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Not sure what you're looking for ... do you have the scene recorded such that you want to know, for example, as the camera pans from left to right, who each of the stars are in sequence? In other words, you need help identifying who they are? I could probably type a list of the stars that are (or could be) in the shots because there is a photograph in "The MGM Story" book I have which has all of stars from that Silver Jubilee (April, 1949) in it. 58 of its 80 stars and feature players sat for the portrait. However, that won't help you identify the stars on the piece of film, likely "Some of the Best" that you just saw;-)

Not sure I understand, but I know that Hitchcock also used a scream masked by a train whistle in Number Seventeen (though I don't remember a shipwreck in that one;-)

Blackmail?

Although I REALLY wouldn't recommend it, and it is going to be aired on TCM soon, Andrea King in Shadow of a Woman (1946), which is a really AWFUL film.

pulp fiction?

Sorry to hear this, I hope that she recovers. She's left us so many wonderful performances on film, from the time that she was a child (and was stunningly beautiful, particularly in her early adulthood). In 1997, when I was diagnosed with a cystic astrocytoma in my cerebellum (a benign brain tumor), it gave my mother strength before my operation to know that Ms. Taylor had (only months earlier) just had hers successfully removed. My prayers are with her now.

Yes, you got both of them. Good job, next ...

I just wanted to mention that I really enjoyed Illeana Douglas as TCM's Guest Programmer last night. Not only were the movies she selected terrific, but I enjoyed the commentary and related stories she told about her grandfather Melvyn Douglas (one of my favorites, to be sure).

****, no!

You could read this thread: http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=77181&start=15#7777867 or any number of others here. Of course, watching TCM every night is usually a good idea too. There's a Great Movie Alert! thread within this same "Favorites" folder with a link to my picks each day, FWIW.

Kyle said - The best honor would be to find an idea of mine on the TCM schedule in the next few months. No tangible prize could take the place of that. July 8th has a "Pulp Fiction" feel to it: 8:00 PM Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Albert Dekker. Dir: Robert Aldrich. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format 10:00 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944) Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC 12:00 AM Dark Passage (1947) A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS 2:00 AM Maltese Falcon, The (1931) In the first screen version of The Maltese Falcon, detective Sam Spade investigates the theft of a priceless statue. Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC

Thanks! LuckyDan posted an earlier Hitchcock trivia question, about how he had answered Tom Snyder when asked "what frightens you"? The correct response was "Policemen". However, the director actually had at least three other answers to that same question, one of which was (the stereotypical?): "That my next picture won't be as good as the last one". Name at least one of the other things that frightened the "Master of Suspense". ... and I'm not looking for "eggs", lol! Message was edited by: path40a

Ross Bagdasarian?

Sandy, do you like Scaramouche (1952): http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=19571&tstart=1320 or the other swashbuckler, adventure genre films of the past that Lucas used to form his original Star Wars trilogy?

Garbo?

Since you said "he", I'm guessing you don't mean ballerina Tamara Toumanova?

This week's TCM Picks have been posted: http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=tcm which begins Thursday with a sci-fi day followed by the last evening of April's SOTM Deborah Kerr's films, including her only other pairing with Yul Brynner in the uneven yet interesting Cold War drama The Journey (1959); Friday (Lionel Barrymore's birthday) features the TCM premiere of the Oscar winning Foreign Language Film Cinema Paradiso (1990), and later the powerful Kapo (1959) featuring Susan Strasberg in the title role; Saturday, one of the several films "starring Montgomery Clift" is The Heiress (1949) (Olivia de Havilland's second Best Actress Oscar performance on her last nomination); Sunday's lineup features several great films including an early airing of one of the best films ever on race relations In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Sidney Poitier opposite Rod Steiger's Best Actor Oscar performance is not-to-be-missed & Sunrise (1927) is this Sunday's silent; next Monday is Glenn Ford's birthday salute, preceded by a couple of early James Stewart features and followed by 12 of the greatest movies (and screenplays) of all time through late Tuesday afternoon; Tuesday evening, TCM's first installment of "Race and Hollywood: Black Images in Film" begins with D.W. Griffith's controversial silent epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the TCM premiere of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Wednesday is a (mostly pre-code) birthday salute to Mary Astor that includes the Howard Hughes produced, Lewis Milestone directed silent classic Two Arabian Knights (1927), followed by the first evening with May's SOTM Bette Davis and the all new documentary Stardust (2006)! Message was edited by: path40a

Actually, it was the 1940 version of Raffles (starring David Niven) that was scheduled & shown.

... featuring the immortal (Bette Davis) line "What a dump!"

July 3rd (the schedule is back up) is the day that multiple versions of the Wizard of Oz will be shown!

And Leo McCarey directed both Love Affair (1939) and An Affair to Remember (1957)!

Yep, and he'd wanted Greta Garbo to return to the screen for the title role!

My Tivo recorded Raffles as well, and my cable company's brief description said it would be the Ronald Colman version. However, my TCM schedule said otherwise. Still, I enjoyed the film, though I'd too would love to see the Colman version. I read something interesting in Berg's Goldwyn biography about how the producer used this remake to resign Niven. He even had Dana Andrews, also under contract, dress like the character and follow Niven around the sets of other pictures the actor was working on, having his picture taken. It worked, and Niven did resign, only to have England enter World War II after Raffles was completed such that Goldwyn lost his services for the duration.

That is correct! Your turn ...

Something to think about, even though I'm sure you have the best of intentions - if you choose to name your child after someone (anyone, but especially a well known personality), you've already labeled your child with a handicap. Whether the person you name them after is "unimpeachable" or not, they'll immediately be compared to that person and/or be subject to teasing if (e.g.) the named actor or actress is known to them or their peers. It may seem "cool" to you now, but it probably won't when you get (or your child gets) older. Remember, they will have to live with your choice into adulthood and (probably) for the rest of their lives. My advice (since you asked) would be to choose a name that you like, perhaps even a unisex one if they're female, that's more traditional. Like it or not, from peer pressure in their younger years through their business life, they'll be judged (first, even if only in a small way) by their name. You don't want your college graduate to have to put only their initials on their resume to keep some Human Resources wonk from prejudging their qualifications just because of their name.