musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > > Norma Shearer is up to some monkey business > That shot of Norma Shearer is from her 1926 MGM Picture THE DEVIL'S CIRCUS (in case anyone might have been wondering...)

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > *"Maybe the only "Along Came Jones " that he is familiar with, like yours truly, is the Coasters' song."* - finance > > Is that different from the Ray Stevens version? (Only one I know.) > The Ray Stevens 1969 version is a remake of The Coasters' 1959 orignal. And neither one of them had anything to do with the 1945 movie.

Those musical notes are similar but not identical. By the way, according to the Revue / Shamley Productions Music Cue Sheets for the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series the title of the notes used in the Hitchcock TV show is "Tymp-Beat-Music-Cue" composed by Melvyn Lenard.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > Musicalnovelty, > >Thank you for taking the time to go back to the "Now Playing" Guides and bringing us up to date. > > > It was a fun trip back to TCM's early days! But what a lot of typin'!

List posted by lzcutter: Stars of the Month: STAR OF THE MONTH: May 1994: Greta Garbo June 1994: Glenn Ford July 1994: Greer Garson Aug.1994: Edward G. Robinson Sept.1994: Barbara Stanwyck Oct.1994: Angela Lansbury Nov.1994 John Garfield Dec.1994: Jan.1995: Esther Williams Feb.1995: Ronald Reagan Mar.1995: Apr.1995: Doris Day May 1995: Myrna Loy June 1995: Errol Flynn July 1995: G. Kelly (Gene or Grace?) Aug.1995: Paul Muni Sept.1995: Jane Powell Oct.1995: Clark Gable Nov.1995: Barrymores Dec.1995: Bing Crosby Jan.1996: Deborah Kerr Feb.1996: Robert Young Mar.1996 April 1996: Irene Dunne May 1996: James Stewart June 1996: Rosalind Russell July 1996: Fred Astaire Aug.1996: Ann Sheridan Sept.1996: Van Johnson Oct.1996: Kathryn Grayson Nov.1996: Robert Mitchum Dec.1996: Gary Cooper Jan.97: Jean Arthur Feb.97: Eleanor Parker Mar.97: 31 Days of Oscar Apr.97: Ava Gardner May 97: George Brent June 97: June Allyson July 97: John and Walter Huston (also Director of the Month) Aug.97: Cary Grant Sept.97: Ida Lupino Oct.97: Walter Pidgeon Nov.97: Katharine Hepburn Dec.97: Best of ?97 Jan.1998: Lana Turner Feb.1998: Charlton Heston Mar.1998:31 Days of Oscar April 1998: Red Skelton May 1998: Olivia de Havilland June 1998: James Cagney July 1998: Lucille Ball August 1998: Joan Crawford Sept.1998: John Wayne Oct.1998: Cyd Charisse Nov.1998: Claude Rains Dec.1998: Best of ?98 Jan.1999: Elizabeth Taylor Feb.1999: William Powell March 1999: 31 Days of Oscar April 1999: Dennis Morgan May 1999: Bette Davis June 1999: Mickey Rooney July1999: Natalie Wood August 1999: Peter Sellers Sept.1999: Norma Shearer Oct. 1999: Gregory Peck Nov. 1999: Ginger Rogers Dec. 1999: Burt Lancaster Jan. 2000: Debbie Reynolds Feb. 2000: Robert Ryan March 2000: 31 Days of Oscars April 2000: Spencer Tracy May 2000: Alexis Smith June 2000:Wallace Beery July 2000: Judy Garland August 2000: film debuts Sept 2000: Jane Wyman October 2000: Dick Powell Nov 2000: Frank Sinatra Dec. 2000: Lauren Bacall Jan. 2001: Elvis Presley Feb.2001: Jean Hagen March 2001: 31 Days of Oscar Apr.2001: Knighted Actors May 2001: Jean Harlow June 2001: W.C. Fields July 2001: Ann Sothern Aug.2001: James Garner Sept. 2001: Robert Taylor Oct. 2001: Lana Turner Nov.2001: Glenn Ford Dec.2001: The Marx Brothers Jan. 2002: Marlene Dietrich Feb. 2002: Kirk Douglas March 2002: 31 Days of Oscar April 2002: Barbara Stanwyck May 2002: Edward G. Robinson June 2002: Greta Garbo July 2002: Sidney Poitier Aug. 2002: Joan Crawford Sept. 2002: Van Heflin Oct. 2002: Final films Nov. 2002: Shelly Winters Dec. 2002: Montgomery Clift Jan. 2003: Doris Day Feb. 2003: John Garfield Mar. 2003: 31 Days of Oscar Apr. 2003: Harold Lloyd May 2003: Olivia de Havilland June 2003: TV Actors in Films July 2003: Lee Marvin Aug. 2003: 1st Summer Under the Stars (see below) Sept. 2003: James Mason Oct. 2003: Boris Karloff Nov. 2003: Shirley MacLaine Dec. 2003: David Niven Jan. 2004: Katherine Hepburn Feb.2004: 31 Days of Oscar Mar.2004: Charles Chaplin Apr. 2004: Judy Garland May 2004: Greer Garson June 2004: Cary Grant July 2004: Stars That Died Before Their Time Aug.2004: 2nd Summer Under the Stars (see below) Sept.2004: Myrna Loy Oct. 2004: Peter Lorre Nov.2004: Clark Gable Dec. 2004: James Stewart Jan.2005: Canadian Actors Feb. 2005: 31 Days of Oscar Mar. 2005: Claudette Colbert Apr. 2005: Errol Flynn May 2005: Orson Welles June 2005: Ingrid Bergman July 2005: Audrey Hepburn Aug. 2005: 3rd Summer Under the Stars (see below) Sept.2005: Greta Garbo Oct.2005: Robert Mitchum Nov.2005: Joan Fontaine Dec. 2005: Bing Crosby Jan. 2006: Robert Montgomery Feb.2006: 31 Days of Oscar Mar.2006: Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald Apr.2006: Deborah Kerr May 2006: Bette Davis June 2006: Anthony Quinn July 2006: Elizabeth Taylor Aug.2006: 4th Summer Under the Stars (see below) Sept.2006: William Holden Oct.2006: Child Stars Nov.2006: Lucille Ball Dec. 2006: Gary Cooper Jan.2007: Jean Arthur Feb.2007: 31 Days of Oscar Mar.2007: Gene Kelly Apr.2007: Rita Hayworth May 2007: John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn June 2007: Ida Lupino July 2007: Randolph Scott Aug.2007: 5th Summer Under the Stars (see below) Sept.2007: A Star is Born (starmaking/breakthrough performances) Oct.2007: Henry Fonda Nov.2007: Guest Programmer Month Dec.2007: Irene Dunne Jan.2008: James Cagney Feb.2008: 31 Days of Oscar Mar.2008: Acting Dynasties Apr.2008: Hedy Lamarr May 2008: Frank Sinatra June 2008: Sophia Loren July 2008: Rosalind Russell Aug.2008: 6th annual Summer Under the Stars (see below) Sept.2008: Kay Francis Oct.2008: Carole Lombard Nov.2008: Charles Laughton Dec. 2008: Joseph Cotton Jan. 2009: Jack Lemmon Feb. 2009: 31 Days of Oscar Mar. 2009: Ronald Reagan April 2009: Funny Ladies and 15th Anniversary May 2009: Sean Connery June 2009: Great Directors July 2009: Stewart Granger August 2009: Summer Under the Stars Sept. 2009: Claude Rains Oct. 2009: Leslie Caron Nov. 2009: Grace Kelly Dec. 2009: Humphrey Bogart Jan. 2010: ?The Method? Feb. 2010: 31 Days of Oscar March 2010: Ginger Rogers April 2010: Robert Taylor May 2010: Donna Reed June 2010: Natalie Wood July 2010: Gregory Peck August 2010: SUTS Sept. 2010: Vivien Leigh Oct. 2010: Fredric March Nov. 2010: Ava Gardner Dec. 2010: Mickey Rooney --------------------------------------- I got tired of seeing the gaps in this Star of the Month listing, so I went and dug out my old TCM schedules so I could fill in the missing names. But -- it looks like some corrections are needed too! Some of these are incorrect. First, to fill in the gaps: December 1994: No star. It says "Best of '94" - "A special tribute to some of the legendary stars who have been featured on TCM in 1994." Including 7 movies starring Barbara Stanwyck, 10 movies starring Greta Garbo, 17 movies starring Edward G. Robinson, and 14 movies starring Bette Davis." (Yes, Bette Davis was Star in July 1994 along with Greer Garson. Bette even got the cover picture. Billed as "Bette Davis: The Early Years" she had 20 films shown to Garson's only 19.) March 1995: "TCM Salutes the Oscars". No one star of the Month. Norma Shearer gets the cover shot, holding her statuette. July 1995: Gene Kelly, not Grace Kelly. Gene's on the cover in a serious dramatic pose. 28 of his movies were shown. March 1996: "TCM Presents 31 Days of Oscar". No one star. Grace Kelly is on the cover holding her Oscar. So, that fills in the gaps. Note: They did not use the term "Star of the Month" until January 1997 with the first issue of the "Now Playing" magazine. From April 1994 through November 1996 the tribute to the star of the month was called "Star Tribute". Corrections: As noted, both Bette Davis and Greer Garson were Stars of the Month in July 1994. And Bette could perhaps be considered first, as she had more films shown, and she got the cover shot. December 1995: Bing Crosby was NOT the Star that month. In fact only ONE Bing movie was shown during the entire month: HIGH SOCIETY on Dec. 12 and that was part of a five-movie birthday salute to Frank Sinatra. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT 1 & 2 were also shown that month, but of course Bing is not the star of those and we can definitely see that he was not getting the "Star Tribute" that month. Dec. 1995 was another "no star" - It was "The Best of TCM 1995". December 1996: Once again somebody goofed in reporting the Star. Gary Cooper was NOT it. Only two Cooper films were run that month: THE FOUNTAINHEAD on the 19th and MEET JOHN DOE on the 21st and again on the 24th. Surely not enough for anyone to regard him as The Star that month! Instead they again presented "The Best of TCM's 1996 Programming" as stated on the cover below a nice handsome shot of Robert Osborne (in fact the very same shot as on the cover of the Dec. 1995 guide). January 1997: First issue of "Now Playing" as we still know it, and first use of the term "Star of the Month". Again, the listing of Jean Arthur as Star of the Month is totally crazy! Not one Jean Arthur film was shown that month! How did these incorrect names get listed? Humphrey Bogart was the first "Star of the Month" and they presented his movies in a unique way: as a week-long marathon! From Monday morning, Jan. 6 through Sunday night, Jan. 12 it was ALL Bogie! A total of 52 movies were shown, with some repeats during the week. Also, in addition to the "Star Tributes" and "Star of the Month" salutes, TCM paid similar tribute to a Director each month, in the series "Director Salute". Here are the "Directors Salutes" each month: May 1994: George Cukor. June 1994: Mervyn Leroy. July 1994: Frank Capra - 11 films. August 1994: Edward Dmytryk - 12 films. September 1994: Busby Berkeley - 43 films. October 1994: Lloyd Bacon - 55 films. November 1994: Clarence Brown - 36 films. December 1994: "Best of '94" - Cukor - 5 films, Leroy - 10 films, Capra - 9 films, Dmytryk - 7 films, Berkeley - 7 films. January 1995: Victor Sherman - 16 films. February 1995: Frank Borzage - 19 films. March 1995: Oscar month. April 1995: Michael Curtiz - 40 films. May 1995: Curtis Bernhardt - 15 films. June 1995: George Sidney - 17 films. July 1995: William Dieterle - 27 films. August 1995: W.S. Van Dyke - 40 films. September 1995: "Kings of the B's" - Edward Cahn, Phil Karlson, William Beaudine, etc. October 1995: William Wellman - 24 films. November 1995: John Ford - 12 films. December 1995: no director salute. "The Best of TCM 1995". January 1996: "The Continental Touch" - Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Jean Negulesco. February 1996: John Sturges - 19 films. March 1996: Oscar month. April 1996: Stanley Donen - "more than ten" films, it says. May 1996: Robert Wise - 20 films. June 1996: Archie Mayo - 22 films. July 1996: Sam Wood - 22 films. August 1996: King Vidor - 14 films. September 1996: Richard Thorpe - 52 films. October 1996: Raoul Walsh - 27 films. November 1996: Stars as Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Ray Milland, Woody Allen, Ida Lupino, Peter Fonda, Orson Welles, Charles Laughton, Marlon Brando, Jerry Lewis, etc. December 1996: "Best of TCM 1996". January 1997: S. Sylvan Simon - "more than 19 films". it says. That's it so far...

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > Sorry I didn't make myself clearer. > That's okay...you were clear. I guess I just couldn't resist a chance to put in another plug for how great the movie is!

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > This montage, to me, is the best valentine to film and those of us who love it. Ever. > Yes, it's a nice montage by itself. But it is SO MUCH more meaningful and emotional in the context of the entire movie...I mean after one has seen all that came before it.

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > It's incredible to me to hear people rave about the commercials shown during events like the Super Bowl. > > Yeah, but the other side of the coin: Some friends who worked at a special effects studio demonstrated for me an adorable Pekin duck puppet they built for an Afflack commercial to air during the Super Bowl. I very much regret I never saw it in action. > > Many people who create commercials are very proud (& rightly so) of their artistry. > Oh yes I agree there must be exceptions, like if someone you know worked on one. I hope you get to see it some time.

> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote} >AMC ....I don't mind some commercials if it's the only way to see the movie >this year. Gives you time to get some more eggnog from the fridge. > Yes, but the frequency and length of their commercial breaks gives you enough time to clean out your entire fridge and everything else in the kitchen!

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote} > > But, I have to say that as a child of the late 50s and 60s, I actually enjoyed some of the early commercials. > > Well I loathe commercials and refuse to watch them. When over someone else's house, I ask them to "mute please". I can't stand the *sound* of the commercials, it reminds me of snake oil salesmen yelling! My friends and relatives often talk about "clever" or "funny" commercials and are always surprised I have zero familiarity with them. I simply do not watch commercials, period. > Soo, That sounds so exactly like me! I too hate, resent, resist, refuse & reject commercials! Especially when they come across with lines like "all America is waiting for..." NO! Not me! Most commercials I have to endure just succeed in building a resentment to whatever they're trying to sell! Commercials are intrusive unwanted interruptions! It's incredible to me to hear people rave about the commercials shown during events like the Super Bowl. These people are seemingly actually watching the commercials willingly! I am proud to claim ignorance when people talk about some great new commercial they've seen. Of course, vintage commercials (like pre-1970's) are nostalgic and fun. But I probably wouldn't have thought so at the time. Some of this attitude may have been picked up from my father, who used to turn the sound down during commercials on TV when my siblings and I were kids.

> {quote:title=The_Destroyer wrote:}{quote} > I'd like to see a new version where they change Dicken's story and Scrooge is reunited with his lost love. What's her name? > Just going by memory of the Mister Magoo version, not looking anything up, was it "Belle"?

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > Hmmm... I thought they would have to identify them. Well, it's been a few years since I saw it. Yes, it is a great film, and Tracey, you should watch the whole thing! > A lot of the clips were probably from public domain films, so maybe they weren't required to identify them. And the clips were so short in that montage that they'd probably have been able to use them through "fair use" or whatever it is. But in addition to all the brief clips seen in that final montage, remember there were longer movie scenes used throughout the whole movie as it told its story in the many scenes in the movie theater. None of those clips were identified, either. There were some shots of Charlie Chaplin, and I recall at least one clip from "Stagecoach" (maybe from a trailer for it) but most of the other clips were from foreign films. But you know what: "Cinema Paradiso" is so good, so absorbing that I actually never thought to wonder about the film clips used. And I'm someone who usually does notice and think about such things in movies.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > It's not on the wikipedia, or the IMDb. The films are probably listed in the end credits, if you have the DVD. > No, I have seen both versions of the movie many times and I do not believe the clips are identified at the end. I have actually never seen any source where they're identified. Tracey65: Watch the entire movie when you can. It really is excellent and I recommend it highly.

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > > > Nicely done with the "headless" group. When the subject was broached, my challenge instincts kicked in immediately. But I only got as far as *Salome*, a "guillotine" movie of some sort and then got stuck on Thelma Ritter declining to see what was in the hat box in *Rear Window* but couldn't go any further. > > Kyle In Hollywood > Other "missing head" movies include "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head" (1934 - Universal) and its 1945 remake, "Strange Confession" (also Universal). This one was even reissued under the title "The Missing Head".

More info on SUNNY SIDE UP and some nice stills here: http://www.elbrendel.com/

> {quote:title=JonasEB wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=JonasEB wrote:}{quote} > > > Not to mention the way he treated his older brother Francis. Then you have his relationship to Maureen O'Hara... > > > > > What was it? You say that as if we're supposed to know... > > Ford was in love with Maureen O'Hara, an unrequited love. It got to the point that Ford was sending her bizarre love letters and it had quite an effect on their professional relationship; Ford's manipulative behavior led to increasingly passive-aggressive communication between the two on set. > > They remained friends over the years but it's an ugly story nonetheless. > > At least that's how O'Hara tells it (from her memoirs, sourced in Tag Gallagher's book on Ford.) > Thank you for the response. I appreciate the info. I wasn't aware of most of that.

Does anyone else remember the 1986 NBC TV-movie CHRISTMAS SNOW starring Katherine Helmond, Sid Caesar and Melissa Joan Hart? That's one that should be shown more often.

Does anyone else remember the 1986 NBC TV-movie CHRISTMAS SNOW starring Katherine Helmond, Sid Caesar and Melissa Joan Hart? That's one that should be shown more often.

It just occurred to me the reason we're seeing so many Mickey Rooney films in December. His real last name is Yule!

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote} > Looks like another good month. Jean Harlow must be star of the month. > I was hoping that when Jean Harlow became Star of the Month that TCM would arrange to finally show her 1931 Fox feature GOLDIE. But no, I guess not yet...

It's coming up again on March 16, 2011.

A major highlight for me: March 20: The Public Menace (1935) - Columbia Thank you, TCM!

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote} > > Nice reminiscence, musicalnovelty. Was that viewing at Cinefest? > Do you recall a few years ago the film with Bab's first appearance on film? A quick walk on? > No, it wasn't shown at Cinefest. In 2008 & 2009 I went to Cinevent in Columbus, Ohio and the night before it starts there is a classic movie double feature in a theater in town called The Wexner Center. That's where, in May 2008 I saw THE SIGN ON THE DOOR (1921) starring Norma Talmadge. The other movie that night was the very enjoyable comedy THE LOVE EXPERT (1920) starring Constance Talmadge (with other sister Natalie in a supporting role). Not sure about your other B. Stanwyck question. It appears that her only other film before THE LOCKED DOOR was a small role in a 1927 movie called BROADWAY NIGHTS. I've never seen that one. It may be a lost one. Anyway, if it ever played at Cinefest I unfortunately missed it there. THE LOCKED DOOR did play at Capitolfest in Rome, NY (in 35mm at The Rome Capitol) a few years ago. Might you have seen that there and could that be the one you're thinking of? (Although as you know, she's the star of that one, not a quick walk-on).

What, no Mister Magoo?? And it looks like they still doing a marathon of "A Christmas Story" on WTBS. I'm afraid to look (and really don't care), but I hope they've gotten over that ridiculous crazy idea of showing it for 24 hours! That is just such a waste of time (not that I'd be watching anything else on that channel anyway). But the point is, that movie just ain't THAT good!

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > How about all the Columbia Bs that have been scheduled and subsequently canceled since 2006? > Yes, I was just thinking (again) about all of those today while watching Betty Bronson in THE LOCKED DOOR. I hope TCM can eventually reschedule and actually run the 1931 Columbia feature LOVER COME BACK, one of Miss Bronson's few talkies. It was scheduled back on Sept. 16 but later replaced by something else. Please TCM keep on trying on these Columbias that you've had to drop from the schedules.