musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Folks, take a look at some of the comments under music videos on Youtube. It makes the gang here look like descendants of Emily Post. I cannot believe the rudeness and bad language people will use, just because they may not happen to like a song on youtube. > There really should be someone monitoring and cleaning up the comments on YouTube. (But that would actually require a large team of people working full-time, I suppose). Some of the comments on there are downright disgraceful and disgusting...and they're on there for kids of all ages to easily click on and read any time.

> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > > Since my heads-up got buried, another reminder about *CORNERED tomorrow at 8PM.* > > Thanks! And from the film noir short that TCM airs between movies, I believe that this film was saved and restored from a 16mm print from Dick Powell's personal collection. They do a comparison to the restored from the original - it's like a PD film getting cleaned up - very significant difference. > That's actually CRY DANGER (1951) not CORNERED.

> {quote:title=dabakertwo wrote:}{quote} > Happen to see this short, United States Navy Band (1943). For the first time I saw my dad playing his clarinet. He was only 20 years old at the time. I was overwhelmed and would like to find a way to get a copy to share with my son and his son's. They have never seen their grandfather. How can I go about getting a copy of this short? > It's coming up again on TCM on Saturday morning, Sept. 11, 2010, following the Bowery Boys movie. Here's your chance...fire up that recorder!

I rarely go to new movies in the theaters but when I do I ALWAYS stay to the very end watching and reading as many of the credits as I can. I've always liked to read movie credits (especially on old movies) so am still interested enough to want to see them all on new movies. Also, I guess I never thought of it, but misswonderly put it very well that (especially if you enjoyed it) staying to the end of the credits is a way of extending the movie experience. But I'm almost always the last one there by the end of the credits.

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > Tuesday, September 7th >*A Matter Of Life And Death* (1946) Italy > (Click Through On Image To Access Larger Versions) > Anyone who doesn't know the original British title will not get why the poster shows a stairway to heaven.

> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > > Even the lack of showing what happened to the truck driver is acceptable, but the missing escape scene does gnaw at me. First because it would make it appear that escaping is relatively easy - so easy that it need not be display. The real letdown is that here would have been an ideal scene for us to be rooting for Howard to overcome an obstacle while also turning normal plot conventions around. Let's face it, we usually don't want jailed persons to escape. Hitchcock understood this dichotomy - he has us rooting for Bruno when he's trying to recover the lighter in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. > I thought there was a line, or it may have been heard on a radio report or shown in a shot of a newspaper, that he escaped during a work detail, or something like that. So, no they didn't show it, but at least it was mentioned.

> {quote:title=markfp2 wrote:}{quote} > A Terrific film which thanks to Universal's bizarre way of thinking was kept out of TV and home video circulation for three decades... > I addition to the mentioned AMC broadcasts it was also shown on a local station outside Boston about 1987.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} >This is the way to make movies about old people: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moZKmGk0yh0&feature=related > > The beginning of that segment starts about 2 minutes and 58 seconds into this clip: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV2mVbIRbmc&feature=related > Was it a coincidence, but weren't the names of the "old ladies' homes" in both movies ("If I Had a Million" and "Make Way for Tomorrow") the same: Idylwild?

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > Another 22 minutes of Ethel screaming on top of that would cause me to hurl my TV out the window. > I agree! I realize she's a professional actress playing a role, but her voice has always seriously detracted from my enjoyment of the movie.

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... > I think you'd better post a few choice shots of Lola to clear our heads after that one!

No one has yet mentioned one of the most outrageous: Arthur Lucan as "Old Mother Riley" http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524031/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lucan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mother_Riley

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=SmilerGrogan wrote:}{quote} > > I thought Lola Albright was GREAT in "Cold Wind in August." When I was a kid I loved her on the Peter Gunn show, but this may be her greatest role as the world-weary stripper. A very underrated actress... > > I agree completely. How come I never met a dame like that when +I+ was seventeen? > Anyone who may have missed it or just wants to see it again, here it is: http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi3357280025/

Fred, I too want to say "Great Job!" on those albums. I still have my originals of the two sets plus an extra set a friend gave me when he moved about ten years ago and couldn't take them along. And by the way, all records in both sets are still in mint condition.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Ok, I know I'm being silly about being so insistent about this: but please can someone just acknowledge that *Oklahoma* at least exists and is a good musical? > Hey, I like it! (and that's actually saying a lot, as my tastes in movie musicals tend to go toward much older styles). Two of my top favorites that come to mind right away are "Good News" (1930) and "Follow Thru" (1930) -- that kind of early talkie stuff. I remember back in AMC's good old days they (at least once) ran both versions of "Oklahoma!" in one night (the CinemaScope and Todd-AO versions) and I didn't mind at all seeing it twice that way and comparing the differences.

> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote} > Chic Olson and Ollie Johnson was a comedy team... > Their names actually were Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. Here are their IMDb links, with real names, brief biographies, and filmographies: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647764/bio And: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424765/bio And a lot more about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsen_and_Johnson

> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote} > > Is anyone left from that movie? Is Ann Rutherford still alive? > Ann Rutherford is still with us. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751946/bio

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} Lately, I have been making all sorts of blunders, mistaking one movie for another or this star for that one. It would be better for me not to say anything at all about movies for a while, till I get my brain clear. > Don't stay away too long!

> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote} > THANK YOU, musicalnovelty. > And thank YOU for the link to the "MovieGeeks" article. I agree it's so cool to see the actual film frames and those other stills & images there. And I think this is the first place where I've seen a listing of the other films found along with UPSTREAM.

Here are reports from some who have seen it, including the musician who wrote and performed the score: http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?p=38738#38738

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Cool...and how nice it doesn't list her age. LOL > > There's some sort of way to submit new information to update an artist's filmography on that website. I don't know the process, but it's done all the time. Then, her credit for those other jobs can be added and her record more complete. > Yes, I really should get on that! I do know her age and other info that they should have there.

> {quote:title=molo14 wrote:}{quote} > > 1. *The Gay Divorcee* - *1934* This is my favorite of the Astaire/Rogers films. It also brings up an immediate problem with a list like this. Why do I like the film? Is it for the music or something else? In this case, something else. The music is great but the film is just so darn funny. It has one of the greatest supporting casts you could ask for. Edward Everett Horton, Alice Brady, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore and Betty Grable. > I agree. I've always felt it's not just a great musical, but one of the funniest comedies, too.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} > Very interesting! Well, COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID was produced 65 years ago...so that is rather extraordinary. > This is she: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307001/ And, typically of IMDb they have her credits screwed up. She is NOT in entries #2 & 3 in this list, and they're missing about six films that she did appear in, including COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > Musicalnovelty-I'm so sorry to hear of your cable issues! I hope it came back on before prime-time hit? > Mark, Thanks for the concern. But actually the cable stayed out for almost SIX HOURS!! on Thelma Todd night. Out of dutiful loyalty to TCM (and of course also to Thelma Todd) I kept the TV on all through the outage while doing other things., and noticed that occasionally the picture would flicker back on for a few seconds, then glitch away again into pixilation hell, then black screen. Sure, I'd seen all the films before, but still, this is not what we pay our expensive cable bills for. Naturally, this couldn't have happened during Peter O'Toole Day or Clint Eastwood Day, both during which I had the TV off all day and night. Or, I guess if it had, I wouldn't have known anyway!

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > > >Marie Prevost...wow another tragic figure who I loved in everything I've seen her in! > > > > > Marie Prevost fans (and I sure am one!) watch for her in PAID (1930) on TCM Friday morning. > > Oh yes, that's right! I definitely have it on my DVR list, one of my favorite pre-codes, and of course looking forward to Marie!!! > > Back to GENTLEMAN'S FATE for a sec, I thought her character was awesome in this film! She was perfect in every scene, and when she was on camera, I couldn't take my eyes off her, not only for her looks--which are gorgeous--but her performance which was so spot on! > I totally agree! We keep reading clueless people saying that she was no good in talkies, that she gained weight and wasn't attractive, etc. I was recently watching her again in THE GOOD BAD GIRL (1931) and THREE WISE GIRLS (1931) (Thanks TCM for running those last year!) and was once again reminded how wonderful she is when given good roles in talkies. Like with Thelma Todd, I wish alleged fans would stop dwelling on how they died and appreciate and celebrate their work and lives.

> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote} >I am assuming it fell into the public domain if Alpha Video is mass-producing discs of it. The quality of the Alpha prints are disastrous at best, and I think this one deserves attention by Fox. > Yes, COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID was somehow allowed to slip into public domain. By the way, I know someone who was in that movie. She was a young girl then...a little older now!