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> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}Johnny Rivers... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m1dnN5lpm4&feature=related Probably my favorite Johnny Rivers song: Although it was never released on 45 my local Top 30 AM station played it for a few weeks in the summer of 1968 (unusual for that time, when they generally played only 45's).

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > So, if Tim McCoy pulls back the screen it will stop being yellow sunshine and turn dark and be in night? The poster intrigues me, that's for sure! > Another unusual thing about that poster is that we rarely see Tim McCoy without that WAY-TOO-HUGE hat he always wore! I also have to say a big "Thanks" Kyle for all the cool posters. I've been enjoying them all (and wishing we could also see all the movies they were advertising).

VP19, I hadn't seen that you'd already mentioned this link in your post before making mine. Well, anyway, it can be another easy opportunity for everyone to click on to it and read what Eric has to say. http://www.drfilm.net/blog/?p=94

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}I think you beat me by a minute or two while I was looking it up and editing my post. This one wasn't very difficult! Pretty memorable movie once you've seen it.

> {quote:title=Lefrerejj wrote: > }{quote} The story begins wherein a brother and sister check into a hotel. Soon after the brother disappears and everyone in the hotel denies he was ever there. His sister searches for him throughout the movie. Then I missed the whole middle of the movie. > In the end of the movie she is escorted into some building and she is shown someone or something in a room. She turns away and walks out. The viewer never knows what she saw or what really happened to her brother. > Thank you very much. That sounds like SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950), a British movie starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde. It has been shown on TCM a few times. Info on it here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042980/

> {quote:title=smileys wrote:}{quote}*Good News* , for one, my favorite musical of all time. Everyone did their own singing and dancing. Refreshing. I wish they'd run the 1930 version even half as often as they run the 1947 one.

Mr. Lawford is also being discussed here: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161404&tstart=0

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}It probably involves a rights issue, like many unshown films. I can't recall exactly what it is, but yes there is a rights issue that is keeping this movie off TV for now. It had been shown years ago on TNT and the early days of TCM, but not in the last several years. Trivia: The trailer is narrated by Ronald Reagan, in one of his very first jobs in Hollywood at Warner Bros.

> here's one for all > > Is that Sig Arno (sometimes billed as Siegfried Arno)?

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote} > (Alice White) - I forgot she was in that. What role did she play? I missed seeing it this week (but did get it recorded) but haven't seen it in a while, and haven't got a chance to look back at the recording, so can't exactly recall how her role fits into the story, but she plays a character named Gracie who turns up every once in a while in the movie. Can't recall if she was supposed to be a maid or something, but I seem to recall a scene in which she delivers something (like a cool drink, maybe?) to Sydney Greenstreet in a room where he is in a meeting with several other men. I'll be checking it out soon. As much a fan as I am of Alice White I must admit she was a bit over her head in the early talkies in which she was the star and was expected to carry the whole movie. She just couldn't always handle it. But after she took a few years off and returned about 1933 in support & character roles she was just fine. She was more at ease, seemed more confident and enjoying herself. In just the last couple weeks three of these later Alice movies have been on TCM: PICTURE SNATCHER (1933), SWEET MUSIC (1935) and ANNABEL TAKES A TOUR. (1938). And of course, FLAMINGO ROAD. She was also just fine in some of her silent movies, such as HAROLD TEEN (1928) but unfortunately most of those are very hard to find (and of course unfortunately as good as they are, we don't get to hear her voice)..

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}25 for ZASU PITTS as SOTM > > ZaSu Pitts appeared opposite Slim Summerville in 11 Universal features, 1930-34. Prince, I'm agreeing with all your lists! I think I'd be delighted with you as TCM Programmer! Regarding the team of Slim & ZaSu, this is how their film career as a team actually went: 1930-1931 - four Universal features in which they both appeared but not as a team, usually not even sharing scenes together (I count four if we include ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT which technically ZaSu was in, but later replaced). 1932-1934 - five Universal features as a proper team. 1934 - one feature at RKO. 1941 - two features at Hal Roach Studios. 1941 - one short feature for Wilding Pictures promoting John Deere Company.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}25 for SALLY BLANE as SOTM > > HALF MARRIAGE (RKO, 1929) > TANNED LEGS (RKO, 1929) > LITTLE ACCIDENT (Univ., 1930) > WOMEN MEN MARRY (Headline Pics, 1931) > THE STAR WITNESS (WB, 1931) > THE SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME (Univ., 1931) > SHANGHAIED LOVE (Columbia, 1931) > A DANGEROUS AFFAIR (Columbia, 1931) > X MARKS THE SPOT (Tiffany, 1931) > LAW OF THE SEA (Mon., 1931) > THE RECKONING (Peerless, 1932) > PROBATION (Chesterfield, 1932) > THE PHANTOM EXPRESS (Majestic, 1932) > PRIDE OF THE LEGION (Mascot, 1932) > FORBIDDEN COMPANY (Invincible, 1932) > ESCAPADE (Invincible, 1932) > CROSS EXAMINATION (Artclass, 1932) > NIGHT OF TERROR (Columbia, 1933) > CITY LIMITS (Mon., 1934) > CITY PARK (Chesterfield, 1934) > HALF A SINNER (Univ., 1934) > SHE HAD TO CHOOSE (Majestic, 1934) > AGAINST THE LAW (Columbia, 1934) > THE SILVER STREAK (RKO, 1934) > A BULLET FOR JOEY (UA, 1955) Sally Blane! Now you're talkin'! One of my favorites (and definitely my favorite of the "Loretta" sisters!) I've seen only 9 of the titles on that list, but would love to see the rest. But that was a good point made about the potential problem finding prints in good shape, and indeed, finding prints at all of some of them.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}In the pre-code era, when each studio was churning out hundreds of films a year, which star and supporting player were actually in the most? Was it Blondell? > No studio turned out hundreds of films a year. When one says "films" but doesn't specify "feature films" then counting shorts, cartoons, newsreels, trailers, etc. then yes, some studios could have turned out several hundred films a year.

Mongo, The sad news has been reported that 1930's child actress Sybil Jason has passed away: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161395&tstart=0 Can you find and post some pictures as a memorial for her fans?

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote: FLAMINGO ROAD (1949).....}{quote} My favorite scene is when Joan ***** slaps Sydney Greenstreet ..... My favorite thing about FLAMINGO ROAD is seeing Alice White (in her final movie).

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}You mean, in most of those on your list, the latter IS a remake of the former? I know that's the case with INTERMEZZO. That was the case with the second list I posted - they are remakes, but not with the first list - they are not remakes.

Last three: Toby Wing Edna May Oliver Esther Dale

> {quote:title=racketbuster wrote:T}{quote}wo of her Paramount movies, There's Always a Woman and Good Girls Go to Paris, are both really enjoyable....There's Always a Woman especially is one of the greatest movies of the 30's detective screwball comedy genre.(too bad its a Paramount) > Hello angry tennis player (sorry...that's what your name makes me think of!) Just wanted to point out, to be exact, that those two Blondell movies you mentioned as being Paramounts are actually Columbia Pictures. But I agree, they're good fun and should be shown more often.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}......and to yet another new level. If you can't think of any more, I'll bet there AREN'T any more. Okay, just thought of more: THE UNHOLY THREE (1925 & 1930) - Lon Chaney and Harry Earles are in both versions. INTERMEZZO (1936 & 1939) - Ingrid Bergman in both. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956 & 1978) - Kevin McCarthy is in both. But it might be more challenging to think of examples in which the latter of the two films is not a remake of the former.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}I hate to sound like your 5th grade teacher, but why does everybody spell his name C-O-L-E-M-A-N? That really bugs me, too. Two others that are particularly irksome are "Ann Southern" and "The Andrew Sisters"

> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote} I was trying to remember him in a film I saw this past year, where he plays a character very unlike his usual timid, nervous...guy. Its *Nick Carter, Master Detective* starring Walter Pidgeon. Donald Meek plays a wiry, resourceful guy who helps the detective solve the case. He also plays a smart criminologist in the early 1930's Van Dine Vitaphone shorts.

> Why we Love Films of the 1950's! ??? We DON'T!! 1930's - YES!! 1950's - NO!!

> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote:}{quote}TCM VAULT will release both versions of BACK STREET on September 26. The original starring Margaret Sullavan and Charles Boyer and the remake which stars Susan Hayward and John Gavin. Regarding references to "both versions" and "the original" being the Sullavan & Boyer version: Actually there was a 1932 version of BACK STREET. That one starred Irene Dunne and John Boles and THAT first version is the original.

> {quote:title=SteveBeasley wrote:}{quote} > At 4am (PT) this morning TCM had the ultra rare Ann Dvorak/Rudy Vallee film SWEET MUSIC scheduled. I set my alarm and groggily woke to hit the 'record' button. After the usual network intro to the film, a message is shown -'technical difficulties'. The films starts 'in progress' 4 minutes later, which means we've missed opening credits as well as the setting/etc.If that isnt enough, about 40 minutes in, the sync between film and soundtrack go screwy, remaining that way for the rest of the film. What-are the interns asleep??? is there NO quality control for this stuff? Or (as i suspect) TCM doesnt give a rat's a$$ what happens as long as we pay the cable bill on time. THANKS TCM for valuing your customers about as little as anyone can! This subject is also being discussed here: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161194&tstart=0 I too was disappointed with the problems TCM had during SWEET MUSIC on Tuesday morning. I especially was looking forward to it for Alice White, and of course also our Star of the Day, Ann Dvorak, and like you, I'm also a Rudy Vallee fan. But I understand that glitches happen and am confident that TCM will re-schedule SWEET MUSIC again, hopefully as soon as they can fit it in. You said "Were the interns asleep?" To their credit the synch problem was fixed before the movie ended. If nobody was there and nobody cared, the problem almost certainly would have continued through the rest of the movie. But somebody somehow fixed it. So give them credit for that. Sure, it's too bad this happened with such a rarely-shown movie, but we just have to wait and watch for it to return.

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}Why is it his last case? Does he die of boredom? I've seen the 1929 version twice before and it was pretty slow going. Had to miss this remake on TCM. So you're saying it was pretty boring, too?