musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > All I can say is, thank God for the Hal Roach marathons. > I completely agree! It was a good night to simply give the TV a rest, or to catch up on recordings of the GOOD OLD stuff, like Hal Roach films.

I'd love to see more of these, too. I do have copies of ONE NIGHT AT SUSIE'S (good gangster film, I thought), A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR (as gagman said, it's been on TCM) and THE LADY WHO DARED. A comment about that last one: A friend's 16mm print was shown at Cinefest a couple years ago and I wrote the Program Notes. I felt I should keep it positive, but I was SO TEMPTED to say that the best things about it are that it's rare and it's short! SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES exists at UCLA: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/allFilms.html It was shown on August 4, 2002 at their 11th Annual Preservation Festival. Program Notes here: (not credited, or I'd acknowledge the writer) Preservation funded by Warner Bros., The Stanford Theatre Foundation SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES (1930) Directed by Clarence Badger A remote inn in the French countryside is the setting for this comic murder mystery. On the proverbial dark and stormy night, a married woman and her paramour (Leila Hyams and Sidney Blackmer) take refuge in the inn when their car breaks down. A murder is committed and the police arrive, accompanied by a suave detective (Clive Brook) who has been tailing the murder victim because of a stolen diamond necklace. None of this is meant to be taken very seriously, and the film switches gears from mystery to outright farce when the wife and the inn's femme de chambre (Billie Dove) temporarily exchange identities. First National Pictures. Based on the play ?Other Men's Wives? by Walter Hackett. Screenwriter: Forrest Halsey. Cinematographer: John Seitz. Editor: Jack Rollins. Cast: Billie Dove, Clive Brook, Sidney Blackmer, Leila Hyams, John Loder. 35mm, 77 min.

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > musicalnovelty, >What about Colleen Moore's *SYNTHETIC SIN* or *WHY BE GOOD?* When are they going to be >transferred to safety stock, or digital copies made? We have been talking about those for years. > I totally agree! Those are of major interest to me, too. I wish we could get some definite answers on those!

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > musicalnovelty, > > Thanks for the link? No comment on the movie titles? > Well, what can I say? OF COURSE it's great news and I hope we get to see all of these films. But as noted over at NitrateVille, there is no guarantee of the accuracy or completeness of the list (or of the films on it) so I'm not getting too excited about it yet.

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > It is called "The Mosquito's Parade." I'm not sure of the composer, but it could be an old J. S. Zamecnik Photoplay tune. Or maybe William Axt? > Thanks. I knew I'd heard it in the scores for some silent movies, but couldn't recall the title. The composer was Howard Whitney. Here's a vintage recording from 1899 when the tune was new:

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} >I have *HELEN'S BABIES* and posted a couple scenes with my own music on TCM CFU several months ago. > Here are the links to the two clips: > > http://fan.tcm.com/_Helen39s-Babies-1924-Tiny-Helpmates/video/1260807/66470.html > > http://fan.tcm.com/_Helen39s-Babies-1924-The-Trouble-with-Kid39s-and-Neighbors/video/1261247/66470.html > Good scoring job. What is the tune you used in the second halves of each clip? It's also used in the Vitaphone score for THE FIRST AUTO (1927). I was wondering the title and composer of the tune.

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote} > *Shirley Booth didn't seem to portray the type of character who could command a young stud as a husband.* > > I didn't catch its recent showing, and it's been awhile since I've seen it, but there is dialogue to the effect that she was pretty and had a nice figure in her youth, if I remember correctly. Also, her willingness to go all the way would have been a lure, at a time when most 'good girls' didn't. > In the scene when she's asking him if he regrets having married her, there's a line where she says something to the effect that he "had to" marry her. And you know what that means...

> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote} >....TCM is Anti Jewish singers/commedians that made their ethnicity part of their acts, both Cantor and Jolson were of the Jewish faith. I don't want to believe that this is so, but when you couple this with the absense of MAX DAVIDSON comedies from the recent HAL ROACH celebration, one has to wonder. > I'm sure there was no deliberate banning of the Hal Roach Max Davidson comedies on TCM during the recent Roach Studios tribute. With the exception of the silent Our Gang shorts the Roach tribute was all sound films. Max's starring Roach comedies were all silents, and it's still not clear if TCM even has access to those or other silent Roach shorts (again, the silent Our Gangs appeared to have been a separate deal). One Roach short featuring Max Davidson was shown: he has a supporting role in THE SHRIMP (1930) starring Harry Langdon. If you're a Max Davidson fan there is great news. A DVD set is coming soon that will include just about every existing silent Max short plus reconstructions of some of the lost ones. Also lots of extras such as scripts, stills, articles, etc. Info here: http://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/info/p99_Max-Davidson-Comedies.html

How about Leo Gorcey in CRASHING LAS VEGAS (1956)? (This one will need no explanation to Bowery Boys fans!)

> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote} > Well I'd rather watch Jack Norton or Arthur Housman over Cage any day.... > Will Stanton also often played a comic drunk in the 1930's. But not as often or as well as Housman and Norton.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > Can anyone think of other movies like *Ball of Fire*, in which an innocent, dedicated to their work, unexpectedly falls in love and overnight becomes open to all the sweet possibilities the world has to offer? > Of course, there's the remake starring Danny Kaye: A SONG IS BORN (1948).

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > Bringing Up Baby > >She leads him on a merry chase ... and destroys his dinosaur. > Yeah, don't you hate when that happens!

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > I believe that I saved it someplace. Thanks. Not sure where though. I am looking for the file. > In case you wanted to find it again, I did a search and found that the post I made listing the music cues for the 1931 reissue of THE BIG PARADE was on May 23, 2010 in this thread: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8407863

Scottman, Hey, ya beat me to it! But we agree!

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote} >From the "Singin' In the Rain" finale from *Hollywood Revue of 1929*, here's Joan Crawford (I think that's her, next to what looks like Buster Keaton): > > > That's George K. Arthur, not Buster Keaton next to Joan.

> {quote:title=cobraii wrote:}{quote} > No Jane Wyatt was the star. This was a small bit part player. > Jane Wyman, not Jane Wyatt was the star.

Already reported here: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=158088&tstart=30 And here: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=158093&tstart=0 Since in her most famous movie she was a "Pussycat" maybe this will be reported nine times, once for each of her "nine lives"!

Thanks as always for all the birthday photos. Interesting that Russell Gleason was born on his Mom Lucile's birthday. Now, wouldn't it have been so cool if TCM had given us a birthday tribute to both of them by running a day of all those Republic movies they made together. I know...it'll never happen...

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote} > Jim, >Last year someone posted a listing of the entire Axt-Mendoza score here. > That was me! I hope you printed it out or saved the link for reference. I don't remember exactly when I posted it.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > > The charactor (and how) Butch, I think this guy is more convincing as a *tough* guy (even though they both look alike.) > > hamradio, From the More Than You Expected To Know Department, that portrait of Curly Howard was posed for promotion of the Three Stooges short NUTTY BUT NICE (1940).

In addition to her many Producer and of course actress credits Drew Barrymore is listed here with two Director credits: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000106/filmotype

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > > > Very good movie. Thelma Todd is excellent in it as is Clara Bow. I have it on DVD--no idea whether this is bootleg? > > > > > > http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm > > > > > It most certainly positively and definitely is. > > There has been no authorized video or DVD release of CALL HER SAVAGE. > > All right...but I'm not giving it up! > Hey, you shouldn't! That's what they get: if the companies that own these rare films refuse to release them on video or DVD then they can just sit back and watch as bootleggers put them out, sell them and make the money that the proper owners could be making.

> {quote:title=ChorusGirl wrote:}{quote} > I'm surprised Fox never put out a pre-Code box set on dvd, with CALL HER SAVAGE plus all the other great pre-code movies they are sitting on > > like these: > > http://www.filmforum.org/films/foxfilms.html#me|http://www.filmforum.org/films/foxfilms.html#me > That Film Forum series ("Fox Before the Code") was from December 2006. I was there for some of those shows. But there are still several they showed then that I couldn't get to, and have still never seen anywhere else. I agree it would be so great if Fox would release a lot of these on DVD or if Fox Movie Channel would run them.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > > Also missing are the many great films he did for Fox plus Universal's COPPER CANYON, a Technicolor western pairing him with Hedy Lamarr. > Not meaning to be too picky, but to be accurate, COPPER CANYON is a Paramount Picture, not Universal.

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > Very good movie. Thelma Todd is excellent in it as is Clara Bow. I have it on DVD--no idea whether this is bootleg? > > http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm > It most certainly positively and definitely is. There has been no authorized video or DVD release of CALL HER SAVAGE.