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> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote}
> Looks like another good month. Jean Harlow must be star of the month.
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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...
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It's coming up again on March 16, 2011.
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A major highlight for me:
March 20: The Public Menace (1935) - Columbia
Thank you, TCM!
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> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
> There are five more Bowery Boy films with Leo Gorcey in the series. Does anyone know if TCM will continue with the remaining seven films post Gorcey that featured Stanley Clements?
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As the just-posted March schedule confirms, TCM is continuing The Bowery Boys movies on Saturday mornings into the post-Leo Gorcey era.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
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> 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?
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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).
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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!
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> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> > > {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
> > > There are five more Bowery Boy films with Leo Gorcey in the series. Does anyone know if TCM will continue with the remaining seven films post Gorcey that featured Stanley Clements?
> > Why wouldn't they?
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> Because the seven Clements films, with all due respect to Mr. Clements, were missing the GORCEY/HALL chemistry that endeared the series to so many fans. It was that missing element that probably was the major factor responsible for the initial demise of the series.
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Some of them are still quite a lot of fun, such as LOOKING FOR DANGER (1957). Even the very last one, IN THE MONEY (1958) was better than one might expect for the end of the line of such a long series.
And it's nice to see Huntz Hall finally getting out from under Leo's shadow in those later films.
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> How about all the Columbia Bs that have been scheduled and subsequently canceled since 2006?
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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.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> ...and the movie is based on a story by none other than Ed Sullivan.
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Ed even introduces and appears in a special extra-long trailer for the movie.
See it here:
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An interesting story about THE LOCKED DOOR for me personally:
I'd had a video copy for years before TCM first showed it. The quality wasn't very good and it was missing a little at the beginning. So I didn't watch it often and didn't remember much of it.
Then a few years ago I got to see a 1921 Norma Talmadge silent movie called THE SIGN ON THE DOOR. I didn't do any research on it ahead of time, so was surprised to discover as the story played out that is was the same story! I had no idea that THE LOCKED DOOR was a remake of a silent Norma Talmadge movie. It was fun to figure that out watching the silent version.
One big difference between the two movies was in the scene where one of the detectives reveals that he had been a waiter on the ship in earlier scenes. In the silent version this was a big revelation and played so well that it caused gasps from the audience (I saw it in a theater with a big audience). But in the 1929 version this statement was just tossed off as one more line and then they moved on right away to the next. Very disappointing!
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> I don't think George Zucco made any films at Monogram, but he certainly did at PRC.
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I was thinking of VOODOO MAN (1944). And there may have been others, but without looking them up, that's the main one I was thinking of.
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Let's hope they reach back to the early thirties for some real rarities.
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> {quote:title=Metry Road wrote:}{quote}
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> By the way, one of my favorite songs by *The Fifth Dimension* is *Carpet man* a great song that is all but forgotten.
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> Best wishes
> Metairie Road
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I remember it! The 45 came out in early 1968. Not their biggest hit, but a good one.
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> {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...
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What was it? You say that as if we're supposed to know...
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I guess there'll always be some who get left out, who may be special to certain viewers. Two who I wish were included, who mean a lot more to me than a lot of those shown, were Shirley Mills and Our Gang star Dorothy DeBorba.
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As I posted in this similar thread:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8470494
My favorite live-action version (saving Mister Magoo for a special place) would have to be the 1935 British version starring Seymour Hicks.
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All one needs to know about the hazards of transfusions is illustrated in the final scenes of the 1935 Laurel & Hardy short THICKER THAN WATER.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> Boris Karloff made the Mr. Wong series for Monogram.
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Thanks! In whipping up that list in about 15 seconds I knew I had to be forgetting someone I shouldn't leave out.
And I do enjoy that series very much, and Karloff in anything.
And since many of John Wayne's 1933-1935 westerns were Lone Star Productions distibuted by Monogram, Wayne definitely should be considered a Monogram player.
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> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote}
> Who composed the excellent main theme for Moguls? I couldn't find the credit.
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I recall gagman66 asking about that too, early in the series. No composer credit. So, who wrote the theme music and why no credit? As the series progressed, still no music credit was ever given. Just a "musicologist" (what is that anyway?)
Well, SOMEBODY composed an impressive music theme for this series. Too bad we may never know who.
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> _MONOGRAM_
> KAY FRANCIS
> JACKIE COOPER
> JOHN CARROLL
> MARJORIE MAIN
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Under Monogram we certainly MUST include:
Bela Lugosi
George Zucco
Sidney Toler
Roland Winters
Mantan Moreland
Keye Luke
Victor Sen Yung
Benson Fong
And all the regular cast members of the many Monogram series such as
The East Side Kids
The Bowery Boys
The Teen Agers
Joe Palooka
Jiggs & Maggie
And several Westerns series
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Phyllis Crane - at Universal 1935 - 1937.
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Six-disc set of Vitaphone shorts scheduled release by Warner Archive on 12/14/2010:
Contents:
Disc One --
"Vitaphone Pioneers Stars of Broadway, Vaudeville and Nightclubs (1926-1931)" - 13 shorts.
THE HOWARD BROTHERS in ?BETWEEN THE ACTS AT THE OPERA? . (10-5-1926) - Willie & Eugene Howard. #349
GUS ARNHEIM and HIS COCOANUT GROVE ORCHESTRA. (June,1928)
Gus Arnheim. #2584
TAL HENRY AND HIS NORTH CAROLINIANS. (April,1929) Tal Henry. #732
RHYTHMS. (June,1929) Leo Reisman and his Hotel Brunswick Orchestra. #770
THE OPRY HOUSE. (August, 1929) The Mound City Blue Blowers. #834
RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES. (December, 1929) Red Nichols. #870
LEW FIELDS IN ?23...SKIDOO?. (June, 1930) Lew Fields, Olive (Gloria) Shea. #1017
FASHION'S MIRROR. (October, 1930) Jack Thompson & Barbara Newberry. #1045
HENRY SANTREY & HIS SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. (January, 1931) Henry Santrey. #1128
OPENING NIGHT. (January ,1931) Dorothy Sands, Peggy Shannon. #1138
ONE WAY OUT. (January, 1931) Thelma White. #1153
JACK BUCHANAN WITH THE GLEE QUARTET. (February, 1930) Jack Buchanan. #3816
BUBBLES. with the Vitaphone Kiddies (1930) The Gumm Sisters (with Judy Garland). #3898
Disc Two --
"Vitaphone Varieties Music and Comedy Diversions (1931-35)" - 6 Shorts.
THE GRAND DAME. (May, 1931) Patsy Kelly. #1203
NINE O'CLOCK FOLKS. (June, 1931) Roy Fant, The Mound City Blue Blowers. #1220
HOT NEWS MARGIE. (November, 1931) Marjorie Beebe. #1290
THE MILD WEST. (11-18-1933) Janet Reade. #1582 - 83
ROOFTOPS OF MANHATTAN. (11-16-1935) Gil Lamb. #1893 - 94
THE DUNCAN SISTERS IN "SURPRISE". (7-27-1935) Duncan Sisters. #1915 - 16
Disc Three --
"Vitaphone presents Movie Memories, Celebrities & Novelties Hollywood/Personalities/Nostalgia (1931-34)" ? 11 shorts.
THRILLS OF YESTERDAY. (10-17-1931) Silent-era Serials. #1261
MOVIE ALBUM #1. (3-5-1932) Old Silent Days. #1326
INKLINGS. (4-8-1933) Lowell Thomas. #1368
MOVIE ALBUM #2. (6-4-1932) Old Silent Days. #1388
NICKELETTE. (9-24-1932) Nickelodeon. #1399
MOVIE MEMORIES #1. (12-30-1933) Old Silent Days. #1517
A PENNY A PEEP. (6-30-1934) Nickelodeon Memories. #1518
THE CAMERA SPEAKS. (8-11-1934) Billy Bitzer. #1600
HOLLYWOOD NEWS REEL. (6-24-1934) Warner Bros. Stars. # 6170
MOVIE MEMORIES #2. (10-27-1934) Old Silent Days. # 6493
A TRIP THROUGH A HOLLYWOOD STUDIO. (12-7-1934) WB Stars. # 6616.
Disc Four --
"Vitaphone Singin? and Swingin? Musical delights from the worlds Broadway, Radio, Nightclubs & Vaudeville (1933-39)" - 11 shorts.
HARRY WARREN, AMERICA?S FOREMOST COMPOSER. (11-18-1933) Harry Warren. #1544
BARBER SHOP BLUES. (9-30-1933) Claude Hopkins. #1551
PHIL SPITALNY & HIS ORCH. - A BIG CITY FANTASY. (4-14-1934) Phil Spitalny. #1635
MIRRORS. (9-8-1934) Freddie Rich & His Orchestra, Vera Van. #1689
PHIL SPITALNY & HIS MUSICAL QUEENS. (10-6-1934) Phil Spitalny. #1719
DON REDMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA. (10-29-1934) Don Redman. #1770
MR. & MRS. JESSE CRAWFORD AT HOME. (4-15-1939) Jesse and Helen Crawford. #B219
VAUDEVILLE REEL #1. (10-13-1934) Herb Williams. #1751
VAUDEVILLE REEL #2. (10-29-1934) Carl Emmy, George and Olive Brasno. #1761
VAUDEVILLE REEL #3. (2-16-1935) Al Trahan. #1778
VAUDEVILLE REEL #4. (4-27-1935) Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, Pat Rooney, Sr. #1791
Disc Five --
"Vitaphone in TECHNICOLOR! TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL COMEDY 2-Reelers (1934-35)" - 6 Shorts.
SERVICE WITH A SMILE. (7-28-1934) Leon Errol. #1700 - 01
GOOD MORNING EVE. (9-22-1934) Leon Errol. #1702 - 03
WHAT? NO MEN! (11-24-1934) El Brendel. #1704 - 05
GYPSY SWEETHEART. (3-30-1935) Wini Shaw. #1708 - 09
OKAY, JOSE. (12-7-1935) El Brendel. #7071 - 72
CARNIVAL DAY. (5-20-1935) Felix Knight. #7143 - 44
Disc Six --
"Vitaphone in TECHNICOLOR!- TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL COMEDY 2-Reelers (1935-38)" - 6 Shorts.
KING OF THE ISLANDS. (2-22-1936) Wini Shaw. #7234 - 35
CHANGING OF THE GUARD. (6-6-1936) Sybil Jason. #7497 - 98
ECHO MOUNTAIN. (8-29-1936) Fred Lawrence. #7633 - 34
THE SUNDAY ROUND-UP. (7-10-1936) Dick Foran, Jane Wyman. #7661 - 62
ROMANCE ROAD. (1-29-1938) Walter Cassell. # 8179 - 80
OUT WHERE THE STARS BEGIN. (4-13-1938) All Star Special. #8663 - 64
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Six-disc set of Vitaphone shorts scheduled release by Warner Archive on 12/14/2010:
Contents:
Disc One --
"Vitaphone Pioneers Stars of Broadway, Vaudeville and Nightclubs (1926-1931)" - 13 shorts.
THE HOWARD BROTHERS in ?BETWEEN THE ACTS AT THE OPERA? . (10-5-1926) - Willie & Eugene Howard. #349
GUS ARNHEIM and HIS COCOANUT GROVE ORCHESTRA. (June,1928)
Gus Arnheim. #2584
TAL HENRY AND HIS NORTH CAROLINIANS. (April,1929) Tal Henry. #732
RHYTHMS. (June,1929) Leo Reisman and his Hotel Brunswick Orchestra. #770
THE OPRY HOUSE. (August, 1929) The Mound City Blue Blowers. #834
RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES. (December, 1929) Red Nichols. #870
LEW FIELDS IN ?23...SKIDOO?. (June, 1930) Lew Fields, Olive (Gloria) Shea. #1017
FASHION'S MIRROR. (October, 1930) Jack Thompson & Barbara Newberry. #1045
HENRY SANTREY & HIS SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. (January, 1931) Henry Santrey. #1128
OPENING NIGHT. (January ,1931) Dorothy Sands, Peggy Shannon. #1138
ONE WAY OUT. (January, 1931) Thelma White. #1153
JACK BUCHANAN WITH THE GLEE QUARTET. (February, 1930) Jack Buchanan. #3816
BUBBLES. with the Vitaphone Kiddies (1930) The Gumm Sisters (with Judy Garland). #3898
Disc Two --
"Vitaphone Varieties Music and Comedy Diversions (1931-35)" - 6 Shorts.
THE GRAND DAME. (May, 1931) Patsy Kelly. #1203
NINE O'CLOCK FOLKS. (June, 1931) Roy Fant, The Mound City Blue Blowers. #1220
HOT NEWS MARGIE. (November, 1931) Marjorie Beebe. #1290
THE MILD WEST. (11-18-1933) Janet Reade. #1582 - 83
ROOFTOPS OF MANHATTAN. (11-16-1935) Gil Lamb. #1893 - 94
THE DUNCAN SISTERS IN "SURPRISE". (7-27-1935) Duncan Sisters. #1915 - 16
Disc Three --
"Vitaphone presents Movie Memories, Celebrities & Novelties Hollywood/Personalities/Nostalgia (1931-34)" ? 11 shorts.
THRILLS OF YESTERDAY. (10-17-1931) Silent-era Serials. #1261
MOVIE ALBUM #1. (3-5-1932) Old Silent Days. #1326
INKLINGS. (4-8-1933) Lowell Thomas. #1368
MOVIE ALBUM #2. (6-4-1932) Old Silent Days. #1388
NICKELETTE. (9-24-1932) Nickelodeon. #1399
MOVIE MEMORIES #1. (12-30-1933) Old Silent Days. #1517
A PENNY A PEEP. (6-30-1934) Nickelodeon Memories. #1518
THE CAMERA SPEAKS. (8-11-1934) Billy Bitzer. #1600
HOLLYWOOD NEWS REEL. (6-24-1934) Warner Bros. Stars. # 6170
MOVIE MEMORIES #2. (10-27-1934) Old Silent Days. # 6493
A TRIP THROUGH A HOLLYWOOD STUDIO. (12/7/1934) WB Stars. # 6616.
Disc Four --
"Vitaphone Singin? and Swingin? Musical delights from the worlds Broadway, Radio, Nightclubs & Vaudeville (1933-39)" - 11 shorts.
HARRY WARREN, AMERICA?S FOREMOST COMPOSER. (11-18-1933) Harry Warren. #1544
BARBER SHOP BLUES. (9-30-1933) Claude Hopkins. #1551
PHIL SPITALNY & HIS ORCH. - A BIG CITY FANTASY. (4-14-1934) Phil Spitalny. #1635
MIRRORS. (9-8-1934) Freddie Rich & His Orchestra, Vera Van. #1689
PHIL SPITALNY & HIS MUSICAL QUEENS. (10-6-1934) Phil Spitalny. #1719
DON REDMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA. (10-29-1934) Don Redman. #1770
MR. & MRS. JESSE CRAWFORD AT HOME. (4-15-1939) Jesse and Helen Crawford. #B219
VAUDEVILLE REEL #1. (10-13-1934) Herb Williams. #1751
VAUDEVILLE REEL #2. (10-29-1934) Carl Emmy, George and Olive Brasno. #1761
VAUDEVILLE REEL #3. (2-16-1935) Al Trahan. #1778
VAUDEVILLE REEL #4. (4-27-1935) Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields, Pat Rooney, Sr. #1791
Disc Five --
"Vitaphone in TECHNICOLOR! TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL COMEDY 2-Reelers (1934-35)" - 6 Shorts.
SERVICE WITH A SMILE. (7-28-1934) Leon Errol. #1700 - 01
GOOD MORNING EVE. (9-22-1934) Leon Errol. #1702 - 03
WHAT? NO MEN! (11-24-1934) El Brendel. #1704 - 05
GYPSY SWEETHEART. (3-30-1935) Wini Shaw. #1708 - 09
OKAY, JOSE. (12-7-1935) El Brendel. #7071 - 72
CARNIVAL DAY. (5-20-1935) Felix Knight. #7143 - 44
Disc Six --
"Vitaphone in TECHNICOLOR!- TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL COMEDY 2-Reelers (1935-38)" - 6 Shorts.
KING OF THE ISLANDS. (2-22-1936) Wini Shaw. #7234 - 35
CHANGING OF THE GUARD. (6-6-1936) Sybil Jason. #7497 - 98
ECHO MOUNTAIN. (8-29-1936) Fred Lawrence. #7633 - 34
THE SUNDAY ROUND-UP. (7-10-1936) Dick Foran, Jane Wyman. #7661 - 62
ROMANCE ROAD. (1-29-1938) Walter Cassell. # 8179 - 80
OUT WHERE THE STARS BEGIN. (4-13-1938) All Star Special. #8663 - 64
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I like the one about the Falcon from Malta. That was one of the best!
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> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote}
>Isn't there enough space to squeeze in these folks and Blake Edwards who produced so many great films? As has been stated there is a precedent with Van Johnson. Its the classy thing to do.
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I just saw it again and Blake Edwards has been added.