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>Emperor Ming, of Planet Mongo, Flash Gordon. >Commandant of the French Foreign Legion, in the Laurel and Hardy film Beau Hunks. >He always played a very stern guy, for good, or evil..... I agree. Charles Middleton would be a great candidate for a "What a Character" profile. Although he was excellent as a villain he wasn't always a bad guy. In several films he even played Abraham Lincoln.

>Riders in the Sky ..... >They had a great show. Sometimes they'd give out with some of their cowboy sagebrush advice, like: >"Never drink downstream from the herd." They even used that one for the title of one of their albums.

That short THE SONG PLUGGER advertised with THE DAWN PATROL is among the recently restored Vitaphone shorts available on the DVD set "Vitaphone Varieties, 1926-1930".

>ValentineXavier wrote >Do yourself a favor, and buy a couple of Riders in the Sky CDs, the earlier the better. Another Riders in the Sky fan! You beat me to it, I was going to recommend them too as the only act I've heard who really gets it right...that good old Sons of the Pioneers type of sound (and that's a tremendous compliment!) These guys are the real deal, as they say. I used to see them on some cable channel, maybe Nashville Network years ago introducing B-westerns. They'd also perform a few songs and do a bit of comedy. I checked and see that there are several of their CD's and LP's for sale on eBay right now, all reasonably priced. For anyone who misses that good old real western music and is fed up with what is called country music these days, The Riders in the Sky are highly recommended!

>Sorry, I've seen most of those pre-code films and Young ruins them for me. I think she's just a bad actress with no charisma/distinctiveness. I'd like the films if someone else was in them. I prefer sister Sally Blane. First, I almost always find her much prettier than Loretta, plus she made more interesting films - obscure "B" stuff.

One thing I like a lot about CHANDU is the music score. And did anyone notice that Fox reused parts of it in their 1935 movie CHARLIE CHAN IN EGYPT?

From the title of this thread, I thought you'd be writing about the other Doris Day: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206382/

After movies on Thursday night, July 21, TCM ran the cartoons LITTLE BEAU PORKY HARE-ABIAN NIGHTS SAHARA HARE POPEYE MEETS ALI BABA'S FORTY THIEVES Except for the Three Stooges short which maybe they'll run next week if there's time, does that cover all the cartoons scheduled but not shown last week?

>LITTLE BEAU PORKY showed up immediately following DRUMS OF AFRICA,...... Just as I predicted! (See my previous post). So I think we can expect to see more of last week's unaired cartoons and shorts later tonight.

>Dorothy Arzner was most definitely a studio director. She made NANA for Sam Goldwyn... >All of these projects were studio films with the exception of NANA. Though NANA did get released through RKO. To be accurate, actually NANA was made while Goldwyn was still releasing through United Artists, before moving to RKO.

>Ida Lupino did not direct for studios. She directed HARD, FAST AND BEAUTIFUL (1951) released by RKO Radio Pictures. That was a studio.

Shorts are now posted on the schedule through Sunday night, but still nothing listed for some of the open time slots later tonight. Maybe TCM will use tonight's shorts openings to run the cartoons and shorts that were scheduled but not shown last week. We shall see...

>"Margaret looks lovely, but I've never seen the movie. What's the significance of the yellow lines?" - smileys >I don't know. I've never seen the film either. I guess we'll both have to watch to find out. But they do look ethereal, don't they? >Kyle In Hollywood I've seen the movie a few times and still am not sure what the yellow lines are supposed to be. At one point she does take her car for a drive at night, so maybe those are supposed to represent the headlight beams. But there'd be no reason for it, as they're not important to the scene. Also in the poster we see her holding a glass, probably representing the New Year's Eve party in the movie. But still no clue about the yellow light beams or lines or whatever they're supposed to be. Did anyone else watch the movie and figure it out?

>I am curious, did your friend ever say anything about LaRue's rather sad life story? I have read that LaRue didn't set aside any money when he was working in the thirties..... No, he pretty much got completely out of the Hollywood scene when he retired from movies in the late 1930's at about age 14. I don't think he stayed in touch with anyone from his acting career after that. He went on to other activities, including heroically serving his country in WW2 then a happy and productive life ever since.

>I can not believe that was made in 1936 and in Technicolor. To everyone who enjoyed that short (and how could anyone not?) there is another of the charming and talented Sybil Jason's Technicolor Warner Bros. shorts coming up on TCM on Thursday evening, July 21 at 7:09 P.M. eastern time. Don't miss THE LITTLEST DIPLOMAT (1937). Info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027900/combined

A friend of mine was a child actor in the 1930's and knew Jack LaRue when they both worked at Paramount in the early 1930's, and he worked with LaRue a few years later at other studios. He recalls him as a nice guy.

The first that comes right to my mind, and one of my favorites, one that I think works and fits perfectly: In the "And the Big Bad Wolf Was Dead" song number in the 1934 Wheeler & Woolsey feature COCKEYED CAVALIERS.

>I haven't seen anything about the cartoons and Stooge short that were >missing from the Thursday night's Arab Images film schedule. >I got to be on with Arabian Tights but Bugs Bunny, Popeye and >the Stooges only had the intros. It's odd that films included in the >printed TCM Now Playing book didn't air. It was brought up and discussed in this thread by me and by others: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=160597&tstart=15 I was even posting about it "live" that night while it was happening (or, not happening in this case!) And a TCM Programmer was nice enough to come on later and post an explanation and apology for the problem.

>Mark or Felix Cavaliere I meant Mark, but since it's a Sunday afternoon, a perfect time for groovin' (after all, the song tells us so) here are some cool rarities by Felix & the guys:

Kyle, Thanks for the nice Nancy Carroll poster. Nancy Carroll was a big star who really needs more exposure on TCM. Most of her movies haven't been on TV anywhere in decades!

>Sounds like The Three Stooges. (hello...hellO...heLLO.....HEllo !)...."Gents Without Cents" ?. Correct you are! That's a 1944 Three Stooges Columbia short. Open for someone else to post...

I am always quick to register my disappointment when TCM schedules a movie (often a rarely seen Columbia) then has to drop it from the schedule and replace it at the last minute. One movie this happened to was COWBOY CANTEEN (1944 - Columbia) originally scheduled on Sept. 17, 2009. Well, I don't want to be only a complainer. Now's the time to say "Thank You!" to TCM for trying again on this one and actually getting it this time and running it (last night, July 15). Please keep trying on the other Columbias that were replaced.

>Here are the extras for The Four Feathers: >BONUS FEATURES: >Audio commentary by film historian Charles Drazin >New video interview with David Korda, son of director Zolt?n Korda >A Day at Denham, a short film from 1939 featuring footage of Zolt?n Korda on the set of The Four Feathers >Trailer >PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow What...they don't include four feathers?

>Not too many comments on the "Singing Cowboys". >Could it be cuz the whole genre's kinda boring? I'm lovin' 'em! - Groovin', as Mark would say!

>As an old divorced bachelor, I have learned a valuable lesson in life. I have only two plates, two forks, two knives, two spoons, and one microwavable bowl. I have several cheap plastic drinking glasses, which I can just throw away if they become too fuzzy and gross. >That's the only way I can keep dishes from piling up in my sink. Here you go, Fred: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfxmYBMZ3k