musicalnovelty

The face is SO familiar! Stanley Andrews?

> ..... Audrey Hepburn. The fact that she had played a few bit parts is a technicality. Another technicality: Spencer Tracy's "debut" in UP THE RIVER (1930) was mentioned earlier. That was actually only his feature film debut. He had made three Vitaphone shorts before that.

> Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, both born April 1st, celebrate their birthdays on the set of "Two Weeks with Love" with costars Louis Calhern, Tommy Rettig, Gary Gray and Ann Harding It's a good thing the girls have their hair pulled back while blowing out those candles. And doesn't Louis Calhern look like he's looking forward to a piece of that cake!

You already posted about this back on June 17: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=160269&tstart=195

> I'm sure I've had my fill of Bull Dog Drummond and Tarzan. You mean ACE DRUMMOND (1936 serial), not Bull Dog Drummond, I'm sure. Actually, the Bulldog Drummond movies would be very welcome on TCM! Anyway, the final chapter of the ACE DRUMMOND serial is scheduled for July 23, so it'll be over soon. Then, TCM has a ZORRO serial coming. I hope you'll enjoy that one.

Unlisted short Thursday night, July 7, after TRUNK TO CAIRO: 24 HOUR ALERT (1955) - Color Warner Bros. short starring & narrated by Jack Webb. 31 minutes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047791/combined Interesting short. Let's hope it's on again soon, and listed this time, so people can know it'll be on.

July 1 post: Milton Parsons

> I did not "guess". I recognized it. Mainly because of Paul Cavanagh's imitation of George Arliss. Good work! It's always fun to figure out stuff like that without knowing before watching. And how'd you like how they even retained Arliss' final line in this version? I remember a few years ago watching a rarely-seen 1929 Paramount movie called RIVER OF ROMANCE and thinking "where have I seen this before?" until realizing the story was remade by Paramount as MISSISSIPPI in 1935, a movie I've seen often but hadn't realized was a remake of a 1929 movie that I'd never seen.

> "Adventure in Iraq" is a remake of "The Green Goddess". > A fairly close copy so far. Yes, it is. No need to guess. It's well documented. It's mentioned in Leonard Maltin's review, and on IMDb, to mention just two sources. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035610/movieconnections In a few minutes we will hear if Robert Osborne or his guest mentions it in their closing comments. Edited by: musicalnovelty on Jul 7, 2011 9:20 PM to update that in their closing comments neither RO nor his guest mentioned that tonight's movie was a remake of THE GREEN GODDESS.

So many great ideas in everyone's schedules...very difficult to select just one to vote for. I admire all the thought and effort that went into creating these schedules. Great work everyone! But here's my vote: Scott MacGillivray's schedule. One of the main reasons is his obvious fondness for many of the stars and types of films that are also my favorites, for example, Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor, and Hal Roach and Vitaphone shorts. Gloria Jean is one of my very favorite stars who definitely needs more exposure. Her movies are wonderful perfect family entertainment (especially THE UNDER-PUP, one that Scott has scheduled) and would be right at home on TCM. And Scott's schedule even includes Gloria Jean screen-test footage! How cool, and what a great programming "extra". I'd love to see that footage! The selection of Donald O'Connor as Star of the Month is also inspired. What a great entertainer he was, and such a tribute would be long-overdue. And anything that may get Donald's 1940's Universal features out of the vaults and on TCM is okay by me! There are many other favorite titles and stars on Scott's schedule, incuding Jessie Matthews and Lupino Lane. And I agree it would be great to see the Edward Everett Horton movie HER MASTER'S VOICE on TCM! Perhaps one day... So, Scott's getting my vote!

> ....In 1953, MGM again (I think), substituted Nancy Olson with Janet Leigh to costar with Van Johnson in CONFIDENTIALLY CONNIE, when they realized that the marquee would read "Olson and Johnson". Thanks for posting this. I had read somewhere years ago that MGM (and other studios) hesitated to costar Nancy Olson with Van Johnson for the reason you state, even though they'd have made a good screen team. I even posted about it on these Boards several months ago and recall that there were some responses that seemed to express doubt about it.

I'd like also to say Welcome to the boards. And although I don't want to appear critical, since it's misspelled seven times it can't be a random typo, so I wanted to say that the name of the man the movie is about is George M. Cohan, not Cohen.

I seem to for some reason be unable to access the larger versions of the ROARING TWENTIES poster, so am unable to read who the guy is in the little picture in the lower corner of the poster. What does it say there?

That MIGHTY JOE YOUNG poster with all those cowboys makes it appear (misleadingly) that the movie is about a giant ape invading the old west. Cool poster with great artwork, though!

> Speaking of Jane Frazee, I just noticed she is scheduled again on July 15. She appears in Columbia's COWBOY CANTEEN. Let's hope it really will be shown this time. COWBOY CANTEEN was scheduled on TCM on Sept. 17, 2009 then pulled at the last minute and replaced. Very disappointing for us Columbia B-movie and Jane Frazee fans. If it really is shown again on July 15 we must give TCM credit for trying again and really getting it this time, even if it took almost two years.

> I would love to see some Abbott & Costello films. > Not to mention: Hellzapoppin', Ghost Chasers, Mighty Treve.... Man Made Monster... The Invisible Ray, Werewolf of London... AND Trail of the Vigilantes. Hey, cool! Another TRAIL OF THE VIGILANTES fan! That's one of the best comedy-westerns ever and it seems almost nobody is familar with it. It sure would be great to see it on TCM along with all the other Universal Pictures that you listed, and more of the REALLY rare ones from the 1930's. I read on another post somewhere that Buster Keaton will be Star of the Month in October. Let's hope TCM will arrange to show the rarely shown Universals that Buster made in the 1940's.

Maybe it was clips from the 1925 version of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Thanks Mongo for posting that Edith Fellows picture. I had just posted about her over on the Hot Topics forum and was going to ask if you could give us a picture of her. And you just beat me to it! I got to meet the delightful Edith back in 2000 and chat with her about many things including her films. She liked that I wanted to talk about the more obscure titles. She was a very nice lady and had a very good memory for details even from the films she made as a young child.

Beatlesfan, I hope you're watching...it's coming up on TCM in just a minute!

I like it too. I think the monster stuff is very good, but there are too many scenes where the teenagers or the cops just waste time talking...and talking...and talking... apparently just to pad out the running time.

>Thanks, Musical! I remembered the Dad was played by a real life major ball player but couldn't remember any of the cast! > I'll try to find a DVD, if one exists! I don't believe that series is available on DVD, but maybe you can record the show from TCM next time it's on.

I believe this must be it: THE HOT HEIRESS (1931) starring Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Dugan, Thelma Todd, Inez Courtney & more. IMDb entry here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021973/combined

That sounds like the episode of the TV series "Screen Director's Playhouse" entitled PRIMA DONNA (1956). The stars were Jeanette MacDonald, Laraine Day, Leo Durocher, Jerome Cowan and others. More info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0696451/combined It was shown on TCM last January.

> lzcutter wrote... > The TCM bug is there because the studios demand it. On some movies this month the "bug" has been HUGE! Oh, those were the Thursday night "Drive-In" monster flicks!

> Thanks musicalnovelty, I never would have guessed that. > I looked her up on imdb and see she was also the screaming kid in *The Bad & The Beautiful* (1953) when Shields was making the "Cat Man" film. > She was a good screamer. > She also was one of *The Space Children* in 1958. Yes, I remember her in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. And I haven't seen it in years but THE SPACE CHILDREN was pretty cool. I have some stills from that with Sandy Descher. I wonder how she's doing now? Has anyone ever found her and interviewed her?