musicalnovelty

He posted on NitrateVille recently that he was having trouble logging on to the Message Boards. So yes, he's okay. Gagman: When you can get back on here, you'll see that you're being missed!

I hope everyone saw the "Word of Mouth" interview clip of child actress Cora Sue Collins talking about her appearance in "Queen Christina" (1933). (It ran several times on TCM last week before the movie was shown on Friday). Let's hear more from this lady! Her memory seems very clear and the list of great stars she worked with is very impressive. I'm sure she can tell us a lot of interesting stories. If that clip was part of a longer interview, let's hear more. And doesn't she look great for 83? (Assuming that interview was filmed recently). Info on Cora Sue: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172237/bio

Joan Davis in "Hold That Ghost" (Universal, 1941).

> {quote:title=LillianJuda wrote:}{quote} > Hi guys! > > Well, I've search as much as I can find. Looks like I'm forced to ask the audience. > > I'm looking for a film I saw as a child. I saw it on TCM. > > It's a French film including 2 children, 1 boy and 1 girl. They live in a small town/village. It has something to do with a barn and perhaps a small animal or insect. The boy finds this insect/animal and tries to take care of it, but it dies and he's very upset by it. He then buries it attaching a small white cross to the burial mound. Then maybe some extra emphasis is put on the white cross, but I'm not sure. > I believe this is it: "Forbidden Games" (1952) Info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043686/combined More info here: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=75364&category=Overview

> {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote} > > > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > > > That James Cagney poster is actually for the 1937 Grand National movie GREAT GUY. > > > > > > Interesting... I guess the folks at this website got it wrong as well? > > > > > > http://www.psicofxp.com/forums/cine-tv-radio-y-espectaculos.67/480693-las-peliculas-delpasado-que-estan-presente-8.html > > > > > Yes, obviously...and amusingly! > > Just a look at the cast and director's name printed right on the poster is all the evidence needed. None of those folks had anything to do with the 1931 THE PUBLIC ENEMY. > > Oh well... I liked the poster anyway, lol! > Me, too, and may I take a moment to say thanks for all the cool posters you've been posting!

> {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > That James Cagney poster is actually for the 1937 Grand National movie GREAT GUY. > > Interesting... I guess the folks at this website got it wrong as well? > > http://www.psicofxp.com/forums/cine-tv-radio-y-espectaculos.67/480693-las-peliculas-delpasado-que-estan-presente-8.html > Yes, obviously...and amusingly! Just a look at the cast and director's name printed right on the poster is all the evidence needed. None of those folks had anything to do with the 1931 THE PUBLIC ENEMY.

That James Cagney poster is actually for the 1937 Grand National movie GREAT GUY.

> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote} > Eastman House has a perfect copy of this film, Gloria Swanson's smash hit talkie debut (and Oscar nomination). > > Why doesn't TCM ever show this film? > We can see the remake (THAT CERTAIN WOMAN - 1937, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda) on TCM, but I agree, it would be great to see the TCM show the original. I saw it years ago at Cinefest, Syracuse and would like to see it again.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Just to clarify. The Code began to be enforced in mid-1934. Would TWENTIETH CENTURY and other 1934 films be considered pre-code? > In the case of 1934 films I guess technically one would have to look at the film's release date. If it's before July 1934 it probably can be considered pre-code, as that's when the Code took effect and films started being assigned Production Code approval numbers. TWENTIETH CENTURY was released in May 1934, so that makes it pre-code.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > My bad. I didn't notice that helenbaby's post said CLASSIC movie guide. Why doesn't he just include EVERYTHING in his regular guide? Would that make it too thick? > Yes, to try to put everything in one book would definitely make it way too thick. It just would not be practical. So after so many years of having older titles that had been dropped being unlisted anywhere, I think he had a good idea to compile a separate Guide that covers all the older stuff (although personally I wish he'd kept the latest edition at the cut-off year of 1960, and not extended it to 1965. I'm one whose interest in movies drops off sharply after 1960 and doesn't think of post-1960 movies as "old".)

> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote} > Perhaps the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a copy of the original script, or contemporary accounts (reviews, etc) of "Virtue." > I do know where to get a copy of the script, and I do have a few original 1932 reviews of VIRTUE, but the script wouldn't necessarily reveal anything, as we have do the soundtrack complete on the film as it has been shown. What needs to be found is the missing picture element, not the soundtrack or any description of the dialogue or sound.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Interesting. I have 2 versions of the Maltin guide, 1990 and 2006, and neither one has VIRTUE. > VIRTUE is listed in Leonard's "Classic Movie Guide" which, as helenbaby pointed out, covers only older films, many of which were included in earlier editions of his "Movie Guide" book. But over the years as newer titles were added space limitations forced him to delete older and more obscure movies (much to the frustration of we fans of the older stuff). In 2005 he put out the first "Classic Movie Guide" which not only restored all of those dropped titles, but added many that had never been listed before. That book covered films only up to 1960. He did not indented this version of his Guide to be printed annually, like the regular version, but every five years or so. And so the second edition came out last year. The big change this time is his extension of the cut-off year for inclusion of newer titles. Now the Guide includes movies made up through 1965. Here is VIRTUE's entry: Rating: Three stars. (Running time, director, cast). "Fine comedy-drama about the romance of streetwalker Carole Lombard and taxi driver Pat O'Brien, who has a thing against all women. Genuinely warm chemistry between the two stars and plenty of snappy pre-code patter spark this likable film, written by Robert Riskin."

The black screen for the first minute or so of VIRTUE was not intended to be seen that way. Although the movie has two long-lasting popular stars I can not find any concrete evidence it was ever theatrically re-released, as often happens with movies with big stars who continue to remain popular. But at some point perhaps a reissue was considered then rejected but the opening scene was cut, then lost. Anyway since the scene basically makes it quite clear that the cops are telling Mae (Carole) to get out of town, you're a prostitute and we don't want your kind here, at some point it was cut. As I understand it, all that now survives for that scene is the soundtrack but no picture. So some prints have that first scene restored but the sound only with the black screen we saw on this print.

> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote} > How about: > Sandy Descher discussing her experiences with *The Last Time I Saw Paris,* > *The French Line, Three Brave Men, Her Twelve Men,* *The Bad and The Beautiful*, > *The Opposite Sex* and/or *The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit* ? > And of course, THEM!

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > Did you know that Hinds was a lawyer in the L.A. area, who did theatre as a hobby? He had several offers to go into pictures but turned them down. When the depression hit in 1929, he lost all his money and became an actor full time. > And I'll bet that in Hinds-sight he didn't regret the decision at all! But then, if he'd remained a lawyer he wouldn't be remembered and loved by so may of us for all of his memorable films.

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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > Or Search for Beauty 1934 with Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe? This one actually sounds more like it and I think it was on recently? > The original poster said that he saw the movie on TCM, but "Search for Beauty" has not (yet) been shown on TCM. Here's a plot summary, anyway: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=89346&category=Full%20Synopsis

> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote} > I posted a reply to thisone on the Romantic comedy forum--I think it is Search for Beauty 1934 with Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe? > The original poster said he saw the movie on TCM, but "Search for Beauty" has not (yet) been shown on TCM. Here's a plot summary, anyway: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=89346&category=Full%20Synopsis

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote} > >She was a very sharp business woman and had started a very successful cosmetics and clothing company. > > > Constance Bennett even starred in a short film called Constance Bennett Presents Her "Daily Beauty Rituals". It was filmed in Cinecolor at Hal Roach Studios in early 1937 while she was making TOPPER there. Accompanied by a music score of familiar Leroy Shield tunes from recent Roach productions she takes us through her daily skin care routines. Although she doesn't come right out and say it, if one is aware that she had her own cosmetics products line, the film comes across as a commercial for her products. > > The short is shown occasionally on TCM. Perhaps they will find a spot for it on October 22 between some of her movies being shown that day. > It can also be found here on YouTube: > > > It's coming up on TCM this Sunday morning, Sept. 26.

Congratulations CineMaven...ANOTHER Complete Package!

There are more comments on THE PROWLER here: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=155681&tstart=0

> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote} > I thought the film was absolutely fascinating. It's definitely the most "Hitchcockian" of Lang's films. It's Rebecca, for sure, plus Spellbound and even some Notorious. You're also right to mention Dragonwyck and I'd say Jane Eyre and The Spiral Staircase, too. > And shades of SUSPICION, too.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > I have a feeling SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR won't be shown again anytime soon, since it came from Universal...THE PROWLER is scheduled again, but that's because it's an indy film from United Artists and easier to obtain. > Yesterday TCM programming may have included some exceptions to the rights rules as we know them. Some of the movies may have been made available to TCM just for that one day by arrangement with restorer UCLA, not necessarily the studios who produced the films originally.

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAIL RUSSELL > Thanks for the beautiful pictures of the beautiful Gail & Diana. I've seen that Diana Lynn & Gail Russell one before...maybe here? But not in color. And the b & w version was flipped (reversed). In color it almost appears they are on a roof or something and that's the blue sky behind them.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > There must be some reason SECRET was kept a secret in Canada. It's a fun film and everyone should be allowed to see it...shhh....don't tell... > Yes, I really do feel bad for our Canadian friends. It seems most of the times a movie is replaced on the Canadian schedule the replacement is less interesting than the replaced. (Not meaning to say anything against the three Canadian replacements shown yesterday. All great classics. But they're not nearly as rarely seen as the three they replaced, especially the newly restored Roach features).