path40a
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Nope,
Clue #2 - hungover at poolside
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O.K., here goes:
Clue #1 - a boxer
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Kind of depends how much of a star one has to have been in the movies before making the successful transition to TV, but here are some more:
Angie Dickinson - Police Woman
Dick Sargent - Bewitched
Eddie Albert - Green Acres
Vito Scotti - various
Norman Fell - Three's Company
Arthur O'Connell - various
Gavin MacLeod - McHale's Navy
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Glad to know y'all like him too. BTW, he was married to the same woman for 61 years, until her death, and received no recognition for his contributions to the movies. However, he was nominated and did receive Emmy's for his work on the two aforementioned television series.
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I've now seen him in quite a few "B" films I've watched (& reviewed) on TCM. Though his "Father Knows Best" TV series was before I was born, and "Marcus Welby" TV series aired when I was too young to watch it, thanks to our favorite channel I've been able to enjoy quite of few of his movie performances.
The first one I can recall "discovering" was Mortal Storm (1940) or Three Comrades (1938), which both have a lot of other great stars in them and can hardly be called "B" pictures. However, subsequently I've had the pleasure of viewing him in mostly happy go lucky or otherwise positive roles in such films as:
Vagabond Lady (1935), Married Before Breakfast (1937), and Miracles for Sale (1939). I've also enjoyed him in the (non-B?) H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), Journey for Margaret (1942), and Crossfire (1947).
Anyone else like Robert Young?
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Meet John Doe?
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I just wanted to thank everyone for this alert. Though the film was on several nights ago, I just had a chance to view it last evening. I had seen "Meet Joe Black" with Brad Pitt, and was so glad to see that this film was different enough to hold my interest. In fact, it's QUITE a bit shorter than the more recent movie, running under 80 minutes, I believe.
Of course, Fredric March is great, as always. I had also just seen "It's a Gift" with W.C. Fields, so I recognized Kathleen Howard (this was her FIRST movie) as Ms. Veneble's character's mother. In fact, I just watched (& reviewed) Ms. Veneble in "Vagabond Lady" with Robert Young as well.
I did enjoy THIS film. In fact, the dialogue was particularly clever, I thought, and the special effects (though brief) weren't bad either. I did find that the last 20 minutes or so got a little "talkie", but that would be my only complaint. It was also nice to see Henry Travers in something, he's not as prolific as a lot of other familiar character actors we know and love.
Thanks again for the recommendation stoney, feito, and moira!
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You've gotten rather "high hat" haven't you? I've seen "high hat" used in various contexts in older films, not really an expression that's used today.
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Barbary Coast Gent?
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I should know this since I just spent and extensive amount of time in a marvelous exhibit at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando called "Walt Disney: One Man's Dream" ... however, I don't. If ever you get the chance to visit that place, do it!
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LOL moviejoe! I tried to add to this message yesterday, but had trouble logging in again later in the day. In any case, I had great hopes for Peter B given the sorry state of the Essentials under Pollack. However, I find his choice of "The Lady from Shanghai" this weekend to be, well, curious to put it as nicely as I can. I wrote a little more on my site's TCM Picks page. I watched his comments, before and after, about "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and didn't get anything new. Though it wasn't as animated, it also wasn't as "offensive" (probably too strong a word), as Pollack had gotten. I won't pass judgment on Bogdanovich yet, and it must be hard choosing Essentials anyway given the limits of TCM's library and/or what they can obtain for their hosts (and Osborne's guest programmers too).
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Yes, happy b-day lolite! I, we, really enjoy your contributions and participation on these TCM message boards. Hope today is a special one for you!
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What a shame, she's always been a favorite of mine and she had an incredible start to her career: her first three performances were Oscar nominated!
The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), and The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Combine these with her fourth film, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1942), and they don't come many better than that ... the Oscar winning Best Picture The Best Years of Their Lives (1946) was only her sixth film!
And it would have been nice to have seen her opposite Robert Osborne right her on TCM too.
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This week's TCM Picks have been posted:
http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=tcm#mar10
including a modern classic American Graffiti (1973), the second part of Ivan the Terrible (1946), the recently discussed 49th Parallel, a curious choice for this week's Essential, the TCM premiere Winning (1969), another great night of Claudette Colbert films, one of my favorite guilty pleasure Bette Davis performances In This Our Life (1942), and a selection of films from director Fritz Lang including the TCM premiere of Western Union (1941).
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Don't know about the 100th anniversary of Gettysburg, since that would have to have been released around 1962 or so, but there is a short (Oscar nominated) I've seen on TCM which is in color that details the battle using the statues & monuments that grace its landscape. It's called the Battle of Gettysburg:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047862/maindetails
which was released in 1955, and I've seen it on TCM during "31 Days of Oscar" month.
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If you're still interested in more info about War Nurse (1930), I reviewed it on my website. However, the reason for this post is the fact that I just watched (& reviewed) something obscure I'd taped in January called "Sing and Like It (1934)" with Zasu Pitts, Nat Pendleton, Ned Sparks and others. It was so very funny. I didn't even realize till I watched it that it was "worthy" of a Robert Osborne intro, but it was. It's a fairly familiar story, and it's not exactly a great movie, but I did LOL a lot;-)
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I had not listed Saturday's Children in this week's picks 'cause I hadn't seen it and it had only a 2 1/2 rating from Maltin et al, so I wasn't sure. In fact, I understand the rating because, although it has some great scenes and a recongnizable cast, it's very uneven. Parts of it were very good, others were not. Overall, it's satisfying though so I'll probably include it on my list the next time it's on.
I hope you did have a chance to see the Garfield documentary (which I did recommend) which provides some great information about the actor, his talent, and perhaps the reasons for his premature death.
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Trouble in Paradise may be my favorite Herbert Marshall film!
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Yes, brackenhe, I too watched some of the Garfield selections and discovered a gem I'd not seen before, Saturday's Children. I wonder if you had a chance to see this one and what you thought of it.
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You are very welcome stoney, and thank you for your contributions to this thread. I really appreciate those who add their own great movie alerts here because I certainly haven't seen every film and have picked up a number of great suggestions from others. Keep it up, please!
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Joe E. Brown, continuously, in Show Boat (1951)
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The Mouthpiece with Warren William is in the library, and I understand it's not be shown in quite a while, though I'd love to see it.
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I rather liked what I saw of Ms. Colbert in The Sign of the Cross and Cleopatra (which will both be aired again next Monday;- )
Your Favorite Movie Lines
in Your Favorites
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There's a line in Twentieth Century (1934) I just missed writing down correctly. Barrymore has just tricked his way on-board the titled train wearing a disguise and says something like: "I can't believe I just stooped to being an actor"!