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*MISS. TURNER ON TCM - January 2010 - ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN - PLEASE CHECK LOCAL TIME SCHEDULE.* *Sat, Jan 9, 11:45 PM (9:45pm (MT) Arizona Time.) _Latin Lovers_ (1953)* *Tue, Jan 12, 12:45 PM (10:45am (MT) Arizona Time.) _Ziegfeld Girl_ (1941)* *Wed, Jan 13, 5:30 AM (3:30am (MT) Arizona Time.) _Dramatic School_ (1938)*

*Marilyn Monroe*

Paul Scofield hmmmmmmmmmm .... he was in: _The Crucible_ (1996) (BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role) directed by Nicholas Hytner! *NEW DIRECTOR: Nicholas Hytner!*

*Sat, Jan 15, 2010 @ 10:45pm (Arizona Time!) _The Friends of Eddie Coyle_ (1973) - - Check Local Schedule for your times!!!*

*Thanks for the heads-Up!* *Sat, Jan 15, 2010 @ 10:45pm (Arizona Time!) _The Friends of Eddie Coyle_ (1973) - - Check Local Schedule for your times!!!*

_The Friends of Eddie Coyle_ (1973) ... Great film ...So glad it came to DVD ...Finally!! ET Weekly Magazine considers _The Friends of Eddie Coyle_ (1973) 1 of the best DVD release of 2009! *Also check out my thread:* *Thread: The Friends of Eddie Doyle (1973)- Robert Mitch- Finally Comes to DVD !!* http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8241828?

Elizabeth Taylor - Show more obscure & rare films like: _Zee and Co_ (1972), _The Blue Bird_ (1976) & _Night Watch_ (1973)!

I just got done reading: 'Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed' .... .....So a day of films too: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed would be awsome!! Esp. Richard Burton!!

Another good Joan moment, is when Kay (Joan Crawford) tells the butler she wants to travel to Naxos, Greece ..the butler turns & states the Bri needs to be served, & Kay (Joan) grabs the tray and just casually tosses the tray over-board! LOL!

Joan Crawford - More rare films! Hayley Mills Lana Turner Thelma Ritter Elsa Lanchester Robert Mitchum Marilyn Monroe - Contract W./ 20th Century Fox Vincent Price Catherine Deneuve Ellen Burstyn Franchot Tone William Haines - In 1930, Haines was the top box-office male star and Joan Crawford the top female .After involuntarily retiring from acting, he took up a successful, prolific, decades-long career as an interior decorator. Some of his clients included Carole Lombard and Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March. Also TCM could get the rights, and show the documentary _Out of the Closet, Off the Screen_: The Life of William Haines (2001) Sonja Henie - She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936), a ten-time World Champion (1927-1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931-1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater. At the height of her acting career she was one of the highest paid movie stars in Hollywood. Abbott and Costello - The Three Stooges are so "Over-Rated"! B?la Lugosi Fran?oise Dorl?ac - She was a French actress, too early and tragically disappeared. She was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorl?ac and Ren?e Deneuve, and the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. Jane Russell - Sheree North - After the success of "How to Be Very, Very Popular", North was groomed by Fox as the "new Marilyn Monroe". However, the studio soon focused attention on a new Monroe-esque actress, Jayne Mansfield. Decades later, North would play Monroe's mother in the 1980 television movie "Marilyn: The Untold Story". Britt Ekland - A Swedish actress long resident in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her role of "Mary Goodnight" in the Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun", Capucine - A French actress. She made several forays into American cinema in addition to her lengthy European film career. Faye Dunaway

*Got a new book for Xmas...I'm reading a very interesting book called: _The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder_ by David Thomson.* David Thomson's book gives us an extensive history of the production of "Psycho" from conception (Hitchcock did an anonymous bid on Robert Bloch's book of the same name knowing that he could get it for a lot less money); Hitchcock's collaboration with writer Joseph Stefano (the trendsetting and brilliant writer/producer of "The Outer Limits")through the process of negotiating with censors (Hitchcock would deliberately plant stuff in the script that he planned on shooting or shoot things he knew he would never use to do a bait and switch with them)and carefully rolling out the big surprise of killing off his star less than half way through the film. Fascinating read on how the movie business works. The clash between stars, studios and director! *_Product Description_* It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national consciousness. Nothing like Psycho had existed before; the movie industry?even America itself?would never be the same. In The Moment of Psycho, film critic David Thomson situates Psycho in Alfred Hitchcock?s career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson shows that Psycho was not just a sensation in film: it altered the very nature of our desires. Sex, violence, and horror took on new life. Psycho, all of a sudden, represented all America wanted from a film?and, as Thomson brilliantly demonstrates, still does.

Rosary ... _The Name of the Rose_ (1986) (original title, Der Name der Rose) NEW WORD: _Old Rock Day_ - _Always January 7th_ - Old Rock Day is an opportunity to enjoy and appreciate old rocks and fossils. Perhaps you can start a rock collection. You can go out on a field trip in search of old fossils (the rock kind). Or, if you choose, you can just play with old rocks.

*Goulding, Edmund* - Decadent British actor/playwright/director who directed Joan Crawford in: _Sally, Irene and Mary_ (1925), _Paris_ (1926), and Grand Hotel (1932). One of four directors that Joan said really helped or influenced her (the others: Clarence Brown, George Cukor, Mike Curtiz).

*Davis, Bette*

*_Wall Street_ (1987)*

Peter Ustinov was in: _Blackbeard's Ghost_ (1968) directed by Robert Stevenson! *NEW DIRECTOR: Robert Stevenson!*

*_Anyone else notice_ !??.* Edward Brophy: Look for him palling around with the ?Thin Man? -- a great wisecracker, and he snarls out his lines like he?s in a dumpster. Etienne Girardot has been around and shows up in these early films, usually as an old professor or country doctor. (Hungry and grouchy in _The Kennel Murder Case_ (1933) !) Lionel Stander, identified by his raspy voice, is still a novice and only gets the back of his head in camera range during a card-game scene, but in two years he gets the role of ?Libby? in 1937's A Star Is Born -- then you will never forget him. Aline MacMahon: She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in _Dragon Seed_ (1944).

LOL!! ...I really loved when Joan explode towards the end of film. I love how she just tore the set apart...LOL...Joan starts throwing stuff, and screaming!! Joan really could rock it. Joan Crawford looked divine in Adrian! I would love to see the British version of I _Live My Life_ since Per Moviedatabase .... The two (2) other working titlews were: Glitter (USA) (working title) If You Love Me (USA) (working title) ...Interesting!?. *_Trivia for_:* _I Live My Life_ (1935) A different ending was shot for the British release, which toned down the behavior of 'Brian Aherne' at the wedding. *I Live My Life, Joan Crawford Wearing Evening Gown Designed by Adrian, 1935*

I wil put _I Live My Life_ (1935) on my list of XMAS films tro watch.. since parts of the film take place during Christmas, and Joan even sings "Silent Night"... MGM heaven!!!!

*Cool thing I found on "YouTube" .. _I Live My Life_ (1935) Lobby Card slideshow!!!* *_I Live My Life_ (1935)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAiwRE_9XF0

_Blue Velvet_ (1986) ...Great film ...accept for the disastrous casting of Laura Dern!! The one actress I can't stand. She bugs me. I don't care for her work. Some of her films are ok!. In _Jurassic Park_ (1993) I was hoping a dinosaur would eat her. I remember my mother taking me to _Blue Velvet_ (1986) on the big screen when it 1st came out. This is the film that introduced me to David Lynch. I;am still trying to figure what _Mulholland Dr_. (2001) was all about. *_Best film moments for me_:* 1) , Ben lip-syncs a performance of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", sending Frank into maudlin sadness, then rage. Frank takes Jeffrey to a lumber yard and savagely beats him to the overture of "In Dreams". Dennis Hopper is crazy! 2) Dorothy's (Isabella Rossellini) performances at the Slow Club, where she sings the song "Blue Velvet. Edited by: CelluloidKid on Jan 5, 2010 4:06 PM

*Hedgerley pub used for classic film bulldozed* Tuesday 5th January 2010 This is Local London By Lawrence Dunhill *A PUB that once featured in the classic British film _Genevieve_ has been bulldozed for five new homes.* Hedgerley pub The One Pin Inn will soon be replaced by five ?traditional style houses?. In 1953 comedy two couples enter their vintage cars ? one of them a 1904 Darracq named Genevieve ? in the London to Brighton car race. Most of the race was shot on roads around Pinewood Studios and the couples stop for a ?hair of the dog? at the old One Pin Lane pub. Actors John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan are also filmed in Collinswood Road, in Hedgerley, and Common Road, Fulmer, which provided stretches of country road for the race. The news saddened Don Brockway, a fan of the film who turned the rally into reality in 2002 with a vintage car tour of all the film's locations. He said: ?What terrible news ? I'm glad that I had the chance to visit The One Pin for a pint or two.? The building dates from around 1800 and records show it was called The One Pin Inn since at least 1839. An attempt was made to have the building listed but English Heritage said it had "insufficient surviving fabric" and had been "too altered" to be listed. The plans were permitted by South Bucks District Council in October and developers Oakford Homes aims to start building work in the first half of this year. Oakford Homes was unavailable for comment. *_Awards_* The film won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (William Rose) and Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

*_I Live My Life_ - 1935 - MGM - 85 minutes. US release: 10/4/35.* *_Cast:_* Joan Crawford (as "Kay"), Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Fred Keating, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Hilda Vaughn, Vince Barnett, Lionel Stander, Hale Hamilton. *_Credits_:* Based on the story "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Producer: Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Camera: George Folsey. Costumes: Adrian. Editor: Tom Held. Score: Dimitri Tiomkin. *_Total Gross_:* $1,478,000 ($384,000 net profit) *_Notes_:* The story upon which the film was based, "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe, first appeared in Scribner's in April 1926. The film was in production from 6/3/35 to 7/35. Filmed at Chatsworth, Los Angeles, and the Santa Catalina and Channel Islands of California. Thanks, The Best of Everything JC website for info! ?Claustrophobia,? the basis for the Joan Crawford film ?I Live My Life,? was published in the April 1926 edition of Scribner?s Magazine, more evidence of the devotion that once existed to literature in this country, and won an O.Henry Award that year. It is illustrated with sketchy pen and ink drawings of society types. *Click for Photo of Oct. 1935 premiere of the film!!* *Very cool to see how "BIG" Joan really was back then!* http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/ilivemylifeprem.htm

*Also did anyone notice .. Sterling Price Holloway, Jr.?? What a talented cast this film had!!* *Sterling Holloway ... Max!* Holloway's work in animated films began in 1941, when he was heard in Dumbo, as the voice of "Mr. Stork." Walt Disney had considered Holloway for the voice of Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but Pinto Colvig was chosen instead. Holloway was the voice of the adult "Flower" in Bambi, the narrator of the Antarctic penguin sequence in The Three Caballeros, the narrator in the Peter and the Wolf sequence of Make Mine Music, and the narrator of the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" sequence of "Fun and Fancy Free". He voiced Kaa in The Jungle Book, was the narrator in Goliath II, and voiced the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland and Roquefort in The Aristocats. His Disney Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes are well known. He was honored as a "Disney legend" in 1991.

*The Thing Prequel to Start Production in March* January 3rd, 2010 The Thing prequel is directed by Matthijs Van Hejningen.Production Weekly is reporting via Twitter that Universal Pictures will begin production in March on the prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic thriller The Thing. Production will begin in March in Toronto, and commence in June. The screenplay, written by Ronald D. Moore, and rewritten by Eric Heisserer, tells the story of a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes researchers at a Norwegian Antarctic facility. Matthijs Van Hejningen is set to direct the sci-fi horror.