musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:}{quote}
> Lupino let WB sortly after completing this film. She probably would have inherited the similar JOHNNY BELINDA the following year if she had remained.
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While looking through some of my old TV Guides a few days ago I came across another interesting choice of casting for JOHNNY BELINDA. Live from New York and in color on October 13, 1958 NBC's "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presented a new adaptation of the story. The stars of this version were Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer and Victor Jory, with Rip Torn, Betty Lou Holland and Joanna Roos in support. TV Guide's half-page Close-Up (with a picture of the star) notes that the adaptation of the play was by Theodore Apstein and that the Producer & Director was George Schaefer. Music composed & conducted by Bernard Green.
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> VX, it's nice to know that you read the thread with interest.
> If only she could have lived so long.
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"In our hearts" and on the Big Screen she will!
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> {quote:title=lanie wrote:}{quote}
> I have been requesting this movie to be shown on TCM for a long time but, alas, nothing. I wonder if it is available to TCM?
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I'd love to see it, too. But it's a Paramount title, so who knows when...or if?
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> > Too bad TCM didn't take the opportunity to include the silent short "Double Whoopee," featuring Ms. Harlow with Laurel and Hardy, in their retrospective. It's an early example of how well she did comedy; she also looks stunning. It's one of L&H's better silent shorts, but TCM omitted it from their recent L&H shorts marathon as well.
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> Wow, that's sounds very cool!!! Would love to see it! Hopefully TCM will find it and be able to air it sometime in the near future!
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So far TCM's Roach film screenings have not included silents (excepting the Our Gangs in January which seem to have been a special deal). Maybe in the future we will get to see silent Hal Roach films on TCM, hopefully including the great DOUBLE WHOOPEE..
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}
>*North by Northwest* is on yet again. I've just noticed it's also on this week (Thursday) as well!! What's going on? I understand that there are only so many films from which to draw on, to fill many time slots, but they are getting carried away with this one. Leave it alone for a couple of years, please!!!
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Didn't we already go through all this just a few months ago? (Only then the topic was the movie SOME LIKE IT HOT).
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> I'm glad you posted this, I thought I was the only one with Pat Hitchcock love. She's adorable and makes a ton of impact with only a few minutes screen time. A perfect example of talent & know how making an impact, stealing any scene she's in.
> Usually, that trait is rooted in stunning beauty like Burt Lancaster or Hedy Lamarr, you can't take your eyes off them. Although I find Pat very cute, she's no Ava Gardner but instead uses her voice, body and manner to command our attention.
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> I wonder if she would have had a huge career as an actress if she wasn't Hitch's daughter? I wonder what her aspirations were?
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> I think she'd be an EXCELLENT Private Screenings guest. I'd LOVE to hear anything she has to say about herself or her father's careers.
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I completely agree with everything you said!
I was reminded of her again just a few nights ago while watching "The 39 Steps". She's have been about 7 years of age when that was filmed. There was a character in the movie named "Patricia"...coincidence?
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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> Scott's accent was wildly out of place in Merian Cooper's SHE. Every time I watch that film I say to myself "where was Robert Donat when we NEEDED him!!!"
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Over in England climbing those "39 Steps".
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> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}
> Oh I feel your pain....those emergency broadcasts happen all the time when I tape something late at night.
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Something absolutely amazing happened a few nights ago...one of those tests came on, and it was BETWEEN movies!
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > A major highlight for me:
> > March 20: The Public Menace (1935) - Columbia
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> > Thank you, TCM!
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> YES!!!! I'm with you!!!
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Have you noticed that, as feared, THE PUBLIC MENACE has been pulled from the schedule and is no longer listed for March 20.
DRAT!! That was probably the highlight (for never-been-shown-before rarities) of the month for me.
Please, TCM, keep trying on this one.
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Don't forget Cinefest in Syracuse starting March 17:
http://www.syracusecinephile.com/node/5
See you there?
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I can't stand it! Absolutely hated it!
I'd never really seen it or given it a chance (not being into much after the 1950's) but the bits I'd happen to catch on TCM occasionally made me want to avoid it. Then recently a friend was running a 16mm print and I had the opportunity to see it complete with a small audience and give it a fresh new look and really give it a chance. And I really tried. I didn't go into it saying "I know I'm not going to like this". I gave it a chance. And just absolutely hated every minute of it, starting with that first horrendous close-up of Joel Grey!
So, as I've often said, give me the pre-1950's on TCM!
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> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
>I think this is the first time the BOWERY BOYS films are being shown on TCM. I could be wrong.
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The Bowery Boys features were shown on TCM on Sunday afternoons back in 1999.
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> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}
> During his intro to CABARET, Bob cited cast members Liza Minnelli and Joel McCrea.
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I thought I heard that too, but had to figure it was just my imagination!
But hey, I'd like that movie a whole lot more if Joel McCrea was really in it!
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> {quote:title=MovieProfessor wrote:}{quote}
> Wow! I got to hand it to you! Here I was deleting a thread about my beloved Jane Russell, because I was told one already existed. So, I just added a "zero" to clear it up with the idea that an administrator would delete the thread.
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I also certainly expected it to be deleted. I wonder why it wasn't.
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Dick Powell in MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) (and all non-musicals he made after that).
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> {quote:title=Ascotrudgeracer wrote:}{quote}
> Have ANYONE watch "The Killer Shrews" and see if they can identify the hero...a young Ken ("Festus") Curtis.
> They will look at the actor, but he doesn't look OR sound like the "Gunsmoke" stalwart.
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Yes that definitely is the same Ken Curtis. He even gets to be eaten by the title creatures. And he also produced the movie (as well as the similar "classic" THE GIANT GILA MONSTER).
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> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote}
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> A great way to celebrate Frank Morgan's birthday on June 1st: SECRETS OF THE FRENCH POLICE (1932), HALF NAKED TRUTH (1932) and THE NUISANCE (1932) all great pre-codes.
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But they're not showing what's perhaps the definitive Frank Morgan film: THE GREAT MORGAN (1946).
Some June highlights for me:
Columbia B's -
JUNIOR ARMY (1942)
BEAUTIFUL BUT BROKE (1944)
KANSAS CITY KITTY (1944)
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The June TCM schedule has just been posted and on her birthday, the 21st, Jane gets a whole day:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&oid=6/1/2011
21 Tuesday
4:00 AM Underwater! (1955)
Divers race the clock to find a Caribbean treasure before modern-day pirates can catch up to them. Cast: Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan. Dir: John Sturges. C-99 mins
5:45 AM Las Vegas Story, The (1952)
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface. Cast: Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price. Dir: Robert Stevenson. BW-88 mins
7:15 AM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix. Dir: Josef von Sternberg. BW-81 mins
8:45 AM Double Dynamite (1951)
A bank teller reaps the rewards of saving a gangster's life, but can't reveal where he got the money. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Groucho Marx. Dir: Irving Cummings. BW-81 mins
10:15 AM His Kind Of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price. Dir: John Farrow. BW-120 mins
12:30 PM Paleface, The (1948)
An inept dentist must rescue his outlaw wife from the Indians. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. C-91 mins
2:15 PM Young Widow (1946)
A young newspaperwoman tries to get over the loss of her husband in World War II. Cast: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue. Dir: Edwin L. Marin. BW-100 mins
4:00 PM Outlaw, The (1943)
Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday fight over possession of a stallion and a sultry Mexican girl. Cast: Jack Beutel, Jane Russell, Walter Huston. Dir: Howard Hughes. BW-116 mins
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Coincidentally (how could they have known?) they have scheduled a memorial all-day tribute to the just-departed Jane Russell on her birthday, June 21.
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> {quote:title=yvesmary wrote:}{quote}
>Two that come to mind are Joan Leslie in Stage Door Canteen
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Regarding Joan Leslie, I'm sure you mean HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN, not STAGE DOOR CANTEEN. And I totally agree with you about Joan Leslie in that one. You just KNOW she's got to be playing herself and is truly just as nice as she is in the movie. And further making it seem real is the fact that Joan's real sister Betty plays her sister in the scenes where we meet her family.
I have been in touch with Joan Leslie in the last few years and am happy to report that she has been as nice as can be.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=dianabat wrote:}{quote}
> > And here I thought this was going to be a poll on *who'd been stung by dead bees...*
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> Truly, that was THE question of THaHN.
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Are you saying it was a "bee-movie"?
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> A foley artist creates sound effects.
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Named after Jack Foley who worked in several capacities at Universal in the late 1920's & 1930's.
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> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
> What I'd like to know is what was the first film to usher in the modern practice of listing every damn credit at the end of a film?
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I'm sure it was a gradual process starting in the mid-1960's with the listings getting longer all the time. It didn't start with just one movie.
desperately seeking movie title!
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> {quote:title=wallaceplayford wrote:}{quote}
> i am trying to figure out the name of a movie that i saw on tcm in the summer...
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> ...it was a 1930s movie in which two women dressed in fantastic asymmetrical blocked bathing suits entered a human wheel race and then crashed into a fountain where two men came to their rescue
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> i know that this is a vague description but any help would be greatly appreciated
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> ...i also believe that one of the women was trying to pay her friend $100 for one of the men?
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> thanks!
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There's an early talkie MGM feature that I think I recall starts out with a scene like that. I think it may be THEIR OWN DESIRE (1929).
Maybe the info and reviewer comments here will help you to figure out if this is the one you're asking about:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020488/combined