musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote:}{quote}
> I was able to locate 'Bubble Trouble' with Shemp and Emil Sitka changing into a 'Gorilla' . . .
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Here's Part One of BUBBLE TROUBLE:
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> {quote:title=lavenderblue19 wrote:}{quote}Don't know the song- but- here's what I'm thinking- are you thinking about Wheeler and Woolsey ?
Okay yes it's a Wheeler & Woolsey movie.
Another clue:
In the year following the song's first appearance Edgar Kennedy twice sang a line from the song in one of his RKO comedy shorts.
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:}{quote}another clue?
Everyone is so good at this here that I'm surprised we need more clues.
So, here's one that'll narrow it down quite a bit:
The movie the song is from is an RKO Radio Picture.
The song was a minor hit in its day. I have a few 78 RPM records of it by various dance bands that include verses not sung in the movie version.
More clues later of needed...
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:}{quote}i am disappointed with you guys
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> surely you recognize marjorie rambeau
I have to admit, in that particular shot I was a little unsure between Mary Boland & Marjorie Rambeau.
But sure we all know Marjorie...wasn't there a famous song about her..."Somewhere Over the Rambeau"?
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}"above ALL the rest"?------Let's not get carried away. How about Tommy James?
Tommy James (& The Shondells)! - Now you're talkin'!
I have just about all his records - early stuff, later stuff, rarities, solo stuff, all the hits on the original 45's.
That was the good stuff!
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> {quote:title=jr33928 wrote:}{quote}I thought Winona was very sweet.She's easy on the eyes,and she doesn't have a screechy voice,in fact her voice was very pleasant....I hope she comes back. JR.
For FredC Dobbs, me and all the others who enjoyed seeing Winona hosting on TCM, can anyone post some "screen captures" of some of her TCM hosting appearances?
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> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}If anybody out there recalls the title of the stooge "pharmacy" film mentioned, I would appreciate a heads up. It was one of their early shorts with Curly. There may have been a recylced "Shemp" version of the story, but of that I'm not sure.
You're slightly mixing up a few different Three Stooges shorts there.
First, the one with Curly in which they work in a pharmacy is called PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935) and in that one they mix some of the real stuff for a liquor salesman, not actually depicted as a gangster.
Later, in 1947 The Stooges worked again at a pharmacy ("The Cut Throat Drug Store") in the short ALL GUMMED UP with Shemp as the third Stooge. In that one they mix up a "Fountain of Youth" potion for their mean landlord "Amos Flint" (Emil Sitka) that unexpectedly turns him into a baby.
In 1953 Columbia remade ALL GUMMED UP as BUBBLE TROUBLE and this time when Mr. Flint takes too much of the potion he turns into a gorilla (big and ferocious, not a chipanzee as you recalled).
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Life is bologna without Winona.
Since so many of us enjoyed Winona hosting on TCM, can anyone post some "screen captures" of some of her TCM hosting appearances?
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> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}Give it ten years - people will be asking that question for real.
I'm asking it now...not that I really want to know!
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> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote:}{quote}Are there any movies where Joan Fontaine comes off with 'bravada' or 'in you face' kind of acting ...
> a 'bad girl' so to speak ??
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She's not really a villain or "bad girl" in it, but in the 1963 episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" entitled "The Paragon" Joan Fontaine plays a rather unlikeable lady who dominates everyone's lives.
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> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}Dear Musicalnovelty!
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> Your post of Sep 25, 2011, 1:01 AM leaves me in considerable awe and admiration for your film researching skills! That was one nut I certainly would not have been able to crack! It answered a question that I've wondered about for years, but had no way of solving. Also impressive was your background on the musical intro to *Woman Haters (1934)*. I always know that around here, I am among a terrific peer goup, which encourages me to do my best! .....
Thanks for the nice words!
That kind of research can be difficult to do but is very rewarding especially when I see comments like yours!
Everyone knows (or can easily research) the hit songs in such popular classics as Fred Astaire or Busby Berkeley musicals, but I've always been interested to learn about such undocumented film music as the titles & composers of incidental music such as main titles to obscure comedy shorts, "Photoplay Music" in late silents, etc. And usually there's just no way to find such info in books or online and I have to do the digging myself.
I have done especially extensive research into Columbia shorts music, especially Three Stooges and the Musical Novelty series.
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> {quote:title=DuryeaForHollywood wrote:
> }{quote}...I thought it fascinating to see this alternate version of a great film, and can't applaud TCM and the Library of Congress enough for making it available to us......
Thank you for saying this.
Not enough of us have said it!
This was a very special exciting rare important occasion being able to see this rarity on TCM and sincere thanks go out to all who made it happen!
THANK YOU - TCM and LoC!!
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}Wednesday, September 28th
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Nice poster for THE CONSTANT NYMPH...
Only one problem: Joan Fontaine never looks anything like that in this movie!
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> {quote:title=cujas wrote:}{quote} Like most geniuses...
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> But we could all agree that as an entertainer and a pop artist--he was above all the rest.
No, I don't agree.
I'm sorry he died young, but I never liked or purchased any of his (or any Jackson 5 or related) records. (And I have at least 9,000 LP's and over 10,000 45's....but NO Jacksons anywhere among them.) (And I won't even go into the 78's - he didn't make any! But I have thousands and you can be sure that if he made any I wouldn't have them!)
Not everyone was a fan.
And there are those of us who would also disagree with the use of the description "genius".
I could either take or leave his stuff, or just plain didn't like it. I remember not liking the very first Jackson 5 single when it came out, and liking each of the following 45's progressively less. Then in 1971 one came out that actually wasn't too bad: "Maybe Tomorrow" but still not good enough to buy the 45. But at least I could leave the radio on when it came on without reaching for the tuning dial like I had to with all other Jacksons songs. (Although I remember we did get that one on the back of a cereal box! Anyone else remember those cereal box records? I still have several of them by other artists.)
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Here's TCM's article on it:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/430527%7C85856/All-Quiet-on-the-Western-Front.html
The movie is also being discussed here:
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}Wasnt that Eduardo Cianelli? (Robert-O?) I'm sure I didnt spell his name right.......
Yes, it was.
Here's the cast list:
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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote}It was great that TCM could finally have a broadcast of The Constant Nymph, tied up in litigation....
> Anyone else feel that Charles Coburn came close to, if not stealing the show, at least being one of the most interesting performers in the movie?
"Robert-O!"
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> {quote:title=johnnyweekes70 wrote:}{quote}It's on 'Taxi' now. Glad I kept my old copy.
Yes, they're "branding" this one too with the logo on constantly. But why? This movie has always been around, never rare, and this print doesn't look any different or better than what's always been shown before.
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}Weird they would run it during British Agent. They've shown that a good number of times (and it isnt very good). Hardly a hot ticket bootleg item.............
I agree.
But this LoC print was new & different from what's been shown on TCM before. But I didn't notice anything new or different in the film, just a different print. If there was anything new & different about it (like the two different versions of BABY FACE) you'd think they'd have promoted or at least mentioned it somewhere even though they ran it after the hosts retired.
So with all the many LoC rarities they could have shown we have to wonder why they ran this, a movie that's always been available and shown regularly and with nothing evidently wrong with the old copy.
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And another favorite McCartney B-side:
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> > {quote:title=yanceycravat wrote:}{quote}Has TCM ever aired their logo over an entire movie before? As they did with tonight's airing of THE CONSTANT NYMPH?
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> They did it again for BRITISH AGENT but not for any others of the LoC films shown so far in this 24-hour LoC spotlight.
> So the only two that had the "bug" (logo) on throughout were the only two Warner Bros. Pictures shown. That may explain something. We can wait & see what happens when other WB Pictures are shown later today.
So far the logo has not shown up on HEAT LIGHTNING (a Warner Bros. Picture).
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One of my favorite McCartney B-sides:
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Did anyone watch this on TCM Wednesday night?
As I mentioned earlier, I've seen it before, but am wondering what others thought of it.
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> I checked out Leonard's intro to The Way West.
Interesting that in Leonard's "Movie Guide" book THE WAY WEST gets a very low rating but he refrained from saying anything bad about it when introducing it on TCM.
And I think that was a very good idea. Let the viewers decide if they like it without the host saying whether they should or not.
Anyone like Laurence Olivier AND the Three Stooges?
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> Well, here's the First Segment to 'Bubble Trouble' . . .
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That's actually Part One of the short ALL GUMMED UP (1947) not BUBBLE TROUBLE (1953).