CelluloidKid
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*Marie Windsor*
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*Thu, Jan 14, 12:00 PM _A Woman's Face_ (1941) - Eastern Time. Check Local Time.*
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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)*
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*'Gumby' creator Art Clokey, dead at 88, had an especially animated life!*
January 9, 2010
E! Online (blog)
It's a sad day in Gumbopolis. Art Clokey, the creator of claymation icon, Gumby, has died at his Los Osos, California home at 88, according to the LA Times. Starting in the '50s, Clokey's slanty-headed little green guy and his horse pal Pokey paved the way for a new world of mainstream psychedelic transformations using only colored clay and stop-motion animation.
After creating the Fantasia spoof, Gumbasia, while at USC, Clokey got a chance to do his own children's show and the result was Gumby, the six-inch-tall boy who could melt hearts, not to mention melting himself down at will and reforming into anything he wanted. Gumby and Pokey became popular, bendy action figures in the '60s, and went on to star in more than 200 cartoon episodes, sometimes battling their arch enemies, the Blockheads, but all the while inspiring future generations of trippy childhood imaginations. Well done, Gumby...and Art Clokey.
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*Marilyn Monroe*
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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!*
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*Sat, Jan 15, 2010 @ 10:45pm (Arizona Time!) _The Friends of Eddie Coyle_ (1973) - - Check Local Schedule for your times!!!*
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*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!!!*
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_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?
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Elizabeth Taylor - Show more obscure & rare films like: _Zee and Co_ (1972), _The Blue Bird_ (1976) & _Night Watch_ (1973)!
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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!!
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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!
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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
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*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.
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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.
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*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).
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*Davis, Bette*
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*_Wall Street_ (1987)*
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Peter Ustinov was in: _Blackbeard's Ghost_ (1968) directed by Robert Stevenson!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Robert Stevenson!*
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*_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).
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*January 29 2010 - _Johnny Guitar_ (1954) 10:30am. - All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedule!*
*_Johnny Guitar_ - 1954*
Republic. 110 minutes. US release: 5/27/54.
VHS release: 4/4/95. DVD: France (2/12/02), Germany (4/3/03), Brazil (4/2/04), UK (2005).
Cast: Joan Crawford (as "Vienna"), Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams, Ian MacDonald.
Credits: Based on the novel by Roy Chanslor. Screenplay: Philip Yordan. Producer: Herman J. Yates. Director: Nicholas Ray. Camera: Harry Stradling. Art Director: James Sullivan. Music: Victor Young. Title Song: Peggy Lee and Victor Young. Wardrobe: Sheila O'Brien. Editor: Richard L. Van Enger.
*_Notes_:*
? Joan Crawford bought the rights to Johnny Guitar before the book was published in May 1953. Author Roy Chanslor dedicated the book to her.
? Joan wanted either Claire Trevor or Barbara Stanwyck for the Emma-role, but the budget for the picture wouldn't allow it.
? The outdoor scenes were shot in Sedona, Arizona, and at the Republic ranch in the San Fernando Valley. (DF)
? Director Nicholas Ray and Joan first met on the set of Sudden Fear, where Ray would visit his then-wife Gloria Grahame, a co-star in the movie. (After their divorce in '52, Grahame would go on to date, and marry, Ray's son.)
? Ray and Joan had an affair while filming Johnny. He later said of that time, "Joan was drinking a lot and she liked to fight," but that she was also "very attractive, with a basic decency." (DF)
? Sterling Hayden starred with Bette Davis in The Star in 1952 -- which was supposedly based on Joan. (The film was written by Dale Eunson; he and wife Katharine Albert were once friends of Joan's, but had had a falling out earlier that year.)
? During the filming of Johnny, when asked to compare Davis and Joan, Hayden said, "Listen. I'll say my lines and kiss any actress my paycheck says to kiss, whether I like 'em or not." (DF)
? Ward Bond (McIvers) was much like his character in real life -- he fully co-operated with the House Un-American Activities Committee witch hunts. (He also appeared, uncredited, in The Gorgeous Hussy.)
? The set was rife with feuds, which were reported in the local papers. When one paper wrote about Joan's erratic behavior on the set, she responded by having an ad from the film's crew printed in a rival paper, saying what a "cooperative, charming, talented, understanding, generous, unspoiled, thoughtful, approachable person" she was. (DF)
? When Hollywood columnist Erskine Johnson reported that Joan had been mistreating McCambridge, Joan called him at home to say "This is Joan Crawford. And you're a ****" before quickly hanging up. (DF)
? Johnny Guitar appeared as a half-hour pilot for TV in 1959. The IMDb describes it as being about "a footloose, guitar-strumming cowboy who helps folks with their problems." There was no "Vienna" character in the show.
? Mercedes McCambridge later did the voice of the devil in The Exorcist.
? "Johnny Guitar: The Musical" opened off-Broadway on March 23, 2004 (Joan's birthday).
Thanks,
The Best of Everything JC!!
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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*
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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!!!!
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*I would have been fun if TCM had shown _The Towering Inferno_ (1974) .....*
Anybody else watch Joan Crawford in: I Live My Life (1935) 01/03/2010!?.
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*Joan Crawford W./director Van Dyke, W.S. (Woody)!*