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Pretty sure that's never, ever going to happen, but thankfully MovieCollectorOH has been providing continued "secret" access to this information so far.

These people have names besides just their characters, you know.

I think I was watching when that was said about the Robinson character, but are you saying they were still showing that intro again recently? With Michael Feinstein again, who's not one of the regular hosts? I find that very odd. I think they tape a new intro/outro for each airing that requires one, don't they? One exception is Christmas Eve, when they re-ran some old Robert Osborne intros, but even they had new "pre-intros" from Ben M.

Where is Nipkow?

This from Wikipedia: Stan had three or four writers who joined in a perpetual game of 'Can You Top This?'[61] As Laurel obviously relished writing gags, Hardy was more than happy to leave the job to his partner and was once quoted as saying "After all, just doing the gags was hard enough work, especially if you have taken as many falls and been dumped in as many mudholes as I have. I think I earned my money".[32][62] From this point, Laurel was an uncredited film director for their films. He ran the Laurel and Hardy set, no matter who was in the director's chair, but never felt compelled to assert his authority. Roach remarked: "Laurel bossed the production. With any director, if Laurel said 'I don't like this idea,' the director didn't say 'Well, you're going to do it anyway.' That was understood."[63] As Laurel made so many suggestions there was not much left for the credited director to do.

You were recently touting Murphy in another thread, and I realized then my exposure to him was pretty limited. I guess I'd largely reduced him to the Second Male Lead Who Doesn't Get the Girl. But I'm sure I need to see more. Five films I'm sure I've seen him in are Tom, D i c k and Harry, This is the Army, 10th Avenue Angel, Broadway Rhythm and For Me and My Gal.

Daytime February 23 Dirk Bogarde Cast a Dark Shadow (Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood) (Dist. in the US by Distributors Corp. of America, 1957) Libel! (Olivia DeHavilland, Dirk Bogarde) (MGM, 1959) The Angel Wore Red (Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde (MGM, 1960) Victim (Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms) (Dist. in the US by Astor Pictures Corp., 1962) The Password is Courage (Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy) (MGM, 1962) Our Mother's House (Dirk Bogarde, Pamela Franklin) (MGM, 1967) Death in Venice (Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen) (Warner Bros., 1971)

2071 is Love Letters. Yes. 2074 is probably Man of a Thousand Faces. I've only seen parts of it. 2077 Same Time Next Year? I saw part of it on HBO as a kid I think. But this may be something else. 2078 Another guess: First Monday in October? I haven't seen it. 2080 is True Lies. Another one I've only seen parts of. Only one I'm absolutely sure I've seen all of.

Primetime February 22 My Brother's Keeper East of Eden (James Dean, Julie Harris) (Warner Bros., 1955) The Brothers Karamazov (Yul Brynner, Maria Schell) (MGM, 1958) Rocco and His Brothers (Alain Delon, Renato Salvatore) (Dist. in the US by Astor Pictures Corp., 1961) Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise) (United Artists, 1988)

I've also seen The Macomber Affair. I forgot about Robert Preston's moustache! I didn't recognize him. So, I've seen five.

Daytime February 22 Hollywood Romance Captain Blood (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (Warner Bros., 1935) Two-Faced Woman (Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas) (MGM, 1941) Adam's Rib (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (MGM, 1949) Father of the Bride (Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennet) (MGM, 1950) Father's Little Dividend (Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett) (MGM, 1951) The Star (Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden) (20th Century Fox, 1952) My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn) (Warner Bros., 1964)

Since I've made a few entries on John Garfield nights in the February 2021 thread already, I do vaguely recall that one of them featured a Garfield/Neal pairing. But I won't "cheat" by going back to figure out the title.

Same ones I've seen! Yeah, I can't help but notice what looks like two John Garfield movies in a row, but I can't identify them. I wonder if they're among the movies TCM will be showing during his SOTM run in February?

Primetime February 21 Pre-Code Classics Double Feature Only Yesterday (Margaret Sullavan, John Boles) (Universal, 1933) Design for Living (Frederic March, Gary Cooper) (Paramount, 1933) Silent Sunday Nights So, This is Paris (Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller) (Warner Bros., 1926) TCM Imports. A Senegalese film and a Jamaican film. Journey of the Hyena (Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang) (Dist. in the US by International Film Circuit, 1991) Countryman (Countryman, Hiram Keller) (Dist. in the US by Media Home Entertainment, 1984)

2061 is A Farewell to Arms. Yes 2062 is To Have and Have Not. Yes. 2066 is The Snows of Kiliminjaro. Don't really know how to spell that. Yes. 2067 is The Sun Also Rises. Yes. I can't identify the others. I've seen at least four.

Daytime February 21 The Corn is Green (Bette Davis, John Dall) (Warner Bros., 1945) Then a rerun of last night's Noir Alley. Then we continue the random movie weekend. Again, these were probably all originally intended to be part of 31 Days of Oscar programming. Trouble in Paradise (Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins) (Paramount, 1932) Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday, William Holden) (Columbia, 1950) The Fortune Cookie (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau) (United Artists, 1966) The Remains of the Day (Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson) (Columbia, 1993)

It's like the TARDIS. (And no, I've never watched Doctor Who. It's just people talk about it so much ...)

I'm constantly reminded of how much more I have to learn about the classic film stars. This is an actress I've heard of, probably because of how unusual her last name is. It sounds like a Native American name. I started State's Attorney once very late at night on TCM, but I fell asleep at some point, so it's possible I saw her depending on how early her entrance into the film is. Otherwise, I don't I've ever seen any of her films.

You didn't have any trouble getting that word after Owl on here. I think the censorship standards have relaxed from a few years when you couldn't even say O'Toole's first name. Anyway, I've seen three of these.

I did sneak into a theater and watched Ma Rainey's Black Bottom a few weeks ago. There were only two other people in the theater. I felt reasonably safe. Chadwick Boseman might get a posthumous Best Actor nomination, and he is pretty electrifying. But that would be the only nominated movie I've seen.

Most years, I go to see probably 70 or 80 films in the theater. That's where I get my new films. At home, I either watch TCM or stream almost entirely classic films on AmazonPrime. I've been at at a loss looking at these year-end critic's lists, because I haven't seen ANY of these films! I've watched every Oscar ceremony since 1978, but I don't know that I'll watch this year, because I'm not going to have seen any of the films or know much of anything about them.

Sly & the Family Stone didn't even make the poster???

Their confusing early history and multiple lineup changes prior to their first album is detailed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gang

Yes, that could be George C. Scott in the middle. Okay, well, I've seen Not with My Wife, You Don't. I think it was during a Scott SUTS day. I also remember watching The Yellow Rolls-Royce. I forgot Carol O'Connor was in it. So, possibly I've seen three. Yes, When a Man Loves a Woman. Couldn't think of the title. I think I read somewhere it originally had a different title, but the studio secured the use of the Percy Sledge song. That was around the same time as Stand by Me. If you could get the rights to an old classic for the soundtrack, then you'd just the name the whole movie after the song. That was briefly a thing.

Insert: I really screwed up this post by leaving out about 12 hours' worth of programming. I think the double airing of the Noir Alley feature messed me up. I left out all the movies between the two airings. So, I am editing to fix as best I can. If you saw the original post, just try to forget it! Primetime February 20 Sidney Poitier Birthday Tribute. My gosh, the first night of the Memorable African-American Performances month-long spotlight is devoted entirely to Poitier movies, so we've got two nights of nothing but Sidney this month. Well, it's just two movies this time, because we've got to get to Noir Alley. Lilies of the Field (Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala) (United Artists, 1963) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (Columbia, 1967) Noir Alley: It's listed on the website as Sangre Negra with no further identifying information than the year of release. I think it must be Native Son, which comes up as one of your options if you do an imdb search for Sangre Negra. Also, the trailer on imdb has a blurb from one Eddie Mueller extolling how great the film is, so I'm pretty sure this is it. Although it has American actors, it appears it was an Argentinian film. Native Son (Richard Wright, Jean Wallace) (Dist. in the US by Classic Pictures, 1951) Then the rest of the night is more random Saturday programming. All or most of these films were Oscar-nominated, right? I think they were more fare originally intended for 31 Days before TCM knew the actual Oscars weren't going to be in February. Manhattan Melodrama (Clark Gable, William Powell) (MGM, 1934) Diner (Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern) (MGM, 1982) Avalon (Elizabeth Perkins, Aidan Quinn) (Tri-Star, 1990)