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I, too, would love to see Smith get a SUTS day or be one of the actors featured if TCM ever makes character actors their SOTM again. Going through his resume in chronological order, I've listed 12 movies I would be delighted to see as part of a SUTS day lineup. And I didn't even make it out of the '30s! As a character actor, he clearly wasn't tied down by any long-term contracts to one studio. He worked all over the place.
Tarzan the Ape Man (MGM, 1932)
Trouble in Paradise (Paramount, 1932)
Morning Glory (RKO, 1933)
Bombshell (MGM, 1933)
One More River (Universal, 1934)
Cleopatra (Paramount, 1934)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Paramount, 1935)
China Seas (MGM, 1935)
Lloyd's of London (20th Century Fox, 1936)
The Hurricane (Goldwyn/United Artists, 1937)
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (MGM, 1937)
The Four Feathers (London/United Artists, 1939)
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Your Cheatin' Heart last aired in September, 2015, but it's on the schedule for June!
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8 hours ago, jeff gravitt said:
There was a time when TCM existed simply to show old movies for people who wanted to watch them without being required to undergo political indoctrination. Since the death of Robert Osborne and the subsequent putsch by Ben Mankiewicz and his fellow Communist cronies who couldn't even get airtime on MSNBC, TCM has become nothing less than a leftist propaganda machine that would, ironically, make Little Joe Goebbles laugh his butt off. (I had to edit this twice because TCM wouldn't let me say the three-letter word for "donkey" instead of "butt" - that's freedom of speech for you)
And I would like to go to the TCM message boards to read about movies and not find every other thread being right-wing alarmism from someone who probably can't get airtime anywhere. You can't get on the Internet anymore without some angry right winger wanting to make every thread topic about politics. And you think a left-wing propaganda machine would make Goebbels (TCM didn't stop you from spelling his name right, did they?) happy? I think just about everyone except maybe you would characterize Nazism as a right-wing phenomenon.
You can easily skip the intros and outros that make you so unhappy with the aid of the power button on your remote. I do it to avoid Wine Club and Backlot commercials. Yes, I'm tired of all that capitalistic propaganda being shoved in my face by TCM. Oh, the irony that we should BOTH be annoyed!
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7 hours ago, yanceycravat said:
The last time Angels with Dirty Faces played was June 1st 2010.
Not sure if you're making that post to correct my statement of "at least a decade", which I knew was wrong when I typed it but was too lazy to change. No one lets you get away with anything around here! But darn near a decade since it last aired.
Alias French Gertie last aired in January, 1998.
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I think this is an interesting thread topic, and I don't want to torpedo it by saying moviecollectoroh has an online database that would answer all your questions, so I'm gonna pretend like I'm the only one who knows about it.
The Jolson Story last aired in February, 2014.
Pressure Point last aired in September, 2012.
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I would like to actually see this list of which you speak. Where can I look at it?
I think TCM Guest Programmers will always be a thing. Apparently there's not one this month? But there have been at least a couple this year already.
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I like all of them, but I consider myself something of an amateur rock & roll historian, so Elvis certainly means the most to me personally. It's unfortunate he left his career to be controlled by Andreas van Kuijk, who really seemed to have his own best interests at heart than his client's. All those cheeseball movies and the cheeseball '70s stage shows aside, his canny and prescient fusion of R&B, country, pop and rockabilly elements into something fresh and original was groundbreaking and, if I may be so dramatic, cosmos-shifting.
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Wow, that's another weird one like my cause celebre of Angels with Dirty Faces that appears to be under TCM control but they haven't shown for more than a decade for some reason.
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Ha ha well now future generations will think I was too much of a dummy to see the year of release included in the thread title! When Allenex revives this thread again in 2030 ...
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I suppose Bette Davis' most famous scene with a gun was in The Letter, but there's also this one (boy, they didn't care about giving away plot points, did they?)
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I must confess in two years I had never once looked at this thread because I thought it was about the 1989 film with Jessica Lange and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Finally tonight I was like man what on earth was so amazing about that film that people are still talking about it? Curiosity finally got the better of me.
Never mind ...
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I don't really need to be lectured on how Republicans and Democrats have changed, nor am I trying to imply anything by providing my information, other than stating a fact. Capra may indeed have been a liberal by modern standards, but I think it's interesting to note there was a guy named FDR, and while we're not privy to Capra's voting record, it certainly seems likely he voted against him four times, for whatever that's worth.
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Judy Garland gets those steaks back in The Harvey Girls. Sorry, no still of that scene on its imdb page.
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Capra was an ardent Republican, from what I read in the recent Barbara Stanwyck bio.
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Charlton Heston uncredited in Almost an Angel and the Tim Burton version of Planet of the Apes. Also uncredited (voice only) for Armageddon.
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3 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
And sadly, will STILL go uncredited, because YOU TOO, failed to mention just WHO these "noticeable" children were.
And BTW----Sewhite---
BILL MURRAY was credited for his role in TOOTSIE.
Sepiatone
Yeah, closing credits, I guess, as I do some internet research, which I suppose counts. He's definitely not in the opening credits.
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Trying to think of a few that are bigger than just a brief walk-on. I'm mostly thinking of more modern movies off the top of my head.
Eddie Albert in Every Girl Should Be Married.
Roger Moore in Curse of the Pink Panther.
Omar Sharif in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
Robin Williams in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Robin Williams in Dead Again.
Bill Murray in Tootsie.
Jack Nicholson in Broadcast News.
Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein. Gene Hackman in Reds.
Matt Damon in Interstellar.
Vanessa Redgrave in A Man for All Seasons.
Robert Duvall in The Conversation.
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If this was a movie, it would turn out ... I was that guy!!!! ?
But, I'm sorry to say, no.
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Possibly I'm a youngster around here. Don't feel like one so much in the real world! I'm a child of the '70s, adolescent of the '80s, young adult of the '90s. I didn't really develop an interest in classic films until post-2000, when I was in my early-to-mid '30s.
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On 5/6/2018 at 8:41 PM, AndyM108 said:
I checked my list and was surprised I've only seen 26 of Grant's films, even though he's among my top 10 or 12 favorite actors.
My favorites are Charade, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and North By Northwest, probably in that order. I can't say enough about Charade, which ironically was the last one on my list that I got a chance to see. I don't recall seeing it on TCM's schedule until a few years ago, but now it seems to show up many times a year. What a perfect combination of stars, character actors, plot twists, humor, and one of the more believable May-December romantic pairings that Hollywood's ever attempted. What a relief to see Audrey with Grant, after being so ludicrously paired with the likes of Bogart and Cooper, both of whom had one foot in the grave and seemed qualified to be her grandfather. Astaire wasn't much more convincing, but at least he exuded a bit more energy in Funny Face than a dead battery. What was it about Hepburn that led filmmakers to keep pairing her with men twice her age?
While I've seen more than you, I too was stunned after carefully going over Grant's resume to learn how few of his films I've actually seen. I counted 41 of his films I have seen, about 56 per cent of his total output. By far the biggest blank spot in my slate is his '30s work at Paramount, where his output was very prodigious. I've only seen three of the 20-some-odd films he made at Paramount between 1932 and 1936. But I've also missed out on several biggies that would fall within the realm of the "TCM Library": Sylvia Scarlett, Suzy, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Crisis and Dream Wife are all on my haven't-seen list. I also haven't seen either of his collaborations with Ginger Rogers (I'm not sure I even knew they had worked together). Oh, I've also never seen his final picture, Walk, Don't Run. Does TCM ever show that? I see it was a Columbia release.
One of the odder entries I have happened to see, only because it's on YouTube, is The Amazing Adventure from Grand National Pictures in 1936, which I believe is the short-lived studio where Cagney made a couple of pictures while more or less on strike at Warner Bros. I don't know how Cary ended up making a movie there, but it was right about the time his contract with Paramount ended.
Charade, I believe, somehow fell into the PD, so even though it was originally a Universal release, TCM can show it any time they want.
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Ah, sweet validation!
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Since so many people on here were apparently bent out of shape because of Tiffany's youth, I joked I was stunned neither Ben nor Eddie carded her before pouring her a shot. I got no laughing emojis, so I will pathetically throw out the joke again, hoping for better results this time!
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Probably not a neglected performance, but Justin Henry in Kramer vs. Kramer is the most naturalistic performance I've ever seen from a child actor. You believe he's absolutely real every moment he's on screen. Compare him to the much-less-natural Ricky Schroder from The Champ remake from, I think, the same year.
I picked this photo because it surprised me. It's certainly not a scene from the movie, which begins the day the wife walks out. Maybe it's a photo on somebody's dresser or something.
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Anita Page played the younger sister in The Broadway Melody and is quite lovely and wears some rather skimpy outfits in that pre-Code picture. I think I've seen her in a couple of other things, but I'm not immediately remembering what they were. Were I a Backlot member, my vote would probably be for her! I was unfamiliar with Anita Louise by name, though looking at her list of credits, I've seen several movies that she's been in.
Depending on the selections, I'd be happy with either Gary Cooper or Paul Newman. I suspect Cooper will win, being more representative of what we typically consider the "classic" era, but the ladies love Paul, so he might surprise me. Whoever wins, I hope there will be a few off-the-beaten-path selections included.
The Fugitive Lovers (1934) Robert Montgomery lost film?
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You're correct about Mammy, which last aired in June, 2001. Wonder Bar last aired in June, 2007.