feaito
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Click on this link, Sixmore...the book was edited in 2003, but is way too expensive!!!....it's a refference book, so maybe your local library has it. Check the reviews at amazon. Hope this helps!!
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There used to be a Huge Book edited on a yearly basis?...Which contained information (data and biography) and addresses of almost all the public people in the world, actors, singers, writers, politicians, etc...I do not know if its edited anymore....Maybe you can check on your local library...It was called Who's Who (in the world)...
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Six, as young lad back in the very early 1980's (I'm 37 now), when still, even some silent legends were alive, I made the firm decision of writing some classic stars to get her signed photos.
In those days without Internet, I looked Up the Who's Who Book, and wrote down the addresses of some stars like Irene Dunne, Kate Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, etc...and wrote to them, telling how much I loved their movies, how much I admired them, etc...from a youngster's point of view, letters writtem really from the bottom of a young classic film buff's heart
Result: I got three signed photographs: one by the great Bette Davis; another by the legendary Lillian Gish, written in golden ink, with a lovely dedication too; and last but not least, a lovely autographed & dedicated still of Luise Rainer.
Of all three, only Miss Rainer is still alive (she's 94 or 96 years old), and still lives (it seems) in Lake Lugano, Switzerland, and I think she's one of the loveliest persons/actresses. I've ever seen on-screen, upon watching her interviews in "MGM When The Lion Roars" & the one she gave for the DVD release of "The Great Ziegfeld", you can feel her "truth", her "goodness", you can look into her eyes which reflect a pure soul. She seems friendly, and let's not forget that she was the first actress to win 2 Best Actresses Academy Awards, for "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) (as Anna Held) and "The Good Earth" (1937) (as O-Lan), a masterpiece and one of the most outstanding performances ever!
If you want to do it, go on...you've got nothing to lose. I did it and have those three cherished stills.
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Born To Dance?
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Thanks for the good wishes Mary Lou.
I've just checked the websites of TCM-Asia, TCM UK, France and Spain...and it seems each zone has its owm policies, when it comes to programming movies...I remember some guy from Australia complaining about the schedules they got there here on the boards.
Really TCM-USA is the top of the tops. Really guys you ought to be truly grateful, the treasures you get to see are not anywhere else but at TCM-USA.
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Joan Leslie?
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I'm so disappointed...today I read in the news that TCM Latin America, will be offered by only one cable operator, as part of its basic programming; and that its daily schedule will consist of only five movies per day (only the best known and "newer" classics, like "Dr. Zhivago", "2001 a Space Odyssey"...plus the better known oldies like "GWTW", "Wizard of Oz" & "Casablanca")....and 13 hours devoted to series/serials like "I dream of Jeannie", "Bewitched", "The Three Stooges"....I like the series, but I expected another different stuff.
So let's forget od silents, pre-codes, etc...it seems there's no market for such stuff here....I feel like an "island", isolated....
Well, at least I have you guys, here at the boards:)
You American people, have to be grateful of what you have there in the States, the truly & original, excellent TCM!!!
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I'm almost sure it is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...
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Maybe the 1945 "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" with James Dunn, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire
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Blossoms in the dust?
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I also read somewhere that she has been in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina, on this "promotional tour", staying two days in each city...tomorrow she'd be travelling to Mexico City, and then back to the States.
I read she turned 70, and she looks just great.
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sorry (always in rush..me...) last paragraph, I meant: "I hope..."
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If TCM is going downhill...I might as well de dead!. TCM is the best classics channel ever!! You only have to look up its monthly schedules.
TCM is always improving itself, airing more silents, leasing more Paramounts (as their budget permits so), showing all the pre-codes they can....TCM has always done a wonderful job!! Hearing our opinions (TCM Programmer thanks)...For instance when I & other people spoke so much and praised "Midnight" (1939) and "Portrait of Jennie" (1948), suddenly they appeared in the schedules...If that's not giving the public what they want, I don't know what is!!!
I'd hope TCM Latin-America will be as good as the USA TV station!!
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I've just read on the Newspapers that Barbara Eden, mythical star of the '60s TV sitcom "I dream of Jeannie", arrived in Santiago de Chile, for the big launching-party of TCM Latin-America, which would start its transmissions, in September 2004.
I'm so happy about it....Hope my Cable Company will carry it!!
The only sad thing is that the movies, presumedly, aren't going to be subtitled but "dubbed" in spanish... well, at least I hope, like in TNT's case, there's going to be (available) a second audio channel in english (pressing the "SAP" button on the Remote Control).
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Yesterday I watched the DVD edition of "The Howards of Virginia" (which was birthday gift from one of my bros.), and I just loved it...an unusual role for Cary Grant, but as always, he's excellent, and the rest of the cast too, especially Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke and Richard Carlson.
A Great Epic "Americana".
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King Kong?
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Bravo Mary Lou...
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I knew it was the "Rose Tattoo"...I was waiting for another clue
.....great work Mongo....
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Ronald Reagan in Hasty Heart???
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Harry Morgan in High Noon
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Yeah lolite!!!!! Bravo...you got it....1932's As You Desire Me, with Garbo, Melvyn Douglas & Erich Von Stroheim...Your Turn!!! Congrats!!!
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Joan Crawford in "A Woman's Face"
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Nope Lolite...Would love to see that movie!!!...but you are sort of close, the film was released one year earlier:
Clue # 9: Based on a Luigi Pirandello play
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Stephen Boyd (Messala) in that epic 1959 blockbuster "Ben-Hur", directed by master Wiliam Wyler.....
Trivia -- Week of August 23, 2004
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In "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"?