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Was that kid from the Deep South or what? I need to look him up on imdb. His accent sounded really out of place among all the more Brit or continental European-sounding accents. He sounded like a lot of the South Park voices. I noticed he got a lot of closeups when speaking, probably because he had fairly complex dialogue, and I'm guessing they often had to isolate him to make sure he got his lines right.
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Ernie Kovacs day on the 23d not scheduled yet. He didn't make very many movies. They were all either at Columbia or Fox, so I'm hoping for some off-the-beaten-path choices. How about Strangers When We Meet, which has never aired on TCM? Though we'll probably get Bell, Book and Candle ...
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The Fly and The Return of the Fly on January 12. Looks like these films were probably independently produced, but they were released through 20th Century Fox and hence haven't been on TCM a lot. TCM appears to be making the most of its lease time with the original. The Fly is airing in November, December AND January? However, this will be only the second-ever airing of the sequel, which previously aired in May, 2017.
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13 hours ago, calvinnme said:
TCM often makes January a little special since we have to suffer through the 31 days of Oscar (at WB, MGM, and RKO) in February. Not this time.
Ha ha ha, that's an interesting and funny interpretation, although I doubt anyone at TCM is actually saying, "Let's make January a little extra special for our viewers, since they're going to have to suffer all February!" I'm reasonably sure they don't see their programming choices the way you do! They actually seem to be pretty fond of 31 Days.
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3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
full disclosure here: my allergies are kicking my butt right now and I was double dosed on Benadryl and whacked out of my mind as I watched. I fell asleep halfway through SON OF FRANKENSTEIN and had a dream Basil Rathbone was berating me while throwing darts at my head.
I'm not sure how I never put two and two together before last night, but Young Frankenstein is clearly more based on this movie than any other in the Universal Frankenstein franchise. This became very obvious to me last night, my second time to see the movie. I loved the acting and the visuals, but boy, a lot of the plot is dumb! All those guys in the village council can't figure out why six of the eight judges (soon to be eight of eight) who unanimously voted to hang Igor are dead?
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3 hours ago, drednm said:
Mama Rose was not a nice person. Trying to play her for sympathy is a mistake. Trying to change the intent of the original creators (Sondheim, Styne, Laurents) is a mistake.
I only know this movie, not any other versions. My personal interpretation is Mama Rose doesn't come across as terribly sympathetic. Maybe a moment or two here and there. But mostly she just seems mentally unbalanced! By the end, I was like, well no wonder Baby June and Herbie left her.
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Young Mr. Lincoln (20th Century Fox, 1939) January 11. John Ford and Henry Fonda in happier times, before their friendship ended on the set of Mister Roberts. It was just on last month. I missed it. But it's a relative TCM rarity. Its January airing will be only its 11th time ever on TCM.
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Man on a Tightrope (20th Century Fox, 1953) I totally never heard of, making its TCM premiere January 9. If you wanted to show an Elia Kazan movie from Fox, I wouldn't have minded A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Gentleman's Agreement, but I would absolutely be willing to give one I never heard of a try, except TCM chose to show it in the middle of the night! The cast listing sent me scurrying over to imdb, where I see Terry Moore, whom I pretty much only know from Come Back, Little Sheba, is 90 years old and still active! She has four yet-to-be released movies in the can, according to imdb.
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A Letter to Three Wives (20th Century Fox, 1949) on January 6. Douglas is only kind of semi-tortured in this one. First TCM airing since December, 2016.
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Gunfight at the OK Corral (Paramount, 1957) on January 5! Probably my favorite of the Burt Lancaster-Kirk Douglas collaborations, and typically I hardly even watch Westerns! Kirk Douglas is so great at playing tortured souls, and his Doc Holliday is one of the most tortured. Most recently aired on TCM in December, 2017, but I missed that one. I will definitely catch this airing!
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Well, hey, I can't speak for the month as a whole, but I just looked at New Year's Day, and TCM is kicking off primetime with its second-airing ever of the 20th Century Fox baseball comedy It Happened in Flatbush (its only previous airing was in November, 2010). So, I'm immediately encouraged!
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I will have to dive into this tomorrow. Kathyn Grayson is, I know, a repeat honoree. Looks like she only made 21 movies (one of them an uncredited voiceover appearance only), and without checking out all of them, a quick scan of titles seems to indicate EVERY ONE of them was made at MGM, which means they've all been on TCM dozens and dozens of times before. I hope this "free" month for TCM means some funds will be free some fresh SOTM later in the year.
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I just saw the last 30 seconds of the doc, and they were closing by talking about the novel, so I don't know, maybe it's a comprehensive history and not just about the photographer guy, as I feared. I may give it a chance after watching Son of Frankenstein.
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6 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:
Spence-- although Russell was a fine actress, she was totally inadequate in this role.
Her husband bought the property out from under Ethel Merman.
Russell's portrayal of Mama Rose was vulgar your face and superficial lacking all of the nuance and profundity that Ethel had given when she created the role on Broadway.
And of course there was the issue of the singing.
I can remember when Natalie was rehearsing for the role and Gypsy Rose Lee was telling her how great she was.
This could have been a great Musical, this should have been a great Musical movie, but Russell ruined it for everyone.
Strong words. I have no Ethel Merman footage to compare, but I would agree Russell is pretty ham-fisted in this one, as she was in most of her late-career roles.
I must confess, the first time I watched this movie 10 years or more ago, I came into hoping it was mostly going to be about Natalie Wood in various states of undress, as one might logically assume from the title! I had no idea 99 per cent of it was going to be about an overbearing stage mother with an extremely tame Wood-stripping scene at the very end.
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17 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said:
No! She's a 'has-been'. Forget her! Toss her on the scrap-heap! Relegated to TV!
Wow. Strong words. Strong, bewildering words, as Kent Brockman once said. Given the ascendancy of TV and the relative financial struggles on non-superhero movies, I don't know if one is really "relegated" to TV anymore. Some actors seem to prefer TV these days, if you count it in all its myriad forms, such as Netflix.
I think Close is a strong possibility, but as Jakeem points out, there are a number of contenders this year for only five spots. We'll see.
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I thought this Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein was gonna be like a history of Frankenstein movies. You're telling me it's going to be about this weird photographer and his model son they've been running promos for? I was wondering what those were all about. Hmmm. Probably not watching that. And they're showing it twice in short order. I will probably only watch Son of Frankenstein and go to bed. Like Lorna, it's unlikely I will stay up for the Hammer fare.
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2 hours ago, calvinnme said:
They obviously don't have jobs, although it is mentioned that Peggy worked in a hospital, but I assume that was during the war years, and as a volunteer.
Peggy still appears to be working in the hospital. She's wearing her nurse headpiece (whatever you call it) in one scene, I think when she drives Fred to his apartment. We don't ever learn anything about Wilma. I think it was probably not unusual at that time for an unmarried woman just a few years into her adulthood to still be living at home.
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Ha, ha, I must admit my favorite scenes were when he was pouring vodka into the orange juice, sniffing coke in bedrooms with naked women and otherwise acting totally irresponsibly, NOT any scene where he was showing some form of moral redemption. But maybe that says something about me ...
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21 hours ago, ChristineHoard said:
I'm not sure what you mean by the way Carol and Illeana were lit but I'll check it out next time.
Yes to the first part of your post. I am in total agreement. Way too much about Carol and her TV show and her lousy performance in THE FRONT PAGE. To the guest stars: it's not totally all about you. Keep your ego in check for a few moments and please focus on the movies being presented and who made them and why you like them.
I, too, don't know if the poster is referring to the lighting or is using "lit" in its hip form to mean "cool" or whatever it means exactly. I'm old.
Ohhh ... I didn't mind the talk about The Front Page. It was reasonably relevant in the aftermath of the presentation of His Girl Friday, and how often does Carol Freaking Burnett, one of the greatest comediennes of all time, appear on TCM anyway? I firmly believe getting her to talk about herself was totally generated by TCM and/or Ms. Douglas and not by Carol having some monstrous ego, as you seem to be implying. I think they had to coax her into that. In my opinion, she's done PLENTY of talking about the movies and why she likes them. One minute to talk about one of her performances - a minute during which she was completely self-deprecating, by the way - is not, in my opinion, some terrible sin.
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15 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Peggy.
"Peggy" was a common nickname given EVERYONE with an impossible shortening of their real name. My grandmother Terkish (Theresa) was known as "Peg". I asked why and that's what she told me.
But ... there's ALREADY someone named Peggy in the movie, so we stick with Hortense.
That was always one of my favorite parts of the movie. Fred's dad is clearly living with someone who's not his mother, and it's not explained. You think the Code would have stepped in and insisted on some expository dialogue about widowing and a second marriage, so that it's all clearly on the moral up-and-up. But there's no explanation. We the viewers are free to interpret as we please. I like how Fred is warm to Hortense but not overly affectionate. A perfect tone.
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I'm absolutely sure they had some hits in 1962 but apparently no Top Five hits during the months Lawrence mentioned! I think "The Lonely Bull" was from '62.
Edit: Oh, Lawrence already replied for I could complete the post.
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Pretty sure none of which are in the movie. I mean, don't get me wrong. The soundtrack is awesome. My point is, it's just not the songs that would have been playing on Top 40 radio stations that year. I doubt the oldies station had been invented yet.
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I stated in another thread that I was very impressed with the scenes they show in the trailers, all of which feature only what I presume, given the historical storyline, are early scenes in the movie, where she's clearly been through some hard knocks, but also expresses a gushing innocence as she's overwhelmed by this major star taking an interest in her both personally and professionally. Remains for me to be seen how she handles the heavier scenes that must come if this follows a similar path to previous versions. I think she has a career ahead of her as an actress if she chooses to pursue that.
Musically, it would be a stretch to say I'm any kind of fan, though it is hard to get "Poker Face" out of your head if you've heard it at least once. I saw sort of a doc with her where she expressed her love for Bruce Springsteen and other classic rockers, especially the song "Thunder Road", which she says made her want to be a musician. I have some appreciation for the modern stars who have least bothered to learn a little about what has gone before. And she hired Clarence Clemmons to play sax on a couple of her songs, which I believe were the last studio recordings in which he ever participated.
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Yes, I almost mentioned that in my last post! As much as they all hated him when he arrived, everything seemed weirdly hunky-dory when he left again! Maybe they were all just happy to see him go ...