn't she asked him why did he turned out being bad - what did we do wrong or something like that. Blood is blood regardless how ones child messes up. Look at real life such as Dillinger and Bonnie Parker during that same time period. Did you ever hear their parents saying something so cruel? If the producer of "Dead End" thought thats the way parents would treat their "bad apple" children in real life, well actual events proved him wrong.

Genuine Indian Electric Blanket, there's one for the books. I wonder *HOW* much hate mail TCM is getting from Native Americans? ....and from the ASPCA. Message was edited by: hamradio

Maybe they should adopt an *Orphan.* Would that make the movie more interesting?

Re: "Ma and Paw Kettle Back on the Farm" Whats Indian for "tall Indian with big nose"? ha ha I like the geiger counter in the movie but I like my pretty yellow Electro-Neutronics, Inc CD- V-700 Model 6b better. The clicks I've heard, Ma and Pa should be glowing in the dark.

"Venus.. Furs"? Would you wear a fur when its 900 in the shade?

I think its "Godzilla" (1956), seen it on our old Zenith B&W TV. I was about 6 or 7 then.

Sorry to hear about his passing, I grew up with him. My family always tuned to him at 6:30pm every night. The B&W image is more memorable then the later color news. I remember him talking about JFK, Apollo, Vietnam, Nixon, etc. He is probually my oldest news anchorman in memory. RIP, and......... that's the way it is, July 17, 2009.

Anonymousville, U.S.A. Thats the fun part. (phantom killer, Unsolved Mysteries). Download the first Jimmy Wolford Flood Song MP3, the answer is in it. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/07/virginias-flood.html

You all have to *admit* that the marquee in the photo reflects the anxiety my town felt after the devastating flood that hit on April 1977. *The Town That Dreaded Sundown*

"Bullets or Ballots", wasn't that also the name given to the 1920's Chicago political system? *-- Vote and Vote Often !! ---*

I don't know whats worst, having no end titles or having titles zipping by at 5 times normal speed. TCM is one of the FEW channels outside Pay-per-view that shows the original movie tiltles - especially the end titles. ( on later movies ) Most channels shows the end titles zipping by so fast, there is no way anyone can read them unless you record them and play them back at slower speeds. Some channels even crops the titles to one side while advertizing upcoming movies.

Unfortunately William Demarest was even more limited in his Vitaphone role in "The Jazz Singer". I only saw him eating with Al Jolson in Coffee Dans His name is not even on "The Players" list at the beginning credits aka uncredited. ha, according to Imdb as Steve Martin.

TCM thanks for showing the Vitaphone film "The First Auto" 1927, for Silent Sunday Nights. The movie was funny, witty and entertaining. This is my first time viewing it. If I knew it was one of the Warner Brothers Vitaphone movies at first, I wuold have recorded it. I'll have to wait for a rerun. One character stood out, was the guy with the cigar, whats his story? Who goes around with a hot water bottle down his pants? LOL! The race car driven by Barney Oldfield was neat, the engine was cool in that it used water pipes in its plumbing. I have seen an engine similiar to that one. My local fire department has a fully functional antique fire truck (display only), circa the early 1920's and the sound is identical to the race car but one would have to hear it for real to get the feel of it. It makes a very deep loud bass like sound that really hits you. Its hard to describe unless one hears one for real. The only thing I didn't like in the movie was the "engine fire" in the race car driven by Bob Armstrong. My goodness did a 5 year old did that animation, lol. There are some misleading facts in the movie such as there was no one inventer of the horseless carraige. The car has been an ongoing evolving piece of technology that has many people contributing to its developement. People such as Benz, Olds, etc. Another thing is that people just didn't rush out to buy the car made between 1895 to the early 20th Century. They had to be hand crafted and were *very expensive*. Only the wealthy could have afford them. Henry Ford with his production line assembly of the Model T made the car affordable for most people. People were using horses up to the mid 20th Century, mostly in isolated areas of the country. Many even in the cities during the 20's. The Amish are to only major "hangers on" of the horse and buggy. Have to admit they don't have to worry about the cost of gas. I heard Robert Osborne mentioned that actor Charles Emmett Mack was killed in an auto accident that occurred while he was on his way for shooting of a car chase for this film. How ironic. Any comments on the film?