musicalnovelty
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> {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.
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I totally agree!
Those are of major interest to me, too. I wish we could get some definite answers on those!
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> musicalnovelty,
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> Thanks for the link? No comment on the movie titles?
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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.
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> {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?
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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:
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> {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:
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> http://fan.tcm.com/_Helen39s-Babies-1924-Tiny-Helpmates/video/1260807/66470.html
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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.
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> {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.*
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> 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.
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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...
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> {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.
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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
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How about Leo Gorcey in CRASHING LAS VEGAS (1956)?
(This one will need no explanation to Bowery Boys fans!)
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> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote}
> Well I'd rather watch Jack Norton or Arthur Housman over Cage any day....
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Will Stanton also often played a comic drunk in the 1930's. But not as often or as well as Housman and Norton.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
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> 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?
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Of course, there's the remake starring Danny Kaye: A SONG IS BORN (1948).
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> Bringing Up Baby
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>She leads him on a merry chase ... and destroys his dinosaur.
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Yeah, don't you hate when that happens!
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> I believe that I saved it someplace. Thanks. Not sure where though. I am looking for the file.
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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
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Scottman,
Hey, ya beat me to it!
But we agree!
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> {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):
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That's George K. Arthur, not Buster Keaton next to Joan.
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> {quote:title=cobraii wrote:}{quote}
> No Jane Wyatt was the star. This was a small bit part player.
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Jane Wyman, not Jane Wyatt was the star.
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> {quote:title=BingFan wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > > You said the piece of music you're asking about is near the beginning of the film. I have the original Warner Bros. Music Cue Sheet for CASABLANCA here. It's dated October 27, 1942 and lists every piece of music used in the movie, broken down by reels. It is rather lengthy so I will copy here just the first few reels hoping it will cover the selection you are asking about. ...18. Speak to Me of Love (Jean Lenoir). Partial. Visual instrumental. 1.19. ...
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> Thanks so much, musicalnovelty -- your cue sheet provided exactly the information I needed! The song I was looking for is "Speak to Me of Love." It's really a beautiful melody, and I'll now have to find a good version of it, since the *Casablanca* CD unfortunately doesn't include it.
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> Thanks again -- I really appreciate your taking the time to type out the cue sheet!!
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Thanks for letting me know...I was curious which tune you meant and am glad to have helped.
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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"!
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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...
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> Jim,
>Last year someone posted a listing of the entire Axt-Mendoza score here.
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That was me!
I hope you printed it out or saved the link for reference. I don't remember exactly when I posted it.
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}
> Wow! Excellent that you had this, musicalnovelty! We do have the smartest, best informed people on this forum.
> h5. I bow to the master!
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Thank you!
Glad to share the info.
It's a lot of typing, but I can post all the rest of the cue sheet, if you'd be interested.
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> {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.)
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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).
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In addition to her many Producer and of course actress credits Drew Barrymore is listed here with two Director credits:
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> {quote:title=BingFan wrote:}{quote}
> I was watching *Casablanca* last night, enjoying it very much, as I always do.
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> Toward the beginning of the film, in a scene set in Rick's, Sam is playing a waltz on the piano. It has a beautiful melody, but I just can't place it. I checked my TCM soundtrack CD, and it's not on there, unfortunately.
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> Does anyone know the name of the little waltz that's heard briefly near the beginning of *Casablanca* ? (Does it even have a name, or is it just a pretty melody that was composed for the soundtrack, gaining familiarity through repeated viewing?)
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You said the piece of music you're asking about is near the beginning of the film.
I have the original Warner Bros. Music Cue Sheet for CASABLANCA here. It's dated October 27, 1942 and lists every piece of music used in the movie, broken down by reels. It is rather lengthy so I will copy here just the first few reels hoping it will cover the selection you are asking about.
This is all the musical selections recorded for CASABLANCA, in the order they are heard onscreen. So if you follow along with this next time you watch the movie you should (hopefully) be able to match up the tunes heard in the movie with these titles.
CASABLANCA
Title/Composer/Extent/How used/ Timings.
Reel One:
1. Main Title (Max Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.07
2. Africa (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.45.
3. La Marseillaise (R. DeLisle. Arranged by Steiner). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.56.
4. Refuge. (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 1.35.
5. Street Scene. (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.14.
6. Orders. (Steiner). Partial. Background instrumental.0.20.
7. Roundup (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 1.04.
8. Thief (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.24.
9. It Had To Be You (Gus Kahn, Isham Jones). Partial. Visual vocal. 0.51.
10. Shine (Lew Brown, Ford Dabney, Cecil Mack). Partial. Visual vocal. 1.00.
Reel Two:
11. Crazy Rhythm (Joseph Meyers, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Irving Caesar). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.44.
12. Knock on Wood. (M.K. Jerome, Jack Scholl). Entire. Visual vocal. 1.10.
13. The Very Thought of You (Ray Noble). Entire. Visual instrumental. 3.08.
Reel Three:
14. Baby Face (Benny Davis, Harry Akst). Partial. Visual instrumental. 0.57.
15. I'm Just Wild About Harry (Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake). Partial. Background instrumental. 1.01.
16. I'm Just Wild About Harry (Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake). Partial. Visual instrumental. 0.18.
17. Heaven Can Wait (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen). Partial. Visual instrumental. 1.10.
18. Speak to Me of Love (Jean Lenoir). Partial. Visual instrumental. 1.19.
19. Love for Sale (Cole Porter). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.50.
Reel Four:
20. Love for Sale (Cole Porter). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.29.
21. Tango Delle Rose (F. Schreirer, A. Bottero, Carol Raven). Entire. Visual vocal. 1.48.
22. Avalon (Al Jolson, Vincent Rose, B.G. DeSylva). Partial. Visual instrumental. 0.31.
23. As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld). Partial. Visual vocal. 0.06.
24. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Visual instrumental. 0.06.
25. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Visual vocal. 0.44.
26. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Entire. Background instrumental. 2.34.
Reel Five:
27. Piano Improvisation (Frank Perkins). Entire. Visual instrumental. 0.44.
28. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Visual Instrumental. 0.37.
29. La Marseillaise (R. DeLisle. Arranged by Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.05.
30. Romance. (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 1.02.
31. Perfidia (Milton Leeds, Albert Dominguez). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.30.
32. Gracioso (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.12.
33. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.15.
34. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.16.
35. Nazi Spy (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 1.16.
36. Menace (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.37.
37. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Visual vocal. 0.43.
38. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.07.
39. Voice (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.10.
40. Die Wacht Am Rhein (M. Schneckenburger, C. Wilhelm). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.20.
41. Instructions (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.19.
42. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.22.
43. The Station (Steiner). Entire. Background instrumental. 0.13.
44. La Marseillaise (R. DeLisle. Arranged by Steiner). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.30.
45. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.37.
46. Ilsa Returns (Steiner). Partial. Background instrumental. 0.06.
There is a lot more - 11 reels total. But I hope this covers the part you need so you can identify the piece of music you are asking about.
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> {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?
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> > > http://www.lostflix.com/clr4.htm
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> > It most certainly positively and definitely is.
> > There has been no authorized video or DVD release of CALL HER SAVAGE.
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> All right...but I'm not giving it up!
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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.
BILLIE DOVE @ FIRST NATIONAL
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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.