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Well, I saw a re-release of Song of the South when I was a child, probably the last one before it was "disappeared", so that's probably the only appearance of his I ever saw. He was mentioned recently on a thread discussing assertions that Stan Laurel may have been impoverished at the end of his life, which every poster thread but me got angry and vowed it wasn't true and that Internet writers are generally full of it. Finally, one poster said well, he may not have been rich, but when I think of "impoverished", I think of Bobby Driscoll. Which is probably the first time I heard of him by name. Although there may have been an Entertainment Weekly article about him a few years ago. Not sure.

2051 Black Legion? I've seen it. 2053 is Nipkow's second favorite movie (after Hot Spell). Kiss of Death! I've seen big chunks of it, but I've never watched the whole thing from beginning to end. 2054 3:10 to Yuma. Yes. 2056 A really odd episode of All in the Family with special guest star Tony Curtis! No, I have no idea. 2057 I probably can't type out the final word of the title without being censored, so let's call it The Owl and the Kitty-Cat. I haven't seen it. 2058 Protocol. No. 2059 Oh, it's the one where Meg Ryan plays an alcoholic. I can't think of the name of it. I haven't seen it. 2060 The 3:10 to Yuma remake. No. Well, I've seen either one or two of these all the way through, it looks like.

Oops, well it's a woman and not Spencer Tracy at all! Probably not many people ever made THAT mistake! And so they probably are cuddling. I got the title wrong. United 93. But I knew what movie I was talking about. I haven't seen Jumpin' Jack Flash, but I remember Aretha Franklin did a killer cover of the Rolling Stones song for the soundtrack. Wrong about William Holden, right about Ben Gazarra. And yes, that is Rod Steiger playing WC Fields. Who knew? Okay, that didn't change how many of these movies I've seen. Just one.

Flew by???

Not according to imdb. I may look around and see if it's available on DVD.

Okay, I figured it out. I was making an entirely separate list on a sheet of scrap paper, not one I intended to post on here, of movies I might like to watch someday, and this one intrigued me. I must have been glancing at that sheet of paper or something when compiling the list I posted above. I don't think The Night Walker even has anything to do with Christmas. I will remove it. Edit: I also changed the data above. That means that there were not more Universal movies shown than United Artists, but the same number. I was excited someone had responded to this thread, but it was just because I screwed up!

Shoot, I can't find it now either. It's not a movie I'd ever heard of before, so I must have seen it somewhere. My apologies if it's an inaccurate entry. If I can't figure this out in a day or so, I'll just edit it out of my list above.

Hmm. I didn't imagine that, did I? Let me get back to you.

Gail Collins Pappalardi gets only three short paragraphs on Wikipedia, but it pretty much answers all my questions. She wrote the lyrics for "Strange Brew" and another song called "World of Pain" that I haven't heard before on Disraeli Gears, painted the covers for most of the Mountain albums and wrote the lyrics for a number of their songs. Though she and Pappalardi had an "open marriage" she shot and killed him when he came home after spending all night with one of his girlfriends. She claimed the gun went off accidentally, but there's no information on why she was holding it in the first place. She was found not guilty of either murder or manslaughter but guilty of the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. She was sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison but was paroled after only two. She lived another 28 years and was found dead by her landlord in a Mexican resort village in 2013 where she'd been undergoing cancer treatments.

Daytime February 20. In the morning, it's Saturday Matinee. I'm just listing the features. Quick Money (Berton Churchill, Paul Guilfoyle) (RKO, 1937) Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore) (MGM, 1940) Sinbad the Sailor (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara) (RKO, 1947) Then random programming in the afternoon: Mad Love (Peter Lorre, Frances Drake) (MGM, 1935) Shadow of a Doubt (Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten) (Universal, 1943) The Guns of Navarone (Gregory Peck, David Niven) (Columbia, 1961) The Sunshine Boys (Walter Matthau, George Burns) (MGM, 1975)

Believe me, my fourth grade self was planted squarely in front of the den TV for the Star Wars Holiday Special which I was pretty sure was the most important television program ever. I came away from it a little underwhelmed. I probably saw this Bob Hope special too if the Star Wars parody was part of the promo commercials, and certainly it was. If it had anything to do with Star Wars at that time, I was on it.

With all the chaos surrounding the formatting change on the Website, I'm not sure I had any advanced notice of the December schedule until December 1 (Thanks to MovieCollector0H for making the January and February schedules easily accessible). There are always a lot of Christmas movies in December, but I don't think I was aware there was going to be a week-long marathon until I sat down in front of the TV last Friday, and Ben announced it was starting with We're No Angels. Yes, there were quite a few repeats, but overall, I was reasonably impressed with the breadth of representation in the week-long marathon, both in terms of era and studio representation. I didn't mind their delving into "Christmas-adjacent" films, as one poster described them, films that were set entirely or partially during Christmas but could be anything from noirs to slasher films to screwball comedies. They didn't all have to be reverential. Anyway, I thought I would provide a list of each movie shown in chronological order of release. The heaviest concentration of films came from the 1944-1952 era, most especially 1949. I don't know what was up with the need for Christmas films that year. A lot of people were really unhappy there was no 1951 British version of Scrooge this year. This version is now controlled in America by Fox (or I guess I should say Disney now) and aired exclusively on their own classic movie channel, it sounds like. But I found it refreshing that there weren't multiple versions of the Scrooge story this year, as there usually are. And at least they didn't show The Shop Around the Corner and In the Good Old Summertime back-to-back for once (unless they did it during one of the non primetime airings). Also, I discovered something most of you probably knew already while dog sitting for my brother and sister-in-law while they ski in Colorado. When your only access to TV is through a streaming service like YouTube TV, you can be denied access to viewing certain movies (I have cable back home and had never experienced this before). So, I missed both The Miracle of the Bells and The Cheaters. Bear in mind the studio information only indicates the original studio of release or original American distributor where appropriate. It's been mentioned on another thread that The Miracle of the Bells, for example, is now owned by Paramount, which is probably why it's such a TCM rarity, but I'm calling it an RKO movie. 1930 Hell's Heroes (Universal) 1933 Little Women (RKO) 1934 Babes in Toyland (MGM) 1935 Kind Lady (MGM) 1936 Three Godfathers (MGM) And So, They Were Married (Columbia) 1938 A Christmas Carol (MGM) Love Finds Andy Hardy (MGM) 1939 Bachelor Mother (RKO) 1940 Remember the Night (Paramount) Beyond Tomorrow (RKO) The Shop Around the Corner (MGM) The Blue Bird (20th Century Fox) 1941 Penny Serenade (Columbia) Meet John Doe (Warner Bros.) 1942 Alias Boston B l a c k i e (Columbia) Larceny , Inc. (Warner Bros.) The Man Who Came to Dinner (Warner Bros.) 1944 Going My Way (Paramount) Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM) 1945 Lady on a Train (Universal) Christmas in Connecticut (Warner Bros.) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (MGM) The Cheaters (Republic) 1946 Never Say Goodbye (Warner Bros.) My Reputation (Warner Bros.) 1947 Bush Christmas (Universal) The Bishop's Wife (RKO) Kiss of Death (20th Century Fox) Lady in the Lake (MGM) It Happened on Fifth Avenue (Allied Artists) 1948 The Miracle of the Bells (RKO) Good Sam (RKO) 10th Avenue Angel (MGM) 1949 Cover Up (United Artists) Little Women (MGM) Mr. Soft Touch (Columbia) In the Good Old Summertime (MGM) Come to the Stable (20th Century Fox) Holiday Affair (RKO) 1950 Backfire (Warner Bros.) The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (Warner Bros.) The Great Rupert (Eagle-Lion) 1951 On Moonlight Bay (Warner Bros.) 1952 Room for One More (Warner Bros.) 1954 Susan Slept Here (RKO) Ma & Pa Kettle at Home (Universal) The Holly & the Ivy (Pacemaker) 1955 We're No Angels (Paramount) All That Heaven Allows (Universal) 1956 Bundle of Joy (RKO) 1957 Desk Set (20th Century Fox) All Mine to Give (RKO) 1958 Bell, Book & Candle (Columbia) Auntie Mame (Warner Bros.) 1960 The Apartment (United Artists) 1961 Pocketful of Miracles (United Artists) 1962 Period of Adjustment (MGM) 1963 Crooks Anonymous (Janus) 1964 The World of Henry Orient (United Artists) 1967 Fitzwilly (United Artists) 1968 The Lion in Winter (Embassy) 1972 Mon Oncle Antoine (Gendon) 1974 Black Christmas (Warner Bros.) 1979 The Silent Partner (EMC) 1983 Fanny and Alexander (Embassy) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Universal) Looks like that was 66 unique feature films (I didn't shorts or the documentary about Christmas movies which aired at least twice). Broken down by studio, we have: MGM 13 Warner Bros. 12 RKO 10 Universal/United Artists/Columbia 5 each 20th Century Fox 4 Paramount 3 Embassy 2 Others 7 The usual suspects at the top of the list but all the old majors pretty well represented (with Republic even getting one) and more Universal and Columbia getting equal representation with United Artists. Broken down by decade: 1930s 9 1940s 31 1950s 15 1960s 7 1970s 2 1980s 2 That's about 83% of the movies coming from before 1960 for all the people who get so upset at the post-1960 movies.

Yeah, I thought that was Rod Steiger, too, but I'm unfamiliar with the film. I'm trying not to "cheat" by looking at imdb.

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I saw Sally Field on Bob Costas' late night interview show circa 1990. Costas brought up the now largely forgotten 1981 film Back Roads as a personal favorite of his, and Sally kind of bristled when he mentioned it, saying that Tommy Lee Jones "wasn't very nice to me" and that she wouldn't care if she never worked with him again. Anyway, flash forward 20-plus years, and I remember seeing Sally saying somewhere (maybe it was on The Essentials?) that an older and more mature Jones had sincerely apologized to her for his behavior on that picture and that she'd accepted his apology. They had a memorable scene together in Lincoln in which her character puts his in his place, and he has to smile and take it with courtly demeanor. That made me happy for some reason. I don't know why I care whether millionaire actors get along, but you read so much dirt about these people, a feel-good story was a nice change.

Primetime February 19 Girls with Guns Gun Crazy (Peggy Cummins, John Dall) (United Artists, 1950) Coffy (Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw) (AIP, 1973) Thelma & Louise (Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis) (MGM, 1991) Then TCM Underground is a double feature about killer fish: Tintorera (Susan George, Fiona Lewis) (United Films Distributors, 1977) Piranha (Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies) (New World, 1978)

Is "Bruce" Jack Bruce?

Yes, I've always "liked, really liked" Sally Field. Boy, she took a collective cultural bashing after declaring that upon winning her second Oscar. She was the butt of jokes for years but seems to have rebounded nicely. It's also tough for actresses when they get to be a certain age. Sally went from playing Tom Hanks' potential love interest in Punchline to his mother in Forrest Gump in the space of only six years. I haven't seen as much of her work as I probably should have (still haven't seen Places in the Heart, for example), but my two favorite performances that I have seen are Norma Rae and Absence of Malice. In the former, she gives a performance that feels completely lived-in, no traces of a glamorous Hollywood star slumming it for critical acclaim. In the latter, she gives a very nice, partially unsympathetic performance as a too-ambitious young reporter who quickly gets in over her head and is played by more than one force. We have to both like and dislike her, and that's sometimes tough to pull off, and she does it masterfully. I enjoyed her (I believe) two seasons of The Essentials with Robert Osborne, and we were promised a third season before Mr. Osborne withdrew from appearing on TCM. I'm sorry that didn't happen.

I am struggling to identify almost any of these, but I will take some guesses. 2043 Their faces are obscured, but it sure looks Tracy and Gable, so I think it's Test Pilot, which no doubt has aired on TCM at least a hundred times, but somehow I've never seen it. Hope this still isn't giving away a major plot point! I assume Tracy is either dead or gravely wounded and not expressing his platonic love for Gable in a manner in a manner probably unacceptable for cinema in 1938. 2044 I'm just going to take a wild guess and say The 400 Blows, which is on everybody's Top 10 list of all time, but once again, somehow I've never seen it. 2045 Looks like Ben Gazzara on the left and, I don't know, maybe William Holden on the right. I'm drawing a blank. 2047 Whoopi Goldberg briefly had a run as a leading lady after the success of Sister Act, but I gotta say most of those movies looked terrible, and I don't think I ever saw any of them. 2048 Oh, this is Passion Fish. Heard good things. Haven't seen it. 2049 It could be Flight 93. I didn't see it. 2050 The Revenant. This one I did see! At the moment, only one I can confirm I've seen.

Wow, now that sounds interesting! I know almost nothing about Mountain, but I believe Pappalardi was the producer of Disraeli Gears and maybe some other Cream albums and also was an extra instrumentalist and maybe co-writer of the music on a couple of songs. In fact, I think Pappalardi's wife or girlfriend of the time may have written the lyrics of one of the songs (the boys in Cream don't seem to have been too interested in writing a lot of lyrics themselves). Unsure if this is the same woman who would go on to shoot him. But you've given me a new Wikipedia wormhole to go down!

Oh, The Crucible! I thought that was Liam Neeson for some reason. I've definitely watched part of that in my multi-movie channel days but probably not all of it. Jesus Christ Superstar probably should have been obvious to me. Haven't seen all of it, either. Looks like there's only I saw all the way through.

Daytime February 19 Western Noir Station West (Dick Powell, Jane Greer) (RKO, 1948) Blood on the Moon (Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes) (RKO, 1948) Roughshod (Robert Sterling, John Ireland) (RKO, 1949) Colorado Territory (Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo) (Warner Bros., 1949) Along the Great Divide (Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo) (Warner Bros., 1951) Riding Shotgun (Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris) (Warner Bros., 1954) Black Patch (George Montgomery, Diane Brewster) (Warner Bros., 1957) The Badlanders (Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine) (MGM, 1958)

Primetime February 18 Kiss Connection Night Three Carefree (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (RKO, 1938) The Primrose Path (Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea) (RKO, 1940) Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds) (MGM, 1952) The Band Wagon (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charise) (MGM, 1953) Brigadoon (Gene Kelly, Cyd Charise) (MGM, 1954) The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds) (MGM, 1955)

Yes, VoIP. Couldn't think of that. I was attracted to YouTubeTV when I learned earlier this year they had both TCM and Fox regional channels, which is probably what I easily 80% of my TV time watching. But I was troubled by their dropping those sports channels in which I watch all these teams in which I'm interested. And now I'm learning there are some days when certain movies just won't be available. So, I'm still torn about my home entertainment future.

Yeah, my cable bill is almost crippling to my budget, though it's paired with my home Internet. Not entirely sure I have an option about that, as my cable company pretty much forces "bundling" on you (I also have VOD phone service, I think it's called, though I've never set it up, because it was impossible to not get it. Sometimes, a little box appears in one corner of TV screen indicating I have a phone call, but I have no phone to answer). I've long thought about going to streaming, but my experiences this week are making me wary.

Daytime February 18 Birthday Tribute to Adolphe Menjou The Great Lover (Adolphe Menjou, Irene Dunne) (MGM, 1931) Friends and Lovers (Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita) (RKO, 1931) The Front Page (Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien) (United Artists, 1931) Morning Glory (Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) (RKO, 1933) The Milky Way (Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou) (Paramount, 1936) Stage Door (Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers) (RKO, 1937) That's Right - You're Wrong (Kay Kyser, Adolphe Menjou) (RKO, 1939) Road Show (Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis) (United Artists, 1941) Father Takes a Wife (Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson) (RKO, 1941)