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*Sun, June 28, 10:00 PM _The Women_ (1939)* *All Times Eastern Check Local Schedule.* *Women, The. MGM, 1939. Directed by George Cukor, 134 minutes.* Joan Crawford plays husband-stealer "Crystal Allen" in an all-star, all-female cast. *_Notes_:* ? In production from 4/25/39 to 7/7/39. ? The original play opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in NYC on 12/26/36 and ran for 657 performances. ? Phyllis Povah, Marjorie Main, Mary Cecil, and Marjorie Wood reprised their stage roles in the film. ? The film was remade as "The Opposite Sex" in 1956, with Joan Collins in the Crystal Allen role. (Men did appear in this version.) And will be remade again in 2008, directed by Diane English. ? Named one of the 10 best films of 1939 by the New York Times. Also on the Times' 1000 best films list. *_Frank Nugent in the New York Times_ (1939):* Miss Crawford is hard as nails in the Crystal Allen role, which is as it should be

*This is very cool news!!* Posted by Joseph Baxter - Wednesday, June 17, 2009 G4 TV Actor, Michael Sheen seems to have a lot on his plate with roles in the upcoming Twilight sequel, New Moon (in which the former Lycan of Underworld will ironically play a vampire) and in Tim Burton's upcoming remake of Alice in Wonderland, just to name a few. However, what might be the sweetest upcoming role has just been reported by the UK's Guardian. According to them, Sheen is apparently in negotiations to play the classic villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (or "Number One") in the upcoming 23rd installment of the James Bond franchise. The script for the yet-to-be-named film, is being co-written by Peter Morgan (a long-time collaborator with Sheen.) According to him: "Michael is hot property right now and it is felt that he's the right man to bring Blofeld back to life," an unnamed source told the Daily Express newspaper. "Michael was a Bond fan in his youth, so this would be a dream role for him." Blofeld, of course, was the character that pretty much set the standard paradigm for the "bizarre but classy, cat-loving megalomaniac with inexplicable plans for world domination" that was so successfully parodied in the Austin Powers films in the form of Dr. Evil. As far as the Bond series goes, he was last seen being dropped by Bond out of his own helicopter into the chimney of a factory in the "action opening" for 1981's For Your Eyes Only. (That is, if you don't consider 1983's Sean Connery-filled, Never Say Never Again to be canon.) The James Bond in 1981 was none other than Roger Moore, which was three Bonds and (by the time the film reaches its slated 2011 release,) 30 years earlier. What then, is Blofeld doing in Daniel Craig's films? Well, that's the crazy thing about Bond films. With every new actor to play James Bond, the series never really acknowledges any kind of "reboot" as far as the storyline is concerned. Yet, with Casino Royale, (the first serious adaptation of the very first James Bond novel), the "reboot" explanation seems to be the case. Whether or not that means we will get remakes of classics like Dr. No and Goldfinger in the future, remans to be seen. For those of you who did not fall asleep during Quantum of Solace, the film basically continued the ongoing angle involving the villainous secret "organization" which was first alluded to in Casino Royale. Fans of the classic Bond films know it as the world-wide criminal organization, Spectre. It will be interesting to see how it fleshes out in this next installment, and what kind of challenge this new (no doubt fitter and more aesthetically palatable) Blofeld will present for Daniel Craig's James Bond. *Ernst Stavro Blofeld* *_Per Wikipedia_:* A fictional character from the James Bond series of novels and films created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory[citation needed]. An evil genius, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and head of the global criminal organization SPECTRE with aspirations of world domination. SPECTRE deals in terrorism, revenge and extortion, most often potentially resulting in mass murder and annihilation in achieving its objectives. As head of the organization, Blofeld is commonly referred to as Number 1, a sign of authority and respect from his henchmen, and an official numerical position given to members of SPECTRE

*_The Great Escape_ (1963)* - Ntorious motorcycle chase between Steve McQueen and the Nazis! *_For Your Eyes Only_ (1981)* - Motorcycle riders chase James Bond down a ski slope. *_Easy Rider_ (1969)* - Nuff Said!! *_Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man_ (1991)* - Mickey Rourke gulity pleasure! *_Roman Holiday_ (1953)* - Gregory Peck and Audrey ....a Vespa ... and Rome!!! WOW! Heaven!!

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 *Universal Studios Hollywood's Studio Tour Returns to Studio's Famous 'Courthouse Square' Location and Introduces New Hi-Def, State-of-the-Art Trams!!!* LOS ANGELES, June 18 2009/PRNewswire/ -- A marching band, famous movie "characters," and a champagne christening welcomed the re-opening of the famous Courthouse Square film location to Universal Studios Hollywood's Studio Tour trams, which are now newly equipped as "mobile movie theaters" with hi-def video monitors, all-new video content and state-of-the art audio systems. *The re-opening of Courthouse Square marks a milestone in the largest set construction project in Hollywood history, an ongoing project undertaken by the studio following the four-acre June 2008 fire that impacted several famous film locations on the historic studio backlot. All of the other backlot locations are set to open in the spring of next year.* *Courthouse Square, now fully restored, is the world's most-photographed town square, and the site of over a thousand movie and TV shoots dating back to the 1940s* The location is widely known as Hillsboro's main square in the "Back to the Future" film series. It was previously known as "Mockingbird Square" after serving as a principal location for the Oscar-winning "To Kill a Mockingbird." It was dressed as Buffalo, NY for Jim Carey in "Bruce Almighty," as River City, Iowa for the great musical, "The Music Man," as Wellman College for "The Nutty Professor," and as the center of Sweet Apple, Ohio in the classic "Bye Bye Birdie." It's been overrun by "Gremlins," by large people in "Village of the Giants" and aliens in "They Came From Outer Space." Steven Spielberg filmed it as the courthouse in "Amistad." The CBS hit drama Ghost Whisperer has called the historical town square at Universal Studios home since 2005. According to the show's producers, "We are thrilled that it has been rebuilt and can't wait to start production for our fifth season premiering this fall on Fridays at 8pm/7pm central on CBS." Universal Studios Hollywood(SM), The Entertainment Capital of L.A.(SM), includes a movie-based theme park and Studio Tour, the CityWalk entertainment, shopping and dining complex, the Universal Cinemas and the Gibson Amphitheatre concert and special event venue. The theme park features the groundbreaking attractions "The Simpsons Ride," "Revenge of the Mummy(SM) - The Ride," "Shrek 4-D," "Jurassic Park - The Ride" and the world-renowned Studio Tour, which takes guests behind-the-scenes of such landmark TV and movie locations and sets as Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" and ABC's hit TV series "Desperate Housewives." Universal CityWalk features 65 entertainment-themed restaurants, nightclubs, shops and dynamic entertainment options. The Universal CityWalk Cinemas, which includes California's largest IMAX venue, features the best movie-going experience in Los Angeles. Universal Studios Hollywood is a unit of Universal Parks & Resorts, a division of Universal Studios, a part of NBC Universal. NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May of 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric (NYSE: GE), with 20% controlled by Vivendi Universal.

*EVENTS: Joan fans in Austin, TX can see her in _Strait-Jacket_ (1964) at the Alamo Drafthouse on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 7:15 pm.* http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6457 *STRAIT-JACKET* *Rated NR; 93min; Director:William Castle (1964)*

*_Unknown, The_ (1927) starring Lon Chaney & Joan Crawford!!!*

*Walters, Charles ...HE DIRECTED Joan Crawford in her 1953 film _Torch Song_.*

Sonny Tufts WAS IN: _The Seven Year Itch_ (1955) with Marilyn Monroe!!! *NEW STAR: Marilyn Monroe!!!*

In the simplest terms...the "remake" of _The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3_ (2009) stunk!! John Travolta was over the top, the plot was silly and just forgettable!!! Give me the orginial!.... My final rating: D Also in 1998, the film was remade as a television movie with the same title, with Edward James Olmos in the Matthau role and Vincent D'Onofrio replacing Shaw as the senior hijacker. Although not particularly well received by critics or viewers, this version was reportedly more faithful to the book, though it updated the setting with new technologies.

I'm a huge George Cukor fan ....Some of the selections are great ......others eh!!! Camille Dinner At Eight David Copperfield (1935) Adam's Rib Gaslight (1944) The Marrying Kind Born Yesterday The Philadelphia Story The Women My Fair Lady Romeo and Juliet (1936) *BUT WHERE IS......* The Joan Crawford film

*MGM should settle the rights & get this on DVD!!!* Letty, the character played by Crawford, also gets away with murder, in a classic example of a Pre-Code Hollywood movie. *_Legal status_* This film has been unavailable since a US Federal court ruled on January 17, 1936 that the script used by MGM followed too closely the play Dishonored Lady (1930) by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes without acquiring the rights to the play or giving credit. On July 28, 1939, the US Second Court of Appeals awarded one-fifth of the net of Letty Lynton to plaintiffs Sheldon and Ayer Barnes in their plagiarism action against MGM. This case was said to be the first copyright decision ever to direct the apportionment of profits on the relative basis as in patent suits where a patent has been appropriated. On November 7, 1939, MGM petitioned the United States Supreme Court to overturn the Court of Appeals ruling, stating that the questions arising in the suit were predicated solely upon the copyright laws of the U.S., and not the patent laws. However, MGM did not prevail in this latter action, and the film is unavailable even to this day save for some bootlegged copies.[2] In 1947, United Artists released the film Dishonored Lady, starring Hedy Lamarr and directed by Robert Stevenson, based on the play by Sheldon and Ayer Barnes.

*Fox Bows 50th Anniversary Edition of ?Diary of Anne Frank?* By Thomas K. Arnold | Posted: 11 Jun 2009 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment June 16 will release a special 50th anniversary edition of The Diary of Anne Frank, 50 years after the film?s theatrical debut and four days after what would have been Anne Frank?s 80th birthday. The studio worked closely with George Stevens Jr., son of the film?s legendary director, to create the anniversary edition, available on both standard DVD ($19.98) and Blu-ray Disc ($34.98). Bonus features include an audio commentary with Stevens and Millie Perkins, who portrayed Anne Frank in the film; reflections by the surviving cast members; a documentary on the film?s history; and a featurette on the letters between Stevens and his son written during the making of the film. Other extras include Perkins? original screen test, several Movietone news clips about the film; a documentary on the film?s score, which was written by composer Alfred Newman; and the original theatrical trailer. The Diary of Anne Frank was a sensation when first released theatrically, winning three Academy Awards: best supporting actress (Shelley Winters), best art direction and best cinematography. The film received five additional Oscar nominations, including nods for best picture, best director and best supporting actor (Ed Wynn). The studio?s campaign to promote the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release kicked off last week with a screening at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, as well as a Q&A with surviving cast members. June 15 George Stevens Jr. will be presented with the Advocate Award at the 13th annual Spirit of Anne Frank Awards gala at the Anne Frank Center USA in New York City. Perkins had never read ?The Diary of a Young Girl? when she was asked to audition for the lead role in the 20th Century Fox film version of the famous journal. ?Only on the plane out to California did I finally read the diary,? Perkins recalled. ?It hit me in the heart, it hit me in the soul, and I knew it was something I could do without even thinking.? Perkins, now 73, was an aspiring model at the time who had just moved to New York City from her native Passaic, N.J. ?I didn?t even know about Anne Frank,? she said. ?I knew about what happened with the Jews and Hitler, but not about Anne Frank.? On three separate occasions, Perkins said, she was asked to try out for the part by 20th Century Fox scouts; at last she relented and did a quick interview before jetting off to Paris on a modeling assignment. ?I had never acted, and I had never even thought of being an actress,? she said. While in Paris, she received an urgent call from Fox, telling her director George Stevens liked the interview and wanted her to fly out to California for an official screen test. ?I wasn?t a fan of the movies, or of movie stars, but I did know who George Stevens was,? Perkins said. ?I had read American Tragedy in high school and seen the movie, and it was one of my favorites.? After the screen test, she said, ?They didn?t tell me I got the movie, but I just knew I did. It wasn?t until two months later that I met George in the Plaza Hotel?s tea room and he told me I had the part.? Shooting began in April 1958 and continued for six months, a long stretch for a film at the time. Perkins said she and Stevens got along famously: ?He loved me and I loved him.? Her relationship with costar Winters, who played her mother, wasn?t quite as smooth. ?I thought Hollywood was insane, and Shelley Winters was not my favorite person,? Perkins recalled. ?But she was a wonderful actress, and we got along because I had a fresh mouth, and I didn?t take gunk from her.? Likewise for Joseph Schildkraut, the Austrian-born silent-era matinee idol, who played her father. ?He was an excellent theater actor, very dramatic, and a very vain man,? Perkins said. ?He wanted all the attention, Shelley wanted all the attention, and there was just a lot going on. I was just there observing this whole thing.? After the film came out, Perkins said she had to learn fast how to deal with overnight celebrity. ?The publicist would come to me after shooting all day and want me to do interviews, which was all new and certainly very stressful for me,? she recalled. ?I remember one night they came to me and wanted me to meet with Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper, and I said, ?Oh, I can?t, I have to go home and eat dinner.?? Perkins subsequently studied acting and took a few more film roles, including playing Elvis Presley?s girlfriend in 1961?s Wild in the Country, but never became a big star. ?Fox kept trying to find movies for me and of course I was called difficult because all they came up with was beach movies,? Perkins said. ?I didn?t do the game, I didn?t know how to do the game, and I didn?t know the game was important if you want to have a career. So Fox let me out of my contract and I moved back to New York.? Perkins was married for two years to Dean Stockwell, but the couple divorced in 1962. A short time later Perkins was married again, this time to screenwriter Robert Thom, and she spent most of the 1960s raising a family and only dabbling in acting, mostly regional theater productions in New Jersey. She did fit in two Westerns with pal Jack Nicholson, 1965?s Ride in the Whirlwind and 1967?s The Shooting, and in 1968 she reteamed with Winters in the sci-fi horror flick Wild in the Streets, which Thom had written. In the 1970s Perkins and her family moved to Oregon, where she taught acting and did some local television. Thom died in 1979; a year later Perkins moved back to Southern California and resumed her acting career, appearing in dozens of TV shows, movies of the week and films. She played Andy Garcia?s mother in the acclaimed 2005 film about the fall of Cuba, The Lost City. Most recently, Perkins appeared in three episodes of the soap opera ?The Young and the Restless? and a 2006 Hallmark TV movie, Though No One Go with Me, in which she appeared with Cheryl Ladd. ?When Thom died, I figured I had to go back to work, and I?ve been working ever since,? she said. ?But I never became a movie star. I was a star only once, and that was when I did The Diary of Anne Frank.?

*Film classic "The Diary of Anne Frank" is 50 years old* 2009-06-12 Fans of the cinematic classic, "The Diary of Anne Frank" gathered in Los Angeles Tuesday night to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary.The event was presented by the American Film Institute and the Skirball Cultural Center. And the panel included actresses Millie Perkins, who played Anne Frank in the film and Diane Baker, who played the role of Anne's sister. The film is based on the diary of a young Jewish girl's experiences during the Holocaust. Following the Nazi invasion of Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne and her family went into hiding in an attic. That's where she wrote in her diary about their lives and their fear of being discovered. Frank would have celebrated her 80th birthday on June 16th. She died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. But her story has lived on through her writings which were first published in 1947. The actress who starred as Anne in the film remembers how she was touched by the diary. Actress Millie Perkins said, "I was aware of what happened during the war, with the Nazis and all the horrible things. But I had never read the book or heard of Anne Frank. So, when I finally agreed to saying yes to doing the test, I went and read the book on the airplane going out to California. As I said before, the minute I read it, it hit my heart. I understood immediately what was right and what was important." The film version is a true classic. Directed by iconic filmmaker, George Stevens, it was released in 1959. It earned eight Oscar nominations and won three. George Stevens, son of director George Stevens said, "I think it really speaks to George Stevens, my father. He told me when we were working together. I worked with him on "The Diary of Anne Frank," he often said he was interested in what a film was going to be like in 25 years. He didn't make them to be the fashionable film of a particular year, although they often were. He really wanted them to have a timeless quality. He invested this film with that. It is a miracle this film." *As part of the celebration, a special 50th Anniversary of "The Diary of Anne Frank" will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 20th.*

*Comedy classic Ghostbusters celebrates 25th anniversary* Jun 9 2009 By Brian McIver Scottish Daily Record THEY were the only people you were gonna call... and they weren't afraid of no ghosts. Twenty five years ago, Ghostbusters took the world by storm as it became one of the most successful comedy movies of all time. Today, the iconic trio of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd are still going strong, and the spook-fighting comics are all set for a comeback. The original stars are teaming up today to launch a 25th anniversary edition of the classic film on Blu-ray. And a Ghostbusters video game, featuring the writing and voice talents of the main cast, is also being unveiled later this month. The stars are in talks for an eagerly awaited third movie, which could be out next year. The original film spawned a sequel in 1989, as well as two cartoon series and millions of merchandised lunch boxes and T-shirts. While the name has lived on, what have the original cast been doing since bustin' made them feel good 25 years ago? We look at how their careers were affected by a close encounter of the spooky kind... *BILL MURRAY* As the main man of the original group, Dr Peter Venkman, Murray moved from hip comedy actor to A-list megastar thanks to Ghostbusters, and has been the most consistently successful of the trio since. He went on to appear in hit comedies such as Groundhog Day, Kingpin and What About Bob? throughout the Nineties, but very smartly made the switch to serious acting at the turn of the century, teaming up with hip indie director Wes Anderson to take acclaimed turns in films Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. His role with Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Copolla's Lost In Translation in 2003 saw him nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, although he lost out to Sean Penn that year. He has kept his comedy roots, though, and voiced Garfield in two live action films in recent years. Now 58, he has agreed to star in Ghostbusters III when the script is finalised. *HAROLD RAMIS* As Egon Spengler, he was the brains behind the Ghostbusters and, in real life, co-wrote the films. And ever since, while he has rarely been in front of camera, he has been the brains behind some of the funniest movies and TV shows in 20 years. Ramis directed Groundhog Day, Michael Keaton's Multiplicity, Robert De Niro's Analyze This and sequel Analyze That, and Jack Black's caveman comedy Year One, out this summer. He has made small appearances in movies such as Knocked Up, Orange County, as well as Groundhog Day, and is also one of the creative forces behind the American version of The Office, writing and directing several of the episodes. *SIGOURNEY WEAVER* In Ghostbusters, she played a cellist whose apartment was possessed by an evil spirit which eventually turned her into a flaming devil dog. Her character, Dana Barrett, was the unrequited love interest for Bill Murray's Venkman. At the time, Weaver was one of the biggest stars in the cast, having been in movies such as Alien and The Year Of Living Dangerously. She went on to become a big A-list actress, making Aliens and Gorillas In The Mist between the two Ghostbusters movies alone. Now about to turn 60, she has a part in James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar, coming out later this year, as well as being lined up for Ghostbusters III. *ERNIE HUDSON* Hudson played the straight man to three crazed scientists as fourth Ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore. Since Ghostbusters II, he has been one of the busiest character actors in Hollywood, with great supporting roles in big movies such as The Hand That Rocked The Cradle, Miss Congeniality, The Crow and Congo. But he has spent most of his career in television, appearing in just about every big show on the box, including ER, The Practice, HBO prison drama Oz, Desperate Housewives, Stargate, Cold Case, Bones and a long list of TV movies. He is also in the new Ghostbusters video game and will play Winston again in the third movie next year. *RICK MORANIS* The comedy fall guy of the Ghostbusters cast, Moranis played nerdy accountant Louis Tully, who was possessed in the first film, and by the end of the second had graduated from being the team's accountant to an honorary Ghostbuster himself. After Ghostbusters, Moranis was one of the most successful comedy actors of the late Eighties, starring in Honey I Shrunk The Kids, and three sequels, as well as Parenthood and My Blue Heaven. But in the last 10 years, Moranis has only contributed voice-overs for animations like Brother Bear. He virtually retired from the screen in 1997 after home life became too hard to combine with work. His wife Anne died of cancer in 1991, and he was left to look after their two kids. He brought out a spoof country music record in 2005, The Agoraphobic Cowboy, and may be back for the GB sequel. *DAN AYKROYD* In the Seventies and Eighties, the Canadian was one of the funniest men in Hollywood. But Ghostbusters II was one of the last major roles in his film career. Aykroyd has been doing support and cameo roles in more serious films such as The House of Mirth, shot in Glasgow, Chaplin, Driving Miss Daisy and Pearl Harbor, and in comedies Evolution, Grosse Point Blank, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry and Christmas With The Cranks. He has also been spending a lot of time running his House Of Blues nightclub chain, based on his part in The Blues Brothers, and also has his own vodka label, Crystal Head. He is the driving force behind the new Ghostbusters projects, including the game, which he co-wrote, and the sequel, in which the original cast are believed to be training up a younger team of spook fighters. *RAY PARKER JR.* His soundtrack for the original film is one of the most successful in movie history. In the early Eighties, he enjoyed chart success in America with his soul band Raydio, and had a couple of solo hits when the band split. He wrote Ghostbusters as a backing track for the film, but Aykroyd and Ramis loved it so much they decided it should be released as a single. It sold 27million copies and was nominated for an Oscar, losing out to Stevie Wonder's I Just Called To Say I Love You. But there was controversy when Huey Lewis sued him, claiming the track ripped off the tune from his song I Want A New Drug. The pair settled out of court and Parker Jnr kept the rights to his biggest hit. Recently, he has been on British TV, advertising directory service 118 118, with a version of his classic song reworded to suit the brand, including lyrics, "I ain't afraid of no goats". .

*LOL!!! You must be living under a rock not to hear of this film!!!* *_This film is based on the book_:* Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough! Very good book! A must read!! *_From Publishers Weekly_* Burrough, an award-winning financial journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent, best known for Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, switches gears to produce the definitive account of the 1930s crime wave that brought notorious criminals like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to America's front pages. Burrough's fascination with his subject matter stems from a family connection?his paternal grandfather manned a roadblock in Arkansas during the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde?and he successfully translates years of dogged research, which included thorough review of recently disclosed FBI files, into a graceful narrative. This true crime history appropriately balances violent shootouts and schemes for daring prison breaks with a detailed account of how the slew of robberies and headlines helped an ambitious federal bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover transform a small agency into the FBI we know today. While some of the details (e.g., that Dillinger got a traffic ticket) are trivial, this book compellingly brings back to life people and times distorted in the popular imagination by hagiographic bureau memoirs and Hollywood. Burrough's recent New York Times op-ed piece drawing parallels between the bureau's "reinvention" in the 1930s and today's reform efforts to combat the war on terror will help attract readers looking for lessons from history. Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. *_Public Enemies_ (2009) (Film):* : The crime drama is set during the Great Depression with the focus on the FBI agent Melvin Purvis's attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Christian Bale plays FBI agent Purvis, Johnny Depp plays Dillinger, Marion Cotillard plays Dillinger's girlfriend Billie Frechette, and Channing Tatum plays Pretty Boy Floyd. Principal photography began in Columbus, Wisconsin on March 17, 2008 and continued in Chicago, Illinois; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin; and several other places in Wisconsin until the end of June 2008, including the famous Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, the actual location of a 1934 gun fight between Dillinger and the FBI. Some parts of the film were shot in Crown Point, Indiana, the town where Dillinger was imprisoned and subsequently escaped from jail. Thanks Wikipedia and other sources!!

*Fritz Lang* You won't find Dr. Mabuse or even "The Woman in the Window" (1944) airing on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today, even more notably no "Metropolis" (1927) nor "M" (1931), but TCM instead airs a selection of Fritz Lang movies mostly from 1940's and 50's throughout the daytime today, Monday, June 8. *_Here's the complete Schedule_* 6:00 am "Hangmen Also Die" (1942) stars Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee 8:30 am "Human Desire" (1954) stars Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford 10:30 am "Clash by Night" (1952) stars Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe 12:30 pm "Fury" (1936) stars Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney. Fury has previously been covered in detail in this space. 2:30 pm "Western Union" (1941) stars Robert Young, Randolph Scott 4:30 pm "The Blue Gardenia" (1953) stars Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte 6:15 pm "The Big Heat" (1953) stars Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame

*Wed, June 10, 12:00 PM _The Three Musketeers_ (1948)* - *All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedule.*

*Clark Gable* AKA William Clark Gable Born: 1-Feb-1901 Birthplace: Cadiz, OH Died: 16-Nov-1960 Location of death: Los Angeles, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust, Forest Lawn Glendale, Glendale, CA *_Clark Gable Trivia_* Named the #7 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends List by the American Film Institute. Was Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's inspiration for half of Superman's alter ego name Clark Kent ("Kent" came from Kent Taylor). Joined the Army Air Corps during the Second World War, and was commissioned an officer with service number 565390. Rose to the rank of captain and served primarily in Public Affairs, making training films and performing public relations visits to soldiers and airmen in Europe. Gave his Oscar for It Happened One Night (1934) to a child who admired it, telling him it was the winning of the statue that had mattered, not owning it. The child returned the Oscar to the Gable family after Clark's death. 1939: Part of Gable and Carole Lombard's honeymoon was spent at the Willows Inn in Palm Springs, CA. Today the Inn continues to operate and anyone can stay in the same room, which is largely unaltered since that time. Clark Gable was voted the 8th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust, on the left hand side, next to Carole Lombard. When MGM remade Red Dust (1932) in 1953 as Mogambo (1953), Ava Gardner played the Jean Harlow part, Grace Kelly had the Mary Astor role, and Gable played his old part. Only Gable could fill Gable's shoes, even 21 years later. June 2004: As a native of Cadiz, OH, he was inducted into the Lou Holtz Museum/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame. Contrary to popular belief, Gable did not perform his own stunts in The Misfits (1961). He was only used for the close ups while a stunt double stood in for him in the long shots. His heart attack was caused by his lifestyle - thirty years of heavy smoking and drinking, plus his increasing weight in later years. It is also believed his crash diet before filming began may have been a contributing factor. 1999: The American Film Institute named Gable among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #7. He disliked his most famous film Gone with the Wind (1939), which he regarded as "a woman`s picture.". Turned down Cary Grant`s role in The Philadelphia Story (1940) because he thought the film was too wordy. 1948: Proposed marriage to Nancy Davis. He served as a pallbearer and usher at Jean Harlow`s funeral in 1937. Adolf Hitler esteemed the film star above all other actors, and during the war offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and return Gable, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was flying combat missions over Germany, unscathed to him Although beyond draft age, Clark Gable enlisted as a private in the Air Corps on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles. He attended Officers` Candidate School at Miami Beach and graduated as a second lieutenant. He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb. 1943, on personal orders from Gen. Arnold, went to England to make a motion picture of aerial gunners in action. He was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook and although neither ordered nor expected to do so, flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s to obtain the combat film footage he believed was required for producing the movie entitled "Combat America." Gable returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944 at his own request, since he was over age for combat. Thanks, IMBD Movie Database!

3/15/46 Clark Gable was injured in a car crash at the traffic circle at Sunset Blvd. and Bristol Ave. in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. According to a press release from MGM, Gable was driving east on Sunset Blvd. and had entered the south half of the traffic circle when he was struck by another car, whose driver apparently had become confused by the "round-about" and was driving in a westerly direction on the same arc of the circle. Gable drove his car over a curb to avoid hitting the the other car, and it struck a tree, throwing him against the steering wheel. He was treated at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for a bruised chest and a cut on his right leg that required stitches. The driver of the other car drove away from the site without checking on Gable or reporting the accident. The hit-and-run accident gave rise to the urban legend that Gable had struck and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, an incident that allegedly was covered up by MGM. Though reported in several biographies, there is no basis in fact for the allegations.

*Fri, Jun 12, 12:30 PM - Check Local Schedule - Times is Eastern.* *_Out of the Past_ (1947)*

*Fri, Jun 12, 12:30 PM - Check Local Schedule - Times is Eastern.* *_Out of the Past_ (1947)* *In 1991, Out of the Past was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."* *The film is considered by film historians to be a superb example of film noir, due to its convoluted, dreamlike storyline and its chiaroscuro cinematography (cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca also shot Tourneur's Cat People).* *Tue, Jun 16, 1:30 PM* - *_Two for the Seesaw_ (1962)*

*Fri, Jun 12, 12:30 PM - Check Local Schedule - Times is Eastern.* *_Out of the Past_ (1947)* *In 1991, Out of the Past was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."* *The film is considered by film historians to be a superb example of film noir, due to its convoluted, dreamlike storyline and its chiaroscuro cinematography (cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca also shot Tourneur's Cat People).*

*DON'T FORGET!* *Joan Crawford on TCM June 2009 - All Times Eastern Check Local Schedules!* *Mon, Jun 8, 2009 @ 12:30 AM _Mildred Pierce_ (1945)*